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Archive for February, 2009

Quick PSU Question..

Ok so I’m going to be running 4GB of DDR2 800mhz ram / AMD 5000+ dual core processor / nvidia 8800GT 512 MB card / 250GB HD / CD/DVD Burner..
How strong of a power supply should I be running all of this on? I’m thinking 500W?
Thanks in advance!quality power supply with 400W-500W total [...]

Magento

Not feeling like doing anything custom, so I’m setting up Magento for my wife’s new web store. Its PHP, which pains me… but its also Zend. Which is why I picked it over Zen-Cart or X-Cart.
Am installing PHP5 and all the other pre-reqs now. Anyone used Magento?Wow. You have [...]

.pdf file … print option disabled

One of our co-workers recently had an article published in an online magazine and we got a copy of the article from the publisher in .pdf format. For whatever reason, the print option is disabled. I guess they don’t want us printing the article.
Anyone know how to "undo" this?They don’t want [...]

How to hack into an Apple Developer Connection account…

… e-mail apple and ask for the password pretty humorous little tidbit.

(in memoriam p07r0457, R.I.P.)

Yeah, I really don’t care. Or maybe I should say, I possess common sense and I know it’s not worth locking.

FLV Editor?

Can anyone recommend software that can edit an FLV video file? I mainly need to be able to shorten videos and be able to export to animated GIF.Naively I didn’t think Premiere could do it for some reason. Thanks, that will definitely do what I want lol.Leave those youtube videos alone… you dont own themThey’re [...]

Pretty sweet custom tower, what do you think?

not that great, you can do better if you build it yourself, plus you can pick better parts, that nforce 630i motherboard is low end.
Just make sure when you go into the ncix website, you go in through the flash banner to get the sale prices, that can add up quickly.E4500?
630i?
DDR2-667?
failboat.jpg
You could build something better [...]

SQL guru’s – need help

OK, im stumped, been doing databases for yrs now, but never had to do reporting like this crap.
I have to do a shitload of DOT reporting for my company, one of the requirements is to determine drivers time between shifts.
The application is ancient and doesnt count this anywhere, so to the database I [...]

just bought this external hd.. did i get fucked?

this worth it? i actually just bought one (shoulda asked first, i know, lol) came to 80.xx shipped… is it decent? if it matters, i only want it to store pics/vids/music on.. my laptops built in hd is only 120 gb (i have that in movies alone)

any input? did i mess up?I say not bad. [...]

Some Website will Not load

For some reason a website will not load on my computer. Every other website works fine.
I use OpenDNS, Comodo Firewall pro, DD-WRT V24, and I have DSL broadband. For some reason the website will not load on any of my computers in any browser (IE7, Opera 9.5, FF3) I turned off [...]

External HDD wont recognize on XP

Western Digital Mybook 500 gig. It worked when I opened it, kind of. I was getting "delayed write error blah blah" and the contents of the drive would appear to be empty. If i clicked properties, everything was zero.
I plug it into my laptop which is vista, and it sees it just fine. So I [...]