Oh, does your new computer have an Ethernet connection? (It should - pretty much all computers have it these days.) If so, go into Control Pannel, System, then select the Hardware tab and click on Device Manager. Find "Network Adapters" and click on the plus sign - it should now show your specific network adapter. Right-click on the network adapter (under Network Adapters) and see if it says "This device is working correctly."

Yes, working properly. My second round with Dell has gotten suggestions to download some drivers. I'm doing that now. Sigh.

so I had a fucking incident with my new cell phone. I'm going to kill cingular. When I am done with them, I will take requests for individuals or corporations to harm later.

I ordered the cell phone off the cingular website (I discovered btw that cingular has a pretty decent corporate plan for those of you who work with companies they have agreements with) - I got the phone yesterday and spent 2-3 hours with nimrods on the online chat help who couldn't tell me how I could open up webpages on the new phone (motorola Razr). I went to Cingular store twice today to find out that the only way to do it (supposedly) is to use Opera's minibrowser.

WTF? My old (2-3 year old phone) did this without much trouble, why did I need to download crap to get it done with the new phone?

First world problems, but shit.

LeN, I did download Opera's minibrowser--but I used my phone's built in browser to get to it.

So that makes no sense. I more likely believe that tech support are dumb than they removed the built-in browser, but whatever it is--Cingular dumbness is there.

Dell's solution actually worked. It may be a sign of the apocalypse.

Dell's last solution worked for me too--UPS picked up their laptop yesterday, and I bought a Sony Vaio instead.

Just put apache on my xp home lap top.

When I opened up hosts to create some virtual directories - xp told me it was in use. I assumed user was apache, shut down apache - still in use. How do I track down what program/process has it open?

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Found the problem. Handles found no conventional locks, but it turns out that zone alarm lock hosts even if it set not. You have to lock and unlock hosts in zone alarm to access it - and even then it only sticks for the windows session. On the whole it is a good thing - but I wish they would give a message.

Folks, I am desperately looking for a way to display the time when I am in a phone call on a Motorola Razr. it doesn't seem to be a standard feature for motorola phones. I can display the LENGTH of the phone call, but not what time it is. Is there a way to do it?

So what do you do when your iPod's battery doesn't last long enough for you to update it via USB with all the songs? It's possible the battery's toast--it's only 2679 or so songs. But there must be a way, no?