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Archive for October, 2008

community college classes

so my mom wants me to take some community college classes during my sr year and i was wondering what i should choose my options are
Computer Literacy
Microsoft Office
Pc Repair
MS Project
Computer Forensics
Web Design & Development
Web Developer Certificate
Web Designer Certificate
CCNA/CCNP
JAVA/J2EE
A+
Oracle OCA & OCP Prep
any ideas if so thanksstay away from all those computer literacy, office, web design [...]

Windows 2008 server to act as wireless access point

Anyone have any idea how to set this up?
Google has not helped muchit can be done but you must have the right card. MarvelSoftAP is one piece of software that works with some cards.
Overall, it is not a recommended approach. If you are using Win2k8 for routing, it’s recommended that you use a [...]

How can I become anonymous online?

Buy accounts with a prepaid credit card, use Tor, what else do I need to do? Do anonymous proxy services work, or do I have to spoof a mac address too?
I’ve been away from working with computers for a long time, I’m really out of the loop. But, I can manage to follow [...]

Help with internets

System:
Dell Inspiron 1520
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2Ghz 2gig RAM 32bit
Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
My Internet has been acting up lately — just a series of kicking me on and off. When I do get on, I seem to be capped at like 10kb/s whenever I try to download anything. I tried diagnosing it on [...]

Noob here. I can’t figure out how to get smooth scrolling.

I’m using a Toshiba A75-S209 and when I scroll down a page in my web browser with the mouse wheel, it’s really choppy. How do I change it to make it smooth scrolling?
I’ve had this machine reformatted in the past, and when I look in the Display options, Settings tab, Advanced, Adapter tab, there [...]

Microsoft Outlook: Best Practices to organize contacts

Well I have this question on how to better organize my contacts
How do you guys organize them in your address book?
The way I have it done so far is I created folders for Suppliers, Staffing organizations, Sponsors, Hotels, Work…
I’m an event freelancer, and was thinking of doing something better for the Work section.
Since I work [...]

Going to tech school…What should I study?

The completion of the courses offered by this school will result in being Microsoft Certified.
I have basically narrowed my choices down to two courses: Systems Engineer or BI Developer (stands for Business Intelligence).
Does anyone here have a career in these two field or know anything about them? I hear that BI Developers are in [...]

HP computer turns on and off

I’m trying to figure out whats wrong with my friends computer. I’m no computer expert but I’m not completely illiterate either. They brought over a HP computer telling me that it turns on and shuts off within a few seconds. I powered it on and noticed that nothing came out on the screen. The computer [...]

Thinking of a new Router

I have a linksys wrt54g v.5 and it just never seems to work right. Most of the time I can’t connect to it even though it’s 10 feet away from me in the same room. I don’t really know what the problem is but it has been off an on. It rarely works perfectly and [...]

been having PC troubles lately

about a couple of months ago i noticed my computer has becoming more and more sluggish. my applications take longer to load, more ram to load and everythings becoming alot slower than usual. for example, when i try playing games like counter strik 1.6, i usually had my settings at 32 bit and 1024×768 resolution [...]