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1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.') Ans: Gaming. Bioshock Infinite, Dota 2, Battlefield 4. Also, I am a...

I have a Dell studio 15 running Windows Vista and openSUSE 11.1 with an Intel 5xxx Wi-Fi network adapter and I have a tata indicom photon whiz mobile internet connection. In Windows vista, I start a new Wi-Fi connection in ad-hoc mode, and setup all parameters. I have a Nokia E63 which...

I have a desktop [a Compaq SR1732IL] and a laptop [Studio 1555]. I have an ADSL2+ Wi-Fi router (the one I got wit Airtel), which is my gateway to the internet. My desktop is connected to the router via Ethernet. I don't use DHCP and my IP settings are: IP Address: 192.168.1.2 [laptop] ...

I earlier had an ethernet ADSL2+ router, and using that I used to get a download speed of around 30 kbps. Now, after I've installed my Wi Fi router, I'm getting very slow download speeds, even when no other device is connected in WLAN. Here are a few diagnostics: i] My torrent speeds have...

I was trying to do some network troubleshooting with a problem related to hamachi.. and i put in the following in my command line: route -f After that.. many sites just don't open. In firefox, the message is displayed 'The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset'...

I have recently started playing warcraft III.. and i've had this few problems recently: i] How does the Undead race collect Lumber? The Acolyte only collects Gold. ii] How do I kill my Peasants/Wisps/Peons/Acolytes when I reach a population limit so that I can increase my combat units. iii]...

It's been a long time since I last played a fighting game.. the last one for me was Tekken 2 on a GameBoy emulator.. neways.. i want to try on a new fighting game. Something like Virtua Fighter or Tekken or even DOA.. but most of these games are on consoles. I need a PC [windows] game...

It was time to reinstall my OSes again.. and this time my system was far more screwed up than it ever was.. the partition table was corrupted, drivers were conflicting... simply put.. it was a lot of mess. Then, it took me more than one complete sleepless night to put it all in place and...

I've been trying to activate GPRS on my dad's CellOne prepaid account. I sent an sms 'GPRS' to 53733 . A message comes back saying, "Request for GPRS activation recieved" [or something similar]. And after that nothing happens. How do I go about activating GPRS on my CellOne acc? I have a Sony...

The title may be misleading.. i don't exactly want to buy a surround sound system.. but rather i want to build one. What has happened is this.. Recently, my audio player went R.I.P... so i'm left with it's 4 speakers [2 front, each 1500W and two rear, each 400W]. Plus i have 2 speakers, don't...

I have a Sony Ericsson w810i phone. The screen dimensions are 220x176 px. So.. there are two ways i can view a video clip with 16:9 aspect ratio: either vertically: videoRes: 176x99 or horizontally: videoRes: 220x123 When I view it horizontally.. i get 55.3% more viewarea as compared to...

I use Azureus.. and sometimes.. the torrents i run are so slow.. despite the no. of seeders and leechers there may be in the swarm. this one torrent i'm downloading.. has around 187 seeders and 1048 leechers.. inspite of that i'm getting speeds like 7kbps and stuff. Whereas sometimes.. even...

You know what i mean.. there's an awesome action flick going on.. and the hero is all muscles and sweat.. pumping iron and ready to fight.. and then he sees the girl of his dreams and cries more than peter parker in Spider Man 3.. I am so sick of every TV Show and movie out there having a...

was bored and tinkering around with VS08.. and ended up with this: and well.. just so that you know.. this compiles perfectly with VS08 [and VS05 too] the source along with the executable is bundled along.. don't try running the exe file on ur standard console.. it's unicode output so...

I downloaded OpenSuSE 10.1 recently. The problem is, that my DVD drive is faulty and can't be repaired. So, as of now I am totally without a DVD drive. So, is there anyway I can install OpenSuSE via a USB drive. I have a iPod, which i can format completely and do something on the hard drive...

found a nice blog post today: *patelslab.yourliveblog.com/Patel-s-Lab-b1/SQL-Interview-questions-b1-p21.htm although it is abt 'interview questions', it is quite a good introduction to Database Theory.

I have 2 computers at home. One of them is pretty old but can somehow manage to run Unreal tournament. So, what i have thought is to connect those two computers on a LAN. I have a budget of around 1.5K, including the LAN cards and the cabling. Also, I have a free PCI slot on each PC, so the card...

NOTE: To view the tutorial properly, your browser must be setup to display Unicode text properly. Please refer to this article in order to do so: *tinyurl.com/2v5nfd Digg this | This document is also available in the following formats: PDF ; XPS Prologue Long after completing my...

I recently downloaded Half Life 2: episode two via steam. It launches fine and the intro video plays fine. But when the actual game starts.. after i make a few movements.. a blue screen is shown. A totally blue screen. There is nothing written on it.. it's just a blue screen. I reinstalled...

My DVD drive has become too slow recently.. it takes lots of time to read and write data. For ex., it takes around 3 hrs. to write a DVD. Whenever data is being read/written to a DVD [or even a CD.. or anything in that drive].. the whole system becomes sluggish to the point that even the cursor...