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Archive for February, 2009

Text parsing help… perl?

Ok, I know there has to be a way to do this easier than what I’m doing now. I have a list like this:
c5t50060E80000000000000811C00000B0Cd0s2
c5t50060E80000000000000811C00000B0Bd0s2
c5t50060E80000000000000811C00000B0Ad0s2
I want to strip out the c5t at the beginning and the d0s2 at the end. I figure I can dump it into a text file and just do a [...]

1100 budget, help a noob

built a pc 5 years ago and im out of the loop. I have about 1100 to use for a new system, I dont need dvd burner, monitor, floppy, os.
PC will be used for work and some gaming (heavy photoshop/illustrator use, cod4, tf2, starcraft 2, diablo 3, fallout 3), 4gb ram is required (im going [...]

*help* getting my PC to reconize my PS3 hard drive via USB

so my PS3 had a overheating/fan failure and now it wont boot up ..
more on that here, if your the type that needs a back story
i tried putting my hard drive into my buddys PS3 to back up my data but sony was smarter then that…
so i bought this
and now im [...]

End-to-end performance monitoring?

We’re experiencing some pretty bad performance issues on a few of our systems here. Do any of you know of a product that does end-to-end performance monitoring? A friend recommended which I’m going to take to my boss, but I’m wondering if anyone has used other tools/services?
I figure the app will need [...]

When working from home, can they see me

surf the web and OT? Am connected to work computer and can toggle/minimize out of remote desk top connection and open a webpage and surf the web and OT. Can they monitor that?
*working on own home personal computer not a work issued one.
thanksDepends on how you connect, no?
If he isn’t tunneling or VPN’ing in, [...]

Best lead management software?

I need something that will help me manage leads.
I will be loading our list of leads for our agents to go through.
Ideally I’d like it if every agent only saw one lead at a time and clicked a next or refresh button to see the next available one.
Other options should be tracking our ratios [...]

Difference between SATA and IDE/ATAPI drives?

So i’m looking to buy a new combo drive(DVDRW/CDRW). Are SATA drives better/faster?I tried one in the last system I made – I wouldn’t recommend it and it’s mostly because DOS doesn’t like it. Besides, you have an IDE channel, might as well use it.

Did you just say ‘DOS?’

OK, so how should I do my RAM on a 32-bit system?

Haven’t built my new computer yet, going to use Vista Business 32 bit. It’s the only version I could get from the Academic Alliance. I know I only get a max of 4gb, or is it it 3.1gb? Or what is it really?
The video card memory counts against the 4gb, right? So if I [...]