Technical corner........

13 Jul 2008

Quote by Peanut

Now, as if talking to a Bear of very little brain, how do I get them back ? :confused2:

Ah, now therein lies the question, which unfortunately depends on which version of Word you are using, which version of Word created the document and what format it's in.
I know how to do it in Office 2007, but I've never had to do it in previous versions so I can't be of too much help. What I do recommend is using the help facility in Word (hit F1) and search for either "recover" or "recover document". This should give you a step by step on how to do it.
Thank you :thumbup:
I'll bend my not inconsiderable intelect to the problem....and get Fire to do it. biggrin

13 Jul 2008

been having serious pc problems....
sort of solved it but formatting hd, but we`re having trouble finding the sound driver..the cards a Trust 5115.1 sound expert digital surround ....the trust site every time we try all we gets i.e has encountered a problem and needs to close...anyone know any good driver download sites? that are not too complicated??
2`s xxx

13 Jul 2008

Quote by twos_company
been having serious pc problems....
sort of solved it but formatting hd, but we`re having trouble finding the sound driver..the cards a Trust 5115.1 sound expert digital surround ....the trust site every time we try all we gets i.e has encountered a problem and needs to close...anyone know any good driver download sites? that are not too complicated??
2`s xxx

This link should do you...

And of course, don't forget to install Firefox too, "you know it makes sense" biggrin

13 Jul 2008

Thanks hun... going to give it a try xxx

Quote by Peanut
I use Irfanview as my default picture viewer, and have been trying to download a picture of me wearing a hat for my avatar, but having no luck.. it says "do not support file" yet when I uploaded one of my boob it worked!
Any ideas? It's and 640x480 .. would appreciate any help.. I have a feeling I might have to disable Irfanview...
Thanks all!!!

I'm presuming you mean "upload" rather than download, ie you want to send the image from your computer to SH's server?
If this is the case then you have to be very specific in how you save the file. It can only be a gif file or a non-progressive jpg file. It can't be a png file.
The code dealing with the upload is most likely using either what's called GD2 or ImageMagick to process the uploaded file so it can add the watermark amongst other things. As such the possible image format seems to be very strictly limited so as to aid the necessary coding.
In the Irfanview save dialogue (not the "save as") make sure that the jpg option (over to the right) "save as progressive JPG" is unticked.

15 Jul 2008

Hi

apologies for my absense on here but have moved and am waitin for the interweb to be connected for us. Will leave you in the capable hands of peanut but dont forget the thread is open for anyone to help anyone havin a prob :). Am postin this with my phone so fingers crossed. See you all soon x x x gary

2 Aug 2008

At long last Mr bransons guys have been round and we are now up and runnin on the interweb again smile

Lookin forward to more if your technical headaches :) .....
Gary xxx

2 Aug 2008

Quote by gary-danne
At long last Mr bransons guys have been round and we are now up and runnin on the interweb again Lookin forward to more if your technical headaches :) .....
Gary xxx

OMG :shock: you didn't ?
and there's me thinking you had some know how rolleyes

2 Aug 2008

Quote by Pete_sw
At long last Mr bransons guys have been round and we are now up and runnin on the interweb again Lookin forward to more if your technical headaches :) .....
Gary xxx

OMG :shock: you didn't ?
and there's me thinking you had some know how rolleyes

lol they r great, we have never had any probs with them and they are also the cheapest and no need to have a landline biggrin

2 Aug 2008

Well I'm sure Mr Branson will agree :lol2:
till you get a puter in for repair that has been totally taken over by his crap software rolleyes

each to their own though eh lol

2 Aug 2008

dont use their software then, u dont need to !

2 Aug 2008

Quote by danne-gary
dont use their software then, u dont need to !

yeah but you're in the know, its the sad fluckers that get taken in and actually install the CD i get to deal with rolleyes

2 Aug 2008

im not in the know at all....that gary who is biggrin

and you dont get a cd now...well i didnt today :D

2 Aug 2008

Not had any bother with ntl/virgin but then have never put their software in....best not....do recommend them as an isp tho....new modem today has activation software built in....quite clever i thought....obviously you only need it once to register your modem....all hunky dory after 10 mins smile

2 Aug 2008

ffs you two confuse me :lol2:

3 Aug 2008

This is driving me mad.. I have the bluetooth set up on my laptop, and my mobile is visible, I have a nokia, and want to transfer pictures on to my laptop but it won't work.
When I click on find device, a box comes up saying "make sure your bluetooth radio is plugged in"
:doh:
Everything is visible... so not quite sure what is going on... any ideas peeps?
dunno

3 Aug 2008

Quote by Misskitty_2008
This is driving me mad.. I have the bluetooth set up on my laptop, and my mobile is visible, I have a nokia, and want to transfer pictures on to my laptop but it won't work.
When I click on find device, a box comes up saying "make sure your bluetooth radio is plugged in"
:doh:
Everything is visible... so not quite sure what is going on... any ideas peeps?

With some Nokias you have to tell the phone which mode you want to use. There's Nokia mode in which you can use the Nokia software to transfer your images, see your texts etc, there's data mode which allows the operating system to see your phone as a removable hard drive. There's is another mode but I can't remember what it is, something to do with sending images to printers I seem to recall.
The bluetooth function of the operating system has to relate to a comm port too so that it can communicate as if it was talking to a virtual modem.
It could be any number of these things, but you didn't say how you wanted to transfer the files. Did you want to do it via Windows Explorer (the standard file manager) or via the Nokia software (PC Suite).

3 Aug 2008

I'm being a numpty.. I have to download the pc suite software from the web as there was no disc with my new phone.. but should it still discover it???

Quote by Peanut
This is driving me mad.. I have the bluetooth set up on my laptop, and my mobile is visible, I have a nokia, and want to transfer pictures on to my laptop but it won't work.
When I click on find device, a box comes up saying "make sure your bluetooth radio is plugged in"
:doh:
Everything is visible... so not quite sure what is going on... any ideas peeps?

With some Nokias you have to tell the phone which mode you want to use. There's Nokia mode in which you can use the Nokia software to transfer your images, see your texts etc, there's data mode which allows the operating system to see your phone as a removable hard drive. There's is another mode but I can't remember what it is, something to do with sending images to printers I seem to recall.
The bluetooth function of the operating system has to relate to a comm port too so that it can communicate as if it was talking to a virtual modem.
It could be any number of these things, but you didn't say how you wanted to transfer the files. Did you want to do it via Windows Explorer (the standard file manager) or via the Nokia software (PC Suite).

3 Aug 2008

Quote by Misskitty_2008
I'm being a numpty.. I have to download the pc suite software from the web as there was no disc with my new phone.. but should it still discover it???

Theoretically it should discover it at least as a generic removable hard drive, but it all depends if the BT dongle/receiver is setup as a comm port.
My XP system spots my 6300 on both BT and USB, but I can't remember if it did so before installing PC Suite.

3 Aug 2008

I usually go for the easier option and just pop the mem card out of my phone and use the card reader its far quicker than blue tooth........Gary xx

4 Aug 2008

Its a nokia 1650 - and I have a 3 dongle which is set up as a comm port.. so can't understand why it won't find it... my other half has the same phone and bluetooths his to his mac... I will try and download pc suite when I get a mo...
I wish my phone was posh enough to have a memory card Gary!
Will have a word with my other half and see what he suggests when he comes round later....

Quote by Peanut
I'm being a numpty.. I have to download the pc suite software from the web as there was no disc with my new phone.. but should it still discover it???

Theoretically it should discover it at least as a generic removable hard drive, but it all depends if the BT dongle/receiver is setup as a comm port.
My XP system spots my 6300 on both BT and USB, but I can't remember if it did so before installing PC Suite.

4 Aug 2008

I have invested in a usb bluetooth dongle... its working now... thank goodness! hence the new avatar taken with my phone last week...

5 Aug 2008

Well done misskitty hope you and your new toy are very happy together smile

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Right my turn for some technical assistance now....we tend to download a few tv programs every month to watch via bitcomet...am not sure if virgin have done something but my lastest version of bitcomet kicks out after a few mins and the net goes off....i have to reboot the modem.....am not sure if this is to do with their downloading policy but we only download a very small amount....am wonderin if they dont like folks usin bitcomet any more....ah flash of inspiration as i typr this.....i wonder if my upload rate is set too high since i updated to newer bitcomet....off to try it lol ......
Cheers Gary xx

10 Aug 2008

Think my last post needs the attention of peanut.....have limited my upload and download speeds but to no avail.....have to try an older version of bitcomet if i can find it on one of my sticks.....cheers gary .....

12 Aug 2008

Ok tried Bit torrent now and that dont work on virgin any more.....anyone else havin similar trouble??
Gary xx

12 Aug 2008

I rarely use BT and its derivatives, I prefer to download from Usenet or at a push eMule.
But it sounds like Virgin are starting to use traffic shaping to try to keep a check on those they think are doing their best to see if "Unlimited Downloads" is actually unlimited.
There's two ways they can do the traffic shaping, they can either block the usual ports used or they can use packet sniffers. The former is very easy and cheap to do and likewise it's very easy to get round. The latter is very expensive from their standpoint as each and every packet that goes through their system has to be checked for the type of data it is. This is very CPU intensive and causes bottlenecks. The likely answer is that they are blocking or throttling specific ports so the answer is to use non-standard port numbers to connect to the BT hubs. All you have to do in the options/preferences section of your software is to change the TCP and UDP orts (TCP is the port the actual file data is transported on, UDP is the is the protocol port by which the clients and servers talk to each other).
If Virgin have gone the expensive route (which I doubt) and are using packet sniffers then the only way round that is to use secure SSL software and servers. AFAIAA that isn't used yet on BitTorrent sad

The other thing you can do to improve the stability of the BT client is to reduce the number of connections your software will allow. Also if you are using uPnP to talk to your firewall/router then sometimes the router's CPU can get swamped by the amount of packets it has to perform NAT on. The end result is that it barfs and a router reboot is required.
I don't know if any of those things are relevant to your setup but hopefully it will give you some direction to go in.

12 Aug 2008

Cheers am experimenting now smile

......you can pick random ports in bit torrent so have got another set.....also will try turning upnp off....will let you know...... cheers Gary :)...
P.s the ironic thing is i download next to nothing really....a few 350 meg tv programs a month....perhaps 1 or 2 a week so they can hardly complain....

12 Aug 2008

Quote by gary-danne
Cheers am experimenting now ......you can pick random ports in bit torrent so have got another set.....also will try turning upnp off....will let you know...... cheers Gary :)...
P.s the ironic thing is i download next to nothing really....a few 350 meg tv programs a month....perhaps 1 or 2 a week so they can hardly complain....

Heheheh, I'm permanently on daytime bandwidth limitation for far exceeding my ISP's maximum limits. I download a 20 episode series a night :)
I used to use my DVD player to play the xvids through my plasma screen, but in the end I gave up and hooked a PC up to it. So I can now have access to round about 1Tb worth of TV shows across my network from my file server. Much easier. In fact I'm tempted to get a 1Tb drive and rip all my DVDs to it so I can have instant access, but that's for a later date.
Courtesy of having the PC there I've been able to get into Hi-Def somewhat cheaper than normal. LG have got a hybrid HD-DVD/Blu-Ray ROM drive (it writes DVDs and CDs though) for 65 quid. So I got myself one and hit eBay for a load of cheap HD-DVDs (£3-£4 each) and Blu-Ray disks (£8-£9 each) so am having lots of fun at the mo', though it's not getting this bloody video edited sad

Obviously this has nothing to do with Bittorrent but I thought I'd share biggrin

13 Aug 2008

Sounds like you have got it sussed smile

.....I am goin down the usenet route now as portchanging didnt fox mr bransons tech guys lol it went off after 2 mins of downloading an episode of a series we are trying to watch :)....can you recomend a site for good uk usenet access i know i will have to pay....have seen one for a month so far....cheers Gary :)

13 Aug 2008

Quote by gary-danne
Sounds like you have got it sussed .....I am goin down the usenet route now as portchanging didnt fox mr bransons tech guys lol it went off after 2 mins of downloading an episode of a series we are trying to watch :)....can you recomend a site for good uk usenet access i know i will have to pay....have seen one for a month so far....cheers Gary :)

It all depends on how much you will be likely to use it, but I've been with for about 9 years now and their completeness (99%+) and retention (200+ days) is unparalleled. If you're only a light user then their Bronze account would do the trick, it's $ ( ) for 2Gb a month. There are of course other Usenet providers but as Giganews is deemed to be the best and I've only ever used them so I can't really recommend any others.
The other thing to look out for is that if Virgin start traffic shaping NNTP packets (Usenet data) Giganews has an SSL service whereby the packets are encrypted so packet sniffers can't see inside them, they also provide an additional port 80 service therefore making it even more difficult for Virgin. The only downside to the SSL is that you have to use a client that can utilise SSL such as Newsbin Pro (which you can get a discount on if you join Giganews and download the special version of NBP). But until then you can use any Usenet client with GN though I don't recommend you use Outlook Express as it's pretty naff for binary downloads. I also believe it doesn't handle yEnc encoded binaries, though I think you may be able to get a plugin for it.

13 Aug 2008

Can you recomend a good free thing to run to check to see if I have any virus's or them gremlins running about in my laptop.
Dont know if it matters but Ive got a acer laptop with Vista home premium.
Also my menu bar at the bottom keeps disapearing and when I minimise things I cant see them, you can see a black space where it should be, its getting really anoying now as I have to keep rebooting