Problems Connecting Vista With Mac OS X

Computers are designed to be interoperable, meaning you should be able to share your files and network between Macs and Windows PCs without much difficulty. However, problems can still arise from the network, networking method or issues with either operating system.

The Facts

1. Macintosh OS X can automatically recognize and read from networked hard drives shared by the Windows operating system. In some cases, you may not be able to write to those drives from a Macintosh (depending upon the formatting method used when the drive was initialized). Windows computers can read and write to shared Macintosh drives if they are shared using either SMB (server message block) or FTP (file transfer protocol); drives shared via AFP (AppleShare file protocol) are usually not available to Windows computers.

Bonjour Autoconfigure

2. Bonjour (previously called Rendezvous) is an automatic protocol that allows networked computers to advertise which services they make available to other computers. It is installed by default on Mac OS X, and an optional install on Windows. Two computers running Bonjour should automatically appear as available on each others network utilities, such as a network drive selection box.

Resolving Network Issues

3. If the computers are not automatically visible to each other, open the Internet preferences on each computer to determine its IP (Internet protocol) address. This is located in System Preferences > Network on Mac OS X, and Network > Properties on Vista. You may be able to connect the computers by telling one to open the IP address of the other; for example, connect to a Mac sharing a drive by FTP at 10.0.0.3 by entering "ftp://10.0.0.3" in a network or Web browser. If the two IP numbers are completely different (i.e., 10.0.0.3 and 192.168.0.2), they are running on different networks, so check your network connections and turn off any network interfaces you are not using.

Reverse Direction

4. An easy way to solve problems is to try doing the same thing in the reverse direction: if your Windows drive wont appear on your Mac, try sharing the Mac drive and opening it on Windows.

Try the Internet or "SneakerNet"

5. Finally, many local network problems can be solved by using the Internet to send files, or by physically transferring a USB drive from one computer to another. (This is nicknamed "SneakerNet" for the act of walking from one computer to another.) Network utilities such as DropBox provide an easy way for two computers to share files.

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How can I explore with my 1st new dell computer What is a good home tutorial for the beginner

What learning CDs or online tutorial do you recommend? What programs do I begin with? Windows,Internet,etc;?How can I explore with my 1st new dell computer?What is a good home tutorial for the beginner?
When you first login to your computer, a Windows Interactive Tutorial should pop-up. Just use that tutorial to learn Windows.








Note: If the tutorial doesnt pop-up, go to Start%26gt;All Programs%26gt;Accessories%26gt;Tour Windows XP.How can I explore with my 1st new dell computer?What is a good home tutorial for the beginner?
try what Genius said

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Backup your Files to Amazon Glacier with the help of Dropbox

You can use Dropbox as a Glacier client and any files that user upload to Dropbox will get saved in userr Amazon Glacier Vault.

Amazon Glacier, if user are new, is an online backup service from Amazon where user can store files by paying as little as 1¢ per GB of storage space per month. Glacier is a recommended option for saving copies of files that are important  but not accessed very frequently – like the photo archives on userr disk.

Amazon doesn’t provide a file uploading tool for Glacier but there are several third-party Glacier clients that user may use to easily upload files and folders from the local disk to the Glacier cloud with a easy drag-n-drop interface.

There’s another service in town called IceBox that eliminates the need for installing a separate Glacier client. The service links Amazon Glacier with userr Dropbox account and any files that user add to a particular Dropbox folder are automatically uploaded to userr Glacier vault.

The Dropbox files are queued for uploading to Amazon Glacier

This is a one-way operation so once the files have been uploaded from Dropbox to Glacier, user can safely delete the copies inside Dropbox without affecting the files that are already inside Glacier. You can also browse the file list on the IceBox website to verify that all userr Dropbox files have been successfully added to Glacier.

To get started, go to the AWS dashboard to request userr Access Keys for the Amazon Glacier service. Next follow the wizard on the Icebox website to link userr Amazon and Dropbox accounts. This will create a new folder in userr Dropbox folder and any files that user add to this folder go straight into userr Glacier vault.

The service initially had a major security vulnerability – anyone could access userr Amazon Keys by simply changing the URL – but the issue has been patched now. Alternatively, user may create a guest user in AWS for IceBox and grant access to only the Vault Archive and none of the other assets in userr Amazon cloud.

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Class with all the Overloaded Arithmetic Operators

So far we have learnt to overload +, -, +=, -= etc. operators and we know what
is the basic theory behind operator overloading.

In this article we are going to design a program with a class that overloads
almost all the arithmetic operators (+, -, +=, -=, /, *, ++, --)

This is a program centric article, so we straightway have a look at the example
program.

Since nothing new has been introduced, I leave it up to you to understand everything
yourself.

  // Example Program with a
  // a class having almost
  // all the arithmetic
  // operators overloaded
  #include <iostream.h>

  class myclass
  {
    int a;
    int b;

  public:
    myclass(){}
    myclass(int,int);
    void show();

    myclass operator+(myclass);
    myclass operator-(myclass);

    // prefix
    myclass operator++();
    myclass operator--();

    // postfix
    myclass operator++(int);
    myclass operator--(int);

    myclass operator+=(myclass);
    myclass operator-=(myclass);

    myclass operator/(myclass);
    myclass operator*(myclass);

  };

  myclass::myclass(int x,int y)
  {
    a=x;
    b=y;
  };

  void myclass::show()
  {
    cout<<a<<endl<<b<<endl;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator+(myclass ob)
  {
    myclass temp;

    temp.a=a + ob.a;
    temp.b=b + ob.b;

    return temp;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator-(myclass ob)
  {
    myclass temp;

    temp.a=a - ob.a;
    temp.b=b - ob.b;

    return temp;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator++()
  {
    a++;
    b++;

    return *this;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator--()
  {
    a--;
    b--;

    return *this;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator++(int x)
  {
    myclass old;
    old=*this;

    a++;
    b++;

    return old;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator--(int x)
  {
    myclass old;
    old=*this;

    a--;
    b--;

    return old;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator+=(myclass ob)
  {
    a+=ob.a;
    b+=ob.b;

    return *this;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator-=(myclass ob)
  {
    a-=ob.a;
    b-=ob.b;

    return *this;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator/(myclass ob)
  {
    myclass temp;

    temp.a=a / ob.a;
    temp.b=b / ob.b;

    return temp;
  }

  myclass myclass::operator*(myclass ob)
  {
    myclass temp;

    temp.a=a * ob.a;
    temp.b=b * ob.b;

    return temp;
  }

  void main()
  {
    myclass ob1(10,20);
    myclass ob2(100,200);

    ob1+=ob2;

    ob1.show();
    ob2.show();

    ob1=ob1/ob2;
    ob1.show();

    ob1=ob1*ob2;
    ob1.show();

    ob2.show();
  }

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