recommended is spelled with two m's.
you can delete this post after making the correction.

I think uTorrent is a pretty cool guy. eh downloads files and doesnt afraid of anything...

Could it possibly be someone on the LAN?

finally, I like "burnAware Free" for CD / Bluray/ DVD burning.

>>9159
>Opera
Not this shit again. RTFA: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firefox-chrome-opera,2558.html

OP: Send your old machine to me.

>>9200

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9156878/Opera_10.5_grabs_browser_speed_crown

And a few others from old thread

Anyway, these are all synthetic benchmarks. Experience leads me to believe that Opera is the fastest. No harm in trying it out, i think its incredibly underrated.

Yeah, give your old pc to charity; there are organizations who specialize in refurbishing and regifting old machines to poor people.

I am not sure about specifics, and you are not providing very much detail at all. What distro are you running? what device exactly (model, serial number)? Is it PCI or USB?

You can usually get windows drivers running using package ndiswrapper.

sudo apt get ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper -i "name of device"

(if I remember correctly)

Then use ifup to turn device on/off

Do some more research and let me know how it went. Getting wireless to run on Linux can be hard, and I have found that it is much easier with certain distros than with others; may behoove to seek halp on more specialized forum.

sounds like it might be a port forwarding issue. google it

Another thing I forgot to mention is that I have tried from several different places using wired and wireless internet, including places where others connected to Games for Windows Live with no problem, and I still have the same problem.

You need both.

4-pin is CPU power. Newer motherboards use 8-pin. Do not plug PSU's 4-pin into 8-pin motherboard, you should get an 8-pin PSU.

24-pin ATX provides general motherboard power.

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Hey kids, it's Marty Chang. Do new computers confuse you? Behind on your standards? We can fix that right up.

The new ATX standards have changed and adapted power supplies to provide more power to the motherboard, since today's graphics cards are FUCKING GLUTTONS, and the processors are no better.

The ATX connector, the 20 pin (Now 20+4) provides the heart and soul of the motherboard's power. The ATX 2.3 standard provides a four-pin (and now eight pin) power molex that runs specifically the processor, so it gets good, clean power. Both are required to power the system, and at no point should one be forgotten, as the ATX 20+4 is required to start the power supply, and the 4/8 pin is required to power the processor. If your motherboard requires the 8 pin, you can get away with using a 4 pin where it fits (in the top section of the block) and it'll work FOR AWHILE. Never under power any components. You're asking for failure.

In short, All sockets on the motherboard that require power must be filled. They aren't there for your convenience. They are there to run the device.

The only thing I can think of trying in that situation is trial and error.
Clean install.
Then one driver at the time. Remember to reboot after each driver is installed. See if it breaks at that point. If one driver seems to hang, you've got your culprit. Likely bad hardware for the device. Hopefully it's something replaceable (mini-pci card, as opposed to graphics card or chipset)
also consider doing a memory test. and check for temperatures of components after extended usage. badly applied thermal paste on CPU or GPU could make the system go haywire.

Call HP at 1-800-952-7689 and ask for a recovery CD. It's 10 or 20 bucks. Have the serial number of your PC ready.
They look like the pic (stolen from ebay). They usually send one OS CD with a drivers CD (but drivers from the HP site are more up-to-date). The CD ONLY works with the model of the computer you have. It wouldn't even work on another HP or Compaq model.
And don't bother downloading an OEM version of XP. The key on the sticker won't work unless you activate by phone with Microsoft. (The CD HP sends you is already pre-activated, so it's definitely worth getting).

>>9166
BTW that's the monitor's driver CD.

>The CD ONLY works with the model of the computer you have
Not in my experience. Home OEM, Home Retail, Pro OEM, Pro Retail will all work on any computer so long as you have a key (on the product sticker) or match it with the key stored on the bois of newer motherboards. OEM and Retail versions do not have interchangeable keys.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4410910/Windows_XP_Home_Edition_SP2_x86_%28Dell_OEM_Disc%29

>>8394
Protip: Richard doesn't care whether you on a mac or a PC.

Also, OP, wouldn't that have removed all the accounts on the laptop? I've never used a mac properly but judging by the file you're deleting it sounds like it...

>>9152
Which is where the fact that sudo asks for your password comes in, which is why he didn't recommend su. :3

>>9173
For sudo to work you have to be in the sudoers file, and an account only gets placed in there if it's been setup as an Admin account.

If you have a Standard account you can type sudo all day long and it's just going to complain "<account> is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."

su only works if the root account has a password, which it doesn't by default, though you can sudo su and approximate the experience. If you're an Admin.

>>9173
FWIW, the file he's removing basically tricks OSX into rerunning initial setup, because at the end it creates that file. It's just an XML file that contains all the information you typed in during initial setup (name, address, etc.).

Odds are OP is running Snow Leopard and they've changed how to invoke initial setup.

Do you have a display card integrated onto your motherboard?

If so, what happens when you disable it?

Well, in the old days, when we got messages like this we went into the BIOS and disabled all hardware we weren't actually using that might be consuming IRQs, such as serial ports, paralell ports, fdd drives, IrDA ports, and shit like that.

If you have an add on PCI USB adapter, it consumes a lot of IRQs and might be the culprit.

Also don't install your GPU drivers before you install your chipset drivers.