Recent content by FredFredrickson

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    HP laptop running Vista just became incredibly slow

    Apologies for the double post, but I just wanted to thank all the people who viewed this topic, and report it as solved. After fiddling around with the laptop some more last night, I finally got an error that pointed me in the right direction. Occasionally, when the system would get to the...
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    HP laptop running Vista just became incredibly slow

    Overview of the problem Simply put, my laptop has recently become so slow that I can hardly use it. Almost anything makes the computer pause for anywhere between 30-90 seconds, and occasionally programs crash after the wait. Full description of the problem and symptoms This may or may...
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    File Cataloging Software

    That looks cool, techman. Thanks!
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    File Cataloging Software

    Over the years, I've made hundreds of CD's and DVD's backing up various parts of my work and system, and as many of you have done, I've upgraded and bought a lot of new systems in the process. I've got stacks and stacks of CD's and DVD's laying around with all manner of files on them, and I...
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    CSS - Span inside Paragraph not coloring text?

    So I've got a paragraph of text on my site that sits inside the <p> tags, and I want segments of the text to be different colors. I'm attempting to do this via CSS, particularly with <span> tags, but while every example I've seen assures me this should work, it does not. I've supplied my code...
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    What's the name of that old gameshow...

    Thanks guys... I think that might be it!
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    Post the most nerdy/geeky joke you know!

    What did the mathematician do when he got constipated? Worked it out with a pencil!
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    What's the name of that old gameshow...

    Does anyone here remember what the name of that old gameshow was where three people would walk in, and the contestants would ask them all questions and try to guess which one was actually the profession that they said they were? I seem to think it was in black and white... Can't remember for...
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    How do I automatically login to windows?

    Couldn't you just get rid of the ASP dev account and all the others that you don't want it to log in to? :P
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    Mac OS X - Networking games...?

    Me and my coworkers are dying here... slow day. Anyone know of any poker games (or anything else that might be fun) that we can play over about 4-5 networked Macs?
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    ~Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD~

    Blue Ray will be the next Beta Max... Sony's proprietery formats (Beta Max, Mini Disc, UMD) have never taken hold, and BR will be no different. What in the world makes you guys think people are going to want to pay Sony prices for all their movies, or that they'll all be rushing out to replace...
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    16x DVD burner won't burn over 2x...

    Well, I checked through the device manager, and everything was already on DMA. Since Sony's website makes absolutaly no mention that they ever had anything to do with this drive, I took my firmware search to google and found this: Softpedia Firmware I'm always really hesitant to install...
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    16x DVD burner won't burn over 2x...

    About a year ago I picked up a Sony DW-Q28A (a link for specs: click here) Burning DVD's at 16x and 8x was excellent! But once I got everything that I really needed to be backed up on DVD's, I didn't use it for a while, only occasionally using it to burn video DVD's. I also reinstalled...
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    Mac OS X... Do shared folders keep view preferences?

    I don't use Macs much, except at work... and every time I open up folders on the network server, they are in different sizes / locations / views than the last time I used them. This makes me wonder... Do folders that are networked on Macs save their sizes / locations / views that other people...
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    Yay for Dell!

    If you actually believe that all the great american jobs are being outsourced then you probably also believe that immigrants are taking all the other jobs that you'd rather be doing... And I would then ask you if your intelligence has been outsourced.