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Yeh I read that somewhere but couldnt work out how to get access to my BIOS.Anyone know how I'd go about accessing my BIOS??

I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to post this but here goes.I'm trying to install Linux on my Toshiba Portege laptop. The CD is working fine because I tested it on another computer so that eliminates that problem. The DVD drive is part of the docking station but so is the Floppy Disk Drive so that problem is out to as the Floppy drive works.I downloaded Smart Boot Manager and ran it at system boot up but the DVD drive wasn't available to boot up. So I have ran out of options as to what could be wrong. Any hints?

I've been looking into it somemore, and i have a question. Say, for example, I wanted to run ArkLinux. it's got a good layout, looks nice...blah blah. But I go to download a program and it says the options are Red Hat, Mandrake, Windows or Source code. does that mean I cant run it on Arklinux?

I own an old Toshiba laptop which I dont really use anymore. It used to run Windows 2000 but I installed XP on it and of course it slowed down quite dramatically. I am wondering could I run a Linux distribution on it? The hard drive is only 6 gb and it is really slow. I mainly want to use three things on it - Word Processor (via OpenOffice), Wireless Network and watching DVD's on.So i want a nice Linux, full of Linux typical features, newbie friendly, but will run with optimum speed on y outdated laptop to give it a new burst of life.A few questions come to mind...What do people mean by "I know Linux". Does this mean they can code it. If so, would I need to learn Linux to be able to work it properly. This is not really a problem for me as I can pick up these languages quite quickly and just need a link to get me started. I code in PHP, SQL and C++. I know the former two are useless in this situation.So can someone give me a rundown of what I am looking for with all the above waffle? Any distribution links would be nice, or even a good tutorial would be helpful. I just don't know where to start or how to get into Linux, but Im pretty sure once I get started I will enjoy experimenting and i'll learn a lot.So in summary. I'm looking for a good, physically attractive Linux system which is newbie friendly but can be expanded. I need to know what Learning Linux involves and if i am required to do it. More so, can I install it on my laptop to do what i need it to do?

Yeh OpenOffice is great for all that stuff. Today I finally got rid of Microsoft Office altogether. The only reason I kept it was for printing documents out (as i needed them in Word format to open them on another computer with the printer) but now I just save it as a PDF and use that.<3 the XForms<3 the PDF converter<3 Open Office

Well wykked_dreams, a few months ago, i dove into the world of PHP, in order to make my site more interactive. Basically, I create and participate in online wrestling games were user's sign in and roleplay. The thing was, it was starting to get boring, and i decided to look at a way to spice up my site and make it more of a game - were you could sign contracts, your character would gain weight, injuries etc. Basically, like you I needed to learn PHP. It is a hard thing to learn at first. But due to great tutorials and the fact that you only need a simple text editor to do it all ~ it starts to become easier. My advice is go to PHP Hudzilla (link in my sig). He has written a whole online book on the thing covering more than you would ever need to know but it is all in there. Work through the chapters slowly, using a text editor (I recommend Crimson Editor) type up each function until you know it's syntax and why it is there. I also suggest keeping a notebook and writing everything down that you come across. Then upload it to Xisto and watch your work. Once you get over the basic confusion, you begin to soar through chapters in days. I have a tutorial on this site, so maybe look it up. And as vujsa showed, it is amazing with the INCLUDE() function. Iframes are being faded out in web browsers, but PHP does all the work on the server and the result is a webpage that looks as if it has all been typed out manually.

I like having a dark shade of gray, a very light shade of grey, a bold colour for borders and a contrasting colour to the main colour only in a much lighter shade for backgrounds.It works very well and it comes out with very unique, readible results. Right now, my colours for me new site are#f9f9f9 (the light grey)#444444 (the dark grey)#ddee55 (the bold colour)#c1cfd7 (the shade)

For alot of detail I would use GIMP. It is a free, open source image program with all the features of PhotoShop CS. I highly recommend it. Not only that but it also takes up less space. If you are used to Photoshop, using this will be a bit different and annoying sometimes but it only takes a few days to get used to it. There is also a photoshop skin for it floating around. If you haven't used a photo editor before, this will take a while to get used to so I suggest looking at a few tutorials.

Although that link wasn't exactly the problem, I read through it all and it had an extra line that didn't appear in the other instructions I followed. Thanks alot M^E.I'll do a how-to on all this sometime.

I have had Apache and PHP installed on my computer for a while now, but recently, to aid my learning of MySQL, I have installed MySQL and phpmyadmin. I followed all the instructions and I went to the phpmyadmin directory and got this error message: I have checked the php.ini and the extensions are loaded correctly. I checked the folder and they were there. I rechecked the phpmyadmin config file and it was all correct. I don't see where the problem lies? Any help?

Media players aren't something I look into that much. As long as it plays music I am happy. Windows Media Player came preinstalled so I just sort of left it at that. I also have RealPlayer as it was needed to listen to certain radio stations. I'll probably look into it sometime and try out new ones but right now I am just sticking music on my MP3 Player and listening to them off the Hi-Fi.

In terms of time = money, then no it isn't free. But as noted above, having banners, no features such as PHP or MySQL, crappy downtime, low space are common on other websites. Plus, you are probably posting on website forums anyway, without getting a reward. Here it's like a "you help me, i'll help you and we'll both get paid for doing so situation". To me that is better than being a crappy free host. Now if you want better, go get you mommy to pay for a paid domain that won't require you to post. With your current attitude; im sure your site will get loads of visitors.

Meh I'll give my tips for creating websites. Do not use Photoshop or ImageReady to create websites. The code generated is incorrect and won't work in alot of browsers. If you want a great layout that you have made from Photoshop, then use CSS and DIVs to position the images for the layout - not tables! Use PNG file formats for saving graphics like link backgrounds or gradients for a background. Use JPEG for banners or other photographs. Reduce the resolution of these as much as possible that preserves the quality of the image for your requirements. If you are going to build a large website, make sure you have got your CSS correct at the start so that each time you need to add a new page, you don't have to go back and edit your CSS file, otherwise the other pages may not work correctly. Plus, if you have a well formed CCS style page, creating new webpages can take only a few minutes. If in doubt of what colours to use; find a colour scheme from various of the colour scheme websites such as Colour Lovers. Make sure you contrast the text and backgrounds well. As a final note, don't take shortcuts. Write out the full code needed, if any problems, in layout or otherwise, occur sort them out there and then, otherwise they will come back to haunt you later on.

Meh I'll give my tips for creating websites. Do not use Photoshop or ImageReady to create websites. The code generated is incorrect and won't work in alot of browsers. If you want a great layout that you have made from Photoshop, then use CSS and DIVs to position the images for the layout - not tables! Use PNG file formats for saving graphics like link backgrounds or gradients for a background. Use JPEG for banners or other photographs. Reduce the resolution of these as much as possible that preserves the quality of the image for your requirements. If you are going to build a large website, make sure you have got your CSS correct at the start so that each time you need to add a new page, you don't have to go back and edit your CSS file, otherwise the other pages may not work correctly. Plus, if you have a well formed CCS style page, creating new webpages can take only a few minutes. If in doubt of what colours to use; find a colour scheme from various of the colour scheme websites such as Colour Lovers. Make sure you contrast the text and backgrounds well. As a final note, don't take shortcuts. Write out the full code needed, if any problems, in layout or otherwise, occur sort them out there and then, otherwise they will come back to haunt you later on.

I was like - so yeh i've been on one like this before only it was somewat bigger and less reactive. THen i wondered why the vid was so long. Then he crashed and the whole thing moved... I was like woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Yeah I used to watch it as a child. I loved OTT characters that had the appeal of superheroes and to me they were lol. Last time I watched it, it became cheesy storylines with boring characters and topless but ugly women, so I gave it up, about the same time the whole world did. But now I'd watch the once-a-year show WrestleMania just as a memory type thing, just like I'd occasionally watch power rangers or put on my superman lycra costume play chess.

Sorry! I was a bit cranky earlier

No that's the problem, I didn't install Linux. I went to turn on the computer one day and it wouldn't load. It was just a conincidence that I wanted to turn on my laptop to save work so I could install Linux. Maybe Bill is spying on me. But it doesn't get to the screen where I have to press DELETE, its way before many things load up.And was my title really that bad that it needed to be changed? It takes away the freedom community feel. I mean, on the list of 20 new topics at the bottom, I don't have a clue what at least ten of them are about. At least mine did that. I guess I just find it annoying.

So, I'm not sure if this is the right board to post this but since it primarily involves my laptop not running the operating system, i'll post it here.Currently, or previously I should say, my laptop ran Windows XP. I have been recommended by some people to try Linux so after downloading a version of it and put it on a CD, i was ready to go. If all failed I was going to install "2000 Pro" again because it ran better on my laptop. One day last week I went to turn it on and it said a file in the system directory was missing. "Oh deary me" i thought so I turned it off and back on again. Same error. The problem arises because I took the DVD Boot option off so I can't boot anything from CD. So the linux CD won't work either. So I went and got the four Diskettes and put the first one in only to get an I/O error. So now I am completely stuck. Nowhere to go.So I was wondering if there was a floppy disk I could download that would allow me access to some of the laptop so I could at least make it so it boots up from CD first. Any ideas?

Well this next part is coming from a Christian and since some of you pretty much called us stupid, ignorant and gullable then you can save yourself some time and skip this post since you all wouldn't even take it in anyway since I'm not a doctor in science and can't prove anything.Now that I have got rid of people who were only going to read my post to try and prove me wrong, maybe you people who are still reading will hear my point.I think this question is all about the whole human brains limit. It wasn't mean to understand the magnitude of the number of electrons in the earth or ever touch the edge of the universe and people have a hard time understanding this. The top scientists can't even prove alot of things - many are just theories yet because of TV, society as a whole would rather believe that aliens are looking for us and that we will be able to go into space with laser beams that can pick other people up.Let's look at the whole process of transportation we see from SciFi programs. For a human to build this it would require a machine to take every part of the human body apart until they are electrons, fire these electrons to another machine and rebuild the human structure of that individual person. Not to mention the system would only work in a vacuum to avoid collision of atoms. One electron missing is almost certain to make you disabled or dead.So many humans can turn down the points raised by the bible but not reject light sabres, transportation systems and those laser things that come from UFO's that can pick objects up...Just because one scientist says it is possible?So I believe that we are the only people in this universe, the only thinking organisms that can feel emotions. I also think, although it can probably be proven, that less than 0.01% of the people who believe in aliens now would not even dream up the idea of aliens if we lived in a world were it wasn't broadcast such a thing existed. In otherwords, couldn't think of the idea themselves. Just because the universe is giant doesn't mean that those little electrons magically formed themselves together coincentally in the exact same way our brains formed so that they too can also think. If you go by science and probability those chances are impossible.

Eh just no. I'll write a little rant about this while I am waiting for a CD to finish writing. Basically you are saying that we, people with beliefs in religion, need comfort. Yet we can accept alot more things than no believers can't. We don't need to touch the edge of the universe. We don't need to know the exact size of pi. There are some things in this world that aren't explained. There have been times when I have been majorly down and nothing can stop things that are going to happen. So I prayed. And I know you won't believe a word I say, but those things changed. Slightly to make things better for me. Now would they have happened anyway?And ever since I became a Christian, I've had the best friends I've ever had. You saying we walk around with a bible is like us saying you run about all day trying to prove that the universe is finite and hence trying to find the meaning of all existence. Now that really is absurd.As a Christian I've had to face a lot of things like this topic. People asking questions even though they cover their eyes when an answer is given and ignore it. People calling us stupid, insecure and weak. Yet why ask questions that you don't want to know the answer to? I ask questions to know the answers. So why make a topic, or post in this topic, if you are just going to throw everything we say back in our face? It's like those "Individualist" kids you see all over the place, yet they hang around together, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes...basically they try to validate their reason to be cool with an answer that they think proves they are not being cool.Probably by now you've either stopped reading, think I'm a total loser or are actually listening to what I've got to say.If, at the end of the day, we all croak and poof into nowhere why do we bother. After all how can a clump of cells living in a society actually feel guilt and sadness towards each other. When your mum dies... who cares? Why would we care. We're just here to survive for as long as we can so why waste valuable living time grieving? It seems to me the other way round. The "secure" people want to feel like they are someone in the world, like they matter, that they dont care about afterlife, but yet deep deep down inside we all cry when someone we love dies. It's the way we were created and science will never explain it.

Yeh I got it a year ago, it was second hand from my dads work. It was only 100 quid and the DVD player was included so it wasnt that bad of a deal.The DVD was working fine before I reinstalled windows so it cant be memory...

My friend and his brother had a desk made out of hollowed plastic. When I went over to their house they told me to turn their new computer on, I went over to the desk where their old computer used to be, opened the cupboards and there was no computer. At first I thought they were having a laugh but then the brother came over and turned it on by pressing a button on the door handle. Yes, their desk was the computer housing.It's difficult to explain but pressing one of the drawer had a small button which opened the DVD Drive, another opened their CD RW Drive, their USB ports were located a small cupboard type compartment...it was all very well thought out. The slide out drawer was the keyboard although the buttons were silver, they blended into the wooden looking plastic. Their speakers were installed into the side panels of the desk so that the air in the desk vibrated and it sounded cool. Everything was well installed and built, his dad designed things in plastic, specialising in furniture and they were quite good at computers. As the whole thing was built inside, their was no wires except the plug cable. Even the optical, wireless mouse had its transciever hidden behind a fake mirror (one way mirror thing.) So basically there was a monitor on an empty desk.The idea was very unique and although the desk wasn't high quality, it was still unique and if a company got hold of it they could take it somewhere. I said they should publish it on the internet or sell it to a company but they said they would in due time. The reason they didn't want to put pictures up is because they want people to come up with unique ideas. I joked that they should build a picture frame for the monitor and then put a nice screensaver on the computer, they didn't laugh and wrote it on their improvements list for version 2...So there are original ideas out there for cases definately. It's just that many of the original ones dont show theres or it wont be original. I think that was one of the coolest cases ever.

OK I've had my laptop for over a year now and I guess I need to upgrade because 6gb hard drive is just not enough. I think I know about buying this because I've currently got a 2.5" hard drive with a 2.5"-3.5" adaptor so I can buy either. I've seen s few good deals for 40gb ones so I'm looking into that. Yay or nay Hard Drive I am totally clueless at these things. I went to upgrade memory but it says in all specifications for my laptop (Toshiba Portege 7020CT) that the max memory is 194mb, so does that mean I can't go any higher or can I update the BIOS to allow that? Finally, just before Christmas I reinstalled Windows XP onto my laptop after a few things went wrong. Then when I went to run a DVD the quality was poor and choppy so what did I do wrong? And is there any other recommendations to upgrade on my laptop that will increase the speed as I listen to alot of music and DVDs so reducing choppyness is important. Thank you

My dad was like that. So I changed Firefoxes layout to look almost exactly like I.E.'s layout including the bookmarks. Next i changed the desktop Icon to the blue internet explorer one and changed the text. My dad used Firefox for two weeks before I told him despite his previous claims that it would be too difficult to use. He asked me what pop up blocker I got and so spilt the beans, he laughed and said "I guess I could get used to it." In otherwords he wouldnt admit he was wrong.So I swapped the icons around again and to stop the habit of my dad clicking on I.E., I put a program that opens up 100 message boxes which all have to be clicked individually. Sometimes being sneaky is the only way.