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There's another simpler way to get to know the exact device in your system.Just goto device manager(system property->hardware->device manager), then look for your sound device, right click, select property. Then under the details tab, you'll see "Device Instance Id", under it was big text box, it should show a text like "PCI\VEN_XXXX&DEV_XXXX&SUBSYS_XXXXXXXX......"VEN_XXXX where XXXX is the vendor codeDEV_XXXX where XXXX is device codeDo a search for these 2 code (VEN_XXXX DEV_XXXX), you'll see your device name and model pop out, mostly in forum or some driver site. That's how i look for the exact model of my hardware without digging into the physical hardware side.Good Luck

What ethergeek says is right. Just to add on top of that. For java, it's platform independent, at least for those platform where you can get the JVM. So, if you intent your software to be targeted for wide range of users, then java is a good choice. But for my personal experience, i didn't like java that much, due to it's slow execution speed. Small program might not notice the difference, but bigger one you can really see it. Another thing is the dependency on JVM, although C++ you can only use a single platform, but for a specific audience, it's just click and run. And also the source code is always visible. To hide your source code, you need to employ third party software to encrypt or so call obfuscate it. If we live in a perfectly open source world, then that might not be a necessity ;-)

If you don't mind to use a software instead of a website, then powerfolder is a good choice. It's an opensource file sharing software. Very powerful and easy to use. https://www.powerfolder.com/ For your father's case, he can use the invitation mode to invite his friends and colleagues to view or edit the folder shared by powerfolder. Good luck

Sometime the driver might be for different version of windows. I've seen vista driver install properly in winxp, but no sound. Either that sometime it's the OEM driver provided by the chipset/soundchip manufacturer but differ from the one supply by board. Maybe the board manufacturer implemented a special design, thus the OEM default driver will not work. Other than that, it could also be the version conflict with another driver. Say your sound card driver is the older one, but you've updated your chipset driver to a newer one since your last install. The old sound card driver might not be compatible with the new chipset driver and so on.Try download a full set of drivers for your system, that way you're sure all your driver is up to date

Hmm, interesting. I never realized that i can have different favicon under different sub dir. Well the web is always deep and full of interesting stuffs to be explore

Actually which database programming is not important. Since most of them are SQL92 or higher compliant, basic operation like SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE is the same. Even the extra condition are mostly the same like WHERE, INNER JOIN, ORDER BY, GROUP BY and so on. What's more important is your target application and platform. If you're fresh grads, then maybe you should look at what kind of job you're going into, or the demand of your current job. If you're doing this for hobby, and more likely to use it for web application, then I'll recommend MySQL or ProstgreSQL. Since they're the most widely use SQL databases. For personal use, you can save your total cost of ownership. Other than that, you might want to look at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ for a list of comparison. You can see which one suite your need better.

What do you mean by password gate? and on what platform and what programming language you intent to use to write this?

That's the one here at Xisto's forum

Chances are your driver is not the correct one. Lately, those newer notebook, the driver are very fussy. You can look under the manufacturer's download section, or find out what's the brand and model of the onboard sound chip, then download the driver from the chipset manufacturer.

That's certainly true. That's why MS created vista to "help" utilized all that spare cpu cycles. It's a waste of energy, human resources and our money.

PCI one is kinda obsolete already. You'll need to look for 2nd hand one. Anything with 8MB of video ram should do. If you can find Matrox or ATI Rage, then it's even better. Either that, replace your existing AGP on for another one with TVOut and with support of dual head. Most of NVidia Geforce2 and above will do.

Err, all seems to work from my side. Even /software. I've tried both hand typed URL or your link on the main page

What input does your TV support?Assuming if you TV only support analog inputs (SCART, Composite, S-Video, Component, RGB), you'll need a video card that can output at least one of these. If your system already has an video card, all you need is another one maybe a PCI one, if you do no require high performance, since your system is an old system.If you would like a better performance, then you can go for those dual head video card, where one output is VGA, and another is analog. If your area still selling NVIDIA 5x00 series card, it should be a very cheap buy. Even NVIDIA 7300 is also quite cheap nowadays.If your TV support VGA, then it's even easier, since most dual head video card now has 2 VGA output, or 1 VGA and 1 DVI then comes with a DVI to VGA converter, basically meaning you will for sure get 2 VGA

Actually, i'm not asking for more credit count. What i prefer was to have more attraction for ppl to post here, so to create more topics and reply, that way, more ppl will benefit.

Actually i think the most important thing that determine the speed to the hard disk itself. Lately just bought a new Maxtor 80GB SATA2 8MB Cache drive, and i use it on my sempron 2600+ system. I find it quite fast. But later i got some problem with it, a bit of conflict with the mother board, and some trouble of booting up. So, I exchange with my friend for his Samsung one, same specs. It was working find. But then i realize i need more space, so i go back and change it to a 160GB Hitachi 8MB IDE. I took the ide one is to prevent having the same problem i had witj the maxtor. before i did the swap, i did some benchmark on the old drive. After i change to the new Hitachi drive, i did the same benchmark again using HD Tach. Here is the result Hitachi: Sequential Read Speed = 80MB/s Burst Speed = 124MB/s Average Read = 64MB/s CPU Ultilization = 5% Samsung: Sequential Read Speed = 620MB/s Burst Speed = 190MB/s Average Read = 50MB/s CPU Ultilization = 14% From the result, it seems that IDE is performing better that SATA except for Burst Speed. Burst speed is the raw bus speed. Which is how fast your hdd controller talks to the controller board on the hard disk. but if your hard disk can only supply data at a lower rate, that Burst speed is useless, except for if you're reading from the 8MB cache. Today's data on the hard disk are all quite big, in the order gig. 8MB cache is useless, so is the Burst Speed. the other thing is the CPU ultilization. Seems that IDE controller is quite optimized, where as SATA still need some improvement over it. As a conclusion, don't be cheated by the fact that SATA is faster, but take note of the speed of the drive itself.

I think getting it Hosted wasn't that hard. Maintaining it is a problem. There seems to be too little topics around here. Not everyone will be able to answer or interested in replying all kinds of topic. For example, I like to help others solve their computer problem, programming obstacles and stuffs like that. The problem is, no everyone has that kind of problem everyday. But i need to maintain the points. Generally some of my post will earn me around 4 points. Some are only 1 point. Lately, there seems to have less post around these topic, so i always at the borderline. Then have to look at some random topic to make some post to maintain the account. At this rate, i think i'll opt for paid services.

Why they only do the test on women? Should have done it to man as well as to have a proper comparison. Genes make women cranky. What about man? If it's the same, then this statement serve no purpose.

IMHO, i think vista sucks. First of all, it force us to buy new hardware, even though our old hardware is working happily for us all these while. Then it eats out quite a lot of resources just for the user interface alone. A lot of incompatibility with other software of stuffs like that.

You don't even need to pirate Linux in the first place. I think we should send him to the windows' Hell. He is stupidly ignorant. This make me mad

Basically most of it will work in your situation. It still depend on your requirement. Is your database going to be use only locally, or other pc will also access it? For local access and embedded(without running another app to serve the db), MS Access, SQLite, Firebird or any other that has an embedded support. Not MySQL though, cause it's embedded library support only C++. But, for me, I'm using MySQL, install as an service, and access directly using the provided assembly. With this method, you'll need to install MySQL on every PC you decide to run your software. That might have an licensing issue you need to look into

For me, i've use jquery http://jquery.com/ and thickbox http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Thickbox is an extension for jquery. Thickbox will create a dialogbox like "something" in the middle of the page, and gray out the rest. Clicking anything outside will return to the original page. I find it a lot easier to modify, since it's based on jquery, and jquery is in fact very powerful. And page for Thickbox can be embded HTML, iframe, another page or image (comes with it's own slide browser). For your application, all you need is to comment out the code that gray out the page, and then add code to move the dialogbox around. That's it. You can see a sample of it at sourceforge, when you select the mirror for the file you're downloading. Give it a try, i found it amazing

This script is standalone and working. It's better if you can show us how you apply it into your own page. Maybe you can upload the index with a different file name, so we can test it directly from here.It's important for you to show us your way of implementing it, so we can really see the problem.Btw, if you're using firefox, you can try get "firebug" very good to help solve webpage problem like this.

I've been to the page, and i didn't see any part of the javascript in your page that's trying to put a scroll bar at the events panel. Maybe you can paste a snippet of the code that you try to use which didn't work, so we can take a look at it. Another easier way around this is to use iframe, and the place the events content into a separate page, or you can also use DOM to insert it into the frame, without loading another page. Btw, quite a nice site. Cool picture. Are those are your own artwork?

what Grafitti says is true, cause internal IDE connection can issue a few more low level commands to the harddisk which the USB-to-IDE adaptor cannot. In fact you should do that ASAP, cause with bad sectors, normally it will spread. So the more you try to recover, the more bad sector formed around the same area. So, it's better to use the best possible method to recover your data before it got worse. Data is worth more than anything.

For me, i'm a SOHO programmer. Basically the PC is my life. I spend most of my time on it, excluding meal time, sleeping time and of cause dating time. I even watch movie on it.That should amount to around at least 12hours minimum per day. Might seems a lot, but it's my life, and I love it. Anytime i'm not around a pc, i feel weird, and don't know want else i want to do, hehe