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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...

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...

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...

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.

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Which would you rather have in order to play and run the most programs? The Trident Cyber9397DVD or the ATI Rage LT Pro? I mean I feel like having the LT pro would most certainly be better but I'm trying to figure out, how much better would it be. The reason I ask is because there is a computer...

The year is 1998, you can predict the future of software and gaming ONLY, you know what games will come out for the next 10 years. Don't construe this into how you're going to make money in the stock market or bet on some stupid horse. You're looking to buy a laptop today that will last you as...

This is a part you can buy for an APC Rack, I'm thinking of buying one of them but I'm wondering if this would make for an not very ideal situation. My desk has the keyboard and mouse side by side, though I have seen some desktop setups where it is kinda similar to this setup so I'm wondering...

I just got a laptop off ebay which works but is missing screws, it's identical to one I have. The reason I got it is because the one I have has a bad bios that I'm suppose to reflash (one day) and it's in great condition. I'm able to take out screws of the working one and put it into the new one...

I don't know if this is true all the time but some times capacitors are used for filtering voltages to devices to stabilize them or what ever. Well I had the idea of replacing a capacitor with a alkaline/rechargeable battery and was wondering if this was possible or not.

I was reading up on Dialup modems and why we were limited to 56k, that in actuality, we're really limited to 33k because of shanon's law, but because of a digital connection from telecom to isp, that we can even get 56k. We're limited in data rate because there is apparently only 4khz worth of...

I'm trying to wrap my head around why laptops were so expensive 10-20 years ago. I've opened up some older laptops and I don't really see anything TOO special but I can defintely assert that older computers and hardware had far more discrete components, just look at a win modem of 2001 and a 14k...

I'm looking at older laptops and I'm starting to wonder how it was possible to use these computers for their intended purpose. I have some memories of my usage of old laptops but as of now, I'm feeling like anything less than 1024X768 is simply unuseable with 800X600 bordering on useless. Now...

Just looking at these screen shots:http://firingsquad.com/media/gallery_index.asp/2025 emphasizes how developers have put much emphasis on HDR. The more I see HDR in games, the more I see how it distorts the look of the game, it looks like you're looking through haze covered glasses, instead of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law Great stuff really, it completely supports my assertion that software is not getting "smarter" but getting slower, similar to the american public I guess.

Has it? I was wondering what had more support, XP64 or Windows Vista 64. I mean most people would assume that vista has more support but I wasn't sure whether or not companies got around to writing drivers for XP64 or even if drivers written for XP64 worked in vista and vice versa.

I noticed that in the earlier days of computing, many more things were socketed, however this trend appears to be on the decline. Does it really cost more to socket components? How much better is using BGA over a socketed component?

One particularly useful link I found: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=330497&sliceId=2 If you're having any issues with Install shield and or Windows Installer (.MSI) because of corrupt registry, data and or because you reinstalled Office or any applications that use...

(Me) http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=176615 03.11, 9pm 137 1 (Folder who is clearly using the SMP client of F@H) http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=304368 03.12, 3pm 1,760 1 Furthermore, this picture should make this problem much...

(Me) http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=176615 03.10, 9am 137 103.03.08 343 1 (This douche) http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=304368 03.10, 9am 1,760 103.10, 12pm 1,760 1 WTF? I have twice as many systems running yet he...

I bought a 60GB HDD at frys for full price, in BOX competely retail. I put it into my mom's computer and it works fine for the next 2 years, I pull out the drive to RMA it and then to my dismay, I discover that it's an OEM drive. It says "this drive is manufactuered by seagate for OEM...

And it has these stickers that say "Serviceable used part". I'm not quite sure what this means and would like some insight into the possible meanings of this. I have a bad feeling this means that the disk is used and therefore I'm getting a refurbished part and not a new part.

Do they sell any more 19/18" S-IPS monitors? I need to replace some monitors in a quad monitor setup and I don't see the use of 20" monitors being too viable.

I don't understand, microsoft provides a guest account yet they firmly believe you should keep it disabled, so what is the point of providing it if they strongly believe you should disable it? If the guest account does what it says, then there shouldn't be a security issue with having a guest...

My campus is scanning the computer systems and I got a letter stating that my computer didn't meet the minimum security requirements because I don't have a patch installed. I'm not sure how they figured out that I needed a specific patch and therefore are a "vunerable" machine. I'm wondering if...

In windows there is my briefcase, it's got an icon, and I'm wondering, where is this icon stored? It's not stored in shell32.dll, so where is it stored? I'd like to be able to use this icon. Infact I'd like to know where windows stores all of its used and unused icons. Does someone have a...

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/preventing.html I want to make sure that when I get older, I don't become like people I hear about, those who complain of things they did when they were younger and now are the reason why they have so much pain (such as arthritis). One thing that confused me was...

My mom isn't sure which program to choose, I know little about both programs but prefer access by default due to its operability with other MS products and because we already have it. Is there any benefit to using microsoft access over file maker pro? I don't have a Mac so I don't need any...

I noticed that there are folding@Home statistics showing how many brands and models of a processor are being used yet I can't find anything about individual statistics. Is there some way to find out what kind of processors a specific user who folds is using? Such as 5 Pentium IIs?

Is the reason why NTSC picture is at 60hz is because our electrical system is at 60hz while in europe pal is 50hz because their electrical is 50hz?

I've noticed that in order to properly tag your files after ripping them, EAC and other ripping software contact FreeDB and send over the Music CD's ID which basically says what is what and where on the CD and then the files are tagged accordingly. Unfortunately I don't know how to save that CD...

With alcohol, if I enable/have a virtual drive, the ability for explorer to display/update the volume icon and text ceases to function. Not only that but when I put a CD into the drive and open it, sometimes I can't see the contents of the disc anymore. This problem is directly attributed to...