lewax00

Or something similar? I've only found it on a few sites and it was sold out on all of them. I need an external video card for my laptop.

"This lotion is the future wealth of this country, it’s the welfare and prosperity for its inhabitants, it’s a new source of income for the poor people and a new branch of industry, which shall bear plentiful fruits."

-Ignacy Łukasiewicz

I assume because he was Polish this quote was originally in Polish, can anyone help me find it?

I've noticed in a few songs lines referring to people being "born on a Monday" and I was curious if the phrase had any meaning other than its literal interpretation. (I did find a poem the started something like "Born on Monday; Fair of face" but it didn't seem to quite fit the description of a woman with a mustache that the phrase was in reference to in one of the songs)

I got a used Linksys BEFW11S4 Ver 3 router and I'm having trouble getting it setup. It doesn't seem to be broadcasting a wireless signal (or my laptop just can't see it) and connecting via ethernet just puts me on a private network, and I can't seem to find the router's IP (192.168.1.1 isn't working). I've tried resetting it but the router doesn't react when I press the reset button the the back, I've held it for a few minutes with no result. Can anyone help me get online with this router?

I'm trying to find a tutorial that will allow me to make a face look like liquid metal (like the Silver Surfer from the Fantastic 4), does anyone know of one?

I just switched to cable, and the modem/router they gave us has no wireless and only 1 ethernet port, so I need a better solution...how can I set up my Westell 327W to work as a wireless router with the cable modem? (The cable modem is an Arris TM502G)

My father went to Japan, and he sent me an email asking me if I wanted anything, but I can't think of anything good I couldn't get in the US normally, any ideas?

I was following through an example in my math book with my TI-83 Plus calculator, and I noticed I was getting a wrong answer to this equation:

Matrices:

A=

[[ 1 1 1 1]

[ 8 4 2 1]

[27 9 3 1]

[64 16 4 1]]

B=

[[ 1]

[ 4]

[10]

[20]]

Equation:

A^-1 * B

The book says and doing it out on paper confirms the answer should be:

[[1/6]

[1/2]

[1/3]

[ 0]]

And the calculator gives the same answer for all but the bottom one, where it gives -1.8E-12 instead of 0.

Why isn't the calculator also getting zero?

I'm having trouble connecting to wireless networks (all of them, not just mine). Windows does not see any networks, although other programs do, and I cannot connect to any network unless I go into preferred networks and manually enter the SSID. Then it sometimes connects, and sometimes just drops all preferred network information it had saved.When it does connect, it still refuses to acknowledge the connection or that there is even a network. I think the problem started yesterday, as it spent the day in an eternal state of "Aquiring Network Address" although I could still browse the web (with no network address it seems).

Other relevant information: Windows XP SP2, no new hardware or software added anytime near the start of the problem.

Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated...

I'm looking for something that I can use to create 3D characters for games, anyone know of one? (needs ability to export/import .obj format)

I program Visual Basic and I've been starting to look in C++ which seems to be much more common, but I'm wondering what are the advantages to C++? I assume there's a reason people would use a more complicated language, and I'm curious what it is.

I'm trying to write this function to solve equations input as string as part of a larger program and for some reason it tries to run the wrong part of it, and I was hoping someone here could figure out what the problem is...

The function basically works like this:

If equation.IndexOf("(") Then

[...]

End If

If equation.IndexOf("^") Then

[...]

End If

If equation.IndexOf("*") Or equation.IndexOf("/") Then

[...]

End If

If equation.IndexOf("+") Or equation.IndexOf("-") Then

[...]

End If

And when I tried to test it by putting "1 + 1" for the equation, it keeps giving me StackOverflowException errors because it tries to run the first If/Then, which it shouldn't because there is no "(" in it. Yes the function does call for itself, and that shouldn't be an issue if it follows the correct path (the last if/then does not call for the function again). How do I fix/avoid this without splitting it into 4 different functions?

Every video I play on VLC skips constantly, making the videos unwatchable, how do I fix it? I've tried a bunch of different audio settings and nothing seems to improve it...

I'm working on a text based RPG with a friend and in order to get things to work properly I need to find a way to divide the text the user puts in into parts.

For example:

User inputs "use potion". I need to be able to split the string into 2 parts, the action (use) and the target (potion).

I also need a wildcard type thing.

For example:

If strInput = "use" & (anything else) Then...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm working on a program, and so far I can login to it using the usernames and passwords from the database and load information for the account logged into, and create a new account, but I need a way to update existing accounts...how do I do this? (sample code greatly appreciated)

I'm trying to make a program with a login form the accesses a database, but when I try to run it it says my connection string needs a provider...what do I put as the provider? I'm running SQL Express on my computer, if that matters. All I can get from MSDN is half of the instructions to make an OLEDBSimpleProvider, but trying to find the toolkit or sample code just leads me in circles...any help, links to the sample code, etc would be GREATLY appreciated...

I just added a second hard drive and a new video card to my computer, and now for some reason it restarts when it tries loading Windows. However I can boot it in safe mode, and it boots fine and I can access and use the second drive. Is my computer just not getting enough power? Or is there some other issue? (I'm currently working on moving files off the second so I can reformat it, if it works after that I'll post an update)

I'm working on a program for a friend, and I need a way to save and load information from a combo box, a text box, and about 16 labels then load them back to where they were saved from. How do I do this?

Best I can get is a file created with the name specified that won't load back so I don't really know if its even saving right...

I have this code:

Dim rndNum1 As New Random

Dim rndNum2 As New Random

Dim intNum1 As Integer

Dim intNum2 As Integer

intNum1 = rndNum1.Next(1, 11)

intNum2 = rndNum2.Next(1, 11)

but every time I use it I get the same number from both, is there anyway to do that and get 2 different numbers? (Besides using 2 buttons)

Thia has been happening for a while and I'm getting really annoyed...everytime I open Quicktime or do anything in it I get a message telling me my Quicktime sorfware may be out of date and it asks me to upgrade. Now I know this isn't true, because I have the newest quicktime right off Apple's website (in fact, it asked me to upgrade WHILE I was installing it). And it shouldn't be doing this becasue I have check for updates turned off in preferences. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it too, nothing seems to fix it. And on top of all that, if I actually tell it to update it can't seem to connect...so is there anyway to disable this?