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So I have two budgets. I have my work budgets that has capital for this type of expense. Then I have my personal budget that gets distributions from the business in the form of payroll. For me Christmas can be whenever I choose as I have capital assets in the form of cash and credit with my financial institution. I dare say I could order 3 of these at once at the moment if I chose to. I don't choose to. With the money I've already put into this I'm going to be spending money on only necessities now and because of that I'm going to gather as much information as I can through a variety of channels and then make sure that I spend the most money I can to get the most features I can at the best value.
As you get older you will find that "buy it now, why wait" mentality is going to leave a gaping hole in your @$$ after your creditors get done extracting interest out of you. As an example my wife and I have owed a total of $40,000 on medical bills for our child. Most of that was on credit cards to feed her because our insurance didn't consider the $3000 a month we spent feeding her to be a medical necessity. The interest we pay on that will almost double what we pay back if we use the full 10 year term to do it. We are paying $400 a month more than minimum on it and as we pay off other related debt we take the extra and put on it as well.
I will advise you this. Debt is amazing and wonderful. Our child is alive because of it. Prior to her birth we had no debt and a credit score in the 800's. Because we were responsible we were able to secure the credit we needed to keep her alive, keep our bills current and make it all add up in the end. Our credit lines right now are nearly maximized but we have no open accounts. We closed them all except two (had our bank freeze them, just in case). We still have a credit score in the 800's and we have never been later than 60 days on any payment and we also called every single agency we were late at before the original due date to tell them we were going to be late ahead of time. We built good relationships and history with them where almost all of them give us 60 day payment terms without even flinching.
A lesson to you as you get older. Do it carefully and with cash. Someday you may have a child or something else who's life depends on your ability to be a good risk for creditors. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I was assuming you were almost rich because of the hardware you have. I'm not the type of person who would get into debt, I always save every penny I can, it really adds up. Once I save a ton of money I treat my self to something nice, like the laptop I bought. After I bought it I still had enough money to pay for 6 months worth of car insurance and then some.
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No, not rich. After almost being sued a year ago from a major hardware failure and data loss I decided then that when I had a chance I was going to get something with a bit more stability. So here I am.
It's good to save. You never know what's coming around the corner of life.
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If you can get support for one PCIe board, you can use Triple Head 2Go[^] to extend that to three monitors. But you would still need a fast graphics card to support the raster size, which means PCIe. I am afraid I don't know the issues with 2003 server, I run XP Pro for all my development because I only do workstation products, not server products. Sorry.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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How about 2 basic dual output pci cards? I wouldn't trust an adapter to work well for that anyway, if anything it's probably screwing up the timing on the cards causing the drivers to lock up. Another option is to get an older quad output pci card on ebay. They've been making them for years. You are going to get perfectly good GDI performance with any video card.
Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you.
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I am running two PCIe cards, with great success. Adding a PCI card to the mix breaks them all. So, my core advice is, go all PCI, or go all PCIe, don't mix them.
And, 2 dual head cards is a ton cheaper than a 3 or 4 head card. By a good $1000, I found.
Christian Graus - C++ MVP
'Why don't we jump on a fad that hasn't already been widely discredited ?' - Dilbert
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Yes,
you can always go for a matrox, they offer QUAD display with one card without any problem.
Also they offer "triple head to go" that's a little box that will allow even your laptop to work in that way.
I've always had a matrox installed, they offer reliable solutions that work without any problem and have lots of tools that will help you to be more productive like being able to configure how you want to maximize, how the mouse will work...
PS: they are slightly more expensive than the cheap nvidia and ati graphics cards, but they are worht it.
Hope this helps.
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I've just purchased a geek toy. USB Missile Launcher and the software for it keeps locking up. I've been to the manufacture website for updated software and it does the same thing.
My question is how would I go about writing my own software for this device? I have a dll that I can NOT register with XP and have tryed to add a reference to my new application but I get this error, "Reference to c:\my.dll could not be added. Please make sure that the file is accessible, and that it is a valid assembly or COM component."
Any advice on where to start would be great!
I'm listening but I only speak GEEK.
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hello,
I'm capturing input from a USB webcam, do some filtering on the video and would need to output it to another, this time virtual, webcam device that I somehow need to add to the system (WinXP SP2). Even a .NET solution is okay with me (though I doubt there is some).
1) would I need a custom device driver to do that?
2) if not, which way should I go?
thanks
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I've got a Windows 2000 machine with an ethernet card in it. Apparently the card was mfg'd after Windows 2000 came out as the OS has no driver for it (per Device Manager). Is there anyway I could get a generic driver just to get connectivity, and then get online to search for a specific driver?
Thanks,
DC
"Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" - 2 Timothy 2:15
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
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Identify the chip used and go to the manufacturer's website - e.g. Realtek, Marvell, Intel etc..
Often the driver works for any board with the chip.
Elaine ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Good advice from the previous poster.
Just to let you know, I have an NT 3.51 driver on a network card on my 2K box.
Drivers are very backwards compatible.
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fat_boy wrote: Drivers are very backwards compatible.
Thanks, that's good to know. The owner of said machine has a driver CD that shipped with his installation of Windows Me. Hopefully that'll get him going (enough to get access to an updated driver).
"Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" - 2 Timothy 2:15
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
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Windows ME used a 'kind of' WDM (Windows Driver Model). It also used a lot of virtual device drivers (VxDs) and is still dos based, as was Windows 95 so there is a fair chance the Me driver wont work on 2K.
As the other poster stated, lok for the chip set on the card, and get an NT driver for that chip set, it doeasnt matter if it is an NT 3.51, NT 4 or NT 5 (Windows 2K) drver, they will all work.
An XP (NT 5.1) driver wont though, it is too recemt and will use the NDIS 5.1 model which 2K hasnt got.
As you might have noticed the NDIS version number is the same as the OS version number.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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I installed a slave hard drive on my work system at home. It was working fine. Then all of a sudden the system started crawling. I ran a virus scan (latest Norton), and nothing was found.
I then tried to access my 2nd drive and it said it wasn't formatted. I yanked it out of that machine, and put it in a USB case. Plugged it in and the same error came up. I tried it on another machine, same error.
I have never seen a hard drive unformat itself. There were a few things on there, but nothing that's mission critical. But, I would like to verify this before reformatting it.
I tried fixing the MBR, but it didn't fix the problem.
Any ideas how I can restore the drive, or see the files on it?
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It's not really unformatted. It's more probable that the partition table has been corrupted. You can probably find out more with these[^].
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Thanks for the tips. I brought the disk into work, and they used some recovery software and were able to recover the items I needed.
Thanks!!!
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Have you tried using frhed to look at the raw contents of the disk? Very low level I know, you'll probably need to understand a bit about the file system itself but at least it'll help you identify whether it's worth delving deeper.
I have no idea what I just said but my intentions were sincere.
Poore Design
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Hi
Can any help to know that :
1. Is Sound Blaster present on every sound card.
2. Is it like this if I wrote routines to access Sound Blaster it can play on every system.
hope i get some answers soon.
bye
pitchu
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No. It's a widely used card, but not everybody uses one. Many people have built-on sound cards on their motherboard, common known as AC97.
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Sound Blaster[^] is the trademark name of sound cards made by Creative[^]. You should use the hardware-independent sound routines provided by your OS to write code that works on any sound card. If you want to write multi-platform code, see SDL[^].
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Hi All,
We are starting a project (.NET/C# DB: SQL Server) and one of the main requirements is performance and reliability (the system is a "mission-critical" one).
Could you please indicate articles/books/sites that could help us on:
- Defining the minimum hardware requirements (how many redundant servers should be considered, RAIDs, etc.) based on the expected number of user/requests,ammount of data etc.
- Technologies that could be used in order to support the desired reliability ( distributed services, load balance for example)
Thanks a lot,
Sergio
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Hi,
I have implemented in the code for wmi. It works just fine for cimv2 workspace and Win32_OperatingSystem class.
It is not working for any other class (i need Win32_CDROMDrive) in cimv2 namespace. Not even working for root/wmi namespace.
Is there anything else that I need to do?
Please help.
Thanks ,
Manasi
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The connection is completely seperate from the class your requesting. Does the connection work? Then you execute a WMI Query on that connection. If the connection works on one class, it'll work for every class, so long as the client machine supports that class AND has an instance of it to return.
We'd have to see the code your using to request this class to make any more recommendations.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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