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Archive for August, 2008

D3D9 crew – getting position of object rendered by DrawIndexedPrimitive?

What is the correct method of finding the location of an object rendered by DrawIndexedPrimitive?
I have tried using GetTransform and hooking SetTransform, but they always return a matrix of:
1000
0100
0010
0001
Here is an example of my SetTransform hook:
HRESULT APIENTRY hkIDirect3DDevice9::SetTransform(D3DTRANSFORMSTATE TYPE State, CONST D3DMATRIX *pMatrix)
{
if (State == D3DTS_WORLD){
[...]

Windows Live error page (404)

If I enter a bad url, I get redirected to a Windows Live search screen with a bunch of sponsored links. I’ve never used Live in my life.
I think it has to do with recently switching to comcast, but I am not sure.
Does anyone know how to get the old style error pages?
I tried Internet [...]

Laptop Mother Board

I spilled water on my laptop’s mother board and now its fucked. i sent it to hp and they wanted $450 to fix it and i said fuck that. where can i find a mother board for this thing? its an HP Compaq 6220just buy a new laptop
you can get an EEE [...]

Fay is hitting, but my nets are on UPS so I don’t lose interents when power goes out

And I think thats cool.
It flickers off, I keep hitting my sites.
HahahaMy cable usually goes out before my power does during storms

Trying to download flv v.not as stupid as it sounds

I am trying to save an flv file that is in my Firefox 2.0.0.16 cache. I know it’s there, because I can still play it on the page, although it has been removed from Youtube.
I have tried everything. Navigating to it in explorer, about:cache, page info, etc. Can’t find it anywhere. [...]

Help me pick a laptop..

Im just returning from Iraq and Ive got some money to blow. Basically all I really want is something that can take full advantge of being albe to surf the internet with my internet connection of 15mbs(d/l). I really dont know much about laptops and dont know if theres anything in the computer [...]

Question about RAM

i was messing around putting together a desktop system at dell at the configurator recommended upgrading to 4GB of RAM at 667mhz.
however, i could also choose 4GB of RAM at 800mhz.
both cost the same amount.
now, why would it recommend the slower RAM?Depends on the speed of the front-side bus. You want RAM that’s either the [...]

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Looking for a laptop to buy…

I am looking for a laptop for less than $900 or so. Something in the 14.1 inch screen area. Not going to do heavy gaming or anything… just surfing IMing and using MS office. Any recommendations for the best bang for the buck would be great. these are all 15.4” [...]

applications deployment to networked PCs? how?

lets say you have small business server 2003 with 50 client pcs
and you want to install a new application or update old ones on those 50 pcs, how do you do this without visiting every pc individually?
can you just push the applications to the client pc somehow?You package it up with an MSI. If [...]