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DLink’s Shareport + DIR-655 Specifically

Great router, just set one up for my dad to plug his printer into. Does anybody have experience with plugging USB Hard Drives into the USB port on one? I’m curious if it will power portable ones and also what can I expect for speed? Secondly, USB Hubs with the SharePort.. yea [...]

So I need the help of OT… v. trojan

I think I have a trojan, I keep getting popups in the form of a brand new firefox window with a web address of sagispul.com or something like that… I googled it and I see someone has the same problem.
the facts are that…
A. my windows firewall has disabled itself
B. Symantec Antivirus is not [...]

So I just disabled swap in Vista

Am I going to regret it? I’ve got 4GB of RAM, and it doesn’t seem to be using any more memory than it used to…everything seems to be running the same or slightly faster (could be the placebo effect though).i have just found it is better to let Windows control that stuff.Disabling swap in [...]

How do I delete a SHIT TON of files in Windows??

Hmmm….something’s obviously screwed up here (and it’s still counting as we speak)

Turns out there’s a bug in the mail server that’s created an extra ".mai" file for every email the server’s sent the last 3 years . Downloaded and installed their hotfix to take care of the problem, now I gotta clean up though. [...]

Is everyone in C&P using solid-state drives?

nope, though I am interested and can’t wait for them to be mainstream

No way son…dem shits is too expensive at the moment.I’m using a 300x (~45MB/s) CompactFlash card plugged into an IDE adaptor for my computer’s pagefile, but that’s it. The OS and data are still stored on a three-disk RAID.

Which SD Card?

My friend’s brother gave me his old laptop because it had a blue screen problem and he got a new one. So I now have a Dell M1210 which I just got and, though I haven’t reformatted, booted into Backtrack 3 off my USB drive. I found out that I can use the wireless card [...]

automatically put event on outlook calendar v.web programming

so i have a website, and i want them to put in a date and time and be able to push a button and have it automatically put an event on someones outlook calendar.
this is an internal website so it’s known that they’ll all have outlook and it also means i can use some trusted [...]

Laptop soundcards?

I was looking into getting a decent sound card for my laptop, ideally something that uses the Expressport as I’m getting sick of plugging external boxes into my laptop (2 external harddrives, a monitor, cooling pad, etc…).
I was looking at the Creative Extreme Xi-Fi, and the reviews are both good and bad:
Does anyone have experience [...]

WGA Issues for Windows XP

A couple months ago, I had to format my sisters computer, and the license number on the bottom of the laptop wasn’t working with the activation thing so rather than sort it out with microsoft I just used some crack thing I think I got from torrents. This worked fine, windows update worked fine, everything [...]

How do I get my laptop to work with WIFI?

Alright so I just got my first laptop, it says it’s WiFi enabled but I brought it to school today and it won’t get online… my iPhone works just fine so the network is cool. How do I get my laptop to work with wireless internet? Do I need to buy some special modem or [...]