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    Alternatives to TCP

    Alternatives to TCP by Wes Simpson, January 9, 2008 - TVtechnology.com In the last Video Networking column, I described some of the headaches involved with trying to upload a file to an e-mail Web server. Most likely, Transmission Control Protocol (more commonly known as TCP) was one...
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    Network Issue - XP Home - Work Groups

    I have a WRT54-GS router with 3 computers. One of the computers (and HP with XP-Home) is connected physically to the router and an all-in-one printer. Two other computers are wireless. All computers have the same workgroup name.. however only the wireless computers can see each other. When I...
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    wireless networking/printing

    I have a HP (hardwired) to a WRT54GS. 1 laptop and one destop are also wirelessly connected. I have folder/printing sharing enabled on all machines. However I have only been able to get the laptop/destop to share files by using NetBui (per EZlan.com). The HP isn't able to see anything (and...
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    Power on Issue

    Antec Smartpower 2.0 450W Venice 3000+ 512MB ram Epox 9NPA+ Ultra board Recienty the system will not start without cycling the psu power. If I try to start without cycling, the LED for ram power comes on... but no other LEDs (CPU/etc). Once I cycle the PSU and the LED turns off (ie. PSU...
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    Sony Vaio Memory

    A friend has asked me to buy memory for his Sony Vaio. He has only 256MB running XP Prof. It's a couple of years old and only has a lowly 1.00 GHz Pentium M. Will any DD2 So-Dimm work? Or does Sony Require propertary stuff?
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    Rackmount DJ System - Sound Card?

    I'm building a Rackmount DJ system for a friend - semi-pro DJ It's built on a 2U system. 2x250GB Seagate 7200.9 HDDs X2 3800+ 2GB OCZ Value etc. etc. etc. The real problem I have is selecting a sound card! I'm thinking M-Audio's 7.1 Revolution... But I also see alot more expensive...
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    sticky keys - laptop

    I have a laptop with sticky keys... someone poured soda or something on it I guess. I tried to take apart the keys to clean them... but they have little plastic attachements that made me sweat bullets trying to put them back together (It's a compaq lappy... and I think I cracked the little...
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    DJ Box - No Gaming

    Gentlemen, I am building a DJ box for a friend. I am unsure of the cpu requirments of Sound software... so I thought I go for overkill. He can afford it, since DJing pays pretty well. SFF - Biostar 330N (939 / G 6100 Integrated) X2 3800+ CPU Seagate 7200.8 SATA 250GB HDD Benq DW1640...
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    Build a DJ box

    What do you guys think for a semi-pro DJ box Using scratch live and Native Instruments Traktor ((heck what do you think about scratch live and traktor?)) Biostar 330N (939 socket / integrated 6100) SFFSeagate 7200.8 250GB (SATA) HDD Bluegear X-Mystique Sound Card Geil Value 2x1GB DDR 400...
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    Professional DJ software?

    A friend of mine DJs on the weekends and would like to rip all his music to a SFF computer and play it off of that. Is there any DJ software that is recommended for professional use (within reason, $1000 or less). Thanks!
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    Oil for Food Program corruption

    Just Released on the UN website: Iraq made $1.8Billion from oil "surcharges" and humanitarian aid "kickbacks" Siemens $1.6 Million in kickbacks Volvo $535,000 in kickbacks DamlierChryster $7000 in kickbacks Who says ethics is dead in corporate america? None of these companies are...
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    10G Ethernet parts ready, 100G in wings

    EE Times San Jose, Calif. ? A new generation of optical and copper components for 10-Gbit Ethernet is about to hit the market, promising vastly lower costs that could rev up demand for fast networks inside the data center. The parts emerge just as networking companies are laying the...
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    Intel Highjacking IEEE wireless standards

    According to EETimes Intel has formed a group with Agrer, Atheros, Marvell, and Qualcomm to push forward wireless (WiMax) standards at the expense of innovative new products. The article mentions that Intel, with no real RF track history is able to push (force) their desired standard using...
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    Nvidia uses Cadence design software for 7800GTX

    Electronic Design Software
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    Samsung 73nm SLC Flash

    Taken from EE times: 4GB NAND flash features: 73nm word-line (control gate) half pitch 54nm space between floating gates 90nm control gate 90nm bit line contacts in a tungsten silicide over polysilicon. However Toshiba's 90nm MLC FLASH has a 138mm die (vs. Samsung's 156nm) for 4GB...
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    Old set of Creative DTT2500 5.1s any good?

    I have an old set of creative labs DDT2500. These were $300 speakers in 2001... with a seperate DAC and all that. I am runnign off of the on-board sound in my Epox board... so I am sure that I'm not using these to their full potential... but: Are the new Logtech or Kipling, etc. speaker...
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    0x0000008E Stop error

    Ok... big question: , What the heck is going on. Error code indicates lack of resources (ram issue) STOP:0x0000008E (0xc000005, 0x8062BFBF, 0xf85d499c, 0x00000000) System works fine in safe mode. I ran a number of antiv-virus and caught a "few" (This is a brother in laws system who...
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    Build / Donation for Mexico

    My brother in law is a priest in Guajalaria, Mexico. The church is kind of focus point for the community, which is somewhat poor. I am planning on donating a computer for him to use for the office, and the kids to get online and do homework, etc. I still have to pick the hardware, but to...
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    New Build Boot Issues

    EPox 9NPA+ Ultra (latest 8/3/05 BIOS) Venice E3 3000+ 2x1GB OZC Value Ram X800 PRO GPU Hitachi SATA2 250GB HD (unformated) Hitachi IDE 80GB HD (OS) BENQ DW1640 Burner Win XP Home Did a repair install on the 80GB HD to boot into system. Installed Nforce 6.53 drivers... updated WinXP...
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    DVD-RM/RW SATA compatibility

    When are we going to get properly support SATA optical drives? I absolutely hate the silly IDE cables (even the round ones) in my system. I'm going through a building a new machine (all SATA), but research has indicated that the nforce4 chipset doesn't play nice with sata. Plexor has...
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    New Build - please rate!

    OCer! Definitely OC. CPU: X2 3800+ ($385 zzf) MB: Epox 9NPA+ Ultra ($108 zzf) HS: XP-90 w/ 92mm panadlow L1 fan ($25 +$10 svc) RAM: (2x512MB) OCZ Value DDR-400 ($100 ne) DVD: Liton DVD-RM ($15 ne) DVDRW: Benq DW1640 ($47 ne) GPU: Connect3D x800xl (PCIe) ($230 mwave) HD...
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    New Computer Build

    I'm upgrading (finally) from my P4 1.7Ghz machine. I expect to keep this one for 4-5 years with minimal (GPU) upgrades. I will definitely be overclocking. I am planning on: X2 3800 OR A64 3000 CPU (~$400 OR ~120) XP-90 w/ Panflow 92L (~$55) 2GB Ocz...
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    No Video / No Post / No Beeps

    I have the normal no video/no beeps error with a new build: Antec Smartpower 2.0 (350W) Corsair 512MB (1Dimm) Sempron 2800+ (Palmetto) Gigibite Radeon 9550 ECS 755-A2 (ok I cheaped out!) Anyway.. I would really like to figure out which of these components are not working. I suspect that...
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    flash drive recommendations?

    I am interested in buying a large capacity flash drive (1GB+) for taking out to customer's sites when working on their home computers (load up anti-vir/spybot) in case they have slow internet access. Does anyone have a recommendation for a drive? I'm currently considering Kingston's 1GB...
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    New 1905FP Purchase

    S/N CN-OT6116-71618-56L-ACSE Anyone know who is the panel maker? I am in discussion with Dell to replace this for ghosting... but I really don't want to upgrade to the 2005FPW... so I'm wondering if I should just live with it... or if there is something better outthere. I don't do too...
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    Cryptography programs?

    I've played "Hacker" for a while (a pc game) and it came with a "bonus" disk of encripted content. It says that you need to figure out various clues to discover the passwords to open the content (mostly developer journal pages). I am wondering if their is a public decryption program out there...
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    Dynamic Over/Underclocking software?

    I want to use a software to allow overclock when "80%+" cpu load and then declock to stock (or even underclock) when load drops... is there such a software? I've looked at Right Mark's CPU software... but haven't tried it yet... Does anyone have any suggestions?
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    DELL E193FP 19" LCD $284 (free ship) 9/19 only

    Coupon code 25% off E193FP SB is best price. Today only.... 9/19/05 Edited to remove coupon code. PM if desired.
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    Laptop display hooked to desktop?

    Long and Short: Friend wants me to build him a computer... but all I have is my laptop. I don't have a monitor. Is there anyway that I can feed the computer video to my laptop display so I don't have to lug around a monitor (or heaven forbid, buy one)? I just need to make sure the...
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    DDR2 die-size comparison

    FYI Just wanted to post since it seemed interesting.... but Samsung is expecting that DDR and DDR2 shippments will reach parity in 3QTR 2005... which is to say DDR prices will be increasing in he future as it is phased out (can anyone say reason for M2 socket?). Just a quick comparision...
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    4GB memory for Windows 2000 Pro / XP pro

    I work in a Fortune 50 will Dell workstations. One of my coworkers uses a dual xeon, 4GB (memory) machine to run CFD/FEA. Unfortunitly, he is on windows 2000 pro, and it is not fully utilizing his available memory. Since the programs are single threaded the 2nd xeon idles and 2GB of the...
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    Japan's whaling Fleet

    Japan whaling Association Taken from Aljazeria.net "The run-up to the Ulsan meeting, scheduled for 20 June, has been marked by increasingly acrimonious debate between Japan and governments that oppose whaling, particularly New Zealand and Australia. Australian Environment Minister Ian...
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    POST/Win Startup then Reboots

    My computer has been unable to load xp. The system shows a blank screen, except for a bar across the bottom of the screen. Over a minute, the bar solidifes and the system goes to the Windows XP start up screen. It then goes to the Dell POST screen. Then it goes to the bar across the bottom...
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    4x AGP

    Dell P4 1.7Ghz machine with 9600SE AGP video card. The motherboard only shows that it supports 4xAGP. Is there anyway to mod it (software/hardware) to take full advantage of the 8x AGP potential of the video card? Dell 8200 (12/01 Purchase Date) 512MB Ram (SDRAM) P4 (Wilm) 1.7Ghz 40 GB...