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I recently got into a debate with a co-worker of mine on an issue on fixed size ints in C++ (#include <cstdint>). My preference is to use fixed size ints by default. Any code I write that requires a plain unsigned integer type or a signed integer type, I write uintN_t or intN_t, where N is the...

I shipped my Asus VW246H monitor from Illinois to California for an internship. When I got it in California, it was working fine, but I didn't end up using it all that much so I packed it back up. It sat around for 3 months. Then I ship it back to Illinois last week and just got it back...

I've been searching around to see noise level comparisons for the Xbox 360 slim version, and while there are some teardowns of the system and noise measurements, as far as I can tell, they're all of the games running from the DVD and not installed. This is sort of a continuation of another...

I have been working on a templated octree class and something I have run into while working on it is the construction of built in types. My default constructor for my nodes looked something like: template <typename T> OctreeNode<T>::OctreeNode() : m_data(0) , m_pOctants(NULL) ...

I'm currently working on a large C++ project in a Linux environment. My preferred editor is emacs and I'm having a lot of trouble with my TAGS. If there are duplicate function signatures, the TAGS have a very hard time differentiating between a MyFunc from Class A and a MyFunc from Class B...

Does anyone else have problems with the game stuttering really badly? Like, I'll be in the middle of a game (single player) and running at 60 fps, then out of nowhere, 1 fps. My hard drive doesn't look like it's being hammered or anything. I've tried lowering my settings and it only really...

I've been given a diagrammatic definition of a DFA and been asked to "describe the language accepted by the DFA shown in the figure". I've been assured by the teaching assistants that the pattern can be identified by careful examination of the diagram. I don't want to give out the actual...

I have made this very post on the Ubuntu forums but it seems like there is too much traffic there to get any sort of attention, or nobody seems to care: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1244850 Any insights?

I'm currently implementing an AVL tree in my data structures class, in C++. I thought I had it down, until I went on to test one of the cases for rotation and noticed something strange. The case I was testing was the case where you must do a double rotation in order to balance the tree...

I have been fortunate enough to be selected for an internship at Argonne National Laboratory and I will be working on MPICH2 while I'm there. I haven't had any experience with parallel programming, so I've been looking around online for various resources and most of the things I have found are...

I had posted in general mayhem but it seems that was a bad idea http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1388879 I'm going to guess this is the best place for me to post seeing as how computer science has strong ties to discrete math. Here's my question: Let p, q, and r be the...

I'm having a problem with hibernate on my machine. On a fresh boot, I'll go to http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and do the Chicago test (I live in Urbana, IL which is only a few hours drive away) and I get anywhere from 15000 kbps to 20000 kbps on the download side, upload is around 1500...

I'm currently working on a class project that uses dynamic binding and virtual functions to allow a user to create shapes and then call upon those objects to calculate the areas for each shape the user created and print out the information. When I try to compile what I have, gcc spits out...

I'm working on a project for a class and one of the requirements is to take information about a customer and save this information (such as name, age, address) in a class we have designed. Currently, I'm having a problem getting the program to include entire strings including spaces. For...

I've HATED the mouse supported ingame Xfire ever since it was released. As far as I know, there isn't any sort of option or setting you can change in the client to force it to default to the old skin without mouse support. I know you can "force" the client to use the old skin without mouse...

Lately, I've been getting some blue screens seemingly out of thin air. My computer has been running on a stable on an overclock(at least I thought it was until now... when I set my overclock it was over a year ago and ran it for 48 hours on Orthos for my Opteron 165) until a few days ago my...

I've tried looking around for answers on this, but I've been finding a lot of irrelevant information on it. I sold my Xbox 360 two weeks after I bought (about a year ago) it for one reason and one reason only: It was so fucking loud. The DVD drive drove me absolutely insane. With all the...

I'm currently a second year student at a junior college (community college) with a deep interest in computers, and more specifically, software. I plan on transferring to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and I've heard from some of my friends there that having a deep knowledge of...

I'm thinking about buying a new LCD monitor (currently using a Viewsonic VX922 which has a native resolution of 1280x1024) so I can get some more desktop space (probably a widescreen at 1680x1050). However, I'm concerned about how well my video card will run the games I play at this higher...

I'm not sure exactly what happened, but somehow my VC++ Directories in VS2005 got changed dramatically and I couldn't compile anything. I got around it by resetting everything to default settings through the import/export feature of VS2005, but every time I close VS2005 and then open it back...

I need a way to control the volume that my Xbox 360 outputs when I use headphones. I cannot afford to get any expensive amps or anything like that. I use the VGA adapter to hook up my LCD monitor to my Xbox 360, so I basically have to hook my headphones/speakers directly to my Xbox's RCA...

My friend and I are about to move out into an apartment for college and I had a question about sharing internet. Basically, since we've lived at home with our parents who barely use our internet connections, we both have essentially had our own internet connection to ourselves. But now that...

Just like the title is asking: does using 4 slots with the same ram cause performance DEGREDATION than 2 slots (therefore half the total ram, but still same model sticks) at the same timings? I had thought that originally there would be no difference. I was previously using only 2x512mb of...

OK, Here's the story: My friend just bought an Opteron 165, Asus A8N5X and a PCI-E 7600GS. He plugged everything and powers on his system and everything powers up, but no post and no video. We look around and the problem sounds like this...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=261254 Makes me want to pick up an Xbox 360 just to try it out once it goes live.

Compatible CPU's listed on http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813123263 shows: CPU Type Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64/Sempron I was assuming that the Opteron would work on this board, but now I just have to have some sort of verification. I need this board because I don't want to...

I bought the VX922 and it arrived about a week ago. Everything's been fine. When I first set it up, I ran Dead pixel buddy and I didn't notice ANYTHING. No dead pixels or any other sort of anomaly. But last night, I noticed a slightly darker speck on my monitor. At first I thought it was...

My computer recently died, and I am fairly sure it is either the CPU or motherboard. I am considering the AMD Athlon X2 3800+ (socket 939). Noise is a large concern of mine. Saving money is also a concern. Is the stock HSF quiet? Or should I just end up buying an OEM and get an aftermarket HSF?

PM me your email and I'll give you one as long as I have some left. First come first served.

Does anyone else find that video quality when using WMV acceleration suffers when using WMV acceleration? I sure do. It isn't quite a major problem in the sense that it only happens with a few videos that I have. But it IS a major problem because the amount of distortion is significant. I am...

Can anyone help direct me to 80mm case fans that are silent?

CS:S runs like ass with HyperThreading on. I really don't want to leave it off just for CS:S. I have been trying to find a fix for this for so long... Lately I've come up with this XP dual core hotfix thingy. The problem is that I don't know if it will actually do anything for me, and I...

One of the screws holding down the backplate of my video card looks like its been stripped pretty bad. I just ordered myself a VF700 last night too... How should I go about removing this screw?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16835118001 Does anyone here have one? I am eager to see how these perform on REAL cards (aka 7800gt/1800XT and better). I currently have an X800 XT PE, so I could easily get a VF700, but if I can stretch the life out of a HSF over multiple...

I am afraid that one of my older hard drives (which contains the Windows XP Pro operating system) is going to fail sometime in the near future. It has been making strange sounds lately. I currently have two hard drives in my system. One is the system hard drive that I suspect will fail, and...

I am wondering how I should go about to optimally test my P4 2.8c with prime95. I have been running two instances of prime95 with each set to its own logical processor. When I do this though, the tests run much slower. Does this matter at all? Or is it better to just run one instance?

I've recently been having problems with my computer. I made a thread about this up in the general hardware forums, but no one seems to care up there (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1009807). Anyways, I'm gonna go ahead with my plan of getting a new power supply and hope that it...

http://www.2loop.com/hsound.html I wonder why there aren't more types of media that take advantage of this technique? It would be quite interesting to see something like this be put into games... but is that even possible?