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Kelvin Registered User
Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 1022 Location: That is not important. Just don't turn around.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. Checked, checked again and rechecked over and over. Everything (pardon) checks out. I have no errors at all as far as I can see. I'm thinking it might be my host, and that sucks, cuz these guys are cool. Maybe there's a server issue. _________________ Telegram: kelvinshadewing
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, this is going to get me boo'd and hissed at but I use vista as my main OS *ducks various objects* hey I don't have any problems with it; not any more then I've had with any other MS OS since DOS anyway. Anyway I had it dual booted with XP Pro which I still use for games and apps that do not run quite right in vista. XP was the first OS installed then on a compleatly separate physical drive I installed Vista and everything worked great when I started up I'd get a menu asking if I wanted to run vista or XP. Last night however I noticed XP was acting a bit wonky so I decied it was time to flush it and do a fresh install which I tend to do every six to 12 months. Since doing the fresh XP install though I do not get the boot menu it just shoots straight into XP and when I try using the boot menu to boot to the vista drive I get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I don't want to have to reinstall vista fresh and lose everything on that drive since it was all still working fine. I think the asnwer is in modying XP's BOOT.INI in 'MSCONFIG' but I have no idea how. I'm a hardware man so can any of you software gurus save me a lot of pain PAWEEEEZ _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Trekkie Registered User
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 151
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Midi wrote: | Yes. Checked, checked again and rechecked over and over. Everything (pardon) checks out. I have no errors at all as far as I can see. I'm thinking it might be my host, and that sucks, cuz these guys are cool. Maybe there's a server issue. |
Ah, I see your problem, in your links you are using microsoft standard of backslashes in file paths
http://kylontario.atspace.com/files\SONIC_VELOCITY.zip
The rest of the internet uses foward slashes in paths. Which should be
http://kylontario.atspace.com/files/SONIC_VELOCITY.zip
You need to go through your html files and replace your \ with / _________________ "Never underestimate the stupidity of people." |
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 2045 Location: Just East of Indianapolis, Indiana
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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Nice call, Trekkie!
Was the %5 in the file names a dead giveaway?
Kel _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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Kelvin Registered User
Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 1022 Location: That is not important. Just don't turn around.
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: |
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I fixed the slashes, but I did it on my Freewebs site. I went back there because they don't limit your file formats and I have a lot of ZIP files.
Here's my address: http://kylontario.webs.com
Anyway, thanks for helping, guys! _________________ Telegram: kelvinshadewing
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ScottyDM Registered User
Joined: 12 Feb 2005 Posts: 1142 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:58 am Post subject: |
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Those are all good. Really basic, but far too many people forget.
IMO when coming up with a website, focus. Then pick ONE name to be THE name for that site and promote, promote, promote! It's okay to buy variations on that name, but use a server-level redirects to go from a secondary name to your primary, promoted name. That also goes for "www" or not "www". Pick ONE NAME as your primary name and all other names redirect to that name. Your hosting company will have to set it up.
If you have two, or three areas of focus for your site then consider splitting it up into separate sites.
Do not promote a name you don't have! Sheesh, but that's major. Still, some people can't seem to figure it out.
I know there are some gurus who say the name isn't important--that all your relevant traffic will come from the search engines anyway. They are partly right, but it depends on who your visitors are and if you expect them to return. For example if you're selling shoelaces then Google could be your #1 draw. However, some types of sites do well by word-of-mouth. If so then the name is critical. Think of college students chillin in the quad and one says to the other, "Hey, Dude, you gotta check this site. The name is ____." Will the person hearing that remember the name well enough to accurately type it in a couple of hours later?
FYI some of the sites I visit a lot I don't bother to bookmark, such as Planetfurry. I just type the name every time. If you saw my bookmarks file you'd know why.
If you can't get the .com, you might be able to work with another TLD if you do the right promotion and carefully choose your site name. For example Stephen Abbott owns the name anthrofiction.com, while I own the name anthrofiction.net (we do a bit of cross promotion for each other). I promote my site as "Anthrofiction Network". It's part of the h1 tag in the banner of every page, it's part of the title tag on every page, it's part of the meta description tag on every page, and in the text of anything I write to promote my site I always use the complete phrase and never the word anthrofiction alone (unless I'm describing anthrofiction as a genre). I want people to think of a "network of authors and readers", so hopefully they will type in .net rather than .com.
Most of this is common sense, but you know what they say about common sense.
Scotty _________________
Kantaro wrote: | Almost real enough to be considered non-fiction, if it weren't made up. |
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Kelvin Registered User
Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 1022 Location: That is not important. Just don't turn around.
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Got another problem. I just got a new account on SL and my character isn't the one that I picked. Worse off, I can't figure out how to edit my character. Anyone here experienced with that stuff?
Aside: I hate how you have to have a last name. _________________ Telegram: kelvinshadewing
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Asalis Registered User
Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 2020 Location: Fort Worth, Tx
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a Second Life Mentor. If your ever on SL send me an IM to Asalis Cruyff. Its my job to associate players with the many functions of Second Life. _________________ Asalis: (uh*sah*lis)
We, dig, giant robots!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7PjQnw_E0U
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Kelvin Registered User
Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 1022 Location: That is not important. Just don't turn around.
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Asalis wrote: | I'm a Second Life Mentor. If your ever on SL send me an IM to Asalis Cruyff. Its my job to associate players with the many functions of Second Life. | Thanks. What times are you on? (time zone too please) _________________ Telegram: kelvinshadewing
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Asalis Registered User
Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 2020 Location: Fort Worth, Tx
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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I"m on US central time though Secondlife uses California time. I usually get on between 4 to 10 PM but not every day. But my messengers are almost always on so if you sent me a PM my MSN messenger will notify me and I can send an e-mail responce directly to your SL Instand message, without even having to log on to SL. _________________ Asalis: (uh*sah*lis)
We, dig, giant robots!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7PjQnw_E0U
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Midi wrote: | Got another problem. I just got a new account on SL and my character isn't the one that I picked. Worse off, I can't figure out how to edit my character. Anyone here experienced with that stuff?
Aside: I hate how you have to have a last name. |
Go to Luskwood they got great furry avatar kits they might have squirrels. _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Kayngi Administrator
Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 1798 Location: Midwest, USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: Help please please please! |
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The jist of my issue, I have a BLACK screen of death at my home computer. I tried to boot it yesterday, it would not boot up completely, I turned off the power. Turn it back on, I get the black screen saying a file is either corrupted or missing, it's a Windows system config file, naturally I can't remember it exactly. Should have written it down...
It says to put in the Startup CD to attempt to repair. I couldn't find it last night, so a friend of mine dropped one off at work.
A coworker told me something similar happened to her, and it was a Trojan. PLEASE tell me it's not that! I run antivirus software and don't go to bad sites (weak, i know but i'm hoping.) If it IS a Trojan, is there ANY way for me to retrieve information off the hard drive before formatting? _________________ Doctor Kayngi
Cap'n Kayngi
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Den Mother of PF
I got ART
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Syrius Registered User
Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 1463 Location: The S.S. ScurvyDog, Arizona! YARR!
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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Is it NTLDR, the file that's missing? Trojans can cause that, yes. But it could also be HDD corruption or failure.
Provided the drive can be accessed, yes, it can be mounted as storage, non-boot drive, and you can yank your files and back them up using another computer. An USB enclosure would come in handy. _________________ Hey, Sony... IT'S PAYBACK TIME!
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 2045 Location: Just East of Indianapolis, Indiana
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject: Hope this helps! |
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Found this with a quick search, Kayngi-
Fixing a Missing or Corrupt Windows Bootloader with fixmbr
Mike-
That's a goodie I'll have to go pick up! I can't think of the times I could have used that to fix a computer!
Kel _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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Kayngi Administrator
Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 1798 Location: Midwest, USA
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:25 am Post subject: |
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The file that's missing or corrupt is
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
Does that change anything?
Thanks so much for all these ideas! _________________ Doctor Kayngi
Cap'n Kayngi
Sword Sister of Dark Justice
Den Mother of PF
I got ART
http://kayngi.deviantart.com/
http://kayngi.sheezyart.com |
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