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It's likely choking because you're visiting javascript heavy websites. I've noticed this issue with Firefox now taking an entire cpu core utilization to 100% when I have a small handful of tabs open. Makes webbrowsing very slow as Firefox isn't too multithreaded and this is on a significantly...

It's Aug 2013, where are my Lenovo AMD laptops?

I don't understand what has happened in the last few months but I went to the Lenovo website yesterday and I saw that you can't buy a single laptop with an AMD processor anymore! I thought trinity was a decent product but I can see that Lenovo has decided to dump their AMD laptops and now once...

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I'm looking to buy a powerleap PL-P4/N socket adapter. It allows you to adapt a Northwood socket 478 processor into a motherboard that is socket 423. I have about 3 systems with 1GB of RDRAM (yes I know very expensive!!!!) and I would like to upgrade them from their puny 1.7ghz P4 processors to...

Alright, after about 12 hours of fiddling with photoshop, I finally figured out how to take a line-art drawing or anything of the sort and make vectorized paths with it. Pretty much all you do is create a new layer, select the part you want with the magic wand, right click and tell it to make a...

This program is garbage... Why? It performs no MD5 calculation on the files to see if they're actually identical files. I have no idea what this program does but it seemed to miss pretty much every duplicate file I had on my computer. I know this because I used another program called "Duplicate...

I have a mozilla firefox instance with a youtube video that I would like to save. The problem is, the video is no longer available on youtube due to the account being disabled and the video being removed. I have sothink video downloader for firefox but nonetheless I cant use it to download the...

http://www.hdfury.com/ I have some software that runs exclusively on Windows 2000 and I'm trying to upgrade a P4 machine to something that uses less power but is comparable in performance. Anyway I found a power supply that should be very suitable for my needs and has very high efficiency...

Anyway I don't care about a pre-packaged computer, mostly looking for a good motherboard and good power supply. I've been looking around at some ITX motherboards but the problem is, in order to get dual displays, you've got to use the DVI and the HDMI but what I really need is an ITX motherboard...

I want a machine that is x86 based, accepts an ATX PSU, has a SIMILAR or better idle and full load power use as the latest mac mini.

Is anyone able to find out who manufactures the power supply used in the latest mac mini? What is the closest PC out there to the mac mini? I'm interested in the mac mini's efficiency and performance (potentially) but not the price tag nor the Apple OS.

Ok I've got a problem. I saved the BMP file then tried to archive it up, problem is the file size got reduced by Winrar all the way to a tiny little 26KB rar file, 46KB Zip File from its original, portly previous 1MB uncompressed size. The problem is that I think the Zip program detected the...

Huh? But each bit can't be 255 values, it can only be read as two values, "on or off".. That was my point. I wasn't trying to make a Bi-level image represent the data in a grayscale image, I was just merely pointing out in my steps that I needed it to be bi-level and that using grayscale...

Alright in photoshop, I created an Image that is 2896X2896 pixels. In Grayscale mode, in the "filters section" I told it to create noise, lots of it, as much noise as it could make. Then saved the file as a BMP with no sort of compression whatsoever. The File came out to 8MB.. Reason for this is...

But since we're dealing with what could be seen as a Bilevel image, using a compression algorithm that is meant for bilevel images would make this possible. The type of data the computer has inside of the drive wouldn't matter since you would instead be looking at the very fundamentals of the...

yeah pretty much... Though I do understand it'd be a difficult task to undertake. Well instead of writing data one sector at a time (512 bytes) you'd write literally one bit at a time. There has got to be a way you can manually write to the drive one bit at a time because otherwise the data...

well it turns out the standby key on the keyboard DOES work on a 2000 desktop, just not on the ones I've tried it on. Now I'm wondering what exactly is preventing this from happening and how and where the information is stored that contains the information for keyboard mapping in the operating...

But it is a "Zero and a One" when speaking in terms of bits, like 8 bits to a byte, I don't see anything wrong with saying this. Remember, I'm talking about the actual hard disk platter and the polarity of the magnetic information on the disc itself, which IS represented as 0s and 1s, and or for...

I was thinking about JBIG and LZW style of compression that is used for bi-level pictures (B&W pictures like those for faxes) and how it uses those compression algorithms for compressing the pictures to very small file sizes. Since those pictures work on the principle of zeros and ones, I was...

I've noticed that on Windows XP, when using any internet keyboard, when you push on the "moon" button (standby) it will put the computer into standby/hibernate/turn it off (assuming you have the "sleep button" in power management configured to put the computer into hibernate, off, or standby)...

Actually that's not the reason. The reason we have tiered service is because the Public Utilities Commission in California mandates tiered service. I'm actually glad they have tiered service because what it should do is get people who use a lot of electricity to install a solar system to offset...

It's called tiered pricing, most utility companies have this - problem is, most people aren't aware of it.. It's pretty much why you could double your energy usage for the month but see your bill triple in price..

In the quest to reduce my energy usage while still contributing to Folding@home, I am looking to have a good compromise between the two. Currently I have folding@home running on my PCs 24/7. Problem is, even with TOU scheduling with my utility, this adds up to a lofty sum of money since I'm...

I've had to do quite a bit of file recovery in the time I've worked with computers. The thing is though, I've never encountered any files that had any NTFS compression applied to them. Recently I decided to use NTFS file compression on unimportant files that are replaceable but that poses the...

I managed to stumble upon this site:http://www.archiveteam.org They seem to have taken up backing up geocities as one of their primary tasks.

all that it uses, but what about the elements they have in a folder for that user's page space? Also how can I automate the Save page as thing and then have a folder with all that shit in it?

Here is an example of a site from geocities that I'd like to backup:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Program/3830/ and then its associated directory of files:http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Program/3830/files/ I'm taking this very seriously but it seems like you guys aren't...

Is anybody interested in helping me backup geocities? I know a lot of people don't like the site because of poorly formed websites but sometimes I've come across old pages that actually had useful bits of information (specifically about older pieces of hardware). I want to backup the entire site...

Good stuff, thanks.

Who really gives a shit about CPU performance when making a gaming system since the video card is really the determining factor, especially of physx or other video acceleration takes off. This basically means going with the cheaper guy, i.e. AMD isn't a big loss for most people unless you plan...

I've been archiving the same files multiple times with Winrar and the same settings but every time I do it, I get a different file size. I'm very confused, why are these group of files getting different file sizes every time I try to archive the files. I get sizes in the range from 11.7Mb to...

yeah and AMD stole that idea from Intel....oh the irony.. Socket 478 mounting scheme was wayyy easier than the PIII Socket 370 or Penitum I mounting, I can only imagine this latest mounting scheme by Intel being the worst they've ever had.

Maybe you could take your laptop to an electronics specialist (one who can handle surface mounted devices with lots of pins) and have him resolder the GPU. I personally would not do it not because it's a bad idea, but because I have this thing with fixing things myself and that happens to be one...

Your laptop, does it have a Radeon 7500? This is a common issue on IBM laptops with the Radeon 7500 and the reason for it is because the GPU wasn't soldered to the board properly and so eventually desolders itself from the mainboard. What you basically need to do to this laptop is resolder the...

about that bullshit change to user CP. Well if you want to go back to "one click" user CP, just disable java script, it'll make it revert to the old ways. :)

that wiki page is inaccurate which is WHY I'm looking for this information, inorder to update it so that it's accurate.

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How do I figure out the clock speed on a Mobility Rage M1 video card? What about a Rage 128? Or a Rage pro? Rage II? Riva 128? Savage S3? etc. etc.? while some numbers you can find online, others you can't because the clock speeds are determined by the bios (I think) which is why I'd like to run...

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