Recent content by wfay

Thanks for all of the replies. The house was built in 2007. Can't contact the builder -- they went belly up in 2008. And there are no plans available, we asked for that in our original offer etc but the sellers didn't have anything. The previous owners are 1) total schmucks and 2) no...

This is a great thead, I have similar problems with my Cable modem provided by Mediacom in Central IL and also had occasional issues when I was previously with Comcast also in Central IL. I don't suppose TheKub would be kind enough to come back and tell us exactly what he bought, how he set...

Thanks for the reply ScottMac. I am curious about the range for the probe -- would it be able to detect the wires behind the walls, say 2-3 inches away and through the drywall? Or would it really only be useful to plug the toner into the rj45 socket in my office and tone-out which cable in...

I bought a home a few months back and I know there is ethernet in the walls as there is a huge bundle of Ethernet cabling in an area of the unfinished basement. I can see the wires running along the ceiling and into the walls in that same area. Those cables are punched down into a block and then...

I'm a Java programmer and know essentially nothing about PeopleSoft. We have a PSoft HRMS 8.4 installation at work that is used for various HR functions. Another team owns it and manages it. My team of Java developers has written another HR-related app. We are already using it with another...

My wife just called me from Boston to say that she was trying to watch a DVD while flying and somehow decided that it would be a good idea to pick "output -> tv mode" since it was a little choppy and now even she boots the laptop it comes up with a black screen. I had her look for the F key...

I've got a Dell Dimension with front usb ports connected to the internal motherboard usb header pins. I've recently purchased an internal flash card reader with usb port that I'd like to add to the system, in one of the floppy bays, to make it easier for my wife to use her digital camera and...

Good plan. I'm sure someone in their Spare Parts dept can tell me specifics on my machine, and they'd love the opportunity to sell me on an upgrade. I was thinking I might need to call for Tech Support but of course I'm way out of warranty, and its not worth $40 just to get this answer. I...

The Dell site says 1gb max. But then searching online, I see various reports of people running 2x1gb sticks, and vendors like Crucial etc seem to offer 2x1gb configuration (and those online wizards are usually pretty accurate), so I'm hoping perhaps someone here can confirm 1gb or 2gb...

This is a great deal. My father was just looking to buy a couple laptops for his small business, great post OP.

The topic and summary pretty well describe what I want to do. I have only one PC with SATA (integrated) and one SATA hard drive. That machine is giving me problems. I want to load the SATA drive in my other desktop and use that working Windows OS to run various system utilities to back up...

Just loaded up an old Partition Magic v7 boot disk and it immediately found cross-linked files and lost clusters (numerous) on this drive. I think the drive probably just needs to be RMA'ed. I should be able to get some files off it before sending it in, but this is just a hassle. I'm sure...

I went out of town for a week for work, and left my Dell 8400 on while I was gone. Normally this is not a problem -- the box is usually on 24x7. I have a UPS for power and generally have had no issues with the box since I purchased it in Jan 2005. The box runs Windows XP Home and I have...

No offense, but Java, Perl, etc should be able to "process" the 100mb log into a summary format in a matter of minutes. 100mb log files are tiny. Perl was DESIGNED from the start to do nothing but process text. I would consider writing code to break up each line in the file into a series of...

Agreed 100%.