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I've been looking for a laser printer for a while - still undecided but Computer Active magazine have been doing test features on them. You should be able to access the information through their website. What puts me off is that although initially the ink is supplied afterwards it cost approx 250 quid to replace.

Kat

Can anyone help please.

I have taken my laptop to family for the holidays and have managed to connect to the net via a wireless connection (password protected). They use AOL.

My problem is that there are certain sites, such as my broker, which I cannot access in as much as I get as far as putting in my logging in details and nothing happens.

Any ideas gratefully received

TIA

Kat

Kat, only suggestion I could make is once you've logged into AOL, minimise the AOL browser and launch Internet Explorer and that may sort it - some sites only like IE. I use Firefox as my browser but again, some sites (very few) don't work properly with it.

I use AOL and MyTrack (US version of MyBroker) and the combination is fine. It must be a local problem.

katcot, I believe port 9983 needs to be open outwards for Mybroker. Perhaps the port is blocked by AOL or the wireless router.

"If your parents got a new computer for Christmas, what would you tell them to do?"

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Kayak
Yes. It is port 9983 (checked in the help).

Thanks all

However, stupid I know, but, How do I open port 9983 and how do I find the port in the first place.

TIA

Kat

Well I don't know if AOL block any ports either in their network or in the AOL software, you would have to ask them. If they block them in the software then use Internet Explorer instead as described above. To check port blocking on the wireless router you would have to log into it and check the firewall settings, normally by clicking on http://192.168.0.1, but you will probably need a password (the default is admin/password for Netgear). The other possibility is that your family member is running Norton or something similar with a firewall enabled.

By way of explanation, different types of traffic use different 'ports', e.g. port 80 for browsing (http) and ports 25 and 110 for email. Firewalls are often set to reject all traffic that is not using one of a small set of known ports.

K if your about could you post the name of the time server prog you use? I think you have poseted it here before.

Spaceman, http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/ats.htm, I use ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk .

Thanks K.

I have a friend who cannot open his CD drawer with the button. He asked me if it could be opened from the keyboard. Any ideas please or does he just want a new CD unit?

opto,there is usually a very very small hole on the draw its self if you straighten out a paperclip and push it in the hole,it should open it :-)

Thanks Mega, will pass on that info.

Try unplugging and plugging back in the power supply to the cd rom.

That'll teach it!

Sorted now folks. It is my friends 'reserve' PC so not too important. His wife hit it hardish and it opened. Who says women don't have a technical flair..LOL

There may be a tiny hole in the front of the unit into which he can push a stiff piece of wire (an unfolded paper clip?) . the drawer should then open.

I want to put website details on a Ebay advert that people can click on and take them straight to the website,how do i do this please,rather than cut and paste ????

Rick...

Using HTML, you need to say pretty much what the MoneyAM link tool produces for us.

eg, &lta href="http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html"&gthttp://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html&lt/a&gt

Which creates the following link http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html

Let's swap the URL of an image for the words of the link. Just as an example we'll use an eBay gif for our image:

http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/uk/navbar/redesign_p1/ebayLogo.gif

So this means we are going to swap the URL of the eBay gif for the HTML URL web site stuff inside the link. This is currently:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html

so taking one out and putting the other in gives us:

&lta href="http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/html_tips.html"&gt&ltimg src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/uk/navbar/redesign_p1/ebayLogo.gif"&gt&lt/a&gt

And the final result is:



So if you click on the eBay image it takes you to the web site.