Boring computer questions in the Sandbox

Where would be the best place to order parts to build a PC from these components at the cheapest price?

Ok my question: I have about 20gb of files on my laptop that I want to transfer to my main pc. I only have a cd-rw drive on my laptop and the old-style slow usb ports so it'll take ages to move them all across. I don't have firewire or any other fancy ports so what is the easiest and quicket way to transfer these files across? Can I connect my pc and laptop via the usb ports and transfer the files through that? I'm guessing it'd take hours and hours to do it like that. I've got wireless internet with my main pc as the hub and my laptop has one of those wireless adaptor things - is there a simple way to connect those two so I can hoover up files from my laptop? (I'm on the new BThub broadband thing in the UK).

"**** is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Log on failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer."

but I've done all the 'share folder' stuff on my laptop. It's probably something that can't be worked out just from that one error message but does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong?

I'm not an expert here but a program called Virtualdub is supposed to be good for correcting audio / video sync. It's been a couple of years since I used it though, something better may have come along in the meantime.

Virtualdub is good (esp. for freeware), but it can't re-sync audio to video, AFAICT. I use Vdub in conjunction with a cr@ck3d version of C001 3d!t Pr0 -- the latter to extract a wav file from the video, then the former to re-encode.

Also, have you got guest access enabled on one but not the other?

Copy the libmysql.dll to the PHP installation directory

Well, the communication is there, it's just one-way only which sucks some, but not as bad as having to sneakernet everything. You can buy an upgrade disk; whether the install messes with your existing stuff is a good question. It might, but I really don't know as I've only upgraded new machines that only had the operating system installed. It's around $200.

it didn't work with firewalls turned off either....and I was at the laptop the whole time...

I live in a flat in an apartment block. I've had BT broadband since July this year. It's been fine from then onwards, getting about 400k/s download speeds on average. The internet did, and still does, usually cut out about 3 times a day for a few minutes, which was annoying but compared to the nightmare service I've had from UKonline and Onetel in the past it wasn't so bad.

A week ago, the d/l dropped to 15k/s, barely dialup speeds. Upload speeds also dropped from 200k/s to 20k/s. An initial mail to BT customer services got the response of 'empty your recycle bin' and it'll all be ok. Of course, it wasn't. A few days later and I've just received a call from BT. I was told to empty the 'Prefetch' folder, which I did. It changed nothing.

At first she asked me the download speed so I said 15k/s which is what I've been getting from the Firefox download manager DTA. After emptying this folder I was asked to do a speedtest again, so I did the one on http://www.thinkbroadband.com which gave my speeds as:
Speed Down 130.81 Kbps ( 0.1 Mbps )
Speed Up 186.53 Kbps ( 0.2 Mbps )

But if I'm only downloading at 13k/s (which I still am) why is this program saying 130kbps? Are kbps different from k/s? BT woman assumed this meant it was all ok now but it's not.

Her next step was to say that I need to plug into the MASTER BT socket, with the big box and all. We don't have one in this flat, there are just two BT sockets on the wall and one in the bedroom. Do any flats anywhere have the BT box things in them? I know my parent's house does but I've never lived in a flat with one. BT woman refused to believe I didn't have one and stated that THIS and nothing else is the problem - even though I was happily receiving proper broadband until 7 days ago! Eventually I was fobbed off with 'Ok I'll pass your info onto the engineers team..' ie. THE BT FUCKUP VOID NEVER TO BE HEARD OF AGAIN.

Can anyone help here? Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes. Kilobits versus kilobyes - 130kbit/s = 16.25 k/s

Lex, that is a big ask of any compression, now I know this is probably a fools errand but what codec is the file encoded in, what resolution and how long (time wise is it?)

See if Windows Media Encoder is installed, if it isn't download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx.

Alternatively you can use VLC from Videolan.org and in the open file dialogue box choose Advanced output and select either h264 or mp4v (with mp4a for the video) from the transcode options. Use 2048 for video and 192 for audio in terms of bit-rate.

the open file dialogue box choose Advanced output and select either h264 or mp4v (with mp4a for the video) from the transcode options. Use 2048 for video and 192 for audio in terms of bit-rate.

there is no advanced output option in the open file box! and where are the transcode options?

so i clicked save, then did the transcoding options you suggested, then ok...and there is a file in my videos, but it's not right, it just says it's a file.

MAGICAL PROGRAMME that can convert scanned-in documents (ie articles) into... EDITABLE WORD-PROCESSOR-TYPE TEXT??????!!!!!!!!!???????

Is this right? Or has he set it up wrong.

Is this right? Or has he set it up wrong.

If Talk Talk comes with a cheap USB ADSL modem (which appears to be what they recommend) then that's how it works, and he has set up properly. If he wants to avoid "connecting", the best thing to do is invest in a [wireless] router, which has the added bonus of allowing multiple computers to share the same connection.

many thanks !

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why do people make .docx files?! they are awful and a pain in my non-vista ass.

It's the new default for MS Office from what I can tell. I've been having to deal with .xlsx files too.

i call bullshit

ughhhh nooooooo

how do i fix my office suite? i have 2004 for mac? i tried downloading update but it did not install and i have the system requirements covered as far as i know.

i AGREE. i hate when people send you docx. rude.

get with the times grandpas

why would ms completely change the format though, it's like they don't even care about user-friendliness at all

yeah i mean even some windows machines won't read these docs (like the one at my old job).
wish gates would write another nasty letter.

docx keeps my babby in diapers and meatloaf on the table so plz keep this on the sandbox k. no reposts.

jergins is steve ballmer?

You could try using OpenOffice to convert them. It's available for the Mac OS.

The new x formats are XML coded for lols - this is what the newest injunction/lawsuit against MS is about btw, them trying to appropriate and close another open protocol viz IE handling of html and Access's weird variant of sql.

jergins up to his old tricks eh

yeah i use open office. it sucks but at least it's not ms office.

How the fucking fuck do I get my gmail contacts onto my new iPhone? This is going to drive me batty. Googling kept turning up the same "solution" that doesn't work for shit.

GAH I hate technology. Except for ILX. Love you boo.

i have had a nightmare month with various laptop, desktop, hard drive and car radio issues,

Solved most of them by breaking the shit out of the item in question.

I mean, 'solved' tbf

My latest solution is to put an apple sticker on my Dell so that it will act like a Mac. Also to rub the iphone up against the Dell screen to help the gmail contacts get in there via direct contact.

Would live an answer. All of my Gmail conacts are on my iPhone bc I previously had an Android, which syncs beautifully w Gmail, and when I got iPhone, they transferred. I think??

But they're all out of date bc they don't sync :(

update: I have now shown the iphone who is BOSS

riphone

the internet cannot tell me how i run a .rom

can ilx?

quincie, what did you do?

I had turned on iCloud for contacts and then followed the instructions for using Exchange to pull them from my google account, which did not work. So I went into itunes and tried to pull them that way, which did not work either, at least I turned *off* iCloud and then used itunes to import, then switched back to iCloud. Haven't yet tested whether or not the contacts will synch between iphone and google :(

how do i fix my backspace key - it is stuck. i have a dell. laptop.

does anyone actually LIKE Perforce

hi can anyone recommend an easy and free bit of software that will rip my dvd's to avi format?

I don't have data on my phone. how can I load the kindle app onto it? It's a blackberry.

Download it to computer and sync w cable?

also fozzielad everyone seems to love HandBrake

cheers x

Oh, thanks for your response, quincie. My bookmark for this thread got muffed up.

I thought I had a another boring question, but I think it's sorted. But I'll ask anyway: Malware Bytes: C/D? Is free good enough, or upgrade to Pro?

I have a bunch of manilla folders in my bookmarks toolbar on Firefox. (Categories like humor, music, news etc.) I would like to replace the folders with icons (images I find or make). As it is I have to hover over the manilla folders to discover what they are as I can't seem to memorize them by position. How can I do this? I use the Smartest Bookmarks Bar addon fwiw. Can't seem to figure this out via Google search.

Ok, help. fucking help. I have this insane malware on my laptop now called Win 7 -- it's a fake antivirus thing that seems to have completely fucked up my computer. I get tons of popup windows, all my start menu options are gone, many programs won't open, etc.

I ran a special tool that disables the processes associated with the program. It actually worked, and then I ran adaware, which removed two "trojans" after a long scan, and I thought everything was fine. But it's still there and the next time I booted it was the same problem again.

To make things worse, I can't find my windows discs. HELP

Mrs. Redd's relative got this same virus yesterday, I think she just took her computer to Staples and let them fix it. I think you can also use some other software to get rid of it, but you might have to also manually delete stuff from the registry

my moms opened a fedex email and had the same thing happen. she had to take it in to fix it too

my moms opened a fedex email and had the same thing happen. she had to take it in to fix it too

Yeah, exactly the fedex announcement. Although it was in the spam filter

I think I fixed it -- first you have to get this thing called RKill (just google it) which stops all the processes. You need the file with a disguised extension (it's .com or .something else instead of .exe) so the virus doesn't block it. Then after it stopped everything, I made sure McAfee antivirus was fully updated (this took a long time for some reason -- I think the malware might have made screwed something up). Finally, I ran a full scan using mcafee, which found like 20 different infected files. Then I restarted and had to run one more scan, and finally a lot of my files were back, although things are still a little screwed up, e.g. netflix/silverlight wouldn't work even after I reinstalled the browser and silverlight.