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  1. ohhdamn

    New SCSI on all IDE machine,win98se wont use..

    I just put in an Adaptec aha2940uu/w dual SCSI controller with 4.3 gig western digital SCSI drive,my goal is to move everything from my current C: to the new SCSI and call it C:,it shows up in device manager but not "My computer".What do I need to to make this as easy as possible?
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    MSIE ,cant delete history

    I cant get rid of history with internet explorer it says its gone but not really,you can goto open file and type a letter and a whole bunch of old sites will pop up.The whole explorer was just recently reinstalled,still didnt help,,sound familiar?
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    How do you muscle device manager?

    Nothing APPEARS to be hiding under another device name,I used a reg cleaner but only saw references to old programs no hardware,this is not to say there is none,Im not sure what Im looking at.msinfo32 and the other wont work on my computer it just says cant be opened make sure the file bla bla...
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    How do you muscle device manager?

    During my latest snafu,sound card upgrade,Ive had all sorts of problems but I think I have finally got to the root of them all.If I start in safe mode device manager shows 4 devices that dont show up in regular mode.These devices are associated with my old sound card which I thought I...
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    Can linux really do that?

    Ive spent the last couple of days reading all I could find about the 8.6 million forms of Linux.Yours is not the first recommendation for slackware,so I ordered "slackware 7.1 new install" on ebay for $8.95 so in about a week I should be ready to pull some hair!I dont think Ill have...
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    Can linux really do that?

    Im tring to get through all the crap so I can make an informed decision,I dont know enough about programming and program structure to critique the finer points of the different operating systems.I depend on good advice from various sources and hope it all pans out.Not everybody has been...
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    Can linux really do that?

    Ive been asking alot of questions about linux lately because I plan to switch this week.While talking the pros and cons someone mentioned the security of windows,saying basicly they could walz right in on a windows machine and browse at will(provided that they were on the same server).They would...
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    Can linux really do that?

    Is it true you can look at somebody elses windows machine and even take screen shots of other computers online?
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    Windows python,what am I doing wrong?

    Its not the program I just clicked the file in my documents menu and it ran but closed the window the second it printed the last line.But still does not work if I try "run module"in the edit window.
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    Windows python,what am I doing wrong?

    I just downloaded a windows freindly python package,Im new to programming and python has a simple syntax that I think is easy to understand.I want to try out some of my baby skilz but the program doesnt run right,heres my program: print"simple" a=input("speed?")...
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    can I setup Linux like this?

    I dont have the spare parts right now to build another internet capable machine.After I wrote this I started snooping around at slackware and think now Ill just buy their Linux toolkit it has the latest slackware as well as Redhat and others.That way I dont have to bother with a download on the...
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    can I setup Linux like this?

    Ive been told I can run Redhat on this computer along with windows and just let them share,but I want a stand alone system.I have several old 486 computers and my plan is to move every thing from my d: to c:(d: is only 518 mb is this enough?)then down load the linux to d,remove the drive and put...
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    freakin' tweakin' part deux

    Ive got quite a few INF files none particularly scream OLD MODEM anything I need to look for?Ohh yea I seem to remember somebody saying when I tweaked my modem and myself in to submission that all the evil genius' on this site would fine tune my modem what do you need to know should I run the...
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    freakin' tweakin' part deux

    The new modem is a logicode 2814HV 28.8,its installed as you can see,and workin pretty good but I still lost 4 out of 4 packets or either time out on every value I ping with, and Ive heard its not cool to ruthlessly ping your ip.But with my overall performance increase since noon today I will at...
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    freakin' tweakin' part deux

    ok here it is , error messages when pc coms with modem,ati1 thru ati7 all say error as well as the last one at+fcia (should those i's be 1's?). ping results,packet needs to be fragmented but df set<-huh? 576 4 sent 4 lost 500 4 sent 4 lost 400 time out isp...
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    How bout' some practice boys?

    it might take me a little while to read thru and try the things youve listed but ill be back and THANK YOU!
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    How bout' some practice boys?

    I hope you all will forgive me for not being a professional in the sense that i get paid to mangle computers,i just do it for fun!The average technical support person is no help(ip tech support anyway,earthlink i mean)Im confident in the dial up configuration but think the problem is somewhere...

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