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Bye all for a while (hopefully)

I've decided that I need to take a break from my standard life and try something new. Job market does not seem too good right now, so I am still unemployed. Can't get into grad school so that is not an option either right now. I think I need to be disconected from my routine so that I can...
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- Aug 20, 2001
- Replies: 12
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Anyone able to hear hard drive whine?

<< I have 2 WD400BB's and I can't hear them at all, even during heavy reads and writes, I'm talking NON-EXISTANT. Maybe yours is dying? >> The drives whining is a constant sound from the disk spinning. Reading and writing sounds are acceptable to me. I don't really know how to describe it...
- Mapidus
- Post #17
- Aug 16, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Anyone able to hear hard drive whine?

<< I have two Western Digitals. A 40GB 7200rpm and a 20GB 5400rpm. They are very quiet. Even with no fans on, they are near silent. Get some fans in your case and then worry about the fan sound. >> We must have the same WD 40GB 7200. I have the WD400BB. It is quite in terms of seeking...
- Mapidus
- Post #16
- Aug 16, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Anyone able to hear hard drive whine?

<< IMHO,WD drives are too loud.. lol, ditch it and get an 60GXP Deskstar.I don't ever hear my drive,not even while defragging >> Yeah, I'm almost about to ditch the drive because it is really annoying. It is a WD400BB. The whine is always present, so it is from the spinning platters. The...
- Mapidus
- Post #14
- Aug 16, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Anyone able to hear hard drive whine?

I'm in my 20's now, so I thought that I would not be susceptible to this, but my WD 7200 RPM drive is driving me crazy. It has this high pitch whine that I assume is caused by the platter rotation. I tried putting the computer on the ground and it is still driving me nuts. I have an older...
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- Aug 16, 2001
- Replies: 17
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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- Aug 16, 2001
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Man drowns in cats water bowl!

Before I read your post, I thought the title was "man drowns cat in water bowl" and thought to myself what type of sicko would do that. Now I feel sorry for the guy instead of the cat.
- Mapidus
- Post #6
- Aug 16, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What kind of grades do they look at in grad school?

Most schools will consider your whole GPA, but with emphasis on the last 2 years where you will mostly be taking upper division courses in your major (and likely area of grad study). One thing you should be sure to do if you plan on going to grad school is to get to know profs through things...
- Mapidus
- Post #12
- Aug 15, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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12hrs till exam, I haven't studied, guess what I'm doing?

<< last time my friend and I bought one large mutated grapefruit (it has a wierd name, but it's BIG, 4lb) and my friend and I decided to each eat 1/2. both of us were farting for the next 10hrs. and we were in the car most of the time so our car smelled like grapefruit fart.! :) >> Did is...
- Mapidus
- Post #12
- Aug 13, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Do cable companies allow this?........

<< << if your sister's cool have her in on it, free broadband for her. >> Ummmm.... maybe you didn't read the first post, but this whole crap started because she won't pay her part of the bill. So I took away the Cat5 wire so she can't use the internet and she got pissed and started...
- Mapidus
- Post #19
- Aug 13, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Do cable companies allow this?........

Ok, I don't know about Cox@Home, but I assume it is the same as with ATT@Home. With ATT@Home, cable modem service and cable TV service are kept separate and billed separately. They used to have separate cable guys also, but might have combined resources now. My ATT@Home is billed on my credit...
- Mapidus
- Post #17
- Aug 13, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Whats the difference between a Worm Virus and a Regular Virus?

Computer viruses work in a similar way to real ones - they find hosts (generally, executable files) and infect them by injecting generally malicious code into the executable, so that when the infected executable is run, bad stuff can happen and more files could be infected. Worms, on the other...
- Mapidus
- Post #2
- Aug 10, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What were your favorite or most useful classes in college (or any other)?

<< i really like psychology.. had a lot of fun in that class. >> yeah, intro psych was fun. Class was just sitting back and watching slides and video clips with 1000+ other classmates. Learned a lot without having to think too heavily.
- Mapidus
- Post #24
- Aug 9, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What were your favorite or most useful classes in college (or any other)?

<< << recreational pharmaceuticals 230 >> :D :D >> At my school we actually had a class called Molds and Magical Mushrooms or something like that. I don't think people actually go to sample the magical ones, but probably did get to eat some exotic stuff.
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- Post #23
- Aug 9, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What were your favorite or most useful classes in college (or any other)?

<< compilers, 6 months of living hell but when i was done i was a far better programmer for it. >> Yep, compilers is hell, but in the end it is very satisfying to have built a fully functional compiler from scratch. You definitely become a better programmer from understanding how code is...
- Mapidus
- Post #22
- Aug 9, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What were your favorite or most useful classes in college (or any other)?

EE: Computer Architecture Digital VLSI Parallel Computer Architecture Asychronous VLSI Microcontrollers Various circuits and design courses CS: Algorithms Compilers Systems AI Theory of computing Other: Economics (micro/macro, intro and intermediate) Intro Pyschology Math (calcs, abstract...
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- Aug 9, 2001
- Replies: 23
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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How do I get the smell of smoke out of my stuff?!?

How about removing the power supply and then taking the case to the bathroom and give it a bubble bath. This will give you a chance to actually remove that gunk from it instead of just covering it up.
- Mapidus
- Post #18
- Aug 8, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What's the best way to scan for photo services?

Would you get better quality scanning 600 dpi at 100% or 600 dpi, but with scaling at 200% for an effective 300dpi, but 4 times the area photo (same amount of pixels, just presented differently). Basically what I am wondering is if you give a photo service a 600dpi file will they use all the...
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- Aug 6, 2001
- Replies: 1
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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need to stop activity on cable modem

You might be experiencing the CodeRedII problem that most people on cable/dsl have noticed recently. There really is nothing you can do about it. The traffic is coming because some computers, usually members of the same cable service as yours, are infected with the CodeRedII worm. The worm...
- Mapidus
- Post #3
- Aug 6, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Need help with old laptop please!

Yeah, you can buy laptop to desktop drive convertors.
- Mapidus
- Post #4
- Aug 6, 2001
- Forum: Laptops
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Whats a good program to scan for duplicate files?

CleanSweep only does filename/time/size compares though. I was wondering if there is something that uses MD5 hashes or full-file compares. I remember using something that did full-file compares several years ago, but can't remember what it is. Many of my duplicate files have different names...
- Mapidus
- Post #3
- Aug 5, 2001
- Forum: Windows
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Whats a good program to scan for duplicate files?

I need a program that will scan all my partitions for duplicates, preferably using filenames plus a has like MD5. Also, having an option to delete in the program would be nice.
- Mapidus
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- Aug 5, 2001
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows
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Judaism & the chosen people

Yeah the Torah is basically the "Jewish Bible" and is essentially the old testament. The Talmud is a collection of the "wisdoms" of various Rabis. Not sure about the Tanack. The Talmud is what is discussed and debated the most in a Jewish family. You may find people...
- Mapidus
- Post #13
- Aug 3, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Judaism & the chosen people

Jews generally don't emphasize the afterlife. Getting to Heaven is not stressed in the religion as a reward of any type. Also, it is possible to convert to Judaism, but very hard as you have to study quite a bit and really desire to do so since the religion does not actively proselytize. I...
- Mapidus
- Post #3
- Aug 3, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Diamond Mako Mobile Internet Organizer (While Supplies Last!) $99

When using the stylus input, does it have handwriting recognition or do you use something like graffiti?
- Mapidus
- Post #13
- Aug 2, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Colleges- need advice

<< << i've also got enough AP credit there to complete my degree in 3 years. >> I really doubt that if you're going into EE :( While with other majors you typically start off your upper division/technical classes in your junior year, and sometimes sophomore year, most EE people start as early...
- Mapidus
- Post #10
- Aug 1, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Colleges- need advice

Stay in Texas, go to UT, and save a ton of money. Also, if your going to spend money on a private school for an EE, Duke and UChicago are not the best choices.
- Mapidus
- Post #9
- Aug 1, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Blanking on the name_ Please Help

Are you talking about that pad made by Cross, the pen manufacturer? I think they call it the Cross Pad.
- Mapidus
- Post #2
- Jul 31, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Any Python gurus here? NOT MONTY PYTHON. STAY OUT YOU DAMNED FOOLS...

<< *sigh* I knew I shouldn't have posted this in OT. >> Yeah, I think the people in software would be more helpful. A board dedicated to Python would probably be even better.
- Mapidus
- Post #12
- Jul 31, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Does anybody make barebones mp3 players?

I have a 500MB hard drive from a dead laptop and was wondering if any companies made cheap barebones players or if anybody designed a kit. If not, maybe I will start a project and make my own.
- Mapidus
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- Jul 31, 2001
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Barebones
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How do you "Right Click" with a keyboard?

<< Caps Lock: Nice for inserting windows code key nmbers....LOL!!!! >> You don't even have to enter them in all caps though, but I guess it is for PEOPLE WHO POST IN THESE FORUMS LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME, EVEN THOUGH IT IS REALLY ANNOYING TO READ.
- Mapidus
- Post #15
- Jul 28, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Monitor won't turn back on

Yeah, that was the first thing I did since I thought it was weird for it to die so suddenly. I think it must be a blown fuse or something simple since there were no signs of sudden failure such as smoke or sparks. All I did was turn it off and then back on a few seconds later. After thinking...
- Mapidus
- Post #3
- Jul 28, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Monitor won't turn back on

Yesterday night I turned my monitor off. A few seconds later I realized I needed to do something before bed so I turn it back on, but it did not turn back on. What could have happened? Think I could take it apart and repair? Does not seem that it could be the tube because seems like no power.
- Mapidus
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- Jul 28, 2001
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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Does anybody know of a file to open .DLL's?

I don't think you really want to be messing with editing .dll files. These are normaly dynamically linked and loaded executables, so editing them is a little bit more than just typing in stuff to replace what is there. Generally if you edit any code that will be executed, you need to keep the...
- Mapidus
- Post #6
- Jul 26, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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C++ Question --> Assuring user inputs number instead of a letter

Easy way would be to read the input into a string then use atoi (ASCII to integer) to conver the input to an integer. Rely on atoi error code for when people enter in non numberic characters. If conversion passes then check the range.
- Mapidus
- Post #4
- Jul 23, 2001
- Forum: Windows
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Which colleges are strong in engineering? how about law?

<< harvey mudd has a great engineering program. >> Great program, but it is more of a general engineering curriculum, lots of math and sciences, but less specialization than what you would get at a large engineering school that has specialized majors. A program like Harvey Mudd's is good if...
- Mapidus
- Post #10
- Jul 23, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Anyone go to UC Santa Cruz?

Who are Porter people?
- Mapidus
- Post #5
- Jul 23, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Poll: Is the term "chick" when referenced toward a woman not PC?

Nope, don't think it is PC. Also, actress is not PC these days, it's actor, but a lot of people still use actress.
- Mapidus
- Post #5
- Jul 23, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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In DOS or Unix, what is the -r called when you do a "command" -r...is it Switches?

yep, and some call it command line options.
- Mapidus
- Post #5
- Jul 23, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Which colleges are strong in engineering? how about law?

I'd say any large university (like a UC or Michigan) with a separate engineering school would have a decent engineering program. Here are some schools that are generally highly regarded and you don't have on your list though: Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, UCSD, University of Colorado (Boulder)...
- Mapidus
- Post #8
- Jul 23, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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