i like this part of the forum because it let's me show off how nerdy i am, so ask me questions and lavish me with attention so i don't go cut myself. they don't even have to be real questions as long it just makes me feel useful.

in fact, you could probably just post some gay porn and i'd be fine with that.

my computer keeps showing me gay pron

How would I self host a website.

my computer keeps showing me gay pron

stop going to gay porn sites. sherdog.net is notorious for that.

How would I self host a website.

you need:
1. HTTP server software (check out apache - www.apache.org )

2. if you are going to have PHP support and all that fancy stuff, you will need to install PHP5 - http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.6-win32-installer.msi/from/a/mirror
link right to installer download ^^^^^^

3. most decent PHP scripts require SQL (structured query language) database support. those can be a bitch to set up the first time, but here is link: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
you want the community server ^^^^^^^^^

4. you need to open port 80 in your router and/or firewall

5. you need to know your IP address, because that is what you give people to get to your site when the server is running.

6. giving people an IP is lame, so if you get a domain name get in touch with the company you bought it from and have them set it so that the domain is bonded with your IP, so you can just people the domain name instead.

lemme know if you have issues.

^repsfor teh info

you need a static ip also

static IP is nice to have. mine is technically dynamic, but it changes once a year if that. there are programs out there designed to immediately update your domain to match your IP when it changes.

actually, my linksys WRT54G router has a built-in capability to do that with dyndns.org and some other one i forget.

ok this is driving me nuts for a long time now:

every year,around summer and only around summer my computer start crashing giving me a blue screen with a message DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and then some stuff about uninstalling recent programs (none were installed) and shit like that.

it dumps physical memory to disc and then restarts.

it happens in a growing frequency untill you can't use it anymore.usually happenes when i play movies.

the only way to solve it is by formatting everything and then it is ok untill next summer or so.

i looked it up in the internet and it says that the computer is prolly overheated but when i look at the computer temp in the restart it is ok,plus if that was the problem formatting the disc wouldnt have helped me.

what the hell is the problem???

is there a program i can DL to fix this (i guess it is something related to the OS).

my windows is not genuine but i installed from different friends and none of them have this problem.

ok this is driving me nuts for a long time now:

every year,around summer and only around summer my computer start crashing giving me a blue screen with a message DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and then some stuff about uninstalling recent programs (none were installed) and shit like that.

it dumps physical memory to disc and then restarts.

it happens in a growing frequency untill you can't use it anymore.usually happenes when i play movies.

the only way to solve it is by formatting everything and then it is ok untill next summer or so.

i looked it up in the internet and it says that the computer is prolly overheated but when i look at the computer temp in the restart it is ok,plus if that was the problem formatting the disc wouldnt have helped me.

what the hell is the problem???

is there a program i can DL to fix this (i guess it is something related to the OS).

my windows is not genuine but i installed from different friends and none of them have this problem.

I dont know whats causing that particular error but if it is due to overheating do you have enough fans in your case?

you should install speedfan or something to check your temps

I dont know whats causing that particular error but if it is due to overheating do you have enough fans in your case?

you should install speedfan or something to check your temps

thanks,i'll try this.

thing is that it seems peculiar to me that formatting solves a heat problem.

plus,that still doesn't explain the changing frequency (if that was the problem i wouldve expected crashes to be at the same frequency),and since i cant expect the crash it will be hard to monitor exact temprature all the time.

i'll try this anyway,thanks again.

Okay I just bought a computer without an OS so I found my XP disc and installed it and it seems to be running pretty good. Now I want to format my old comp and reinstall windows. Basically clean out everything in there and start over from scratch. So the question is How do I re-install windows on my old computer that freezes up on me from time to time?

ok this is driving me nuts for a long time now:

every year,around summer and only around summer my computer start crashing giving me a blue screen with a message DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and then some stuff about uninstalling recent programs (none were installed) and shit like that.

it dumps physical memory to disc and then restarts.

it happens in a growing frequency untill you can't use it anymore.usually happenes when i play movies.

the only way to solve it is by formatting everything and then it is ok untill next summer or so.

i looked it up in the internet and it says that the computer is prolly overheated but when i look at the computer temp in the restart it is ok,plus if that was the problem formatting the disc wouldnt have helped me.

what the hell is the problem???

is there a program i can DL to fix this (i guess it is something related to the OS).

my windows is not genuine but i installed from different friends and none of them have this problem.

how old is the computer? it sounds to me like either overheat like ninja says, or hard disk starting to fail. could be a driver problem, too. hard drive usually start to bite the dust at about 3 to 4 years if you're lucky.

memory could also be an issue. that particular error can be a shitload of different things. windows error messages usually don't give you much to go on.

i uploaded an ISO file of a diagnostic CD i use to test computers with... there's a lot of stuff on it, but you'll want to burn the image to CD, and boot from it. select option 1: system diagnostics

then choose the first option in the next menu, it's a program called PC-Check that is fuckin awesome. it'll test all your hardware to see if there is something at fault. if not, it's a software issue...

if you haven't burned an image to CD before, tell me and i'll help you.

here is the ISO: http://rubbermallet.org/diag_cd.iso

Okay I just bought a computer without an OS so I found my XP disc and installed it and it seems to be running pretty good. Now I want to format my old comp and reinstall windows. Basically clean out everything in there and start over from scratch. So the question is How do I re-install windows on my old computer that freezes up on me from time to time?

basically just did what you did with the new one, boot from the XP CD and in the partitioning screen, delete every partition, then create one new one and install XP on it and boom! fresh computer!

why does my computer suck? can u guy build me a computer?

Ferg how do you make gifs like this awesome one?

http://rubbermallet.org/monsonripplingboobs.gif

I figure you took that straight off the youtube video as well so how do you rip vids off youtube as well?

i uploaded an ISO file of a diagnostic CD i use to test computers with... there's a lot of stuff on it, but you'll want to burn the image to CD, and boot from it. select option 1: system diagnostics

then choose the first option in the next menu, it's a program called PC-Check that is fuckin awesome. it'll test all your hardware to see if there is something at fault. if not, it's a software issue...

if you haven't burned an image to CD before, tell me and i'll help you.

here is the ISO: http://rubbermallet.org/diag_cd.iso

thanks alot!

i'll try this once i'll get back home.

the computer is like 5-6 y\o but it started after two years.
i already changed the memory cards,expanded memory,reinstalled windows from several sources and cleaned the interior...still nothing.

thanks for the file,i really hope it will help.

you say that the harddrive lasts 3 to 4 years if you are lucky.

I've been using the same computer since 2002-ish. And it still runs pretty good.

Is it time for an upgrade?

I have a new computer but I don't use it.

Also. I'm looking into buying a laptop. I don't game or anything, could you recommend something. I want to be able to edit movies though as I just bought a video camera and have started filming shit.

also. i just bought an iPod shuffle but hate iTunes. I found a site that lets you bypass iTunes junk.

Would you like me to share it when I get home? It's pretty cool shit. It apparantly works for all types of iPods (Nano, regular, whatever else exists)

also. i just bought an iPod shuffle but hate iTunes. I found a site that lets you bypass iTunes junk.

Would you like me to share it when I get home? It's pretty cool shit. It apparantly works for all types of iPods (Nano, regular, whatever else exists)

Rock box?

I don't remember.

It's some weird thing.

You turn your iPod into a hard drive... then you copy music right to it and run this program written in Python (?) and it turns it into a regular MP3 player.

Fuck iTunes.

anapod explorer

No. I tried that.

I tried a lot of things. But the shuffle is so basic it didn't get picked up.

Anyways. I was wrong. It only works with the Shuffle.

But here is the link:
http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net/

Come on Ferg answer my question.

basically just did what you did with the new one, boot from the XP CD and in the partitioning screen, delete every partition, then create one new one and install XP on it and boom! fresh computer!

Okay it seems to have worked. I was doing the updates and shit. Should I just bump it up to service pack 3?

Also, I bought a system from tiger direct without an OS and my friend told me to install windows XP on a 20 gig partition and install other programs on the partition that has the rest of the hard drive. Does that make sense? Well I already did it so I guess it's a moot point now.

Ferg how do you make gifs like this awesome one?

http://rubbermallet.org/monsonripplingboobs.gif

I figure you took that straight off the youtube video as well so how do you rip vids off youtube as well?

yup, www.downloadyoutubevideos.com you can do it manually by examining a youtube page's source code, but this is way quicker. it saves as an FLV (flash video) file, which not a lot of players support but it works good with vlc ( www.videolan.org ) and you can use that to convert it to mpeg or something else. from mpeg i can load it in virtualdub ( www.virtualdub.org ) select the part i want, delete the rest and then theres an option in the vdub file menu to export to image file sequences. then i take those and put them into easy gif animator ( http://www.blumentals.net/egifan/ )

Okay it seems to have worked. I was doing the updates and shit. Should I just bump it up to service pack 3?

Also, I bought a system from tiger direct without an OS and my friend told me to install windows XP on a 20 gig partition and install other programs on the partition that has the rest of the hard drive. Does that make sense? Well I already did it so I guess it's a moot point now.

tbh, i have no idea. i haven't tried SP3 yet. i've been pretty cautious about it because my computer works great right now. there's nothing i need it for, and usually when microsoft puts out an upgrade for anything it's actually a downgrade. see vista. i'd just keep SP2 until you run into some software that requires SP3, which afaik there isn't any yet.

i actually am still using SP1. lol. it uses less memory because theres less useless bloatage. there is software that needs SP2, but nothing that i need to run.

how would i set it up that if someone just typed in say "hjkghg" in the address bar it would send them to my site.

I recently had trouble with my dsl router ...... i called my provider and they sent this man i dont know over and he told me since im so far away from the main office or whatever im not going to have the best signal then he goes on to say that my router is an older model..... my question is if i buy a new model will it make my shit pwn again?


i used to get 50 to 150 kb on my wi fi on my laptop now it goes maybe 30 to 44kb wtf....


on the main pc though everything seems to be normal.




I sometimes get on my neighbors connections with the wireless and see my download speeds are way faster then my bought line..... someone is jewing me.

Thanks Ferg.

I recently had trouble with my dsl router ...... i called my provider and they sent this man i dont know over and he told me since im so far away from the main office or whatever im not going to have the best signal then he goes on to say that my router is an older model..... my question is if i buy a new model will it make my shit pwn again?


i used to get 50 to 150 kb on my wi fi on my laptop now it goes maybe 30 to 44kb wtf....


on the main pc though everything seems to be normal.




I sometimes get on my neighbors connections with the wireless and see my download speeds are way faster then my bought line..... someone is jewing me.

i hate seeing a non-jew get jewed. i don't know if it's your router for sure, but if the desktop is wired and works at the fast speed, it's obviously wi-fi related. connect your laptop with a wire and see how it runs.

try resetting your router and seeing if that helps. if not, download the latest firmware for it from the mfg's website and update. if it still sucks then yeah i'd upgrade the router. some of them they can fuck up when they get old. i have no idea why, probably cheap parts inside.

how would i set it up that if someone just typed in say "hjkghg" in the address bar it would send them to my site.

i don't know of any way to make any jibberish typed in go to a particular site. afaik, you can only make it to that with particular strings of chars.

Thanks Ferg.

no prob. may the :assdick be with you.

;1018838']i hate seeing a non-jew get jewed. i don't know if it's your router for sure, but if the desktop is wired and works at the fast speed, it's obviously wi-fi related. connect your laptop with a wire and see how it runs.

try resetting your router and seeing if that helps. if not, download the latest firmware for it from the mfg's website and update. if it still sucks then yeah i'd upgrade the router. some of them they can fuck up when they get old. i have no idea why, probably cheap parts inside.




I've tried resetting it red button..... but i will see about these firmware you speak of.... if that doesn't work... i will get a new router thanks for the help ferg.

I HATE wireless routers...so unreliable.

I HATE wireless routers...so unreliable.



its a wifi PRO/Wireless Network connection shit...... its not going to its usual 100kb that speed that it says its connected at... the download speed is only at like 50 at the most now :( fucking gay

Ferg, how do I make Warcraft 3 run better on my laptop?

shut up.

;1018841']i don't know of any way to make any jibberish typed in go to a particular site. afaik, you can only make it to that with particular strings of chars.

Guess i should have used a real word in the question.
You know how you can just type in google and it will load http://www.google.com
and sometimes you type something in and it goes to a search engine...

Another thing.I was just looking at my web stats and saw a lot of "unwanted lines in the logfile" how i am delete these lines?

...wait for see...

Ferg, how do I make Warcraft 3 run better on my laptop?

I'll give this one a shot

get the latest drivers for your graphics card

Another thing.I was just looking at my web stats and saw a lot of "unwanted lines in the logfile" how i am delete these lines?

TTT

I was recently experiencing some trouble with my laptop... it said i was connected but every time i'd try to surf a page it would just stall out and say it couldn't be found...


i had remembered i did a system update on the laptop and after that i was having trouble with it.... well turns out it was zone alarm... it locks everything down well the update makes that happen.

I was recently experiencing some trouble with my laptop... it said i was connected but every time i'd try to surf a page it would just stall out and say it couldn't be found...


i had remembered i did a system update on the laptop and after that i was having trouble with it.... well turns out it was zone alarm... it locks everything down well the update makes that happen.

Had this installed recently, too, and my internet has trouble connecting all the time; removed it, and works fine now.

FERGUSON

oops i havent checked this thread in a while i am lazy like that. what do you mean by yuor web stats? what log file?

;1042922']oops i havent checked this thread in a while i am lazy like that. what do you mean by yuor web stats? what log file?

Go to http://rubbermallet.org/stats you prolly have it.you can check all kinds of stuff.

Go to http://rubbermallet.org/stats you prolly have it.you can check all kinds of stuff.

1. ******
2. ********
3. Program start time Jul 24, 2008 09:45
4. Time of first request Jun 15, 2008 00:31
5. Time of last request Jul 24, 2008 00:00
6. Time last 7 days lasts until Jul 24, 2008 09:45
7. Successful server requests 850,771 Requests
8. Successful requests in last 7 days 99,392 Requests
9. Successful requests for pages 3,142 Requests for pages
10. Successful requests for pages in last 7 days 745 Requests for pages
11. Distinct files requested 26,934 Files
12. Distinct files requested in last 7 days 4,262 Files
13. Distinct hosts served 1,144 Hosts
14. Distinct hosts served in last 7 days 109 Hosts
15. Unwanted lines in the logfile 8,710 Lines
16. Total data transferred 5.028 GB
17. Total data transferred in last 7 days 865.732 MB

This report was generated on July 24, 2008 09:45.
Report time frame June 15, 2008 00:31 to July 24, 2008 00:00.
Web statistics report produced by: analog 6.0 / Report Magic 2.21

my computer doesnt want to put out anymore. what can i do to spice things up a little bit?

I am having problems with my burner, it is a Memorex DVD16+/-DL4RWID2. Before I could pretty much use any brand of media and get a decent burn, but lately all I have been getting is write errors. I checked for a firmware update but the latest for that model is dated as July 5, 2005. Any help available, or is it time for a new drive?

my computer doesnt want to put out anymore. what can i do to spice things up a little bit?

chloroform.

I am having problems with my burner, it is a Memorex DVD16+/-DL4RWID2. Before I could pretty much use any brand of media and get a decent burn, but lately all I have been getting is write errors. I checked for a firmware update but the latest for that model is dated as July 5, 2005. Any help available, or is it time for a new drive?

it's gettin' a bit old. try this... go to www.slax.org and download the CD ISO file for SLAX. boot to it, with the SLAX disc in a different drive than your memorex DVD burner. make sure you select the "KDE" option on the first boot menu when the disc first tries to load.

when it boots up all the way, run the K3B tool. (you'll see it, it's on the normal menu bar on the bottom of the screen.

http://rubbermallet.org/screen.png

you can see there, it's the big red "K III B" icon next to the 1, 2, 3, 4.

try to burn a small data DVD with K3B with some random file. see if that works. if it does, you know windows is gay. go back to windoze, uninstall it from device manager, and re-scan for new hardware. try again from windows.

will give it a shot

Hey ferg, is there a way to resume broken downloads from youtube? Is there a way to accelerate downloads from there?

FERGURSON

Is there a way to burn avi movies to a cd instead of a dvd?? Just so I won't have to buy expensive ass dvd'r, I figured I could just burn one like a dvd but wasn't sure and all the movies I would burn would be 700 mb or under.

How do I download MIT OCW lectures. I'm too lazy to read their instructions.

FERGURSON

Is there a way to burn avi movies to a cd instead of a dvd?? Just so I won't have to buy expensive ass dvd'r, I figured I could just burn one like a dvd but wasn't sure and all the movies I would burn would be 700 mb or under.

vcd

Hi Ferg.

Sometimes when typing this happens èèèè;;ÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÉÉÉ"""""''''''''''"""

è = apostrophe and backslash
È = quotation mark and question mark
" = shift+period or comma but the periods and commas still work

This happens mostly in Firefox but sometimes it happens in notepad and msn too. Then I have to close the program for it to reset back to normal.

Any idea why this is happeningÉ '---- thatès a question mark with an arrow trying to point to it.

vcd

does the quality suffer?

FERGURSON

Is there a way to burn avi movies to a cd instead of a dvd?? Just so I won't have to buy expensive ass dvd'r, I figured I could just burn one like a dvd but wasn't sure and all the movies I would burn would be 700 mb or under.

I burn avi's onto cds all the time. If its too large of a file i split it into 2. Nothing special i just copy it onto the cd and tell windows to burn it. My dvd player plays avi files like most dvd players do now a days, and it works just fine.

hey ferg, was hoping you could help me out. My laptop has about 68 gb and it's all used up. I don't have anything worthing of that much memory...what can i do, where do i check to see what is taking up all my memory. Help is much appreciated.
p.s.
I have window vista basic, ibm think pad t61.

hey ferg, was hoping you could help me out. My laptop has about 68 gb and it's all used up. I don't have anything worthing of that much memory...what can i do, where do i check to see what is taking up all my memory. Help is much appreciated.
p.s.
I have window vista basic, ibm think pad t61.

first place to check is your documents folder! if you switch the folder view mode to detailed, you can see all the file sizes.

FERGURSON

Is there a way to burn avi movies to a cd instead of a dvd?? Just so I won't have to buy expensive ass dvd'r, I figured I could just burn one like a dvd but wasn't sure and all the movies I would burn would be 700 mb or under.

if the movie is under 700 MB or so, it'll fit on a CD. just make a normal data CD project in nero or whatever burner you use and drop the avi file into it.

you can also make video cd's, which play in most DVD players but the quality is roughly the same as VHS... and you can only fit like 80 mins on a disc.

Hi Ferg.

Sometimes when typing this happens èèèè;;ÈÈÈÈÈÈÈÉÉÉ"""""''''''''''"""

è = apostrophe and backslash
È = quotation mark and question mark
" = shift+period or comma but the periods and commas still work

This happens mostly in Firefox but sometimes it happens in notepad and msn too. Then I have to close the program for it to reset back to normal.

Any idea why this is happeningÉ '---- thatès a question mark with an arrow trying to point to it.

whoa wtf lol? man i dnuno, i'd have to be there to really figure this one out. uninstall your keyboard in device manager and then reboot. see what happens.also sometimes if my keyboard ever does funky stuff, i hit control and a few other keys at random then let go of control and it seems to start working. ghetto ftw.

thanks for the help bro.
i'll give it a shot.

my computer wont show any videos on youtube and other video hosting sites. any idea why and how i can fix it. only happened recently.

my computer wont show any videos on youtube and other video hosting sites. any idea why and how i can fix it. only happened recently.

go to www.adobe.com and download the latest version of flash player and install it. that should do the trick.

How about a quiz since this thread is a little slow?

I have a Cisco 1811 router that my company gave me. The goal is to set up a DMVPN tunnel back to corporate so I can access apps and their call manager. The tunnel won't establish. Where would you start troubleshooting?

How about a quiz since this thread is a little slow?

I have a Cisco 1811 router that my company gave me. The goal is to set up a DMVPN tunnel back to corporate so I can access apps and their call manager. The tunnel won't establish. Where would you start troubleshooting?

well what error do you get from it? are you using the cisco as your only router connected right to your cable/DSL modem? i'm assuming nobody else has problems doing this remotely, right?

the first thing i would do is reset the cisco's configuration to default and start from scratch. it IS configured to be the spoke and not the hub, right?

just to be clear, i am familiar with what DMVPN is and understand what it does/how it works but i've never had to actually set one up myself and in fact haven't touched a real cisco router in 5 years. i am probably not going to be of much help in configuring it.

He's quizzing you. He knows the answer.

i fail.

my gfs laptop keeps freezing up then the screen goes black and you have to manually power off. ive scanned for viruses,adware and ive tried updating the drivers using driver genuis but no dice on fixing it. im thinking its obviously a software issue. could it be bios?

my gfs laptop keeps freezing up then the screen goes black and you have to manually power off. ive scanned for viruses,adware and ive tried updating the drivers using driver genuis but no dice on fixing it. im thinking its obviously a software issue. could it be bios?

that's either a hardware issue or a nasty virus. i doubt it's the BIOS unless there's some sort of problem with it's ACPI functionality. go into the screensaver selection window, and disable screen savers completely. then go into power management from there, and tell it to never turn off the monitor, hard drives, or go to sleep. also make sure it's not set to hibernate or go into standby when you close the screen lid. (or just leave the screen open)

after that, just let it run for a while and if the freezes stop happening i would go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest BIOS for it then flash it. lemme know if you need some more help.

it's more likely that it's overheating if you ask me though. if it keeps running after doing what i said above, then it's not overheating.

that's either a hardware issue or a nasty virus. i doubt it's the BIOS unless there's some sort of problem with it's ACPI functionality. go into the screensaver selection window, and disable screen savers completely. then go into power management from there, and tell it to never turn off the monitor, hard drives, or go to sleep. also make sure it's not set to hibernate or go into standby when you close the screen lid. (or just leave the screen open)

after that, just let it run for a while and if the freezes stop happening i would go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest BIOS for it then flash it. lemme know if you need some more help.

it's more likely that it's overheating if you ask me though. if it keeps running after doing what i said above, then it's not overheating.

i talked to a tech support faggot and he had me update a couple drivers and disable a few in network devices. that didnt work. im gonna try bios i guess. i just did the screen saver thing but i think its bigger than that. this is fucking bullshit, this computer is only 3 months old.

only 3 months? well it probably isn't clogged up with dust then. i doubt it's overheating. i bet windows is broken and might need a reload, or you got a laptop with faulty hardware.

were just going to back up as much as possible on dvds and then restore the piece of shit