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I have already connected to WIFI but the browser that was originally in the phone kept showing unknown host when I try to go to yahoo etc.I’ve downloaded mini opera,ucweb and tea shark but after successfully installing them onto the phone they are unable to launch T.T I’ve contacted the seller and they’ve attached 2 different version of mini opera but when I tried to install it it kept showing failed to operate network or disk.When I tried to ask from the seller’s help again they’re just giving me informations that are not helping..

difficult question

i can not connect to any server on counter strike.1. I have it connected with steam 2. i checked firewall 3. i tried port forwarding 4. i am in network my bro can play, i can’t. 5. it happens to all of my steam games except Team fortress 2 happens to:
HL2:Death Match | GARRY’S MOD |Day Of Defeat:SOURCE| REG COUNTER-STRIKE |CONDITION ZERO |

>>>>> EVERY TIME I LAUNCH THE GAME IT SAYS CONNECTING TO SERVER… THEN I GET A MESSAGE ‘CONNECTION FAILED AFTER 4 TRIES’ <<<<<<<<
P.S i tried to reinstall steam repair steam reinstall all my steam games (including counter-strike source). Please i really need help.

You must uninstall the program and delete the program directory from your computer’s C:\Program Files directory.

Hi can anyone help me please? I have a Macbook Air. This is not the new one. This is the Macbook Air when it was first launched. The specs are:

1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB DDR2 RAM
80GB Hard Disk

So the problem is that everytime i try to update my software for the macbook, it loads very slow and when its done and i click install, it downloads and then it fails and the following message appears:

"the update can’t be saved… a networking error has occurred: timed out – make sure you connect to the internet, then try again." when my internet is already connected and did not change at all.

But this doesn’t happen when i’m connected to another wireless network. This only occurres to the wireless connection in my house. With the other connections, its very fast and downloads with no trouble at all.

Can anyone tell me what could be the problem be. is it the router or the internet service provider or..?
Thanks

If the connection works on a direct connection between the modem and the laptop, it is the router. If the direct (wired) connection doesn’t work, contact your ISP, because your modem is malfunctioning.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2141689,00.html

With more strikes imminent, the future of very British institution is under threat, write Nick Mathiason and Jo Revill

Sunday August 5, 2007
The Observer

As fireside chats go it was unconventional. But then Allan Leighton, chairman of the Royal Mail and one of Britain’s best connected businessmen, likes to style himself as a man of the people with a dash of Mr Motivator thrown in.

Urging his 167,000 workforce not to embark on Britain’s first national post strike in more than a decade, the 54-year-old told them: ‘You know me. I don’t do bullshit.’ The intention was to warn his employees, famously prone to wildcat action, against launching a series of strikes. It failed.

Leighton built his career on motivating thousands of disgruntled supermarket employees he called ‘colleagues’. Together they turned Asda from a backwater into a powerhouse supermarket.

But life has not gone so smoothly since. Leighton chaired a number of companies that have faced problems. But none like Royal Mail. Strike action received overwhelming backing throughout the network three weeks ago. It began 10 days ago. Last week, the Communication Workers Union extended action by another two weeks, paralysing businesses and inconveniencing the public. Talks between the parties have just started at Acas, the arbitration service.

At stake is Leighton’s personal reputation; but more important is the future of an institution that is part of the fabric of British society.

As it teeters under the weight of a £6bn pension shortfall and haemorrhages lucrative business customers – last month Amazon, the internet business, pulled its parcel contract – questions are now being asked whether the Royal Mail will, in future, be capable of fulfilling its obligation to guarantee deliveries to every household in Britain. Then there is the future of the post office network itself. Next year the government wants Royal Mail group to close 2,500 underperforming post offices in a move that will spark furious protests from communities and could seriously damage the government.

Before that, Leighton and his chief executive, Adam Crozier, the former Football Association boss, have to resolve a dispute that shows every sign of escalating into a war of attrition.

For the CWU though, this dispute is not just about a below-inflation 2.5 per cent pay deal plus a possible £800 bonus for hitting performance targets. Dave Ward, a former postman marshalling the dispute as deputy general secretary of the CWU, says it is about the philosophical direction of an organisation where he has worked since he left school in Tooting, south London, 35 years ago.

Ward has seen the business used as a cash cow by repeated governments who have raided Royal Mail profits to pay for other priorities. Starved of investment, it briefly plunged into the red a few years ago, but now it is making money. Ward wants back money sucked out of the business to pay for modernisation and to enable workers on an average wage of £323 a week to get more.

The message is falling on deaf ears. Leighton and Crozier say that employees at rival post firms who use modern automation systems are paid 25 per cent less and are 40 per cent more productive. The workforce take this statement as an insult. Morale is low. When the Royal Mail asks for voluntary redundancy, bosses are trampled in the rush.

Faith and trust have broken down. Ward believes Leighton and Crozier accepted government-imposed competition rules that will condemn the service to commercial suicide. He wants so-called access agreements to private companies using the postal service to be rewritten. Both sides are digging in as the government buries its head in the sand, concerned not to step into the row and be seen as protectionist.

Pat McFadden, enterprise minister at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform – formerly the DTI – says: ‘It is really for the company and the union to resolve this dispute. We are in touch with both sides but it is for them to sit down together and reach a resolution. We are not setting any kind of timetable.’

Adam Crozier, 43, is the calculating, smart operator to Leighton’s ‘bish, bash bosh’ diplomacy. While Leighton does the bold big picture, it is Crozier who is the power behind the Royal Mail.

Their big idea was to give postal workers a stake in the company by turning the group into a John Lewis-style partnership. If the workers had shares in the business they would receive yearly bonuses based on profit. Industrial relations would be improved at a stroke. There was one problem: the government, the Royal Mail’s only shareholder, didn’t buy the idea.

More blows followed. The postal regulator has rejected his request for zonal pricing, which would have seen letters posted to and from London charged at different rates to the rest of the country. And Europe is insisting the Royal Mail pays VAT, in a move that could destroy its finances. Royal Mail has postponed the publication of its accounts, due in May. The suspicion is that there is embarrassment at the scale of bonuses Leighton and Crozier will scoop.

The strange thing is that the combatants in the current dispute appear to respect each other. Crozier knows the union believes it has a viable plan for the future- it is just that he thinks the government has no intention of adopting it.

The CWU is pinning its hopes on a government manifesto commitment to review the impact of competition in the postal service in this parliament. If the review said that competition harmed service standards to business and the public, pressure would build to return the service to its old protected status. But that is unlikely. The future looks to be a maelstrom of more industrial unrest over pay, massive job cuts and changing work practices.

For the CWU, job cuts mean questions over its own future. Fewer jobs mean fewer members. Like a cornered animal the CWU is becoming more aggressive. And worryingly for the government, it is not alone. Unions representing the civil and health service this weekend said they were preparing to co-ordinate industrial action with the CWU as they reject below-inflation pay deals in the public sector of 2 per cent. The Prime Minister’s glossy sheen of recent weeks might soon fade as a series of Old Labour-style disputes threaten to break out.

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Very good indeed well worth reading , let’s hope with more ia combined with the other union’s we might get some decent attention

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This is a very good article – I have highlighted all the failures of Leighton in it – I have also disputed the claim we think they have a viable business plan – it is on the union noticeboard tomorrow.

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At last someone who gets the facts right…UNITY IS STRENGTH.

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Good summery of the position, fair and balanced, but crozierfuckoff a smart operator Shame on you.

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Finally a journalist who understands the industry

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Good to see it spreading out from the Mirror as well – their support is most welcome, but the wider the media coverage is, the greater the pressure on leightonfuckoff & crozierfuckoff

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Life is too short to read through all that raving.

OK so I was on my laptop, its a Toshuba Equium A200, it kinda froze so I tried restarted it by press ctrl + alt + del and it was worrking but it didnt shut down so I held in the power button until it went off. Then when I turned it on i get this message,

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software changed might be the cause.

If windows files have been damaged or configured incorrectly, startup repair can help you diagnose and fix the problem. If power was interrupted during start up, choose start windows normally.

launch start up repair (recommended)
start windows normally

So I lauch start up repair which was recommended, my results are as foillows:

windows is loading files…

it loads about 10 percent then this appears:

windows has encounted a problem communicating with device connected to your computer.

this error can be cause by unplugging a removable storage device such as external USB drive while the device is in use, or by faultry hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. Make sure any removable storage is properly connected and then restart your computer.

If you continue to receive this error message, contact the hardware manufacturer.

status: 0xc00000e9

info: an unexpected I/O error has oocurred

That didn’t work so i decided to take the start windows normally option, this comes up:

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:

1. Insert yoour windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language and settings, and then click "Next."
3. Click "repair your computer."

if you do not have this dis, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.

status: 0xc0000001

info: an unexpected error has occured.

I don’t have that disc but you can get this option by pressing f8 on start up to get a menu with options.

These are my options:

repair your computer***

safe mode***
safe mode with networking***
safe mode with command prompt***

enable boot logging***
enable low-resolution video (640×480)
last known good configuration (advanced)***
directory services restore mode
debugging mode***
disable automatic restart on system failure
disable driver signature enforcement

start windows normally***

So i select repair tour computer, these mare the results:

windows is loading… loads 10% and i get the same message as i got when i tried this option the first time, the options above with stars are the ones I also tried and got the same messages as before.

Next thing i tried was using ther recovery disc, now i was going to just do a clean installation but the windows is loading message came up when i restarted with the disc in, I thought maybe its fixed?
I was wrong, the bar loads 100% the microsoft coporation loading screen comes up, then when that is done it is just a black screen with the mouse pointer. I tried pressing the shift key 5 times to get the message up, nothing happens, ctrl + alt + del also nothing happens, ctrl + alt + esc also has no effect.

So I want to do a cleanm installation but the same thing I mentioned last keeps coming up so i tried it without the RAM, nothing happens at all, I tried it with no HDD, the screen comes up to do a clean installation but it cant because there is no HDD, so i put the HDD but it still cant find it, and
the only way i can get to this option is by taking the HDD out.

So now I am all out of ideas and I need some help, if anyone can offer me any assistance it would be great.

My mate has the same laptop, I was thinking of using his to format my HDD ?

At a guess, your Hard Disk is toast ….

You can try a reformat, however why trust it ? if it’s failed once, chances are it will go again & quite soon ….. get a replacement ASAP

PS driver problems can not stop a clean install

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