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Posts tagged Windows XP

Need Perl program to parse amazon book page

Can anyone of you leet hax0rs hack up a Perl program that can parse an Amazon book page and notify me when a used book is less than a certain amount? I could run it through the Windows scheduler to check every 5 minutes and it would help a lot.I get paid to do [...]

Missing Internet Time tab in Windows XP

Does anyone else seem to have an Internet Time tab that seems to come and go? It seems to disappear when I’m using IPSec but I’m not entirely sure.Never mind, just answered my own question:
Anyhow, I’ll leave the thread in case anyone else finds it useful. Is your computer a domain member? I hear [...]

Can’t figure out what’s wrong!!!

***All links lead either to the products page or the newegg page of said product.
I’ve had serious issues with my computer but have no idea what’s causing it. My original setup consisted of the following:
XFX 680i LGA 775 MB
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
2 Gig sticks of Corsair Memory 1066 PC8500
EVGA GeForce [...]

Two XP choices on startup – only one installed

Ok, its now my turn to be called a noob and a dumbass, because I have a stupid problem I cant google.
I just got a laptop, dell 5100 from the parents. its an old 2.4ghz unit that needs a reinstall of windows. I reinstalled XP pro, everything went smoothly. Then when I restarted the dell, [...]

I have some very interesting spyware/malware……

Never seen or heard of it before.
Take for instance, OT. Look at the top of this page………you see the two side by side banners for advertisors? This spy/mal-ware actually replaces those with spamming banners. Some make noises and talk……like those ads we all hate. I can refresh the screen……and it will randomly show the [...]

I just reinstalled windows xp just to find out i have less space

My laptop has a 60gig hardrive (52 in ntfs terms). So I decided to reinstall XP, thus deleting everything because my laptop’s performance was shitty at best. I was getting highly variable fps on old games.
So anyways, everything went fine, but now I just realized my computer has 36 gigs of free space. Where did [...]

help formatting external hdd to FAT32

I just bought a 500gb Verbatim external while it was with the intention of using it with my dvd player.
However, I am having a shitload of problems trying to format it to Fat32.
I tried on both vista and XP by running the cmd prompt. format /FS:FAT32 x:
and it runs to at least 85% (when [...]

Linux USB External HD ? v.Ubuntu & Kubuntu

So my friend’s computer had Vista and won’t boot now. I’m not sure what exactly is going on but figured it would be best to backup their hard drive before doing anything. I downloaded a Live ISO of Ubuntu and Kubuntu and am trying them out before going over there. In both *Nix flavors I [...]

Does anyone actually LIKE Windows Vista?

I can’t see any positives.. I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop from HP. Its a beast compared to my old computer, yet I really don’t feel like I’ve made an improvement in performance.
My old computer had Windows XP and Ubuntu Fiesty installed
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
512 [...]

Wanna get my A+ cert – Find me a good book!

I was thinking of just getting the VERY top seller (the one by Michael Meyers), but then I figured maybe one wiht a more recent publish date (like the one by J. Brooks towards the bottom of the page)?
Help? Thanks.I’ve used study guides from fravo.com for a few certs and they are amazing…
They also guarantee [...]