Search results

  1. W

    northern lights hoodie

    I saw someone with a hoodie with a design that had a full body design of the northern lights and trees at the bottom. it was a lot like http://www.threadless.com/product/1790/Electric_Sky, but slightly different and with design on the back too. does anyone know where I can buy one? thanks!
  2. W

    broken sound system

    So my roommate just brought up a car, but none of the sound works. He said the car hit a pothole and it stopped working. Someone else then tried replacing the fuse, which blew immediately so that person figured that it was a short circuit on the central part of the stereo system (tape, cd...
  3. W

    setting up a usb server through router (tomato)

    I have an asus router with a usb port that I flashed with tomato 1.25 USB Lite. When I plug in the printer, it is viewable as an attached device, but it is blank under the "Mounted?" column. I can't figure out how to print with it. I have tried connecting to it through 192.168.1.1/9100...
  4. W

    Quick, small meals that I can brown bag

    Sorry about making all these new threads, but I'm trying to really clean up my diet and exercise routine and you're all just so wonderful at helping out :P :) so I'm a college student who is not on the meal plan, and I'll be taking a tough schedule that will involve me being on campus for...
  5. W

    cytogainer vs. whey

    Someone recommended Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Whey on this forum. http://www.amazon.com/Optimum-...&qid=1249544397&sr=8-1 My RL friend recommended Cytogainer http://www.amazon.com/CytoSpor...&qid=1249544489&sr=8-1 I lift 4 times a week, doing Starting Strength with some...
  6. W

    Logging workouts

    So I just started doing Starting Strength and I'd like to keep a log of my progression, and I was wondering what you guys used to keep track of everything. I've just been using excel, but it's kind of hard to add notes and when adding things like cardio stats it's just not quite as nice. So...
  7. W

    video clip from a documentary/TV series about the war on drugs

    I remember seeing a clip from a few years ago of an interviewer (European, I think) inside a den with two drug dealers. they show him several bundles of weed, their guns, and then take out some vials of PCP and take them. I was wondering if anyone knew the name of this reporter / documentary...
  8. W

    New-ish to weight training

    Background: I used to be a competitive runner before college so I have had intensive training before, but now I'm interested in improving my body by losing body fat and gaining muscle mass. I'm pretty skinny (5' 10", 136) already and am not super weak or anything, but I'm trying to get down...
  9. W

    Healthy Recipes

    So I'm starting to ween myself off of eating out and eating frozen foods while also trying to become more healthy. Does anyone have any good places to find healthy recipes that are easy to make? I've been eating a lot of things with high glycemic indexes (I don't know too much about this at all...
  10. W

    new internet: 2 questions

    I recently signed up for Comcast. I'm using my old Motorola SB4200 modem from several years ago when I was with Cox. I'm signed up for the 8/2 mbps plan (with powerboost... so they advertise it as 16/2) On actual speed tests it caps at 8.5 / 1.5 during the day (low traffic hours I'm assuming...
  11. W

    Tomato firmware tweaks on new router

    I just bought the ASUS 520GL and flashed it with the custom Tomato USB Lite. I've never really messed around with router settings (other than forwarding ports for games and other apps). Everyone says Tomato is packed full of features - are there anything that I should specifically test out and...
  12. W

    any guitar players with a good ear

    are there any guitar players here who could possibly please help me with the rhythm/strum pattern for a song I'm trying to learn? I have a video and chords, but I suck at music ( I'm new) but my friend's bday is coming up, and it'd be great if I could play this for them thanks, please pm me
  13. W

    firefox addons not staying logged in?

    as the title says, they keep requiring me to relog in my information, despite checking "save password." foxmarks has my username saved, but not my password (even though the option is checked to) email notifier just doesn't remember ANY of my login information and I have to re enter it...
  14. W

    Program to sync google calendar with cell phone via usb/BT (no data plan)?

    Like the title says, I'm looking for a program to sync google calendar to my cell phone (or vice versa... but most events will be added through the pc/google calendar) the sony ericsson software can sync with outloook, which I don't use, and if worst came to worst I could use a program that...
  15. W

    best photoshop tutorial site?

    i'm looking for a good, clear, well kept site that posts just random tutorials that are easy to follow and learn from and i was wondering what you guys use right now the only real good one i've found is http://psdtuts.com which is awesome except the amount of content is a little low (but...
  16. W

    music management software

    I'm look for a program that can: - sync with ipod shuffle (and sync with only 1 playlist out of my entire music library) - mass retag MP3's - mass move / rename MP3's (i.e. change all music to C:/Music/<artist>/<album>/artist - song.mp3) Right now I use itunes + sharepod, but this...
  17. W

    windows wont start

    Problem: everything was working fine on my computer, except I had some problems with TF2, so I tried to update some drivers. I have a Abit Via k8t800pro, so i went to Via's site and downloaded the chipset/platform drivers. 84% into the install, it stopped for ~15 minutes, so i just ended the...
  18. W

    Enabling Cool n' Quiet

    I have a AMD 64 3500+ with a VIA K8T800Pro motherboard. I disabled Cool n' Quiet awhile ago, but now I wish to enable it again. When I disabled it all I did was turn it off in the BIOS. I have re-enabled it in the BIOS but in Windows it does not detect that Cool n' Quiet is on (it is always 2.2...
  19. W

    trillian problem

    so i use trillian, and i have tabbed messaging enabled (group contact windows together of the same group). but one thing i've noticed is that people who aren't in a group (that is, not added to my buddy list because i only have one group) that try to message me don't create a new window when my...
  20. W

    NPR today: french music

    There was something on NPR today (102.3 for anyone near ventura) and they played some french music. One of them was a female who played sort of electronic / alternative music, I think it MIGHT have been something like emily somual (sorta sounded like samuel for the last name, but it definitely...
  21. W

    Old spice deodorant...

    A few years ago I used an Old Spice deodorant (not anti perspirant) . Then they came out with a new line, and since then I've been buying the only kind I could find at Costco: the Red Zone "Aqua Reef." The old one smelled very nice, not "perfumey," but very good and less "harsh." The new ones...
  22. W

    linearly independent/linearly dependent sets

    To find if a set is linearly dependent you can either put the vectors in rows OR columns and see if there is a non trivial solution, right?
  23. W

    name the song?

    heard a song on the local rock/alternative station this morning and was wondering if anyone could help identify it. it had a girl singing, was acoustic and very mellow and i believe the chorus had the word "strange" in it. it reminded me of the shins, jason collett, and matt costa. some of the...
  24. W

    new plasma, 720p/1080i

    I've ordered a new 42" Plasma TV capable of playing 720p and 1080i. I am interested in hooking up my computer to this. I was wondering about a few things: - Will the quality of DVD ripped movies (into divx/xvid) be alright on the TV? Let's say that vary from 700 to 1400 mb... - Will Svideo...
  25. W

    finderactive.com

    when typing in terms (like test or wikipedia) to my navigation bar (or whatever its called) into firefox it normally did a google i'm feeling lucky search to choose what site it went to. however, today when i tried to do it it pulled up a http://www.finderactive.com/ search. i've done a full...
  26. W

    Linear Algebra: Row Echelon Form

    Having some issues completely understanding what it is, and how to change a matrix into REF. example from my HW (which I have answers to) reduce to REF (not sure how to properly represent matrixes in text) 1 2 4 3 8 11 answer is 1 8/3 11/3 0 1 -1/2 I can see that...
  27. W

    svideo quality

    i'm using an svideo to RCA cable to display using the tv. when i play movies, the quality is just fine, but when i'm viewing the desktop or other text, the quality is not good enough to read using the TV. is this normal, or am i losing quality by using this type of cable?
  28. W

    svideo problems

    so I have a thinkpad t23 with an S3 supersavage IXC video card, and i'm trying to use an svideo to RCA cable to display movies on a television screen. The problem is, in my display properties I cannot use my 2nd display as my primary display, and in my "special" S3 driver settings, I can not...
  29. W

    Scheduled program manager?

    Is there a program I can use to automatically open and then close a certain other program (so just execute the .exe and then end it later)? Sorry about the weird wording, not totally sure on the terminology :o
  30. W

    firefox printing

    is there anyway to remove the footer/header that shows where a document was printed from when printing from firefox?
  31. W

    new cingular sony ericsson phone

    I just got a new sony ericsson z520a and there are a bunch of lame ringtones that i would like to delete, but when i try to, they say Protected File - cannot be deleted. anyone know a way around this, or is there not one? i've tried using My Phone Explorer to delete it through my computer, but i...
  32. W

    CPU problems

    I've had my computer for over a year, and I tested everything when i got it and it worked fine, used CPU-Z and showed the correct 2.2ghz clocking. Now, however, it is showing a constant ~1051 mhz with occasional jumps to 1.8-2.2 ghz... i have an abit motherboard and it is set (using the OCGuru...
  33. W

    Adblock randomly blocking things

    So, I have adblock plus, and randomly some (but not all) of people's pictures will be blocked on Myspace. If i reset the filters (importing them from pierceive along with the corresponding whitelists) it will go away. After awhile though, some random ones will be blocked again. I have no idea...
  34. W

    Any Adium like messangers for windows?

    I was at my friend's house and I saw him using Adiumx for Mac OS X, and I was very interested in it. It looked freaking awesome, and it also had some feature where the formatting was great (i.e. he was sending bits of coding over AIM with his friend, and all the indents were prefect, as opposed...
  35. W

    Chemistry question...

    forget it, i misinterpreted the question a little... who needs hw anyways.
  36. W

    "Collaborative editing"

    I am interested in doing a programming project using Python with a friend of mine, but it's a bit troublesome for us to meet regularly. He has Mac OS X, and I use Windows XP Pro. A program for the Mac, called SubEthaEdit has a feature where multiple people can edit 1 file in real time together...
  37. W

    Embedding video on a site

    I have a few different clips that i'd like to embed on a webpage. Right now I have it set up so the media player plays a playlist of videos, but i'd like have it so i have multiple links on the side for each clip, and then they play in the embedded player. Is there any way to do this beside...
  38. W

    Batch image compression

    I have a some huge pictures, all taken with the same camera, at 3008 x 2000 about 2.5-3mb each. I'm interested in sizing them down to about 1mb each, not totall sure what the dimensions would be for "normal" what would be a good program (freeware, or shareware/paid) to compress them all at...