Recent content by chocbrucemousse

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    Help Heating Problems

    I have a Emachines (stop laughing, it was $1000) AMD XP 2400+ laptop. 512 ram, 40 gb hddisk, ... winXP home ed.. and when I play games that require processor power it overheats. I am trying to find a way around this... without cracking it open and swapping the heat sink and chip. I was...
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    A tale of 2 routers....and 1 internet connection....

    After a little while working i have come to a solution for this problem. Here are the steps you need to solve it: Plug the routers togetherin a Non-Wan to Non-Wan Fashion. Setup a computer on the router with internet access for IC broadband sharing. Set up the computers on the router without...
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    A tale of 2 routers....and 1 internet connection....

    Right now i have the network set up so all computers have internet access. The Local IP addresses of the routers are as follows: The SMC router is: 192.168.85.117, and this is connected to the internet. The Linksys router is: 192.168.85.116. I cannot ping the SMC with the current...
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    A tale of 2 routers....and 1 internet connection....

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and all because i have a problem. I have 2 routers, and i was wondering how i ought to set them up to allow my network to act like a single workgroup, instead of 2 seperate ones, and still maintain my internet connection to both. I do not...
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    Thin Client Farm?

    Does anybody here use a thin client farm for doing distributed computing applications? I bought this item from ebay some time ago, but do not have the time nor patience to get it up and running. My hope is that somebody here can use it. I really appreciate this forum as a means to gather...
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    Best Way to Network: 5 computers, wirelessly?

    I need to wirelessly network 5 computers togeher using wireless access. I am looking for your best suggestion for doing so, I figure I could do one wired and pick up a 4 port wireless. Speed isn't really all that important, at leat 5 mbps is fine. If you'd just leave your suggested equipment...
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    XP HOME vs XP PRO

    What are the primary differences between Windows XP Home and Pro?? I'm wondering so I can make a more educated purchase. If anybody can gaive me a rundown it would be much appreciated. ~Bruce
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    If you went back in time...

    You can't change anything that happens in your cone of light. You can't change the past. Doesn't work.... Look it up A brief history of time, chapter 3 -Stephen Hawking ~Bruce S.
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    Circuit Madness

    Just wire it to the ignition. Wire the start button for the ATX to the ignition. the ignition works bye using powering the starter...this will turn it on. ummm, then wire a relay to the alternator in such a way that the relay holds open the curcuit when it's running. (hence you will want a...
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    Extremely Low Temp Thermometer

    An infrared thermometer mdight do the trick, prolly about $50 you could get one that went that low.
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    Quantum Computing??

    For more information on the topic, check out scientific american....sometime last year there was an issue about it. http://www.sciam.com also Oxford has some interesting information. http://www.oxford.edu
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    Quantum Computing??

    Quantum computing is interesting to me. Anybody care to share what they know about it? It's an emerging field, realted to spintronics. I'd like to find out more...but it's definately highly technical....=)
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    AMD Athlon 64 delayed until September (Clawhammer)

    I am really looking forward to those new Spintronics based Quantum computers. I'd settle for 1M Quantum memory and processing. Then I won't need to worry about all this. =P If you don't know about quantum computing, look it up. It's an important next step.
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    math: converting between numbers with different bases

    I know how to do that!!! It's easy. They way the bast 10 system works is the 1's place # is (1 x (10 ^ 0)) or 1 the next place is (1 x (10 ^ 1)), or 10's place next is (1 x (10^2)), or 100, hundreds place etc etc in any # system, septal for example, each place works like this. so from 14626...