Computer Geeks Unite! And farging help me!

[phattymatty]

my cable has been out for like a month and i never bothered to call them, just figured it would come back at one point. anyway, dude came and fixed it this morning and apparently i had my xbox plugged into the non-hdmi ports this whole time. holy shtein what a huge difference.

[Zanshin]

Yeah, but was the guy really tall? That makes a huge difference rght there.

[Zanshin]

I made a parabolic antenna that helped with the original router, and I was able to get the other router going by fiddling with a number of settings. I was still going LAN to LAN with the routers, but I disabled the DHCP on the second router, which did the trick. Still thinking about picking up a wireless extender to stick with one network SSID. There's one on sale at DailySteals for $35 that's pretty well reviewed, in case anyone is interested.

[phattymatty]

any of you nerds know a good program to convert .avi or .mpeg files (or any video files) into mp4s so i can put it on my iphone?

[General_Failure]

I think iTunes will do that.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Itunes is pretty picky (and lousy) with some conversions.

Check the Videora product at http://www.redkawa.com/

[Zanshin]

When I had to do that, I used Any Video Converter. It's free and easy to use: http://download.cnet.com/Any-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10661456.html?tag=mncol;2

[phattymatty]

thank you sirs.

yeah i've tried to do it straight through itunes in the past, but it never turns out right. and also takes forever.

[phattymatty]

Itunes is pretty picky (and lousy) with some conversions.

Check the Videora product at http://www.redkawa.com/

tried this one out first and it works perfectly, took less than 20 min. to convert a 2 hour movie. looks crystal clear on my phone too. thanks.

[PhillyPhreak54]

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I am trying to help a friend figure out why her computer will not access any sites when using Chrome, Firefox or IE. Each time they try to pull up a site she gets this message.

I had her clear the cache and cookie and also did all the disk cleanups and defragments etc...

It is still doing it.

Any ideas?

[Rome]

Whatever security program(s) firewall(s) she has is/are blocking access to the internet.  Have her either shut them off entirely or uninstall them.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Ok thanks man.

Any reason why it would be perfectly ok prior to today and then just start doing it? No alterations were made to the system firewall or antivirus.

[Rome]

She probably had an automatic update on one of them.  Never allow them on anything.  If you need an update on a program just check for them periodically.  Auto updates are the devil.

[ice grillin you]

check out the big brain on brad

[Diomedes]

I have 90 or so gigs of music files grouped in hundreds of folders (by band/artist).  I'm trying to back it all up from the exernal HD on which I keep it to a wirefless backup drive we bought.

In order to do this I have the external drive plugged by cable into the wireless drive.  I access everything through the wifi.  Open up the external drive through the wirefless drive.  Open the folder in the wirefless drive.  Select a range of folders, drag and drop.  The process has been excruciatingly slow, but it's working.

I'm having a few issues though...how can I be sure every file has transfered?  If my laptop downstairs is closed, the process is killed, and I have no indication of what was or was not copied.  If a file name is too long, the same thing.

So in short..once I've moved the bulk of the files, how can I be sure that I have completely backed up?  Is there a "copy only non-duplicates" command that I can run on the whole 90 gigs at once without it taking a month to finish?