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Red Hat Certified Technician
Hello I'm looking to do a Red Hat Certified Technician course a home or online, I am a total newbie to Linux. Would the course above be okay for me to start on? The only experiance I have is with Windows and am MCP certified.
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Increasing the hover time??
When you hover over a post in 'New Posts list' or within a category the text of the first poster appears for about 5 seconds (there is probably a technical term for this), is there a way to increase the amount to time it is shown to say 10 seconds? 5 seconds is never enough time to get the gist of what is being said and I…
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Wireless connected but can not browse
hi..I am using a Dell Latitude D620, Win XP(Service Pack 2), inbuilt Inter Pro wireless Adapter. last 4 months i was using a kind neighbors unsecured wireless network connection. Recently I was updated my antivirus with Norton 360 and did updated Win XP latest updates all. After this updates I could not browse internet but…
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It happened, my hard drive stopped working a week after my back up storage stopped wo
Went to turn on the computer yesterday and it refused to start and went straight to a blue screen and won't boot up. - my external hard drive that I use for back up stopped working last week. I've restarted about 19 times and also tried restarting with the XP OS disc in the drive and putting it in the drive - no joy. As…
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Connecting laptop to Wireless Router
Hi, please be gentle as I am not a computer expert at all. I have just fitted a wireless router to my main computer and now want to add my laptop so that I can use this as well. How do I go about setting up the laptop. It has wireless facilities built in, but I dont' know how to get it to recognise my internet connection.…
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Sky box and card broken
My parents sky box has given up, insides all fried and burnt the sky card :eek: They contacted sky directly and they said it would cost £130 for a next box and card, and that was the discounted rate, even after my dad said he would cancel his subscription! I was thinking about getting them a second hand box off ebay for…
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free music downloads
Hi, Hope that this is in the correct place. My 10 yr. old son has got a cheap tesco mp3 player and he is eager to download some music onto it. Can anyone recommend any safe, legal, free sites? We've tried googling 'free music downloads' but we couldn't get the sites we came up with to download, possible due to the security…
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Belkin N-Mimo Router Problem
I've just got a new Belkin N-Mimo wireless router (for non-cable connections) as my old Netgear keeps dropping the connection. Having read tons of reviews about how easy to auto-set the Belkin up from a start up disc, I went for a Belkin. The problem is the Belkin router doesn't recognise the internet!!! I know that I put…
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Blocking applications from accessing the internet
Basically I am trying to prevent my flatmates from using torrent programs such as BitTorrent and uTorrent to download music and applications illegally from the internet. So far I have managed to block access to most torrent sites through the router, however the actual torrent programs can still connect to the internet. I…
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Help Please With Nokia E61 Screen Gone White.
Hello everyone. Done a bit of a silly thing today by putting my phone in the same bag as a bottle of OXI fabric stain remover and I reckon you can guess the rest. It didn't really get that wet at all and I wipe the phone as soon as I noticed what had happened. The next few hours the screen flickered for a bit then seemed…
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Ready Boost
Hi, I current have a Dell PC with 1GB RAM. I have heard about Ready Boost which can be used to increase PC RAM. Couple of questions please:-* Can any USB drives could be used as Ready Boost? * Is it compatable with Windows Vista Basic? * What is the maximum usb memory can be used? and finally any good once to buy? Thanks MS
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Sd I/o??
I have a SD I/O slot in the side of my laptop.....What is this for?:confused:
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Laptop disaster!!!
Hi everyone got a bit of a problem im hoping you might be able to help me with. We've had a laptop for about 3 months running windows vista. Its had very little use apart from occasional internet use and hubbys football managing game. I had it on this morning browsing the internet, shut it down in the usual way, everything…
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Unable to download Java
Hi there. I am unable to install the latest java on my HP laptop. There was an error on the 6.7 update so I tried to reinstall it but it took the old one off and wouldn't install a new one. It got as far as downloading the program from the java website then zone alarm popped up and said that java needed to acess the…
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Blocking Pop ups
Can some one tell me how to stop, pop up's on a friends PC, they do not have the disc to reinstall the Windows XP Firewall, they have Sky broadband so I am unsure if there are any pop up blockers on there.
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SBS Exchange 2003 Question
Hello guy's, another question but this time regarding SBS 2003 Exchange server, at the moment we have two companies abc.co.uk and 123.co.uk, all of the email is hosted off-site and we have a make-shift PC/Server running M-Daemon mail server, it collects the email from the off-site host via Domain- POP but I have been…
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help needed please with laptop
Please can anyone help laptop wont start up the screen with safe mode start windows normally ect is coming on tried all that tried to reboot but nothing is working. Please can someone advise on what to do if possible. Thanks
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Help with website - search engines & advertising
Although this may be a techie message board, I seriously am not one! I've got together an ok website using the hosts website builder but now want my website to appear on search engines or maybe earning through advertising (don't think I've the knowledge on this but hey!!!) I've been reading other threads and my head is…
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Small Laptop
Hey, Im looking to buy a small laptop, around 7-9" screen. Ive have been looking on ebuyer and found some for around £300, but the majority of them are with Linux, which i dont fancy as my other operatng systems are Windows. Does anyone know any cheap sites out there with small latops? The kind of specs im looking for are:…
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Which program to view and edit FH11 files?
Hi Can anyone tell me which program I could use to view and edit files with an FH11 file extension? Would obviously prefer a program which is free to download if possible! Many Thanks in Advance Lauren
