Recent content by nippyjun

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    Western Digital Portable Hard drive for mac questions...

    Hi, I'm in need of a new portable external hard drive. The western digital ones come with password protection and hardware encryption. My question is weather you can use the password protection and hardware encryption with the drive if you are using the drive for time machine? Also, if i...
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    Apple $50bn cash - what potential acquisitions?

    Apple doesn't need netflix as they can adopt the same model with what they have already.
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    Problem with starting programs on 64 bit vista laptop. See if you can help me. Thanks

    Update: After the microsoft live essentials ran and cleaned up the malware and all the windows updates were installed all seems to be well now. Thanks for the suggestions.
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    Problem with starting programs on 64 bit vista laptop. See if you can help me. Thanks

    Thanks. I posted this on another forum and got this reply: "Make sure associated services like the compatibility agent (something like that) are enabled. A friend recently had the same exact issue, turns out his son disabled a bunch of services trying to speed it up." Does anyone know more...
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    Problem with starting programs on 64 bit vista laptop. See if you can help me. Thanks

    My relative brought me their laptop to take a look at as she has been having problems with it. it's a year old toshiba with vista home premium 64 bit. She said everything was working fine up until about a month ago. It boots up just fine, but whenever you try to start almost any program...
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    Windows 7 HP/Pro for $30 for students!!!

    If the Daughter that is already is out can get an alumni email or if there is free email forwarding for alumni you can use that edu account to get it.
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    Plaxo; how is it for just sycing information between computers?

    But you can't sync the contacts using google, just the calendar using google calendar sync as far as i know.
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    Plaxo; how is it for just sycing information between computers?

    I've been looking for a way to sync my contacts and calendar between 2 pc's. I came across Plaxo which i've heard of before but never tried. I know that plaxo has evolved into a social networking type of site but my only interest is in the syncing. I want to know if it sync's accurately...
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    Just ordered a Dell 9n to hackintosh :)

    All you need to know is on the mydellmini forums. The dellefi method is very easy. There is a new ao5 bios. You may want to flash the bios before doing the osx install.
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    Can a flash drive that has been made bootable be changed back.

    I had converted a usb flash drive to be bootable using syslinux. Can i convert it back to being a regular non-bootable flash drive by formatting it or will that just erase the data but not the boot up part? Thanks.
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    How often should i charge a currently unused UPS

    I have an extra UPS that is currently not being used. I read that you should charge them overnight every so often but i can't find that information now. it's a belkin one. Anyone know how often to charge it even though it's not being used? thanks.
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    Networked printer shows as "offline" after reboot router

    I have an update. I set the ip on the printer itself to a static one and all seems to be well. Thanks for your input.
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    Networked printer shows as "offline" after reboot router

    One thing i forgot to mention. the laptop with the issue is a vista one, my macbook pro doesn't have the issue, it finds the printer after the router is turned off then on. Does that matter?
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    Networked printer shows as "offline" after reboot router

    I have an HP all in one that is wireless and wired. My laptop connects to it wirelessly. Every so ofter i have to power down my router and then restart it. After i do that my laptop usually shows the printer as being offline. I have to delete the printer then have it find it again...