Posts by LoopyIT

Is the M100 the equivalent of the UK A100? If so, I'd stick with sony. I was thinking about the dual core A100 since my previous two lappys were Toshiba and by and large I was quite happy with them. The thing that put me off was the A100...

..is this possible? I need to be able to connect via a BB usb modem in order to get access to a small no of sites my wireless router has taken a sudden dislike to. However, I loathe the aol browser and I'm wondering how i can set the...

That's not comforting. I've never been able to get my wireless centrino working with WEP enabled, so gave up and left it off. I was thinking of the doing the mac trick to give some protection, but...! I do however have a firewall, all...

Tried that- no luck. Also installed and ran the winsock xp fix. Incidentally, I can't connect on hotmail either. I think my parents may have a spare adsl modem. If all else fails I could hook up to it for those sites. I considered...

hi, I have a netgear DG834g router with AOL. With my old toshiba laptop I had no problems accessing anything. When I first got my sony vaio FE, connection continued to be fine. However, the last couple of weeks the machine has started...

I'm so chuffed. Decided to try Linux again- went through Ubuntu and MepisLite and then- thanks to recs on this site- gave pclinuxos a go. Only distro so far that flawlessly detected my ethernet broadband connection and made getting...

I had some old VHS home movies which I copied onto DVD using my VHS player and DVD recorder. Then I processed the DVD through Adobe Premeiere Elements 2 on my new Vaio FE. Capturing and editing etc went well, and the resulting DVD is...

I'd agree with this. And WHY do computer manufacturers give the same machine different names according to the side of the pond? Sony is bad for that. I understand that configured models can't be compared directly to our fixed models, but...

H'mm, yes. What the heck is the MP4 library?

Firefox! Have tried Opera and didn't find it significantly faster than FF. Love the customisation options on FF- if you find firefox loads too slowly, try the preloader. Brilliant! Even my father- a die hard AOL fan (I'd take even IE...