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Archive for September, 2008

shipping a computer

I’ll be needing to ship my computer (desktop tower) across the country and I was wondering if anyone had experience with this? I was thinking of removing all the parts and wrap them up. Or just filling up the computer with the peanut foam stuff and wrap up the computer. Any advice [...]

Building my first PC from scratch….questions

My experience: I’ve built quite a few barebones, so I know what plugs are what, where they go, how to install components, etc.
What I dont know: This will be my first PC with SATA HDD’s.
– What method to power them is preferred? The SATA power cable or standard 4 pin power? Does it [...]

UNIX people… question about block sizes

We use Veritas volumes for our raw devices for Sybase. The DBA just requested that we make our block size match theirs which is 8k. As far as I remember, you only set the block size when creating filesystems. There is no concept of block sizing at the volume level, correct?We use [...]

Wanna get my A+ cert – Find me a good book!

I was thinking of just getting the VERY top seller (the one by Michael Meyers), but then I figured maybe one wiht a more recent publish date (like the one by J. Brooks towards the bottom of the page)?
Help? Thanks.I’ve used study guides from fravo.com for a few certs and they are amazing…
They also guarantee [...]

Need a little help in Adobe Premier Pro 2.0

I have a few questions if anyone is on that I could talk to. They are pretty simple things I just need to figure out how to do.
Thanks in advance!

Would anyone be interested in a Dynamips (Cisco router emulator) edu?

It emulates the 7200 and a bunch of other routers, etc. No switches, because they use proprietary ASICs, but there is a module you can use for basic layer 2 stuff.
It’s actually emulating the router using the real IOS – which you’ll have to get yourself. If you’re a student, or working for a [...]

How to call native functions from injected DLL?

This question is for vexstar super nerd crew,
I have a dll which I injected into a process. The dll is able to access local memory of whatever it is injected to. For example,
int *time = (int*)0×100579C;
MessageBox(0, itoa(*time, buf, 10), “The time”, 0);
0×100579C is the offset to where Minesweeper keeps track of its time. The MessageBox [...]

What’s the best MP3 software?

Currently I use iTunes because I have an iPod, unfortunately it’s a slow, bulky piece of shit for Windows. Does anyone have any other recommendations?Winamp Pro plays and encodes mp3’s, aac, ogg, and so on. It also has free radio stations and a playlist builder that analyses your music to figure out which songs will [...]

UNIX shell script question

I’m writing a ksh script and I want to echo the command that was run to call this script. So, if someone ran "/path/to/script -f blah blah apple -x file" I want the script to echo "/path/to/script -f blah blah apple -x file" to a log file. Is there a better way than [...]

So what’s usb 3.0 gonna do?

Whats all the new speed gonna mean for peripherals and such?in paper, 10x faster than USB 2.0
no diff on low bandwidth devices such as keyboards, mouse, etc.
it will not use it’s full potential, but we probably see improved transfer rates on external hdds, flash memory, cameras, etc.won’t matter for anything but external hard drives and [...]