It works. No internet blockage can block it, or at least, not one high-tech enough, I have encountered yet.
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Attached is a snapshot of my desktop (it is, I just delete all the icons). The thing is, that giant black space on the left side shouldn't be there. I don't know how it got there; the only thing I can think of is I use a S-video cable to watch movies on my TV and switch my resolution to 1024x768 (it's normally 1280x800), but when I have it on an extended desktop, my TV will show the desktop normally, without the black bar. The other odd thing I've noticed is the black bar doesn't just seem to take up space. It pushes the entire desktop to the right, so it gets cut off (which is really a shame, since a huge chunk of my desktops are right-centric).
I'm on Vista Home Premium (and I don't like Macs and can dual-boot into Linux but can't get wifi on it to work, so don't go there).
Are you able to use that space to the left? i.e. are icons able to be there, does the start menu extend over there, etc.?
A picture of your cluttered desktop would be helpful; the way it looks right now, the only thing that really comes to mind would be if the wallpaper is off, because it sets itself to the S-Video resolution and doesn't re-adjust itself to the different aspect ratio of your laptop monitor.
When I have a second monitor setup on my laptop on a separate resolution (1400x1050 to 1680x1050), the latter has bars on each side since the display shows the wallpaper in the same aspect ratio in each monitor.
You say that you're running Vista? That might be a problem with your Sidebar (I'm guessing you set it to run on the other side).
Try closing and reopening the sidebar in Task Manager.
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Well, what's a Sidebar? Chances are I don't use it, as I disable most Windows stuff.
Also, as you can see, I can use the space on the left. I just hate icons on my desktop - I like the pictures too much.
Sidebar's a Windows program that contains a bunch of gadgets, or widgets - ie, weather, news, notes. It's fairly intrusive and uses up RAM, so I'm guessing you disabled it fairly early on.
Pardon me if it's a bit of an obvious question - but is it maybe just the wallpaper you're using? Can windows take up that space? Try changing the wallpaper, and if that doesn't help, play around in Control Panel a bit with the screen resolution settings.
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So, I got to Japan with no problems to speak of, and I'm already learning pretty dang fast for not being in classes yet...
...but, I've got one major problem on the school network. One of the requirements is that we have a proxy setup through the LAN settings (Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections > LAN settings > Proxy Server) through port 8080 and through the campus network. The issue is that, among other things, this breaks:
- FTP
- MTGO v3
- Trillian / Pidgin / Digsby / AIM
- iTunes (I have a crippled iTouch that needs restoring, and iTunes can't download the .ipsw file)
I was talking to another of the (so far 4 identified) CS majors here, and he said that there may be a way to bypass this proxy in order to gain access to the ports or areas I need to get what I need done, but I have no idea as to methods, as just talking about proxy servers is beyond me.
It's all wallpapers that do that. And I can put icons in the black space just fine... like I said, it's like Windows adds that black space to the desktop picture and shoves the rest of the picture to the right. I'll see about resolutions, but I hate having everything be hyoog.
EDIT: ... ahaha. So I switch to 800x600, nothing changes except now my desktop looks right. I don't understand technology.
But hey, another question! So I've moved into an apartment for school and we're provided internet by a company called WiFiFree or some such. Now, IRC and AIM work fine and at regular speed, but browsing the web is horrendously slow more often than not. Any thoughts?
You will need to do some configuration on your own though.
For your information on how this thing works:
In order to communicate on a network, you computer needs to be identified on the network (via an IP address). A proxy server is basically a way to set up a network so that it can communicate over another network. In this case, the first network is your school's network and the second is the Internet. Your computer has an IP over the school network, but that doesn't help you to communicate with computers outside that network. So your school provides a proxy server, which is a server on your school network you can communicate to and that is itself present on the Internet as well. To the Internet, your entire school network is represented by a single computer: the proxy server. The proxy then redirects the messages from the Internet to the appropriate user on the school network.
For security and other reasons, that proxy is limiting what sort of messages that can be send to, or received from, the Internet. It does it by limiting which ports can be used.
A port is a little like an IP address, except that it's used by *programs* to communicate with each other, rather than computers. So in order to talk with an FTP server on machine X, you need both machine X's IP and it's FTP server's port.
Now a port technically is just a mailbox. You could send anything to it, not just FTP traffic. Technically, you could use port 666 to host your FTP server, and users in the know could connect to your computer on port 666 to access it. Most users, though, don't have the technical savvy to care about setting up ports and stuff like that, so most programs by convention have adopted the idea that certain ports are associated by default to certain types of traffic.
See a flaw in your proxy's server security yet? Technically, it cannot know WHAT sort of traffic you're sending over the port you're using. It's blocking certain ports because these are usually used for certain activities the administrators want to block for a reason, but there's nothing forcing you to use those ports. So you could just use a different port and all would be well, right?
Well, there's an hitch. Let's say your proxy is blocking FTP. The guy on the other side of the proxy doesn't know that you can't access the FTP port, and it's convenient for him to use that port as random users will know that to access his ftp server they can connect to that one. If you send data on another port, he won't receive it. Similarly, if he's sending YOU stuff, he probably can't be bothered to change what port he's sending over just because your school's network admins are being fussy.
What you need is a tunnel. It has two parts: client software on your machine, and a server out there somewhere on the Net. Think of it like this: Your gf's parents don't like you and they just throw any letter you send to her. However, she has a friend that she sees at school (where her parents can't block her). So you send a letter to her friend that contains a letter to your gf and instructions to give it to her. Except it's all online so it's faster than snail mail.
The tunnel client will send a message to the tunnel server telling it 'Send this on port X of machine Y'. You will, of course, use a port which is open on your proxy. The server will receive the answer from the machine you connect to, repackage it, send it back to the tunnel client which decodes it and sends the message to the software you wanted to use.
So, i recently got a new vista laptop and it's nice and shiny and all that stuff, but i've recently ran into a few problems.
1.Whenever i try to close Internet Explorer a pop-up comes up saying, "Internet explorer has stopped working." then it'll restart it. The only way to close Internet explorer completely is to hit cancel before it restarts which is a pain. -_-
So, i messed with security and stuff, didn't see anything that'd make a difference really. So i decided to download firefox..which brings me to my next problem.
2.It won't let me download anything! There's no security pop-up or anything, just whenever the window comes up with the" save or run" options and stuff. It shuts down Internet Explorer(without the restart problem^, which i found kinda funny).
So, i recently got a new vista laptop and it's nice and shiny and all that stuff, but i've recently ran into a few problems.
1.Whenever i try to close Internet Explorer a pop-up comes up saying, "Internet explorer has stopped working." then it'll restart it. The only way to close Internet explorer completely is to hit cancel before it restarts which is a pain. -_-
So, i messed with security and stuff, didn't see anything that'd make a difference really. So i decided to download firefox..which brings me to my next problem.
2.It won't let me download anything! There's no security pop-up or anything, just whenever the window comes up with the" save or run" options and stuff. It shuts down Internet Explorer(without the restart problem^, which i found kinda funny).
Any help?
Well I see the problem here, it seems your running IE. Download Firefox, and be rid of these problems.
(I'm serious, but if that doesn't help, at least you have a better browser.)
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Try resetting IE. Go to Control Panel>Network and Internet>Internet Options and press the reset button in the Advanced tab. If that doesn't work, you'll have to get a friend to download it for you.
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Try resetting IE. Go to Control Panel>Network and Internet>Internet Options and press the reset button in the Advanced tab. If that doesn't work, you'll have to get a friend to download it for you.
I've been operating with my laptop wired to the internet for two years now. And when I bought a PS3, I would just disconnect my laptop from the modem and plug the PS3 whenever I wanted to take the PS3 online. But yesterday I decided to splurge and got myself a wireless router.
My ideal setup is to have the PS3 wired to the internet and my laptop on wireless (it has a wireless card, I had wireless for three years before moving to a new apartment), but I'm unsure how to achieve that setup. Can anybody help?
You'll want to set up your wireless router as you normally would connecting it to your modem. You'll probably have to attach your laptop to it with Ethernet for the set up part. After confirming you have the router set up properly you can do 2 things. 1) the router should have multiple Ethernet ports, so you can run another Ethernet cable from it to your ps3. 2) Also, you can disconnect your laptop and use it wirelessly.
I first started noticing problems on msn, after a message took more then 15 minutes to reach me (though after thinking back, such things have happened before that as well). I often have that messages take a long time to reach me on msn, and people sometimes tell me that their messages don't seem to reach me at all. I commonly have 5+ second lags when playing WoW, even though my lag hovers between 80 and 130 ms.
I really have no idea what could cause this, but I've been experiencing it for quite a while now (though I can't remember having these problems before I needed to replace my pc though), and it's becoming really annoying.
So far, I've tried to delete cookies and stuff, and checked my computer for spyware. They both haven't done any good.
Thanks in advance.
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You'll want to set up your wireless router as you normally would connecting it to your modem. You'll probably have to attach your laptop to it with Ethernet for the set up part.
I don't even get this far. I follow the instructions (remove ethernet from laptop, plug it into Internet port on the router; plug packaged ethernet cable into the port on the laptop and into the first ethernet port on the router; plug the router in) but when I do, the setup wizard tells me the ethernet cable is not connected properly. When I'm sure that they are.
The sick thing is that I set up a few wireless networks before and this is the first one to give me trouble at the physical installation stage.
I don't even get this far. I follow the instructions (remove ethernet from laptop, plug it into Internet port on the router; plug packaged ethernet cable into the port on the laptop and into the first ethernet port on the router; plug the router in) but when I do, the setup wizard tells me the ethernet cable is not connected properly. When I'm sure that they are.
The sick thing is that I set up a few wireless networks before and this is the first one to give me trouble at the physical installation stage.
Could the packaged cable be defective? Have you tried another cable?
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It works. No internet blockage can block it, or at least, not one high-tech enough, I have encountered yet.
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I'm on Vista Home Premium (and I don't like Macs and can dual-boot into Linux but can't get wifi on it to work, so don't go there).
A picture of your cluttered desktop would be helpful; the way it looks right now, the only thing that really comes to mind would be if the wallpaper is off, because it sets itself to the S-Video resolution and doesn't re-adjust itself to the different aspect ratio of your laptop monitor.
When I have a second monitor setup on my laptop on a separate resolution (1400x1050 to 1680x1050), the latter has bars on each side since the display shows the wallpaper in the same aspect ratio in each monitor.
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Try closing and reopening the sidebar in Task Manager.
Also, as you can see, I can use the space on the left. I just hate icons on my desktop - I like the pictures too much.
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Sidebar's a Windows program that contains a bunch of gadgets, or widgets - ie, weather, news, notes. It's fairly intrusive and uses up RAM, so I'm guessing you disabled it fairly early on.
Pardon me if it's a bit of an obvious question - but is it maybe just the wallpaper you're using? Can windows take up that space? Try changing the wallpaper, and if that doesn't help, play around in Control Panel a bit with the screen resolution settings.
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...but, I've got one major problem on the school network. One of the requirements is that we have a proxy setup through the LAN settings (Control Panel > Internet Options > Connections > LAN settings > Proxy Server) through port 8080 and through the campus network. The issue is that, among other things, this breaks:
- FTP
- MTGO v3
- Trillian / Pidgin / Digsby / AIM
- iTunes (I have a crippled iTouch that needs restoring, and iTunes can't download the .ipsw file)
I was talking to another of the (so far 4 identified) CS majors here, and he said that there may be a way to bypass this proxy in order to gain access to the ports or areas I need to get what I need done, but I have no idea as to methods, as just talking about proxy servers is beyond me.
Any ideas?
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EDIT: ... ahaha. So I switch to 800x600, nothing changes except now my desktop looks right. I don't understand technology.
But hey, another question! So I've moved into an apartment for school and we're provided internet by a company called WiFiFree or some such. Now, IRC and AIM work fine and at regular speed, but browsing the web is horrendously slow more often than not. Any thoughts?
You will need to do some configuration on your own though.
For your information on how this thing works:
In order to communicate on a network, you computer needs to be identified on the network (via an IP address). A proxy server is basically a way to set up a network so that it can communicate over another network. In this case, the first network is your school's network and the second is the Internet. Your computer has an IP over the school network, but that doesn't help you to communicate with computers outside that network. So your school provides a proxy server, which is a server on your school network you can communicate to and that is itself present on the Internet as well. To the Internet, your entire school network is represented by a single computer: the proxy server. The proxy then redirects the messages from the Internet to the appropriate user on the school network.
For security and other reasons, that proxy is limiting what sort of messages that can be send to, or received from, the Internet. It does it by limiting which ports can be used.
A port is a little like an IP address, except that it's used by *programs* to communicate with each other, rather than computers. So in order to talk with an FTP server on machine X, you need both machine X's IP and it's FTP server's port.
Now a port technically is just a mailbox. You could send anything to it, not just FTP traffic. Technically, you could use port 666 to host your FTP server, and users in the know could connect to your computer on port 666 to access it. Most users, though, don't have the technical savvy to care about setting up ports and stuff like that, so most programs by convention have adopted the idea that certain ports are associated by default to certain types of traffic.
See a flaw in your proxy's server security yet? Technically, it cannot know WHAT sort of traffic you're sending over the port you're using. It's blocking certain ports because these are usually used for certain activities the administrators want to block for a reason, but there's nothing forcing you to use those ports. So you could just use a different port and all would be well, right?
Well, there's an hitch. Let's say your proxy is blocking FTP. The guy on the other side of the proxy doesn't know that you can't access the FTP port, and it's convenient for him to use that port as random users will know that to access his ftp server they can connect to that one. If you send data on another port, he won't receive it. Similarly, if he's sending YOU stuff, he probably can't be bothered to change what port he's sending over just because your school's network admins are being fussy.
What you need is a tunnel. It has two parts: client software on your machine, and a server out there somewhere on the Net. Think of it like this: Your gf's parents don't like you and they just throw any letter you send to her. However, she has a friend that she sees at school (where her parents can't block her). So you send a letter to her friend that contains a letter to your gf and instructions to give it to her. Except it's all online so it's faster than snail mail.
The tunnel client will send a message to the tunnel server telling it 'Send this on port X of machine Y'. You will, of course, use a port which is open on your proxy. The server will receive the answer from the machine you connect to, repackage it, send it back to the tunnel client which decodes it and sends the message to the software you wanted to use.
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1.Whenever i try to close Internet Explorer a pop-up comes up saying, "Internet explorer has stopped working." then it'll restart it. The only way to close Internet explorer completely is to hit cancel before it restarts which is a pain. -_-
So, i messed with security and stuff, didn't see anything that'd make a difference really. So i decided to download firefox..which brings me to my next problem.
2.It won't let me download anything! There's no security pop-up or anything, just whenever the window comes up with the" save or run" options and stuff. It shuts down Internet Explorer(without the restart problem^, which i found kinda funny).
Any help?
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Well I see the problem here, it seems your running IE. Download Firefox, and be rid of these problems.
(I'm serious, but if that doesn't help, at least you have a better browser.)
Thanks to .toRRent for the sig!
Try resetting IE. Go to Control Panel>Network and Internet>Internet Options and press the reset button in the Advanced tab. If that doesn't work, you'll have to get a friend to download it for you.
Tried it, Nothing. :[
My dad just took it to the geek squad.
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I've been operating with my laptop wired to the internet for two years now. And when I bought a PS3, I would just disconnect my laptop from the modem and plug the PS3 whenever I wanted to take the PS3 online. But yesterday I decided to splurge and got myself a wireless router.
My ideal setup is to have the PS3 wired to the internet and my laptop on wireless (it has a wireless card, I had wireless for three years before moving to a new apartment), but I'm unsure how to achieve that setup. Can anybody help?
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I first started noticing problems on msn, after a message took more then 15 minutes to reach me (though after thinking back, such things have happened before that as well). I often have that messages take a long time to reach me on msn, and people sometimes tell me that their messages don't seem to reach me at all. I commonly have 5+ second lags when playing WoW, even though my lag hovers between 80 and 130 ms.
I really have no idea what could cause this, but I've been experiencing it for quite a while now (though I can't remember having these problems before I needed to replace my pc though), and it's becoming really annoying.
So far, I've tried to delete cookies and stuff, and checked my computer for spyware. They both haven't done any good.
Thanks in advance.
I don't even get this far. I follow the instructions (remove ethernet from laptop, plug it into Internet port on the router; plug packaged ethernet cable into the port on the laptop and into the first ethernet port on the router; plug the router in) but when I do, the setup wizard tells me the ethernet cable is not connected properly. When I'm sure that they are.
The sick thing is that I set up a few wireless networks before and this is the first one to give me trouble at the physical installation stage.
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Excellion
Fracture: Israfiel (WBR), Wujal (URG), Valedon (GUB), Amduat (BGW), Paladris (RWU)
Collision (Set Two of the Fracture Block)
Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
Could the packaged cable be defective? Have you tried another cable?
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