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    I think I'm in love

    If you haven't checked out serialization, you should now. It will save you hours and sleepless nights. The premise is that you can add a [Serializable] above class definitions and have the language save all members of the class to a file for you. You don't have to write a single line of...
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    Exporting vector graphics

    I work at an institute that produces an annual Word document with lots of vector graphics in it. One of these is a statewide county-boundary map, of which I have an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) format file. Saving this into different formats with Illustrator yielded less-than-perfect output, with...
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    AP scores

    Just got my AP scores for AP Computer Science A. Got a 4/5, fairly happy with it (since I've used Java about twice in my life before that). I still think it was too theoretical and fairly useless but that's just my opinion. Post your AP scores (doesn't have to be compsci).
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    GreaseMonkey/Stylish scripts to fix some UI problems

    I'm hoping that until they get around to fixing the problems on the server-side, we can use some client-side tweaks. These only work with Firefox AFAIK, but they should work on any OS. This (Stylish script) fixes the scrollbar, sluggish movement, and posts-disappearing issue: All credit...
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    Samsung 940UX: the first USB monitor

    It also has DVI and VGA connections, and a small 2-port USB hub. You can daisy chain the LCDs by hooking them together over a USB connection (e.g. you can have five monitors connected to one USB port coming out of your PC). Here is a review...
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    MS PhotoSynth tech

    First part is just like Google Earth but wait'll the second and third parts. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762315
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    Web devs, guide me in the proper direction

    Here's the thing. I want to make a PHP site just so I can retain a common theme across a multitude of pages. The pages 'include'd by the PHP file will contain the whole page except the menu bar, the heading info, the link styles, and what not. The content pages will of course have HTML tags...
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    VMware gone wrong

    I just thought this was interesting. One day I tried to startup VMware and it said it thought my CPU was 14.00 MHz. So I just let it proceed anyway to see what would happen. The guest OS (XP) felt like it was on drugs. I'd go in the clock applet and it should be going 100 mph. I captured...
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    CSS vs Tables-based Website Layout Design

    Through experience I have always found tables a lot easier to use than div/span/etc tags with style properties. They seem to be a lot more compatible since they are "older", yet the webpage comes out looking just as good and you went through less trouble to get there. Most of my problems stem...
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    ---------- >> IMPORTANT NOTE: For reasons of convenience, the recommendations have been moved to the second post (under this one).<< ---------- The LCD Thread (website) Guide Updated: Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 Please don't e-mail or PM me. Don't be shy. Post in the thread for everybody to...
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    Headphones and impedence

    I'm in the market for headphones and have little to no electrical engineering background. It's my understanding that higher-impedance headphones can not produce as loud as a sound as their lower-impedance counterparts (when driven by the same device). Are there other factors I should be...
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    Decongestants

    Blah. So I went to the store and realized they replaced all the PDE (pseudoephedrine) drugs with PE (phenylephrine). So I got a sinus PE one. What have been your experiences with PDE vs PE sinus drugs?
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    Anger = adrenaline?

    I notice I can do quite a few more push-ups when I'm pissed than normal. (And that's the only reason I'm calm now. ;) ) What is it about being pissed that makes you have more stamina?
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    How do you spell...

    "cull oak we ism"? It looks something like "colloquism". Google has failed me.
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    Algorithms for pairing

    I am working with different files full of data for 30 years (1 year per file). Each of these files contains a list of variables along with a corresponding ID for that variable. The problem is, some years have the same variable names but a different ID. I am getting past this by matching "by...
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    Monitor Profiles/Settings Thread

    I don't know how many people here have calibrators but perhaps you could share your profiles with the rest of us. If you don't have a calibrator then it's all good, just tell us what settings work best for you. For Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix-based OSes, you can apply ICM Profiles using...
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    Weekly Desktop Thread

    Desktop screenshots: work morework ahhh...the mountains...
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    SlimFast is awesome

    I might sound like a shill here, but it doesn't matter to me. Ever since I've been drinking one SlimFast per breakfast (in place of waffles or cereal), I've had tons more energy and a much better metabolism. If you feel tired during the day I highly recommend it. 10 grams of protein per...
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    Gaming performance on Vista vs XP

    http://techgage.com/article/windows_vista_gaming_performance_reports/2 GPU performance difference seems to be negligible, +/-5% but check out the 3dmark2001 score. Not sure if that's because Vista is more CPU intensive or because the NVIDIA driver offloads vertex processing to the other...
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    CRT vs LCD (which is better for me, after all?)

    There's a very eye-opening article on X-Bit Labs about LCDs and parameters. I suggest anyone interested in monitors read this article: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/lcd-parameters.html ( I hadn't even finished reading the article when I posted this as I was pretty amazed by...
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    Sticky rice (i.e. Chinese rice)

    Title says it all.
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    SED: abandoned tech?

    This is very disappointing if true. Can't we all just get along? (patents....) http://www.behardware.com/news/8559/sed-is-the-end-in-sight.html 02/05/07 UPDATE: Canon : yes, we will launch SED !
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    H.264 decoder

    It's high time I be able to utilize both of my cores! Are there any SMP-aware H.264 decoders in the works, or available currently? Personally I'm not a fan of the GPU solution because it is not cross-platform compatible and it is limiting (very direct output, no postprocessing available yet, etc).
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    YAFT

    A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: "That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!" The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: "The driver just insulted me!" The man says: "You go right up there and tell him off...
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    IDE controller that 'just works'

    I've had a great experience with my new system (note the sarcasm). The onboard JMicron controller refuses to work correctly in Linux, so I put in a Promise Ultra100 TX2 that I had laying around. The result is an added minute to my boot time (updating the BIOS on the controller resulted in only...
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    Driver detects /dev/hde but node ceases to exist

    Previously I had completely disabled PATA support in my kernel due to a PATA controller causing problems. Now that I've bought another controller, I am trying to re-enable it. I selected my current controller's driver (pata_pdc2027x and its DMA equivalent [pdc202xx_new I think]) along with...
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    Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD vs. DVD

    http://www.gamescentral.com/blogs/tek_j...blu-ray-vs-xbox-360-hd-dvd-vs-dvd.aspx Blu-Ray looks oversaturated even when it's using the VC-1 codec. I must conclude the PS3's decoder is the reason.
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    Compiling just one kernel module

    I'm trying to debug a Linux module I believe to be broken on my system config, and I want to recompile my modifications to it (just printing out debug info to dmesg). The file is ide-cd.c in drivers/ide. I tried this from /usr /src/linux (kernel source root): sudo make drivers/ide/ It...
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    Gigabyte memory enhance mode

    I was browsing around the GA-965P-DS3 BIOS and came across a feature labeled "memory enhance mode", or something to that extent. Options were Normal, Fast, and Turbo. Does it just increase the clock speed or does it tweak the memory controller like Intel PAT/ASUS HyperPath? I had set it to...
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    Core 2 Duo mobos and Linux

    Lots of Linux distros have issues with the JMicron PATA chip and Intel ICH8 SATA chip (apparently the ISA bridge chip as well) on many C2D-compatible mobos. Some get freezing even though they get past the installation. If you've successfully been using a C2D CPU with Linux, please post your...
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    Gamma-Correcting Game Screenshot Program

    When games initialize, they load a different gamma setting onto the desktop. Normally when you use the [Print Screen] key you are taking a screenshot without the gamma setting applied. This causes the resulting screenshot colors to be "off" from what you'd see in-game. You will usually...
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    Why iostream and not stdio?

    I am curious as to why people eschew printf/sprintf in favor of cout, ios::, etc. Printf is probably the best function in all of the libraries as it offers so much flexibility and power with so little code. For example, if I wanted to put the current time in the format "00:00:00" (hh:mm:ss)...
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    Xmas PC Upgrade

    I am planning to upgrade and order some parts very soon. I am sure that I want an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU, but need advice as to which chipset/motherboard, heatsink, and RAM modules to pair it with. I use this machine for development, and I have massive quantities of windows open at...
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    Temp Reader Program

    I'm currently developing an open-source temperature reading library and I need beta testers. Right now what I need is for you to run the EXE in the following zip file, and report what happens when you press on the button labeled "Test". All I need is the number that is displayed (should be 0...
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    Aerobic exercise & headaches

    I'm fairly sedentary most of the time, but over the past few days I've decided I'm going to try and stay on an exercise routine. After doing some biking on a stationary bike I get my heart rate up and also acquire some leg burn. However I also get a headache that's very painful in the top-back...
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    Function corrupting the stack?

    Situation: - I'm making a C library and I'm calling its functions from VB6 - One of the C functions is acting really weird when one line is uncommented Here's the C prototype of that function: BOOL __stdcall GetNVTemp ( INT dwDispNum, PINT lpdwCoreTemp, PINT lpdwAmbientTemp, PINT...
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    Weird C Problem

    exe\testapp.c(164) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type' Why can't I declare a variable there (on line 164)? Using nmake compiler in Windows DDK. BTW with line 164 commented out there are no errors or warnings at all. The code below is inside of a function (VOID _cdecl...
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    "Supported CPU Technologies"

    I noticed that motherboards on Newegg have an entry called "Supported CPU Technologies". Some CPUs list "Intel Hyper-Threading / XD-bit / EM64T / EIST Technology / Virtualization Technology" and some just list "Hyper-Threading Technology" for example. They both have the same north bridge and...
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    Reading model specific registers (MSRs)

    It seems like this should be a fairly straightforward operation. So here is the inline x86 asm code I'm trying. I move 10h (IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER) into the ecx register, which is supposed to be TSC (time stamp counter). Yeah, I know, I could just use rdtsc, but eventually I'm going to read...
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    TV-out has a blue tone to it

    When I hook up the TV-out adapter to my card, the output on the component signals has a blue tinge to it. I noticed that the Pr channel wasn't being output, but the cable isn't the problem. When I first turn on the PC (during POST), I can see a full color image with all the channels present...