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You’ll find this on more than just dells, due to the big manufacturers installing a pre-built, pre-activated copy of Windows, using a volume license key that is locked to the Bios of the model of computer, and imaging it, in the same way as you might use Norton Ghost etc since as it is cheaper and easier for the builder… A disk of the OS is just another extra – that key on the side of the computer is not even the key your OS is using when you get it…

As said though, this image often includes a recovery partition that enables you to restore your OS by manually recopying files – similar to reinstalling the disk, or sometimes one that prompts you to burn a cd of it. Unfortunately, in the event of a disk failure, it causes certain problems…

Unfortunately, underneath all the T&C’s and EULA’s, there is always clauses that they don’t need to provide you a full retail copy of Windows with your new system, which is why it doesn’t cost an extra £200…

Just be glad it’s not an Acer: Acer recovery disk That’s right – £15 for a pre-burnt disk… delivery price not included. and no you don’t get one with the computer.

You can disable auto-tunning on your connection using the following from an elevated command prompt, (presuming it is not set by group policy), however, it is not recommended unless there are known problems with your network switch – there is no significant speed increase disabling it for the majority of users

Code:

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

In regards to the IPv6 connectivity: This is usually determined by whether your are connected to a switch/router that supports ipv6 addresses and transmitting of data. Usually you will get Limited connectivity if you have not been assigned a ipv6 address, Internet/connected if you are using ipv6 instead of ipv4, not connected if it is disabled, and no internet access if it has an address, but you are using ipv4 as your communicating address

The problem I’m guessing is that phpmyadmin form, being text only, only accepts standard printing ascii characters, and so it does not accept the first 32 non-printing ones (which includes your desired carriage return). There is no real workaround, unless, as you say, you insert it directly with an sql query that stores the ascii character, since typing the ascii code using the Alt key + code usually fails too.

However in standard use, you should not store a carriage return in a database, rather you should store an interpreted carriage return, so newline

Code:

n

and carriage return

Code:

r

characters which are valid for javascript, php etc, or if using html and then when viewing the data, interpret it.

Just to check that it says Etc/GMT-5 and not GMT+5, or that would account for the 12 hours (7+5) (or double check with the O parameter to see which one the date function is using)?