Seffiks Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 where'd you hook up with that? sounds pretty nice. no wonder you have a ton of free time. same here, though. free time out the ass. have to take regular breaks from the screen to keep my mind right. b**ostwi*k-br*un Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 never heard of 'em. i would assume they are a POS company? good money, though. mostly win2k systems or have they switched up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 btw: what do you make of that stuff Hydrogen Peroxide posted? mtu being disabled hit me in the face right off. seems they don't want him on the interwebs at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 never heard of 'em. i would assume they are a POS company? good money, though. mostly win2k systems or have they switched up? hardware distributioncenter is where i work and the POS is setup by PSG / most have switched up, thats why im there. nobody wanted to go back to school so they hired me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 haha nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HydrogenPeroxide Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 if i get what you're laying down, i'm going to turn the mtu on. and they do allow people on the internet here, i just want to be able to use my nifty laptop with all my games instead of the pos terminal. im not doing anything that im not supposed to, im just trying not to fuck anything up. besides, if anything goes wrong, the guy will blame it on the fact that someone switched off the breakers, just like last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 yeah, also, check under the mac address filtering. you may need to add you mac address. find it (on your laptop) by going to start/run type cmd screen pops up, type ipconfig /all the mac address is at the bottom listed by "physical address" add that to your routers mac address filtering section on the router if it needs to be added. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_I Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 in the market for ram. websites anyone? preferably one on a budget. apple charging 150 for 1 GB. that doesn't sound fair. bump....im looking into upping ram as well, but i have a Dell. \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 bump....im looking into upping ram as well, but i have a Dell. \ go to crucial.com run the test and report back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 and might i ask why the hell would you ever go to apple to buy RAM?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Any suggestions on where to go to get a notebook fixed I'm just trying to avoid getting jerked Should i try the yellow pages?, bestbuy? circuit city? I put a 120gb hard drive innit, but when the computer was made it only went up to 40gb. The hp dude said it wouldn't work with the 120, but the computer guy at the store & different websites says it will. Anyhow i'm trying to recover the windows xp on it & i'm getting shit like: Media test failure check cable Operating System not found & the BIOS is'nt allowing me to reset it i'm about to bite the head off a baby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 whats the model of the laptop ( we will see if we can fix it for free here) never go to bestbuy or circut city) find local repairshops be friendly but you also have atleast know what the hell you are doing with a computer or they will damage yer wallet as as bad as the retailers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 mediatest error can be caused by a faulty cable/ loose cable ( so secure all connections) check to make sure you do not have any bootable cds or floppies in the computer are you able to get into the BIOS to change settings does the harddrive have jumpers on it? if so are they set to master? last but not least it may be a bad harddrive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 yeah i figured that much, well they don't know just how cheap i am haggle haggle haggle it's a HP Pavilion ze4610US Notebook PC the HP dude told me it's trying to boot from a LAN network so i'm trying to change the settings in BIOS but after restarting it and holding down f10, f8, f2 on the power up over and over again a beeping noise started and it's not getting me anywhere I got this far http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00488753&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=384624&dlc=en&lang=en but they don't tell me what to do if I can't get to the Testing the Hard Drive part I think i'm going to open it back up again and check out the connections better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HydrogenPeroxide Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 yeah, also, check under the mac address filtering. you may need to add you mac address. find it (on your laptop) by going to start/run type cmd screen pops up, type ipconfig /all the mac address is at the bottom listed by "physical address" add that to your routers mac address filtering section on the router if it needs to be added. awesome, thats the sort of info i was looking for. props! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Well I got to the BIOS Setup Utility part and checked the config and the boot orders right CD-ROM Hard Drive USB LAN The comps even reading the harddisk automatically but after I exit i'm still getting: PXE-E61: Media test failure check cable Operating System not found and there's no tool (tab)> test drive, option in the BIOS setup screen there's only Main System Devices Security Boot Exit i'll be back later tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 That sounds like the shitty abbrieviated Phoenix BIOS I had on my Pavilion desktop. Well, check the cable and the jumpers. Is there a working OS on the HD? If not, reinstall it and try again. Or use a LiveCD to look at what's on the HD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 awesome, thats the sort of info i was looking for. props! no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Dumielle Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 So,...... A liquid was spilt on my laptop, causing some of the keys to stick, and not letting me type anything. Anything I can do? Or should I just try to bring it somewhere for file retrieval? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Just plug a USB keyboard into it, for now. Does it start up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I don't know who is in to it, but I started a thread in crossfire about Google and wireless spectrums. Sooo, I sorta wanna turn it into a thread about technology and upcoming future advancements. Sorta like the technophile thread, but not so much haxing, etc. More thinking about integration of the technologies we have been imagining for the last fifty years into reality and near future technologies. At any rate: Fake Steve Jobs Blog Issues Challenge for new Google venture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 i figured kids in this thread might be into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I just saw that thread, crooked. If you come to the Bay Area , you probably could land a job with Google if you're smart and good at coding. My friend got a job there recently, and he doesn't have a degree or anything. He's just very, very good at Linux adminstration. I cant't really offer you any leads, though. I don't see him much these days. As far as what Google itself is doing, I have mixed feelings about it. I don't like the datamining aspect, or the fact that they're trying to get involved in a little bit of everything. Just because they're not doing totally lame shit right now like selling information to the highest bidder doesn't mean it won't happen someday. I am going to keep a skeptical eye on them. I can't say they're rotten yet, but some of the things that they are dabbling in (Doubleclick comes to mind) don't smell too good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 I try to think of what they mean for things like the general advancement of Artificial Intelligence research and the general advancement of society with technological integration. I am tryin to get an internship there before grad school. its a goal right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Have you read anything by Marvin Minsky from MIT? He was one of the people who founded the AI lab at MIT. Interesting stuff. I got interested in AI for a while. Nothing major, I just read up on some of the projects from the early days...like ELIZA, PARRY, and Lisp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HydrogenPeroxide Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 no problem. tried what you said just now and no dice.... the mac filter too. there has to be some way to figure out what i need to do... any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 check the cable and the jumpers. Is there a working OS on the HD? If not, reinstall it and try again. Or use a LiveCD to look at what's on the HD. I don't know what/where those are ? Can I make a LiveCD? The only disk I have is a Driver Recovery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 LiveCDs are Linux systems that run on your computer from a CD. They are a good way to look at what is on a hard drive without taking the hard drive out and putting it in an external USB case. The easiest one to use is called Ubuntu. You can get it for free on the internet from- http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download Once you download that, you have to burn it to a CD as an ISO image. It's a little tricky, but the Ubuntu site walks you through it. I think. Once it is burned, you restart your computer with the CD in the drive. Looking at what the BIOS says, it should start up without a problem. It will run through a startup routine with a bunch of code on a command line that won't make a whole lot of sense. That's normal, it's just telling you what it is starting up on your computer. Then, you will get to a login screen. Do what it tells you to do. Then, you will end up with a desktop. Open up an application called Nautilus. That's the file browser. Then go to the root directory. That's "/". Look for the /mnt directory. Those are the drives in the computer. /mnt/hda is the first hard drive. Open that. That is where Windows is installed. From there, you should be able to navigate around as if you were using Explorer, since all the directories are the same. Ubuntu SHOULD let you copy files from the Windows drive to an external USB HD. If it doesn't, then you may have to take another approach. Using Linux isn't that difficult. People make it sound like it's some super-intimidating nerd thing, but it really isn't. There is also a Windows program called Norton Ghost that will make an image of the drive. Casek recommended another application a few days ago that does the same thing. Maybe he will bless us with the name of that program again. And Mainter, I'm sure, has an idea or ten he could share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 wow, yeah i'll have to do this tomorrow thanks a lot Shai for taking the time out to explain and all wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 triple c: i thought you were all about the puppy linux? you try out ubuntu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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