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  1. chriisb

    SATA Hard Drive Issue

    I recently got a Dell Dimension 8400 with a 160 GB Western Digital Serial ATA Hard Drive and tried to install Redhat 9 and then Fedora Core 2. Neither distro would recognize the hard drive so I looked in the BIOS for the option to make the SATA drive act like a PATA drive but could not find...
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    Installing CD-ROM

    I apologize for my state of newbie-ness, but here goes. I am using Red Hat 9, and I recently replaced a CD-ROM drive with what I thought was a better one. Now Red Hat boots upu fine, but I cannot mount the CD-ROM. I put the older CD-ROM back in and the machine won't even boot up now. I am...
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    Considering Assembly

    I was considering trying to learn assembly, but I was not really sure if it would be feasible to be able to step try to edit an .exe. I made a simple program in Visual Basic to test, and when I disassembled it, it was 29 pages long. Is there a way to step through the compiled program while...
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    New user

    I recently installed Redhat 9 onto my old P133 computer. Needless to say, it runs extremely slow. Would installing an older version of Redhat make it run faster, and if so, does anyone know where I can download an old version?
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    Thinking about Linux

    I am thinking about trying out Linux, but I know almost nothing about it. I was wondering is Linux compatible with programs written for other OSes (read Windows) and say a friend sends me a file (MS Word for example) to look over, would I be able to open such files and return an editted version...
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    Outlook Security Update

    I recently made a in VB program to take a list of names from an Excel worksheet, collect data from that sheet, and email each person on there their data. This program was opening Microsoft Outlook and using it to send each of the emails. My mother recently downloaded the new security updates...
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    DirectX file import

    I'm new to the whole field of DirectX and have had a hard time finding solid resources for it online. My goal was to take a 3d scene that I have saved in the ".X" format and be able to make a program using it. Can anyone tell me how to incorporate this?
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    File transfer problem!?

    I'm trying to write a code to get the text version of a website that is quite large (about 150,000 characters) but whenever I try I only get the first 3848 characters. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? My code to get the data is textbox1.text =...
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    HTTP trouble

    I'm trying to write a code to get the text version of a website that is quite large (about 150,000 characters) but whenever I try I only get the first 3844 characters. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? My code is textbox1.text =...
  10. chriisb

    3d Animation

    Which api calls would I look to if I wanted to make a three dimensional object and be able to rotate it
  11. chriisb

    dhtml selectbox link

    I am a beginner to VB 6 in all senses of the word, and I am trying to make a DHTML page in which I have a select box from which the user could select an option and a new webbrowser would pop up and go to a specified website based on the selection the user made. How would I code the selection...
  12. chriisb

    solving an equation

    i would like to make a program that graphs an equation written by the user in terms of X. if they enter the equation into a textbox and it stores it as a string, i cant figure out how to get it to solve the string instead of just viewing it as characters. for instance, if they just type in...
  13. chriisb

    file folder animation

    im trying to make a joke program that looks like its deleting the person's hard drive, does anyone know how to get the animation of the papers flying out of the folder and disappearing? thanks
  14. chriisb

    Variable usage

    hey, i'm just a beginner trying to figure a few things out. i'm making a program in which about 30 differnt picture boxes must be tested constantly for certain position constraints, and if the constraints are true, i need to make the picture invisible. i managed to get the program to...
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    use of arrays

    i'm trying to learn visual basic 6, and i was trying to construct a program in which i would need to check for the collision of a bouncing ball with a large number of pictures. if i stored the names of each picture.Top and .Left in an array, would it be possible for me to write a code to cycle...

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