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Archive for August, 2008

Video won’t play on 2nd monitor…anymore

I have an ATI 3450 and am running XP pro.
I have had my computer built now for a few months and it has been working smoothly. I use my main monitor for e-mail and the 2nd monitor for watching video files.
Up until recently everything worked fine but I was beginning to get frequent BSOD’s [...]

Building a PC next week

I’m about to pull the trigger and order this stuff.
Is it all compatible? Did I forget anything? How does it look?
ignore the iPod, buying my GF a toy too since I’m getting one The E8500 is $100 less at newegg, and a fair amount on the ram too. I’m sure you can save [...]

Amazon EC2 = Crack

I wanted to pull up a new Ubuntu server. Normally that takes a few hours. I have to download a new CD image, install manually on a machine.
Not today. Today I typed:
ec2-run-instances ami-179e7a7e -k gsg-keypair
BAM. Ubuntu 8.04 image is up, and mine, and $0.10 an hour.
I feel like I just hit the crack pipe this [...]

Easiest way to upgrade laptop hard drive?

I have this 60GB in my Lenovo x60s that I want to get rid of for this, a 320GB:
What’s the easiest way to upgrade? I suppose I could plug the old drive into my desktop, "acquire" Norton Ghost and clone the old to the new, then stick it in my laptop.Laptop drives don’t [...]

TraceMonkey – JIT Compiling for JS

Neat!

Ramification
So what does this all mean? It means that JavaScript is no longer confined by previously-challenging resource of processing power. With this improvement it’s leap-frogged any sort of traditional and has gone head-to-head with computationally-powerful languages like C.

Motherboards and RAID

Don’t you guys get tired of talking about the same shit, over and over?
Motherboards and RAID are not interesting.well,.. we could talk about Lindsay Lohan’s tits are big again, but that is already covered in the main forum.
why don’t I see you guys in the main forum anyway?

i think i need a mobo (computer gave up the long fight and old hardware is around)

so heres the deal.
my computer failed, and I don’t know what’s wrong with it. Tried a different (newer even) PSU with it and it only led to different problems (USB didn’t power up).
It was at least 5 years old – athlon xp 2600+. Getting it back to life is secondary right now.
I have parts for [...]

BBC site down?

Anyone having trouble viewing the over the last week or so? Its one of my homepages, and there’s been no connection for a while. Is this potentially a regional thing? Google has been no help.
btw, it is definitely not an isp thing.
Thanks mates.It’s up…but takes a while to load for me. Not sure if [...]

Converting an EXE file to wmv?

Is it possible to convert an exe file to a wmv file. Or something I can upload to youtube?
Its a Wedding Slide show.
Thanks for any help.Or just run a video capture program while the exe is running and save the result as whatever video format you want.Download the trial of WINRAR (just google it, [...]

1st build – criticize it

Here is a link to my build:
I devided to go with the Q6600 over the E8500. Reason being that I plan to OC this to 3.0 Ghz just by changing the FSB, will this system by capable of this?
A few questions I have:
Do I need any cables for anything?
Is everything compatible?
Any cheaper, better parts? [...]