What I have: two older PCs.
What I want to do: run some combination of Bugzilla, Subversion, MySQL,
Trac and a few other apps that I'm testing from time to time.
What's the best way to set this all up in terms of what goes on which box? Also, any general advice or warnings on conflicts or problems I may come across would be greatly appreciated.
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posted by yerfatma
on Jul 27, 2004 -
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I'm new to the wonderful world of DVDs, and am at a bit of a loss. A friend recently installed a PD dual format drive on my Win2000 machine, and successfully burned a test disc. However, when I go to play a purchased DVD, I receive an error message stating that I don't have a compatible encoder installed. I could choose and install one, but quite frankly, I'd be picking one at random. Help me out and suggest a good one? If more system info is needed, please just let me know...
posted by vers
on Jul 16, 2004 -
5 answers
is there a way to get free or low cost open source alternatives to
dream weaver, that would still run on a windows box? I've got dreamweaver
at the office, but didn't bite the big one to buy it for my personal
machine.
posted by leotrotsky
on Jul 16, 2004 -
9 answers
Ancient mac to modern PC. After two years using ClarisWorks and Quark XPress to do all my work on a Mac running OS 8.6, I'm changing jobs. I want to burn several hundred documents to CDs to bring with me. Is there a way to automatically add file extensions so my PC knows what it's looking at? Can I expect to open ClarisWorks 5.0 documents anywhere but on an ancient Mac anyhow?
posted by croutonsupafreak
on Jul 12, 2004 -
6 answers
A bit of a companion to the
MMORPG question, can you recommend a few good PC RPGs that are self-contained? I love MMORPGs, but just can't afford the monthly fees anymore. {More Inside}
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posted by headspace
on Jul 11, 2004 -
17 answers
What's wrong with my PC's network connection? I know this is XP Networking 101 stuff, and most of the time I know my way around, but one PC out of six I've got sharing a DSL connection via a D-Link WiFi router is refusing to play. [more inside]
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posted by pzarquon
on Jul 7, 2004 -
3 answers
Playing PS2 on PC? I'd like to be able to see my ps2 games on my swanky monitor. Would a tv card with s-video in do it? Also, if I pick up a tv card, what do people recommend as a good show recorder (I have a good pc)?
posted by Mossy
on Jun 20, 2004 -
13 answers
I was going to post in my
original posts regarding my stupid HP computer but they have been archived. Has anybody ever heard of a computer having "too much" power? We resolved the problem to a power supply issue but now I'm being told that the new
power supply I purchased was too much for the motherboard.
True? False? Wishful thinking?
posted by ajpresto
on Jun 19, 2004 -
7 answers
What do I need to do before I format my HD and reinstall windows? [more inside]
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posted by trharlan
on Jun 17, 2004 -
8 answers
I'm contemplating the Switch. It's been 10 years since I've used a Mac, is it time to go back? Looking for advice from longtime Windows users who switched to Mac, and no I'm really not trying to make a commercial... [mi]
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posted by badstone
on Jun 10, 2004 -
31 answers
What's the best Pocket PC 2003 software out there that will let me sync my Lotus Notes email/contacts/calendar with my Dell Axim X3i??
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posted by PWA_BadBoy
on Jun 3, 2004 -
4 answers
I have one hard drive installed in my computer, and it shows up as E: . There is no C:. How can I tell the computer that the installed hard drive E: should be C:?
posted by alball
on Jun 1, 2004 -
13 answers
HELP, I'm stuck in meatspace. My home PC, on start-up,
1. Goes to the "Windows was not properly shut down" type screen...
2. ...where it gives me the choices of "Last Known Good Configuration" or "Start Windows Normally" etc, then...
3. ...no matter what choice I make, it eventually gives me a flash of blue screen with white print that is gone too quickly to read but starts with "STOP" and contains the word "registry."
4. Then it starts over at step 1 above. Repeat again and again.
5. Am I screwed?
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posted by Shane
on Jun 1, 2004 -
9 answers
After trying hard to solve
this problem, I gave up, and went out and bought another wireless adaptor for my 2nd PC. I now have both PCs connected to the wireless router, but transfer speeds between the two are a lot slower. Is it possible for me to use an ethernet connection for transferring stuff between these two PCs, and the separate wireless connections for everything else?
posted by Orange Goblin
on May 8, 2004 -
7 answers
My s.o. needs help with a technical problem on his home PC: "I cannot open any eBay page on my Internet Explorer. This just started last night. I can open all other internet pages, just none related to eBay. Is there a virus that specifically prevents people from opening eBay pages? This is really frustrating, I have run virus and spyware checks and found nothing, but I cannot think of anything else that could prevent access to a certain domain. Please help."
Anybody got any ideas (besides, obviously, switching to a Mac)?
posted by turbanhead
on Apr 26, 2004 -
9 answers
I put my old 10gb laptop hdd in a USB enclosure and bought a USB 2.0 pcmcia card. The speed is good enough that I would like to use the drive as a scratch disk for various programs I work with, but primarily Adobe Photoshop. Problem is, PS won't list it as an option in the scratch disks settings menu. It only lists the startup disk and the C drive, which are the same drive. How can I trick my computer into treating the external drive as an internal not-plug'n'play, regular old drive? Or just trick Photoshop. (Ver. 7, btw, and on a PC) Thanks.
posted by Grod
on Apr 20, 2004 -
14 answers
How does one take a screenshot on a PC if the keyboard doesn't have one of those handy "PrntScrn" keys?
posted by jpburns
on Mar 12, 2004 -
8 answers
Am I facing possible computer death? I have a five year old PC with Windows 98. It started acting buggy a few weeks ago and now freezes a few minutes after startup or even during startup.... more inside.
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posted by zaelic
on Mar 11, 2004 -
11 answers
I use a whole bunch of PC's - three mainly, my laptop at work, and a desktop and laptop at home...I'd like to find a way of keeping my favorites synchronised on all three OR keeping them all in one place on the web and being able to access them...oh, and I'd like the solution to be 'free' and look cool...(is there an easy way to harvest the 500 favorites on my work laptop - and turn them into a web page?)
I use IE6 on all of my PC's....but some web based solution would allow me to access all my links from other machines/browsers.
posted by mattr
on Mar 10, 2004 -
8 answers
PC hardware problem: I recently had my power supply replaced and now the computer now only reads half the RAM it actually has plugged into it...
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posted by picea
on Mar 1, 2004 -
4 answers
Suggestions for the best free utility to use (Windows, sorry) to create and burn a compellation CD? [more inside]
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posted by anastasiav
on Feb 28, 2004 -
9 answers
I just built a new PC. Having noise/thermal problems, need advice thanks! {more inside} of course
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posted by ac
on Feb 22, 2004 -
15 answers
I am thinking about getting a KVM so that I can move my PC tower further away from my desk. What kind of KVMs do you use and more importantly do they slow down gaming?
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posted by riffola
on Jan 30, 2004 -
13 answers
I have a PC that I use to test web sites on Windows browsers (my main computer's a Mac). I tried to upgrade to Windows XP, and the XP installer seems to have wrecked the hard drive. Should I replace my hard drive or buy a new computer?
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posted by kirkaracha
on Jan 27, 2004 -
8 answers
I'm looking for a PC equivalent of the Mac OSX default beaches/nature/cosmos/etc screen savers. I've yet to see anything on the PC that can gently zoom/pan its images like that. Ideally this would be something that would allow me to use my own images.
posted by tirade
on Jan 23, 2004 -
5 answers
Is there any software that enables me to send photos from my pc to a camera cell phone?
posted by the cuban
on Jan 20, 2004 -
4 answers
PNG and IE6. I seem to recall reading about an active x plugin that enabled IE5.5+ on PC to properly support alpha transparency in png files. After googling, I couldn't find one. I did find lots of work arounds and hacks that are ugly and difficult to implement. There must be a solution.
posted by Grod
on Jan 18, 2004 -
6 answers
I'm looking for a way to batch-add Exif metadata to a bunch of jpeg files, specifically the picture-taken date, on WinXP. Any ideas?
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posted by cbrody
on Jan 14, 2004 -
10 answers
Lately, I've been getting a lot of ambient hiss in the headphones I use with my PC.
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posted by jpoulos
on Jan 14, 2004 -
5 answers
Here's one for the MS types. I have recently rebuilt my machine from scratch, on a new hard drive. Unfortunately, I forgot to write down the account settings (pop server, smtp, etc) before I swapped drives. The oringal drive is intact and unmolested - where does Outlook store this information (it's not in the .pst file)
posted by Irontom
on Jan 6, 2004 -
6 answers
Why were computers, Apple and IBM compatibles, from a few years back available in beige and well just beige? Is there a reason why beige was the defacto colour of computing hardware?
posted by riffola
on Dec 31, 2003 -
13 answers
If a Quark file is created on a Mac are there any obstacles to that same file being used on a PC?
posted by nramsey
on Dec 24, 2003 -
4 answers
Computer hardware: As part of her Christmas present, I want to buy my wife a video card for her PC (she's a serious geek). What's a good one? [more]
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posted by normy
on Dec 23, 2003 -
11 answers
I was thinking of getting into video editing and production. I want to do it on the PC because I can get the equipment cheaper, and I want to do it at minimal cost but professional quality. I am looking at Adobe Premiere for video editing. My biggest question, though, is what camera should I get? I was looking at the Canon XL1S, but I also saw an ad in Wired for a JVC GR-HD1... which is better and why? Or is there another alternative camera I should get?
posted by banished
on Dec 9, 2003 -
11 answers
