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It's pretty annoying, especially since 99% of the time I don't actually want to print anything. It slows down loading files since it waits for the damn printer to warm up before showing my document. Is there a way to stop Office from caring about my printer at start up? I feel like this is...

How does a USB to PS/2 adapter work? As far as I can tell USB is a vastly more complicated mode of communication than PS/2. Does the mouse or keyboard detect that USB is not functioning properly when they are plugged in and switch over to a different communication protocol? Does anybody know off...

I'm not looking for something for a baby. I'm looking for a real seat for a car. I'd like it to be as lightweight as possible. Anybody know where to go for such a thing?

I have a Thinkpad T41p, which I realize is a "portable computer" and therefore windows won't let me convert its local drive to a dynamic disk. That's not a problem. But I do have two external hard drives (connected via USB, one partition each, formatted NTFS) that I wish to convert to dynamic...

I'm looking to buy some 3 pin fan header on Digikey or Mouser, but I don't quite know what to search for. I found something that looks really close, but it has a minimum order quantity of 4000 - well beyond what I need. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

I first got into serious gaming with Unreal and Halflife. It was a pleasurable pastime; it was a way to let go of the world and have honest entertainment for a few hours at a time. Times have changed since then. Back then, a user would walk into a store, buy a game, and use it forever with no...

I feel like a total dipshit for asking such a basic and (usually obvious) question, but I'm having some difficulty: I'm trying to help a guy on my floor get a new computer up and running, and the hardware seems to be working great, but we can't get the onboard sound happy. Using the setup...

I just got back from the vacation home where i set up (what you guys and especially the AVS people would call) a budget home theater system. Pictures: Mitsubishi HC3000 DLP projecting onto a 74" "ultra bright white" painted rectangle on the wall. The speakers are the Klipsch...

My friend is at college. He has a server in his dorm. I want to be able to SSH into his server to help him fix things. Unfortunately, the school doesn't hand out public IP's. Is there some way for us to set up a VPN tunnel between our two computers that allows us to ping other computers on...

I'm looking on ebay and they all have exorbitant shipping. I don't want to sacrifice my own controllers and dongles for the job (I've made one, it was easy, but i don't have the supplies to make more). Where does one buy three or four of these for a reasonable price?

I'm using an HTPC to drive a CRT HDTV and some logitech z-540's right now. I'm finally ready to upgrade to some nicer speakers. I don't need wall pounding volume or boom boom bass. I'd much rather have crisp highs and clean midtones at reasonable volumes. Digital vs analog isn't that...

I'm volunteering at a school that has to ghost several hundred computers. I want to boot them via PXE to avoid having to walk around with floppies or CD's. I've got pxelinux.0 working on the small scale. The problem is that we don't control our own DHCP server, it's downtown and out of reach. I...

I have an arctic cooling freezer 64 pro. It's too tall for my HTPC, the heat pipes stick up about a quarter of an inch too far. Is there some reason why I can't remove a few fins on the top and cut the pipe, then resolder it? I'm guessing the working fluid is methanol, ethanol, or acetone...

I just opened up a 4600+ X2 and it came with the same dinky HSF the 3000+ came with two years ago. I saw some stuff about a heatpipe based 80mm AMD HSF. Which chips come with it?

So far I've cheated and used a set of logitech z-640's i got for dirt cheap a few years ago. I'm getting ready to remodel my den and was thinking taking the opportunity to build in some speakers or at least run wiring. I'm looking for good midrange performance. I don't care for boomy bass...

Specs: 5x 500GB WD SATAII 16MB 1x 150GB WD Raptor MSI K9N SLI Platinum (nforce 570) Athlon X2 4600+ 2GB Corsair XMS DDR2 800 Pro Truepower 2.0 550w Anyway, the five drives are in a RAID5 array... and I can only move about 12MB/s to the array. That seems rather slow. I've got a linux...

I've got 4x1024 Corsair XMS Pro DDR2 800 sticks. It works fine with two of them in dual channel mode. When I populate all four slots, the mobo picks up around 3274 MiB of RAM and then crashes regularly. All possible pairings of sticks work, but not when using two pairs. This is on BIOS 1.1...

It has an option for "drive A" but nothing for "drive B". How do I get it to recognize two floppy drives?

What I'm looking for: + (1) 3.5" external + (1) 5.25" external + (1) 3.5" internal + Full height + Expansion slots mounted normally (not horizontally like in some SS lascala cases) + MicroATX + Clean, minimalistic look I'm finding that most of the cases are either bling boxes with...

Required: + Coverage in the Oak Ridge, TN area + Can use simple dial-up-networking + Reasonably cheap Would be nice, but isn't mandatory: + Unlimited time + National coverage Stuff I don't care about + Web space + Email Stuff I don't want + Accelerators + Resident dialers +...

Well, some time ago I asked about learning C from the Java programmer's perspective. The response I got was overwhelmingly for the K&R C book. It was sound advice and I've learned a lot. In the time since that post, I've designed and built several microcomputers, as well as used C to program for...

Friend of mine got a new IBM which has an XP pro key sticker on the bottom. We want to nuke it to be free of all the trash software that came preloaded, but the CD key on the bottom doesn't work with a standard XP pro CD. Is there some way to mod the CD to be an "IBM" disc?

I detest everything about their new catalyst control center. It uses .NET, but means bloat. It has an excessively overblown GUI, which means bloat. It installs itself on your desktop, your taskbar, your services list, your context menu, yadda yadda, which smacks of malware. In other words, I...

I'd like to put together a reasonable home theater setup in another home. I've currently got MythTV running happily at one home, and would like to set up another station over there. I currently have no TV service over there. I get one over the air channel there, and it's 24/7 preachers. If I...

He makes singular errors all the time, but he gets those words wrong every time. Does anyone care outside myself?

I'm building a set of computer lab tables for a local school as a volunteer, and we need to figure out how much wood to buy. I know how many of each length of cut I need, but I'm not sure exactly how much wood to get or what the best way to cut it is. Being a bit of a nerd, i thought i might...

I have an app. That app is coded in visual basic. I want to see how that app interfaces to some hardware. Is there a good way to decompile the executable and a dll or two that is uses? I understand the code won't be pretty, but it just needs to be intact. Any thoughts?

As long as you didn't break the CCD or the lens, that's great. I'm being a cheapass, so I'm looking to buy these pieces of dead hardware for S&H. Come on! What else do you have to do with such dead gear? :p I'm an electronics hobbyist and I need parts. Email me at...

My fileserver has five IDE hard drives, one SCSI drive, and a CD drive. It runs an Athlon XP 1700+ and has three NICs. When I added the fifth IDE drive, it stopped booting up (power comes on and dies shortly thereafter) leading me to believe the Antec smartpower doesn't have the guts to feed all...

I wrote a program that should take the grayscale difference between two images. Photoshop has the "difference" combination method of two images. What's the algorithmic difference from a simple subtraction (my program) and photoshop/gimp? My program: Photoshop in "difference" blend mode...

I can't seem to get mine to kick into bidirectional EPP mode, but don't have any troubles with any other computer. Thoughts?

I've decided I need more juice on my CATV line. I have too much stuff, too many splitters, etc. Not everything is getting the power it needs, and so some pieces of gear are showing poor video. Which amp would you suggest, and where should I get it? Worst case scenario is that I build one... lord...

I'm looking for female/female (2) and male/female(4), both straight through, cables. I need 6' and 10' lengths. Anybody with way too many serial cables laying around? I've got some null cables and a DB9/DB25 modem straight cable for trades, as well as all sorts of misc. hardware. Finally...

I've got a CD with some photos, but it plays as a slideshow. I don't want the damn slideshow. Is there a way to extract the image data from the exe?

I built the wooden frame for the rack to mount to using spare wood (free!). It has room on the back where a powerstrip and two APC's are mounted. On the left is ghetto-iture made from scrap left over from making the rack mount (from scrap). It holds a monitor and lexmark (IBM) keyboard/trackball...

I'd like to watch an SSL communication, with data exchanged, that occurs on my local machine. Is there an app that can intercept this? Obviously you can't pull this off somewhere between the two endpoints, but since I'm trying to diagnose a problem with a web application, I can run the...

Just in case anybody feels like having some fun in the midsouth tomorrow... http://www.groovin.net/ke4pjw/balloon/

I'm looking for a 462 SDR mobo. I had a terrible failure in one of my servers, a power supply burned and took out most of the computer with it. It burned my wonderful KK266+ and took out a burner and 40GB HDD. I'm not too picky about what kind of board it is, but I'd prefer something from...