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POST COMPUTER PROBLEMS IN THIS THREAD ONLY

Started by Nobody Soup, February 08, 2013, 12:41:30 AM

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gabrielconroy

Quote from: Noonling on May 20, 2018, 10:39:10 PM
I'll post here on the off chance someone has a magical solution...

So the Internet on my PC has been having problems ever since I moved here a couple of months ago. Sometimes its fine for a few days, but usually its only a few hours before it stops working properly. It mostly seems to work on my phone, although I frequently have to turn on and off the WiFi. The main error page I get says "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG"

In general it won't show any problem when trying to "diagnose" it. I can't ping, e.g. google.com, but I can ping a DNS server. Flushing the DNS cache does nothing. I tried setting a manual DNS server and this seemed to work for a few days...Then not (probably a coincidence that it worked?). I've tried deleting the wireless network profile. I've tried turning the router off and on again.

Perhaps worth noting I usually try to connect to an extension rather than the router itself, though often neither work. Sometimes switching from one to the other does work, or works for a few minutes.

Other oddities: A couple of times I've got the message that someone on the network is using the same IP address as me (though this doesn't usually pop up). If I disconnect & reconnect it often seems to work for about a minute (sometimes for hours). Sometimes when its kinda working but being super slow I look at speedtest.net, and I notice its using a server that's miles and miles away - this may come with a little warning that its to do with my VPN - I don't use a VPN.

The main oddity right now is that earlier this was genuinely the only website I could access. I couldn't use Google or anything, just Cookd and Bombd.

Have you tried connecting directly to the router by ethernet?

Also log in to the router and see what devices are connected. You should be able to disconnect any that shouldn't be there, which might fix the "same IP address" problem.

Check if there are any strange proxy settings in your network connection dialogue, as well.

popcorn

Quote from: Blumf on April 27, 2018, 06:12:57 PM
Hum, doubt it's pornhub, but I'd still see if your firewall is logging anything.

Sorry for the slow reply. Completely forgot about this.

Unfortunately I don't have access to the router. It's somewhere else in the building (shared connection, like I said). Is there anything else I can try?

pornhub.com definitely slows the connection, btw. if I just open that, click on a few juicy videos, and do nothing else, the internet packs up within a minute or two. Then it recovers after I close it.

popcorn

In fact the internet doesn't pack up until I actually start loading videos. Don't get this problem on YouTube.

Dusty Gozongas

I recall a having a similar problem on an older version of Windows. I'm pretty sure it was caused by having a surplus Wi-Fi network connection being enabled at the same time as the original one.

Might be worth looking in Control Panel > Network and Sharing Centre > Change Adapter Settings to see if there's anything obvious.

Howj Begg

Is this also a phone problems thread? My Android Moto GP updated the system and now it doesn't recognise my external microSD card. Most of my apps won't work, I can't take photos or dl images on whatsapp. Help!

Kelvin

I'm useless with computers, and I don't know how to fix this basic problem. For some reason, some of the secondary functions on my keyboard have changed. So, for example, holding SHIFT and 2 produces @ rather than speech marks, and SHIFT and 3 produces # rather than a pound sign.   

Google says I've somehow changed the language settings, but I've changed them back to UK, and it's still a problem.

Any ideas?

the

Smear butterscotch Angel Delight on the keyboard and shout 'I AM A MAN'

Alternatively, it's probably a setting under 'Region and Language' in Control Panel (assuming it's a Windows machine). Go through them all, particularly the keyboard-related ones.

There might be some bollocks where you have to move "English (United Kingdom)" to the top of the list (presuming you have United States in there somewhere too). Struggling to remember.

Kelvin

This is the problem. I literally can't even work out how to open control panel. I can only find settings. I'm a total embarrassment when it comes to computers.

Under settings I did change the region to UK, and it's definitely saved that way. The problem persists, though.

Kelvin

Fixed it! Left ALT key and shift simultaneously.

"£@

back to how it was.

Thanks anyway. At least you can have a good laugh at how shit I am.

the

Funnily enough, I only found out about that setting just now, while looking through the menus. We've both just learned.

PS. Now you've got your keyboard fixed, write some more comedy you big pillock

Wilbur

In the latest two iterations of Windows 10 Microsoft in their mighty wisdom have hidden the control panel. If you type control panel in the search/cortana or run field it will appear and then you can right click on it and add it back to the taskbar.

Dusty Gozongas

Although it's a bit of an annoying scroll down, you'll find it in the Start Menu under Windows System.

I put an icon for it on my desktop ages ago.

olliebean

Or if you just right-click on the Start button (or press Win+X), up pops a menu that contains a link to Control Panel amongst a bunch of other useful things.

Pseudopath

Quote from: olliebean on June 04, 2018, 10:29:56 PM
Or if you just right-click on the Start button (or press Win+X), up pops a menu that contains a link to Control Panel amongst a bunch of other useful things.

IIRC, Microsoft removed the Control Panel option from the right-click context menu in 1703 (Creators Update). Quite why is a different matter (the Settings screen is still bunkum in comparison).

Wilbur

Quote from: olliebean on June 04, 2018, 10:29:56 PM
Or if you just right-click on the Start button (or press Win+X), up pops a menu that contains a link to Control Panel amongst a bunch of other useful things.

Nope they have removed it from there in the last two builds.......

hedgehog90

Does anyone know how the Windows 10 search function works?
Sometimes it finds the app/setting/file you're looking for with an unsequenced partial match, other times it requires the beginning of the string, other times it requires an exact match, spaces and all.
Usually though it just refuses to find or index anything at all, like, anything in my user folder or desktop.

I know I won't get any answers here, I just wanted to remind everyone what a heap of shit Windows has become.
And I've just read Microsoft has just bought GitHub.
Sigh.

Twed

OS search should be the simplest thing but in absolutely every OS GUI ever it manages to subvert the user's expectations in behaviour, speed and results.

In a folder with 556 files would it not be natural to be able to type a filter string in that little box above and see the results filtered? Maybe a fancier string to do recursion or anchoring to the root of the file system for power users?

OS designers say no.

Twed

I love it in particular on MacOS, where typing in the name of a file you know exists in the folder you've navigated to instead shows you some emails with that word in it. Thanks. Thanks for doing that.

Wilbur

Search is one of those things that seems simple but is a lot more difficult than you'd think. Everything search for windows is pretty good.

olliebean

Quote from: Pseudopath on June 05, 2018, 12:39:44 AM
IIRC, Microsoft removed the Control Panel option from the right-click context menu in 1703 (Creators Update). Quite why is a different matter (the Settings screen is still bunkum in comparison).

They did? The fuckers. I think the Creator's Update was the one where my updates stopped working entirely, and I had to turn them off because they kept trying to apply the update and then reverting back to the previous version. So that'll be why I hadn't noticed.

Blumf

Been a very useful search tool for me:
https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html

The whole site has some other useful things e.g.
https://tools.stefankueng.com/StExBar.html

As for MS fucking up Windows. This past week I found out that the clipboard viewer had been dropped from Vista onwards. Irritating as I wanted to check some cut/paste functionality quickly and had to knock up a rough app to replace it.

hedgehog90

Quote from: Blumf on June 05, 2018, 11:17:14 PM
Been a very useful search tool for me:
https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html

The whole site has some other useful things e.g.
https://tools.stefankueng.com/StExBar.html

As for MS fucking up Windows. This past week I found out that the clipboard viewer had been dropped from Vista onwards. Irritating as I wanted to check some cut/paste functionality quickly and had to knock up a rough app to replace it.

Tah, I use something called TextCrawler which looks more or less the same as grepWin.

You should check out ClipDiary if you haven't already. It records every copy command and stores it in a database. It has a search filter for finding stuff.
I haven't emptied the cache for 2 years but it's still under 1 gig and still finds stuff immediately.
I don't understand why clipboard history isn't builtin to every OS nowadays, it's an absolute necessity for me, saved my arse countless times.

Johnny Textface

https://youtu.be/t92YeCTCh08

Peter Simon from Tv's wierd shopping channels appears to edging towards illness.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Hi guys

I have a coding/website issue rather than a hardware issue.

I'm trying to embed this spreadsheet https://www.rowshare.com/t/368729ac4b324fcc88848c1018507042 on my wordpress site https://[SPAM - REMOVED].com but the text editor just wipes/doesn't recognize the specific iframe code.

I've checked the code itself which is fine, but it seems WordPress deliberately disable this and force you to use a plugin only accessible if you subscribe to a premium account.

Firstly, fuck them, but also, is there a way around this, or a way anyone can think of incorporating the content differently so as to still seem integrated into the site? Having a link to an external page/pdf/xls download isn't really what I was hoping for.

Thanks

the

The only thing I can think of (other than stumping up the cash or hosting by some other means) is converting it to a simple HTML table and putting that in a post.

Table tagging seems to be supported on free, whereas Iframes are not: https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

The main problem is that you won't be able to update the table by updating the spreadsheet, you'll have to re-convert and repost for every update.

In terms of converting it, you can either try and strip back the HTML code that comes out of Rowshare (which I know nothing about), or do what I'd do, which is to get the text out of the sheet in tab-separated plain text.

Depending on your skills you could then either use search & replace to build a table structure round the tab structure, or perhaps there's some website where you can paste in a chunk of tab-separated text and it wraps it in HTML table tagging.

Wordpress will probably limit you in terms of how heavily you can format that table too.

the

Just pasted in a simple table from W3schools, it does work:

         

Although depending on your theme, not sure if the width of the data in your table might become an issue.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Ouch. I wish I'd checked this first, but Wordpress allows you to embed video and maps so didn't think anything of it

the

Yep. You can't customise the CSS on free either, so the limitations do make themselves known.

More info on supported embeds here and here.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Twed on June 05, 2018, 08:32:42 PM
OS search should be the simplest thing but in absolutely every OS GUI ever it manages to subvert the user's expectations in behaviour, speed and results.


The wee dug in xp was ok.

Now I'm on a unix system I almost always just open a terminal and use locate.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Noonling on May 20, 2018, 10:39:10 PM
I'll post here on the off chance someone has a magical solution...

So the Internet on my PC has been having problems ever since I moved here a couple of months ago. Sometimes its fine for a few days, but usually its only a few hours before it stops working properly. It mostly seems to work on my phone, although I frequently have to turn on and off the WiFi. The main error page I get says "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG"

In general it won't show any problem when trying to "diagnose" it. I can't ping, e.g. google.com, but I can ping a DNS server. Flushing the DNS cache does nothing. I tried setting a manual DNS server and this seemed to work for a few days...Then not (probably a coincidence that it worked?). I've tried deleting the wireless network profile. I've tried turning the router off and on again.

Perhaps worth noting I usually try to connect to an extension rather than the router itself, though often neither work. Sometimes switching from one to the other does work, or works for a few minutes.

Other oddities: A couple of times I've got the message that someone on the network is using the same IP address as me (though this doesn't usually pop up). If I disconnect & reconnect it often seems to work for about a minute (sometimes for hours). Sometimes when its kinda working but being super slow I look at speedtest.net, and I notice its using a server that's miles and miles away - this may come with a little warning that its to do with my VPN - I don't use a VPN.

The main oddity right now is that earlier this was genuinely the only website I could access. I couldn't use Google or anything, just Cookd and Bombd.

More than likely an IP conflict. Does something have a static IP?

I ask because I had more-or-less the same problem with my phone along with being unable to talk to my raspberry pi and it turned out it was because my pi had a statically defined IP and my router (virgin 'super' hub) was assigning the same address via dhcp which is FUCKING STUPID.

I'm aware it's better practice to tell the dhcp server (the router) to assign certain ip's to certain devices based on mac but it really is ridiculous that a dhcp implementation is too stupid to check if an ip is in use before assigning it.