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Archive for March, 2009

No WAN IP?

Running ddwrtv24 firmware on a linksys router, it worked fine and then all the sudden the internet came to a crawl than stopped all together. When I logged into the router I wasn’t getting a WAN ip, so I tried resetting to factory defaults, doing a hard reset, and tried a different Belkin router also [...]

PC repair in Texas now requires a PI license.

lol, i hope none of you are in the computer repair business down there, you’ll need to get a criminal justice degree just to fix computers.
that makes absolutely no sense. i wonder if every PC tech will have to do it or if each place has to have a license and can then [...]

what’s a good router?

My 8 year old DLINK router is acting weird (i keep getting disconnected when I try to connect wirelessly)
what do you guys think about this router? (No more dlink.. they suck… LINKSYS is good right?)
(supports 802.11n)Looks good to me. But you know what they say about assholes and opinions.I had mucho problems with my [...]

Need Perl program to parse amazon book page

Can anyone of you leet hax0rs hack up a Perl program that can parse an Amazon book page and notify me when a used book is less than a certain amount? I could run it through the Windows scheduler to check every 5 minutes and it would help a lot.I get paid to do [...]

what the shit…something is eating my ram….

The past couple days I have been experiencing something strange. I have 2 gigs of ram in my machine but keep on getting virtual memory warnings. Something is slowly occupying all of the ram on my machine. It increases by 1 MB every second or so. Nothing in TasK Manager is using 2 gigs of [...]

Data Backup(RAID): Build new system or Raid card

Ok, itunes fucked up my music again. I have backed up all my music but all my ratings and etc are gone. So I am done with the nvidia raid that I have previously used. So I have two options. I’ll be reusing my 2 320gb hd
Build a seperate system, run windows server or linux [...]

$400-500 budget for processor, mobo, ram, and vid card

currently i’m running (dont laugh):
AMD Athlon 2200 XP
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
1.2gb ram
dont remember what kind of mobo
creative soundblaster x-fi platinum
250gb and 80gb IDE hdd’s (i’ll probably get 2 SATA hard drives, but dont factor that into the cost right now)
DVD-ROM drive
500W (or 550W, dont remember) power supply
clearly anything i buy will be an upgrade. i’ve [...]

Bandwidth Monitoring programs?

Does anyone know of a good bandwidth monitoring program? NetLimiter has a free app called NetLimiter Monitor. The pay app allows you to also limit bandwidth on a per-app basis.
That’s strictly for your PC though. Like, it isn’t to monitor the bandwidth of your entire network or what have you.the latest version of [...]

Runtime Error!

I get this message when i try and run this program.
How can i go about fixing it?
It’s a bug in the program. It may be because you’re trying to run it on a platfrom that it doesn’t support (ie Vista vs XP)

MP3 Player Code: Spectrum Analyzer – VB.NET

Ok so yesterday I wrote an MP3 player just because I thought it would be a cool exercise and it’s more or less done, all the core functionality is there it even supports multiple playlists and the ability to modify the ID3 tag data and all that stuff… but it’s missing one thing, the spectrum [...]