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It's similiar to Wikimedia, but very different. I wonder if he programed it himself?
Probably the best part (although these forums are close) of MSFN.
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You get PHP and a MySQL database
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Personally, I'd run phpBB myself first.
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I used to run XP Pro on my computer but switched to 2003 because it seems far more stable (actually much faster on my hardware). I used to use Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition on XP and really liked its features. When I switched, I just gave it up. However, I just bought a Pocket PC for my new cell phone and would like to use the Plus! features for it. Does anyone know how to do the Windows 2003/Plus! combination?
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My friend and I just recently started a new forum at http://TechTalkToday.co.nr and invite you to join. It is a community for discussing the latest in gaming and technology. We don't need moderators yet, but if we start getting a good bit of members, we will hire!
Come and join!
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I think I'll wait till SP1 to use IE7.
Stick with Firefox before that.0 -
Thanks! I used the first suggestion; the second wouldn't work for me. I tried to type this message out using IE7, didn't work. Stopped letting me type in the middle of this post. I am back to Firefox. Besides, I didn't like the layout of IE7. This forum offers better support than all of Microsoft combined.
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I am currently a FireFox user and am happy to be one. However, when Paul Thurrott said that IE7 Beta 2 was an excellent step forward and that it was now publicably avalible from the MSFT website, I decided to give it a shot. I am running Windows Server 2003 SP1 on my laptop (excellent performance... for some reason better than XP ever did) and it doesn't want to install. It will only go on XP SP2 systems. I tried looking through the extracted files for some 'setup.msi' file or something to put on XP compatibility mode (rarely works... but thought I'd give it a shot) and couldn't find one. Has anyone tried to do this, also? And possibly gotten it to work?
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its not really recommended for a laptop - with a celeron it will run a bit slow with that CPU speed
Battery will also drain out more often!
I use it on a laptop but that laptop has a 3GHz Pentium 4.
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It soundes bad, if u can get a new computer or get one with out a hadrdrive and ram, (the stuff u allready hav) and implant that stuff in the new computer, (if u kno how) or get someone else to help u too
is it possible you have your windows critical restart thing set to restart after a certin ammount of time, try setting it to never restart!
oh and has anyone thought to try system restore?
Wolf7448, it is fixed. It is being balanced by Harry Potter. And I don't have the money for a new computer. God knows I want one, though.
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Now that I have my computer going again, I recently (today) decided to install Win Server 2003 on my computer for many reasons that I care not to elucidate on right now. I followed the MSFN guide and it all worked perfectly. Now, I am having a different problem. We are sharing a printer (Canon i550) among our workgroup. I installed the printer and print sharing, and shared the printer. When I went over to the other computer, the printer was there from the last installation and had connected. I went to word and tried to print something. It acted like it couldn't connect to the computer and obviously didn't print.
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I'm scared to open up a laptop.
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If that doesn't work, I'd just re-format and re-install XP. Or use your OEM disks.
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I doubt it is a bad ram chip, as I have 2 256mb chips. Unless both are bad, then I should be able to fall back on the other if one is bad. That narrows it down to two.
Actually, if one of the chips is bad, then it'll bring down the whole system regardless. You'd have to check one at a time to see if one or the other is faulty.
Regardless, it doesn't sound like a RAM problem. Like others have said, it's either a heat or power supply issue.
Oh... actually on second thought, it could be something else entirely... This is going to sound wierd, but hear me out. I just googled that model number and saw the pics of what it looks like. I had a classmate who bought a model that looks the same as that one. He said that he had a problem with random shutdowns/reboots as well.
To make a long story short, apparently Toshiba had failed to properly shield the metal case of the laptop from the electronics inside. Simply touching the metal where your wrists would lie might throw the computer off and make it hard shutdown. A call to Toshiba and a (free) shipment to the repair center solved the problem (they replaced that top panel).
I think that it is the overheat problem. Right now I'm running McAfee (one of the programs that shut the thing down) with my computer being balanced (watched closely by me) by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It is working just fine as of now.
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Here's some quick diag. in PC's. It'll help you relate to the laptop:
Blue screens usually mean a RAM problem.
Program crashings, mainly games, usually mean video card problem.
Slow programs usually mean low RAM or low HD space.
Random shutdowns or shutdowns during heavy use usually means the PSU can't handle the load, or your CPU is too hot and the BIOS shuts it down to save it.
Usually with laptops, they can't really be used to heavy gaming. What you should try is lower the visual settings, and close any other programs running before you use the game. If it still shutsdown then your CPU is getting too hot, either because the thermal compound is messed up or the fan's heat sensor is outta wack. Since you said that the fan is spinning faster, it's proabably trying to keep up with the CPU's heat, and failing. Do this, if you can, try to prop the laptop up so that the center of the laptop is a good couple of centimeters off of a flat surface like a table or whatever. Place a fan so that it can blow air toward the bottom of the laptop, and play your game. Hopefully this'll help you with diagnosing the issue. If it still shuts down, call ur provider and tell 'em to fix it.
I'm trying it now. Thanks.
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Pretty much normal, although now that you mention it, the fan has been a bit louder lately than usual.How hot is the laptop getting, maybe a fan has failed and the CPU us now overheating and the system is shuting down to protect itself. Could be the case that for a while the fan has kind of been working but has now completely stopped.Well, it's almost definitely a hardware problem - I'd start by contacting the manufacturer to see what they have as far as diagnostic utilities that you can run, or perhaps they can repair it under warranty if they can find the root cause of the shutdown issues.Could be heat due to a non-working fan, could be a bum RAM chip, could be a faulty video chip. It is likely one of these three.
I doubt it is a bad ram chip, as I have 2 256mb chips. Unless both are bad, then I should be able to fall back on the other if one is bad. That narrows it down to two.
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I haven't posted here in forever, so here I go. I hope that this is in the correct forum.
I have a Toshiba P15-S420 laptop with Windows XP Pro (it came w/ XP Home, but I formatted my HD and installed pro the very second that I got it). I have been pretty happy with it for the 1.5 years I've had it. Over the last three months, however, it has been very problematic. It started out that whenever I was on my final approach with Microsoft Flight Simulator, the computer would just turn off. No shutdown dialog, no blue screen, just gone. It has gotten worse. Lately, whenever I run a program that takes any sizable amount of power, it does the aforementioned action. Today, it has gotten exponentially worse than even that. I thought that if I run the original recovery disks and upgrade to pro, that might help. While backing up my data, it went off. I looked for viruses (although I doubted there would be one; this same thing had happened on my last installation of XP); it shut off (McAfee). I run spyware scans every day and it has never found anything. Does anyone have anything that might help or should I dump this thing on BestBuy with a warrenty certificate? My specs are as follows:
Toshiba Satellite P15-S420 laptop
3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 HT
512 mb ram
80GB HD
Windows XP Pro SP2
Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.
--Zxian
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1280x800
I have a widescreen laptop
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Vote Democrat!
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How do I join?
Go to BetaPlace (beta.microsoft.com)
Do the first survey (guest id: "betareq")
Wait for Microsoft to e-mail you with a beta guest code to koin that beta, or look up guest IDs on the internet.
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I am.
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Microsoft Update is Windows Update, with one major change. Instead of just Windows updates, it will have Office, SQL, and exchange updates (more to come).
It is currently a technical beta but it is nearing the end of this stage.
I am currently testing it.
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Stick with Firefox before that.
OScommerce, IIS and register_globals
in Web Development (HTML, Java, PHP, ASP, XML, etc.)
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Hmm... without .htaccess it is impossible to enable register globals...
What is your host (just wondering)?