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Not a small subject. Check into the ACM SIGGRAPH special interest group. You can find it here: [url]http://www.siggraph.org/[/url] Then there is support from various graphics card vendors - nVidia is a leader in this area: [url]http://developer.download.nvidia.com/SDK/9.5/Samples/vidimaging_samples.html[/url] Anyway, this is an area of active R&D, so I wish you the best.

Anything that lets a web site download and run an ActiveX control is unsuitable for web browsing, IMO. It is too difficult to keep your Internet Settings configured to deal with all the cruft out there. So, I ONLY use IE to get updates and stuff from Microsoft directly. Everything …

Well, you deleted your Ubuntu partition when installing Windows, so naturally you only see one "drive" - the Windows partition identified as the "C" drive. So, what is the surprise/problem here?

Try one with better specs for the -5 and -12 V feeds. Yours are -5V@0.8A, -12V@0.8A, which isn't much.

See Knuth Vol. 3, Sorting and Searching.

Have you verified that your laptop's wifi driver is installed and working?

Assuming you are running Android 2.2 or later, you should have a wireless hotspot capability on the phone. You configure it with an SSID and optional security (WEP/WPA) with passphrase. Then, up to 5 computers can use the phone as a WiFi access point. I've done that with my 3g …

[QUOTE=griswolf;1573607]I had always thought they were the same. But [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprogramming"]the wiki knows![/URL][/QUOTE] Yeah, well, this is one of those subjects that CS boffins can nuke a penthouse party with by interminable arguing. It's all in how one defines certain terms, and frankly, the differences are minimal. IMO, the main difference …

USB or eSata? In any case, this device should be supported. What version of Arch are you running? What kernel?

[QUOTE=jon.kiparsky;1573562]I need a program to plot routes for my salespeople. The program should take an arbitrary set of cities that should be visited on a given tour of sales, and plot the cheapest itinerary. I don't mind if they have to make a lot of connections, but I want to …

Maybe this will help: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_consistency[/url] One point, unrelated to your causal linkage, is that your conditional statements of [icode]if (x = 0)[/icode] and [icode]if (y = 0)[/icode] should more appropriately be [icode]if (x == 0)[/icode] and [icode]if (y == 0)[/icode] so that one can distinguish between an assignment and a …

Actually, modern 32-bit operating systems (Linux and BSD at least) can utilize the PAE memory extensions of new CPU's, allowing an OS to utilize more than 4GB or RAM (limiting applications to 4GB). In any case, a 64-bit OS would be advisable for this hardware. The specs seem OK for …

Static IP addresses are configured at the operating system level, usually when you install the system. The board itself has nothing to do with the IP address the network ports will use. As mentioned, you need to see what address range your router is configured to use for dynamic addresses, …

Just because the card is recognized by the OS as installed hardware, doesn't mean that a driver has been loaded for it. What is the output of the command "lsmod"? In any case, most modern cards support the vesa driver specs, so you should be able to specify vesa as …

I've been running Chrome for the past 3 months, and it is ok, but I like some of the features in Firefox better. Chrome is more secure, and faster, but it is a memory pig.

Ok. We will help you with your homework, but only if you make a start on it first. So, propose some answers to these questions, and we can critique them, and perhaps point you in a direction to answer them yourself, or help you consider things that have not occurred …

Does it boot as far as to get into the POST (power-on self test) so you can access the BIOS settings when you have either 2gb or 2x1gb sticks installed (when you get the BSOD)? If so, then go into the BIOS and set it for full self-test, and verbose …

This sort of symptom is often caused by component (CPU and/or memory) overheating. Make sure the system is clean of dust, and that all the fans are working properly.

You basically have two options - wired or wireless. For desktop workstations and servers that are going to stay put all the time, wired is better. For mobile applications and devices, wireless (WiFi) is obvious (I hope), and for some systems that are mostly fixed, but are inconveniently located for …

Need more information. 1. Make+model of computer 2. Make+model of 3g card 3. 3g service provider 4. Operating system + version 5. Driver(s) you installed to run 3g card.

What errors are you getting? My guess is that there are some missing dll's and/or activeX controls.

A recursive descent parser is usually used for this, building up a binary tree structure where the root of each node is the operation, and each leaf of a node is either a value, or a link to another computational node. The Wikipedia has a lot on this stuff: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser[/url]

If it is still under warranty, get it fixed. If not, then whether or not you fix it, or replace the system, depends upon what is wrong and what it will cost to fix. My suspicion is that the keyboard controller is fubar, and you are going to need a …

You might be able to install a more up-to-date AMD processor, but which or if depends upon the socket it uses. What is the make+model of the computer, and if you know which AMD chip it uses, that would be useful information as well.

It seems you know the names, but not the uses/purposes of these compression algorithms. The title implies that you need lossless compression for multimedia files, but your text indicates that you are looking for text compression. What is it? These are two very different purposes.

Donald Knuth's volume on Sorting and Searching has some superb explanations of this stuff. Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. I think S&S is volume 3, but since I am on vacation this weekend, I'm not at home to look at the book and tell you precisely.

I have a Pico iMage camera that works well on Macs, Linux, and Windows. I use it with Skype (Linux) all the time and people seem to think it looks just fine. Here is a quote from a review by MacNN: [quote] The iMage, produced by Pico Instruments, boasts a …

Over time, batteries wear out. Example - I have a battery for my Dell laptop that after several (about 5 years) only holds about 1/2 charge. When charged, it shows full power, but it only lasts for a short while before it is down to 5% power. This may be …

The IP address you gave it is a non-routable (outside of your LAN) address. You can either poke a hole in your router/firewall to allow FTP requests to be routed to that system, or you can configure the router put it in a DMZ (open to the world). Does your …

This may be a bit better (warning! untested code!) [code] #include <iostream> using namespace std; class ListNode { public: double value; ListNode *next; ListNode* add( double ); bool isMember( double ); }; // Add new member and return a pointer to it. ListNode* ListNode::add( double x ) { ListNode* newNode …

RTFM. You need to install the Xorg server, tools, and window manager such as KDE or Gnome in order to have a GUI front-end for your server. As for telnet, it is HIGHLY recommended that you do NOT enable telnet on todays' systems as it is very insecure. Use SSH …

I've never heard of "signed" C or C++ source code files. You can compute a checksum (CRC, MD5, SHA1, etc) of the file, or compiled library and/or executable, and publish that, so if the file(s) are changed, the checksum will not agree. This is a common practice, and I suppose …

And tell me why you think you need water cooling? It isn't an IBM System 390 mainframe is it? I have a custom dual CPU (8-core 3GHz), 8GB, 15TB workstation/server (2.5TB disc and 2 DVD recorders internal) that does just fine with air-flow cooling. Be more concerned with your power …

Please! You should have access to the information you need in your class materials to fulfill this assignment. At least make an effort to solve the problem before you ask us to do your work for you... :-(

When you turn the system on, hold down either the Escape or F2 key on the keyboard (don't let it up). Most BIOS will see that as a keyboard error and bring up the BIOS anyway.

A straight cable is just that. Each pin (contact) on one end is connected to the same pin on the other end. A cross-over cable is wired so that this is not the case, so the transmit pin on one end is connected to the receive pin on the other, …

1. Download and install the sources for your kernel. 2. Go to the kernel source code directory and run the command: make menuconfig 3. Running the configuration tool that is started with #2 above, configure your kernel with the options and drivers you need. 4. Save the configuration and exit …

Use SSL (https) connections in your browser as much as possible, run a Windows firewall, and turn off sharing on your system when you connect to the network over an unsecured public WiFi access point. You can use a VPN tunnel (which is encrypted) to your home network, and access …

The transport layer deals with errors caused during transmission. The data (application) layer deals with errors caused by application errors, such as data format errors. Two different things, dealt with by the layer responsible for them.

There is Skype (proprietary, but free for the most part), and then there are SIP software packages (open source) such as Ekiga that provide VOIP capabilities to other SIP-capable systems.

Please show the definition of the contact structure, and where and how you are allocating and initializing the newContact instance the you show in your code snippet.

This is why we have virtual machines. My advice to newbies to Linux is to install something like VirtualBox on their Windows system, load Linux into a virtual machine, and get used to it that way first. Either that, or if they really want to run Linux on their system, …

Please try to be more specific (and detailed) on what you are trying to accomplish, and why.

What I do for clients that have this sort of problem is to remove the drive from their system, plug it into an external carrier/enclosure that I connect to my Linux OS via a high-speed eSata connection, and then run 3 different virus scanners (ClamAV, F-Prot, McAfee) on the disc …

Have you tried the format string "%lu" for the unsigned integer? If that works, then the compiler is at fault, or their library implementation is (more likely).

That's why there are TA's (Teaching Assistants) - to help the clueless get one! Do some googling or visit the library or wikipedia. Also, since you can get access to pseudo code for this, writing the program should be pretty simple.

Most all of this sort of reference documentation is online at Intel's web site. As for a macro assembler, is this for Windows or Linux? There is the yasm assembler for Linux. From the man page: [quote] The Yasm Modular Assembler is a portable, retargetable assembler written under the “new” …

I've not had much luck with Seagate FreeAgent drives. They are prone to failure. My suggestion is to log onto the Seagate web site, report the problem, and get an RMA to replace it. They are pretty good in getting replacements back to you quickly, and if you pay between …

Well, if you can't run it in the debugger, then add some print statements to the code to help isolate where your are crashing. BTW, where are the variables MyTextField and MyEventTrigger declared and instantiated? Please show. Also, do indent your code so it is easier to read.

If you did that to me, you would quickly become "not a friend"... :-( It would be better that if you are off-line and someone sends a message, that the system auto-reply that you are not available, and then cache their message for you to reply to when you return. …