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Archive for August, 2008

Hey WoW/scripting junkies…halp

Anyone know how to change the default directory World of Warcraft installs the latest patch from? As it currently stands when WoW detects a new patch it downloads it to C:/progfiles/WoW, then installs it from that directory.
What I am hoping to do, where I currently have 25+ computers in a Windows domain, is to setup [...]

How to transfer iTunes to PSP

It is no doubt PSP is a great game player. But it is also a very good entertainment device which can be used for playing music. Assume you have some songs on your iTunes and are trying to figure out how to put them on your PSP. You copy and paste them in the PSP [...]

Laptop won’t boot windows even after reinstall, memtest freezes

My friend has a win XP laptop that freezes as it gets to the windows screen. He reformatted and reinstalled windows and it froze when windows asked him what time zone he was in. He tried memtest off of an ubuntu live CD and memtest froze 11 minutes in. Any ideas? Need any more info?try [...]

best bang for the buck ultracompact notebook?

the 8 best lappies under 1k thread got me thinking about picking up an ultraportable.
C&P’s thoughts?
ibEEE (if so, which one)
i wouldn’t want it to do much more than basic productivity and web surfing. doesn’t need a cam, would very much like long battery life and good wireless.eeePC 901 has room to mod in a [...]

Amazon Cloud

I am really, really impressed with Amazon EC2/S3/Queue/SimpleDB. There have been a few issues of downtime lately, but basically I’ve written a web application using Perl/Catalyst/MySQL/Ubuntu (and sometimes Solaris) that needs to sale to 100K hits an hour or so, but will remain idle most of the time. In other words it needs [...]

build me a decent closet media server

currently i have an amd athlon 64 3000+, 1gb ram, on an ecs mobo. the problems i have are:
- despite reimaging recently, the system will lock up without notice. it usually happens when utorrent is open or after utorrent crashes it checks the torrents. however, i have had it freeze up when [...]

NAme me a decent/ good computer for around $700…

Im not computer "savy" but Im looking for a nice computer in that range.
I dont do online gaming though I do play on xbox live a decent bit.
Any good deals out there?does that budget include everything? os, monitor, keyboards, etc?
are you comfortable to build your own?
if not, lots of "back to school" deals on [...]

Proxy server for personal use.

So I am looking for some shared hosting purely for the ability to run it as a proxy, for private use only (protected by .HTACCESS, PW only known to me).
For HTTP, FTP and IRC type connections.
Is this type thing thing easy to come by, even for free? The IRC makes me think maybe not.
Also I’d [...]

xfx/evga nforce mobos overkill for htpc?

i’ve built computers before but this will be my first time building a htpc. i know it’s mostly just getting the noise level down and such, so i don’t think this would be an issue, but do those mobos seem a bit overkill for just something to watch tv and movies on?
i will be [...]

Need MoBo/CPU/Ram combo

I’m looking to replace my aging (and great) nforce2 based pc. My budget is 300, 400 if it’s really worth it.
I have a pci nvidia card I’ll keep (or use inboard graphics), i have plenty of sata/ide drives, and I would prefer a built-in sound chip with spdif out on the mother board (which [...]