Garibaldi, sorry to be so negative but I would recommend that you remove NIS2004, if you search the web you will find it has a pretty bad name and is a resourse hog, the stream problems could just be down to the delays NIS is causing. I dont use it but watched it slow down someone leses PC recently.

I hate these sort of products!

Do you have broadband? do you use a router? you can get pretty good security on routers and good enought virus protection with products like AVG and Trend Housecall. DO thats along with some Spyware bloking and you will be better of than with NIS.

Thanks for advice, I think I agree with you actually, have regressed back to IS 2002 for now, all is working and it has updated my subscription by a year as well..Norton AV now does not work but have just installed AVG. Broadband arrives where I am in 10 days, so will go that route when I can.

Ian et al
any ides regarding my post 1693??
thanks in advance

Jules,

I am not sure - let me ask JT for you.

Ian

Jules,

Short answer from my knowledge of laptops is no.

Some laptops let you use an addition TFT for an output, but none i know of allow themselves to be used purely as a monitor.

with TFT prices falling daily you can get 17 inchers for about 200 if not less...

Call TraderPC, im sure they would be able to offer you something ;)

Jules

You could network your laptop to your PC and share your internet connection. I'm not sure whether you could use Money AM on both computers but you could run MAM on one and other programs on the other.

Jules, I looked into to using a laptop as a second monitor a year or so ago and I dont think it can be done. As Optimist suggested probably best just to network it and use it separately, you can definateley use MAM on more thatn one PC at once, I often have it on 2.

thanks for all your responses. Will look into it further

calling all Microsoft Word experts:
how do you draw a letter (say an A or an "alpha") with a bar on top?
C

Confucius

Click Insert then Symbol to display availible symbols. You may have to play around with the font and Subset type.

If you email the document to anyone it might be best to embed the fonts to make sure they can read it.

Thanks Optimist, but I need more... am helping a friend write up some stuff
about physics (don't ask) and ideally would like to be able to put bars and
arrows (->) on top of any symbol.

So it's not going to be enough just to find a character set that happens to
have an A-bar or alpha-bar in it.
Maybe we should be using some specialist boffin package but you'd think Word
would be able to do it.
Any help appreciated,
C

Confucius, I don't know Word but I understand there's an Equation Editor which is probably what you need.

Confucious

Are these any good? Check out: http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/SYM/SYM-index.html

eg, and and and lots more.

Also - do check out some of the links from the site.

Hmm thanks. But like I say, really we need to be able to have bars and arrows
over any symbol. Maybe Equation Editor is the answer (not especially happy
memories of using it in the past...)
Another friend suggested abandoning Mickeysoft and using TEX, which is
especially designed for boffiny documents. Does anybody have recommendations for
(preferably free and WYSIWYG) Windows tools that use it?
TIA
C

I don't think you will be able to do this unless you install a special font.

All the characters in a word document are represtnted by codes in a font set. If the font you are using does not have the characters you want then you can't display it.

If you know the code for a character you can quickly insert it by holding the Alt key while typing the 3 digit code on the numeric keypad.

Try a Google search for scientific fonts.

Had a few E Mails from this person all containing viruses.Stopped by Norton
How do i go about reporting this person.I notice the Web-site appears to be under construction.
I have no idea who it is

info@ipinsight.com

Iain, do you know the person sending the emails? if they are just spam or similar I would just ignore them, the person may well not have sent the emails at all, his address is just being used. It happens all the time.

One days something will be done to stop this spoofing but at the moment we just have to live with it.

I have just tahen delivery of 2 Western Digital Raptor hard drives and wish to configure a Raid 0 disk system on my computer. These are OEM fittings from EBuyer and come without cables or instructions

Do I need 2 power connectors per drive? I have the normal 4 pin power connector and the Sata cable for the motherboard, Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro, doesn't seem to recognise the drives.

I have configured in the bios as a boot from SCUSI, and a raid setup, entered the raid configuration, selected raid 0, asks if you are sure, enter Y, and enter, and then it takes you back to the original selection screen.

Tried to format the drives, selected the drive to format, low level format, and there doesn't seem to be any activity, no incrementation on the screen, ie 0% format etc.

It seems to me to be a power issue, any techies care to help?

2abbey, I dont know that mobo does it have on board raid? you should have a raid setup of some sort that needs to see the drives. Can the drives be seen from within the BIOS?

Drives should only need 1 power connection each.

2Abbey, are you following installation instructions that say to low-level format? With modern drives that is generally only done in the factory and I'm not sure it's safe. Generally one partitions the disk and formats each volume. Perhaps it's a RAID thing, I don't know much about it.