This'd be pretty easy in Linux, just set up LIRC (the program that receives IR stuff) to associate the buttons with the proper commands. Sounds like Girder would do something similar, and you could perhaps even try it with your old tv card IR receiver before buying anything new.

Is the Iraq War "God's work"? If so, why? This one was a quote taken out of context: Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That’s what we...

You should google for uberoptions. With that, you can control every button on your mouse 10 times better, including the middle mouse wheel. You can set it to click and an other button to switch between states. That seems to be a windows app, not much use for a linux user even if the middle button w...

Thanks for sending the 1080i clip -- very good quality, btw. Where do you download these? From what he posted above, I'd guess he records them from OTA HDTV broadcasts. And by "record", I mean "save to disk" since these broadcasts are already encoded in MPEG2. Such an inefficient codec makes sharin...

It seems people over at the folding forums are making headway at running the GPU folding client in Wine. This post has good instructions for how to get it running. It's quite involved though: Install CUDA, download and compile a wrapper for the CUDA calls that'll help wine, and then install the GPU ...

Can anyone explain to me why I've got four FahCore processes running on a dual-core machine? As far as I can tell, the install.bat file only ran two test cases of mpiexec... but FAH seems to want to run four... That seems normal to, me at least my classic client runs four processes (only one of whi...

My friend called me up and told me he washed his cell phone :shock: in with the laundry. I did that once as well. After taking it apart and leaving it to dry overnight, everything worked fine but the microphone. That meant it wasn't very useful as a phone though, so I had to get a new one. Fast for...

1. Is this Windows only or can I do this with Ubuntu as well? Windows only for now, possibly linux/OS X in the future (aka no work on it yet) 2. Has anyone measured how many watts their video card pulls? xbitlabs are usually pretty good at that. I'd imagine these kinds of calculations will at least...

2.) Why wasn't it tested in a completely passive mode and what about the K/W figures? I can answer this one. No heatsink SPCR has ever tested has been able to cool their test CPU without some forced airflow. That includes the HR01+ that was reviewed recently, which is designed to be passive. The te...

In an assessment: This employee performs his duties to his complete satisfaction or This employee has delusions of adequacy or How do you make an English sentence with 5 consecutive uses of the word 'AND'? There was a pub called "The Pig and Whistle". The owner asked a signwriter to make a new sign...

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nutball wrote:The strength of the currency is irrelevant to the anti-Euro brigade.

Most rational arguments seem to be. QI had a great segment on it, skip in to 4:40 in this video.

But the US is 5000 kilometers wide. The position that we're catching up to Europe is valid, but why does it have to be all at once? It had just reached $3/gallon a couple of years ago. In some country like Venezuela its still like 19 cents a gallon, can't recall which one. So the question is world ...

However, it'd do nothing to discourage states to move their primaries forward, which was the reason they were punished in the first place. Seating them with half the number of delegates, like the republicans did, would make more sense. honestly, who cares when they hold them? Have all the states ho...

in all honesty, i think they should seat them both. Cause if they did, Obama would still have more delagates AND he'd have more than 2026 total delegates giving him the demecratic nomination. This would also keep any independants and regan dems in michigan/florida from possibly feeling disenfranchi...

That ad reminds me of a store we have here: It's a hunting store and custom bike shop combined, at least that's how it looks from the signs. And this is in a country where handguns are pretty much banned for personal use, although hunters can have rifles. It just cracks me up seeing the two of them ...

The Zalman ZM1000-HP is really irritating. We don't want to like or recommend it because it's a gargantuan power supply of the type we have mixed feelings about... at best. No one needs a 1000W PSU. But... Actually there are situations when a 1KW PSU isn't overkill. When talking to Tyan I was recom...

dhanson865 wrote:It's also worth noting that Brazil and India aren't in the top 30.

It's not a top-30 list, it's just a ranking of OECD countries. Other countries could well be ahead of primarily Turkey or Mexico.

Spare Tire wrote:Before that, does it even fit in a NSK2400/Fusion?

I wouldn't think so, the heatpipe would probably hit the top panel when trying to close it.

Uninstalling it would probably make for least problems.

1. People mention its buggy-ness. Is there a threat to my hardware? (I won't be overclocking) Is there a threat to any disk storage? FWIW, I'm not so worried about using a xxx-point work unit, I'm just concerned about messing up the PC in any way. No, any bugginess would only affect the folding cli...

If the pipes are empty then yes they would be pretty fragile. I have always been under the assumption that heatpipes have some sort of liquid in them and that they are sealed at both ends. That gives the heatpipes some pretty good structural integrity due to the internal pressure and the fact that ...

dukla2000 wrote:It checkpoints every 30 mins (IIRC) by default but it is a configurable parameter.

It's 15 minutes on my system, and I'm not aware of having changed any settings since the install (Linux here)

That'll depend a lot on the thermal conditions. Remember that SPCRs PSU test rig channels pretty much all heat through one low-speed 120mm fan and the PSU, while Enermax probably made the marketing chart at a constant temperature. I seriously doubt that the lower-power models will have a slower fan ...

Not for all, certainly, but for many people, absolutely. My parents live in a semi-detached house on a lot that's larger than many (especially compared to the pocket lawns of new subdivisions) and have no problem getting by with a push mower. Mind you, they aren't sticklers for millimetre-perfect l...

It might be worth buying just to drive the neighbors crazy when their phone drops out... :lol: I wasn't aware this kind of amp was available, seems pretty neat. Sounds like a decent enough thing for my possible future needs (i.e. moving to an apartment with more than one tiny room), as an alternati...

@ Arvo: A quick search at Sweden's largest gadget store revealed at least 2 different variants with Type F connections (the round one with two pins + earth on the sides)

Carbon dioxide, methane, etc. are the main greenhouse gases -- they are what makes it possible for us to have the climate we have. The problem is now we have increased the carbon dioxide (and the other GH gases) very rapidly -- and rapid change is bad. In fact water vapour is the GHG with most effe...

Take a guess yourself....how can the ocean water temperature go down when the sun is warming the earth more fiercely, according to the current view of climate change? One possible explanation was pointed out above: These are surface temperatures (the top mm or so), not overall water temperatures. I...

thejamppa wrote:Well its not as much worrisome as if they would regard me as "Homicidal Chainsaw Weilding Lunatic"...

P.S. I prefer axe... I really do its much more quieter