Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge 10 Days Ago |
| Replies: 7 Views: 366 Oh right, an operations manual. Well, there isnt really a simple definition? A computer is a complex machine which performs operartions which is is programmed to do on some input, and returns some... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge 12 Days Ago |
| Replies: 7 Views: 366 I cant understand what you mean. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge 12 Days Ago |
| Replies: 7 Views: 366 A programmable machine. The programmable part is the key. Thats what seperates a computer from most other basic machines.
The option to run programs is what makes computers different from regular... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 31st, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 671 no hashes have a completely different meaning when used in the context of databases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function
The first few paragraphs of this explain it |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 30th, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 671 its not possible though
thats not what a hash is. A hash is a totally arbitrary thing, its meaningless without a context with which to apply it to.
if we are going to be really technical, an... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 30th, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 671 No. Hashing cant do that. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 27th, 2008 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 2,326 Free speech does not exist, in fact fully free speech cannot ever work in practice.
That comment, your use of block caps, and the link to your own site, by my defintion make you a spammer,... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 25th, 2008 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 2,763 Its illegal. Dont do it. a) its against the youtube TOS b) its against the daniweb rules and c) its copyright infringement
Links snipped. Please dont post any more references to download sites... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 21st, 2008 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,417 companies wont move because they want to maximuse thier investment. If you spend tens of thousands, you want to spread the cost over a large number of years, so most companies use the software for... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 20th, 2008 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,118 Dia yeah. Its opensource and i use it for UML - class diagrams, networks etc
opensource but not as good as visio in my view. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 20th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 777 try microsoft virtual pc or openbox. Both are free and offer more features than the free vmware version |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 20th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 777 Basically its handy because you could virtualise a number of servers (whole different OSes, in fact, each virtual instance would appear to the os as a whole diferent physical machine) and in this... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 11th, 2008 |
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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 22nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,126 and just for reference, gnome runs some KDE stuff to make KDE apps run nicely. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 21st, 2008 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 2,126 yeah its called dual booting but will be costly you will need to buy a full (not upgrade) copy of vista. If you do it as an upgrade from xp, and then reinstall xp, then microsoft will ban both keys.... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 15th, 2008 |
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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 13th, 2008 |
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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 10th, 2008 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 5,732 yes, for connection to domains e.g college network. Also it has IIS which is good if you are a comp/sci student.
You can probably get it free through your college/uno - look into it |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 25th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 845 keylock and a power on password are your solution |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 21st, 2008 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 3,030 go into administration and choose network |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 11th, 2008 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 2,224 sorry didnt see that
yeah, SD or CF is the way to go
in the past, the more expensive digital slrs etc... took CF as it was faster/bigger but now with SDHC its not such a big deal (Get an SDHC... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 10th, 2008 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 2,224 sony tend to use expensive wierd cards too |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 8th, 2008 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,519 its not in the core debian repos i dont think |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,218 i mean, as in appearance -> desktop effects
e.g wobbly windows, spinning cube
these effects are known to make your xserver unstable. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,212 indeed "or no reason other than cause trouble? " sounds a bit illegal |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,218 what version and dist of linux ?
are you using the desktop effects? |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 29th, 2008 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 1,103 is HTTP allowed in the firewall?
type "setup" and choose "firewall configuration" |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 29th, 2008 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 1,103 what version and brand of linux is it running |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 26th, 2008 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 2,224 lens quality matters. go for the better manufactuer
optical zoom is bettter than digital zoom too
i have a 2mp olympus digital SLR . cost a fortune in 2000 but still holds its own in terms of... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 2,049 yeah, thats probably easiest
dos, windows nt and linux can coexist but DOS MUST be first on the first drive. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 31st, 2008 |
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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 17th, 2008 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 5,133 you can modify users/groups with a gui. Should be under settings -> system. If not then its downloadable, probably called something like gnome-users |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 5,133 visudo decrypts and recrypts the file when opened/saved rather than just editing it as text |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 5,133 it sounds to me like you corrupted the sudoer file. You ONLY EVER edit the sudoers file with the visudo command, NEVER vi, gedit or nano etc... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 15th, 2008 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 5,133 dunno, i never use armarok , i just use rythmbox and totem |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 15th, 2008 |
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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 15th, 2008 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 5,133 try playing them in th rythmbox music manager |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 15th, 2008 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 949 linux home printer support is really crappy but support for business modele like lazers, especially HP ones is very good |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 15th, 2008 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 5,133 you also want gstreamer-good, gstreamer-bad and gstreamer-ugly |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 5,133 Ubuntu?
Go into settings -> system -> software sources
*enable all repos and refresh them*
Go into add/remove programs in the gnome menu and install the package "ubuntu restricted extras"
... |