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This is in a Dell OptiPlex 9020 Minitower. My main worry is the +12VSB is doing something with the power to the mobo, and that I won't be able to turn on the machine without it. If it's just powering lights, I don't mind losing it. If anyone can think of a problem with using a boost converter...

I have an OEM Dell power supply that I'd like to replace with something stronger. From what I can tell, the power supply has two 12V rails at 14A and 16A, which is fine. The problem is that the supply has a +12VSB at 1.67A, whereas all power supplies I can find online have +5VSBs. Has...

Oh goodness, looking back on dorm room setups is embarrassing: Those were far nerdier days.

That guy is incredibly excited. I would like to see him on Christmas morning.

They're just aimed at different audiences. Workstation cards are tested to higher standards of accuracy / perform more stable calculations than their gaming counterparts. Do you care if one pixel of one frame in a 60fps first person shooter is the wrong shade of red? No. Do you care if...

I am guessing you have not written any code beyond "Hello World," if that.

Don't worry about responding -- OP's pretty useless!

Doesn't Flash just . . . do that? I've used Flex a couple of times, and setting an Application's width="100%" and height="100%" makes everything resize just wonderfully. Edit: It'd be helpful if you gave a few more details about what you're trying to do. Edit2: In Flex, is there a way to do...

I bit! Thanks for the deal.

Click. Drag. "Ozone Restored." How realistic!

Is this a decent netbook? My ladyfriend is looking for a nice one that can "surf the Internet, do word processing, listen to music, and not weight a lot." How is the battery life on this?

Without reading the thread, I'm going to guess that 50%+ of posters have recommended IBM-now-Lenovo ThinkPads. Because they're awesome. They feel solid, they are solid, they're . . . ah, wonderful. But they also tend to be pretty pricey, compared to your Dells and whatnot.

Who would yell at you for this? Planning out a project before you start hacking classes and packages together is almost always a great idea. Like you said, you don't need to follow exact UML standards, but having some visualization of what depends on what will be very useful. Edit: As for...

But what about those young males who drive cars that can outrun radio waves?

I've tried this on two machines now, one running Flash Player 10 / Windows XP / Firefox 3, the other running Flash Player 9 / Windows Vista / Firefox 3. When loading the [H] main page (www.hardocp.com), the Flash debugger throws: Error: Error #1023: Stack overflow occurred. at...

How accurate is that picture? Is this more of a Zune Red or a Zune Pink?

I've got a couple of domains registered via GoDaddy (and they've been fine / relatively inexpensive). I've always wondered: what happens if GoDaddy goes under? I assume ICANN has some contingency plan for this?

Is Quake Wars still active online? Haven't played it.

Report from the Field Just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Vostro 1500 laptop. Video, sound drivers okay. Broadcom wireless drivers didn't automatically install correctly, but what would a Linux install be without desperately hacking wireless drivers? Bootup time is faster than 8.10.

For my installs of 8.04, 8.10 in 64-bit, I had serious issues getting Flash support. Adobe's been terrible about releasing 64-bit anything for Flash. I am pretty sure Adobe released some alpha 64-bit Flash 10 player back in February (for Linux). Other than that, everything works nicely. :)

Thanks! I'm looking at stuff like this now (also BlazeDS and some others). I think for now I will settle with a JSON (http://www.json.org/) implementation. My array will consist of (many, many) strings, integers, and floats, so JSON will work fine. This being one of my first forays...

I'd like to have Flex talk with a Java servlet. Currently, my servlet can receive data from my Flex application via an HTTPService. The servlet can send data back to Flex as a byte stream: OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); byte[] returnVal = "some response message".getBytes()...

Thanks for the response! I think I'm trapped using Intel's Fortran compiler (ifort). The code relies on the Intel MKL, so I'm guessing it wouldn't play well with GNU Fortran compilers? I'll check it out, though. Many thanks. Edit: Looks like Intel has a profiler called VTune. Maybe this...

Hello all, I'm working (for the first time) with Fortran code. Does anyone know of a free Fortran profiler? I inherited this code from a professor and would like to see where its spending the majority of its time. Thanks!

OGRE by itself isn't a game engine. However, it has a huge community presence and, with enough plugins, is a fully functional (free) gaming engine. It's licensed under LGPL.

Greetings all! I am messing around with image rollovers for a new splash screen for my webpage. http://gannon-house.com/uploads/Photoshop/index_01.html Rollover the "A" in "Gannon" I'd like to have the "ABOUT" image put on top of the background (as opposed to replacing it). Any...

MatLab has CUDA support. Mathematica doesn't (I think?).

His recent follow-up post is a bag of smiles: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/programming-and-the-recession

Nothing, unless we're talking VB6 and before. It just surprised me to see VB weighing in at nearly 10%. Edit: Where is that 10% coming from? I've done almost all of my programming in an academic setting, and we are very C-, Java-, and Python-heavy. I've never used VB.NET, only VB6, 5, and...

Here's a more up-to-date link to TIOBE. Visual Basic at nearly 10% -- that surprises me.

If by "Unknown" you mean "William Congreve," then yes . . . ;)

What happens when you open the file in WordPad? There are a bunch of different ways to encode a newline -- NotePad recognizes one kind, WordPad recognizes more. Maybe SP3 flipped some "default" newline value to something else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline Also: why not use...

Have you successfully installed JAWStats? My AWStats installation worked fine -- had a set of correctly-loading HTML pages and everything. I've followed Dreamhost's installation directions for JAWStats (twice now, actually), and still end up with the same message...

It is very tempting to buy one. But then it'd be tempting to buy two. And then it'd be tempting to buy a newer, more powerful video card. And why not just get a new system? It's been a good year since you've done anything significant to your current build. Why not just go all out? I...

This is really amazing. The human's pants/shoes/arms look a bit fuzzy without any sort of border on them. Is this intentional? I could see that fuzziness being used to fake field of view a bit -- the camera is focused on the Tank, who is holding the human closer to the camera (and thus he...

That is a very good point. However, any aberrations on the bolts from rust will be really minute relative to the size of the actual bolts -- do you think people would actually notice such small changes to the geometry? I will play around with that a little, though -- thanks for the insight...

Just installed AWStats and JAWStats -- time to wait a day to see if everything got installed correctly. Thank you all for the links!

It does seem like I'm going to need to do a bit of personalization with these rust maps -- I've been messing around with doing things entirely procedurally, and it does not look all that convincing. Photoshop time. Thanks to all for their comments; renders will be posted eventually!

That's a pretty neat and easy technique. Well done!

I'm looking to have the rust available for future images rendered from different viewpoints, et cetera -- so Photoshop would be a temporary fix. Those are some good tutorials -- I've looked at the first, at least, in the past. (Thanks for the links to the new stuff, too :)) You are probably...