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ARGGGGGGGGGHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Sodding ********** *** ******* thing (censored) ok theres my issue with this card. When I install drivers for the card, it initialises the tv card sound on the pass through to the motherboard. Its not plugged into a jack or anything so its...

Anyone here familiar working with CSS and how to implement it with tables? If so let me know as I struggling with something. Cheers

Alas my CFX3200 board seems to have gone kaput and no longer works. Thatll teach me to swap watercooling pipes without being carefull. SO now the hunt starts for a MATX motherboard that has firewire on there and a half decent chipset. Wont be watercooling this as watercooling a media centre...

Hi all God what a morning, pc died last night, wake up to watch my bevvy of cooking programs as a subsitute for getting out of the house and having food and my pc has died Its a DFI Lanparty 3200 DR and on the board there is a error code shower thingy (sorry tis stil morning) and all it says...

On my little win2k3 test server that I run at home (yes I know..... sad) I have a bit of a BSOD the other day and so rebooted as per standard techie support procedure ;-) However when I go into my disks I see nothing on any drive bar the boot drive. The space is showing in use but theres no...

Hi, Quick one for people. Cant remember how to do.. a batch file for ftp (feels such a noob) What I want it to do is run a batch file that will ftp a site enter username and pass get a file exit cleanly. I know a few command but don't know how to pass a username and pass via command...

Well I thought Id give Ubuntu an install. So I got the new download of the live cd, played, saw it supported my wireless nic and then hit the live install. Only problem is, taht my screen is at 800 * 600 so I cant see any of the buttons to press at the bottom. I cant enable the nvidia mode...

Just been dabbling around with a few databases and such and for a project im working on, want to get excel to connect to a live db on a website (ok im hosting locally for now but thats not the point :D ) Anyone done this type of thing before and could lend a hand?

Just at the other halfs computer now and dear god is it slow, the only thing that I can see that would be crippling an old machine even more (athlon xp 1800 here) is zone alarm. Anyone got some good free alternatives?

I just discovered the joys of Uniform server, a program that runs PHP, mysql and stuff basically from a removable USB key. The latest version thats been out is majorly flakey and even the author in the forums is suggesting to wait. Has anyone got some suggestions on something like that. I did...

I know I know, before I get flamed, my email wont be up till next month. So i have a wireless network and my little laptop with its trusty dial up connection. Anyway to share this easily? Ive tried ICS but to no avail. Iknow im missing something simple here but Im bereft of ideas :D

Its that time of the year again when I go for a lovely new phone upgrade. At the moment I have the w800i which has taken a bit of a battering but still keeps going, even if the headphones are bloody annoying. Tempted with so far k800 nokia n73 ( a bit big isnt it? ) Ideal features Camera...

I came across Image well for my mac the other day (LINK) and just wondered if there was a nice app to do the same What im after is to be able to take a big pic, drag it to an app, itll resize it and then upload it to an ftp location. ANyone out there got some ideas?

Hi there, Wonder if anyone can help. Just trying to do a bit of graphics type work in Photoshop. Trying to do a nice rounded box but every time I try to do them I seem to get jaggies or they just look plain dire. A good example is the overclockers front page, they have some nice rounded...

Arrrgggggg This is a complete nightmare and im stuck. Ive been given the task of sorting a windows xp home machine. When you boot it up and you get the user/password select screen and do nothing it reboots BUT its a clean reboot, ie no hardware or anything failing. Now what i did notice was...