WE HAVE FOUND THAT UN-UPDATED WINDOWS PC'S ATTRIBUTE TO MOST OF OUR TECHNICAL SUPPORT CALLS - WHEN IT COMES TO INSTALL/UPGRADE PROBLEMS. **** UPGRADE MICROSOFT - This option varies from Windows Platform and the icon is not always located in the same spot. Usually it is located at the top of the Start Button and is called Windows Update. The updates can also be located at the following web address. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.

Office does not come as standard with any Microsoft Operating system. We don't stock or supply any software... our specialisation is in hardware. Again, if you require software, we recommend you search for it on eBay (simply enter "Microsoft Office" as your search keywords). We are unable to change the Operating System advertised. If a unit is advertised with a specific Operating System, it's because it is prelicensed with it, so we are unable to change it to a different one.

Windows XP Professional will be available in 24 official localized versions in addition to English. In any version of Windows XP Professional, you can display, input, edit, and print documents in hundreds of languages. Users or administrators can set regional preferences, fonts, keyboard layouts, sorting orders, date formats, and so on.

Log::Log4perl is fully supported on the Win32 platform. It has been tested with Activestate perl 5.6.1 under Windows 98 and rumor has it that it also runs smoothly on all other major flavors (Windows NT, 2000, XP, etc.). It also runs nicely with ActiveState 5.8.0, and, believe me, we had to jump through some major hoops for that. Typically, Win32 systems don't have the make utility installed, so the standard perl Makefile.PL; make install on the downloadable distribution won't work.

Cygwin/X, in conjunction with Cygwin, provides a complete compatibility layer for compiling and running UNIX applications on Microsoft Windows.

You can still boot and run Knoppix even if you have windows installed. Knoppix will not interfere with your windows install, when you are finished with Knoppix you can just remove the cd and you're back to your old windows.

For many years, all UNIX boxes came with the tip or cu programs. Their basic function was to allow you to interactively read/write a serial port. If you don't have tip or cu, you almost certainly has some other equivalent. Call your vendor (or ask around) to find out the name.

Yes. Since the Spring 1997 alpha release of Tk402.000 there has been a Perl/Tk for Windows NT. Subsequent developments appear to include multi-compiler support, firmer Win 95 support, better out of the box extensibility with XS based modules, etc. Gurusamy Sarathy has been kind enough to put together Perl binary distributions for Win32 that include Tk pre-built. It is available from his CPAN directory at: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-authors/Gurusamy_Sarathy/

the moment, DJ-1800 is available for Mac OS X only. We do hope one day to create a Windows version of DJ-1800, but it's not something we're planning to do in the foreseeable future. This is mainly due to the fact that Mac and Windows audio environments are so different! For now, we'd rather concentrate on making DJ-1800 the best Mac DJ application there is. Chances are you've inadvertently switched to an output mode that doesn't use the internal mixer.

Yes, yes and no, and barely. Gurusamy Sarathy made a Perl/Tk for Windows NT available first with the Spring 1997 alpha release of Tk402.000. Subsequent developments appear to include multi-compiler support, firmer Win 95 support, better out of the box extensibility with XS based modules, etc. ActiveState Corporation now makes a binary of the Tk module available through its PPM mechanism. Steve Lidie leads those using "Perl/Tk and Mac OS X".

Many people incorrectly believe that this cannot be done in Windows 98. It just requires an extra step. (If you have a really old version of Windows 98, you might need to download some of Microsoft's updates first.) Open the properties dialog for the folder for which you wish to display thumbnails (right click, then select properties, or highlight the folder, then do file->properties). Now check enable thumbnail view, and proceed as above for newer versions of Windows.

No, as mentioned on ActiveWin a long time ago, the Digital Sound System 80 has been discontinued by Microsoft, so as they tend to do, there will not be any new software coming out for it...so you are basically stuck with the speakers working in analog mode.

Even though Windows and Office are very closely linked when you use your computer, they are separate. Microsoft Windows is an operating system. An operating system manages the other programs on your computer, and (in the case of Windows) provides an graphical user interface (GUI) to help you run programs-also referred to as applications. Windows organizes all the programs and hardware on you computer so that they work together.

A BT Chargecard makes phoning home at regular intervals extremely simple, and that's enough for many, who positively welcome their escape from more sophisticated methods of communication, and dislike the ever more intrusive mobile phone. But if you want to use e-mail, click here for a list of cybercafés and other places offering Internet services along the Camino francés. Getting letters from home is nice, though.

Actually, yes, and quite often too. Since Microsoft released XP to manufacturing, the company has updated several system components, and users will be able to download these updates through Windows Update when XP becomes widely available. Microsoft will extensively update Windows Messenger, for example, to include compatibility with Exchange Server 2000. The company will update Windows Movie Maker (WMM) from version 1.1, which ships in the box with XP, to version 1.2. WMM 1.

Yes, Windows users can sign up for a .Mac trial or a full .Mac membership. .Mac Mail, .Mac Groups, Address Book, Bookmarks, iDisk, and Support can be used on a Windows machine, but certain applications, such as Backup, are only available on a Mac.

WebEx recommends 56kbps or higher data connection. It is possible to participate on lower speed analog lines but problems may be seen.

I try to use argus, and all I get is ERROR unable to connect to server checking cache... unable to locate cached data ABORTING I try to access argus, and my browser just displays an error similar to, but not exactly like, the one above. The datadir and auth file and control socket need to be writable by the www user (or whatever user/group your web server runs as). The log, user and html/* files need to be readable by the www user and writable by the argus user (or whatever user argusd runs as).