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I would go with the Samsung. I purchased 2 x 20" Samsung a year and a half ago, just got my girlfriend one as well. The brightness, the clarity, the vibrant colors... just all awesome. I just saw a 22" Samsung that has the 3D display for gaming, so far looks hot. But will wait for the price to drop.

Haha... ok, maybe not watching a DVD, but the Browser and IM/Ventrilo go along with playing WoW... But I have played a DVD or two when I was bored and just grinding a level or waiting on a raid to start...

I built a new pc last summer and it screams... but more importantly heat is not an issue. This case provides awesome airflow and great configuration, as well the power supply mounts at the bottom, which allows cool air to get into the power supply. http://www.antec.com/usa/productDetails.php?lan=us&id=15900 For the CPU I went with a TEC instead of water cooling. It's a beast and your case has to have room to handle it, but I can run World of Warcraft with all the video options cranked on one screen, several IM programs, brower and tv or dvd playing on the other and never hit above 30c. Idle around 25c. (Dont mind the price that ultra shows, you can find it cheaper) http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=17&pPath=571&productID=571 As well, just a thought, the stock power supply that comes in the your case is probably not going to handle the video card. I put in an 8800gtx 756mb... had to go with a 750 power supply to handle. Just saying to be certain the power supply can handle the video card as well as all your other needs when you build. Have fun with the build...

Yes, windows can do that. Once you add your second video card and monitor, you can arrange the displays exactly the same way you do for two. Right Click on the desktop, select properties and go to the Settings tab. You can drag the "displays" around to set them were you will be actually viewing.

Adding a second sound card should work fine. In addition to the sound card built in on my motherboard, I went with a USB gaming headset from Tritton. This is the same as adding a second sound card because this USB headset is independent doesnt require your built in sound card. A lot of applications will default to using whatever your default sound card is defined as. However, programs like Yahoo, Ventrilo, etc... allow you to specify what device you want to use for input/output. For instance, with Ventrilo, I use my headphones for listening and instead of the built in mic, I specified the mic on my webcam. I used this while playing World of Warcraft and have the sounds effects coming through the built in sound card. Sounds like what you want to do is the same, have music playing through your built in sound card and have a headset you can use for Skype calls but not hear the music over them. So either a second sound card or a USB headset (independent of sound card) would work for you.

Just wondering what/if experiences anyone has in putting together a two-step authentication, since CAPTCHA methods seem to be foiled even for some of the big guys (Google, Yahoo, etc..) If you don't know, a two-step is normally a something you know (like a PIN) and something you have (like your bank card). Or a token that generates a random 6 digits that need to be used with a PIN, for example PayPal ships out tokens. I even just read that Blizzard (World of Warcraft) is going to sell tokens to do this two-step authentication to help avoid account hacks. That's all great for a bank or any other big money making machine. But if you dont have the clients, the income or even the need to sell/distribute tokens then what can you do. So, what do you think of a 2-step authentication that would implement a PIN and CAPTCHA? My thoughts were that if the bots can bust the CAPTCHA, why not involve something the bots can't know (the pin). And yes I know, nothing can be done about trojan/keylogging/phising scams. These are user/behavioural issues that you can only do so much education about. Really talking more about bots vs. CAPTCHA.

I found PDF which has some code documented for some of the returns you should be able to access for your APC ups. Only 7 pages, so not to bad of a read. Looks like it might get you going in the right direction. http://hosteddocs.ittoolbox.com/KA110807.pdf

e107.org is a CMS with a Forum Plug-in (they have other plug-ins as well for various things). They have a decent Wiki for how to and various customization and there are many templates available. Worth a look, it's free.

Have you checked? A few those look like they would work for you. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT101172551033.aspx

Any chance my post http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,198320.msg895554.html#msg895554 might help ya out? It will take a query and open the results in Excel. Note - As user on that post pointed out, don't pull the ID and it works fine. Again, not my code, but I have found it useful as hell.

This will do the trick. I didnt write it, but it will do what you want. It takes the table and opens it directly into Excel. <? function xls_format_row( $field ) { $line = ''; foreach($field as $value){ if(!isset($value) || $value == "") $value = "\t"; else{ $value = str_replace('"', '""', $value); $value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t"; } $line .= $value; } return trim($line)."\n"; } function xls_send( $headers, $rows ) { header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel"); header("Expires: 0"); header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=excelfile.xls"); echo $headers."\n".$rows; } \\INCLUDE YOUR DB CONNECTION HERE \\This will allow you to give proper names to your columns in Excel, typically you do not want the table column names. \\Just add to it for all your columns you are exporting $headers = ("column_A_name"."\t"."column_B_name"."\t"."column_C_name"."\t"); $result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM yourtable'); $count = mysql_num_fields($result); $data = array(); while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { array_push($data, $row); } $xls_rows = ''; foreach( $data as $row ) $xls_rows .= xls_format_row( $row ); $xls_rows = str_replace(array("</p><p>", "</li><li>"), ", ", $xls_rows); $xls_rows = str_replace(" ", "", $xls_rows); $xls_rows = strip_tags($xls_rows); xls_send( $headers, $xls_rows ); ?>

Google returns a ton of results such as (searching on php mysql full text search): http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1304#Heading12 They even have a section called "Example: Basic Searching Application".

I was on Thrall then did a guild transfer about 2 years back. On Norgannon now. Sakeen - 70 Human Protection Spec Warrior TBaggins - 60 Gnome Demonology Spec Warlock Sakhan - 29 Dwarf Hunter (Twink'd for PVP action) Yeah it is digital crack, but fun to play as long as they keep adding new content. Like anything, find a balance. Too much of anything is bad. I do not see it being any different than playing on the XBOX or PS3, could play that for endless hours too.

Hey, sorry for not getting back right away. Here is the website -> http://www.salfeld.com/ The program is called "Child Control 2008". It looks like it's still 30 bucks. They have trial versions you can download. Hope that helps out.

I had to do this and bought an application, have to get the name for you when I am at home. It worked great becuase it allowed me to restrict so many options such as folder/file access, what programs could run, how long they could run, and quite a bit more. But specifically for websites, it allowed me to "whitelist" what site could be accessed, everything else is not accessible. In addition it would could be configured for content, such as chat rooms, forums, etc... to either allow or block, so you could give access to yahoo, but not anything on yahoo that was chat related. The only downside was all accounts had the application load, my account had no restrictions of course, but my daughter's did. It was only like 30 bucks... I'll let ya know if you are interested what the program was.