On Mon, 15 May 2006 19:17, motivated wrote: > I have my cousins computer here, it is meant to run winXP home addition. > Theres some strange things going on with it : > Cant get into Outlook Express because it keeps asking for an idenity, but > it wont allow you to create one. Trying to install winzip but the best that > I can get is having to re-install it over and over. Setting desktop icons > makes no difference (nothing changes).
Now that's weird! It sounds like there's some weird stuff going on in the background - MS Win9x acts like that when there's a rootkit or suchlike running. MS WinXP would probably do the same. > > So here is the *nix question : > I tried running Damn Small Linux live cd and it immediately comes up with > an error : Only one processor found. Is the box a dual-processor? If so and the other CPU's in there, the motherboard may be on its way out, or the CPU may have quietly died. > > I find much of what Linux based OS's do kinda back the front, so is it > actually reporting an error because if it is it would explain much of the > problems with the comp. > > Thanks guys Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ------------- Mau ki ana, he aha te mea nui? You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku ki ana, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
