Messenger doesn't actually use your email really. It just uses your email address as a username for when you log in. Just leave it at the hotmail value and ignore it. You might find other MSN users will email you at the hotmail account, so you'll need to check that from somewhere else (the previous advice) and if you try and send email from the service - youll need to open gmail instead of the auto presented webpage. Alternately you can stop using your current account, create a new account using your gmail account and re-add all your friends. Unfortunately then anyone who adds your old address will just go to an unused account - lots of your friends will reject the add request unless you message them first from your old account and let them know what's going on. If you try and use the offline messaging functionality for that - you'll find out that it's not actually 100% effective and it's generally a huge pain in the neck that isn't worth the hassle.
I recall I had to e-mail the MSN Live guys to get my gmail account to work with MSN Messenger (it was still MSN Messenger back then...) - it took them about 48 hours to enable it but it eventually worked. But Scootah's right about having to invite all the contacts back (the ones you want to keep, anyway), since you're using a new account.
How fucked am I? I spilled pretty much a cup full of water on my laptop which then shut down. I pulled the adapter and the battery out. Turned it upside down to get the water out and then left it to dry for the night. It did switch on in the morning but then died again but worked fine after the second try. I will take it to get cleaned or whatever the first chance I get but how big are the chances that it suffered permanent damage?
Here's a hint for anyone who ever spills liquid on a piece of electronics: 12 hours of drip-drying is not sufficient and you should NEVER turn it on again until you are 100%, undoubtedly, no-question, completely SURE that everything including the guts of the device are completely dry. If you turned it on again and it wouldn't stay on, then there's a good chance it wasn't dry. So many electronics will survive a soaking, only to be ruined when the person tries to use it again too soon. There are lots of methods for drying electronics depending on what it is (phones or MP3 players can be dropped into a bag of rice for a few days). For other people who might stumble upon this post, your first reaction to wetting electronics should be to yank the battery and/or the power source out of them immediately and don't even think about turning them back on "just to check." Then soak up as much of the liquid as you can. If it's something sticky, clean it up with rubbing alcohol on a towel. Laptops usually dry fairly well with a hair dryer set on low heat, but don't blast it up close because you can drive water deeper into the laptop. Hold it away from the laptop and use the heat, not the air, to dry it. Open up as much of the laptop as you can easily get at, typically there are several scew-shut compartments on the bottom that house the hard drive, memory, wireless card, etc. You can remove any and all of these components if you are comfortable with it. If you're mechanically inclined, pulling the keyboard off of the laptop will provide you with the best access to the wet parts but make sure you only do that if you possess the skills to do it right. Aside from the hair dryer, you can open it up and leave it in a sunny spot to warm up and drive the water out. Some people put it in an oven on "warm" and leave the door open. I have not tried that and since oven temperatures vary so much, well, figure out if that's a good solution for you. I typically won't touch electronics for 48-72 hours after they get wet unless I can take them apart enough to be absolutely sure they're dry.
This. The combination of my clumsiness and asshole-friends have put me in this situation too many times. I had a jar of rice that revived a phone after a weekend. As well, I used to have a convection oven that I could set to low temperatures like 95 degrees, and set for 3-4 hours. That saved a couple phones as well. The most likely part of your phone that will be damaged is the screen as LCDs don't seem to like being cooked, as they get kind of a whitish blurriness to them. I had this problem at 120 degrees, and possibly even less than that. On an unrelated note, if you ever want to destroy something electronic without it being obvious, water can work. But I've been a bigger fan of taking the casing off, using a 9V battery and some paper clips, and shorting it until it won't turn on. Some laptop circuits have a sort of breaker, but if you keep trying different spots you'll eventually hit the right one. Giggity.
I recently had the thumbnails for my video files disappear. I tried a few fixes and found this registry fix to work: Spoiler Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpeg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpe\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.asf\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mov\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.divx\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4] "PerceivedType"="video" @="WMP11.AssocFile.MPEG" "Content Type"="video/mpeg" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\OpenWithProgIds] "MPEGFile"=hex(0): "WMP11.AssocFile.MPEG"=hex(0): [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\PersistentHandler] @="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mp4] "Runtime"=dword:00000007 "Extension.MIME"="video/mpeg" "SPDHandler"="WMP11.AssocFile.MPEG" "Extension.Handler"="mpegfile" "MCIHandler"="MPEGVideo" "Permissions"=dword:0000000f "MediaType.Description"="Movie Clip" "MediaType.Icon"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,\ 6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,\ 00,77,00,6d,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,63,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,\ 37,00,33,00,33,00,00,00 "Shell.Open"="/prefetch:9 /Open \"%L\"" "PerceivedType"="video" "MediaType.DescriptionID"="9902" "Shell.AltVerb.Cmd"="/prefetch:9 /Play \"%L\"" "ReplaceApps"="wmplayer.exe|iexplore.exe" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\MIME Types\video/mpeg] "Extension.Key"=".mpeg" "Extensions.CommaSep"="mpeg,mpg,mpe,mpv,m1v,m2v,mod,mp2,mpa,mpv2,mp2v,mp4" "Extensions.SpaceSep"=".mpeg .mpg .mpe .mpv .m1v .m2v .mod .mp2 .mpa .mpv2 .mp2v .mp4" "ReplaceApps"="wmplayer.exe" "CLSID"="{cd3afa89-b84f-48f0-9393-7edc34128127}" However, the image it is using is from the first few frames and results in only a black icon. Does anyone know a way to change the frame used? Or if not, possibly change the way altogether for the video thumbnails? Couple things; I am on Windows 7 Photo thumbnails are fine, it's just video that is weird.
I know some of you geeks do big corporate stuff. Anyone had direct exposure to Stuxnet threats or APT compromises?
I know 2 guys that are currently (recently) under contract to the government that are making this their life for the next little bit, but have no hands-on experience myself. Not quite sure how much they're allowed to share stuff, but I can enquire, if you want. All of my threat vectors pretty well reside in layer 7. IDS, dynamic real-time honeypot routing, and some collusion detection are about the only kind of hard-core security stuff I deal with any more on any kind of regular basis. (Other than best practices app/system design that takes security and monitoring into account).
If anyone else is like me and hates the autocomplete function, you will no doubt have been pissed off when Google decided to remove the "turn off autocomplete" toggle and forced users to put up with it. However, this url: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0</a> is now my home page, and works fine. Google without the autocomplete.
I downloaded a concert video online and converted it to DVD. I'd really like to get all the songs off it and make a CD to listen to in the car. Is there a way to do that?
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I deserved that. What I had meant to ask was, is there a specific converter you guys like/trust that is easy to use. I ended up finding a program named, appropriately enough, DVD Audio Extractor. I was able to use it pretty easily and it did what I wanted. It's default output is .ogg. What the fuck is .ogg? I see .ogg and .flac a lot now, and none of my programs support that stuff.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.vorbis.com/faq/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.vorbis.com/faq/</a> Flac is a lossless compression format meaning it loses no quality from the original source. Way smaller than the raw wav files from a DVD or cd but none of the original quality is lost.
Audacity is free (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and now has ogg and flac import built in. If you open the ogg or flac file with Audacity, then you have the option to "export" that file as an mp3. Audacity does not have built-in capability to open and export mp3's, though. First, you have to download (also free) an encoder like LAME for Windows. The instructions to do that are very simple. After you download Audacity, look under "help" and "exporting mp3s." I know it's simple, because I'm an idiot, and I figured it out.
Does anybody know of a theme for Blackberry, or how to make your own with Theme Builder, that will allow the photo associated with an incoming call larger. It is ridiculously tiny, and I cannot seem to find any way to increase the photo size. I can change its position, I can make the fonts larger and change the layout - just not the photo. I think I read that Toysoft or somebody makes an app that will allow the picture to fill up the whole screen. But, I'm looking for a) free, and b) one that doesn't have as many bugs (from what I read).
More often than not (oddly, it's inconsistent), when I start up my comp, a window pops up with the following: But my internet works just fine. No problems at all. The pop up message, however, is annoying and I'd like it to stop. I googled the message and found several sites saying to others with a similar problem that they should update their drivers. I opened my device manager. Under "Network Adapters" are 3 items: -Broadcom 440x10/100 Integrated Controller -Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-card -Microsoft ISATAP Adapter The third "Microsoft ISATAP Adapter" has a little yellow "caution!" triangle on it. I right clicked on each of the three, one-by-one and searched for updates for each. All three came back "Windows determined the driver software for your device is up to date." Soooo, any ideas or suggestions? Thanks for your time and your help.
I currently have a wireless router. Its hooked up to my desktop via ethernet but I recently replaced my desktop and I want to set up the old one as a spare. The problem is the room with my router is on the opposite side of the house from my room where the desktop would be. I have a spare wireless router. Is there anyway to plug the desktop in my room into the spare router via ethernet to connect to my network? Sorry if this is a basic question I don't really know much about networking or wireless.
You've got a few options, if i'm reading this correctly... You could get a long-ass ethernet cord (to connect to the original router), a wireless USB adapter, or a wireless PCI card. I don't think you can use a secondary wireless router as an antenna, to connect to another wireless network. Someone correct me if i'm wrong.
Put the second wireless router in Bridge mode, connect it to your spare PC by Ethernet cable. Assumes that your spare router supports firmware that allows Bridge mode.
In the interest of keeping it simple.... Why don't you just buy a usb wireless card and install it into the spare computer. Then connect to your lan via the wireless router. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5749966&CatId=2688" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=2688</a>