Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[aimeeandbeatles]

Can an ethernet cable overheat?

This is probably a silly question. Is there such a thing as a partition that will automatically resize itself to fit the contents.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Technically, yes, it can, but you need some rather unusual circumstances for that to happen. So for the sake of argument, lets just go with no, they cannot.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The reason I ask is because my moms convinced that the reason my computer couldnt connect to the internet was because it was overheating. If that was so, why could it still connect to the regular network? Turns out she had them plugged in the wrong ports. I know its an ethernet cable because thats what it said on it.

Another question. When my mom was unplugging and plugging everything back in, now my computer thinks its connected to 3 networks. How do I clear the ghosts?

 

[KaiserElectric]

One thing you could try is using a different browser. No guarantees or anything, but it helped me resolve a similar issue a year or two ago.

Have you rebooted since you had this issue?

Yep, didn't help.

I've been trying to find Firefox somewhere, but I can't find a download screen anywhere. The website's filled with SSP (Shameless Self-Promotion) and I can't find anything on it.

Also, I can't use the writing option icons on the reply to thread screen here, fyi.

 

[Turner]

Firefox Download.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

On a website theres a "database error." I know what that means. But it also says "Driver error." I also know what a driver error means. But I dont know what it means when the two are together? I didnt know databases used drivers?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The reason I ask is because my moms convinced that the reason my computer couldnt connect to the internet was because it was overheating. If that was so, why could it still connect to the regular network? Turns out she had them plugged in the wrong ports. I know its an ethernet cable because thats what it said on it.

Oooooh! Turns out its the ISP.

Another question. When my mom was unplugging and plugging everything back in, now my computer thinks its connected to 3 networks. How do I clear the ghosts?

Any answer to this one yet. One of the ghosts went away but it still thinks theres 2 seperate networks.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

On a website theres a "database error." I know what that means. But it also says "Driver error." I also know what a driver error means. But I dont know what it means when the two are together? I didnt know databases used drivers?

Databases can use device drivers to access them I think.

A device driver runs in kernel mode and can do privileged operations, such as

* respond directly to an interrupt (probably a software interrupt in a database driver)
* control the paging file (can lock memory so it is always in RAM for faster operations)
* can run above the scheduler, so won't get task switched

Think of a driver like a service (a program running in the background all the time, like some stuff on the system tray) but whereas services run in user mode (thus can recover better from crashes), device drivers run in kernel mode.

 

[KaiserElectric]

Firefox Download.

Oh goody, the page isn't loading all the way and the link isn't showing up.

ARGGGH

 

[shadowplay]

Any way to watch Hulu outside the United States yet?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Any way to watch Hulu outside the United States yet?

I suppose if you use a proxy. But Im not sure that would work too well.

 

[shadowplay]

Sites that purposely restrict use outside of their own country seem to be really good at sniffing out proxies.

 

[Zelig]

Any way to watch Hulu outside the United States yet?

I'm not sure why you'd want to.

 

[shadowplay]

I'm not sure why you'd want to.

For old Conan and SNL bits.

 

[KaiserElectric]

Crisis averted. I fixed one of my files and my interwebz is fine now.

 

[shadowplay]

Is it still a good idea to use multiple anti-malware programs? I've got 4, 5 if you count the anti-virus. I've been told that sometimes one program will pick up something another missed.

 

[Mathalamus]

only one anti virus and one anti spy-ware program is necessary. more than one is just a waste.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Is it still a good idea to use multiple anti-malware programs? I've got 4, 5 if you count the anti-virus. I've been told that sometimes one program will pick up something another missed.

As long as theres only one real-time one. I use AVG as a real-time (scans every week) and run MalwareBytes every second week. As well I run suspect files through VirusTotal.

Multiple real-times bog things down and they'll start detecting each other. My mom had that problem.

 

[cardgame]

never run two realtime AVs simultaneously.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What exactly did I do wrong here?
I had a bunch of files in a folder, images and RTFs mainly. Quite a few of them said "Aug" and I wanted to change that to August. So I set up a command line thing to do that (I dont remember) but somehow the ones that were already properly named got renamed to "Augustust." So forth with other months and stuff too. I didnt notice until I opened up the folder AFTER doing that.

What did I most likely do wrong. I think its something to do with whole words but I dont know how to do that in command-line.

See how much I suck at command-line. Heh.