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  1. MamaLoca

    External Hard Drive recommendation

    So I am learning the hard way, yet again, that you get what you pay for. My one year old Simpletech External hard drive sounds like it's getting ready to buy the farm. It thrashes and labors and sometimes won't let me access my files. So I am going to have to replace it. Unless someone has a...
  2. MamaLoca

    XP Home will not boot after Norton AV Install

    My friend's Dell Dimention 2400 will not finish the boot process. It is hanging up on the light blue XP page. She was renewing her Norton subscription. During the process it told her to go into the registry and make changes. I'm not entirely sure what she did but now her machine won't boot...
  3. MamaLoca

    Forcing laptop to use peripheral monitor

    I am helping a friend who has a laptop that needs to have windowsXP reinstalled. The problem is that the monitor is broken and I had it set up to use a crt monitor since it is dual monitor capable. The problem now is that something has gone wrong and I want to try and reinstall windows. there...
  4. MamaLoca

    SELECT WHERE field IS NULL not working

    I have been monkeying with this for while now. I want to select all the records where a specific field is empty SELECT * FROM `maps` WHERE `description` IS NULL It's not working and I'm not sure why. I know the records are there cause I can call them with SELECT * FROM `maps`, and I know...
  5. MamaLoca

    Startup Problems, continuous startup loop

    This is just NOT my week. I tried to boot up my laptop and it keeps looping through the startup screen. I get a Post Beep, and then a black screen, then back to the Startup screen. I can not start in Safe mode, I can not get it to go back to a previous restore point. I removed the battery...
  6. MamaLoca

    Replacing a motherboard

    Hiya folks, I am in need of some good advice. Last week we had an electrical storm and it seems to have caused a problem with my parents machine. It was powered down at the time and although the power was routed through a surge supresser the DSL was not (I know mia culpa, mia culpa, it is...
  7. MamaLoca

    Making DBI work

    I want to learn how to connect and use MySQL from my PERL scripts I fount a script to test and see if DBI is supported/installed on my webhosts server at http://perl.about.com/od/perldbiprogramming/l/aa032701a.htm #! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DBI; print "Here's a list of DBI...
  8. MamaLoca

    use strict code issue

    Hey fellas, I'm trying to learn PERL and I keep hitting brick walls. So I thought I'd come to the best! Please let me know what is wrong with this code #!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI; use diagnostics; $cgi=new CGI; print $cgi->header; print "Here I is"; if I throw in use strict; it gives...
  9. MamaLoca

    Problem with a function call within a CSS element

    HI, I just stumbled across you site while looking for a solution to a CSS issue I'm having. I am trying to add some advertisments to a website I'm working on. I have created a CSS element to contain the ads. the container works just fine with text in it. the red outline is the element...

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