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never heard it referred to as a trimmer before... also, why did you need a regulator? I've taken a circuits class, but have a pretty basic understanding of electronics components... A trimmer is the same as a potentiometer or a variable resistor/rheostat, is it not? given the DC current of...

I agree, XP home is a pain in the butt and, in my experience, is simply flakey for things that have worked fine since winNT 4.0. (like simple file sharing and file sharing in general) To be honest, I'm surprised I havent had a problem sharing a printer connected to an XP home machine.

oh yeah, I've had success 5 volting fan mates... that might help you out

lol, two fanmates ins series??? hahaha.... I think at that point I would just solder a fixed resistor on there and use a single fanmate. $0.10 + $5.00 instead of $5.00 x 2.

agreed. This is a program that ahs been running on NT computers for atleast 8 years now for good reason. It has only recently been a pain because of the major switch from 9x to NT based OS on the desktop. 9x can recieve these messages just the same as NT can if the winpopup service is running...

unfortunately I dont have a c++ compiler on my system to run this program... and you're right, I dont have big enough variables... I wouldn't even know where to start to get variables as big as those used by the program featured in the news article... I know java has a big integer class, but I...

I usually use a program called memtest86 to test my RAM. If the RAM has major problems (ie: windows wont install) then you'll usually see an error pretty quickly. But I like to run it overnight to see if there are any possible problems with the RAM. If you have 2 or more sticks I would try 1...

yeah, I realize that. That's what you get when you write a program in 2 minutes and you dont want to have to error check it for every possible value. I imagine that you could try to devide the possible prime number by (2^a)-1 where the value of a is decreased everytime. It would be...

we're re-running the "best of SF"

i cant decide...

yup for (x=3.0; x<infinite;x++) { possiblePrime = 2^x-1 for(y=possiblePrime-1; y>1; y--) { if (possiblePrime/y == round(possiblePrime/y)) //very slow way to check if the possible Prime is divisable { not-a-prime = true; } } if(!not-a-prime) { cout << "Prime: "...

and btw, that number freezes my calculator when I try to display it ;-) boy I'm a geek.

aparently I was pretty close.. the number he found was 2,624,502 bytes in size.

i like pi

hmm. I had no problem on firebird... you using auto image resize?

i like the song "I saw moma kissing santa clause" as well as most other johnny cougar songs.

im not happy with any audio player.... I searched the whole of sourceforge and found nothing but a few linux apps that looked like they may or may not be worth the time to isntall... I searched shareware galleries abound.. even fruitless googlesearches... most players are just winamp clones...

man, that's an interesting data class they used... the ability to hold numbers that large... I wonder if they used a string and converted it to a number or if they used a data type that is natively a number... By my dumb math, the minimum size of this data type would have to be atleast...

i dont like foorbar2000.... i do like that it uses <1% CPU usage while playing...

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i would assume the FAT/MFT keep track of where files are located... The data area on a HDD may as well all be written to, when a file is deleted the data remains written to disk, just the initial link to the file in the FAT is probably removed.

yeah, that's the logic he used... seeking would be faster because it's more likely you'll have an empty block to write to close by than the block you'll want to read from. I think random writes are about equal or possibly faster than random reads.. But sequential writes always seem to be...

I was always tought that writes were slower than reads. And my own experience confirms this. The writer of the review (2nd link) says that this, infact, is quite the opposite and that reads should be slower than writes....or possibly about equal. I think he's wrong, what do you guys think?

The symptoms point to a problem that is commonly related to bad memory... how you got from point A to point B is harder to figure out.

oh, duh. Forgot I replied to this thread. The blown speakers were from Dickinson Westglen 18 movie theater here in kansas city. I think they were 2 way speakers with a woofer and a mid range.

lol, how'd I get thrown into this? Although that reminds me of my friends 1Kilo-Amp Memphis audio sub amp with 3 1000 watt 12" subs in a ford escort zx2... along with a 4 channel memphis audio amp for the front and rear speakers. The magnets on those subs were huge.

is that with a shuttle taking off? iirc that scene blew many a speakers in movie theaters nation wide. We had a few blown speakers in some of our theaters... those THX certified speakers aint cheap either.

they just mixed the bits with the bytes... along with the subtle difference between an idea/standard and its implementation. Fujitsu obvisouly doesnt own the itnerface nor did they design it, but they did implement it.

Merc, the hauppauge cards are dearly recomended for mythTV users (linux)... so I would imagine they are supported by outside programs, just not through the microsoft capture driver that so many windows programs rely on. I have looked through pages and pages of thread titles and have seen no...

is that because it does not de-interlace? what applications(s) are you using to capture or have tested? what mpeg2 decoder are you using (I have noticed the power DVD looks better, but is less compatible. WinDVD looks bad sometimes, but works everytime)

hey Coug, guess what? I made a restore point and a backup and installed the 4-in-1's... system runs fine (no noticable speed difference), but I can now put the system into S3 (suspend to RAM). I've never had good luck with power on standby, but suspent to RAM has never before worked. I'm glad...

i dont imagine it's ever quiet in NYC

Well, if it doesnt work out for me then I'll just return it for an Nforce2 or kt600 something or rather

it's a let down that this feature has recently been integrated into firebird?

Anybody have an opinion on Asrock mobos? They seem to be a division of Asus targetting the budget market. I was looking at their K7S8XE+ mobo based on the SiS 748. It offers comparable features to many of the nicer VIA/Nforce2 boards, but at a price of only $54. This is a reletively new...

btw, no WD hard drives

or a 512MB stick of PC2100/2700 DDR?

Anybody have a cheap CPU or HDD available. I'm about to order new, but would like to save a few $$ if possible. CPU: Athlon XP T-bred core HDD: 60-80GB 7200rpm

I was going to mention it, but I have bad memory.

Here's what you need (scroll to bottom).. .there's also a note that this feature has been integrated into firebird within the last few days if you download a nightly release. http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/#wo

i imagine it's something to do with the way the browsers cache pages. This sounds like correct behavior to me, but there may be different options you can enable to make life more livable. My best guess is that Moz and opera are made to work when they are online and that when you vitist a page...

have you tried snapstream with any of those hauppauge cards yet? I am kind of dissapointed with snaptream and the AIW cards... maybe I should try the omega drivers. My main problem is that I notice poor TV on demand quality unless I really crank up the bitrate (atleast 8MBit/sec). TV quality...

picture in picture of course

yes, chkdsk /f

In order for chkdsk to run properly you may need to run it from the recovery console (boot from winXP CD). This is especially true on boot/OS drives.

there's a firebird extention/plugin that allows flash only to run when you click on the flash animation.. which means those automatic annoying flash ads dont run ever.

hmpf, i stand corrected, phone hasn't been charged in over a week and still has full to 3/4ths battery life. it has been off for maybe 24 hours of that week.

I've got a cheap Verizon LG phone (model VX3000 or something). It gets great reception and I haven't put it on the charger in over a week and I think I still have 1/2-3/4 power. No frills, easy to read screen... I'm absolutely pleased.

hmm.. dec 10th.. that rings a bell, ah yes... grrr... anyway, happy birthday Merc.