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Sony VAIO Z vs. HP ENVY 14

Where did you get the weight for the envy 14, I haven't seen that in any of the information yet...
- theawddone
- Post #2
- May 6, 2010
- Forum: Laptops
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A modern laptop with no webcam

Here's a laptop that has an i3-i7 option and webcam is optional, if you haven't decided yet which to go with: http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...me=G62t_series
- theawddone
- Post #24
- Feb 22, 2010
- Forum: Laptops
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First Time Embedded Linux Development

I really appreciate the advice, and having gone a few design cycles with the PICs I am intimately familiar with documentation and data-sheets. Unfortunately, that isn't really the issue I am facing right now. My primary concern is getting a development environment set up and choosing a...
- theawddone
- Post #3
- Jan 6, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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First Time Embedded Linux Development

I am a 4th year computer engineering student and I have been heavily involved with a campus project for the past year and a half building CubeSats (cubesat.org if you are curious, but they are basically 10cm cube satellites that generally have a 1W power footprint). We have been using PIC18's...
- theawddone
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- Dec 31, 2009
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Open Source
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Can't find a good book on mircroprocessor design

Also, I just remembered that I when one of the guys who helped create QPI came and talked at my school he mentioned the only official literature on the topic was available directly from Intel. I tried to find that book specifically (he had it in hand, but didn't catch the title unfortunately)...
- theawddone
- Post #10
- Dec 29, 2009
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Can't find a good book on mircroprocessor design

Your best bet would be trying to find published papers on those topics, here's a couple that I read for a grad ee digital course I took last quarter, about the P4 microarchitecture and general microprocessor architecture design. They are kind of dated, but still have some interesting stuff in...
- theawddone
- Post #2
- Dec 28, 2009
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Choosing a Microcontroller for Embedded Linux?

Thanks for the quick responses, I mostly just need a lot of I/O for house-keeping type work and communications, this will mostly act as a bridge to the transceiver for non-status data that will be transmitted. Interfacing will mostly be done over I2C, SPI will be used with a transceiver, and a...
- theawddone
- Post #4
- Nov 18, 2009
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Choosing a Microcontroller for Embedded Linux?

For a long-term (6 months++ development, 1yr++ testing) graduate-level project, I am trying to choose a microcontroller to replace a PIC18-based system so that we can run linux. My requirements are really only that it can run Linux 2.6+ (not a uCLinux or any linux derivative, want broadest...
- theawddone
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- Nov 18, 2009
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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College Engineering, which graphic calculator? TI-89/Nspire

Ti-89 owns for electrical engineering, can't speak for other areas of study though. edit: I should note, however, that none of my calculus classes allowed calculators.
- theawddone
- Post #19
- Sep 14, 2009
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Buying a new high end laptop

Linked the wrong one I suppose, the 15" definitely appears to have an i7: http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...d-looking-pretty-real/
- theawddone
- Post #10
- Sep 14, 2009
- Forum: Laptops
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Buying a new high end laptop

Sounds like this is coming out soon (perhaps an announcement tomorrow?): http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...ed-lacking-voodoo-dna/ Looks pretty sexy, I'd wait to see what they say!
- theawddone
- Post #7
- Sep 14, 2009
- Forum: Laptops
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Buying a new high end laptop

Lol, Sager charges you $20 to receive a windows 7 upgrade if you buy a laptop with vista, is that even legal? http://www.sagernotebook.com/p...27484&action=customize
- theawddone
- Post #4
- Sep 12, 2009
- Forum: Laptops
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Acer Timeline or MSI X600?

http://gizmodo.com/5355619/asu...-focus-on-battery-life I am waiting on these personally =) I had been considering the timeline series, but I have no urgent need for a laptop.
- theawddone
- Post #7
- Sep 10, 2009
- Forum: Laptops
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Cheap atom PC as a file server

Sorry to bump this, but I am looking to build/buy something very similar to most of the other posters in this thread. Could anyone give me a recap as to what would be the best approach for a low-power, high-capacity (at least could fit 2x1 TB drives?) file server/seed-box? I was originally...
- theawddone
- Post #25
- Sep 4, 2009
- Forum: Computer Building
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Anyone own one of Acer's new Timelime series?

Wow, never had heard of this before today, looks awesome. What is the deal with the single-button below the touch pad though? This is my favorite laptop for under $1k that I have found thus far...
- theawddone
- Post #10
- Jun 18, 2009
- Forum: Laptops
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Computer Engineers

I am definitely glad I do not have to take any E&M EE courses <_< >_>
- theawddone
- Post #14
- Mar 28, 2009
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Computer Engineers

My EE classes have definitely been easier than my CSC, even though I have mostly enjoyed the CSC ones, but I feel that is due to the professors. I am trying to take a few extra 'un-necessary' EE courses as tech electives too though, to try and make my degree as well-rounded as possible since my...
- theawddone
- Post #10
- Mar 10, 2009
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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After 3 years of studying EE...

Heh, I am taking the discrete version of the class you are probably taking right now, but I am a computer engineer... I had the choice of taking this, algorithms (but required another stats class that I didn't want to take), another chem class, or statics. I can take digital signal processing...
- theawddone
- Post #35
- Feb 24, 2009
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Recommendation of a Phone?

I have the Omnia, if you are willing to mod it a little bit with downloads from various sources. It has a few quirks, which may be due to my 3rd party software, but it definitely does everything I need my phone to do (browse internet anywhere, sync with outlook for contacts/calendar, check...
- theawddone
- Post #20
- Feb 19, 2009
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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What is a good distro for my laptop?

Thanks for the replies! I finally got xubuntu to install via the alternate install disk, and it is now booting up (very very slowly). So, if it continues to be this slow I may try TinyMe, would it be best just to reformat my drive (what kind of file system should i use btw...?) and then install...
- theawddone
- Post #5
- Dec 23, 2008
- Forum: Open Source
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What is a good distro for my laptop?

I have been working on Fedora based computers at school for a few quarters and doing a decent amount of system (Unix) C programing (and taking an OS course next quarter), but I'd like to have a copy of Linux on one of my own computers. I currently have a desktop with WinXP that I don't really...
- theawddone
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- Dec 22, 2008
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Open Source
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Ebay Opinion on Dispute: Item Significantly Not as Described

I'm guessing this poster isn't going to come back to the thread, hopefully he read most of it and got the point that he shouldn't be deceiving people, unintentional or not...
- theawddone
- Post #67
- Sep 3, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What do you put in your salads to make them not suck?

My recent favorite is cranberries, I just love the texture that they add. My GF recommended some Balsamic Vinaigrette in addition to these, and it worked out great. As of about a year ago, I did not even want to touch a salad, but I have been eating them on a regular basis lately. BBQ chicken...
- theawddone
- Post #65
- Sep 2, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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iPhone owners, do you unintentionally hang up during calls frequently?

My GF hits the hang up button on her (first generation) iPhone all the time, when she's driving or getting into her car and is moving the phone.
- theawddone
- Post #15
- Aug 28, 2008
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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WRT54GS v.5 installation

I had a similar problem, it was caused by having norton antivirus on the computer. It was de-activated, but it needed to be completely removed (google norton removal tool).
- theawddone
- Post #5
- Aug 21, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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House with potentially 6 active computers at once

I definitely have an old PC that I could use for this, are there any good tutorials for beginners? I am not sure where to start really, with picking out hardware and such.
- theawddone
- Post #12
- Aug 18, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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House with potentially 6 active computers at once

I am actually running a WRT54GL for my home network right now, maybe I will just buy a new one for my family and take that. However, are there no newer N routers that are considered a good option for flashing with DD-WRT? If I can get better speeds, would like to.
- theawddone
- Post #10
- Aug 18, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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House with potentially 6 active computers at once

So if buffalo is no longer the best, then are there any 'best' wireless routers? This seems to be the point where I am stuck on, I understand which factors to look at, but I was hoping for some personal recommendations of more recent "n" routers...
- theawddone
- Post #7
- Aug 18, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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House with potentially 6 active computers at once

Wow, this has been amazingly informative, thanks so much. Does anyone have experience with the newer models of the Buffalo routers (N-finiti), are they still better than the other options out there?
- theawddone
- Post #4
- Aug 15, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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House with potentially 6 active computers at once

I am moving into a house this september with 5 other engineering students, and chances are we are going to be bandwidth whores. I am definitely going to look into purchasing the best possible internet plan (unfortunately Charter is our only cable provider), but once it reaches our house: what is...
- theawddone
- Thread
- Aug 15, 2008
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Networking
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computer science degree?

Materials Science is getting pretty big, if you dig chemistry I'd say it's worth looking into. Pretty much every science major can be complemented with programming nowadays because of all the analysis that's done, so you could easily still get a CSC minor and utilize both in the future.
- theawddone
- Post #44
- Jul 30, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Beginners C++ Help

This probably wouldn't work out too well for comparisons, but the previous idea seems somewhat reasonable if you could perhaps implement it to be 'comparable' (a Java concept, but I don't know if you can do it in C++, never used it).
- theawddone
- Post #24
- Jul 29, 2008
- Forum: Programming
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System Programming (C)

This is exactly the answer I was looking for - thank you very much! I have heard horror stories of the length of the projects for this class, so it's great to have any pointers (har har ;))
- theawddone
- Post #7
- Jul 28, 2008
- Forum: Programming
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System Programming (C)

I am about to take a System Programming class and I have no idea what to expect. I have been trying use google, to not much avail, so I'd like to hear from some of the members of this board that likely have some first-hand experience: what is system programming? I haven't taken any...
- theawddone
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- Jul 25, 2008
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Programming
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Router Issue - Only one computer connects

The vista computer is and was on auto negotiation, but still no connection other than AIM. My family is going to kill me if this doesn't get fixed soon... I am just considering reinstalling windows =\ The other xp machine that is directly wired to the router is exhibiting the same thing, but...
- theawddone
- Post #9
- Jun 23, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Router Issue - Only one computer connects

There is no setting with that name for my network adapter
- theawddone
- Post #7
- Jun 22, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Router Issue - Only one computer connects

When I posted those, there was no security on it. A weird thing though, I disabled the wireless altogether and now my xp-pro machine is working just fine through the ethernet-power line adapter. Edit: None of these computers are trying to connect through wifi, however. I can get an ipconfig...
- theawddone
- Post #5
- Jun 21, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Router Issue - Only one computer connects

We are currently still using the linksys router. I attempted to use the old router last night and nothing functioned at all. The cable modem is a: Ambit U10C018. Here is an ipconfig from my working XP laptop: Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
- theawddone
- Post #3
- Jun 21, 2008
- Forum: Networking
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Router Issue - Only one computer connects

I am in desperate need of some assistance here. I have tried so many different things that I just don't know what to do anymore. I have a network consisting of a Linksys WRT54GL wireless-wired router that is connected to three PCs and as of right now, the two XP machines get no internet and the...
- theawddone
- Thread
- Jun 20, 2008
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Networking
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New iPods!!

I would love to get that iPod touch just for the wifi capabilities to have with me on my school campus so I can look at the internet w/o having to lug around a laptop and still have a decent selection of music for labs and the library... wonder when the release date is, my birthday is coming soon =)
- theawddone
- Post #10
- Sep 5, 2007
- Forum: Mobile Devices

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