Uncle_Meat

Franco r9 at the moment, not got around to updating to r13 yet. [KERNEL][GPL][26 SEP] franco.Kernel - r13 - xda-developers I keep meaning to try clemsyn, but I like things to be subtly modded for efficiency rather than balls out OCed ones and Franco's fits the bill. I bought his updater app too, only a couple of quid just for the show of support more than anything.

I'm quite enjoying my Nexus 7 at the moment. Can't fault performance, there are a few quality control issues apparently, slightly raised screen above the bezel, so check if you buy one. Mine was perfectly flat so OK there. Slightly tweaked with a none standard kernel, better battery life and a bit smoother. Getting a decent 8 hours screen/battery life out of it just using it for lightish tasks like ebooks, bit of browsing and a couple of games here and there. 7" is a nice size for me though, I find the 10" tablets to be a bit awkward and clumsy to use.

DMT is awesome. Just. Awesome. Leaves a lovely glow around things for the next day or two as well. Like all hallucinogenics though, don't take the piss out of it. It'll spin you like a fucker if you do. Elves, though. I wouldn't call them elves...

Jesus fucking christ, that's rough. Just had to give the cat an extra hug and scritchies after googling that. I wish I hadn't.

Is there no "7 days no quibble returns" policy or similar over there? Just been looking around, and the only things I can can find regarding NGT phones is a couple of forlorn posts on XDA dev from people trying, and failing, with various known root methods. I'd fuck it off for a better known manufacturer, HTC or Samsung or similar. Most of those have well known methods for rooting and also a decent collection of custom ROMs to choose from.

Right there, the twisted brain-wrong of a one-off man mental. That's you, that is. A man mental. With a wrong brain.

This is what happens to kids when they don't stay at school and fuck their maths teachers.

No. Half the fun is being able to act like a total mong because your doing it to amuse the kid. Go nuts. Fuck about in supermarkets, pull stupid faces at people, attempt to pay shopkeepers with apple pips, dance to stupid music whilst driving, the lot.

Ohhh I do. HDDs is a common one. "I bought this off the interwebz and I can't install my OS". Run the HDD diagnostics, take a pic of all those lovely bad sectors the diags reveal, show them and charge £20 or so depending on how long it took the diagnostics to run. That'll learn 'em. A favourite trick is pointing out just how old their supposedly "new" HDD is. "See that date code? 2007..." And don't get me started on those Magnetic Data Technologies refurbs... One of my suppliers keeps trying to sell me MDT drives, I'm sick of telling him to sod off. Fair enough, sometimes they are correctable but give it back with the caveat "Look, I found xxx amount of bad sectors which were repairable. It could just be one of those things and you'll be OK, it could be the start of failure, in which case if more come back shortly your fucked." Haha. Mr Hands. Neigh. Not found anything illegal yet, but some right weird stuff from the most suprising of characters. Local pillar of the community with a fondness for Veronica Moser kind of thing. No, not the shooting victim.. If you don't recognise the name, don't google it from work. I can't really be arsed searching stuff out, just get the job done and next, but when you get the cagey ones who insist "You don't go through all the files, do you?" you can't help but wonder... However, some of them are quite open about it. "15Gb of squirters on there mate if you want a copy." Anyway. A. Got it all worked out, one of my mates is a copper, had a word with him about it and the deal is to give him a bell, off-record for now, and take it from there.

Alan Sex or Tom R, obviously. She probably read ones of their posts. Conga Rats and all that Cap'n

I run a small computer shop here in Wales, and retail has nosedived over the last 18 months. Still getting the repair jobs in, so most of the weekly takings now are purely labour charges + odd parts but still. Fuck me, things are getting tight. So many more people around here are getting their existing PCs patched up rather than buying new ones, and the 2 local supermarkets are doing heavily discounted printers, CDs/DVDs/memory sticks and various other "mainstay" consumables, so finding it hard to compete with those on price. One thing that has gone up is how many "I bought this off eBay and I can't get it to work" jobs I'm getting, shortly followed by me telling them "Sorry mate, it's fucked." If only they would have bought it from their local friendly computer shop in the first place...

Fruit flavoured beer, cherry and strawberries and chocolate. Kids like cherries, strawberries and chocolate. Hmm.

Well, his first question on the matter was. When Horus answered yes, it was on to ipconfig. I assume that if the answer was no, then malfunctioning hardware would have been next. Anyway. There. All better now. :) Let's see what Horus comes back with. On a slightly related note, Virgin connection. I've heard of 4 people now who have had their SuperHub catch fire. So much for a blazing fast connection...

Have you tried the David Icke forums? It makes Godlike Productions looks sane. David Icke's Official Forums WARNING : May contain nuts.

Well, yes but it's a relatively rare condition compared to a dead NIC where there are no lights whatsoever. So, for trying to diagnose a problem remotely via a text forum it's easier to take things as read, yes we have lights and assume we're golden, go to step 2 which is, as Zig posted with his ipconfig, let's see what the OS makes of it all. Given that was all there for you to read before you contributed, I just thought you were being a bit unduly harsh upon Zig.

Captain, to be fair, you are being a bit of an arse here mate. Without being actually there, you can only diagnose so much but still, all valid so far. Both link and data lights lit on the RJ45 socket, one showing an electrical link and the other hopefully blinking here and there to show some kind of data being passed. Ok, that does not prove conclusive rx/tx, as the light just shows *something*, but then, a post or 2 down... His ipconfig /all appears to show that DHCP is doing it's stuff and assigning a valid IP addy, so that looks like there is valid rx/tx over ethernet, otherwise XP would be assigning a private 169.254.x.x type addy. So, with the above I think we can safely assume that all is OK on a hardware level and that software/config is the problem. md. Good point on the proxy. Didn't think that far yet, was waiting for Horus to post the ping/tracert results but yep. That'll foul things up well enough.

That *looks* like you should be good to go. Just a thought, has that machine ever had Norton installed upon there? Seen loads of machines where a flakey or not completely uninstalled Norton fucks things up like this. If so, download Norton Removal Tool onto a memory stick and run that on the PC. Second thing, are you able to ping or tracert any addresses from the command line? Try a couple of them. Try pinging the router first ping 192.168.1.1 This is just to your router, so hopefully will show the PC talking to that at least Then try ping 173.194.67.94 (this is one of the IP that "www.google.co.uk"resolves to) Then try ping "www.google.co.uk" *edit* Ignore the quotes around the google addy, had to put those to stop the forum from wrapping url tags around them. then try the above with tracert instead of ping. The tracert might time out on a few hops if it starts at all, no worry, just want to see how far it is getting kind of thing. If things work with IP addys but not with domain names, then that points towards being flakey with DNS for example. Example tracert here. C:\Documents and Settings\Workshop>tracert Google Tracing route to Google [173.194.67.94] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 27 ms 28 ms 28 ms 217.32.93.58 3 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms 217.32.93.145 4 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 213.1.69.178 5 27 ms 28 ms 27 ms 31.55.164.67 6 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 31.55.164.107 7 27 ms 28 ms 27 ms acc1-10GigE-0-5-0-7.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159. 248.102] 8 35 ms 35 ms 36 ms core2-te0-15-0-17.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [109.159. 248.42] 9 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms peer1-xe3-1-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.2 54.217] 10 35 ms 46 ms 35 ms 195.99.125.23 11 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms 209.85.252.188 12 33 ms 32 ms 33 ms 209.85.253.92 13 41 ms 40 ms 39 ms 72.14.232.134 14 40 ms 38 ms 40 ms 209.85.250.167 15 * * ^C Here you can see my router on the first hop, part of the BT network on 7, 8 and 9 and then where I CTRL-C'ed it as it was timing out on 15.

No mention of DNS or DHCP there? A normal output will look something like this. *edit* Default gateway will be different, as that is the IP address of your router, with any devices connected being different to that. Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Belkin Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-20-ED-84-81-57 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.3 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 25 September 2012 08:50:35 Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 26 September 2012 08:50:35 From my workshop machine.. Go into services ( Go to Run and type in services.msc ) and see if the DHCP and DNS service is enabled and running. Might also be worth trying those 2 commands I posted in an earlier post, as that will reset TCP/IP and Winsock back to known defaults.

A couple of handy commands to issue whilst at a command prompt to help with this kind of thing. netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt This resets/reinstalls the TCP/IP stack netsh winsock reset This resets the windows Winsock catalog to defaults, and also removes any additional or potentially corrupted LSPs from the system. Just thought I would get those in before I put the kettle on.

That will be the driver software for the network card itself. Don't uninstall that! Does the PC recognise the cable being plugged in at least?

Jammy twat! The built in iBooks is sound enough but you can download a Kindle app amongst others. I've got a shitload of books here already in iBooks format, just copy them over via iTunes and happy days. Or, it was until I lost my iPod touch.. Still. Yep. Ideal for reading on the khazi, those things.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. Make a presentation out of it. Dim the lights, start a video playing with a speeded up Earth globe. Cut to pictures of speeded up NYC streets, a cutter sailing across the Gulf, an Ethiopian kid in a headdress, that kind of shit, with little modemy bleeps going off in the background. Then, sharp focus pull from one of these scenes out to space, ending up with just a picture of the Earth hanging in its jewelled majesty of the Universe. Then, a deep gravelly voice saying the above phrase, followed by the lines "From small acorns. From drop to drip to splish to splash to sploosh to mighty oceans.... The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Fade to black and bask in the applause.

The straw that broke the camels back. Might help to explain that the camel was an evil fuck, specially trained by terrorists to spit fire at Jews. Oh. Hang on. Advertising. That's easy. Just Google for something and pass it off as your own work.

First thing that springs to mind is, with it being an ex school PC it may be set to a fixed IP address/DNS addy. What operating system is on it? If XP. Control Panel/Network Connections/Local Area Network/LAN Properties/ highlight TCP/IP then properties and check that obtain IP addy and DNS is set to automatic Similar with Vista/7 except you go through Networking Centre. And so on. Try that first.

He was the pilot if I remember rightly, hence all those schoolyard jokes about him not being able to keep his chopper up.