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  1. i just thought that someone may know of somethin metalic in the paint they used or somthin...maybe it is actually metal and it just seems plastic to me...
  2. if thats metal....its one weeeeird feeling metal (sounding too)....maybe im wrong and it is metal.... http://www.wojack.net/Satellite/SATELLITE%20DISH%201201.JPG thats kind of what my dish looks like....is that what everybody else has thats made of metal?
  3. i just have a little RCA one...and it seems to be made of plastic....
  4. how is it that a sattellite dish, seemingly made from plastic, deflects electromagnetic waves....is there some special material that feels like plastic that actually has properties of a metal....i was just wonderin...THANKS!!
  5. yea...i suspected that also...because it seemed to have started doing it after i installed sp2 but i was really hoping there was a fix anyway...if theres not maybe i can get my hands on windows server 2003 or somthing...even if it is service pack 2...is there a way to make it work anyway? edit: i have recently found somthing called apache2triad1.4.0 from sorurceforge.org and am gonna try that...supposedly it has some stuff fixed so ill tell u guys how it works out...it does seem like it is service pack 2 that is screwing things up...but if anybody knows of a fix it would still be appreciated!
  6. even when it is disabled it still gives the same error etc... i have a router....whats that have to do with it??
  7. ok so heres the deal...i am running windows xp pro SP2 and have zonealarm with antivirus...i have had apache(1.3.31) up and running smoothly before but recently whenever i try to run it, it pops up and appears to be running smoothly...then in 5 seconds...it dissappears...originally i thought it was just minimizing to the system tray or somthing but it isnt...i have also tried this with zonealarm turned off and i get the same result...i cant connect to it or anything...so i check out the error log and the only thing it says is this: [crit] (10022)An invalid argument was supplied: setup_inherited_listeners: WSASocket failed to open the inherited socket. then i changed the httpd.conf file so that it logs debug info and got this: [sat Nov 13 20:38:08 2004] [info] Parent: Created child process 2216 [sat Nov 13 20:38:08 2004] [info] Parent: Duplicating socket 144 and sending it to child process 2216 [sat Nov 13 20:38:08 2004] [info] BytesRead = 372 WSAProtocolInfo = 2006620 [sat Nov 13 20:38:08 2004] [crit] (10022)An invalid argument was supplied: setup_inherited_listeners: WSASocket failed to open the inherited socket. [sat Nov 13 20:38:08 2004] [info] master_main: Shutdown event signaled. Shutting the server down. [sat Nov 13 20:38:08 2004] [info] removed PID file c:/program files/apache group/apache/logs/httpd.pid (pid=3908) and then im a little confused...i looked through the httpd.conf file and it seems to be fine...its attached if you wish to look it over...some info may be changed for security purposes...i have tried reinstalling apache musltiple times with the same results but i will probably do it a couple more times anyway...im pretty much blank here so any ideas would be appreciated...thank you...
  8. i actually started making a cantenna a while back....but never found anywhere to get a reverse polarity SMA connecter for a cheap enough price to finish my pigtail...so i made a makeshift connector out of a paperclip and some wire thing i had laying around...that just lost way too much signal...so i havent worked on that for a long time
  9. I have a D-Link DI-524 wireless router (says that at 100% it emits 17 dBm) and i have it all set up and i access the internet through it via a laptop in the living room (30 feet away 1 wall) just fine (windows says it has excellent, very good, or, rarely, good signal strength) then i have a wireless card in a desktop 40-50 feet away (next floor, probably 4-5 walls) and it gets good, low, very low signal strengths...and sometimes can only connect at 1-5 mbps. is there any hack or some way to boost the routers signal strength without getting a new antenna or a repeater.
  10. here goes(see drawing for clarification): I have cable internet going to my cable modem into a router(netgear rt311, no wireless, just a simple router.*192.168.0.1*) that goes into a switch. This switch is then connected to 3 desktops:192.168.0.6, 192.168.0.5 and 192.168.0.4. I am refer to 192.168.0.6 as the 'main' computer, it is the one with the confusion. I have internet acces, network access and everything working fine. Now we have a laptop with a built in wireless card. Then i find a cheap wireless PCI card (D-Link DWL-G510) and think hmmm, i can make an ad hoc between the main computer and the laptop, and bridge it into the home network to get cable to the laptop wirelessly). so the wireless card is installed. wired network is still working fine, i set up a nice little ad hoc network and the main computer and laptop can communicate fine. Now with windows network bridging, i just select the 2 networks and say bridge right? i do this, make sure the bridge is set to 192.168.0.6 and dns is set to 192.168.0.1 ok...now i still have fine wired network communication, and i have internet access and all is fine. except the wireless is...dead....the laptop says connected to the wireless network but it doesnt get an IP and if it does...its all screwed up and somthin weird and the main computer doesnt say anything about the wireless connection except for "not connected". so it doesnt seem to work. look on the internet, discovered promiscuity mode stuff, enable it on wired and wireless cards, still no luck. i tried sygate office network, seemed to do somthing better...i got the wireless and wired networks working at the same time and i could ping the router on the wired network from the wireless, but i still had no internet access on the laptop for some reason, i have tried some stuff with ICS but that doesnt seem to work either. sorry that was so long but i dont have any other way to describe it! thanks!
  11. heres the thing...im trying to make an awesome directional antenna for my wireless card (d-link DWL-G510). I have an old sattelite dish and thought i could throw somthin together. so i started surfin the net and found this... first i used this to make a cantenna http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html as far as my measurements went it has a diameter of about 3.3 inches(it could be 2.25 but it was very close) and a length of about 11.4 inches. I made the copper wire inside 1.21 inches(some of that is inside the N connecter but not much). And I made my own "pig tail" like this: one end has some connector (very closly related to the N connector but not exact and it is the same as the chassis mount female connector on the cantenna, 5 feet of rg-58 low loss, 50 ohm cable, then i made my own "reverse polarity SMA connector"(i used a copper wire to go around the outside of the connector on the card and a small pin-grabbing, thing with a wire comming out of it for the inside connector(this could be where the problem is comming from but there is nowhere nearby with a reverse polarity SMA connector for sale).(use the 1/4 guide wavelength to see how far from the back i put the connector: I dont remember what it was right now but I think i followed it pretty well) then i used this site to turn it into a parabolic dish antenna http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html please note that i did not use a primestar dish but it is pretty much the same size and shape. now when this is all done and connected i decide to test it out (please note that i am testing with an ad-hoc network between this computer and my mom's laptop; not an access point or router) i use net stumbler to test it out and watch its signal strength and i get signifficantly better signal strength through the little rubber antenna that came with the card than the parabolic dish antenna! WHAT?!?! please give me advice: do remember I am on a SUPER BUDGET!!
  12. i got adaware and sbybot s&d also....run those at least 2 times a week (make sure they are updated) and your machine will run flawlessly! adaware usually finds more than spybot for me but spybot finds the ones that adaware didnt so in combination its nice....spybot s&d also comes with some special little programs, i enable both of them and that helps a lot also.
  13. have you tried using a crossover cable just as a temporary test of communication between the two machines? u might wanna give that a try...just to pinpoint where they problem may be...
  14. was there anyone else on the network at the same time that could have been accessing the server? i would say that as long as you got the file through ok dont worry but that is a little strange, i agree...
  15. if you cant find the wake on LAN settings in the bios you can unplug the wake on lan cable from inside the computer and that would fix it also...should be farely a small cable with i believe a 3 pin connection coming out of the NIC into the motherboard...
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