Recent content by dezt

I try to think of ip addresses as seperate house numbers on 1 long street, but the telephone number explanation is a good simple way of remembering it.

@beechy Try ubuntu, it is great for starting out in Linux IMHO

That's odd, the linux servers i've introduced at work look nothing like windows..... in fact, they run from a command line interface so I don't have to use the mouse to do things that are quicker to do with a keyboard. Server 2008 looks more like Vista, so lets use all the resources up to run...

wow, this takes me back a bit, cheers less.....

Have you tried installing firefox and using that? If your MSN is working then it would suggest to me that your Internet Explorer is setup correctly as MSN uses the same settings as Internet Explorer, I think. Maybe try running an install of Internet Explorer just in case somethings wrong with...

Sorry entwisi, I thought he said laptop not computer. If the usb dongle doesn't pickup on another PC then you need a different one.

I would suggest using a PCMCIA wireless card, that's what I use on an old HP Omnibook 6000 running windows 2000, it connects to my BT homehub fine. The settings you will require are the SSID (network name) and WEP/WPA Key (Security Key). best bet is to run the setup program from the cd that...

I agree, open office is great and reads and saves in microsoft office format, which means you can take your coursework in to school/college. If you have to have Microsoft software and are in education, you can always try The Basement which sell Microsoft and Adobe software cheap to students and...

I use firefox, not had as many popups as on IE. not tried opera.

Ok, fair enough, what may work for me might not be the best course of atcion for people who are not as confident as me, I suppose my advice could result in larger problems if the drive was to slip and short the motherboard. Next time I give any advice i'll make sure that it is not going to...

i've got in using firefox. Are you trying to access from home or work? If it's work then your sys admin may have blocked the site on the proxy you use.

maybe if you actually thought about it, i left the company and moved on to better things. if you have been working with computers for more years than i've been alive then surely you will know that there is more than one way to fix a problem. All I did was offer two solutions that I thought...

That's exactly how we used to transfer data between 2 drives at my last job, who needs to screw the drive in....

if he got in touch with entwisi he will have told him what os is on the pc's. but seen as he has used a cd writter to transfer the data accross there's no point. Why did I bother trying to help, all you (less) can do is hurl abuse at me questioning my knowledge. but it sounds like both...

Ok then, if you need to know the os so be it. but it is most likely going to be windows and not linux or os X. best thing to without knowing anything is to open the pc up, unplug the cdromdrive and plug the old pc hard drive in and boot into windows. then you can access everything on the old...