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I find Google Earth's search has been giving reasonable directions. But (obviously/likely anyway) those are the same directions you get from Google itself. Then again, I do like "flying" the path to see where I'm going. The best mapping/directions I've experienced is DeLorme's Street Atlas 2003. That, combined with an EarthMate USB GPS dongle is fabulous. It plots my route (on a laptop on the passenger seat), gives voice instructions, and so on. It even recalculates my route when I go "off course" to lead me back on the path. I also have Street Atlas 2006, but I prefer the older (2003) interfa

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I don't know if this helps, but it might be worth reading through... Thunderbird Junk Mail Controls

No I haven't, but I've had no reason to need to fool with them. While I have neighbors with wireless, we all seem to have settled different channels, SSIDs, WEP/WPA and such. We don't interfere with each other and all have reasonable response and speed. (I'd know, they all come to me with their computer questions/problems - foolish mortals).

While it's possible, I doubt your information was stolen by someone hacking your computer to find the information. Unless you have lots of ports forwarded/exposed by the router and firewall your computer's information should be safe. In spite of your precautions, I'd bet you got "spoofed" or ended up sending information on a non-secure channel regardless of what the site might have "promised". You might want to alert your credit card company that your account may have been compromised.

Odds are the newer versions have the features you need in the firmware already. As I mentioned already, it's a solid reliable router. I think you'll like it. I've got both the G and GS versions running in several locations and haven't had any problems beyond user (my) errors.

I use (and love) the WRT54G, it's been the most reliable and stable router I've tried. And the older models (check the serial number) run Linux, and can be enhanced with third party firmware. While I am currently running with "stock" firmware, I've tried several of the enhanced packs and they've run well. Sveasoft has what most folks feel (myself included) the best upgrades around. Keep in mind, newer WRT54G routers either don't run Linux or won't accept these modifications. Take a look at a few of these Google links for more... Google - Linksys WRT54g QOS

No problems with the current updates (on 2 different laptops). And while I hate IE7, it too is working properly. Apparently "for security reasons" IE7 isn't as customizable as IE6, as in rearranging buttons and bars around. A couple of RegEdits help, but I'll miss IE6. Then again, I use Firefox for virtually everything, so I really don't care about IE7's "flaws".

First check the cable from the card to the monitor and its connectors. In my experience, 9 times out of 10 that's the source of the problem you describe. If the connectors are firmly attached and clean, it may be that the cable got pinched and some wires are shorted. Next, try the monitor on another machine. If the monitor behaves on the second machine you can rule the monitor out. Try a different monitor with the card. If that works, the card should be ok. If you get this far, the only other thing I can think of is the driver for the card. If you updated the driver, roll it back to a previous

Will your XP Install CD let you boot to the Recovery Console? The Recovery Console is similar to a Command Prompt. That may let you repair the problem. Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console Another handy tool to have around is a CD that boots into XP. Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

If I read this right... What is AGP Aperture size? The AGP setting in the BIOS is the amount of system RAM (not the video card's RAM) that can be used for video processing.

This might help you... Troubleshooting Windows Stop Messages

"No Icons or Start Bar" tells me Explorer.EXE either isn't loading at all, or hasn't finished loading. Next time, when you CTRL-ALT-DEL (planning to log off then back on) take a look on the Processes tab and see if Explorer.EXE is running. ------- Do you have a lot of icons on your Desktop? I'm wondering if all that time is due to an icon cache rebuilding or loading up. ------- Have you tried booting to Safe Mode? If so, does the Desktop still take "forever" to load? ------- What happens if you boot normally, but let it take a long time (say 20 minutes). Will the Desktop/Start Bar come up if

For a few systems where trying to hit F8 at just the right time, that BOOT.INI edit is very handy. Instead of trying to catch teh "F8 window", hitting any key will allow you to select Safe Mode from the Boot options list. I suggest editiong the Timeout from the default 30 (seconds) to 3. That way there's a reasonable window to strike a key and casually select the mode you want to boot to. But it counts down fast enough that you don't feel like you're waiting "forever" when you want a normal boot. MSCONFIG's BOOT.INI tab can change the timeout (and other boot options) if you don't want to use N

I was fooling around with RAM-disks at one point to use them for temp file storage, etc. But the RAM disks appeared to the system as a hard drive, which System Restore insisted on including in its snapshot. When the RAM-disk was cleared and rebuilt, say on a reboot, the Restore Point(s) were rendered invalid and unusable. I used BartPE to copy off valid Restore Point sets so I could reload them after fooling around.

You need to use the drive letter assigned to your CD drive in the source path. Most of the time, the CD is assigned letter "D" so from the Command Prompt (CMD) this should work... COPY D:\filename C:\

Well, unless your beer is pasteurized there's no boiling or high temperatures involved. While distillation is a high temperature (sometimes) process, most beers get their alcohol from fermentation (yeast converting sugars to alcohol). And the grains are often grown with manure (organic fertilizer also known as sh*t) in the soil. And don't condemn the entire E. Coli race because some members cause sickness. Your body requires certain E. Coli strains to function, you'd be dead without them. That said, let me think... Beer or water, beer, water, beer, STOP THERE!

I don't know how it would merge with StyleXP but have you tried adjusting those colors in Display/Properties?

I don't see any benefit to upgrade to Vista yet, whenever they release it. I expect to stay with my "stable" XP systems for a few years.

You'll get a feel for assembly programming with any of those assemblers. And the concepts for 16 bit programming apply to 32 (or 64) bit as well. It's more a case of how small you need to break a task down to than anything else.

Of all the nights for my cable to be out! But it came back on in time for the last half hour. And now with A&E rebroadcasting the earlier days in 4 hour batches, I'm in heaven.

I still have LOTS of vinyl. Keeping the turntables alive is the problem. Thank God for LaserTrack. Laments... lemons

I, Robot. My autobiography. Asimov's best though? Foundation.

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LMF, do you have a firewall running? Try turnining it off (temporarily) and see if ipconfig works.