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If the schools that my kids attend are anything to go by, it seems that high on Santa's list this Xmas just gone was an iTouch, iPhone or iPad depending how well off the parents were. That's understandable, they are just as attractive as gadgets for kids as they are …

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I am trying to connect my laptop to my television by HDMI, i've done it before and it worked. But now I'm having some problems:: When I connect the HDMI cable to my laptop, my laptop's screen goes black, as if it didn't receive any image signal (neither the tv). …

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I joined this forum recently and found everyone so helpful that I thought I would return as I now have another problem and want to learn more. I have jsut assembled a new system, I have it set up with a small c: drive (20gb) that has windows xp installed …

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Hey guys, I cant access the BIOS for my friends Sony Vaio VGN-NR38M. Im trying to boot from CD to install Windows 7. On turn on there is a Vaio logo and then a black screen with a blinking underscore and then then Windows Vista loads. No BIOS key is …

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I am trying to think out the process for a design but it would not be complete if I can not make this possible.. I am looking to take a female USB port and have it connect to a bluetooth transmitter, but the range does not have to be more …

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As the title states, I am wondering if there is a "simple" way to make your own IC or program an IC to mirror data. To me it sounds simple, but that is my opinion. Such as, data is sent, then the chip reads it and processes "mirrors/splits" the same …

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Currently I am renting out a VPS (need the IP address location) and I simply need it for broswing the web. I choose to have Ubuntu installed as I assumed it would be the easiest. The admin helped with installing X windows and a VNC server to be able to …

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I recently built my first computer from the ground up. Spent quite a bit of time on newegg picking all the parts i wanted and if they are compatible. After i got everything put together and booted it up, everything seems to power up = all the fans are turning …

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I am not sure if anyone knows of a program that does fingerprint and face reconition. I would like it to require both face and fingerprint to login. Maybe if so many failed attemps it can shut off the computer as well. But I also need a back door like …

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Hopefully my question is pretty simple... Currently I have an ubuntu server (I am not runny server edition, simply the 32-bit desktop distro), but when I built it I was not sure what I was doing with it just yet, but decided to have it as my low-wattage home media …

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I just upgraded my tv and I am wondering if anyone has any ideas of when the PS4 is coming out, or whether I should just go ahead and buy a PS3 or Xbox 360.

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I took the hdd out of my external computer to transfer a large # of files (over 1TB worth) and to use the full 3tb I made it a GPT Partition. Now since I want it back in the normal enclosure the computer "sees" it, in the device manager or …

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Short story, I use to use a 1TB drive and need to upgrade since I have many more files on 3 separate 500GB drives. So I decided to buy a 2TB to replace that drive and put the 1TB in a separate lower power pc just for downloading / seeds. …

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we are to distribute portable software (which is free). along with that we are giving away a unique file which we don't want people to copy, but on the other hand, they can paste anything they want in USB. easy solution is to bind that file to exe file. so, …

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Alright so all of the computers in my house are all Laptops. Well the issue is when my main laptop is with me at work no one else can print with out unpluggin the USB cable from the back of my docking station. So its kind of a pain. Now …

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I got an ubuntu cd time ago and it said it was a bootable CD so I tried it out. It ended up installing in my machine somehow and I tried to search for my pictures and other files with no result. I took the hard drive out and put …

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I am looking to buy a graphics card and was looking at VisionTek Radeon HD 6950 Graphics card (only because this one should go pretty cheap) but it is currently bricked. This is the exact wording of the person, "This graphics card is bricked meaning a bios flash gone wrong. …

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I am looking for a reasonably priced computer for sale (to build). I built one last year but pretty much returned everything in the end / tiger shipped half my items doa, short story short, I switched to newegg. I have been watching the new am3+ with amd's 8-core cpu …

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I bought a lot of RAM, 20 sticks, for some desktops that I'm rebuilding. Rebuilding as on upgrading, as most or all work. I put in 2 1Gb sticks (Samsung k4h510438b-TCB3) into some d51s desktops. The max should be 2 1gb's at or around 333mhz but the computer would not …

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I need to know what the specs would be for a server for a website of some auction type thing. Possibly something like beezid.com; it is not exact, but close to everything is the same principle. Then who should I go through to design this; I found some designers like …

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I bought a little over 20 d51s's and I am trying to get the most money out of them, but am not sure where the current market is for these kinds of computers. Background: They all are P4 2.4GHz,1 CD-ROM,1 Floppy drives, most do not have ram, none of them …

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I have bought a lot of desktops and was looking around different sites for some of the computers. I came across [URL="http://www.andovercg.com/datasheets/dell-dimension-2400-series.pdf"]http://www.andovercg.com/datasheets/dell-dimension-2400-series.pdf[/URL]and it has a picture (on page 51) and shows the ram slots but says DDR / DDR2, as if it were backward compatible? I know the 2 are …

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I am making a guide and was thinking of instead of using the full links to the programs that I just use adf.ly. Can I do this? They are not my programs or my website but I want to shorten the url, but is this legal? Because I would be …

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At the time of when I installed Debian on my computer I also had 2 other windows restores / boot. I still have windows but I did another install of windows to clean my drives / get everything organized. When I formatted the old drive where the windows were installed …

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I was thinking of making a server (not anytime soon) but it would be VERY powerful. Basically to run a website which might or might not be as huge as I would hope, but anyway... Since ready up on linux (I use to be on windows but hopefully soon to …

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I am working on a laptop and the processor can support 64bit, but it is only 1.6Ghz (dual core). He said it has been running slow lately (I am sure it is mainly malware) but was trying to get him to put Linux like Ubuntu or Debian. (I am thinking …

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I prefer firefox over other internet browsers including iceweasel (and lets not bring that back up or get into a debate). I am semi-newer to linux but am a fast learner so bear with me.... I have downloaded firefox 5.0.1 from the site (for debian). Then I extracted the file …

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Im am hopfully going to order my custom PC soon, but was thinking about watercooling. A few questions arose but I was able to solve most of them except.... My case can support watercooling but I found an external triple radiator thing, short story is the thing would look bad-a** …

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