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OK, at least can see some light now. There's 3 ways that the modem and router can be connected to work.1. The modem is in PPPoE or ATM or something similar as for our ADSL case. Then then router is doing the dialing or login via the modem. You should be able to access the web base configuration on the router by login in to the gateway IP configured on the PCs. From there you can check those configurations.2. The modem is a modem router, which itself has an IP can capable of dialing or login. It itself also has a web base configuration. You can try connect direct to it and see if it's auto assign IP. If it does, take a look at it's web base configuration. Most modem router can be configured as a "bridge", which it will work as per case 1 above. In bridge mode, the web configuration will be disabled. The only way to access it is to do a full reset to return to router mode. In bridge mode, the configuration is not necessary since which ever device is dialing it will be taking care of that.3. Similar to case 1 above, bout this time, your router is acting just like a hub/switch. This way, the dialing/login is done on the PCs, once 1 of the PC has login, the rest of those connected to hub/switch will able to go online. This method is less use, and for me, i only seen it used at my ex-college, which they decide to change to case 1 after a few months. In this case, since no router is there, so IP will not be auto assign, each PC must have it's own IP configured manually.Hope this give you some clue. Good luck

Now i think of something. We need to isolate the issue see if it's relate to each pc or just the router + modem.After you login using AOL say on PC A, then PC A can go online, now can PC B and go online as well? Or each of them has to login via AOL before they can access internet?I'm not that sure bout cable modem, but does it need to configure with username and password on the modem, and login as well? If so, could be that the AOL login trigger the modem to login? (If this is the case, then the earlier scenario would be, PC A login AOL, then all other PC can go online, right? )If it's not the modem that does the login, then it's configure via the router.For us, using ADSL, if it's a modem, the login is done either on the PC side or the router side. If it's a "router modem", then it itself can login.Another thing is, your router has a built in ethernet hub/switch? (that has nothing to do with AOL login, just curious)

If your pc has a USB port, then you can opt out the harddisk. Use bootable cd + usb for storage. That way, anything wrong, just reboot. Further more, older pc has problem with harddisk bigger than 20GB. I don't think you can find a new harddisk that's less than 40GB nowadays. Word processing, browsing or you can even turn it into a router or server. 166Mhz, is good enough as a server, but running GUI application will be a bit slower.

Linux will runs fine on that computer. Probably running an older version, or use the latest version, but strip down the unused stuffs to lighten the load. If you don't want to spend too much time installing diff distribution to try out, you can download live-cd version, like DSL(damn small linux) or Knoppix or any that catch your attention. Once you found out which one can run nicely and meets your requirement, then you can choose to install it onto your harddisk. Most live-cd has such option. Btw, i believe your pc should be able to boot from cdrom. If not, then you're out of luck, will need to download those that can install from floppy or at least most of them let you create a startup floppy, then continue to install from cd. That doesn't apply to the live-cd version Try this site http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. This link sort out only the live-cd (it's a long list) http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/search.php?categoryp;status=Active Good Luck

But then, if i don't recall wrongly, their ISP is not AOL right?Maybe you can explain a bit more on the external connection from the ISP to the LAN. We don't use cable service here, so don't know how it was configured. We only have ADSL via copper line, running on PPPoE

This method won't really work. I did the same thing before. I believe you have a server side coding to handle the database part right?1. You need to post the changes back for every row, adding or removing, cause if not, any changes you've applied on the table, doesn't reflect the actual database, until you post it, but if the user simply close the page, or internet line disconnected, the changes is gone. I would suggest (i'm actually using this method), next to every row there's a "Delete" button, and a "Add Row" button on the page. If the delete is press, then a confirmation box, then posting of data back to the server to perform the deletion, then reload the data back into the page. With this method, you can also check the permission, in case someone try to post the delete command, even though the delete button is not there, you can still block the changes from the server side script. Adding new row, is simply unhiding a row with input boxes preplanted there, once save, again the result is posted back, and the page reload.2. Another way to do this is to use ajax, while the user is adding or removing data on the table, you can use ajax to do send the changes back to the server at the same time without reloading the page, much like gmail or other ajax enabled page.

I guess that quite unlikely. Cause the way bluetooth audio works is like server and client. I'm not sure of the exact term, but this is how it works. The client can only receive, and awaits instruction. They cannot connect to another client by themself. They provide a list of function available to the server, then the server choose which function/functions they want use. Bluetooth headset is a client. Bluetooth phone and pc is the server, where they can manage a few client at the same time, and decide what to do with it. The thing about phone is that it can't act as a client, or when it does, it mostly act as a serial or push obx client, thus you can only use the bluetooth connection to transfer or sync it's content. If you try to explore the functions on the phone from your pc, if you can see the audio gateway, then you can stream the audio to your phone. Maybe it's not that likely, but in future it will be.

Hmm, that's really wierd. Don't tell me the modem is controlled by AOL? What browser are you using? Maybe you can also try a diff browser.

Welcome. I only know of the proxy since our local ISP also provided such service. You mean you can ping Yahoo before login into AOL or after? Maybe you can try some site which doesn't need domain name. As in skipping the DNS, to find out if it has to do with the DNS server or it's configuration. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ This is google's direct IP. Probably you can also check if there's any diff in various configuration before and after logging into AOL. Also look under Administrators Tools/Services, maybe AOL installed a service that trap such connection before login. You can also try to browse in Safe Mode (with Networking). That you can narrow down the possibility. If you can try on another pc/notebook(using the same configuration minus AOL) even better. Good luck

You can check the proxy setting also. It could be that the software supplied by the ISP (not sure bout AOL, cause i don't live in US), could have configured the proxy setting to proxy through their server, this is usually done as a security measure to prevent attack from outside. If so, then without loggin in, you won't be able to go through the proxy server, thus, you can't access the internetI'm assuming you're using windows. Check under Settings\ControlPanel\Internet Property. Under Connections tabs, LAN Settings. See if "Use proxy server for you LAN ......" is ticked. Untick it then try again.If not, you can also check the DNS setting of your Network Adaptor. Either set it to the one provided by your ISP (not AOL in this case) or put it to auto detect.Other than that, i can't think of anything else.Good Luck

If you have a spare harddisk at hand, it would be a lot easier, since hard disk is quite cheap nowadays. Or if you can get another hard disk temporarily, then you can dup your existing one, then try out on the 2nd hard disk while you figure out what's right or wrong. I'm an opensource supporter, but one thing i face is that, some of those tools mentioned by yordan, i've tried a few of it povided in Ultimate Boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/, most of them didn't work as expected. Hopefully by now there's some improvement over it. So, i ended up using partition magic, and norton ghost, which is my favorites ever since the dos/win95 times. either that, always have a backup handy, you'll always need it if you're trying out something new good luck

I guess i'm worse then. I'm still using gaim 1.5. Maybe because i was following the gaim forum for a while, and notice quite a lot of changes and breaking change from 2.0b3 to 2.0b6. So i guess i would prefer to let it settle down first before taking the risk. I really love gaim, so hope pigdin will do the same in the future

Actually in electronic point of view, wired connection also have signal in it, just that it's almost always 100% that you get the signal, so seldom ppl use that term to refer to it

In malaysia, you get the same thing for RM20, which is about USD5~6.Jimmy89, i don't think it's a wireless, cause the title mentioned LAN

Linksys is good. Don't bother with D-Link, it sux. I used to like d-link, but now they're just another cheap brand. You can also consider Belkin. Prolink are equivalent to d-link, but at least they are cheap. Netgear seems to have compatibility problem.

Yes, books and online resources are a good way to start to learn programming. But slightly after that, i think what's most important is to learn how to layout the concept and flow of the application you're trying to do. The next most important one is to learn how to troubleshoot and pin point the source of error or bugs. Towards the end, programming language itself will become general tools, as in programming can be done in any language, it's just the matter of getting use to the syntax and library available.

If your USB adapter the straight plug in type? If so, you can try to use an USB extension cable to the adapter can face straight up instead, that might help

When you say disconnected from your DSL router, do you mean your wifi is disconnected or your DSL? From your initial description ("On my laptop (using the Netgear PC Card), it automatically reconnects once my DSL connection kicks back in"), it seems like it's DSL disconnected from your ISP, but the later description ("Also, on the repair, it does the usual diabling wireless device and enabling") seems to indicate disconnection of wifi.If it's the disconnection of your DSL, when you get your line back, you won't need to do "repair" on the wifi connection. When that happen again, you try to open "Services" under "Administrative Tools" in control panel, restart the "DNS Client" and "DHCP Client" services. If that helps, then I'm not sure what else to do, cause i faced the same before even with LAN connection. Then later the problem disappear after i formatted and fresh install my windows again.

That's actually not the job of the software, but it's the OS itself. In windows XP you can already configure 2 NIC to work together, just it doesn't have the more specific configuration comparing to those Server OS. If you bridge the 2 NIC, you only take up 1 IP address, that's the purpose of using it. If it's taking 2 IP, it can't be redundancy anymore That's exactly what Jeigh mention earlier about using 2 x 56K modem to speed up the internet, in the olden days. You could do the same nowadays with ADSL or Cable, but I've no seen anyone doing it. If it's at my country, Malaysia, it useless to do so in peak hours. I'm not exactly sure how ADSL is installed here, but from what i understand, every area has sort of a small "hub", bout 10 or more ports to distribute the signal. Each of these hub has a fix bandwidth allocated from the trunk. If we're the only guy using it in the area, then we'll get maximum download as per our subscription. Well, if the ports is full, and everyone is using it at the same time, we'll get much much less. The total bandwidth allocated per hub is less than the total bandwidth of all the ports added up. Further more, the main trunk line into our country is so small, we can only achieve high download speed from local(within the country) servers. That's considering our country's broadband penetration rate is still less than 10%.

Yen, you can use them both, but it will not speed up your game, if you're playing across the internet. Even LAN based game also won't benefit from this configuration. Reason, first of all, how fast is your internet connection, assuming ADSL, in the order or 512Kbps to a few Mbps. But how fast is the Ethernet?? It's in the order of at least 10Mbps, common one are 100Mbps and even 1Gbps. So, with single internet connection and a 100Mbps ethernet, you're only utilizing less than 10% of it's capacity. Putting 2 NIC will not make it any faster, might even cause a bit slow down, due to the overhead. If you're use 2 NIC to setup a server, be it file server or database server or any of those high bandwidth ones, it will help a lot. This is actually called load balancing, where the OS will distribute the transfer bandwidth across the 2 NIC to serve hundreds and thousands of request. Or as a way for redundancy, where when 1 NIC is down, the you still have another one to handle the traffics. Another less common use for such configuration is to act as a router or bridge, to join up 2 diff networks or network segments

I'm not that familiar with reporting. But i think you need to give more detail so others can help you better. For example, which version of Visual Studio are you using, which reporting tools are you using (normally i would assume it's crystal report) and which version is it.Also how you access your report? Is it access through another application which you or your company wrote, or a third party application? Or via other method which i'm not know of.

Don't quite get you. Can you lay out a bit of example to make it clearer?

Apparently there isn't much book on DirectX9. A few from the Premier Press is quite good Real-time.Rendering.Tricks.and.Techniques.in.DirectX 3D.Game.Programming.All.In.One Special.effects.game.programming.with.directx This site also provide quite a lot of information http://gpwiki.org/ Those books mostly concentrates on games. Other than that, i've a few in .Net, which i think you would want. Btw, i'm writing a .net based 3D graphic multimedia system. I have to use .net so i can deliver the software faster, where C++ will take longer time to develop, and even more time needed to debug and perfect the coding. Maybe towards the end, when things settle down, i'll convert the 3D engine into C++ based. Generally the basic instruction for DirectX9 doesn't differ much for .net and non-.net. DirectX SDK from microsoft also prove to be useful. Get Feb 2006 or earlier if you want the use legacy DirectShow features, after that version, DirectShow is moved to Platform SDK. Also don't bother with the newer SDK, cause it includes DirectX10, which is redundant if you're not targeting Vista. Do that note of the syntax changes (mainly the parameters needed per function), if you have diff release of DirectX SDK.

1. Forecolor is the one. I don't see why you can't. 2. Label is auto wrapping. A workaround is to use TextBox as label. Turn on Multiline, make it ReadOnly and change the cursor to Default instead of IBeam, and border to None. It should look quite like a label. 3. There's no need to include in the code. If that file is not in your project, just add it in, or link (Click the down arrow in the open file dialog, and select Link File). And that class you need should be Public, then you can just access it from any other class or module you have. 4. Math function is built it, unless you're talking about advance or complex one, which normally comes as an additional class(.vb) or library(.dll). For class, just refer to step 3. For library, you need to add it as reference

You're welcome, glade that helps