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How To Make Your Own Custom Vista Installation Media - 209 days ago

Ok if you are the proud owner of any recent brand name computer, it most likely has a recovery partition that holds an image of your hard drive and a bunch of bloatware and crap. If you recover to factory default settings, you might have to spend hours...
Topics: custom, daemon tools, dvd, installation, media, recovery, ryanvm, updates, vlite

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Switching to Fedora 10 and Wicd Wireless Network Manager - 209 days ago

My last few posts have been pretty technical, so I thought I'd write an opinion piece for once, in case anyone cares. I've begun fiddling around with Linux again, and I went back to where I left off using Linux Mint, only I grabbed the new...
Topics: fedora, GNOME, Linux, linux mint, wicd

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Linux Mint/Ubuntu Overheating Laptop - 216 days ago

Back when I tried Ubuntu, and later on when I tried Linux Mint, one of the biggest problems I noticed was their tendencies to heat up quite a bit and the fans run at maximum, even when running idle on my HP dv6568se laptop. It runs an Intel Core 2 Duo at.
Topics: cpu, fans, hot, kpowersave, overheating, throttle, underclock

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How To Upload Files with Perl and CGI - 235 days ago

I took me quite a while of sifting through the internet looking how to do this. I played with different CGI.pm functions, and so on, but eventually sort of improvised my own script based on what I've seen. This script takes a method="get"...
Topics: batch file, cgi, perl, upload

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Printing Unicode C-Style Strings with Variables in C++ MessageBox - 241 days ago

This drove me nuts for hours. The MessageBox function wants wide-character strings and I wanted to put variables in my strings, not just L"" constant strings. I had already been using the Unicode character set and didn't want to change a...
Topics: c style, c++, mbstowcs, messagebox, sprintf, string, unicode, wide

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