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Advice on Fanless PC 4 58 (7/7/2009 11:12:28 PM) comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Hi, I'm trying to assemble a PC with moderate-to-low computing power, hoping that I will be able to get something with as close to ZERO dB of noise as possible. I thought the Atom processors were design... Carlos

auto_ptr for array of built-ins 15 82 (4/17/2008 12:43:22 PM) comp.lang.c++.moderated Hi, I'm facing a situation where it would seem all possible solutions have some severe inconvenience. I'm creating a C++ wrapper for a C library; in this one function, I need to return a string. The underl... Carlos

Automatic serialization --- is it possible? 16 99 (11/5/2007 2:07:28 AM) comp.lang.c++.moderated Hi, All the solutions I've come up with so far do not work and are extremely complicated (you know, even assuming that I can make them work by fixing some obstacles, they're still way too complicated). So, ... Carlos

Implicit conversion to std::string --- bad idea? (really?) 9 108 (10/16/2007 6:11:21 PM) comp.lang.c++.moderated I'm looking for opinions/POV on this, as well as concrete situations that would serve as evidence in favor or against what I state in the subject line. The context is in a class that represents values of fiel... Carlos

APIC Trouble (Ubuntu 7.04 on Toshiba Satellite laptop) 0 72 (7/23/2007 3:05:03 PM) comp.os.linux.portable My laptop reports the following error when booting Ubuntu: 8254 Timer not connected to IO-APIC Evidence suggests that this is the cause of very frequent freezes (the whole thing freezes to the point that a p... Carlos

Why won't this template function compile? 13 97 (4/17/2007 5:55:07 PM) comp.lang.c++.moderated Hi, Here's the minimal program illustrating the "mystery": #include using namespace std; template T silly_f (typename vector::const_iterator begin, typename vector::const_iterator end) { re... Carlos