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    Problems with airport card

    I have a MacBook Pro with a built-in airport card and I keep sporatically losing my wireless connection. No other computers that connect to my router experience this problem, only my mac laptop. I have to turn off my airport card and then turn it back on to fix the problem. I have a Linksys...
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    Anyone from France or speak french?

    A friend of mine is looking for a job in France in the field of electrical and computer engineering but is having a hard time knowing what to look for. He speaks pretty fluent french, but doesn't know the technical words. For instance, embedded systems design isn't something you typically use...
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    1GB US Modular USB Drive for $2.95 AR *DEAD*

    Linky Hope it's not a repost, but seems to be a good deal.
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    Weird problem with my website *RESOLVED*

    I'm having some weird problem with my website. You can get to it with either the URL (www.themuppetfamily.com) or the IP address. However, my favicon.ico only appears if you use the IP address, not if you use the URL. Also, my wife just signed up with youtube to do videos on her blog. I had...
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    Need some apache help *FIXED*

    Well, I don't know what the problem is. I went here and created a favicon.ico file. I tested it on their site and it worked just fine. I moved it over to my html folder on my linux webserver and set the permissions to 777. I then put the following code in my index file. <link...
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    Can't log in to XP

    Dang weird problem going on here. I own Star Wars, Empire at War, but lost the key, so I went hunting for a keygen. What I thought was a keygen was actually a trojan. That sucked. Anyway, McAfee removed it and I've booted a time or two since, but now it just hangs at the blue starting up...
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    Need some opinions on cards for a home media center

    So, getting sick of cable cost and the fact that an increasing number of stations are putting content online, I've decided to kill the cable and hook my little server up to a flat-panel tv. I'm backing up all my DVD's onto the hard drive, so I can watch them that way. As for regular tv, I'll...
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    Most Hated Family in America

    I hope this isn't a repost, but I did a search and couldn't find it anywhere. Here's some video's from youtube.com. There are a total of 7, and some of them are glitchy, so feel free to look for other version as there are some available. Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5 Video 6...
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    I GOT A JOB!!!!!

    I finish my thesis in June, and then Albuquerque, here I come!! Absolutely stoked about the job and the location. I've never lived in Albuquerque, but I've been there a few times and am really excited about it. I get to work on a whole bunch of top secret stuff which will be freakin cool...
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    What are the best schools to get a Ph. D in Electrical Engineering?

    I know USNews does a listing, but you seem to have to pay for anything other than the top 3. I'm trying to look for one in the top 50. I think my current university is around 70. My company is going to pay for it, so cost is relatively not too much of an issue. I'm finishing my Master's...
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    Would you be upset if your wife wanted to sell her wedding ring?

    Just curious what people think. If your wife wanted to sell it, what would you think? Again, no marital problems, just hates the diamond industry.
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    Funniest Movie Line

    After listing my favorite movies that make me laugh every time, Link, I started thinking about some of the lines in those movies. This got me wondering what everyone else's favorite lines are. Here are a couple of mine. Spies Like Us "You know what that thing can do? It'll suck the paint...
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    Need a laugh?

    I hope no one has posted this before, and my apologies if they have. I did a search and didn't see anything, but we'll see how it goes. Signs I think my favorite is the radio with backstreet boys, michael bolton, and yani. If you have a favorite, please list.
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    Any Apache brains out there?

    So here's the deal. I'm rather new to apache, but trying to learn. So I set it up on my Linux server and got everything working, as far as just my basic site. I've got additional folders that I'd like to be able to access, but I want to restrict who can access them. So I read up on DBM and...
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    RPC question

    I created a program for maintaining class list using RPC. I created the necessary files, ran rpcgen, compiled everything and we're good. I'm running the server portion on a linux box but I can't seem to figure out what port it's using to connect. If I turn the firewall off, I can connect to...
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    Rudy Giuliani for president

    9/11 aside, I lived in New York City for two years prior to those events and I gotta say, the man really did a great job of cleaning up NYC. Obviously, I think he did a pretty good job with 9/11, but even without that, I think he's a great guy. I'm a libertarian, so I wouldn't owe him any...
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    Need some Linux help

    I'm currently running Fedora Core 6. I have a 250GB NTFS hard drive that I want to wipe and use on my Fedora installation. I'm trying to mount it to /mnt/Share. Does anyone know the commands to do this? I'm ssh'ing into the machine, though I am using X window. So if anyway has some ideas how...
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    Need some Linux help

    I'm currently running Fedora Core 6. I have a 250GB NTFS hard drive that I want to wipe and use on my Fedora installation. I'm trying to mount it to /mnt/Share. Does anyone know the commands to do this? I'm ssh'ing into the machine, though I am using X window. So if anyway has some ideas...
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    How do you discover available services on a network?

    Trying to finish a networks assignment, and the glorified textbook simply says to contact DAYTIME servers and CHARGEN service to discover how they work. Well, I know how they work, what I don't know is where they are. I know there is a network command that you can issue and request that anyone...
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    Freakin hysterical!! Must read and see!!!

    I thought each of you could use a little comic relief today. Here's the story. A city councilman, Mark Easton, lives in this neighborhood. He had a beautiful view of the east mountains, until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and built. Apparently, the new home was 18 inches...
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    What is it with parents today???

    So I was at the bus stop with my son because a few kids were kind of bullying him. He's in 1st grade, they're in 4th or somewhere around there. The biggest kids starts spitting at other kids and pushing them down, not mine, but others. I tell him to stop, and he say, "I'm getting my dad...
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    Anyone here use wind power??

    I may be moving to the Fort Collins area and I'm looking into alternative forms of electricity and wind power seems to be a prevalent alternative in that area. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with setting it up or using it or anything. Can it be stored easily? How much are the...
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    Going to HPEC, need some Fenway Park ticket help

    A group of us are going to give a presentation at HPEC at MIT during September. We would like to go to the Red Sox vs. Twins game during that time, most likely on Wednesday the 20th. However, none of us have ever been to Fenway Park. Therefore, we need some advice. What are the best...
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    Question for those scientifically minded

    So an instructor at my university is working on reusing energy in electronics. Such ideas include using the heat generated by a microprocessor and converting it back into power so as to make things more efficient and less power hungry. This got me thinking about the law of the conservation of...
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    Anyone here work for NVidia??

    Just wondering if anyone here works for Nvidia and could tell me how they like it. Looks like they have some nice benefits and I would have to imagine working there would be freakin sweet. Curious about work environment, living expenses, those types of things. Any info would be appreciated.
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    Sexual Harassment question

    A friend of mine started a job for a big computer company and was going through that standard "Welcome to *****, time for some training." One of which is obviously sexual harassment. In this meeting, he was told that he could be off the clock, eating at a restaurant, and if a fellow...
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    Need some good blogging software

    Running Suse 10.0 Enterprise Server edition and I'm looking for some good blogging software so my wife can keep her blog on our server. I haven't learned PHP yet and I'm a little to busy right now to write my own, so I just need something that's good and free. Something only the great Linux...
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    How do you determine the OS installed on a drive?

    Aside from the obvious "turn on the drive", does anyone know how you can determine the installed OS on a non-active drive. What I mean by that is, say I have a hard drive in an enclosure connected to my computer. I want to know what OS is installed on that drive. Any ideas? I know .NET has...
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    Any C++ .NET programmers out there?

    In Visual Studio 6.0, you could do a simply system() call and pass it the path of the program to execute and it did it. Now I can still do a system() call, but the path I have I retrieve out of my GUI, so it's associated with a String. I can't pass a String to system(). Is there another...
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    Question about ntuser.dat file

    My friend and I developed a program for school a while back that cleans out a computer (registry, cache, cookies, etc...). What we're trying to do now though is to get it to work on a system that is not booted. So I can take out the hard drive of said computer, hook it up externally to another...
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    Forum traitors

    So my wife is on a mothering-board and they just found out that a group of about 13 or 14 had created a "secret" board where they copied over post and pictures from the main site and then just made fun of them, all while maintaining "good friendships" with the people on the real board. My wife...
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    Anyone here ever used LU Decomposition in the Revised Simplex Method??

    We're not allowed to use the linprog function, so we have to write everything from scratch. We can use lu(), which I do. But I'm confused about something. These are the 5 steps shown for what to do. 1) Calculate the current solution Xb = Yo satisfying BYo = b, 2) Solve lambda(transpose)B...
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    Would you work for Microsoft??

    I just had my interview with Microsoft last friday and I'm supposed to hear back next week on whether I'll be offered a position. So I was just wondering how many people would take the job if it was offered to them? The job would be as an Intern Project Manager. Here are a few of the...
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    Anyone ever use the select() function?

    Ok, I understand how to add file descriptors and the whole idea of what select does. I understand that it returns the number of descriptors that are ready to be read, write, or handled. What I don't understand is how I'm supposed to know WHICH desciptor is ready. Does it reorganize the fd_set...
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    Possible AIDS cure found

    Heard about this the other day and didn't see a post about it, so I thought I'd share it. My apologies if this is a repost. AIDS cure Sure hope it works!
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    Valentines day, you devil

    So a local langerie store put an ad in the school paper recently for their Valentine's Day sale. They picked a "decent" picture from the 50's that wasn't too horrible. Here's a link to a scan I made of the ad (this is after a modification, so you'll have to use your imagination for what it...
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    Anyone ever use Handel-C or any other C language for FPGA's?

    I'm doing a research paper on C-type languages for programming FPGA's and I'm having problems understanding exactly what the big hype is. As far as I can tell, basically all they do is a direct translation from C to verilog or some other HDL language. It would appear they all pretty much suck...
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    How much more can America do?

    What do you think? How much longer is it going to be before America HAS to take a step back and realize that it needs to fix itself before it can help anyone else? I know most people realize this already, but how long will it be before we are forced into such a situation? By situation, I mean...
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    Anyone work for a phone company?

    I was wondering if your phone connection is always connected to the phone company? We're fixing to move into an apartment and I don't have an account with the phone company. The problem with Vonage though is that the phone has to be connected directly to the router. If the phone connection is...
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    Need some XM radio help!

    I have a friend who owns a salon and wants to put XM radio in it. So I need an XM receive that I can attach about 4 speakers to. Every receive though that I can find is for a home theater and is more than we want. Any advice?? Links would be appreciated.