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I have a friend who's Windows install failed. Someone formatted and reinstalled the OS and didn't save his data. Luckily (or so I thought) he had done a backup through the windows backup utility. So I was trying to see if I could recover some files from the backup but here's what I am running...

I recently purchased a Norco multiple hard drive chassis with SAS connectors. I had purchased a SAS to SATA cable adapter and tried to connect it to the SATA connectors on the motherboard. I then plugged in a SATA hard drive into the system and nothing happened. The system doesn't see it...

Hey all. I'm looking for recommendations for a Live CD platform that has file recovery on it. Something like Recuva for windows but on a Live CD. I have seen Knopix and Back Track as live cds but I have not seen them discuss file recovery. Mostly just browsing existing file systems. Does...

Has anyone here backed or pre-ordered the Mycestro? I put in a pre-order a few months ago and I have not heard anything from the company despite two or three emails to the company. I was just curious if anyone out there has any knowledge about this thing.

I'm creating a script that runs in a loop over and over again to check when a button is pressed. When the button is pressed the script polls my website for a specific value. If the value is 1 then a light turns red. If the value is 2 then the light turns blue. It's pretty simplistic. The...

I have recently purchased the Hauppage HDPVR. I have found that it has serious lag times when changing channels. This keeps WMC from being able to record TV shows and it's just a pain in the butt. I noticed that if I change channels with the cable box remote that the channels change in...

How do you guys store your personal data, pictures, projects you're working on; and how do you travel with it when you go away for a few days or a weekend? Right now I keep general files, music, movies, pdf reference books etc, on my home server. I keep photos on my desktop computer. The...

I'm having trouble scheduling a certain task. I want to know every time that I unlock my workstation. So I created a scheduled task with a trigger for "On Workstation Unlock". The action I set was "run program" and I linked it to a batch file that write the date and time into a file. If I...

I found an email validation script that I wanted to use but I'm encountering a problem. When it finds an email address that it can't validate it seems to error out instead of returning false. Can any of you spot why that's happening. function check_email_address($email) { // First, we...

I'm looking. For a way to log boot up, wake from sleep, sleep, and shutdown times. I rummage through the system logs but I don't know how to get a text file with just those four events and the time they took place. Can someone point me in the right direction?

This seemed like the appropriate area for this thread. I finished the rough prototype of a CD duplicator about a week ago. You can see the video on Youtube. http://youtu.be/ZD21yVuSk70 The full writeup is here: http://paulrea.net/projects/cd-duplicator/ I built this thing with the...

function updatePassword($id, $username, $oldpassword, $password){ global $databaseHostName, $databaseUserName, $databaseUserPassword, $databaseName; $connect = mysql_connect($databaseHostName, $databaseUserName, $databaseUserPassword); mysql_select_db($databaseName, $connect)...

I have an older laptop from 2004 that I would love to get windows 7 installed on. The problem I have come across is that video drivers are not available from ATI for windows 7. Are there any basic video drivers I can try that will allow me to gain the correct resolution on my screen?

Does anyone out there have a Gateway CX200X or similar running Windows 7? I can't find video or other other drivers that work on this laptop. I would really love to get this baby to work with Windows 7 and I could use some help making that a reality...

I'm running into an issue with a piece of code on my site. When this runs the update query should set a new password when username and passrset equal their respective values. That part works great. It runs and shows me the "fun". The problem is that when I make $codesan not equal passrset it...

I have been following some tutorials trying to integrate cookies with a login system that someone programmed for me a while back. The login authenticates a username and a MD5 Hash password against what's in the database. I now want to add a cookie to allow the user to remain logged in. Do I...

Hey guys, I need help calculating how much bandwidth is being used by 25 Slingboxes on a network. The Slingbox website says it needs 3Mbps or higher for HD streaming so I want to use that as a base point. The second part of this is: Will this kill the network? The Slingboxes are connected to...

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I wrote a script two years ago that we now use at our company that does a mail merge. I had this macro run when you open a certain Word document and it would prompt you to go to a directory and choose a file to open and run the mail merge script. We would open XLS files and the merge script...

For the past few months Windows Home Server has been kicking me out every time I click on the Settings button from the console view. I have also found the same thing happens when I click on the settings in my web/iphone streaming window. This is an HP MediaSmart Server so it already has Twonky...

Does anyone have any experience with Linksys Small Business VPN endpoint routers? I have been trying for two days to setup a Linksys RVS4000 to a RVL200 IPSec tunnel and I can't get them to connect. The internet is via optimum online home internet accounts. From what Cisco said, the...

Anyone know where to buy resistors in different colors? I amooking for green resistors. Like the actual body color. Standard 1/4 or 1/2 watt resistor.

I have a maxtor one touch drive that I want to use. I have three comptuers to use it with. I plug it into computer one and two and it shows up imediatly as a device and gets a drive letter. I plug it into computer three and the only thing that happens is this: The device manager sees a USB...

What happens if the main disk fails on windows home server? If i have a 3 disk storage pool and a fourth disk as the main OS drive and the os drive fails completely and i have to put in a new one, does my storage pool need to be setup again?

I have Windows Vista on my HTPC. I have ripped my DVD collection to a fileserver on my network and the HTPC can view all my dvds and mp3's etc. When I connect my xbox 360 as en extender it doesn't recognize ripped DVDs as valid media nor does it recognize Xvid or dvix for the few movies...

I have a program that connects via TCPIP to a website to pull down content from a html page. The call is as follows GET /Folder/data.html HTTP/1.0\nHost:www.website.com\n\n That works great, the server responds and gives me data back. I now need to run a script on a different page but...

When you boot into safemode it prints a list of files on screen as it boots up. If during this process the computer stalls and you see a file name at the bottom of the screen such as blabblalba.sys (blalblalba in place of the file) does this mean that this file is the last file to successfully...

Has anyone seen a plugin that would allow me to choose the media I want to watch through an HTML interface? HTML or PHP. The concept is that from a web browser (on a touch screen) that it will list all my music and movies in alphabetical order from multiple drives and send the link to media...

I have been using visionGS PE for a long time but recently reistalled my computer and it's utilizing almost 60 percent of my cycles....unfortunatly there are other apps using 40+ cycles leaving my computer sluggish and nonusable. This is a dedicated homeautomation computer but I need better...

I wrote a vba script for word that does the following. You open the word file. It prompts you to pick an exel file. It then looks in the excel file to a certain workbook and does a mail merge with that data. If I want to make a new excel file with a new list of data I have to copy that...

When you right click on a drive in Disk Mangement and you can set it as "active" what does this mean?

I'm looking for a case that I can transport my hard drives in. Something with padding and ESD Foam inserts. The hard drives would be in aluminum enclosures or slide out hard drive trays too. It's mainly for carrying my backups to an off site location.

Does anyone know if the tags that are set using Vista's photo gallery are accessable to other image editing and gallery programs? The reason I ask is because while I have vista right now I want to tag my pictures. But I may be going back to XP soon and I don't want to do all the tagging work...

I'm working on a time sheet helper and I am running into a problem. I have a file called text.xls and in the first cell I made it equal to a cell in a different workbook "timesheet week1.xls" ='C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\Time Sheets\[TimeSheet week1 .xls]Timesheet'!$L$23...

So the drive worked when it came out of the box. My girlfriend put some pictures and thigs on it. Today she gave me a call saying it doesn't work. I tried it on my computer and I hear the drive spin up and i hear some clicking. The drive then proceeds to spind down and the clicking...

A little bit of background. I'm creating a home automation system that uses webpages as the user interface. Some of the touch sceens around the house are 3com audreys, some are Nokia 770 web tablets, and then there are computers that can control the system. Problem. I am trying to embed a...

I'm stuck in a norton ghost PC DOS loop and I have no floppy drives in the house. How the hell do i get out of this. So far what I have read says i need a win98 boot disk and run an fdisk to reclaim the active partition. someone please tell me there's another way.

Does anyone know of a place where I can buy a ring embeded with a RFID chip? Is anyone here a jewler? Would it be possible to buy a ring and have a jewler drill the ring and drop one of the implatable RFID chips into it and seal the ring back up?

I'm looking for a plugin that will basically put all the controls for MCE into a webpage so i can have all transport and remote functionality from a web page on any other computer. Anyone know of such a plugin?

I have a special application where I need to quickly connect and disconnect 10-15 ethernet cables on a daily basis. What i'm looking for is to have 15 RJ45 cables get soldered or punched down to a multipin connector. Something like a multipin whirlwin mic connector. Then the user can walk...