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thedude

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  1. This little project came to me when I just wanted to have a extra fan in my computer. Little dumpster diving and a little shopping gave me a extra pc fan. With buying parts this cost no more that $20 USA dollars. This is what you need: -a 9volt battery -mini toggle switch -9volt battery connector -old PC fan -wire cutter/striper -breadboard And thats the way uh-hon uh-hon I made it! http://yfrog.com/e5picture026jpj
  2. Im not worried on the GF stuff. I do got a interview coming Dec 1st for a computer gig repairing computers on campus. Step forward for sure. I was just waiting for somone to poke fun at me. Everyone so far that replied has been very helpful. Thanks again.
  3. Dang you guys are really helping me here. I figured most people here would just poke fun at me. I am following one advice here, diging through trash. I found some stuff I could sell on Craigslist to get a few bucks for roman noodle. I dont have a girlfriend yet but the whole about moving in together would defitnly help. I did end up callign a buddy from highschool and we are talking about being roommates next year. The IT Internship idea, how would somone out of school even be able to do it? Just go up and ask if they have internship??
  4. Found DB25 pinout color wires. Im good yo. Peace easy
  5. Thanks BlueWyvern, I do have a couple on hand with me. I just cant figure how to strip it apart while keeping the wires. I did google a pinout to see if I can find a color wired chart.
  6. I did try using old school Printer parrele plug but couldnt get the plastic off to where I can use the right wires. Any thoughts on ripping off one?
  7. That seriously really helped me there Vako. Im defitnly going to be looking into doing software trail to get exposed. This is the sorta thing that gets me up and going. Im just floating out there with no idea where I am going. In real life, I need to sourand my self with people like this.
  8. Wow, things are getting so bad for me now that I am selling blood twice a week only making $50 /week. I live in a college town and I swear you got to know someone to even be able to set foot on campus.
  9. How did you end up living in a house full of Polish people? Shoot.
  10. Interesting, is that place like a community of computer helpers people can go to?
  11. Using the USB pinout I put above. I am going to TRY to setup a rc pc car. Where I will run a program on my computer and be able to drive my rc car. I am going to use 2 usb printer cables. One for up down and another cable for left and right. The rc controller has 2 sticks for each pair. (Up Down, Left Right). Will I be ok with using Transistors ? ( I got like 4 transistors) I can send a image of my diagram if anyone wants to see it.
  12. I have $20 to my name. I live at home with my folks. Im 23 years old. My home town isnt providing job oppurtunites for me. All I do is play XBL all day every day trying to find a job. I am in a family where nobody else understands computers as much as I do. Could use a pick me up.
  13. Ahh I will just ignore it then. The error message does pop-up once. I did not buy this Dell POS (Piece of Shit) I got it for free from a friend of a friend. Thanks guys for reading and helping my out. HAK5 RULES!
  14. I should just run it until it dies then. Do you know if there is a work around to hide the pop-up?
  15. problem solved. Thanks guys for the help. I replaced the cables with fresh new ones. Now I got a problem with windows start up. A error comes up talking about missing CSRSS.exe in C:/Windows/Config I am sure this is a virues program. What would be the smart way to getit off?
  16. The OS was installed by a 2nd party. They rebuild the computer and installed XP on it. The bios says Unknown Hardware. Im from Indiana. Will do that, I ordered fresh cables from store. Its IDE not SATA but I will try and follow this.
  17. Yeah I am sure its a CD/DvD-Rom drive. I tried all type of cds to cover the basics. The drive works fine on other systems. Just tested it. Are there extranel CD/DVD-rom drives out there some where I can try to use?
  18. thedude

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    Hey Halo geeks I want to team up to take on achievements for Recon gear. Lets do it!!!
  19. I can install a CD-Rom emulator and create a guest OS. But the CD-Rom drive it self has no action happening from it.
  20. Dont laugh at me, I got a Dell - OptiPlex GX620 tower with Intel Pentium 4 Processor 1.80 GHz Level 2 Cache 512KB integrated. This sucker as two HDD on seperate partations, 1 HDD is holding Windows XP. I have attached CD-DVD rom drive recently. Plugs are in the right spots, connections are tight. My problem is with my CD-DVD rom drive. I cant read discs from it. I put in DVD, R, and RW with programs on them and nothing comes up. What should I do?
  21. awsome you guys rule. thanks for answering my question.
  22. I Googled "USB wire diagram" and got some resualts I want to double check on. On the image side of the search I ran into a site that had this box: Pin |Name |Cable Clr |Description 1 |VCC |Red | +5 VDC 2 |D- |White | Data - 3 |D+ |Green | Data + 4 |GND |Black | Ground I want to double check this to make sure this is correct. I visted 3 other sites and they said the same. It will make me all warm inside if somone here can tell me if this is legit.
  23. I have obviously took this project and REALLY overlooked at just hacking a RC car. So Im doing that. Taking a rc car and using a project board to communicate to my computer. I know there are Phidgets out there. Anyone know of a cheaper idea? Down the line I may add more cars to the mix.
  24. Hey guys and gals. I got a nice little project idea to make from scratch a PC car that can be used to chase the house hold pet. I want to share this project idea with somone who would be interested and able to help guide me to build. So can somone take me under their wing for this? This is my over all idea for this little pc car. Simple little electronic car that uses the arrow keys. Forward, Left/Right turn/ Reverse. A simiple connection to labtop on a home wireless network. And just for fun, I would like to see how cheap I can get with the parts. Just a little taunting to others.
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