Matt M

When the furnace blower turns on, some kind of voltage spike jolts my electronic devices, and causes all these problems: my wi-fi connection gets reset, my USB mouse turns off and reconnects, my coaxial digital audio connection to my receiver loses sync and reconnects. I want to fix the problem and not just the symptoms - so is there anything I can do besides getting filtered surge protectors?

I am a novice and I want to know a good easy C++ image processing library to use. I am going to work with PNG and JPG, and dont really know how an image processing library will work with libpng and libjpg, but I am hoping I dont have to worry about that. I want something that will handle compositing and alpha channels in PNG with easy functions. Is imagemagick the answer...?

I just installed Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. When I open it and attempt to go to any web page, it says "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" (even http://localhost,/ since I'm running a web server). But at the same time Firefox works! In fact, I'm using Firefox to write this question.

Another curious fact is when I go to look at my Windows Firewall settings, it says "Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings."

This is a tough one.

I installed Internet Explorer 7 beta and then uninstalled it. After that, I can no longer dial into my computer through Remote Desktop.

I have tried service packs, IE 6 reinstall, Windows XP in-place reinstall, SP2 reinstall, and it has not worked.

The error message I get when I try to connect is different than the one you get if you try to connect to a computer that isn't online.

My error message says:

"The client could not establish a connection to the remote computer.

The most likely causes for this error are:

1) Remote connections might not be enabled at the remote computer.

2) The maximum number of connections was exceeded at the remote computer

3) A network error occurred while establishing the connection."

I have checked my Remote tab in My Computer properties, I have checked my firewall settings, and I have tried the suggestions available at the Microsoft knowledge base.

Nothing has worked. I don't want to reformat!

I have a table with 3 fields: zip, city, state. One row for every zip code in the US, it contains about 39,000 rows.

I want to search by city name alone. Some cities, such as "Rockford", will return many rows, in several different states.

If I do "SELECT * FROM ziplist WHERE city = 'Rockford'", I might get:

zip - city - state

=================

00123 Rockford MI

00124 Rockford MI

00125 Rockford MI

60109 Rockford IL

60110 Rockford IL

60111 Rockford IL

60112 Rockford IL

91832 Rockford CA

3 Rockfords in MI, 4 Rockfords in IL, 1 Rockford in CA.

I need a query that will return a table that looks like this:

city - state

=================

Rockford IL

Rockford MI

Rockford CA

So that a user can choose which state he meant to search for, with the most probable result at the top. Very simple; distinct state, sorted by the number of times that state was repeated.

I'm using MySQL Server 4.1.13a.

I am using Squid proxy on the firewall, and Apache/PHP on the webserver. Squid appends the IP of remote hosts to the "X-FORWARDED-FOR" HTTP header, but accessing this is clunky. I have to write special code in each of my PHP scripts to read that header variable. I also have a phpBB installation and it logs IPs, and they all appear as 192.168.1.1 (the internal IP of our firewall). I am looking for a global config solution that would pass thru IP's so that phpBB (and apache access logs) show correct external IP addresses without modifying any phpBB code.

Anyone know of any websites with decent java applets or Flash animations that help to visualize a complex wave function in 3D, or in spacetime? If I can't find anything decent, I'm going to try to study quantum mechanics and create this visual aid myself. So then, if someone could give me a series of websites to study in order to learn quantum mechanics, that would be great.

I have some messed up Windows XP components. I can no longer remote desktop into my computer after I installed and removed Internet Explorer 7 beta. It tells me "The client could not establish a connection to the remote computer. The most likely causes for this error are:..." I know the request is going through the network and reaching my workstation, and that this is a OS-level problem, so I'm almost certain I need to reinstall Windows.