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has a beaver that talks Member  |
*sets up shop with royko, prepared to answer all internet questions with respect to gnomes*
****************************************** Me in Rock: This Shirt Is Pants | Mr. Fusion Me in blog: izenmania |
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Poster of the year, 2007 Member  |
Haaalp!?
So I am attempting to ditch the dialup and go highspeed. The cable guy installed Roadrunner and hooked up the modem-thingy, BUT he couldn't locate the usb port(?). He told me to either: (1)find someone who has winzip, install that then see if it can locate the usb port, then unplug and replug some gray wire or (2) get an ethernet card and set up another appointment with him - but I can't get any time off work until after I quit in July. I'll go googling for now, but if anyone has had this happen and could give me some advice or tips I'd be so very grateful. Thanks! ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ Weeble Song! Sing along! ~ courtesy Snazzy Snazzypants |
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Believe it or not, he really is walking on air Member  |
I can't for the life of me imagine that Winzip would help detect a usb controller. Are you using XP? And, if I'm understanding you right, he was able to locate the actual USB plug on your computer, but your OS isn't detecting any new hardware?
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Poster of the year, 2007 Member |
Yes, I've got XP.
Right, my o/s isn't detecting any new hardware. I need to go google winzip, I guess. I had a hard time understanding him becaus he talked so fast, I should have asked him to write it down. ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ Weeble Song! Sing along! ~ courtesy Snazzy Snazzypants |
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Believe it or not, he really is walking on air Member |
If you go to the control panel (from the start menu), go to "Performance and Maintenance" and open up "System", click the Hardware tab and then the Device Manager button, what does it list under "Universal Serial Bus controllers"?
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Poster of the year, 2007 Member |
er... I'm not at home... I'm sorry...
I need to go crawl back into the dark ages now.  ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ Weeble Song! Sing along! ~ courtesy Snazzy Snazzypants |
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Believe it or not, he really is walking on air Member |
If you still have a dialup connection, you can IM me whenever you're home.
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Poster of the year, 2007 Member |
Thanks Royko! *hug*
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Poster of the year, 2007 Member |
*hops into thread*
*looks around* Yup, everything looks a lot more highspeed around here! *hugs Royko* *showers Royko with kitty toys for Astrid*  ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ Weeble Song! Sing along! ~ courtesy Snazzy Snazzypants |
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:rattle:rattle: Member  |
I can probably point you in the right direction to a couple of free zip programs, but I don't have access to that info right now, so I'll have to post it tomorrow.
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Poster of the year, 2007 Member |
no worries - I'm all set up now thanks to Royko!
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is part of the international oatmeal conspiracy Member  |
okay.
i have a labtop. ibm, windows 98se. it hasn't been on the internet for awhile and i'm finding it impossible to get it back online because i don't have the proper drivers to get it on wireless or anything. i am wondering if updating it to xp will solve the driver problem and thus make my life easier. i really like it. and all i really need it for is internet, pictures etc. do you think its worth it to get a new one or update it? High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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Believe it or not, he really is walking on air Member |
Do you have a wireless adapter for it?
If not, you can probably find one that still supports 98. |
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is part of the international oatmeal conspiracy Member |
i should have a look.
the one kirsty gave me was supposed to work for win98se but i still need one more driver, apparently. which is irritating. High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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?#1 - Do you have sufficient resources on the laptop to RUN xp? 98 may have been a pig, but it ain't nothin' compared to XP. The XP install will check your system out, but you need lots of free(d up) hard drive space to install that puppy. And RAM (256 minimum). Once it's there, it's pretty stable.
If it works, and you have a copy of XP lying around, try it -- but if it's only for web browsing, email, and picture management/editing, have you considered linux? There are plenty of linux 'distros', like Ubuntu, that can run from a cd, and I wouldn't be surprised if it has drivers to get on your network. If you also need a wireless card, it might get stickier -- then you've moved out of my league; you'd probably need to find an older wireless card, blah blah blah ... |
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is part of the international oatmeal conspiracy Member |
well. i never thought of linux because its scary but only because i don't know it. can i just find one in the store?
and i'm not sure if i'd have enough space. but i was planning on freeing up stuff by transferring it to an external hard drive if i was going to go the XP route. but that would also almost bring me up to the cost of a new labtop as an external wasa bout £80 and a copy of xp £100 High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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Wigber Member |
I guess that's a catch-22 there -- you can download linux distros for free and burn 'em to a CD and run it, but that requires getting on the internet ...
you can also order up a free Ubuntu disk set and they'll mail it to you. There is a learning curve, in that it looks different, but browsers are browsers, and the GIMP (graphics editor) is the gimp (runs on windows, too). You just pop in the CD, reboot and you're done. But take a look at XP -- odds are, someone can probably mail you a disk for that, too -- if you're hardware can run it, it's fine. |
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is part of the international oatmeal conspiracy Member |
hrmmm...
i don't really wanna blow £300+ on new computer but i think thats what i'm going to have to do. my labtop just seems a bit antiquated. it only has 8.7 gigs or something. and oh jesus. 64 ram... i guess that solves it. High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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Wigber Member |
Hell, I remember paying several hundred dollars for 2 simms, a total of 64 megs of RAM, and that was to get Win95 to run. I'm sensing a connection, here ... |
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is part of the international oatmeal conspiracy Member |
alright new question:
labtop vs PC someone help me buy a computer. what do i want: internettage music pictures messengerses i don't play anything more complicated than scrabulous at the moment and probably really wont. High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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