Linus' House of IT: 15 cents please

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

How might one's IP address "disappear" and how might one get said address to "re-appear" sans magic of course?

Uh... HUH? Can you put this into a little more context? What are you referring to?

[Outlaw]

Originally Posted by Linus

Uh... HUH? Can you put this into a little more context? What are you referring to?

See, I thought I WAS speaking your language, sorry

Long story shortish...I was unable to connect to the internet, called the service provider, there wasn't an issue with their service or their equipment, they asked me to provide them with my IP address and when I did, they informed me that my original IP address was no longer valid, that the original IP address had "disappeared" and was replaced with an IP address that begins with two digits instead of three? so I would need to call the manufacturer of the computer for more information.

Off to google more. I thank you, Liz thanks you more!

[Linus]

Let me guess. It started with 10. something? If that is the case there is a special range of ip addresses that are reserved as "private addresses". These are not meant to be routed on the Internet. Think of it like a gated community that doesn't receive direct mail. You have to have a post office box to get your mail.

In this case if you cannot get out on to the Internet the router (the thing connected to your modem, which is connected directly to the Internet) is likely the problem. Is thisma wired or wireless connection?

[Linus]

*bumpity-bumpity*

[Sassybren]

Hi Linus,
I don't know if I did something or if I am having problems viewing the sight. I'm still getting to know my IMac so it coud be me. Last night I was scrolling down in a thread and the fonts got huge and now I can't get them back to normal. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Sassybren

Hi Linus,
I don't know if I did something or if I am having problems viewing the sight. I'm still getting to know my IMac so it coud be me. Last night I was scrolling down in a thread and the fonts got huge and now I can't get them back to normal. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

It sounds like the fonts may have changed. This can be resolved by going to View --> Zoom and then choosing Zoom out or Zoom Text Only and then choosing Zoom In or Zoom out.

[ravfem]

*placing a quarter on the desk*

hi Linus

For the last few weeks (maybe longer, who knows), my hard drive occasionally makes the noise like it's trying to read a disk, only it's empty. It'll do it once or twice then stop. (win xp)

It does it randomly; i can be reading threads here, in my email, or playing solitaire.

Any thoughts?

Thanks so much!!

[Linus]

Originally Posted by ravfem

*placing a quarter on the desk*

hi Linus

For the last few weeks (maybe longer, who knows), my hard drive occasionally makes the noise like it's trying to read a disk, only it's empty. It'll do it once or twice then stop. (win xp)

It does it randomly; i can be reading threads here, in my email, or playing solitaire.

Any thoughts?

Thanks so much!!

Do you mean Floppy Drive? If not, then I do not quite understand what you mean since reading the hard drive would indicate that there is a hard drive to read.

Now, if it is the floppy drive, did you recently access a document from a floppy disk? Because if you did, XP tries to keep a cache of recently accessed documents and is probably trying to see if it can find it. You can try the following to see if that stops it.

Go to Start --> control panel --> taskbar AND Go to start menu/[start menu]/[customize]/[advanced]


and at the very bottom click on the
[CLEAR LIST] button