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Sep 08 2003 06:06am

Orion
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Orion
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Your PC not acting well?
Is your PC Making you pull out your hair?
Do you want to learn more about computers?
Well have no Fear!
Welcome to the Offical, yes thats Right I said Offical Orion PC Help Desk!

Ask any question you wish!
Noo question will be ignored! No question is to "dumb." (trust me I've heard them all)
If your having PC troubles ask away, please note I need as much info as possible to help diagonose or solve the issue.
Want to learn some PC tips? Go and ask away!
I will try to respond to your problems and questions as soon as possble.

Sorry I cannot answer any Mac question I haven't touched a Mac in years..

Edit: I have now expanded into helping with programming issues too :)
(C++ stuff only though)

(This has been a Paid Service Annoucment.)
(Please Note any "dumb" question from Jello and Jacen Aratan will NOT be answered in a timley manner :p .)
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When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u

This post was edited by cHoSeN oNe on Oct 27 2003 12:31am.

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Oct 24 2003 04:46am

Orion
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 Orion

Ok Here's a post with some usefull links. I will keep updating this as needed.

If you don't know about this site and you are a Windows User you need to know about this. This site will patch your os with any of the bugs in any Windows OS.
http://www.windowsupdate.com

A good piece of software to have. This will scan your computer for any kind of spyware that any freeware or shareware program that you download and install.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com or you can try spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
*NOTE* Don't have both installed or they will say each other is spyware. I like spybot better.

A good free anti-virus program.. If you don't have a anti-virus I recommend you do.
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

This site is good for information on ISP's(Internet Service Providers). It alos has a great little toolset for testing your internet connection and the forums are helpful for tweaking your pc to get the most out of your connection.
http://www.broadbandreports.com

Do you have windows XP or 2000 and a great video card? Seem to be stuck at about 60FPS, even though you say like com_maxfps 120? Simple fix http://www.ryanmh.com/files/reforce.zip is a fix for a Windows Bug that locks your frame rate at 60 fps when you can get higher. All you do is unzip that run it, click auto populate, hit Apply and reboot and boom FPS allover the place :)
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When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u

This comment was edited by Orion on Sep 25 2004 01:44am.


Mar 18 2004 12:39am

Mune
 - Student
 Mune

Alright, I want to hook up two XP computers to a 'network', per se, via an ethernet cable for a little one vs. one with a friend. No HUB. Would I do this just by the wizard Windows gives on starting a network or is there some trick? I ask because another friend said he was able to do it with just the cable, but he said he had some trouble... So, any advice?
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Mar 15 2004 07:27pm

_cmad_
 - Ex-Student
 _cmad_

NEVERMIND THIS POST :)

===

k i was just about to start a thread but i figured i should post here...

I use thunderbird (0.5) to read newsgroup posts. Yeah well the newsgroup posts are in thread style but in message style so it's confusing. Here's an example of what i mean thread style and message style:

thread style:

Writing a C++ program
++Re: Writing a C++ program
++++Re: Writing a C++ program
++++++Re: Writing a C++ program
++++Re: Writing a C++ program

Compiling a C program
++Re: Compiling a C program
++Re: Compiling a C program

Message style:

Re: Compiling a C program
Re: Compiling a C program
Re: Writing a C++ program
Re: Writing a C++ program
Re: Writing a C++ program
Compiling a C program
Re: Writing a C++ program
Writing a C++ program


You see that if there are many messages that gets confusing... How can I make them show in a thread way?

BTW: I tried the View | Messages, and View | Threads menu options but it didn't help. Some replies were still away from original post...

Thanks in advance,
- cmad

EDIT From what I see this problem only is on SOME newsgroups (seperate reply threads). Nevermind the post then...
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This comment was edited by _cmad_ on Mar 15 2004 09:06pm.

Mar 14 2004 09:10pm

tarpman
 - The Tarped Avenger
 tarpman

KitMitsu: I got that error too. Apparently it's a copy of rundll32 trying to run a non-functional bridge32.dll. The only fix I know of is to run regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows->Run, and remove the rundll32.exe entry that points to bridge32.dll.
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Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time.

Mar 14 2004 09:07pm

tarpman
 - The Tarped Avenger
 tarpman

So I'm playing around with my power management settings (Windows XP Pro), setting up my own schemes and all that. It all works fine for several months, but then suddenly one day I turn it on and my settings are gone. All of them. Even the XP default ones. When I bring up the "Power Options" Control Panel box, the drop-down list won't drop down, the Save As and Delete buttons do nothing, and the current scheme's settings (current scheme listed as "Unknown", btw) are all greyed out. The other 3 pages in the box (Advanced, Hibernate, UPS) all work fine. I checked regedit, and all my schemes are still there. The global scheme seems to be set properly to the last one I was using, but I can't change schemes unless I copy and paste throughout the Registry.

Any help would be really appreciated, because I have a ton of stuff on here right now and I really don't feel like formatting and reinstalling again.
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Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time.

Mar 14 2004 08:04pm

Orion
 - Retired
 Orion

it sounds like either a memory issue, swap around those sticks of ram, see if any of them cause the issue, if its not that, its probably a power supply issue. gota get a new psu then :o or maybe some how your motherboard got a small shock and a capasitor on it got fried.
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When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u

Mar 14 2004 07:33pm

Ancient
 - Ex-Student
 Ancient

i have an very critical problem with my pc.....My pc is a costum build machine with AMD 1800+, PNY GF4 Ti 4200 64mbddr 500Mhz(overclock to 600mhz), PNY 768 PC 2100 DDR RAM (actually is three 256 pc 2100) shuttle KT 266A motherboard VIA chipset(fucXing cheap set), 350W max powersupply(dont know what band), IBM 80gb hdd and western digitial 160gb hdd with 8mb cache, magic spin DVD+-RW 8X, k-hypermedia 48*24*48 seamless link cd writer.
The problem i have, is i cant turn on my computer after a night of sleep....I didnt do anything special to it or add anything new thing.... after i press the "power" button, it just freeze there with nothing show in the moniter with the hdd light (the red light) and the power light (the green light) light up and hold still. The hdd light is not beating as usual....just light up and hold still:(. I have try to replace my video card with my old video card (radeon 7500) and i still got the same problem.... I also try to remove one of my hdd, one of my dvd or cd drive and i have even tried to reflesh the BIOS but the problem is still there. :(:(:( I tested it by removing my video card [nothing in my AGP slot, and you know that if a normal computer got no video card....the motherboard will have some sound like....beep...beep..beep, right?]but my machine dont have those sounds....and just freeze with red and green light on....:confused::confused::confused::confused:

Plz orion....help me out of this nightmare......THX
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This comment was edited by Ancient on Mar 14 2004 07:43pm.

Mar 14 2004 06:42pm

Mreoton
 - Student

Hey :)
Ive been searching for help for ages for this error but ive had no luck :(
Everytime i logoff or shutdown my PC an end now box comes up with rundll32.exe. i dont know what to do :S
Help please

Mar 14 2004 07:52am

Demon
 - Student
 Demon

Well, tell ME it's strange:mad: I can't even join Smilys Tourney, and I WANT to :(. Damn, gonna try one more time.
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Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force will free me.
-The Code of The Sith


Mar 13 2004 08:29pm

Ulic Belouve
 - Student
 Ulic Belouve

Hey,

I'm thinking of doing striping with a RAID. Since I don't need anything big, I'm just going to try the striping built into WinXP pro.

However, I can't split my drives easily into unallocated space for the striping. The way I got it to work on my secondary drive was to put on Linux (which made a partition) and then delete Linux (leaving unallocated space, but only so much). No luck on splitting the Main Drive, my boot partition. I have plenty of free space all around.

OK, so questions:
One, I wish to be as cheap as possible on this. So something free to split the partition (not Partition Magic, demo won't split, and I won't shell out for it).

Two: Am I better off using a hardware RAID? I think so, but still, I don't want to drop a lot of cash on this. Which leads to....

Three: What hardware RAID should I get if I want to? I've heard lots on Promise, but if I can just get a generic and get it to work, that'd be cheaper/better. But I heard of all the headaches generics cause.

So. Let me know. Post here, and again, if you want to REALLY get ahold of me. Feel free to e-mail me (thanks C-Mad for the e-mail last time.)
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Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace.

Mar 13 2004 09:26am

_cmad_
 - Ex-Student
 _cmad_

oh sorry the site has a different IP
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Mar 13 2004 09:18am

_cmad_
 - Ex-Student
 _cmad_

are you sure you did

ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

and it didn't work? it's really weird if there's no firewall or proxy and it doesn't work :/

that means that you can't even reach the site, but that's impossible since you CAN post here :/
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Mar 13 2004 07:36am

Demon
 - Student
 Demon

Nope, I've got a 512/128 ADSL modem with no routers or other crap. I even ran ad-aware but it's still the same. God, it's annoying:mad:
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Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force will free me.
-The Code of The Sith


Mar 12 2004 01:46am

Stimpski
 - Student
 Stimpski

Demon: Are you behind a router?
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Mar 11 2004 06:55pm

Demon
 - Student
 Demon

Nope, not even the Windows one. I can connect to everything but not the JA JK:JA servers :(

I don't really know why.
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Quote:
Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force will free me.
-The Code of The Sith


Mar 11 2004 05:44pm

Fate
 - Student
 Fate

Demon: You got a firewall running?
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I must not fear . Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear . I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Gom gom gom gom gom!


Mar 11 2004 01:50pm

Orion
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 Orion

Quote:
Okay, this one's bugging me horribly. I've already posted it on a techie forum, so rather than repost it here I'll just link to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated:

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12189&st=0&#entry97314

Ill call on the power of Mr DJ Sith for this one JavaGuy, I have no clue about Apache.

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When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u

This comment was edited by Orion on Mar 11 2004 05:59pm.

Mar 11 2004 06:10am

JavaGuy
 - Student
 JavaGuy

Okay, this one's bugging me horribly. I've already posted it on a techie forum, so rather than repost it here I'll just link to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated:

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12189&st=0&#entry97314


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Mar 10 2004 06:35pm

_cmad_
 - Ex-Student
 _cmad_

yeah xanny; me or orion's upcomming C++ classes :P But as a reference C++ book i'd suggest The C++ Programming Lanuage 3rd edition by Bjarne Stroustrup
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Mar 10 2004 05:43pm

Xan
 - Student
 Xan

Hey Orion. Got any tutorial sites for absolute newbs who wanna learn some C++?
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Mar 07 2004 05:27pm

Demon
 - Student
 Demon

I have a problem, whatever I do (tcp/ip config, ad-aware) I cannot ping the server on which the academy JK:JA servers are hosted(Huxleys server). I can't connect or ping to the ip, so I can't connect to any of those servers. Help is welcomed :D

EDIT: Even on a clean JK:JA install with the patch, it's the same.
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Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force will free me.
-The Code of The Sith


This comment was edited by Demon on Mar 07 2004 05:29pm.

Mar 06 2004 10:20pm

Orion
 - Retired
 Orion

Silenco have you tried running a virus scan? It could be a virus. Check your Start -> All Program -> Startup, and make sure there is not like a folder there that will launch a window opening system32 folder :P
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When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u

Mar 06 2004 10:19pm

Orion
 - Retired
 Orion

Ulic: When you uninstall do you delete everything in teh folders once the installer is complete, i know it likes to leave things hanging around. Try that and just install the update and see if you can connect to any normal public server.

Bail: Firewire is a means to move data from storage devices/digital cameras/digital recorders. Its something to compete with USB, and it is faster than USB 1.0, but USB 2.0 is faster than FireWire
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When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u

Mar 06 2004 12:57pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
 - Student
 Bail Hope of Belouve

Hey there!
yeah, me again...

I was just wondering: (take the other guys questions first, of course;)) What is a FireWire?

I know it's some sort of connection on the Motherboard, but what does it do?
Why is it different from USB? :confused:

thanks in advance

catcha later;)

Sincerely,
Bail Hope of Belouve
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Mar 05 2004 10:30pm

Ulic |retired|
 - Student
 Ulic |retired|

Orion! Help me!

After 5 times of reinstalling jk3 still gives the following error when entering jk3home: invalid game folder.
I've installed the patch and put the new map in gamedata/base.


I'm desperate

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Mar 03 2004 06:18pm

Silencio
 - Student
 Silencio

I have some comp problems..

1. Everytime my comp starts up, it seems to feel obliged to bring up the "system32" folder. Dunno why

2. Sometimes when I'm doing something important, or have some sweet downloads lined up, it feels the need to show me a nice, blue screen, saying something along the lines of "lots of weird a$$ numbers, PFN_LIST_CORRUPT"

That's pretty much it.. I'm runnin win2k pro, btw. According to ad-aware, I don't have any silly spyware running, so that's not it. Other than that, my specs are:

Athlon XP2000+
Asus A7V133
256 MB Sdram (Yup, it sucks:p)
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB

Now get to work, monkey!:P
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