Maybe off topic - strange problem with external DVD RW drive

I really don't know where to go with this, so I thought someone on here might be able to help. I have a Netbook (Toshiba NB100) that has no optical drive. I have a Liteon external USB DVD/CD RW drive. I am trying to install XP on the Netbook. The ...

Message posted on the October 18th, 2011 - 1:24 PM ET

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Press published on the April 28th, 2013 - 8:00 AM ET

Excel doesn't print; FlashPlayer won't install.

A friend has this problem for the second time. I hope it's on topic. I've googled but the hits don't address my three questions below.. She gets a message that she must install the latest version of Adobe Flash Playe, this time it's version 11. ...

Message posted on the March 2nd, 2012 - 4:22 PM ET

#550 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Deliver Error

I have a strange occurrence that I can't figure out. I have mail-enabled public folders that people inside and outside the organization send to. The Anonymous and Default settings are set to 'Contributor' and this has been working properly for ...

Message posted on the January 23rd, 2009 - 3:21 PM ET

A courier FAM/Gamin error and an IMAP client

Hi, recently we have installed Debian Squeeze, and set up Postfix + courier for purposes of testing client-side e-mail filter on a Windows client station. The server is supposed to provide about 16 accounts with prepared e-mails while the client ...

Message posted on the September 1st, 2011 - 1:00 PM ET

[Samba] OT: permission denied when opening PDF docs with Acrobat Reader X potected mode

Hi, this might be off topic because it's not a samba problem, but might be interesting for others too. We are running an older samba 3.0.24 working as domain controller (no DFS features). When opening a .pdf file with the Acrobat Reader X from a ...

Message posted on the December 7th, 2010 - 1:40 PM ET

Outlook 2003 password prompt with Exchange 2007

I am in the process of deploying an Exchange 2007 server in an existing Exchange 2003 environment. Exchange 2007 is running on a Windows 2008 Server (standard edition), with SP2. All clients are running Vista Business with Outlook 2003. I have moved ...

Message posted on the October 30th, 2009 - 10:42 AM ET

BT home network 1200

-=> Sidney Lambe wrote to Gypsy BBS <=- SL> From: sidneylambe@somewhere.invalid SL> On comp.os.linux.networking, James Bradley SL> <stop.nospam.gbbsg@shaw.ca> wrote: -=> Sidney Lambe wrote to Gypsy BBS <=- SL> From: ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2010 - 9:47 PM ET

[gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

Hi, My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from linux, but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad blocks. I'm trying to access it from rescuecd which seems to be based on gentoo - so it's not totally off topic ...

Message posted on the July 31st, 2010 - 10:10 AM ET

Who's working to get PA working in KDE/KUbuntu? Where is info about that? ; jor debian-kde

{Please feel free to ignore parts of this that are irrelevant to this list. I only have time to write this one email. Sending to KUbuntu, DebianKDE, PulseAudio, KDE. Thanks :) } From my recent thread, Proper PulseAudio installation for ...

Message posted on the June 28th, 2010 - 5:10 PM ET

How to time dictation speed in speech recognition, "fairly" accurately

I used Dragon Pro to check out how fast I could dictate, in so-called wpm (Words Per Minute) It wound up being a blazing 20 wpm !!! 20 wpm! - but I read in MacSpeech advertising that Dragon is supposed to be good for 160 wpm. What is the ...

Message posted on the February 27th, 2010 - 9:47 PM ET

Getting Jiggy with NORTON

1. I noticed when I post a little post, it generates a boatload of off-topic responses, is this Newsgroup in love with me or people here have nothing else todo, or unemployed? Look at my previous Norton post, a few people got into a fight over it. ...

Message posted on the June 16th, 2009 - 1:33 AM ET

topic strange problem