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Yeah bwoiee.
I have no idea what possessed me to do this, but I bought a 300x CF card and a CF-to-IDE adaptor to use it with, then I set it to be my Z: drive and put a 1.8GB pagefile on it. I figured it would benefit from the virtually-nonexistent random seek times that FLASH [...]

March 30th, 2009 | Tags: algorithms, driver, embedded controller, flash card wear-leveling algorithms, flash memory, fractal algorithm, Fujitsu, G8, gas mileage, Hitachi, HTTP, mem controller, Microsoft Windows, operating systems, Prime Minister, RAID, ram, rubber hoses, sdram, single controller, special driver, stock driver, USD, wear-leveling algorithm, XP | Category: general | Leave a comment

So I have this bit of code written as a php in html:
echo "<meta HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH content="0; baud_rate_set.php?check_board=$_REQUEST[check_board]">";
How do i pass it another value that i define (baud_rate=9)?been doing this stuff for about a week, so if there’s any ideas i’d love emecho "<meta HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH content="0; baud_rate_set.php?check_board=$_REQUEST[check_board]&baud_rate=9">";

March 30th, 2009 | Tags: html, HTTP, php | Category: general | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Tags: Amazon, CGI, data miner, Fred Durst, html, HTTP, Perl, php, USD, Windows scheduler, Windows XP | Category: general | Comments (2)

I am looking to get into programming/Dev work.
I have been doing HW/network/tech support for a long time and I am burned out on it. I was talking to one of our developers at work and he suggested reading up on and starting with C# and ASP.net.
Any suggestions/thoughts/book recommendations for a newby? I have absolutely 0 [...]

October 18th, 2008 | Tags: API, ASM programmer, ASP.net, assembly programmer, bad programmer, bad software, bash programmer, beautiful systems, Bill Clinton, C programmer, C++, Can, CGI, Cisco, client-side web dev, Colonel, computing, CS professor, few tools, functional applications, functional programming, Google, Governor, hand tools, html, HTTP, Intel, interpreter, Java, JavaScript, limited programmer, Microsoft, object-oriented programming, online apps, online web application, Pascal, Perl, php, power tools, powershell programmer, practices/software, Pragmatic Programmer, programmer, Programming for Beginners, Python, real solution, regular applications, Ruby, script interpreter, skilled programmer, software developers, software piece, SQL, TCP/IP, ultimate programmer, Visual Studio, Wait, web app, Web applications, web apps, web browser, web coding, web developer, web development, Web programming, web resources, web server, web services | Category: general | Comments (1)

Do any of you know if it is possible to make it so if any .wmv / .avi file is clicked on my website, it is automatically loaded either in that window, or in a popup.. instead of prompting user to download?
People upload files to my website, and want to be able to play the [...]

October 16th, 2008 | Tags: A-Z, apache, API, avi, CGI, html, HTTP, Java, operating systems, Perl, php, player, R, rule processing, then processing, translator, USD, windows media player plugin | Category: general | Leave a comment

my form doesn’t work. can anyone help me?
here’s the code in the html file:
<form method="POST" action="contact2.php">
Fields marked (*) are required
<p>Email From:* <br>
<input type="text" name="EmailFrom">
<p>FirstName:<br>
<input type="text" name="FirstName">
<p>LastName:<br>

September 17th, 2008 | Tags: C++, html, HTTP, Java, Perl, php | Category: general | Leave a comment