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Issues tri-booting between Jaunty, Win 7 and XP

haya — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:16:20 +0800

As per topic title, I am trying to tri-boot between Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04), Windows 7 and Windows XP. I'm using GRUB, however for some reason XP does not like being booted through GRUB.

This is what I've added to the end of my /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
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Fdisk -l shows my partitions:
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For the record, this computer has only 1 physical HDD, partitioned into 4 logical partitions.
sda1 is the linux partition
sda2 is the 100MB partition that Windows 7 makes to store the boot information
sda3 is the actual Windows 7 partition which holds the OS and data
sda4 = no idea how it came to being
sda5 = the actual Windows XP partition

The good news is, the GRUB boot menu works:
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However, it refuses to boot into XP, citing a non-existent partition. However, a little bit of work with EasyBCD later:
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I can get the Windows 7 boot loader to see the XP partition:
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And boot into XP!
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In a nutshell, to get into XP, its:

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GRUB -> select Windows 7 -> Windows boot menu -> select Windows XP.

In addition, I can use GRUB to override the MBR, so from GRUB I can select Windows 7 directly, and it boots without any problem (other than the clocks being off-sync). However, the same GRUB MBR refuses to load XP, no matter what I do.

Before I get any questions:
1) I need XP, because its probably the best OS Microsoft has ever made
2) That, and most firmware flashing programs only work under XP
3) No, the said firmware flashing programs do not work under Windows 7 (drivers don't work with 7 unfortunately)
4) No, XP mode in 7 does not resolve the issue with my firmware flashing programs
5) Virtualising XP under Linux/Win 7 is NOT an option, despite the joys of USB passthrough. We're talking about a 5 year old single core notebook here.
6) Yes, Windows 7 works happily with the 5 year old single core notebook. Not bad eh?

Any ideas on how to make GRUB and XP live together in a tri-boot environment? The current way of daisy-chaining the Windows Boot Manager to GRUB to get to XP is really messy, and I would love to be able to select XP from the GRUB menu.

Member lawtm spamming EE

haya — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:00:28 +0800

-- Please keep your post concise to ensure a speedy review from us. We recommend 250 words or less. --
If one looks at the post this member has done in the last hour or so, much of it is spam, and useless one-liners in Education Essentials.

I would be grateful if the moderators could take action on this.

And no, I am not that free to click the report on all of them one at a time.

2.5" Hard drive with unknown IDE connector

haya — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:53:23 +0800

I have in my possession, a old 80GB 2.5" (notebook) HDD, which the owner seems to have salvaged from a notebook. made by Fujitsu, model MHV2080AT.
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Apologies for the crude censoring.

It is quite old, being almost 4 years old. Owner has no idea if it is still alive or dead, but he has some data in there which he needs.

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I have got a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE converter, which looks like it would do the trick. However, it would seem like the Fujitsu has a weird connector:

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It seems to accept a pin-based connector of sorts, while the IDE converter I have:
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Seems to accept pin-based connectors.

I am truly stumped when it comes to this. A google search lead to useless links on people flogging 2.5' to 3.5' converters, and little information on the notebook IDE specification. I have to admit I know next to nothing about the notebook IDE specification, only the desktop IDE and SATA.

Anyone have any idea's what sort of connection this Fujitsu uses, and where would I go on finding a converter?

Member Valkrie spamming EE

haya — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:35:23 +0800

-- Please keep your post concise to ensure a speedy review from us. We recommend 250 words or less. --

If one looks at the post this member has done in the last 24 hours or so, much of it is spam, and useless one-liners in Education Essentials.

I would be grateful if the moderators could take action on this.

Studying in Australia (V 3.0)

haya — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:42:26 +0800

Rules and Regulations for Studying in Australia, v3.0

1) Ignorance of the rules is no defense for violating them.

2)Please use proper spelling and capitalisation in all posts in this thread. Even if your grammar is weak at least SPELL properly. No shortform lik dis. U wan help, u ask 4 help prply. Seriously, there is no reason to use shortform. You have a nice ASCII keyboard, not a keypad, and here's reason #1 to use Firefox: it comes with a built in spell checker.

We want to help you, but if you cannot make yourself understood, how is one going to?

3)Do your homework before asking questions. ALL universities publish adequate literature for an introduction to the city/town where you are headed to. Don't rock up to this thread and ask: how much does it cost to go to Australia. Australia is a very big place. You'd probably be able to live on $10/day in the middle of nowhere, but that can’t get a decent meal in Sydney. Drill down to at least a specific city. As a general rule of thumb, all universities(worth our money) would have a page outlining the general costs of living. They tend to err on the high side, but use it as a guide.

4)Drop your sifu mentality. None of us here are experts. All we have behind our screen names is the privilege living in Australia for an extended period of time. Use us as a rough guide, not a hard set of rules. No one here owes you anything. Your choice of university is entirely up to you.

With that in mind, we will not answer questions like “What is the best university for X discipline?” or "Is N university good?". Rather, ask “Anyone in Y university? I would like to ask a few questions about their X discipline degree.” politely and maybe we might answer.

5)Scholarships. Everyone wants one. Few of us have one. This forum is not to spoon feed you what scholarships there are. All universities have a link for that. Look for yourselves. We will not answer questions like "im thinkin of tkin engineering in UQ cld any1 giv m a reference abt any scholarships?" (even ignoring the language). We will however, try our best to answer something like "The Sony Multimedia foundation scholarship in QUT: what are my chances?" (Answer: zero, unless you’re a PR, since they’ve changed the rules)

Education is a commodity. Facts of life. And the “top applicants” who get a (partial) scholarship usually have a GPA of 6.5 out of a 7 point scale.

6)Cant understand what we're saying? Befuddled over the word you just saw? Here's a google trick: type "define: Befuddled" (or whatever word you don't understand, without the quote marks) into google.

7)Agents are NOT responsible for your accommodation in Australia. Complaining here is meaningless.

Live Messenger not terminating

haya — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:28:50 +0800

Using MSN messenger 8.1.0178 under Vista for the simple reason that One cannot run 7.0.820 under Vista. However, there is something not right. If I close the Live Messenger application from the taskbar, the taskbar icon disappears. However, in task manager, msnmsgr.exe is still running. I have to manually terminate it from task manager.

Not sure why this is happening. Any ideas?

Seeking a cheap 3G phone

haya — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:22:43 +0800

Hey guys. Need some help and recommendation here.

To cut to the chase, I need a 3G phone. It doesn't have to be the latest, best and a touchscreen. As long as it has UMTS/HSDPA capability, I'm more than happy. Brand is not too much of an issue: I'll only use it to make calls and SMS anyway.

The thing is, I'm not familar with all these phones, and finding a phone that can do UMTS/HSDPA is a bit of a pain. I just need something cheap, but the shops keep trying to flog a SE W910i (and it's competitors). I don't need music on the move and all: just UMTS/HSDPA capability.

Any suggestions? My budget is RM600, but lower would be welcome.

Cascade Delete in SQL server

haya — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:22:43 +0800

Hey all. Have a SQL question.

Let's say I have a database with 3 tables: Session, Booking and Member. It is used to keep track of which member is attending a meeting session. Bookings have to be made with regards to me meeting session.

Now if a meeting session is cancelled, it has to be removed from the Session table. This means all Bookings also need to be cancelled. To keep things simple, is there a way to delete all the Booking's for a cancelled session?

Something like (Pseudocode, not code):

CODE

BEGIN
DELETE FROM Session WHERE SessionNo = 10
DELETE FROM Booking WHERE SessionNo = 10
END

I am using SQL server 2005 (9.0), and unfortunately, unlike Oracle, it doesn't have triggers. Booking.SessionNo is a FK to Session.SessionNo, and I need them to cascade when one session is deleted in the Session table. Attached is a relational diagram of (part of) my database.

Any ideas? Any help will be more than welcome. Thanks in advance.

Studying in Australia (V 2.5)

haya — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:56:06 +0800

Rules and Regulations for Studying in Australia, v2.5

1) Ignorance of the rules is no defense for violating them.

2)Please use proper spelling and capitalisation in all posts in this thread. Even if your grammar is weak at least SPELL properly. No shortform lik dis. U wan help, u ask 4 help prply. Seriously, there is no reason to use shortform. You have a nice ASCII keyboard, not a keypad, and here's reason #1 to use Firefox: it comes with a built in spell checker.

We want to help you, but if you cannot make yourself understood, how is one going to?

3)Do your homework before asking questions. ALL universities publish adequate literature for an introduction to the city/town where you are headed to. Don't rock up to this thread and ask: how much does it cost to go to Australia. Australia is a very big place. You'd probably be able to live on $10/day in the middle of nowhere, but that can’t get a decent meal in Sydney. Drill down to at least a specific city. As a general rule of thumb, all universities(worth our money) would have a page outlining the general costs of living. They tend to err on the high side, but use it as a guide.

4)Drop your sifu mentality. None of us here are experts. All we have behind our screen names is the privilege living in Australia for an extended period of time. Use us as a rough guide, not a hard set of rules. No one here owes you anything. Your choice of university is entirely up to you.

With that in mind, we will not answer questions like “What is the best university for X discipline?” Rather, ask “Anyone in Y university? I would like to ask a few questions about their X discipline degree.” politely and maybe we might answer.

5)Scholarships. Everyone wants one. Few of us have one. This forum is not to spoon feed you what scholarships there are. All universities have a link for that. Look for yourselves. We will not answer questions like "im thinkin of tkin engineering in UQ cld any1 giv m a reference abt any scholarships?" (even ignoring the language). We will however, try our best to answer something like "The Sony Multimedia foundation scholarship in QUT: what are my chances?" (Answer: zero, unless you’re a PR, since they’ve changed the rules)

Education is a commodity. Facts of life. And the “top applicants” who get a (partial) scholarship usually have a GPA of 6.5 out of a 7 point scale.

6)Cant understand what we're saying? Befuddled over the word you just saw? Here's a google trick: type "define: Befuddled" (or whatever word you don't understand, without the quote marks) into google.

7)Agents are NOT responsible for your accommodation in Australia. Complaining here is meaningless.

Aztech 605EW and mini_httpd

haya — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:33:14 +0800

Headnote: If the moderators see it as fit, please move this thread to the apporpriate subforum if needed. I'm only posting here because I feel I have a better chance to getting a answer. I'm basing this off the notes I scribbled down and what is in my head. Thanks in advance.

This has got to be one of the most interesting calls I've had.

I had a client who had "trouble accessing the modem". As the topic suggests, it is a Aztech 605EW (y'know, the one with WIFI and a DSL modem). Went over, and yes, 192.168.1.1 timed out. Oddly, the internet was still functioning fine.

Long story short, the ~~script-kiddie wannabe~~ son of my client read about Telnet'ing to the modem, and decided it would be fun making www.google.com redirect to www.yahoo.com. If you telnet most Aztech 6XX modems, you get pretty much a full blown linux shell. In theory, you can just change the hosts file in /etc/hosts. Which is what he did. However, he managed to kill the mini_httpd (http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/) service. And they goes the web configuration. And he can't get it back.

After a bit of looking around, I found what there are some index.html files in /usr/www and /usr/www_safe. However, typing:

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mini_httpd -d /etc/www -p 80

does not get it back up and running. Killing mini_httpd, I tried:

CODE

mini_httpd -d /etc/www_safe -p 80

still does not get the webUI back. If I access 192.168.1.1, it tries to download webcm as a file.

(side note: Aztech 6XX modems seem to access http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/webcm when you type in 192.168.1.1)

I'm not a Linux person. I know how to type "man" and "ls", but the 605EW doesn't have "man" (and vim, while I'm at it) and while the httpd documentation (http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd_man.html) helped, I'm no closer to getting it back to normal.

Now before people start saying "Just reset the modem", I want to make sure that it is the cure. For right now, the ADSL modem works fine, downloading, uploading data happily, just without the WebUI to be able to configure it. I don't want to end up with a box containing a overglorified Linux shell and all data gone. As weird as it may sound, better a unconfigurable modem that is working than a Linux box which is little more than a paperweight.

Below is the content of index.html (cat index.html) in /usr/www_safe if it helps:

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Anyone got any ideas on how to get things back to normal?

Foolproof video convertor for dummies

haya — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:37:06 +0800

Hello there.

I need some help. I need a fool-proof, simple video convertor to convert videos to XVID with the AVI container. Now I know there is a lot of software out there, but I need something that is simple to use, and actually works for once.

The thing is, Mediacoder isn't the best one out there. While its one of the best freeware out there, it has very poor error reporting, and if there is something wrong, it doesn't say anything. I personally swear by Virtualdub + handbrake + Avidemux (plus the occasional dip into Avidemux), but try teaching a jargon challeneged person that!

Online convertors are out of the question, as the computer will not have stable or constant internet access. What I just need is something simple like Winavi Video Converter, only that it will output to XVID.

Any ideas?

Can anyone access www.ums.edu.my?

haya — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:20:16 +0800

For some reason I can't open UMS's website. Doing a dig get's me this:

C:\dig>dig www.ums.edu.my

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; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> www.ums.edu.my
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 901
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.ums.edu.my. IN A

;; Query time: 2000 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sat May 31 23:11:37 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 32

But if I go over to Kloth.net, and do a dig there:

CODE

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @localhost www.ums.edu.my ANY
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3749
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.ums.edu.my. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.ums.edu.my. 84742 IN A 202.186.7.14

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat May 31 15:16:55 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48

Putting in 202.186.7.14 does get you the UMS website. So their web server is not down. Is their DNS server down or something?

Using OpenDNS does work through:

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C:\dig>dig @208.67.222.222 www.ums.edu.my

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @208.67.222.222 www.ums.edu.my
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1307
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.ums.edu.my. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.ums.edu.my. 86400 IN A 202.186.7.14

;; Query time: 1437 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Sat May 31 23:18:27 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48

[C#] Equality operations on a ArrayList

haya — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:01:38 +0800

Hello.

I know this sounds like a simple question, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. Hope someone can help me here.

I have declared a ArrayList containing 3 numbers. And if the first element of the arraylist == 5, I want it to return true. This is my code so far:

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using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace Gothrough {

public class ForEaches {

static void Main(string[] args) {
ArrayList numbers = new ArrayList();

numbers.Add(5);
numbers.Add(8);
numbers.Add(9);

Console.WriteLine("1st element");
Console.WriteLine(numbers.IndexOf(0));
Console.WriteLine("1st element using numbers[0]");
Console.WriteLine(numbers[0]);
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Testing if the first number == 5");

if (numbers.IndexOf(0) == 5) {
Console.WriteLine("Correct answer");
} else {
Console.WriteLine("wrong answer");
}

Console.Read();
}}

Interestingly, if I use "numbers.IndexOf(0)", it returns -1! But if I use "numbers[0]", it returns 5. However, when I change the precondition of the if statement to "numbers[0] == 5", the CSC throws up the error:

QUOTE

Operator '==' cannot be applied to operands of type 'object' and 'int'

So how can I retrieve the first element of a arraylist an int, so that I can check if it is the number I want?

This is actually part of a bigger problem, but I figured it might be easier if I extracted the problematic section into one nice class.

Thanks in advance.

TPM website has a drive-by download

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

TPM website STILL has something suspicious

haya — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:55:38 +0800

First SIRIM, and now TPM.

My Kapersky catches it:

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and Google does mark it as dangerous.
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According to Kapersky, it seems to be infected by "Trojan-Downloader.JS.Iframe.as".

Loading the page in one of my VM's and looking at the code:

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<html>
<head>
<title>Technology Park Malaysia </title>
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Mods?

DNS issue

haya — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:20:22 +0800

Happy 2008 to all! Lets hope for a better 2008!

Broadband provider
ISP/package: Streamyx Rm66 (512/128) package
Location: Kuching
Have you called your ISP's helpline?: Yes, and they just gave me the usual clear your cookies thing

Personal equipment
Modem: Aztech DSL 605 E
Router: Netgear WGR 614
Firewall used: Comodo on most computers, Zonealarm on others, and I believe the 605E also has one built in

Problem details
First occurence of problem: 26 Dec 2007
Problem frequency: Sometimes and always
Problem description:

Right. This is my modem setup:

My old Aztech 305EU, after 3 years of solid serivice, has decided to give up to the ghost. I went out and bought a Aztech 605E, having been satisfied by Aztech's products, and the fact it was going for cheap. My previous network setup is completely identical to the image above; just replace the 605E with the 305EU.

My old setup wroked fine for 3 years. However, the inclusion of the 605E has brought nothing but problems. Now, we seem to have issues with the 605E, and I'm wondering if I have done something wrong.

The 605E uses the default IP address of 192.168.1.1, while the Netgear WGR 614 uses 192.168.0.1 as its default IP. First thing that happened was a IP address conflict on the network. No problem, I thought. I just simply set the 605E to use the 10.0.0.1-10.0.0.254 range. That solved the IP conflict problem. But now ALL the computers on the network have a problem: they intermittently have trouble resolving DNS query's.

This is a problem, as websites fail to load, or if they load, images, CSS etc are all missing as they are hosted on another server (s.lowyat.net is an example) which the DNS has trouble resolving. It is worst when one does online banking, as everything is seemingly sourced from different servers, and if one breaks, we have trouble accessing it.

The modem seems to use the 202.188.0.133 and 202.188.1.5 DNS servers of Tmnet. Switching to another DNS server (like Jaring's) does little to solve the problem. Manually setting the DNS servers on individual computers does not help, unless one uses OpenDNS servers, and even then sometimes DNS resolving does fail.

I inculde the Nslookup below:

CODE

C:\Documents and Settings\Lang>nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Non-ex
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

> www.google.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.l.google.com
Addresses: 72.14.235.104, 72.14.235.147, 72.14.235.99
Aliases: www.google.com

> www.blogger.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds

> www.yahoo.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds

> www.taylors.edu.my
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.

Name: www.taylors.edu.my
Served by:
- tucdns2.taylors.edu.my
203.176.144.12
taylors.edu.my
- nss02.clearcomm.com.my
203.176.144.20
taylors.edu.my
- tucdns.taylors.edu.my
203.176.145.205
taylors.edu.my

> www.maybank2u.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.maybank2u.com
Address: 20.134.32.196

> www.pbebank.com.my
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Name: www.pbebank.com.my
Served by:
- ns7.jaring.my
161.142.2.17
com.my
- dns1.mynic.net.my
192.228.180.2
com.my
- ns20.iij.ad.jp
202.232.2.161
com.my
- ns5.jaring.my
61.6.38.139
com.my
- ns6.jaring.my
192.228.128.16
com.my

> www.maybank2u.com.my
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.maybank2u.com.my
Address: 20.134.32.196

> www.maybank2u.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.maybank2u.com
Address: 20.134.32.196

> www.suncorp.com.au
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out

> www.lowyat.net
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.lowyat.net
Address: 202.190.197.144

> forum.lowyat.net
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: forum.lowyat.net
Address: 202.190.197.145

> s.lowyat.net
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Name: s.lowyat.net
Served by:
- l.gtld-servers.net
192.41.162.30
net
- a.gtld-servers.net
192.5.6.30
net
- b.gtld-servers.net
192.33.14.30
net
- m.gtld-servers.net
192.55.83.30
net
- d.gtld-servers.net
192.31.80.30
net
- e.gtld-servers.net
192.12.94.30
net
- h.gtld-servers.net
192.54.112.30
net
- c.gtld-servers.net
192.26.92.30
net
- k.gtld-servers.net
192.52.178.30
net
- f.gtld-servers.net
192.35.51.30
net

The annoying part is, when I connect the computer directly to the modem, all is well! Something between the Modem and the router is blocking the DNS querys. I have disabled all firewalls, with little success.

Any suggestions?

End note: typing this was a nightmare. It kept having trouble finding Lowyat.net when I wanted to upload the pics to lowyat, so I used imageshack, and it also had problem finding load.imageshack.us!! &*%^#$$%@&()*(

Dead external HDD

haya — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:06:34 +0800

Christmas. Season of giving. Season of receiving dead external HDD's also.

So I've got a external HDD. AVF casing. A Maxtor 160GB 2.5 inch HDD inside. When I bought it in Lowyat, it worked perfectly fine. However, when I got back, it worked only once, before it died on me. Plugging both USB ports to the computer doesn't see the sole LED light up, nor do I feel the HDD spin up. In short, it has died on me, barely 2 weeks after I bought it!

I would love to go back to the shop and give them an earful, but I'm in Kuching, and LowYat is a bit far away.

So, is there any way or anything I can do to bring the HDD back to life? Any help will be much apperciated!

Flash drive has decided to give up to the ghost

haya — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:35:28 +0800

Greetings all. Merry Christmas!

Ok, heres my situation: I have in my posession a 1GB flash drive, PenDrive brand, which has mysteriously decided to give up the ghost. There is something like 800MB of data inside, and it is seemingly out of reach.

When one plugs in the flash drive, Windows will ask me if I want to format it, as if I bought it brand new and unformatted. I'm pretty sure its not new, and have a feeling the FAT or the MTR is dead. To ensure maximum compatibility (it is used in a Linux environment also) it was formatted using the FAT file system.

This reminds me of the old days of dead floppies. Only thing is that fsck and fixmbr doesn't work on flash media. Anyone got any ideas how to salvage the data? Any help will be much apperciated.

Merry Christmas!

Cant delete file and folder

haya — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:23:47 +0800

Greetings to all. I usually help out here, but I need some help myself this time.

I've got a nagging folder that refuses to be deleted. It was on a computer which the user was stupid enough to get the WGA problem. I reformatted the main boot drive and all is well, except for the fact that there was a virus hiding in the "System Volume information" folders. That was easy enough to delete, but there is this folder, which stubbornly refuses to be deleted.
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Opening it contains a folder called "update" which I cannot access, and delete. I have scanned with Kapersky and Mcafee, and they all cant see anything as they cant access ("folder is locked") the folder.
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Short of formatting the partition, is there a way to remove the folder? There is no file, only a dead end folder.

Many thanks in advance.

Users putting unrelated links in posts

haya — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:47:11 +0800

To: the LYN moderators

As of late, I have noticed a increase in the number of users who have been putting links to their blogs in their postings, which are of no relevance to the post . In particular, I wish to highlight user sensation9988, who has been posting his/her blog link in his/her posts. The blog in question has many ad networks linked to it, providing advertising.. It seems that user sensation9988 is trying to direct traffic to his/her blog to earn monry.

While I am okay with people linking to their blogs in their signature, I feel that "sensation9988's" deliberate inserting of his/her blog address into every post is a form of " links for commercial purposes" as stated in the rules. May I humbly request action (say, a 1st time warning) to be taken?

Yours Sincerely,
"haya"