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    Computer Diagnostics/Crash help

    Could use some help diagnosing a problem that arose for my system. My system locked up while running a game today. Its rarely if ever happened. Had to power cycle the computer to get it to come back up. When the system was booting, I noticed these green lines on the screen. When the...
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    Power Down Issue

    Recently, I have found that when I shutdown my system, it won't power down afterwords. What happens is that the OS (Windows XP), completes the shutdown procedure, the monitor goes into power save, yet the you can still hear all the fans (case, motherboard, CPU, power supply), the case...
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    Networking Programming Question

    I cannot seem to remember this from my networking days. Say you have a programming that sends UDP packets out on the network from a machine (A) to another machine that receives them (B). Now obviously with UDP if the machine B (receiver) isn't there, for some reason, the packets will just...
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    Skiing Equipment Reviews?

    Is there a good website for getting reviews on skiing equipment. Its time for me to buy some new stuff, and I want to know what is good and what isn't. By the way, I'm talking about Snow skiing.
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    Linux Group question (nevermind)

    I have a question regarding groups in linux. Say I have two groups user and work. I'm a member of both groups with the default group being user. When I login I get user as my group when I type groups. And when I type groups (username) I get user work That much is to be...
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    Networking IP Question

    I have a question regarding a situation in networking and I am curious what will happen as a result. Say you have 2 LANs, lets call them LAN A and B. If LAN A and B are started separately, with two machines on each. Now in this problem lets say that the machines on LAN A have the same IP...
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    Promise SATA150 TX4 Linux 2.6

    Recently I purchased a Promise SATA controller card. Now, the module that comes with the Linux 2.6 kernel seems to work just fine. However in order to load the module I need to modprobe sata_promise. Then mount the drive. I'm looking for a way to get it autoload the module and then be able...
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    Poll: Wisdom Teeth?

    Simple question, do you still have your wisdom teeth. Just curious after my latest trip to the dentist on how many people still have their wisdom teeth.
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    Network question

    Say your on a closed network, no routers just hubs and switches. Is it possible to find out the route a packet takes to go to another machine on that network. This would be including any switches or hubs it might pass through. I am not sure if this is possible. I was pretty sure traceroute...
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    X Server port 6000 (solved)

    Ok, I used to know this but apparently I have forgotten. I am running a fedora core 2 system using Xorg for X. How do I go about starting X so that it creates the X server listening on port 6000 to it can accept incoming tcp connections. I cannot seem to remember where this is set. By...
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    Garden Friend

    Found this hiding in my girlfriends garden. 1 2 3 4 5 Edited for AMDFanBoy
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    Array of Class C++ question

    Its been a while since I have used C++ so I ask this question I need to create a dynamic array that contains pointers to classes. What is the best way to do this?
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    Power Supply Question

    I don't know alot about power supplies so bare with me if this is a really stupid question. I have a 430 Watt Antec Power supply. However I have 3HD and 2 Optical with the possiblity of going up to 4 HD and 3 Optical Now last time I looked and I could be wrong, I think I running low on the 4...
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    HighPoint RocketRAID 404 / CD/DVD Drive IDE controller question

    Ok, while I already have a guess on what the answer is to this question, I am not hundred percent sure so I will ask. Right now I have a HighPoint RocketRAID 404 in my system. I had the system raided up but I lost a drive so as of now its just got one hard drive connected to it. Now I am...
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    Printer Sharing between Win 2k and Win 98

    I have a problem trying to share files/printer between a windows 2000 machine and a win 98 box. The printer is on the Windows 2000 machine. And I want to share it to a windows 98 box. Now I don't know if this makes a difference but both are connected on a wireless lan. The Windows 2000...
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    Linux Alsa Sound

    Ok, I have run into an odd problem setting up a linux 2.4 box using Alsa sound drivers. I am currently running the alsa 1.0.4 version of the alsa-drivers, libs, uitls. Now I recently build the drivers for a box that has an audigy 2 sound card. I had no problem with that. Sound works...
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    Color shoes with Navy Blue pants

    Just a fashion question. What color shoes can you wear with navy blue pants?
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    Nice dress watch question

    Interesting in purchasing a dress watch, something nice. For those who have a watch like this. What kind of watch do you have? And what are your thoughts on the watch?
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    Average Joe 3

    ok. Angel Boris is one of the "swimsuit models". now I know this is reality tv, but when to Playmates start getting in on the action.
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    Golf- Cleveland 900 wedges

    Question for any golfers here who have a Cleveland wedge. What is the difference between the gun metal vs the crome or BRZ. Has anyone played both? And is there a significant difference?
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    Baseball Salary Cap Poll?

    With the latest deal, A-Rod to the Yankees, all but complete and their payroll which will be around 190 million. I wonder would baseball be better off with a salary cap or atleast a much large penalty "luxury tax", where teams cannot just brush it off. What is it now is 17.5% for every...
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    DDD Good GDB Graphical frontend?

    Looking to use DDD to examine some fortran code on a linux box. It appears to work for Fortran, just curious if anyone has any thoughts on it, or if they have something else they would like to advise?
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    Simple Fortran Question (hopefully)?

    I am looking at Fortran code and while I can understand most of it. I am dealing with a section of code. Now there are some OPEN(UNIT=60,FILE,STATUS) OPEN(UNIT=61,FILE,STATUS) OPEN(UNIT=62,FILE,STATUS) But further down there is a WRITE(6,110) WRITE(6,120) WRITE(6,130) Now I want to...
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    Book on Fortran

    I am looking for a book on Fortran (Programming Language). Doesn't have to be a beginners guide, just looking for a book on Fortran that is similar to way "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie, is for C. Thanks.
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    Fortran Books

    Anyone know of a good fortran book? Dealing with Fortran 77
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    Linux Man Pages

    I used to know what the answer to this problem is, but now I cannot seem to remember. On one of the linux systems I use, the man pages do not view correctly. Most of the man path is displayed correctly but some of the formating gets displayed incorrectly. Like this for example...
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    Fedora - modules-init-tools - 2135 kernel update

    I have recently run into a problem after updating Fedora to the 2.4.22-2135 kernel. Now alittle while ago (before the kernel update) I began trying to get a 2.6 kernel working under Fedora. But not having alot of time, I haven't completed. However, i did the module-init-tools install. And...
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    /dev and MAKEDEV

    I have a probably stupid question. How do you go about creating dev devices, like hard drives. Where you have the /dev/hda, then you have /dev/hda1, hda2, hda3 etc etc. I am curious because i have to create a dev for a diskonchip device. The diskonchip acts like a harddrive in that it...
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    Canon S400 Any good?

    I have to get my youngest sister a birthday gift, and she wants a digital camera, and mentioned this one. Is the S400 any good? I know some people here have them. Are you happy with them or would you recomment another one. Thanks.
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    Building 2.6.0-test11 kernel questions?

    I am interested in a building the 2.6 test kernel. Now I am currently on a redhat 9 system - if that makes a difference. I have found a few sites that aid in this. Including upgrading from Redhat 9 to the 2.6 kernel. However i have a few questions for those that are here. First off i...
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    And the Evil Empire Strikes again

    Vazquez
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    Ext3 Recovery

    How long is a typical ext3 recovery suppose to take? I have a system with a 350 MB filesystem where it seems to be taking longer than normal to recovery on a hard shutdown. Curious for anyone that knows alot about this
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    Stolen Joke

    The madam of a brothel has a problem, so she goes to a local priest. "I have two talking female parrots," she tells him. "All they can say is ?Hi, we?re prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun??" "That?s awful," the priest agrees, "but I have a solution to your problem. I have two male...
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    Windows 2000 Problem?

    Not sure if I have a problem here? So I will throw out the error. Not sure if its nothing, a virus, or just need to reinstall. Anyhow, when I open certain folders. The explorer window will hang. sometimes it comes back and sometimes it crashes, explorer restarts. Now it seems to happen...
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    Raid Question

    This might be a stupid question, however I am not sure of the answer so I will ask. Can you use a PCI raid controller card without raiding drives. Basically use it as a IDE controller. So say i have 4 channel raid controller. Is it possible to put one drive on there without any issues?
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    Burning Software

    Interesting in purchasing a cd burning software. Basically looking for something to burn a wide variety of image files, from ISOs to BINs. Also looking to burn just regular data cds. Also wouldn't mind it being able to backup some of my game CDs, although I hear alot of the newer games come...
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    Corsair Memory Question

    Probably a stupid question, but wanted to make sure. I was thinking of buying some more memory for my home system. I presently have Corsair XMS 3200C2 Memory Would their be any conflicts/stablility issue if purchasing Corsair XMS 3200LLC2 or XMS 3200C2Pro. Or if I purchase that memory, will...
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    Bittorrent potential BSOD

    This is my first time running Bittorrent, so it might not be bittorrent's fault, however all signs point to it. I tried for the first time to use bittorrent last night. After not more than 5 minutes, I receive my first BSOD in Windows 2000. After I reboot, started bittorrent up again, and...
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    Linux System - Speeding up bootup

    Question here concerning boot up time for a linux system. I have a linux system and I looking for things to speed up the boot process. Now one problem is the system will never be rebooted, so everytime it boots up, its going to be from a hard shutdown. Loss of power,, or system failure...
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    Patch kernel

    Dumb question here. But for some reason I have forgotten How do you patch a kernel. I have the source, and the patch Say the patch is called patch_test And the linux source is in directory linux what would i need to call. Thanks ahead of time