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« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 25, 2010, 10:47 AM »Happy Thanksgiving folks!
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I think what you're asking for is a physical impossibility barring hardware mods to the motherboard; and a major rewrite to the BIOS or operating system. Most likely it will require all three.-40hz (November 25, 2010, 08:20 AM)
I need to download ISOs from MSDN, and MagicISO seems to be the only program that can handle them.-Renegade (November 24, 2010, 12:56 PM)
HP software/drivers is truly awful - it can take up to an hour to install. If you need to update the software it can take an hour to uninstall the old stuff and install the new and you'll probably have to download 50-90% of a CD of software too. (Installing a new version over the old works occasionally but isn't good if/when you need to remove the lot). Numerous problems with software breaking and having to be reinstalled - generally massive software bloat.What?!? You have actually seen an HP software update complete successfully without BSODing the machine?!? - Say it isn't so! - I work for an HP ASP and have never seen that happen. Something (granted it may be quite small) is (almost apparently) always destroyed.-Carol Haynes (November 24, 2010, 09:42 AM)
I have an ip5000 too and it eventually died. Have you tried cleaning the printhead yourself manually? Buy a bottle of isobutyl alcohol and soak the printing parts of the head for a few hour. Tap the head on the side of your sink to shake out any ink residue - then wash with clean alcohol. Give it a good shake outside and see if you can get the printer to run a cleaning cycle.
I have fixed a number of print heads doing this.
At the moment I'm running the new PHP installation under FastCGI with the php-cgi.exe instead of the ISAPI DLL. On my other server I use the ISAPI. Both are the ZIP file and not the installer. FastCGI is supposed to give far better performance (20x?), so that's why I'm running with that.-Renegade (November 23, 2010, 01:34 PM)
I must confess though, I prefer to keep C:\PHP as my install location and configure paths instead. It makes for an easier upgrade, and I don't need to "remember" every path and file then. God knows my records are non-existent.
).But I've had no real problems other than uncommenting some extensions like php_whatever.dll breaks PHP. They're so horribly documented that it just makes it a nightmare to figure out. A good number of extensions break. And I'm too busy to look into things further for anything but critical extensions, which all seem to work fine.
I only enable PHP for sites that use it though.
Anyways, this is way off topic.Last time I checked it was legal to sidetrack your-own topic, and yes indeed it is.
Any reasons why you like PHP in the Windows folder? It just seems somewhat dirty to me and hard to maintain. I've not really seen any practical upshot for it, so I'd love to hear more.I kinda covered part of this above, but... The key is closely controlling the files (documentation). There are really only two locations and very few files required to get PHP running and the phpext sub folder in inetsrv keep the variable items easily accessible at all times. If a new PHP exploit shows up I only need to know which extension it targets, and at a quick glance in the extensions folder know if it applies to me.
I'm running Windows 2008 R2.-Renegade (November 23, 2010, 12:03 PM)
PHP is bad enough to get working properly. (Always a plethora of standard components in it that break it entirely on Windows.Biggest problem I've seen with PHP on Windows is most folks either use the installer package, or follow the (quickie way) instructions found online. Both are wrong.
Within the context of what I am trying to get to, what you are talking about is "acquiring information" (sort of), but what I am trying to get at is something less poindexter-ish (2D) and more gut-level (3D) is "eating knowledge." I know that sounds kind of odd (it does to me), but I'm trying to the idea that just like food, knowledge becomes a part of us and not just external. Just like food we eat has a direct effect on our outward body, the knowledge we "consume" on this level has a direct effect on our "outward" mind.So we are an eclectic mixture of the people we've met and the experiences we've had?-CodeTRUCKER (November 22, 2010, 08:06 PM)
To get an idea of what I mean, let's assume you were a science geek, football brute or band member. Do you remember the history you learned in high school? If you were like me the answer is, "naw... I don't think so." Why? Because it was only temporary data I (we?) "acquired" for the purpose of passing the test with a "C." We really didn't "learn" it in the sense I mean. Now this makes perfect sense to me because my brain never entered "passing gear" due to the fact I never really worked to learn it. All I wanted was just to get it in short-term recall long enough to regurgitate it on to paper. Once that was done, I had no reason to retain it, so my brain never engaged on a "3D" level and what I "acquired" went out with the garbage.
[Disclaimer - I can see what I am after, but I'm not having much success in explaining it.]We can go Zen, Perhaps you already know the answer, but have not yet found it within.
Just try to think of it like a drawing on paper and a hologram. I conjecture the brain compensates us based on our effort. If we take the easy way out, the brain helps us just to get by, but if we really work, our brain really gets it's own shoulder under the wheel too! Think of the brain as a kind of self-aware entity inside of our selves.
Knew I should not have posted-Bamse (November 22, 2010, 03:05 PM)
I think what I may be trying to get at is the feel of how a brain/person actually works (thinks) in learning. I am wondering if the brain kind of, "automatically" kicks into a "higher gear" in terms of "quality" of acquiring data (learning) while working or authoring?
I am acquainted with the long-known "facts" of learning, but I'm coming at this from a more visceral as opposed to empirical vista. If I can use the term, it seems that knowledge that is learned is more "meaty." When I take the "easy" or "quick" pathway I do gain the knowledge, but if I have to work for it... it's mine! It's almost like a 2d compared to a 3D experience.-CodeTRUCKER (November 22, 2010, 03:38 PM)
A free 5 IP address version of GFI LanGuard is still available for download. IMHO, if you're running a Windows network, you should be using this utility - or at least something with comparable functions. Works with Standard, Enterprise, and SBS Windows Servers. Supports versions 2000, 2k3, and 2k8.
Link for more info and download here.
Cool tool.
-40hz (November 22, 2010, 05:37 PM)
1. pin any shortcut to any file on your local machine to the Start Menu (contra Stoic Joker's last post, I think it has to be a shortcut that is pinned, not a file, because I can't see any way to edit the shortcut Target if I pin the actual file to the Start Menu ----gdv22 (November 22, 2010, 04:32 PM)
This is where I want to cry... I just can't do it with Exchange.Why would you need two extra machines for DNS? - Come to think of it why would you need 2 DNS servers period?
First, I'd need DNS servers, which means 2 more machines -- no go.-Renegade (November 22, 2010, 12:54 PM)
Then, Active Directory - Nightmare from Hell.
Exchange just doesn't cut it as it's too big for me.To big how?
I hate email.Email isn't the problem, it's the users we need to shoot...;(
Some people are amazed how long we've both been together.
I'm not.-40hz (November 22, 2010, 10:56 AM)
Craft House Services, in which I service and repair all makes and models of sewing machines.My dad had a sewing machine repair business for several years before he retired (I worked with him for awhile).-HorseDuck (November 19, 2010, 11:40 PM)
