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Linus' House of IT: 15 cents please
Inflation and all that. The tech house is open for those interested. :)
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Can I just give you five kisses and ten hugs?
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For my first question, what size is your screwdriver? Okay. grin. I don't have a question ... yet. |
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I... Um.... Well? Oh never mind! You win this round! ;):eek: |
I have a friend with a problem.
"I have a laptop that wont even boot. numberlock button flashes then the power light goes out" Do you have any thoughts? Also my own laptop did something weird today. I turned it off last night and it installed an update. When I booted up this morning, it told me it could not find the profile. Then it loaded up into a new profile. I logged off as that user and my normal profile was there then. Thoughts on that one? |
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For the laptop that won't power off: try removing the battery and remove the power supply connect, wait 3 min, leave the battery out and then connect via power supply to see if it will boot up. What kind of laptop is this? For your profile: it may be nothing other than a hiccup but definitely watch it for a little bit. |
What's a good defrag program for macs?
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It's a Dell Inspirion 1200. I've got a Dell Latitude D600 refurb. :) I'll tell him. grin! Love you. Thanks! If that works, is it a bad battery? |
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I have an HP Pavilion, less than 6 months old. My parents don't have high speed internet so when I try to get online there I have to use dialup. It's worked fine in the past, but recently it won't connect. I log on to AOL and can hear the dial tone. I can hear my pc dialing in but it will not connect. Could it be a modem problem or maybe a side effect of a virus? I even uninstalled AOL and reinstalled a newer version, and downloaded new drivers. Same problem.
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It's been a while since I've done modem internet. Since you are getting a dialtone that suggests that the modem is ok. From the time it did work to now was anything installed/added/changed (particular areas to focus on are firewall/AV software)? Have you also followed the following steps as outlined by AOL itself: http://tinyurl.com/yl3updn |
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Hi there Linus! lol Loving my new Mac but have a couple of questions.. when I highlight to change font color all the HTML code shows.. also shows on other peoples posts etc... i cant find where to change this there is no backspace button.. the delete button moves backwards and I miss the delete button sitting still while all the crap i want to delete magically gets sucked up into this delete button. any thoughts? |
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Do you mean when replying? As for seeing the code, you may need to change the editor being used. Which browser is it? Safari or Firefox? Quote:
I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you mean what the backarrow would do (move the cursor) or did you mean something different? |
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I dont have one now and use the delete button but it doesn't function the same. THis part is not a biggie |
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I'm really kind of starting to feel unloved here, Linus. :( Is it cuz I didn't pay upfront? :( |
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Yes, use Firefox. Safari sometimes doesn't render all HTML properly. And an extended keyboard might be the answer. You can get a USB external or re-learn life without. I never used it before so I don't miss it (I do miss the page down buttons). |
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Will you tell a girl who to properly invisifont in this place? Please and thank you, Linus. e |
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I'm gonna guess that you're using OS X (10.4 or 10.5 or 10.6) Uh.. no need for defrag on the Mac. The file system is different than others and does, by it's own behaviour, a mechanism to defrag. Does that help. |
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I think you already did. ;) |
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YAY FIREFOX!!! Downloading now. there goes the bandwidth ... thank you! |
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The trick is to use the magic color tag and make it equal to the color by hex. In this case: #effefe
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I'm a long time mac user, and so the delete (only) button seems normal to me. You'll get used to it - just chant backspace when you use it. Since the advent of Firefox I've effectively ceased using Safari at all (except on the rare occasion when some bizarre glitch requires a different browser). |
Hi Linus!
Yesterday I came home to find our home page inaccessible and a yahoo wizard open asking me what text message we had received. There were multiple options, all related to changing my password. Closing out of the window did no good; I couldn't access the home page through the button on the navbar no matter what because the wizard kept popping back up. I could, however, access any other web page in any usual way. Um, do I need to say we hadn't received any text messages at all? Or did you already know that? :rolleyes: Anyhow, we signed out of yahoo, closed down the browser, and ran Housecall. It found six items, all something to do with "root kits" from what Gryph told me; and it says it fixed them. The %^$# yahoo wizard is still keeping us from using the homepage button. We can go in from a different link, but we don't know how to get this thing off our computer. Am I right in assuming that if I use the wizard, it will still send our password out to whomever hacked us in the first place despite our having run Housecall? I guess Firefox has gotten popular enough to draw the attention of hackers now. :( It's really annoying. |
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You mean like this? Now THAT is fancy. Alas, text will still show up in the quote box. Even invisible ink ain't what it used to be. |
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I do hope you meant "Cant" backspace.. I do feel kinda funny chanting it. Thank you! I am loving my Mac and now Firefox again ... wooohoo |
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Hi Linus, thanks for the quick response!
The home page button is the standard one on Firefox, next to the address bar. The other two toolbars on the browser are the bookmarks toolbar and the yahoo toolbar, but they don't seem to be affected; the only time this happens is when we click the home button on the Firefox tool bar--if we use a different link to get to the homepage, the wizard doesn't open at all. Our homepage is linked to our ISP, which is att.net. Gryph's email is yahoo, but that doesn't seem to be affected at all. I don't think this hacker is after website passwords; I think they're after our ISP password. Does that make sense? The computer was totally clean according to Housecall on Tuesday; then yesterday after this happened we had the 6 root kits. I haven't run Housecall today; I have to close everything down for over an hour to run it, and I thought I should talk to you first. |
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Additionally, download http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/ Do a scan with a log. Copy and paste the contents of the log to me in a private message. |
Dear Linus,
Your triple increase in fees due to "inflation" gave me great pause. I have this deep desire to under cut you and crush your head! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZWnMzYvMgc&feature=related"]YouTube- Kids in the Hall - fight picker[/ame] Signed, the other crazy 'techy' canuck |
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Dear Linus,
I would... however, it doesn't seem possible at this time: http://screencast.com/t/YzMwNDUwYzk Quote:
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM"]YouTube- Monty Python - Argument Clinic[/ame] |
Thank you, Linus, the info is on its way. I still have hijackthis open on my desktop; haven't done anything other than send you the report--I notice that it said there were files missing from AVG. That might be because we uninstalled it. :rolleyes: We run avast! now.
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