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    Replied To a Post in Can I override the static functions?

    Static functions are class-specific. You can declare/define functions with the same signature for other classes, but static functions either have to be accessed with classname::functionname() if accessed outside of the …
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    Unless you are running a REALLY old computer a 4MB page table can easly fit in contiguous memory, and most modern operating systems will reserve such on boot.
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    Replied To a Post in HELP!!! I'VE BEEN ATTAKED B BIOS BASED ROOTKIT

    There are not BIOS rootkits per se - the BIOS is read-only memory. However, there is a flash chip that holds the current BIOS settings, and that CAN become rootkit …
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    Replied To a Post in When i update radeon HD 6700 driver my cpu usage go high

    Does it only go high when updating, or always after the update?
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    Replied To a Post in Do you use Blu-Ray on your PC?

    Not ever! Blu-ray is heavily DRM encumbered, and every purchase of a drive and/or disc puts $$ in Sony's pocket, who I will NEVER again support! Stick with DVD's. Yes, …
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    Since these systems are both behind your router/firewall, don't bother with SSH but enable telnet and FTP. SSH will require in some cases that your client is registered with the …
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    Replied To a Post in How to increase speed when sending output to file

    It may be that the StreamWriter class is buffering the output data and won't write the remainder until you close or flush the stream.
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    lol thats funny happygeek SERIOUS! why would i want to build a HDD house im not that stupid. And 2 serious happygeek no offense or anything ive already got a …
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    The "speeds" specified in the USB (and other device) specs are the maximum supported speeds. That doesn't mean that devices so attached are capable of those speeds. Certainly, most disc …
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    Replied To a Post in I need help putting a file text into linked list?

    Create a structure to hold the data. The numeric data can be in an array that is part of the structure. Then you assign the structure as the data part …
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    Replied To a Post in Google Translate/Bing Translator in C

    That's kind of like starting out trying to do PhD research when you don't even have a high-school education in the subject... Not going to work.
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    To quote the Beatles, "Help, I need somebody! Help! Help! Help! Help!"... As ddanbe asked, with what?
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    Replied To a Post in Microsoft to enable Visual Studio on Linux and Mac OS X

    Visual Stupido - please, just hit me on the head with a brick! There are MUCH better IDE's for Linux and Unix if you need. Even a good editor and …
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    Replied To a Post in Is Asembly Dead

    Assembly is direct-to-processor coding and totally not portable. It is only used these days to write processor-specific code for operating system low-level programming. My last assembler coding was about 25 …
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    Replied To a Post in C++ file handling help please?

    This isn't really C++ (object oriented) code. What are your classes? What are the member variables they contain? What are the methods to get/set their data values? It is time …
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    Consider classes as representations of "things", such as animals, boats, people, etc. Each class will consist of member variables that determine the uniqueness of that object, such as for people …
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    60MBps == 480mbps, more or less. Most hard drives cannot sustain more than that, interface speed notwithstanding. For small files, the speed may be greater, until the drive's write buffer …
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    Just remember, the Internet forgets nothing! If this person is not willing to remove your posts from his computer (remember, they are also likely on other users' systems, not to …
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    @pritaeas Myself, I prefer more bigger screens! :-) I have dual 24" 1920x1200 displays that I use with both Linux and Windows, using a KVM switch to move from one …
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    Replied To a Post in Computer won't boot past POST

    You might want to verify that all the RAM is being used. Some modern motherboards will disable a stick of RAM that is failing. Usually, it will require that the …
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    Some current malware installs itself in the flash used by the BIOS, and it will re-install itself as soon as you boot and try to install a new OS. The …
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    Replied To a Post in JDBC

    Yes. And your question is? What have you tried? If you right-click on the image, it should provide a URL to the image. What did you do with that?
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    Replied To a Post in SSH with public key not working

    The remote user's ip address has to be registered in the ~/.ssh/known_hosts database. You might want to review the ssh man pages for better understanding of what is needed for …
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    Replied To a Post in Dual Monitor setup issue, ati raedon hd2400 card.

    You are not providing enough information other than you only see one monitor. What does the "Screen Resolution" option (right click on screen) show you? Can it see/detect both monitors? …
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    They are both 5 volts. One will provide a higher current, hence shorter charge time, than the other. The only thing you need to verify is what the maximum charge …
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    FWIW, when root untars a tar file, the files extracted should get the ownership and permissions of the original owner, as stored in the archive. If the original owner doesn't …
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    Replied To a Post in How to merge two binary files

    You are not showing enough code, such as how you would create the third file "OutPut3.exe". In addition, even if you did that, the system would probably not be happy …
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    What are the compiler outputs? Are you getting errors? The file "example.txt" should appear in the same directory you run the executable from, not necessarily in the directory where the …
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    If you want real help, please post your code.
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    Please post your code if you want real help.
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    Replied To a Post in Access to private variables

    Your getter needs to be a const member function as in `int getSimulation() const;`. Other than that, Moschops is correct in that you need to do argument validation before you …
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    What James said is 100% correct, but to reiterate, you are not setting the variable diff to some value, assuming input from the user. Hence, it does not match the …
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    Replied To a Post in which is the latest processor for computer?

    There are also 64bit ARM chips (lower power - not so commonly found), as well as Intel-compatible AMD chips similar in capability to those that SteveDotNet mentioned. ARM chips are …
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    Replied To a Post in Calculate square root of unsigned long long int

    And this will help with integer roots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_square_root It may be more to your needs. Do note that the output still needs to be a floating point value (float or …
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    Replied To a Post in Display picture in console

    @Moschops I think that CImg would still be considered a "library" for purposes of this student's exercise. @ameer I think that displaying a png image would be your best bet …
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    Replied To a Post in if statement

    Please show the rest of the code in the function that this conditional statement resides.
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    Replied To a Post in Random data generator

    Of your own? How "random" do you want the output? There are plenty of texts out there that can explain some of the more common ways. Here is a great …
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    You aren't being very helpful in providing enough information. Showing code and describing exactly what you want to accomplish will generate a lot more comments.
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    Good for you in finding the cause of the problem. Note that in line 3 of your post, it indicates that it would use a default entry point, which is …
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    Myself, I won't touch a BR drive to save my life - I refuse to pay Sony a tax for watching videos, and suffer the slings and arrows of heavy-handed …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Acess Bluetooth in my Lapi?

    I suspect that the BT adapter is not enabled. If you still have the user docs that came with the laptop, they should tell you how to do it. Also, …
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    Replied To a Post in having downloads and some updates problems :(

    Is it possible that your ISP is throttling your data due to exceeding data caps? You might want to look into that.
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    Replied To a Post in Need Clarity in Using Fork() call to run a C program all round the clock

    Your main program can poll the files in question. When they get to the requisite size you can fork()/exec() a child process which know it is a child can take …
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    Replied To a Post in c programing

    Do some research on the layout of Corel images. Are they raw? Gifs? Jpegs? Something proprietary? Also, how many bits are represented by each pixel? The format of gif and …
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    Replied To a Post in How can I maximise efficiency of this algorithm?

    Back in the 1980's I wrote a seive using an array of pre-computed values from 1 to 10,000. Then using a recursive algorithm I could look up primes with almost …
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    Replied To a Post in Compaq V6500 takews a long time to find windows

    Hard disk checks notwithstanding, this sounds like one of a couple of possibilities. 1. There is a fault in the boot sectors of the disk. You need to run extended …
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    Replied To a Post in Connect 4 Win Conditions won't work

    This is just bogus! if (player == 1 && player != 3) { player = 2; } else if (player == 2 && player != 3) { player = 1; …
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    Replied To a Post in English to Pig Latin

    I speak pig latin -> Igspay atinlay. My sister and I spoke it extensively as children in the 1950's. FWIW, this is where you want a finite state machine representation …
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    Replied To a Post in Problem with subtraction & addition of two large numbers

    Arbitrary precision math. An interesting problem. Look at the source code for the Boost libraries. I worked on this about 30 years ago and gave up for lack of time …
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    Replied To a Post in looking for random image generator PIL script

    How do you think you could do it? If you understand the capabilities of the module, then try some experimentation and don't steal from the experts until you have some …

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