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    Possible to give a SCSI tape drive a drive letter?

    is there a free way to make my SCSI DLT tape drive have a drive letter so i can drag and drop large movie files ex. DIVx and Mpeg-2?
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    Any one know of a good program for solving volume and surface area of geometrical figures?

    Any one know of a good program for solving volume and surface area of geometrical figures? For example, i would like to find the surface area and volume of a pyramid with a equilateral triangle base, but i only have two dimensions, is there a program that can solve for the surface area and...
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    fastest way to get data to a p233MMX tablet pc?

    Im lookin at a 3com that says it has a feature called parallel tasking for less cpu..i might need to get this one! would a 32-bit card using bus mastering use less cpu power?
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    fastest way to get data to a p233MMX tablet pc?

    Yes it does take about 30mins to transfer. If i use a 32-bit cardbus card, would this lighten the cpu load?
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    fastest way to get data to a p233MMX tablet pc?

    i was reading about an expensive 32-bit carbus pcmcia network card. It mentioned bus mastering taking the load off the cpu. Does all 32-bit card bus ethernet adapters use bus mastering to take the load off the cpu?
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    PCMCIA 3d grp

    is there any type of 3d graphics card that can be inserted into a PCMCIA zoomed video card bus slot? Even a 4meg card would be nice. I have seen a few cards, but they output video only to an external device like a monitor. is there any cards that would send video to the internal lcd of the laptop?
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    PCMCIA 3d grp

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    fastest way to get data to a p233MMX tablet pc?

    its got 2 pcmcia slots and a usb port. the pcmcia slots are 32-bit card bus compatible. What protocol would be least cpu intensive?
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    fastest way to get data to a p233MMX tablet pc?

    What type of connection or networking would be the fastest? What protocol if networking is used should i use? i tried 100mbps eternet with TCP/IP and only got about 9mbps. Wifi i tried with a crappy card and i only got 2mbps. Would firewire be any less cpu intensive? Is there any protocol that...
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    Why is my network SOOO SLLLLLLOOW?!?!?!?

    Im doing a simple file copy between two computers. The file is a 1.6 gig video in Mpeg-2 format. My desktop PC has a Athlon 2400+ and the tablet pc only has a p233MMX w/ 96 meg of ram and a 5400rpm laptop hard drive. The tablet is running win 98 and the desktop is win xp. My transfer speed is...
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    Why is my network SOOO SLLLLLLOOW?!?!?!?

    No WEP is used for wireless. My router wont even let me change my settings for some reason. So maybe it is using encryption. The wired network card is set to 100mbps and is a Linksys. Thw wifi card is some generic pos.
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    Why is my network SOOO SLLLLLLOOW?!?!?!?

    I had a wifi card in my tablet pc that would not get even close to the 11mbps max of wifi. Even though the signal was 100% it would get 2mbps tansmission speed max. So then i switched to a 100mbps wired network card and now my max is only 9mbps. What is wrong?!?! This is so annoying. Could it be...
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    Dumb question about micrsoft word xp

    My question is, How do you draw or write with the mouse without word interpreting it as a shape? I have a tablet pc which is a pen based pc running word xp on win 98se. The tablet pc patch for word xp doesnt work becasue it requires win xp. i'm trying to figure out how i can right comments on...
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    Dumb question about micrsoft word xp

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    whats the diff. between a router, switch, and a hub?

    I'm trying to setup a wireless network at my house. My wireless access point only has one network port on it. What do i use to connect my wired pc and cable modem at the same time to the wireless access point? Do i use a switch, hub, router? Whats the diff between them? is there a such thing as...