maademperor

sorry to hear that, I've not heard of this "ICE" entity unitl now.... Personally, I just need everyone to pay taxes and be available for military draft status, other than that, you can speak whatever you want and work as you like....oh and everyone needs to start beating thier kids again too...get some discipline back in this country. for you hippies: Beatin = spanking in my old man speech. NOT close fisted uppercut to a 7 year old jaw for spilling some milk.

Hmm, Dell doesnt seem to even have any xp drivers for the m1530? http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...tid=&impid= at any rate, try what emat19876 said and get the sata drivers (unzip them to a floppy and hit f6 during the xp disc loading screen to load them).

love my xfi I guess some of it depends on if you are just looking to casually listen to music on a basic computer speaker setup or if you are going for a great listening experience in games/music/movies and have a high end computer speaker setup (5.1 logitech/Klipsh) or if you are going to be running that sound out to an external reciever though...

before you format, you need to determine if your xp disc has SP2 slipstreamed into it AND if your computer has SATA hard drives. the vanilla XP disc has no support for SATA controllers and will report no hard drives (at least it didnt used to, havent installed xp in awhile). If you have sata drives, google "slipstream xp service packs" and follow that to make your own XP disc, then try booting from and see if it sees your hard disc.

dont know how to use a plasma cutter or air hammer (although the latter sounds simple enough). are these tools I could rent at home deopt? at any rate, I'll be hooking up with a buddy who's got a garage full of tools (place looks like a pawn shop) so I'll see what we can come up with. just wish I had someone elses car to try it on first

thanks, my buddy also said much the same (especially the pain in the ass part)...I'm hoping the threads on the bolt itself are my problem and I wont have to re-tap it.... I tried getting a flat head screwdriver under there to do that but I'm afraid it was off level enough to prevent me from getting anywhere, I'll find a panel popper and see what that does too lol, I thought of that over the winter but didnt have a magnet and figured I'd ask if there was something else anyone could suggest before I spent money/time finding a magnet

yeah, that was one of the first things I did, get on the ground and look for the bolt from underneath, but like I said, its not visible from underneath (I'd have to cut a hole in the metal of that area under the car to get to it)

I use McAfee and have no issues, I'm rather defensive in my surfing though. its firewall also was much more effective than my old norton install (2004 I think it was) as it was able to see chatter on my network from torrents being downloaded on another machine and advise me it was blocking pings from them. I've used trend micro, norton, mcafee and avg and I like Mcafee the best right now. it doesnt randomly reduce my system to its knees when its real time scanning new/created files of large sizes, it effectively sees the contents of zipped files and even files that have had thier fomat messed with to disquise the actual contents. a 10/10? you'd want to go with either mcafee or norton IMO. They are both the first to react to new threats are able to be easily updated/run standalone if for some reason your connection is disabled.

alpine type r subs give a nice bit of hit without breaking your wallet too. as for wiring, if you think you are going to end up with a lot anyway, why not just jump straight to 0/1 and save yourself the cost of installing it later? you might never reach the "need" but to have the comfort zone could be worth it to you...especially since its only like an extra $20 or so for 0/1 kit versus a 4 guage kit...knukonceptz is a good brand, with good service and shipping http://www.knukonceptz.com/productMaster.c...allation%20Kits

I can say this much about webroot: when it was just webroot spysweeper it was a free app (like spybot and adaware) and it was very effective for cleaning out spyware and malicious apps. I havent used it since it became a licensed app with a fee, but I figure if it was good enough for them to start charging, its probably worth owning now complete with AV function now too. various reviews seem to be consistent around a 7-8 out of 10, which means it will protect you well on a casual basis, if you tend to go to shady sites and download random apps via p2p or a lot of porn sites/every popup you see, then you'll be right back where you are (this goes for most AV apps really). depends on what kinda surfer you are I guess

Okay, so I've got a probelm with a stripped bolt (the threads not the head). Its one of the 4 on my drivers side seat. I pulled the seats out to run wires and whatnot and somehow during the reinstall I managed to strip this one bolt. It turns freely in the socket and I cant back it out to save my life. I cant touch it from below the car to try and "push it" out and I cant get it to back out either. Any tools you guys can suggest that I might be able get ahold of to budge this thing? Since its not in tight, the seat shifts ever so slightly.... I'm actually starting to wonder if the actual hole it goes into is damaged to but I cant see anything with the bolt in there.

were they even able to tell you what virus it was? your link wants a canadian postal code and wont let you see the product without one so I cant comment Norton AV is effective enough, its a bit invasive at time but effective. McAfee is pretty low profile too...

nice, I'm looking to get a set of these myself...let us know how well this works out for you

vlc media player is lightwieght and the only thing I've ever had to install codec to play was .mkv files. VLC player has most codecs built in already.

late reply, but you can also consult with the hospitals administration on these types of things, they will investigate the case and let you know if there was any gross oversights on the surgeons part.

yeah, it takes it some time to cool off (thermal protect=it got too hot and shut itself off, wont come back on until its temp sensitive components cool off)

okay, good, that last part about the options button not doing anything indicates that this is indeed a workgroup machine. Now, the easiest way is to get that pw reset from outside of windows. The ultimate boot cd is fairly intuitive to get what you want. this guy also runs some pretty good step by steps and links to utils: http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

you didnt answer any of my questions. is it a windows password prompt or something else altogether (any names/logos being shown)? have you tried the ultimate boot cd? did you try any of the password combos mentioned in this thread? If this is a small family owned shop with no IT, then its unlikely you are on a domain. more likely its a workgroup, correct? if its a domain then you have a windows server nt4, 2000 AD or 2003 machine that you can use to change this guys password. you can also call the manufacturer of the computer and get them to describe what you have to do to clear the cmos if it is a bios password. sometimes you have to pull the battery and/or move a jumper/push a button on the mobo to clear it.

thats a lot of effort...they must really like you a guy in my school (small time bully) got a bunch of ladies shoes super glued to his car during prom by some of the quasi nerds he liked to harrass so I think you got off easy with post it notes

I knew a white guy in high school who was barely 6ft and he could dunk with some pretty decent force...a black guy I also knew was at least 6-4 and had no hops, period. at all. I was shorter and heavier than him and could still out rebound. it aint all genetics

this is all a little misleading...if you have to push ctrl-alt-del then it should be a windows password issue, in which case the ultimate boot cd will work to change the pw (safe mode + networking wont because you then have to login and since he doesn know the local administrator password he is out of luck there, that is of course unless you didnt try username of administrator and a blank password?). Since you say you are on a domain, ensure you are changing the log on to option to local computer if you are trying to login with administrator (you may have to click Options on the login screen to get it to show). Either way if you are a domain admin, you should be able to login to the domain with that account regardless of what the guy set the password to on the local machine. if it is a bios password you can either try pulling the cmos battery, wait 5 mins re-insert and it should have forgotten the password. its unlikely its a bios password as it would not support a username. are you perhaps running a third party app for security? are you in IT at your job? if not, call them.

the vin numbers thing seems like a good idea to me...you could even let him raise his price a few hundred just to put it on Ebay so you can be semi protected (the extra few hundred would cover the ebay/paypal fees for him)....

I assume there is no domain, just a work group? did you set an administrator password when you first installed windows? if so, just change the username to administrator and enter the pw. if you did not set an administrator password, then the password is actually blank and you can just enter administrator for the username and enter no password at all, just click ok. if that doesnt work you can google ubcd (ultimate boot cd) and make a bootatble disc from it, one of the utils on the disc is a password changing option. it will NOT let you see the current password though, just change it. if you dont want to do that either, you can re-install windows without formatting and it will wipe out the password but retian actual data. programs will have to be re-installed. of course it would be easier to find out who did it by waiting and finding out if anyone has been using the machine despite the password. all this is different if you are on a domain though. of course if you were on a domain you would be better equipped to deal with this (sign in as a domain admin and change the password of any local users).

nvm, its a hotel, not someones home...at least not anymore http://www.emiratespalace.com/en/home/index.htm 7 star hotel ftw

my two bedroom apartment could literally fit in one of those bedrooms....its that kind of extravagance that will have that region in the toilet in twenty years when the world starts to transition from gas/combustion fuel though...