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I have my cd-key sticker with me but don't have the cd anymore. Is there anywhere I can download windows xp sp3 installation disc from?
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My father's computer has Windows XP, but when I try to install the service packs it always fails. What gives?
Here are the errors that I get in the event log:
Date: 2/6/2010
Time: 12:02:18 AM
Type: Error
User: N/A
Computer: EVO
Source: Windows Update Agent
Category: Installation
Event ID: 20
Installation…
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I have a situation that I need help with. I backed up my Files on Windows XP using the System BackUp utility/wizard, and then Installed a new operating system on the machine. Now I want to restore my old files via the .bak file but it is not being recognized at all. Did I do this wrong or is there…
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The First time I tried to install Ubuntu the installer installed it on my D drive. This resulted in only booting to Windows XP with no access to Ubuntu. I had to download a disk partitioning program to undo all of this. A tip from the Internet said to create a partition on the C drive for Ubuntu,…
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Hello,
The Current Situation
I have a hard drive that currently is split up like so:
Primary Partition
C: 9.77 GB NTFS Healthy (System) with XP Pro (in Polish) installed
Extended Partition
D: 39.82 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot) with XP Pro (in English) installed
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I have two machines - Windows XP and a laptop using Windows 7. I connected them with a WLAN cable.
On the Windows XP machine, I set the IP address to 192.168.0.10.
On the Windows 7 laptop, I set the IP address to 192.168.0.20.
The laptop can see the Windows XP machine, but Windows XP machine cannot…
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I am getting this error ,struct usb_serial_driver has no member named shutdown.
I am installing on 64bit ubuntu 3.0.0-12-generic
... Beginning Verify CD ...
... Verify CD Succeed!
... Beginning Copy Install Package Files ...
... will take a long time, waiting 5 seconds, please
... Copy Install…
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I am trying to get two way serial communications going between a Windows XP system and a Linux system (RHEL 5). I have
/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0
in /etc/inittab.
I am using a generic USB to serial adaptor on Windows (Unitek) and a null modem cable.
I have putty configured for 9600 baud, 8…
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I'm using rxtx for serial I/O handling in Java with an FTDI2232H that provides a USB comm port. It works great, with one exception: if I unplug the USB cable, so that the COM port disappears at runtime, it spews exceptions left and right:
java.io.IOException: No error in nativeavailable
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I would like to read data coming and Arduino on a serial port on intervals. So essentially something like
Take a reading
Wait
Take a reading
Wait
Take ...
etc.
The problem I am facing is that the port will buffer its information so as soon as I call a wait function the data on the serial port…
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Hi folks,
Would like to know from all you guys what you think about my Serial Wrapper class. Had be a while I've beem working with serial port but never shared the code what somekind make closed to my very own vision.
Would like to know if it's a good/bad approach, if the interface is enough and…
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