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    what router should i buy for my new place?

    Can someone point in the direction of a good router to buy for home? i'd want it to support wireless as well as wired. my new place is three floors, and i plan to have computers in all three. is draft n still crappy?
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    how to grep and ignore binary files?

    Ok this one should be super easy. I have cygwin installed on my vista machine. I want to use grep to recursively find a string in a directory, but its also looking through binary files, which I don't want. According to the man page, "-I" is supposed to ignore binaries, but it looks...
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    does ubuntu have kickstart functionality?

    I did a google search for kickstart and ubuntu and I saw lots of requests for that feature, so I'm guessing it hasn't been implemented yet for ubuntu? Does ubuntu have support for similar functionality?
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    javascript and asp.net validation question

    So here's the scenario. I have a signup form that has a field "email address". I have a web.config switch "requireEmailSignup" that is either true or false. If the switch is true, I want to have client side and server side validation requiring the field to be there. If its false...
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    need help setting up apache on fedora core

    Hello, I originally posted this in the computer help forum but got no responses. Perhaps this is a better forum to post in. I've been meaning to learn linux, and aside from using it a couple of times when I was in school, I've mostly used windows. I got fedora core installed on my...
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    need help setting up apache on fedora core

    Hello, I'm not sure if this is in the right forum. Please move this topic if its not. I've been meaning to learn linux, and aside from using it a couple of times when I was in school, I've mostly used windows. I got fedora core installed on my computer (not sure how to determine what...
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    new sata drive not showing up in windows xp

    i bought a 500 gig Seagate Barracuda. Its showing up in BIOS, its showing up in device manager, but its not showing up as a drive letter in windows explorer. Any ideas?
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    http put requests in iis 5.1 cause 403

    Ok this isn't exactly a programming question, but I figured this would be a good place to start. If another forum would be better for this, then I apologize and a mod can move it. I am currently trying to implement the ATOM API on the server side. One of the requests that ATOM...
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    question with C# Request.GetResponse function

    Ok in my code I create an HttpRequest object. I then use the Request.GetResponse() to get a response. Now sometimes the response does not return a status code of 200, and this causes an exception to be thrown. I would like to be able to get the status code and status description...
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    SQL Server error: Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string.

    I'm working on a stored procedure in Microsoft SQL Server that currently gives the error: Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string. Here is a code snippet, but let me first explain what is going on. The @Query parameter is going to be run later on as part of a call...
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    computer wont turn on

    ok so heres the deal. my machine was functioning fine. i was trying to confirm that the fans were all working inside my machine, so i turned off the power and opened the case up. when i reconnected the power and hit the power switch the computer did not turn on. i checked to make...
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    need a solution for line breaks

    Hi I am writing some code on asp.net and C# that creates email. It uses "\r\n" for its linebreaks for the plain text version of the email. However, this causes "^M" to appear when the email is viewed in Linux. From what I've been reading, Windows uses "\r\n" for linebreaks Linux...
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    what linux based OS should i get?

    So this isn't intended to start a flame war. Basically, my dad and I want to install linux on one of our computers. We'd be using it to play around with apache, php, and mysql, just so we can really learn it. We both have experience with UNIX. My dad has more, as an oceanographer, he's...
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    can someone recommend a good video editing program?

    ok i'm not sure if this is the right forum to post in, but the video forum seems to be about graphics cards .... i was wondering what software is good for editing videos. i recently purchased the casio exilim s600 which is VERY good at taking videos (30 fps) and its a tiny camera thats like...
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    A8N0SLI mobo gives 5 beeps on startup

    I ordered parts for my new computer today and put them together. On powering up, nothing displayed on the monitor. What is more, I got 5 short beeps (same pitch I think) in sucession. My mother board documentation has NO listing for bios beep codes. I have done some searching on the...