URGENT computer help please
07-09-2003, 08:56 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by P944forScott:
<strong>Okay you need to befriend a geek... If I lived near you I would do it.
Hit the local bars, find a guy in a white shirt with a tie and a pocket protector drinking lite beer, offer him a bag of Dorritos...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">White shirt and a tie? What decade do you live in? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
I don't know a geek who wears anything more formal than a polo shirt and khakis. Most of us dress as casually as we can get away with.
<strong>Okay you need to befriend a geek... If I lived near you I would do it.
Hit the local bars, find a guy in a white shirt with a tie and a pocket protector drinking lite beer, offer him a bag of Dorritos...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">White shirt and a tie? What decade do you live in? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
I don't know a geek who wears anything more formal than a polo shirt and khakis. Most of us dress as casually as we can get away with.
07-09-2003, 09:05 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Ag951:
<strong>Do you have Tux in your avatar, because you think he's cute, or because you're one of the faithful? If you are, you have a few options...
If you have a portable machine and the NICs, network the two boxes.
If that's not an option, set up openssh on your box and get the <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html" target="_blank">putty sftp client</a> on hers. Then just transfer it over.
If you're both running windoze, you can probably find an openssh compatible daemon for windows out there somewhere. The nice thing about using openssh is no ISP blocks port 22.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">wow, that just goes through one ear and out the other...
i think i have winrar working...it has 1 hour to go yet, i have it set to cut so they fit on 100 mb zips...hope this works
<strong>Do you have Tux in your avatar, because you think he's cute, or because you're one of the faithful? If you are, you have a few options...
If you have a portable machine and the NICs, network the two boxes.
If that's not an option, set up openssh on your box and get the <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html" target="_blank">putty sftp client</a> on hers. Then just transfer it over.
If you're both running windoze, you can probably find an openssh compatible daemon for windows out there somewhere. The nice thing about using openssh is no ISP blocks port 22.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">wow, that just goes through one ear and out the other...
i think i have winrar working...it has 1 hour to go yet, i have it set to cut so they fit on 100 mb zips...hope this works
07-09-2003, 09:44 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Bruce '89 s2:
<strong>Don't see the problem.
If you've got a CD read/write why not just burn it onto a CD (or 2) and she'll play it like normal.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">the file is on one computer and the burner is on a different one...i'm trying to get it on the one that has it
<strong>Don't see the problem.
If you've got a CD read/write why not just burn it onto a CD (or 2) and she'll play it like normal.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">the file is on one computer and the burner is on a different one...i'm trying to get it on the one that has it
07-09-2003, 10:03 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by i am a TRAITOR:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Ag951:
<strong>Do you have Tux in your avatar, because you think he's cute, or because you're one of the faithful? If you are, you have a few options...
If you have a portable machine and the NICs, network the two boxes.
If that's not an option, set up openssh on your box and get the <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html" target="_blank">putty sftp client</a> on hers. Then just transfer it over.
If you're both running windoze, you can probably find an openssh compatible daemon for windows out there somewhere. The nice thing about using openssh is no ISP blocks port 22.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">wow, that just goes through one ear and out the other...
i think i have winrar working...it has 1 hour to go yet, i have it set to cut so they fit on 100 mb zips...hope this works</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">I guess that means you use Tux because you think he's cute.
You can take your burner out of the case, and put it in her computer. If it's atapi, she probably has two free nodes. If it's scsi, just move the pci card with the burner.
The easiest thing though would be two nics. If you don't have a network, now might be a good time to take the plunge. I have four computers (and a PS2), and no floppy, zip, ls120, etc. drive in any of them. LANs make removable media obsolete.
Or tell her to blow $20 on a cheap burner at office max.
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Ag951:
<strong>Do you have Tux in your avatar, because you think he's cute, or because you're one of the faithful? If you are, you have a few options...
If you have a portable machine and the NICs, network the two boxes.
If that's not an option, set up openssh on your box and get the <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html" target="_blank">putty sftp client</a> on hers. Then just transfer it over.
If you're both running windoze, you can probably find an openssh compatible daemon for windows out there somewhere. The nice thing about using openssh is no ISP blocks port 22.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">wow, that just goes through one ear and out the other...
i think i have winrar working...it has 1 hour to go yet, i have it set to cut so they fit on 100 mb zips...hope this works</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">I guess that means you use Tux because you think he's cute.
You can take your burner out of the case, and put it in her computer. If it's atapi, she probably has two free nodes. If it's scsi, just move the pci card with the burner.
The easiest thing though would be two nics. If you don't have a network, now might be a good time to take the plunge. I have four computers (and a PS2), and no floppy, zip, ls120, etc. drive in any of them. LANs make removable media obsolete.
Or tell her to blow $20 on a cheap burner at office max.
07-09-2003, 11:17 PM
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It's probably the pictures in the presentation that is making it unnecessarely big.
So open up the presentation and see get the pics out of it, open up the pics in paint and save them as .jpg's in a lower quality format. That should shave the weight off it down to about 25 megs or so..
Users here at work do the same thing all of the time, I just love the phonecalls with complaint about how long time it takes to print.. The record so far is the 2.8 gig powerpoint presentation sent to a network printer.. Since it took so long the dumb *** user clicked the print icon about 20 times or so.. Guess if the print server frooze up during that time.. Ah, life is great sometimes when you have to deal with the problems that REALLY matters..
So open up the presentation and see get the pics out of it, open up the pics in paint and save them as .jpg's in a lower quality format. That should shave the weight off it down to about 25 megs or so..
Users here at work do the same thing all of the time, I just love the phonecalls with complaint about how long time it takes to print.. The record so far is the 2.8 gig powerpoint presentation sent to a network printer.. Since it took so long the dumb *** user clicked the print icon about 20 times or so.. Guess if the print server frooze up during that time.. Ah, life is great sometimes when you have to deal with the problems that REALLY matters..
07-10-2003, 01:17 AM
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This is how hard it is to take the CD Burner out.
remove some screws (on new cases as little as two) Use a small philips head screwdriver, remove 4 more screws. Unplug cable. Pull out CD Burner. Travel to moms house.
Remove moms case. Plug in CD burner, load software, burn CD.
A lot easier than spending an hour raring and splitting the huge file.
Hell go down to best buy and buy your mom a CD Burner for like 25 30 bucks. Solve the whole freaking problem.
remove some screws (on new cases as little as two) Use a small philips head screwdriver, remove 4 more screws. Unplug cable. Pull out CD Burner. Travel to moms house.
Remove moms case. Plug in CD burner, load software, burn CD.
A lot easier than spending an hour raring and splitting the huge file.
Hell go down to best buy and buy your mom a CD Burner for like 25 30 bucks. Solve the whole freaking problem.
07-10-2003, 07:40 AM
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Tim- keep it simple. solve the problem. either Sid or Michael's offer would work.
a 3rd viable solution.. get another HD- set it up as a slave- on BOTH machines one at a time. 1st your mom's, copy file onto. 2'nd install the HD into yours and be done. Then use the HD as a BACKUP for yours forever.. HDD's DO FAIL...
Dont forget to FDISK and FORMAT the new HDD.
a 3rd viable solution.. get another HD- set it up as a slave- on BOTH machines one at a time. 1st your mom's, copy file onto. 2'nd install the HD into yours and be done. Then use the HD as a BACKUP for yours forever.. HDD's DO FAIL...
Dont forget to FDISK and FORMAT the new HDD.
07-10-2003, 11:27 AM
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Yes I would do exactly what sweanders suggested. I deal with very high quality image files as we need to print them often for presentation purposes however for onscreen viewing/ projection you can change the image quality down to about 100 dpi with no real distinction in quality. Also, don't forget to change the actual size of the image. It should not be any bigger than what it is in its final version. Make sure you use text in vector form as they will be very fuzzy when pixelated at 100dpi. Also use jpg compression to keep the files small. This will def. help with the overall size of the ppt file
07-10-2003, 11:30 AM
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I can setup an FTP site at home tonite, for you to use as a transfer station. Depending on your internet connection, that might be fast enough.
Email me if you need me to do it.
HTH!
Email me if you need me to do it.
HTH!
07-10-2003, 11:47 AM
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Yeah, I'm with Sweanders on that too. Most of you all are trying to work around the problem, why not correct the problem instead.
It has taken over three years to do it but I think I have finally beaten it into our administrative staff that they need to resize/resample the images before they insert them into PP presentations. There is one page that they always stick in our proposals with over 20 logos for various clients and that one page used to take up to an hour to print. That is because the dopes would just insert the pictures as is (scanned as huge bitmaps) and think fitting the image to the spot on the page by grabbing the corner and sliding would also change the file size. Low and behold it didn't so you wind up with one page that could be as big a 20 to 40 mb.
I don't now if PowerPoint in Office XP or 2003 has an image resample feature like Frontpage, but PP in Office 2000 does not (at least no that I can find). If they don't they sure need it.
It has taken over three years to do it but I think I have finally beaten it into our administrative staff that they need to resize/resample the images before they insert them into PP presentations. There is one page that they always stick in our proposals with over 20 logos for various clients and that one page used to take up to an hour to print. That is because the dopes would just insert the pictures as is (scanned as huge bitmaps) and think fitting the image to the spot on the page by grabbing the corner and sliding would also change the file size. Low and behold it didn't so you wind up with one page that could be as big a 20 to 40 mb.
I don't now if PowerPoint in Office XP or 2003 has an image resample feature like Frontpage, but PP in Office 2000 does not (at least no that I can find). If they don't they sure need it.
07-10-2003, 03:10 PM
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Don't bother saving it to a CD the way it is. It's too big. Even if you did save it, a single 500MB file will lock up 90% of the computers in the world anyway. Like the others have said, resize your images first.
If you're just displaying images on a computer screen, there's no reason for them to be bigger than 100k tops. In fact, you can print a 100k jpg and it'll look pretty good at 4x6.
As a systems admin, I'd like to thank you for not trying to email a 500MB document. As a rule, if the lights in the building dim when you hit "send", IT'S PROBABLY TOO BIG.
If you're just displaying images on a computer screen, there's no reason for them to be bigger than 100k tops. In fact, you can print a 100k jpg and it'll look pretty good at 4x6.
As a systems admin, I'd like to thank you for not trying to email a 500MB document. As a rule, if the lights in the building dim when you hit "send", IT'S PROBABLY TOO BIG.
07-10-2003, 08:59 PM
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well, my mom will not resize the files...it was hard enough for her to scan them in and make a PP in the first place.
My mom just decided to take the hole computer to where we are having the party so I don'thav to worry about it anymore.
Thanks for all the help everyone!!!!
My mom just decided to take the hole computer to where we are having the party so I don'thav to worry about it anymore.
Thanks for all the help everyone!!!!
07-10-2003, 09:02 PM
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I hope she has an *** kickin' computer, because a huge .ppt presentation can take forever to load and may run like a pig. She doesn't have embedded audio in it too does she?