Does it turn back off when you reboot? If so, try going into your BIOS (F8 at startup for most computers) and there is a setting to turn either on or off on boot. That should fix that.Quote:
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Does it turn back off when you reboot? If so, try going into your BIOS (F8 at startup for most computers) and there is a setting to turn either on or off on boot. That should fix that.Quote:
I dunno, the other day I bought a dvd burner and a new quiet case (beauty) , i flipped everything over booted windows , installed nero, my antivirus decides not to work any more, fix that then low and behold my internet access is gone , i dig around reconfigure the nic and nothing , so then i find my ethernet controller driver has dissapeared? fix that , try and burn a dvd and low an behold its a dud cause i did not have 4 empty gigs of space (should have rtfm i guess but i expect warnings from idoit proof win stuff). Then boot freebsd , cd /usr/ports/dvd+rw tools && make install clean then growisofs -dvdcompat -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /path to stuff and get a perfect dvd without a ton of space, it seems more and more i find win software is backwards and silly , i thought *nix was supposed to be abstruse?? I have never installed a nix proggy and had it mess up other programs and drivers and such.
score: windows----- ~hour of screwing around to get a dvdburned
*nix-------- 2minutes installing (from source even), 3 minutes reading a man page
go figure?
Btw. The antec sonata case makes a world of difference my hurricane has been turned into a whisper.
when PC's start getting me down:
http://members.aol.com/spoons1000/break/
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To the original poster.. RTFM.. When a new MS OS comes out I have it on a machine and play and cringe and cry.. this is the same as I am trying to do with *nix.... but the reading seems to be more intense.. either because I am older or it needs the extra effort..
The reason XP and 98 are different is because XP is not built on 98.. suprise.. suprise.. it is based on NT.. go play with that for a few months and compare the problems..
You are comparing a light truck with a family car.. not family car with family car or light truck with light truck..
Cheers
Hmmmm..... Someone who prefers a *nix flavor over Windows yet complains when it doesn't hold his hand and he knows he should have rtfm!!!!!! That's bloody odd, especially when you consider the following:-Quote:
should have rtfm i guess but i expect warnings from idoit proof win stuff
and how "intuitive" that is!!!!!!!!Quote:
cd /usr/ports/dvd+rw tools && make install clean then growisofs -dvdcompat -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /path
Lumpy old chap.... This isn't a "my OS is better than yours" issue, it is a "Don't whine, moan and complain about an OS when you clearly don't understand it". There's a difference since the latter applies to all OS's.
this is typical penny pinching.. force some bastard to do the tech support.. he dosen't have a life so he can study in his own time.. we pay him too much so he can pay for his own training..Quote:
Unfortunately my company does not have budget for me to take classes or buy books, and I haven't the time.
Advice: read some of the post on this board.. I would recommend when it come to corporate stuff.. just a search of the tiger-shark posts would be a good start..(and some of gore's "Sys admin from hell"if you don't want your job but want a laugh)
many of the other complaints I would have expected as late as 2 years ago.. for goodness sake XP has been under my fingernails for nearly 3years.. I sort of understand the situation.. Our headoffice wants us to upgrade our "Server"to Win2k.. (hmm are they in for a shock..I was preping it for a upgrade to 2k3..I better leave it at 2k..untill their goons leave..talk about corporate retards..suppose I had better hide the Smoothwall box for our backup dialup system..)..this is good.. it means I can finaly throw out the thorn in the side win95 and win98 boxes ..
just a thought.. the tight wad company owners have also given you ..The Cheapest available machines .with every upgrade.. so each time you face a machine.. you have a machine with a different personality.. So if you have a hardware problem you probably won't have the luxury of a "Donor"machine.. fark.. .. your probably even throwen a program and told it is the best thing since sliced bread.. installl it on every machine by lunchtime.. and train the staffhow to use it.. and this afternoon.. remove the virus from Mrs CEO's home PC, and remove the pron dialers form Mr Ceos laptop..
Your employer.. is using computers because he thinks he has to.. or because he needs to but hates pc's so does not value the system or the IT staff in the overall value of the company..
I am sorry for you..
Ok, First Undertaker you are evil man, I cried when I opened that link all those precious parts abused. That beautiful hard drive, wasted.
/sigh
Now let's see, I am comingly trying to get someone to honestly start a which OS is better fight. Since no one ever does. I am going to have to spew a couple questions to the Win audience and a couple to the *nix Audience.
First question to the win audience. (Don't answer if you don't know, I am sooooooo going to flame if you answer incorrectly.)
Why does windows need to restart after installing a program?
(Oh, yeah. Pooh quiet. You are not alloweed to answer this. I will post the rest in a sec, have to run.)
How do you get around having to restart every time you install a program?
Which version of Windows......
Because since 2k there's an awful lot of proggies that install and function perfectly well without a restart, including Office XP IIRC. :p
I believe a reboot is required when a system-level DLL is updated or replaced and no other process can rename or delete the file if a process is currently using the file at the time.
The NT line not only has tools to skip rebooting, or you can just kill and restart explorer for nearly everything. ;)
"Don't whine, moan and complain about an OS when you clearly don't understand it"
If i did not understand windows i would still be without internet access, I was quite shocked at what happened from adding software, should i expect this occasionally when installing stuff to windows then?;)
ps that "complex command" , the second part anyway is a simple cut and paste from the quite short man page , almost as easy as clikin on a little boxy , and the first is no harder to figure out than where the device manager is in windows ;)
I still use windows, if i thought it totally horrible i would not , i do think that expecting "user friendlieness" and general idoiot proofness from windows and common windows software is a fair expectation considering the target market.