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    Graphic Cards Can my system handle a 6850?

    I am planning to purchase an AMD HD6850 based graphics card. These are my existing system specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2GB DDR2-800 1 7200RPM HDD 1 PATA DVDRW MSI Geforce 8600GT (to be replaced) Power supply: Corsair 400CX (The old one, not builder series). Will this power supply be able...
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    Webhost for college site

    Hi, We are running our college portal (DCETECH.COM - Student Resource Portal •) using the lunarpages web hosting service. Although the disk space and bandwidth given are sufficient, our site frequently has downtimes, which according to them is due to over utilisation of CPU/RAM resources...
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    MIST - Online treasure hunt game

    Hi, As part of our college tech fest Troika, we have a web based puzzle/treasure hunt game called Mist 09, which is free for all to take part in. Please do check it out at MIST '09 and leave your feedback.
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    PC Peripherals Saitek wheels in Delhi?

    Does anyone know where to find Saitek peripherals in Delhi? I am particularly interested in the R440 gaming wheel, if I can find it at a decent price. Also, what is the current price of the Logitech MOMO racing wheel?
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    Crysis Wars free for 10 days

    MyCrysis | The Official Community Portal | Crysis Wars | Crysis Wars Holiday Trial Period!
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    Linux OpenSolaris 2008.11 Released

    The new release is out. Check Home at OpenSolaris.org Ars Technica has a brief look at whats new : Hands-on: OpenSolaris 2008.11 a major step forward for Sun
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    Configuring ADSL modem for MTNL triband

    I have an ADSL modem leftover from the days when I used TATA broadband. I wanted to configure it to use with my MTNL connection, is there any guide or article explaining what I need for that?
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    Storage Solutions WD My Book World Edition

    Has anyone tried this external HDD/NAS from WD? It seems to be available on primeabgb for around 7k, which should be worth it if it really has the capabilities mentioned here - Hacking Western Digital MyBook World Edition Basically, someone was able to hack it to use it as a torrent client and...
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    CPU/Mobo P35 Motherboards?

    I am going for a core 2 duo based system soon (maybe the E7200 when it is released) so I was looking through TE for recommendations for an affordable P35 chipset motherboard. Unfortunately, all such boards are priced over 5k, atleast from brands like Gigabyte, Asus, MSI :( Is there any cheaper...
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    Laptops cheap, small laptop with firewire?

    I am looking for a small and lightweight laptop (sized like the ASUS eee pc) for use as the processing environment of a mobile robot. The EEE pc seemed perfect for the job, but it lacks firewire support (essential because we need to use the Bumblebee2 stereo vision camera with it). Is there any...
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    MIST: online treasure hunt - event for my college

    Hey all, As part of the online events of our college's techfest, I and some of my friends created an online puzzlebreaking/treasure hunt game, in a style similiar to deathball notpron (for those who may have come across it). Do check it out at http://mist.dcetech.com/ And let me know what you...
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    A simple college website template?

    Hi, My college project team needs an "about our mission" type of website, and I was looking for a simple single column layout which I could use. Any recommendations for free templates? Something like this would be great, but a light background is preferred.
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    AI programming games?

    I am looking for graphical games/simulations which allow controlling a game element using scripting or programming in C/C++/Java. Specifically, I am interested in testing out path-finding/obstacle avoidance algorithms in a simulated environment. Any recommendations?
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    Laptops Making a DVD from Rescue partition (HP laptop)

    My friend has a compaq nx6320 laptop which was preinstalled with Windows Vista. It had a rescue partition, however no rescue DVD was created so far. Now, the Vista installation is nonfunctional and doesn't boot at all. The laptop dual boots OpenSUSE from which I can access the rescue partition...
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    Converting mp4 to XviD

    I have a Philips DVP3166 dvd player which supports playing DivX/XviD files. Now, a few of the movies I have are in MP4 format (codec seems to be mp4v, quicktime format), is there any tool which could convert these to XviD? I tried using VirtualDub, but it doesn't recognise mp4 files.
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    Laptops Green pixels instead of black

    Hi, I have an Acer travelmate 2424 laptop which I've been using over an year. Recently, I've been facing the "green screen" problem, that is, all regions which should be black appear as green criss crossed lines. This is a hardware problem as it appears everywhere, even in the bios screen. From...
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    Linux KDE 4.0 Beta 2

    KDE Project Ships Second Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop, Codename "Cartoffel" September 6, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community proudly presents the second Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current...
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    Laptops TV-out from laptop without S-Video

    I have an acer laptop which sadly lacks any inbuilt TV-out ports (just a single VGA port). I was interested in hooking it up with my TV for movie viewing, so what would be the best solution for that in absence of S-video ports or anything like that?
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    Java sci calc app for mobiles?

    Hi, I have an ericsson K320i mobile phone. Its inbuilt calculator is very basic, but as the phone supports java applications, I was on the lookout for a free scientific calculator. It must support trigonometric, exponential functions and their inverses, and should be easy and convenient to use...
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    Microsoft Singularity : Rethinking the software stack

    Singularity is the research OS in development at microsoft. They have published an article about the ongoing work in it. From the page, Check it here - Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack
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