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It plays music even after I've closed the music playing window. It's a window of the XP variety. I can switch profiles, close browser (firefox), close all windows, and the music persists. This is embarrassing when the music happens to be of a... background for erotica variety. It stops when...

Screwing around with my computer is my hobby. I've: Tried firefox beta and a ton of extensions Tinkered with 4 firewalls that I don't need because I'm behind a router Google Earth Tried out a buch of tweaks (good and bad) for xp Reinstaled windows Installed Linux dual boot and screwed up my MBR...

Models predicted New Orleans disaster, experts say Fri 2 Sep 2005 11:49 AM ET By Alan Elsner WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Virtually everything that has happened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck was predicted by experts and in computer models, so emergency management specialists...

My friends computer turned off on him all of the sudden and won't turn back on. It looks like it's receiving power since the ethernet cable glows when its plugged in. A week ago we installed a DVD burner. I disconnected it, and a bunch of other things to see if I could get it working but...

I was attempting to explain Monte Carlo simulations to a guy who was telling me that "80% of all statistics are false" is not a joke. This because I said "statistically significant", to which he replied 'statistics is all wrong, anyway'... However. He denied that computers are capable of...

Here is a Spec Rundown of a computer that I built 2 days ago: Windows XP Professional SP2 Asus A8V-E Deluxe Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3500+ ATi Radeon X700 ( 16X PCI Express :D ) 80 GB Maxtor HDD 60 GB Western Digital HDD 1 Gig DDR 3200 RAM Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Logitech X-530 Speakers...

As tens of thousands of engineering jobs migrate to developing countries, many new entrants into the U.S. work force see info tech jobs as monotonous, uncreative and easily farmed out - the equivalent of 1980s manufacturing jobs. The research firm Gartner Inc. predicts that up to 15 percent of...

I suspect that some of my hardware is faulty. I have used Memtest 3.0 to test the RAM and it seems that it is a bit flaky. BUT sometimes it passes and sometimes it dont, is there a better testprogram? Can it also be the motherboard and how do you test that?

A pared down "computer" to replace bulky, grey desktop PCs could help close global digital inequalities. Not-for-profit developers, Ndiyo - the Swahili word for "yes" - said it could open up the potential of computing to two billion more people. The sub-£100 box, called Nivo, runs on...

I am not a computer expert and have only been on the internet for four years. But, I was wondering about something I see on TV and in the movies all the time. Scenario...... The good guys break into the bad guys lair and find their computer. They immediately know how to work everything and...

Yesterday, my computer froze. I rebooted. Nothing happened. My monitor's on LED blinks. It blinks when there is no incomming signal. If the computer is off, it blinks, turn it on and it goes solid. I tested the monitor with another box, and it works. When I turn on the main box, the...

Background: * I bought my son an electric guitar and amp for Christmas * I also bought a computer-based tutorial for him because I've forgotten most of what I never really knew in the first place I wanted to connect the guitar to the computer sound card so that my son could more easily follow...

In response to Ken Miller's The Flagellum Unspun, William Dembski penned Still Spinning Just Fine. He writes: Say what? Doesn't he think that if we analyzed the computer program, we would find the predesigned mechanism that switched from outputing gibberish to outputing poetry? If this is a...

Brain chip offers hope for paralyzed Very cool stuff! I wonder if Interesting Ian has any "thoughts" on this matter? :)

About 2 seconds into the "commercial" notice something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist that looks humanish. http://www.princeton.edu/~ccaro/mist_or_ghost.html http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/

I've banged on about spam in the past, but now I have another question. I have one e-mail account that I have obviously let leak into the world of the spammer. It receives about 60 spam mails daily. I don't open them I don't even allow them to show their contents in the preview pane. The go...

Audio on my computer is running at 1/2 speed I just updated Win XP, rebooted the system and now my audio is slow and distorted. Anyone have any recommendations for fixing this? I tried searching on the net and Win help, but it was of little use. Thanks.

http://www.computerbytesman.com/ Lovely security-related stuff. Some of it answers questions routinely posted here.

The Windows XP SP2 update could represent the beginning of the end for the computer world as we know it today. Do i jest? No. Over the years, through 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and XP, I have understood the need to update the Windows product. More so in the last couple of years, as the hackers...

I normally wouldn't bother the folks here with this, but I've been struggling with this problem for days, and it's driving me mad. I figured some of the computer gurus here might be able to help me. Keep in mind while reading this that I am a bare beginner in just about everything you can think...

I've just got a computer from my dad's work, which comes with no software. I need a video driver and a network driver, but I don't know what type of cards are in it. I've opened it up and found various numbers and things, but direct google searches don't work, and I can't find any helpful...

(This is copyrighted. But is is original artwork copyrighted by me. Used Vue D'Espirit software.)

I know a bit about computers, enough to fix most problems when they appear, but should I call in someone who really knows what they're doing to reformat my computer (It's been a b!t(h lately) rather than find a site on the internet that explains how to do it? How DO you reformat a computer, anyway?

My home page keeps getting hijacked. I have run CWShredder, Spybot, HijackThis, and AVG antivirus software umpteen times, along with manually deleting all my temporary internet files, turning restore points off and back on, fiddling with msconfig, resetting my home page, and STILL!!! keep...

After I boot my computer, if I do absolutely anything within a certain amount of time - even so much as move the mouse - my computer will freeze after approximately 5 minutes. I can still move the mouse pointer, but I cannot do anything else with it. In fact, even the little "working" light on...

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ This site is one of my favorites, though its updated only intermittently. Unfortunately, I've seen variations of many of these stories acted out before my very eyes. So please, when it appears I'm not giving you the benefit of the doubt about yout technical...

Bought a used one just like this back in junior high. THose were the days.

United States Patent #6,665,867 December 16, 2003 Self-propagating software objects and applications

I just had a computer geek come to my home to charge me $35 and explain to me that I was pretty stupid about computers. Mine had been down for the past two weeks. To save myself from further embarassment I wonder if anyone out there can direct me to a site where I might find some...

My oldest brother (first of nine) is a genius. Blind since birth. Trial lawyer for 25 years. Electrical, electronic, mechanical genius. Put himself through school repairing engines, has bred exotic birds eveyone say can't be bred in captivity. Legal guardian to a quadriplegic woman left by...