― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― ron (ron), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
My computer is an AMD running Windows 98, and I have cable internet through Comcast. Plenty of memory and processor speed. Any ideas? This scares me, as my home computer connection is crucial to my work/livelihood. It's been happening frequently (and I just bought this computer). Thanks for any help/ideas.
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Monday, 5 January 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Monday, 5 January 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Monday, 5 January 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link
Does anyone know how to get around not-having-administrator status in Windows XP? I need to install AOLIM badly as well as turning on my animated images in IE that somehow got turned off. I cannot see Pee Wee dance. It makes me sad. HELP!
― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 06:58 (twenty years ago) link
I mean, it's really really gay. I thought I was being dumb and not understanding, but NOW I DO and it's a load of RUBBISH.
apt-get may be better but WHAT IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE 'getting' FROM!
And source code! It never compiles! Or if it DOES it then doesn't WORK! Computers are GAY GAY GAY!
Ah, "reclaiming" the word 'gay' makes my ire a lot easier to express.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link
Hahhahahahahaha help.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago) link
As far as compiling goes, what's the debian equivalent of fink? Compiling straight seems to work OK for me but I think it very much depends on how well the ./configure script works for each source tarball. This depends on how one's compilers etc. are installed, I suppose, seeing as Apple set mine up I can't help you there.
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
Installing from interweb - someone else did the install for me and I don't know which flavour of Debian I have blah blah... odd window manager as well.
When I first started the xterms wouldn't come up for some reason... ARGH!
Also ./configure isn't that hot. I was so gutted after spending all of Judge John Deed compiling mame and STILL it didn't want to work!
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
Sarah, why not install the woody version of debian? It's meant to be guaranteed to work, (well that's what they say, in their dreams I say).
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
Failing that, what is this "nicotine client" for slsk and how does one find/use it?
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
see here
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 7 January 2004 05:48 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 06:10 (twenty years ago) link
star: what errors are you getting from xmame? i've compiled it recently and it went ok (this was either mandrake or suse or both though)
andy
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link
I cannot access ANY webpages whatsoever WITH THE SOLE EXCEPTION OF ILX. WTF is going on here?
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 9 January 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
I just installed Win XP on my D: drive (I have 2 HDDs). Win 98 is still on C:
I figured my old settings from Win 98 would be xferred automatically to XP, or it'd ask me if I wanted them xferred, but that wasn't the case.
So how can I transfer all my old settings from Win 98 (which is still on my C: drive) to the new OS?
Thanks again!
― Aaron A., Friday, 9 January 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
― ron (ron), Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 11 January 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago) link
Suddenly, and for no reason I can discern, my PC (Windows 98, IE6) has somehow grown itself a firewall preventing me from using MSN Messenger. I haven't downloaded anything for ages, although I do use slsk on a regular basis. Is there a possibility that I've inadvertently let something in?
All I want to do is lose the firewall, if indeed it exists, so I can use messenger again. I've tried the Help function but it doesn't even recognise the word "firewall", amazingly!
Anyone?
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 11 January 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link
I have 64 RAM on a G3 Powerbook from '99. I believe I should add some more memory? How much should I add and how do I go about this? (There were specs originally when I bought the computer about how much how I could add, but this was a while ago and Apple seems to have severed all ties to this nostalgia item.)
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 12 January 2004 07:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Monday, 12 January 2004 07:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 12 January 2004 07:56 (twenty years ago) link
Access it and Yahoo and whatever else through Trillian.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 12 January 2004 07:59 (twenty years ago) link
1) unlock the keyboard by twisting the screw between the F4 and F5 90 degrees, with a small flat bladed screwdriver.
2) Pull back the two catches between esc and F1 and F8 and F9 and fold back the keyboard over the track pad.
3) Remove the two cross head screws that are in the middle of the exposed areas and lift out the metal plate that they fixed in position.
4) Slot the memory module in, angling it at first then lowering it into position.
5) refit the metal plate and keyboard
done
― Ed (dali), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:54 (twenty years ago) link
Andy: I believe I got up to the point where I would type xmame [name of rom here], it would give me some gumph about CPU numbers and then exit. It's a bit of a bugger, you might say. I can't remember more precise details as this was a while ago on The Beast. I'm going to take it round to my broadband enabled pals, I reckon, and see if that helps at all. Hurrah for getting a free ethernet card with the laptop and people with dorky home networks! :) I believe I was pointed at a debian build but this was only after I'd spent, literally, hours, downloading and building from source so I might give that a go when I'm on faster connection.
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link
I want to get into a particular chat room, and it uses javascript. Every time I try and get there, my computer freezes up and won't let me in. Do I need to download anything? or enable javascript or something? If so, any ideas how I do this?
Eternally grateful, and sorry to be so dumb etc etc :)
― C J (C J), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link
Also a link to the chat rooms would be helpful.
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
I don't actually know the link to the chat room, because it's accessed only via an icon on a message board which you click - it doesn't seem to show any properties when I right-click on it (it just says 'javascript'). You need to register with the message board (I've been a member there for about three years) and make sure you are logged on (which I am), but I still can't get into chat which is baffling.
― C J (C J), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago) link