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So my girlfriend's 15" aluminum powerbook caught the click of death last weekend. Bought a replacement hard drive and I've been trying to follow this set of instructions for opening up the laptop and swapping drives. Looked like no big deal before I tried it, but I'm getting stuck at the last...

I've got a client's website here written in ASP and connecting to an Access database. Their old host allowed ODBC connections, but they moved to a new host that only supports DSN-less OLE connections. Changing the site from using the ODBC DSN to the OLE connection string should have been as...

I've got a system that I'm trying to build that's using an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller. When I boot it and hit CTRL+A to go to the RAID controller setup, it says "SMOR missing" and then does nothing else. I found this PDF that has instructions on how to reset the NVRAM, and also how to do a...

So apparently I can get a refurbished InFocus X1 projector for what appears to be a decent price ($550, I'm sure you've all seen the same deal). I'm horrifyingly tempted to go for it, but I'm a little worried that it only comes with a 90-day warranty, and also that I don't know what I'm doing...

I'm not sure if this thread goes in here or what, but I figured I'd start it off in here and a mod can move it if they see fit. Anyways, I'm in need of a new keyboard, and I'm presented with the option of buying a bluetooth keyboard (the diNovo, if anyone cares). I live in an apartment...

So I'm trying to get this thing to chew on UD calculations as fast as it can, and it's only running as a single-threaded application (meaning only one processor at a time, which is annoyingly slow). I'd ideally like to just go for UD, but if there's no way I can use at least 4 of the CPU's at a...

Seriously. This seems like something that would be right up their alley, but I don't see anything.

I recently got my hands on a bunch of little LCD's that are designed for use in cars, and I'm trying to hack them up so I can plug them into my computer. The easiest and cheapest way I can see thus far is to just connect the red, green, blue, hsync, and vsync signals from the VGA output...

Well, my work just gave me a Compaq Proliant 8500. 2x1.33ghz P3 Xeon CPU's, 1024MB PC133 ECC possibly Reg. memory, 6x18.2GB 10k RPM Ultra 2 SCSI drives, and 3x450W PSU's. The thing is, I have no idea what I'm doing with this thing. I'm thinking I'll transfer my 2k3 Server license to it and...

Situation: My girlfriend has a B&W G3 with what I'm pretty sure is a PCI video card (haven't opened it yet, and I'm at work so I can't do it now) with a single VGA output. She's currently using a 2005fpw (random gifts ftw!) on said VGA output. Anyways, I'm trying to figure out how to plug a...

I'm trying to follow this tutorial to make a simple enterprise java bean for use with a JBoss application server. As such, I didn't install the BEA Weblogic Server that the tutorial tells me to, but I really don't think that that's the problem. I'm at this step and when I try to compile, javac...

Can someone please explain to me what the hell JBoss is, and what it does? The only thing I can seem to find are these data sheets that are the biggest pieces of buzzword marketing shit ever.

I'm looking for something that can control fan speed in software, and I came across this little card, the VL Systems Zephyrus. Does anyone have any experience with it? I'm curious how much power each of the fan channels can support, and whether the fan speed adjustment is continuous or...

Apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I'm considering pushing for using Multipliciy on a bunch of workstations at work, and I wanted to know from Multiplicity users if anybody's had any reliability issues. I personally (and most of my roommates) use Synergy, because it's free, and there...

I'm having trouble with a cursor in a project I'm working on. I try to declare it as being for update, and SQL server claims that it's a read-only cursor and therefore can't be declared for update. So far I've had the DBA and another programmer look at it, and we haven't found anything. I'm...

Anybody notice Dell released this thing recently? Any thoughts?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=H54-1702&sourceid=qIpwQkrKqB-HAcC5@YHs&siteid=0029407737&CMP=AFC-AFFIL anybody ever used one? is it any good? looks like a pretty good price to me.

I keep reading a whole lot about the Intel mobile processors and not so much about the AMD mobiles. I'm looking to put together a computer for not a whole lot of cash (~1000) and I'm trying to figure out what CPU to base it on. I was thinking at the moment I'd go for a low-voltage Centrino...

So I got my 1735NXM back from NEC the other day, and after using it for a couple days, playing around with the color settings, I've come to the conclusion that it looks like absolute shit. The color balance is set up so the whole image has a very "cold" feel to it, and I get the sense that...

I'm typing this on an aging Dell Inspiron 8200 that i've used for at least 3 hours a day for the last 2 years or so. As such, it's starting to get a little ragged, and I'm looking into getting a replacement for it. Unfortunately, I'm encountering some real difficulties in finding exactly what...