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    Hard Drive Has Gone Musical

    So, one of my hard drives at work has turned musical. I tried powering up this embedded system that has a sata hd connected to it; the whole system worked fine a week ago. I immediately hear this "boo duh dee boo duh dee boo duh dee" 3 tone musical arpeggio (minor third and perfect fourth) start...
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    Job Offers

    Hey all, I need some advice regarding job offers for recent graduates. I am graduating this semester with an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering (I go to school in PA). I have been job hunting with moderate success, and have been having a series of phone interviews with a company in...
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    Tony's Workout Journal

    Hi. My name is Tony, and I am interested in getting stronger. I have been doing strength training for 14 months; Stronglifts 5x5 beginner's workout for about 10 months, and now I am using Bill Starr 5x5 - Madcow Intermediate version with some slight modifications. When I started I was 120lbs...
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    Intermediate strength training program suggestions?

    Hey guys...I've been doing Stronglifts for about 4 months and soon it will be time to switch to an intermediate program. My goals are to get stronger and secondly to gain muscle mass. Stats: 5'5" M, 140 lbs (up from 120 in April :) ). Last workout I did over 1.5x bodyweight squat (225x5x5) and I...
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    SSE3 with characters in C

    Does anyone know how to use SSE3 with characters in C? What I want to do is to pack 16 characters into the 128 bit registers SSE3 uses and add them (in order to optimize a summing function - where I need to sum characters). However I cannot find any documentation about this online...like...
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    HP dv8000t laptop problem - bad video card?

    System specs: Core duo 2.0 GHz, 2GB DDR2 RAM, Geforce Go 7600, 80GB HD, Windows XP So...a couple of weeks ago my laptop would just spontaneously start rebooting about 5-10 minutes in to the system start. About half the time it would blue screen, the other half it would just restart without...
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    Will this video card fit on a Gigabyte DS3R mobo?

    So I'm helping my friend build a computer, and now that the 7950s have pretty much disappeared from Newegg, I think I'm gonna stick with a x1950pro. I'm thinking the Powercolor x1950pro Extreme w/AC looks like a pretty good deal at $146 shipped/AR but I'm not entirely sure if it's going to fit...
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