Ok, a few months ago our computer would randomly turn off when we were using it, but it was still under warranty so we took it in to a shop and they said the hard drive was going out. So, they put a new hard drive in it for us. Well, lately it's been doing the same thing again, but when I start it up it'll turn off again, and when I push the 'on' button again the 'power' and 'on' lights start flashing. When that happens I have to let it sit and a while later it starts again and actually works, but then after a few hours it turns off again. Does anyone know what s going on? thankss (:
Oh, it's a Toshiba Satellite laptop. Maybe I should replace it with a Dell or something?
It's overheating. Maybe one of the fans broke. The last shop you took it to were incompetent if they couldn't see those very obvious signs of overheating, so take it somewhere else.
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I'm 24 years old. I work full time (40 hours a week). I make decent money, roughly $1300/month. I pay two bills every month, a car payment and a cell phone bill. My parents don't ask for rent, and they pay my car insurance. I've tried and failed to get a car (not brand new, but newer and more reliable than what I now have) numerous times. I've been told no one can help me because I don't have sufficient credit. I have two things on my credit report, totaling roughly $300. I guess my question is to start getting credit, do I have to clear my credit report? It's starting to get a little frustrating.
The problem is that the creditors don't have enough information about your credit history. Get a credit card and use it to pay for as many things as possible. _Make sure_ that you pay them off completely, or else you'll waste money on fees and make your credit worse.
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how do you put music on a pantech matrix????
See my answer here:
http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=555206
If a new drive is not created in "My Computer", try installing these drivers:
http://in.solit.us/archives/download/158079
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I was wondering how you start your own forum on here. Thanks =]
Go to your column. Click "ask me a question". Copy the number at the end of the URL. Put that number at the end of this URL:
www.advicenators.com/talkaboutme.php?userboard_id=
My "Ask me a question" URL is:
www.advicenators.com/question.php?u=38985
From that you determine my user ID:
38985
And turn that into a forum URL:
www.advicenators.com/talkaboutme.php?userboard_id=38985
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I'm not expecting any definite answers, just opinions. Me & my boyfriend were discussing our sleeping schedules. We noticed that if I sleep during the night & am awake all day, I never feel fully awake, but if I sleep during the day & am awake all night, I feel wide awake. He's the opposite. Then he brought up that I was born at night & he was born in the morning, & we were kind of curious to whether or not your time of birth would affect that.
Any opinions on this, or know of any actual research done on this?
Sleeping patterns start before you are born. The time of your birth has nothing to do with it.
"Night owl" and "morning lark" traits are caused by differing sensitivities to light in relation to your circadian rhythm. You are less sensitive to light, so it takes more light to wake you up and more dark to put you to sleep. This sensitivity is primarily determined by your genes.
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ok my cousin is getting married July 4th and i'm a bridesmaid who's gonna be wearing a shortish summertime kinda dress. so naturally i wanna look GOOD and i'd like to lose around 10 pounds for this to happen. i don't have gym access and i live in georgia so it's BLAZING HOT to run outside but i have a treadmill and a couple of 8 pound weights at home. i know i can do it if i really stick to it but the problem is i lose motivation sooo easily. i'll do really good and work out hard for a week or two but then i just lose interest and quit and i'll be super mad at myself. how can i stay motivated for just over a month?? [and also because it's almost summer time too!] i can't work out with a friend, so all i have is me and my house. i already listen to upbeat music when i work out. but how can i really stick to it for once!?
To do that you would need to consume 2058 calories less than you burn each day. It is not possible to do this safely; you wouldn't be able to eat even one full meal each day.
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DearAbby92, metabolism and exercise have little to do with it. The asker wants to lose 35000 calories (10 pounds) in 17 days. 2058 calories MUST be burnt per day to achieve this. Assuming average height and weight for an 18-year-old female, asker will burn 1950 calories from just staying alive. So asker must burn an *additional* 108 calories each day from exercise. This is equivalent to about 40 minutes of exercise. It is not healthy to eat nothing and exercise every day for 17 days. You would probably die.
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Hey theymos it's me asknava...how are you doing? i have a question for you:
The social network I am on says i can upload mp3 songs. I was told that all songs on iTunes are in mp3 format... yet it is not working...it worked for myspace...so what process do i have to go through after i hit "browse" to find the songs i have in iTunes and upload them making sure they are in mp3 format. Thank you.
All songs bought recently from iTunes are in mp3 format, and are located here:
(XP) C:\documents and settings\YourUserName\my documents\my music\itunes music
(Vista) C:\users\YourUserName\music\itunes music
Songs bought more than a few months ago are not in mp3 format, and can't be uploaded. You need to upgrade them to "iTunes Plus" to get them into mp3 format.
Songs that you did not buy from the iTunes Music Store are not guaranteed to be in mp3 format, but can be converted to MP3 here:
http://www.zamzar.com/
If the files are not in the default music location mentioned above, use Windows Search to search your entire computer for them.
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i took in my computer for a virus scan update and they told me limewire and ares is what gave me the virsues. so they took them off.
now i dont know what else to use. && i was using those free limewire basic. and ares galaxy.
can someone tell me another free downloader like those? please. & thanks
You will only get viruses from Limewire if you download viruses from Limewire. You weren't being careful. Read my guide here:
http://www.advicenators.com/talkaboutmetopic.php?t=645&userboard_id=38985
Imeem allows you to stream music for free, but you can't download it:
http://www.imeem.com
You can often find the song on Youtube and rip it to mp3 using Zamzar:
http://www.zamzar.com/url/
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How do u put a picture in a question on here?
You can't embed images. Just post a link to an image at imageshack.us or something. *Don't* include embed code which looks like or [img src=asdf]. Only include the plain, direct URL.
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(please no lectures about what foods in this list you think i should or shouldn't be eating, i'm going to eat what i like, i just want to do it in the right moderation for a maintainable weight).
If I stay at or below 1500 calories a day and I work out for about 10-20 min a day 4-5 days a week (doing things like aerobics, belly dancing, yoga, running) will i lose a natural flow of weight?
(to give you an idea of what i will eat...i have some health shakes (160 calories per serving) that are like ensure where you can drink them when you are busy or to replace a meal but they have a meal supply of nutrients- 2 of those, a grilled chicken sandwich with no sauce at 400 calories, 2 ice cream sandwich bars that are 100 calories each, and a pack and a 1/2 of ramen at about 300 calories and i usually drink water but let's go ahead and add in 3- 8oz glasses of arizona iced tea at 90 calories per serving...1490 calories for the day.
i just want something regular that i can enjoy and keep up with. that is what i am doing right now. I just haven't made it totally regular yet.
This is the formula for calculating the amount of calories you need to consume to keep your weight at the current level:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris-Benedict_equation
Don't forget to apply the activity modifier.
You need to keep your net calorie consumption below the result of that formula to lose weight. What you eat doesn't matter, as long as the total calories you eat is less than that. You can also burn calories through exercise, but the amount of calories burned through your exercise regimen is negligible - perhaps 50 calories each time. You can still apply your exercise to the activity modifier mentioned above, which should be 1.55 (moderate exercise) for your exercise regimen.
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for the poker download i let the black box download completly and it said run setup now..press any key and i did and it didnt work so i tried to click on icon and thats when it said its not a win32 and i cant get it to work other wise.
thanks for the help.
Contact me through IM.
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hey theymos i got the run me file to download and it said it was finished but then it wont do anything it says the set up file is not a valid win32 application.
Did you let the black box download it completely? After it was done, the black box should have cleared and said:
"Now run FullTiltSetup."
If it didn't say that, then something interrupted the download. Try deleting FullTiltSetup and trying it again.
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I was just wondering and wanted to ask....What do you think about first cousins dating each other??
I don't have any problem with it. It is taboo because children of cousins have a slightly higher risk of genetic defects, and the abhorrence of incest was therefore selected for evolutionarily.
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Can you get free music videos for iPod nano 3G without downloading a file converter?
It is possible, but I don't know where you would go to find such files.
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hi im trying to download full tilt poker from the internet and it wont download for me. the box comes up where it says run or save and i click run and it comes up downloads then when it finishes a box comes up "america online security warning" saying the publisher could not be verified and it says run and dont run and i click run and a box comes up that has a red circle with a white x in it and then to the right it says
>SetupNew\setup.ccp(135)
PAPP:
PVENDOR:
PGUID:
$14.0.0.162
@Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (6001) IE 7.0.6001.18000
please help..i have aol dial up if that helps..and my comptuer has more then enough space for it..idk what else to do.
thanks
when that box with the x comes up all you can click is ok.
www.fulltiltpoker.com.
That is usually caused by corruption. I have prepared a special downloader for you which should download the file correctly. Download this:
http://drop.io/vvmxj7e/asset/download-full-tilt-zip-2
Extract the files. Run "RUNME". A black box will open and show the download progress. When the black box closes, run "FullTiltPoker".
If that doesn't work, contact Full Tilt Poker's support.
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You know that thing that t pain uses to sing? like a vocal synthesizer or something? does anyone know where i could get one of those? or what its really called? THANKS!
http://www.antarestech.com/products/auto-tune-evo.shtml
http://www.celemony.com
I believe that he uses the first one. There is no similar free program that I know of.
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in your antivirus review some products have a "virus guard". what is this? also, how do they stock up for adware/malware detection? it looks like you did the comparison in 2007. have you looked into it since?
thanks!
mahesh2000@gmail.com
A "virus guard" is the element of some antivirus software which scans files as they are being accessed. If you have a virus guard, your antivirus will stop you from running/downloading/copying viruses. Without an antivirus guard you must manually scan your computer occasionally, and you must be extra careful not to run any viruses.
Avast and BitDefender are best at detecting general malware out of the ones I tested. Antivir and AVG are specifically designed *not* to detect malware, so that you'll buy the paid version.
I am interested in updating my antivirus comparison, but I'm not happy with the number of virus samples I have right now. Please send viruses, malware, and files that antivirus programs falsely identify as malware/viruses to me.
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If I want to delete a question that I answered on my advice column, how do I do that? I don't want it to show up on my advice column anymore. Thanks
The answer needs to be deleted, which you can't do yourself. If you file an abuse report, a moderator will probably delete it:
http://www.advicenators.com/abuse.php
Make it clear that this is not an abuse-related problem, that the answer is yours, and give a good reason for why you want it to be deleted.
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I recently brought a wireless internet router and have set it up inside my girlfriends grandparents house. But we have recently moved out into a back flat and it is lined with iron and the wireless internet is not being picked up. is there anything i can do or get to fix this problem? please help me.....
Install Tomato, DD-WRT, or X-WRT on your router. I recommend them in that order.
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
http://www.dd-wrt.com
http://x-wrt.org/
Read the instructions *very* carefully. If the software doesn't support your router, you will ruin it permanently.
After installing that special firmware, look for a setting called "transmit power" or "wireless power". Increasing this number will make the radio signal put out by your router stronger, but it will also reduce the life of your router. 84mW is the maximum recommended power. Anything above that could burn out your router.
If that still doesn't make the signal strong enough, you can buy another wireless router and put it into "repeater" or "WDS" mode. Give it the correct settings, place it midway between you and the other router, and it'll repeat all of the signals the other router puts out. Since you are in difficult conditions, you might have to combine this with the transmit power trick.
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Okay.
so i have a windows 98 computer, and sometimes when i try to login to my myspace, this deal will pop up saying that something is illegal.
does anyone know what it is.?
there is nothing illegal on my myspace because i get on it on different computers.
i think that it is the computer.
but what can i do to get rid of it.?
please help me..
:))
It's illegal in relation to computers, not with the law. An "illegal operation" happens when a program tells Windows to do something that it can't or won't do. On Windows 98 this is common and normal. It does not indicate that you have adware/spyware/a virus.
If it happens often you probably have software installed on your computer that wasn't designed to work with Windows 98. You should uninstall this software or upgrade to a newer version of Windows. Windows 98 is very, very old and most software doesn't support it correctly. It is also End Of Life and no longer supported by Microsoft, so it is not safe to use.
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