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Not local permissions. It looks as though the A: and C: have been turned off through Windows controls rather than permissions. This is sensible really because you wouldn't be able to run any applications if you didn't have access to the C: drive.

Correct because your S drive takes you into the folder structure as though your partition is the root so you can't see above or parallel to that folder. If type the server's UNC path in Explorer or IE you will most likely see its non-hidden shares. If your school admin is any good you won't be able to see you friends share because it will be a $ share and as such invisible when browsed (in CMD or Windows). Command doesn't do anything that Windows can't do anymore (since Win 2000) so you are going to hit the same domain permissions barriers using batch files as you would using Explorer to its full extent. There's a lot more to browsing a network from Windows than double clicking on network PC and shares.

You're not quite understanding how permissions work when it comes to DOS and Windows (and if your using CMD then it's not DOS it's the Windows Command Prompt which is a DOS emulator unless you are specifically booting into DOS from another source). Domain permissions are either set through NT Security or Active Directory users and computers depending on how the network Forest has been set up. The command prompt is merely an application the runs under your login credentials, unless you shift, right click the CMD shortcut, select runs as and login with another user then it's exactly the same as using Windows Explorer under your own login when it comes to files that you can and can't see. Again, you're kinda misunderstanding - it doesn't matter how many hard drives are on the server it still has a directory structure, one folder of which is shared as your S drive (if the drive is huge then it's likely to be a RAID array which can be made up of many drives). It seems odd that the school would choose to go the route of partitioning a drive many times just to set up shared areas, this is wasterful and un-scaleable. Even if your data was on a specific partition it's still within the directory structure of the server and still needs to be shared out as a folder. I'm an admin on a very large network (more than 40,000 users and 1000+ servers) that utilises many different types of shared area, application dispenser, personal data, department data, etc... all of which are mapped as specific drives for each user. It's Microsoft's standardised way of permissioning a network and allows granularity when setting specific perms. and is by far the most efficient way to do things based on expanding the network when new users join and making the best use of the resources.

There's plenty of junk out there about this. Fans of astral travel like to say that it's when your physical and astral body become out of synch and that it's the first steps to wandering the astral plains facilitated by the relaxation of nearing sleep. This happens a lot to me (not the astral travel but the feeling you describe) and usually when I'm physically very tired but mentally active. I also suffer from (although I quite enjoy it) the feeling of being paralysed while lying in bed. I looked into it a while back, can't find any sources just yet, and the best theory I found was that the brain is reliquishing control of the body in preparation for sleep (if this didn't happen we'd act out our dreams in full) but not quite reaching sleep. In the case of being paralysed the brain is awake and trying to move the body but it's not able to until the communication is restored. In the case of the jolt as you fall asleep, for me this only ever happens as a result of a dream causing a reaction and movement when, possibly, the brain has not quite finished letting go of the body. My personal addition to this theory is with regard to the feeling of falling. If the link between the body and the concious brain is suppressed then the feedback from the body will decrease. This means that you no longer feel the bed acting on your body and results in feeling as though you are in freefall or in some cases floating.

There's a whole world of feathers on a duck - it could be that your duck is moulting and you are seeing another type of feather that's usually not visible. Take a look at this - http://www.ornithology.com/lectures/Feathers.html If you want to go crazy here's a site with more information on a ducks feathers than I thought was possible! - http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/tools/duckplum/ducktab.htm

If this is the case then your school network is very far from secure. When you execute a batch file from Windows you inherit the same access rights as your AD/NT login. The batch file is not bypassing any security, the security's just not there in the first place. You could go to the location through Windows just as easily. Your S: drive will be a shared folder on the file server and could be anywhere within the directory tree. If the school has any sense it would be a $ share so that even if you could browse a higher directory within the tree you still wouldn't be able to see it.

The problem could be your wininit.ini file. The best thing to do is either delete or rename it by booting the PC into a command prompt. There's more information about this here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283069 Take a look at the other articles listed on that page, they could also be useful.

Have you tried booting into Safe Mode (keep tapping F8 at the POST until a menu appears)? From there you can uninstall DX9 to see if that resolves the problem. Most boot failures of this type are attributable to graphics hardware or driver problems which are usually bypassed when booting into safe mode. I doubt this is a virus, more likely an installation has screwed up somehow.

More than half the plant mass on the planet is algae. It also performs the majority of the photosynthesis.

Both of those methods are fine as a quick fix but not very good for a forum that wants to build up a reputation. The iframe stops bookmarking specific pages easily and the redirect tends to look amateur. Why not just get some hosting and install a forum, it's far from difficult?

There's barely any difference in price between Windows and *nix hosting. phpBB and Invision are the two that I would look into. Xoops is ok but it's more of a portal and is weaker on the forum side. PHP-Nuke is a mess, it's full of junk and tries to be everything to everyone. http://www.lobsterweb.com/wdf/'>http://www.lobsterweb.com/wdf/ - is a phpBB forum, no ads (other than my own google ads) and once you get going it's very customisable. http://www.lobsterweb.com/ - is a long abandoned Xoops site - you can get the idea of what it's capable of even though there's not much content.

That's an ISP.

You need an ISP. You are not going to be able to join the Internet, and certainly not host a site, without one. At best you could set up some sort of VPN that would allow other specific machines to connect to yours if they are configured properly but then that's not much use if you want people to actually access your site.

Huh?

Have I Got News For You tends to pick the more bizarre (and not necessarily true) headlines to use on the show.

Meh...! The quiz didn't happen to be Have I Got News For You quoting the News of the World or some other red-top comic?

Why would the minimum be a T1 - any speed connection will get the job done (excluding dial-up for obvious reasons).

There is a small delay between receiving an injury and feeling it - a second or so, but this is not likely the reason for the above examples. As others have said it's probably shock that caused her to scream because if you actually think about it a needle in your knee isn't really that painful, in fact most things aren't as painful as we tell ourselves they are. A pin prick does, more often than not, feel like an itch, it's only when we look and think "that's should hurt, it's needle in my knee" that the full pain response occurs.

It shows that your connection to Google is/was flakey or that you were behind a fussy firewall when you tried it! Here's something similar to what you should get:

Your PC -> Your ISP -> Large ISP -> Internet Backbone -> Google's ISP -> Google's Web Server. Don't confuse web servers with routers and infrastructure. A web server itself is just a place where the files are stored and parsed, Google still has to plug their server farm into the Internet just like the rest of us only in a larger, more permanent way. Try running "tracert google.com" from a command prompt. You'll see the different network nodes involved in the route between you and Google.

Simply and quickly because I've only got a minute: You could connect to the Internet without an ISP if you wanted to but there's a lot of cost involved. Basically the Internet is a collection of groups of computers of different sizes (networks, LANs, subnets, etc.). These collections are themselves collected into larger groups, and so on. There are a handful of major infrastructure companies who effectively own the 'highways' of the Internet to whom all the smaller ISPs go to gain access themselves. These guys are big and control things in two ways. Firstly, they own the actual fabric of the Internet (the routers, fibres, satellites, etc.). Secondly, they are good at what they do and consequently charge others to use their systems. We choose to use their systems as they are by far the best available. It's very common to connect one PC to another over the Internet without using an ISP but it's not cost effective and not efficient for general use. If we all did it imagine how many individual small 'pipes' there would be., all of them having to create their own routes and send data from point to point rather than using Cache and DNS servers. It would be very slow to use and you would have to know the exact address of the computer you want to visit, rather than its friendly URI. It's a bit like everybody making their own private road to everywhere they ever wanted to go rather than using the existing roads and highways. Let me know if you want more info.

Here's a guide to get you quickly on the road to proving that those sad Windows people have no idea about computers, whilst you have personally transcended to another layer of understanding and are truly l33t. 1. Remember, all Microsoft programs are bad, regardless of what they are designed to do - they all have security holes and crash any PC at least 3 times per day. 2. Windows will allow any virus less than 6 months old straight into your personal files immediately. Of course any other OS (especially Linux) can crush these puny attackers without a second glance. The fact that people don't bother writing viruses to attack other OS's is meaningless and should be dismissed should anybody use it as a defence for Windows. 3. Don't type M$ but always remark that it's not cool to use it any more. That way people know you've been against Microsoft from the beginning. 4. Dismiss the years and years of testing and improvement done by Microsoft on its various software. Any improvement are only implemented to desperately patch a gaping security hole or as a means to gain more personal information about you. 5. Any OS that releases a constant stream of betas has to be good. They're always developing it right? Forget that the last bug free version was 5 years ago, if you wanna stay in the fast lane you've got to put up with half finished applications and documentation that starts and ends with "Coming Soon". 6. Running ANYTHING in beta is cool. Period. 7. Any OS or application that requires you to edit a text file containing 1000 lines just to open it has to be better than anything that allows you to change settings via a silly little control panel or menu. 8. If the application needs to be launched from a command line with numerous /switches then it's cool and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. 9. If the majority of people are quite happy using Windows that doesn't mean you should. They are just poor sheep who don't know any better. 10. Networking on Windows is rubbish. We all know that, don't we? It doesn't matter if you don't know your TCP from you DNS you'll sound like a true network admin by shouting the virtues of Linux networking. 11. The best applications have names that replace letters with numbers or similar sounding letters. After all hAx0rz do that and they can bring Microsoft to its knees if they want to. 12. It doesn't matter what age you are, don't let those old fools who have been using computers for longer than you've been alive tell you about the best software. They aren't keeping up with the times and have probably never hacked their teachers email like you did last semester. 13. Fabricate a brush with the law for Cybercrimes. Everybody respects somebody who tried to change the time on their ISP's server and girls love that sort of thing.

Do you have any justification for that statement? The list of 'improvements' you have suggested mostly reduce usability and remove options from the user - they also have very little to do with an OS. If you feel that Windows is a bad OS then please state why, I fear you are repeating an old and tired statement that bears very little resemblance to considered opinion.

A lot of people (well, of those that believe it exists physically) reckon it might be beneath Antartica as the shape of the land under Antartica is similar to the believed shape of Atlantis.

It's true that a crash doesn't kill the computer because it's running under the existing OS and as such isn't directly controlling resources. It's not true that it will run better than an equally powerful PC though. As the Windows emulator is running on the Mac OS it's having to "use" Mac OS to access the computer resources. This adds a middle man to the whole thing and will slow it down by default.