ii - thank you, but I'll stick with what I'm familiar

I would like some advice please,i currently am running 4 dedicated boxes each with 1gig pipes these are setup as 1 master and 3 databases and i will be adding a few more over the next month so what i would like some advice on at what stage should i add a load balancer across the servers would it be wise to add one at this stage or when i add the other to the setup.This setup is for a growing File Hosting site by the way.

Any thoughts or suggestion please ???

Mega.......

Not sure. Got a picture?

Hi, sometimes i cant get onto the internet .one suggestion was that the router to pc wire could be twisted i sorted this and there is an improvement. but it still happens thank you .

Welcome to "c0ck-up" time.

I inadvertently disabled my customer account on my dell laptop, and needless to say I can't now get in when I boot up. Nor will it let me in as administrator. How can I get round it or is it a case of re-installing XP?

Thanks

CCC

I'm not sure how to solve your problem.

However, if it happened to me, I'd ring my home town experts at

http://www.computerdoctors.uk.net/care/index.htm

I guess you aren't a customer of theirs (yet?) but, because they are so phenominally extremely helpful, perhaps you might well be soon.

As you can see they can give you pointers over the phone and maybe sometimes even remotely take over control of your computer.

Their service will cost you 84 for a full year. To get a 'student geek type bod' out to your home (if you even know one) could cost you 30 to 50. I think 84 is utterly brilliant value!

witting

A damaged cable could be a problem, but a good ethernet cable is capable of speeds 2o times that of broadband so it is not often apparent.

If it is the cable, you are unlikely to be able to fix it so get a new one. One way to check the cable is to log in to the management console of your ADSL router. If that loads OK then it is more likely to be a broadband problem.


CCC

Check out this site for a utility to reset the Administrator password.

Thank you Exec & Optimist.

I've downloaded the utility and will have a go tomorrow

Deleted as fault appears to have sorted itself out. Sorry if anyone had started to waste time on my original post.

Exec & Optimist.

The utility you suggested has worked a treat. It took me a little while to get my head round it and summon up the bottle to have a go. When I did I was pretty simple & straightforward and worked a treat.

Thanks very much for your help, it's saved me the hassle of having to re-install and reload everything. Much appreciated.

CCC

Lol MM :-)

MM

:-)

It's not until you do your internet banking to transfer some funds to someone for an internet purchase and your wife, who is sat at the side of you takes the PIN call from the bank and deals with it, that you later begin to realise about the kind of world in which we are living in.

Can anyone spot anything wrong with a situation such as this?

Of course. You shouldn't have given your wife access to your money.

Close.

Even though the bank are using a robotic caller/answering facility for a 'transfers and payments' call, they are obviously using some other sort of tool or facility which can tell that another person, other than the caller, is in close proximity to the caller. Perhaps it cuts in and acts if it hears another voice, a voice other than the caller's, on the line.

It's no good the gentleman of the house being online doing some online banking, such as a trasfer and payment, particularly to 'another person' and his wife taking and dealing with the bank's security telephone call to acknowledge receipt of the online received PIN.

What can happen?

Well, in our case, we got a block put on our online transfers to 'another person'.

We can pay the gas bill or similar but 'Forget it Kayak!' You will just have to put up with telephone banking if you want me to send you any monies. :-(

Not that telephone banking is worse. In fact, it is better. You cannot yet do 'Faster Payments' with online banking. Phone banking is also 24/7 and you can do it outside banking hours and also to a great extent. Payments generally take 2 hrs or less to reach the recipient. But do make sure no other voices can be heard by the bank's robotic facilities or call tools. It compromises security and, without telling you why, what or when, the transaction might not go ahead - even though you think it has gone ahead OK!!!! - and the bank might not tell you about the block they've put on your account.

Note that Online banking transfers and payments, even from one branch of a bank to another of the same bank, can often take all of three to four days.

Excel - I use First Direct and pay my bills through the fast pay service online.

In fact the most dramatic example, was when I received my PIN generator from Tescos having opened a deposit account up, and I tested it by sending 1 back to my FD account.

As soon as I sent it, I coincidentally logged onto my FD site to check my current account and pay my bills etc and was astonished to see the 1 was there - within 60 seconds !

The thing about the additional voices on the line being detected does sound more than a little unlikely. I suspect that there is a simpler explanation like a noisy line or difficulty with your wife's accent perhaps?

Maybe nobody has had this problem - but I'll mention it anyway.

I am using Vista and I noticed this morning that it had failed to install System Pack 2. I also noticed the pack was dated some time in June so it might have been failing regularly since then.

A bit of rooting around produced this download.

I used it and Service Pack 2 installed without a problem. The whole exercise of installing the cure and then the Service Pack takes quite a time (maybe 2 hours in total for me) so it is not something to do when you need to use your PC for something important.

TP

I've just installed a PlusTV Hybrid pci tuner but can't receive any freeview channels (it is available through Virgin Cable in my area). It is picking up 6 terrestial channels. I've tried setting it to cable/antena and digital/analog without success.
Any help would be appreciated
tia

You don't mention what model tuner you have, Is it designed to operate on a Virgin Cable input.

It sounds as though your are picking up the RF channels, are the 6 channels thatyou can get digital or analouge? Have you got a good enough aerial to receive the digital freeview signal?