you can’t network two computers with just a ethernet cable it need to be through a router but there is an alternative
the easiest and cheapest way to make a home network with just two computer is to use a cross over cable which you can buy very cheaply it looks like a normal ethernet cable but with some of the wires crossed over to make the network work ask about a crossover cable at your local computer store the cost of a cross over cable is around £8 in the uk and around $15 in the Usa

Yes, just get a cable router (Around $50 in the UK), and connect with standard network cables

It’s most likely the setting you have your monitor set to. You don’t indicate how your watching movies, so I’ll just five a few suggestions.

1. DVD plays video at 720 x 480 so the picture is being modified to fit your screen.

2. HD such as your XBox outputs is 1280×1024. Again it has to be stretched to fit your odd 1680×1050 resolution.

Avoid running your movies full screen. The software should create a decent screen for you. Check options if it doesn’t

CRT’s use a tube to project a picture, and they have always been better at displaying different resolutions.

LCD have indivisual lites for each pixel on the screen. So they display everything nicely at their native resolution but don’t look so good when running at non-native resolutions. I assume whatever software your using is changing the resolution away from the Dells native resolution which is giving you the graining picture your seeing. This is the same problem folks who by LCD TV’s have when watching non-HD TV or movies.

So to fix:
1. Check the options in your movie software to not run full screen.

I didn’t talk much on the XBOX, use the HDMI output. Get an HDMI -> DVI cable so you can hook directly to the monitor’s DVI input. (Will have to disconnect your PC).

I did a quick check on customer comment on newegg for this monitor. It is only a 6-bit monitor using dithering. Several other people have commented on the grainy problems. Gamers seem to like it, but games usually run at higher resolutions that this monitor likes.

Good Luck, I don’t know if you’ll be able to get a better picture. Feel free to contact me if this triggers a couple other questions.

They are not illegal though.

Take her to a vet, she could have a fracture or other injury that is not visible to you. If she doesn’t want to be picked up, gently drop a bath towel over (head included), and then reach down and wrap her in it(now let her head out) keep her in the towel until you can get her in a cat bag or a carrier. If you don’t have a carrier or bag, use a pillow case, put her in but first, leaving her head out. This is a technique used by vets, vet techs, and shelter workers. Good Luck!

That is so funny!

Hey, I guess if you’re a sketchy guy with nothing going for him but an address in the U.S. it seems like a pretty good idea.

If she bit you, she did it out of pain. Take her to the vet and find out what’s wrong………YOU went to the doctor for a “bite”……don’t you think she deserves the same consideration?????

Good luck to your cat……..

a new Modem on a new comp… is Like you buying a new internet connection buy a wireless adapter

LOL. I saw that too. It seems more like a comedy to me. All the rest who lose should get deported.