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My father's computer has Windows XP, but when I try to install the service packs it always fails. What gives?
Here are the errors that I get in the event log:
Date: 2/6/2010
Time: 12:02:18 AM
Type: Error
User: N/A
Computer: EVO
Source: Windows Update Agent
Category: Installation
Event ID: 20
Installation…
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I have a situation that I need help with. I backed up my Files on Windows XP using the System BackUp utility/wizard, and then Installed a new operating system on the machine. Now I want to restore my old files via the .bak file but it is not being recognized at all. Did I do this wrong or is there…
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The First time I tried to install Ubuntu the installer installed it on my D drive. This resulted in only booting to Windows XP with no access to Ubuntu. I had to download a disk partitioning program to undo all of this. A tip from the Internet said to create a partition on the C drive for Ubuntu,…
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Hello,
The Current Situation
I have a hard drive that currently is split up like so:
Primary Partition
C: 9.77 GB NTFS Healthy (System) with XP Pro (in Polish) installed
Extended Partition
D: 39.82 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot) with XP Pro (in English) installed
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I have two machines - Windows XP and a laptop using Windows 7. I connected them with a WLAN cable.
On the Windows XP machine, I set the IP address to 192.168.0.10.
On the Windows 7 laptop, I set the IP address to 192.168.0.20.
The laptop can see the Windows XP machine, but Windows XP machine cannot…
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I was curious if anyone knows which of the following executes faster (I know this seems like a weird question but I'm trying to shave as much time and resources as possible off my program.)
int i;
i+=1;
or
int i;
i=1;
and I also was curious about which comparison is faster:
//given some integer…
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As a webpage developer, you should already notice that page loading time is becoming more and more important than ever before. It is quite usual that visitors will not turn away from your webpage if it cost them more than half a minute to get access to your website. What's more, the faster your pages…
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Google have introduced a new ranking factor called 'site speed' into their search algorithm. From now on, the length of time it takes for your web pages to load will influence your search engine positioning on Google.com. In other words fast websites will be favored over slow websites in its search…
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As i can see, with this software you can set the fan speed. So, if you set it to low, theCPU temperature will grow really high and it can burn in likely 1 hour - is this possible or not and why ?
Thanks.
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Hello,
As per a suggestion on stackoverflow, to compare IPC on a single machine using
a) sockets (TCP) on localhost to localhost
b) using FIFOs
(between Java and C)
To answer (a), I used netcat to gauge transfer speed (91 MBytes/sec)[1]
(b) Q: How can I test FIFO write speed using socat?
My…
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