Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

in gmail i got an email in the last hour. It says i received it 5 hours ago. Is that based on the time it was sent? And why would an email take 4-5 hours?
they want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
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孟广典
 
Is there anyway to run an old computer game that runs fine on windows XP but refuses to run on windows vista or 7?

(I am using windows vista)

Do you have a 64-bit OS and a 16-bit game? If so theyre inherently incompatible... try VirtualBox if its not DirectX or whatever. This is the main reason I wont upgrade to 64-bit. I still play 16-bit games :blush:
 
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孟广典

Understand it or not, will you?
Meng Guangdian

Thats what google translate said. I thought the tubes was mentioned by some not-so-internet-savvy politicio???? politics person
 
Do you have a 64-bit OS and a 16-bit game? If so theyre inherently incompatible... try VirtualBox if its not DirectX or whatever. This is the main reason I wont upgrade to 64-bit. I still play 16-bit games :blush:

whats so fun with 16 bit games? i saw a few, but they look ancient.
 
Its an acquired taste :)
 
Do you have a 64-bit OS and a 16-bit game? If so theyre inherently incompatible... try VirtualBox if its not DirectX or whatever. This is the main reason I wont upgrade to 64-bit. I still play 16-bit games :blush:

Yes I have the 64 bit edition of Windows Vista. The game i wanted to play is Neverwinter nights and its expansions. I remember playing it on my old computer which used windows xp but this computer can't run it. It says this version of windows does not support it or something when i run the game.
 
Theres a way to check if its 16-bit (which is what Im suspecting) but I dont remember it. I think one of it was (this worked in XP, not sure about Vista) is to check the file properties to see if there was a version tab.\


Heres my question (for my web dev assignment. I cant figure it out): I want a certain cell in a table to have a background color of FFFFFF. However its XHTML so I cant use BGCOLOR (I think that was deprecated) and the teacher wants me to do it in CSS. I tried to do it with a class but I could not get it to work. Can someone give me suggestions?

I attached the zip file with the CSS and the page. (the reason its in folder Root is cos thats supposed to be the root directory. I know its kinda dumb.).
 
Why does my computer keep locking itself, as in, I go away for a few minutes, and when I come back, I see the login screen?

I have screensavers disabled. What can I do to disable the self-locking?
 
Do you have a 64-bit OS and a 16-bit game? If so theyre inherently incompatible... try VirtualBox if its not DirectX or whatever. This is the main reason I wont upgrade to 64-bit. I still play 16-bit games :blush:
Vista & Windows 7 are still built on 16 bit mistakes
Understand it or not, will you?
Meng Guangdian

Thats what google translate said. I thought the tubes was mentioned by some not-so-internet-savvy politicio???? politics person

Do you understand?

then I signed with my name, sorry I was chatting with my Chinese pen pal while writing, brain doesn't switch so fast

Yeah, that was Sen. Ted Stevens
 
Why does my computer keep locking itself, as in, I go away for a few minutes, and when I come back, I see the login screen?

I have screensavers disabled. What can I do to disable the self-locking?

Check your power options, and make sure "Prompt for password when computer resume from staqndby" is unchecked.
 

Not since win98SE they haven't. Since Win2K the OS has been based on the NT line rather then DOS.

Where does the 260 character file problem come from? Windows Explorer and Command Prompt balk at them. I ran smack into it while tweaking a Civ IV mod, needless to say I wasn't amused

Ever run out of GDI objects? :mad:

That damn DLL loading flaw? discovered like 12 years ago... Waiting for Redmond to snap it's back fixing it and maintaining backwards compatibility :popcorn:
 
Where does the 260 character file problem come from? Windows Explorer and Command Prompt balk at them. I ran smack into it while tweaking a Civ IV mod, needless to say I wasn't amused

Ever run out of GDI objects? :mad:

That damn DLL loading flaw? discovered like 12 years ago... Waiting for Redmond to snap it's back fixing it and maintaining backwards compatibility :popcorn:

That has nothing to do with 16 bit code. It has to do with Microsoft being Microsoft.:confused:
 
Check your power options, and make sure "Prompt for password when computer resume from staqndby" is unchecked.
It's unchecked, but it's still doing it. Problem is, the laptop doesn't even go into standby or sleep or hibernation at all.
 
My sister's computer is unbearably slow, so I'm thinking of donating some RAM from my old computer since I've got extra. Is there any way to know ahead of time if it will be compatible or not? I don't think the two machines are terribly different, one is an Intel Pentium 4 from 2003 running XP and other is a AMD Anthlon X2 running Vista from about 2006.
 
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