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Boast Your Computers Specs. Feel free to brag
darkken replied to chronogamer28's topic in Hardware Workshop
I just upgraded my ram to 3gb now on my desktop. I am also working on putting in a second BFG 7900 GS OC so i can run dual SLI. I am just having the issue of not having a good enough PSU. Apparently I bought a bad one; Thermaltake PurePower 430w. Well it says 430 but is about 350 and also it is a ATX 1.1x with 2.0 connectors so you think its good. So now when I put in the second card it pulled too much on the 12v+ and also is pulling too much over the atx so the second card does not power up or spin the GPU fan. So I have a 600w psu on order. -
It is good practice to use multiple tables to sort out big amounts of data. But once you do that it becomes increasingly hard to cross reference the tables. Mysql has a little beautiful command structure that they have added. You can select multiple tables within one sql query. Example of a basic sql query $sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE row=1";If you noticed that I selected all of the rows in the table. Normally you will try to not select the entire table from the database unless you absolutely want all of the table. I would recommend against it; just grab the tables that you really need. $sql = "SELECT row FROM table WHERE row=1";Now lets start into where we reference two tables in one query. $sql = "SELECT t1.username t2.email FROM t1.users, t2.profile WHERE username LIKE CONVERT( _utf8 'bob' USING latin1 )";And presto you have multiple table query. You can also use this to delete tables too but I would recommend that you copy the table before running the command because you might not get the result you are looking for. Keep in mind if you do copy the table, it isn't very efficient to copy tables if the tables are huge. You might want to then just take a few tables and put them into a table and then run the command and then see the result because if you are using 4 gb databases you don't want to copy the whole database into another just to see if the command works.
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Free Online Speed Test Post your results here
darkken replied to www.jbi.in's topic in Websites and Web Designing
Your Service provider : At&tLocation : Los Angeles ca USAPlan Details : Basic DSLUp speed : 318.46 kbpsDown speed : 1.25 MbpsPromised : 1.5 MbpsReceived : 1.25 MbpsSatisfied : Well the internet works ok but i do wish it was faster. Plus i am paying way too much for it but since i dont have phone service to costs more. I also have problems sometimes where the ATM drops and cant start up a new connection again. Lately it has been running fine so i think they fixed their problem. -
This might sound a little geeky but have you heard of Stargate SG-1 and the Asguard. Well they cloned themselves trying to make themselves live longer and be closer to perfect. Also when they cloned themselves they transferred their thoughts and memories to the clone so they could continue their work. In the end they couldnt reproduce any longer because they cloned themselves so much that they no long have reproductive organs. They thought they could remove them to make the process easier. So if we start cloning for the best human we might get ourselves into the same mess. Man it would suck to not be able to make babies. Next example is Gatika (not sure if i spelled it right) in that movie parents could choose what features and intellect of their unborn child. It made a 2 tier society where the god borns couldnt get higher jobs or anything like that. Cloning could be good for body part replacement for people like people needing a heart transplant or lost an arm or leg from war. We would still have issues with people saying that it was alive and had a soul and shouldnt be grown like that. But no issue with stem-cell research mumbo-jumbo.
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So i played Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition last week and found it to be interesting. The totally changed the system around so there wouldnt be anymore soloing campaigns with a wizard that has every spell prepared for any encounter. They have made the base melee classes actually worth playing. Examples: A fight has the abilities to keep the enemy on him and if the enemy tries to get to another player near the fighter gets a free action to attack; also paladins can cast spells on the enemy that slow the enemy and hurt him if he doesnt attack the paladin; and last but not least the warlock can put spells on the enemy that make the enemy take damage each time the warlock takes damage... yes yes any damage. I cant wait until more books start coming out so the game can really take off.What about you what are your thoughts about it?It was fun to play it and wasnt as slow as previous editions.
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The thing i like about my psp is that it can play movies and that you can rent them from netflix and stuff. If you can find a psp fat you can mod it and put videos on the memory card. Plus you could games on it as well but that could be stealing if you downloaded them. But if you want to have better battery life and faster loading time you can put your games on the memory card.So in short psp = good;
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Like what i said in another post the best massively multiplayer online rpg i have ever played is Ultima Online. It sucks now but back in the day it was great because you could have a house to decorate, pet dragons that kill most things, a mount that fights by you side and can fight better than you, a place where you can have things stolen or steal things from people, and everything in the game that is needed for something can be harvested from something in the game but i dont mean kill mobs to get it.
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Guild Wars Vs Wow Looking for players who have played both
darkken replied to DjCalvin's topic in Computer Gaming
I think WoW is the winner for many reasons.1: Can be run on more than just windows2: The game runs smooth on any computer3: Oo so shiny4: More players to contact withI do like the fact that i can go to the coffee house with my mac laptop and play wow and have it run beautifully. I have played many massively multiplayer online rpg which includes Ultima Online, Ragnarok, Starwars ... drawing a blnk, Anarchy Online, Everquest 2, and Final Fantasy X but only 2 games made me keep playing for a very long time and those are Ultima Online(until it started to suck) and WoW. And i would love to play a trial of guild wars if they have one. -
Freebsd Burning & Installation Problems
darkken replied to VindicoPopulus's topic in Websites and Web Designing
The thing about getting isos online is you have to make sure you get all of it or it doesnt get corrupted. I just downloaded and installed freeBSD 7 on my computer and it ran great. I do with that they had a dvd iso to download instead of using 3 cds to do the same thing. Another thing you could so would be to get the liveCD version so you can play around with it. The cool thing about the liveCD you dont have to partition your hard drive or put a second hard drive in your computer. You can also setup the installer to download the files needed for install if you want to do a light install of freeBSD then use the ports to get the rest of the software that you need. Hope this helps you a little. Also check out Phlak; it is one of the best liveCDs of linux out there. -
Free Online Speed Test Post your results here
darkken replied to www.jbi.in's topic in Websites and Web Designing
ResultsYour Service provider : Office NetworkLocation : USA CaliforniaPlan Details : Not sure but its kick butt fastUp speed : 1.7 MbpsDown speed : 1.39 MbpsPromised : N/AReceived : N/ASatisfied : Since i spend more of my time at work i really love this connection. Once i am at home i will send my home networks too. -
Boast Your Computers Specs. Feel free to brag
darkken replied to chronogamer28's topic in Hardware Workshop
I got a few of themMain PC/FreeBSD box first off has 10 fansAMD Athlon XP2 3800+ 65WFatality AN9-32X SLI 3 GB RAM DDR2-800Dual Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS OC BTC 256 MB eachSoundBlaster Audigy SEWestern Digital 250GB SATA-300 7200RPMMacBook ProIntel Core Duo 2 Ghz2 GB RAMATI X1600 128 MB100 GB SATA-150not much but they do the job well -
How To Transfer Files From One Computer To Another
darkken replied to sunny152's topic in Computer Networks
Using jump drives is a nice way to if you have a gig or 2 that you want to transfer. I would recommend making back-ups of your files instead of file transfers from computer to computer. -
Bash Script To Display Your Ip Script to display your ip
darkken replied to m3th1405241494's topic in Computer Networks
Why can't you use ifconfig built-in to display the ip address. Simple and works great. -
Why Should I Buy A Mac? Some questions
darkken replied to FirefoxRocks's topic in Websites and Web Designing
Mac has many things that make owning one so great. -Sleep feature on laptops is great and the flashing light when sleeping is like snoring -Resell value is really high. It just like BMWs of computers. My laptop i bought for $1500 is now 1200 and i bought it a year ago -The run on Darwin Core which is a open source version of FreeBSD that has been changed and changed again. With open source core OSs you don't have to worry about memory management problems or things along those lines. -Alway comes with the newest and best technology built-in -Parts have been tested and tested again to last as long as possible. I have noticed that they have changed hard drive manufactures from older models to newer ones. -The displays that come with the systems are extremely high quality. To replace a laptop's display isnt cheap. Lastly I have gone through many PCs but I still have my old laptop from 5 years ago and it still runs like a dream. My wife uses it and has no issues at all. -
i would recommend reading up on the t1 t2 commands for mysql. it is in the mysql manuel files. $sql = "SELECT t1.name, t2.location FROM users t1, profiles t2"
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you can use phpMyAdmin too if you have php enabled server
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I have stopped using Partition Magic and changed to Partition Manager because partition magic with Windows XP 64 bit was failing to work. Though Partition Manager doesn't work in Windows XP 64 bit the recovery cd it has works better than any partition magic i have used.(pqmagic 5-8)
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Well you can so like Science Fiction and take Physics out of the way and think openly. There are two theories about time travel that I know of. One is the static time loop that goes on and even if you change something it already has been changed so in actuality nothing changed. Two that there are infinite worlds with infinite choices and if you change one choice then you change your world kinda like sliders.
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I Hate Cell Phones Being unavailable rules
darkken replied to Sarah81's topic in Science and Technology
Well now in California if you use your cellphone while driving you get a ticket. And its a big one. $300 worth. One more reason to not have a cellphone. -
Mysql - So Hard Come in here if you think MySQL is soo hard
darkken replied to Cain1405241557's topic in Programming
Just remember it is just hard to think in terms of DBs. Once you get the hang of mysql it becomes really easy. Just learn sql language a little bit and the rest comes easy. If you consider php to handle mysql i would also consider using phpMyAdmin. It works great for creating and managing tables so you can query them later. -
Pretty high capacity for the time. 2.2gb in 1983 is like 2.2 tb now
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What Is The Best Brand Of Harddisk? Who has longer life?
darkken replied to bryandel's topic in Hardware Workshop
I just had a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 120gb SATA drive die on me. I read up on the forums that the diamondmax 9 series had the common occurrence of the controller on the drive failing. It was a horrible sound when I was playing Oblivion and the hard drive makes a wrenching sound and then goes silent. I waited for the game to crash and sure enough it did. Lost all my data on the drive; luckily being a IT professional I always make backups but I didn't have my latest save files backed up yet. So I now have a Western Digital...lets see how it does. -
Notebook Or Laptop? Whats the difference, if anything?
darkken replied to Sarah81's topic in Hardware Workshop
I believe that the notebook was referring to the smaller laptops that were slower but smaller. Also it could have came from the time when portable computers were out and people then have portable computers that are the size of a notebook. I have a notebook computer from 1996; 486 100 DX2, and it calls itself a notebook not a laptop. It is relatively small for the time but not very thin. When the computers started to have screens the size of 13" or greater they changed the name since we already have notebook in the dictionary and everyone started to get confused. Laptop was the word of choice probably coming from the full computer, Desktop, was changed because this computer spent most it's time on the lap. But not that we have over 1 GHz laptops, they cant really stay on the lap for long because they tend to burn you. -
DVD-Rom Doesn't Read DVDs Could it be bad SW or is it HW?
darkken replied to kenobi's topic in Hardware Workshop
Its also possible that the drive is dirty. I have noticed that Burners tend to be better at reading almost any disk. But I have seen a lot of cheap drives fail to read discs after heavy use. I have a BTC DVD-ROM that can't read any master dvds or cds but it can read any burned disc. Very strange. Drives have never been the same since the out source to Taiwan but I have been noticing a increase in quality lately. I would recommend just buy a new dvd burner; the new lasers read better, faster read/write rates, and they are cheap. -
This is the login main page for the one i use. if($session->logged_in){ echo "<h1>Logged In</h1>"; echo "Welcome <b>$session->username</b>, you are logged in. <br><br>" ."[<a href=\"userinfo.php?user=$session->username\">My Account</a>]   " ."[<a href=\"useredit.php\">Edit Account</a>]   " ."[<a href=\"../upload/upload.php\">File Upload</a>]   " ."[<a href=\"../egbtdata.php?start=0&end=50&order=playerID\">EGBT Database</a>]  "; if($session->isAdmin()){ echo "[<a href=\"admin/admin.php\">Admin Center</a>]   "; } echo "[<a href=\"process.php\">Logout</a>]";}else{?><h1>Login</h1><?/** * User not logged in, display the login form. * If user has already tried to login, but errors were * found, display the total number of errors. * If errors occurred, they will be displayed. */if($form->num_errors > 0){ echo "<font size=\"2\" color=\"#ff0000\">".$form->num_errors." error(s) found</font>";}?><form action="/includes/process.php" method="POST"><table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"><tr><td>Username:</td><td><input type="text" name="user" maxlength="30" value="<? echo $form->value("user"); ?>"></td><td><? echo $form->error("user"); ?></td></tr><tr><td>Password:</td><td><input type="password" name="pass" maxlength="30" value="<? echo $form->value("pass"); ?>"></td><td><? echo $form->error("pass"); ?></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><input type="checkbox" name="remember" <? if($form->value("remember") != ""){ echo "checked"; } ?>><font size="2">Remember me next time     <input type="hidden" name="sublogin" value="1"><input type="submit" value="Login"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><br><font size="2">[<a href="forgotpass.php">Forgot Password?</a>]</font></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><!--<br>Not registered? <a href="register.php">Sign-Up!</a>--></td></tr></table></form>