Going by Wikipedia, you can use a linked list as the basis of a stack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_%28data_structure%29#Implementation[^]

Your hamster run could be fairly dangerous. Especially if this is the type of hamster you'll have: http://img170.exs.cx/img170/7836/darthmouse17kz.jpg[^]

DDR memory is about 50% more expensive than DDR2 for the most part. This was the best deal I can find and it's only 1 stick but it is Kingston: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=85018-11[^]

Are you saying that you want smart phones with friggin' laser beams attached to them? :) That reminds me, I need to see if I can find the Austin Powers' triliogy cheap somewhere. I miss those movies.

J. Dunlap wrote:

Have you ever had this happen to you before?

Yes, on about 20 or so monitors.

J. Dunlap wrote:

How did this dust get in there? I've been very, very careful to keep it clean (especially since it's on loan to me), and the display assembly seems pretty tight.

It probably got there during assembly of the lcd. No clean room is 100%, completely and totally dustproof. As long as you have things that have been touched by humans or humans going into a room, skin flakes, hair flakes, or (as evidenced by the last time I was near young kids) corn flakes will get into it.

J. Dunlap wrote:

Any ideas on how to fix this without opening the display assembly up and voiding the support contract?

If you can rub the screen in firm, yet non-screen shattering circles with a clean, soft cloth, you can eventually work the dust over to the edges or the corners where no one will care about or see the dust again. If that doesn't work, have your client get with Microsoft and do a change of ownership at http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/change_order/en/tag_transfer[^] You definitely need to be able to say who bought the system, where it was delivered and what not before they'll allow you to do a transfer. After a few days or so, Dell will know your client owns the system and you can have the lcd replaced under the dead pixel policy. Although if memory serves me, the dead pixel policy is still 6 dead pixels or a clump of three near the center.

FEAR because everyone loves slow motion, horror, and shotguns. Plus the office stages usually remind people of their own office. Except you can deal with the paper jam in the copier machine with a frag grenade instead of just throwing it off the roof into the nearest dumpster. :) Not... that I ever did that... . . . . . . and miss... . . . . . . and hit the boss's car....

In the red menu bar thingy, there is a "more products" link. Click it and one of the options is clocks. And of course, that link doesn't give any useful info. :doh: But at the bottom of the page, there is a link for manuals: http://assets.timex.com/manuals/?timexBrand=core[^] Maybe one of those will help.

Ah.... I was hoping it would be more like the invisible cloak here http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html[^] and here http://www.lindqvist.com/index.php?ID=351[^] but without the need for a secondary viewing device. I guess my plans for a stealth car[^] will have to wait.

It could be useful in the medical field. If you turned it into gloves, a doctor would be able to perform surgery and not have to keep looking around his/her hands all of the time and get a better view of what's going on. It can be used to hide big scary equipment. When someone is getting scanned by a machine that covers nearly their entire body, having the ability to make that machine become invisible could help their fears of being stuffed into a tube. Or maybe as a hospital gown. No more having to expose everything to let the doctor see how the wound on your stomach is doing when they can just press a button and all of your clothing becomes see through. I'm sure Nerf could have fun with balls that dissappear and reappear during flight. Nothing like scaring your friends when your ball dissappears out of your hands and then reappears in your buddy's hands. It would work great as a laundry bag. Or if you're tired or people complaining about the car that's on cinder blocks in the driveway, this could fix all of your trouble.

Considering that the 6400 says this in the processor section, "Dell Recommends Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T7400 (2.16GHz, 667 FSB, 4MB Cache) " I'd say that Dell is ready to slap that proc in now. :-D I just wish their video card options didn't all include system memory stealing hypermemory. http://www.ati.com/technology/hypermemory.html[^]

If they were built out of Legos and Mindstorm kits, they could go all the way this year. :-p

It could be a corrupt mail profile. Outlook is no very tolerant of the mail profile having any quirks in it. If Outlook 2007 is anything like 2k3, XP or Outlook 97, then there will be a mail icon in the control panel. Create a new mail profile, give it the settings you gave it when Outlook was first set up, let it grab data from the mail server and see if that helps. If it did, import your pst files and kill your old profile. If it didn't, you might want to see if an old fashioned system restore might help.

You just need to emphasize the following: "None of my code will appear on thedailywtf.com." :) OF course, mentioning that you can follow design specs, coding guidelines and style guidelines is usually a plus. But mentioning that you have a couple of articles on a certain respected programming website can also help sway potential employers. *hint, hint* And if all else fails, that's when you pull out the blackmail pictures of them at the bar with a couple of showgirls.

Since you're posting in the lounge, it's probably safe to assume that you need help in making programs. So I'll tell you how programs are made. When a computer and a programmer love each other very much.... ;P A shiny 5 to the first person who can name where that reference came from.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=p-p-p-powerbook[^] That was the first link I got from google which made me thing of Zug.com and I found a link to the whole Mac out of cardboard story. http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/[^] $5 says that someone is going to tell me that this is a repost :-D

You could do what I'm going to do for my friends' wedding, buy them a tea set. I'm still trying to decided between the cherry blosum tea set http://www.japanesegifts.com/adtea.asp[^] and the phoenix and dragon tea set http://www.enjoyingtea.com/phdrjtease.html[^]. I generally think that gifts that are related to food or drink are generally the best if they are something that people would love to have but won't usually buy for themselves. Plus you can generally stuff some extra stuff into the package[^] to really make them go gaga. Just remember that if they both enjoy beer that giving them too large mugs and a keg probably will get you weird looks. Not that I ever did that.... :-O

Photon is right except for two things, it's been patched for more than 50 years and they also use barbed wire along with the duct tape. :p It's been patched over and over and over since at least the 50s and I want to say it's been patched and repatched since the New Deal put in the infrastructure for quite a bit of the power grid. When you have a power grid that was designed for a country that has 140+ million people to have power gradually increase to a power grid that has to supply power for 300+ million people who all use WAY more power than they did back in the 50s, you have a recipe for disaster. Just imagine if Windows XP still used the same kernel that was in Windows 98. That's pretty much the US power grid. The only way I can think of to make it better would be to split it from the 3 main grids we have now (Eastern side of the country, Texas, Western side of the country) to maybe a dozen different grids and then start channeling resources into upgrading each one individually. It might mean that we would have to suck some funds away from the congressional hearings about video games but I'm willing to make that sacrifice.

Wow, I feel old-school right now. I first heard about this story on Paul Harvey this morning. And now... you know... the REST... of the story.

In the wrong hands (or in some cases, the right hands), that thing would definitely live up to it's name. Heck I'm going to get one so that when people ask me to fix their computers, I can just pull that bad boy out and they should say "never mind". ;P

Bad thermal paste can also do the trick by not getting the heat to the heatsink. If there is too much thermal paste, the heat can't get away from the processor and the paste is acting as an insulator. Too little and it's like not having any paste at all. Bad designs of heatsinks can also cause this. I still remember this one heatsink that just couldn't cool off any Pentium processor. Boy, those were some mad customers. Of course there is also the little thing that happened to one of my friends when he was in college. He noticed that his newly built system was running really hot as in the case itself was almost too hot to touch. When I noticed that it wasn't seeing all of the memory on his graphics card or all of his system memory, he finally took it apart and found out what had gone wrong. There was still the piece of plastic that protects the top of the processor still firmly attached. Other things that can melt a processor is a motherboard with bad thermal sensors (that might think the processor is cool and turn the fans to low), small cramped cases that can't get proper air flow to things that need it, gummi bears in all of the air holes (I didn't think anyone could yell at their kids that loudly) and of course putting a computer into a dusty, non-ventilated, cabinet because "computers don't need air. They don't get hot". If you know what you're doing and/or realize that the fans on your system are there for a reason, it is very rare for a processor to burn/melt. Famous last words: I'm invincible!