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I have a network that has not been working. My computer, the main computer works well through it and connects up to the cable without problem. Computer number two just throws up these days but lets forget it for now. Triage works in computers as well as medicine. Computer number three wants to hook up to the internet and it appears that it sends packets to the router but cannot receive. there is a Via RhineII fast internet adapter that needs attention. Device does not start (Code 10) I am assuming that this is the card where the usb port...

Details of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program have been put up for sale on eBay, with the seller offering a starting price of 1 US cent. At the time of writing, the bidding had reached $US60 ($A79). Zero day means information that is not publicly available and is used to describe security vulnerabilities exploits which are unknown to security professionals. The seller said the vulnerability had been discovered on December 6 and the details had been sent to Microsoft. "All the details were submitted to Microsoft, and the reply was received indicating that they may start working...

BEIJING, DECEMBER 7: Unlike India. Beijing’s official policy and industry incentives mean jackpot for those who want to return For the last 25 years, many of the best and brightest in India and China have left for western shores in the belief that study and work abroad offer greater opportunities. However, unlike India which has been wringing its hands over this ‘‘brain drain’’, the Chinese have systematically encouraged their best to acquire valuable expertise abroad—and then wooed them back to set up businesses or work in top government posts. Often, at the expense of western universities. Apart from direct incentives,...

With NASA's beleaguered shuttle still grounded over safety concerns -- and given the unanswered questions about its replacement, the Crew Exploration Vehicle, which won't be ready to fly until 2012 -- the European Space Agency (ESA) is mulling an option to buy its own ride to space. This month ESA plans to request $60 million from its member states to help Russia prepare its new, reusable spaceship, the Clipper, for a crewless test flight by 2011 and a manned flight by 2012. The six-person Clipper is designed to replace Russia's three-person Soyuz capsule, which has been in operation since the...

Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 17, 2005 We'll soon know the answer: A NASA/Stanford physics experiment called Gravity Probe B (GP-B) recently finished a year of gathering science data in Earth orbit. The results, which will take another year to analyze, should reveal the shape of space-time around Earth--and, possibly, the vortex. Time and space, according to Einstein's theories of relativity, are woven together, forming a four-dimensional fabric called "space-time." The tremendous mass of Earth dimples this fabric, much like a heavy person sitting in the middle of a trampoline. Gravity, says Einstein, is simply the motion of objects following the...

I hate vanity posts, but I am wondering if anyone in FR land knows anything about the Spy Axe 3.0 virus. It has set up shop in my toolbar and has hijacked my home page. eTrust isn't touching it. Help?!?!

BANGALORE, India - Drive along Hosur Road -- Bangalore's version of Highway 101 -- even at 1:30 a.m. and you'll see sparks from welders working on new buildings to house software companies. Pick up any newspaper and read ads from tech companies seeking -- imploring -- engineers to come work for them. Experience the Silicon Valley-style, masters-of-the-digital-universe attitude permeating Bangalore, from its impossibly jammed roads to the new dot-com-like offices. ``We think we will overtake Silicon Valley,'' said Vineet Shrivastava, bid manager at the Bangalore campus of Dutch tech services and wireless company LogicaCMG. ``You can see it for yourself.''...

The world's leading chip-maker Intel Corporation on Monday announced a multi-year investment plan for India, totalling over $1 billion, including $800 million over the next five years for business expansion. The investment roadmap includes a huge chunk ($800 million) for expanding the company's business operations in India, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett told reporters in New Delhi. The investment would focus on expanding the research and development centre in Bangalore, in addition to marketing, education and community programmes. The investment roadmap also has a provision for setting up a $250 million venture capital fund in India. "The investment demonstrates the company's...

There are no unions in India's information technology sector now and the billionaire chairman of the country's top software exporter wants to keep it that way. "The unionization of the sector would certainly be a retrograde step. It will unnecessary damage the growth of the industry as global clients will get concerned about whether they should be sending business to India," said Wipro's (nyse: WIT - news - people ) Azim Premji, according to the Hindustan Times newspaper. The IT sector is a key component in India's $17 billion in annual earnings from outsourcing. Companies such as Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO...

Folding@Home update: 3 Work Units completed, 2 computers, 138 points, overall team rank #15,162

When Jake Walker upsets his girlfriend, Jaci Boydston, he might buy her flowers. When Jaci feels she owes an apology to Jake, she agrees to play a round of the Nintendo fighting game "Super Smash Brothers." Jaci and Jake, who both attend Kansas State University, are a modern couple dealing with a modern issue. One of them is a gamer; the other is not. Theirs is not an unusual plight. For decades gamers and non-gamers in love have struggled to find harmony. At Kansas State the frustration is rampant. Like most college campuses, it is a place where the release...

My local Walmart is advertising a HP Pavillion ze2308wm for $378. Is this a decent laptop? I've never had a laptop before and when I travel it would be useful. Opinions please.

Any Freepers "folding@home"???? For those not familiar with F@H -> some diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer and even "mad cow" disease are believed to be linked to protein (mis)folding. A scientist team from Stanford University studies this phenomenon to try and find a cure to these diseases. To do this, they have designed a software (folding@home) which enables people to donate unused power from their computer to speed up medical research!

US updates quarantine procedures ahead of possible bird flu pandemic 47 minutes ago US health authorities have called for updating quarantine procedures, including better access to passenger lists for incoming ships and planes, to improve preparedness for a possible bird flu pandemic. The proposed changes, which include more authority to administer medical treatments and vaccines to people under quarantine, are part of a review started two years ago following the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. "Existing communicable disease regulations are outdated, have not kept up with advances in disease control measures and have not been substantially updated for over...

It looks like 67-year old Mavis Childs may have set the trend by seeking the services of medical facilities in India at a huge cost-savings for an operation that the NHS made her wait for over two years. Now the NHS itself is taking a cue from her and has short-listed the leading Indian chain of hospitals, the Apollo group for its outsourcing plans. While Childs experienced the infamous “NHS waiting list” long enough to realize that she may die waiting, there are many still who endure pain for years before the NHS allots an operation day. In light of...

Ok, I bought a puter from WalMart on July 23,2005. Compaq Presario SR1403wm XP SP2 came preinstalled. I have 256 memory 65 gig hard drive. Windoze does not recognize my cd/dvd/rw drive. Gone in BIOS! Got to tinkering around and saw a lot of freaking i tunes crap on there from August 2004????WTF I have NEVER been to i tunes or even opened it??? So did WalFart sell me a refurbished system as a new one? It appears they sold me a HUGE VIRUS w/ a PUTER wrapped around it,,lol. Meanie is MAD!!! tech help sux and I feel smashing...

MOSCOW, November 15 (RIA Novosti) - Two hundred Russian engineers in Moscow are designing a cargo aircraft, the Boeing-747LCF, that will be used to deliver components for the new Boeing-787 Dreamliner passenger plane. "Moscow is handling the design of this special cargo plane, which will deliver components produced in Japan, Britain, France, and Russia to the aircraft-manufacturing plant in Seattle for final assembly of the Dreamliner, which will only take three days," Sergei Kravchenko, the president of U.S. aircraft giant Boeing in Russia and the CIS, said. Kravchenko said the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) had built an experimental test bench...

Sony is apparently borrowing a tactic from hackers for its digital-rights management technology, and some security experts question the practice. Security researchers have identified a rootkit -- software used by hackers to hide their malicious code from anti-virus and anti-spyware defenses -- within the copy protection scheme Sony BMG Music Entertainment uses to prevent music CDs from being copied to computers. The digital rights management (DRM) technology that Sony BMG uses limits the number of times a CD can be "ripped" to a computer. To prevent the DRM software from being easily circumvented, the copy protection's creator -- a U.K.-based...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a recent online poll of 382 business managers, some 71 percent of respondents said that they have fallen asleep or been sleepy during an “uninteresting” presentation, according to a survey by Infommersion Inc. Some 43 percent of respondents have caught other people dozing, according to Infommersion (San Diego), a developer of data visualization software. The most difficult types of presentations to remain fully awake through were individual speeches (35 percent), followed by training sessions (23 percent) and then general meetings (16 percent), according to the software firm. Webcasts revealed themselves as the easiest type of...