Strange problem - should i upgra

just pasting this from another board where i posted it as well:?Ok here's the shortest version of the story I can tell:
A while back, I was playing the beta for lord of the rings online, and I was having a weird crackling audio issue..so I upgraded from integrated audio to an audigy SE. that fixed the problem, but gave rise to another issue, where all the sound in Oblivion sounded distant, muffled, and echoey..sort of like EAX was trying too hard..it's very difficult to describe. After hours of playing around, I managed to fix the problem by lowering my hardware accelaration from full to basic. Not sure why, but that solved it, and I haven't given the issue any thought in months.
Just last night, however, I was playing Lord of the rings Online, and I discovered the issue..but in a VERY isolated instance. The footstep sound effect on one very particular type of ground surface sounds the way Oblivion used to. I tried a whole lot of things..updating drivers, re-installing drivers, system restores (because i never noticed the problem before), messing with EAX...nothing worked.
The Audigy SE is a really low-end sound card, so I'm considering maybe just getting a $70-ish X-Fi one. If I had any sort of guarantee that this would work, I'd probably just go for it, but I don't know.. I don't want to throw out money and have the same issue. (Also, I'd like to be able to keep my hardware accel. at full..think this would make it work?)
Any thoughts?

I had an Audigy2 ZS and the Xfi Elite Pro I have now is noticably superior.
I used to run Xp Pro and am now using Vista 64 Ultimate and a big difference in sound there too.
Vista 64 or 32 both sounded better than Xp pro did with my elite pro.
I think the difference sound would be: Audigy 4 Great, Xfi Elite Pro, Studio.
That's my experience anway.
Noel Brown

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edfrost wrote:
Could the javascript click simulation not be submitting all of the form elements or is the enter key also acting like its default action (the form submission) in addition to the "click"?My guess is the second of these. You need to suppress the event handling after programmatically clicking the button.

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Darryl.Burke wrote:
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db
Yea! You were right! I didnt think that calling *list_model.clear();* will result in calling *valueChanged()* ........
That was some *clear()* thinking :-) Thank you!
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:19:50 -0500, "Abe White" <[email protected]> wrote:
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-- Abe White
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I am facing a strange problem when I use APEX_ITEM.POPUPKEY_FROM_QUERY in my report.
When I select a value from LOV it returns the value to some different row and not to the row from where it was called.
What should I do. I have long lists where cannot be displayed in Select List.

I think this will happen if you have column sorting enabled and that seems to be a bug. Try turning the sorting off.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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So out of nowhere my computer gets all these strange problems... Headache

Recently, after having my computer problem-free for quite some time now since the day I bought it, I'm starting to have problems with my Mac. Out of nowhere really, I'm getting several seemingly random problems I'll just go ahead and list:
- iTunes won't open.. says "an unknown error occurred (13014)"
- The Spotlight search function in the top-right corner is gone
- Can't change my desktop background
- Can't drag & drop icons on desktop or toolbar
Among other problems...
Even more, when I entered my OS X Installation disc it wouldn't allow me to reinstall it. Then when I go to eject the CD, it won't allow it to come out. Very strange indeed... Like I said before, my Mac was problem-free until now. I had none of these strange problems until just the other day.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

If you are under warranty, make a Genius Bar appointment and take it in.
You should also try running Repair Permissions from Applications/ Utilities/ Disk Utility.
If you really cannot get your install disc to load, try starting in single-user mode and running the fsck command:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
Good luck!

Strange Problem with a Vector wraped inside a Hashtable

Hi all ,
I'm having a strange problem with a Vector wraped within a Hashtable inherited Class.
My goal is to keep the order of the elements of the Hashtable so what I did was to extend Hashtable and wrap a Vector Inside of it.
Here is what it looks like :
package somepackage.util;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Vector;
public class OrderedHashTable extends Hashtable {
 private Vector index;
 /** Creates a new instance of OrderedHashTable */
 public OrderedHashTable() {
 this.index = new Vector();
//adds a key pair value to the HashTable and adds the key at the end of the index Vector
 public synchronized Object put(Object key,Object value){
 index.addElement(key);
 Object obj = super.put(key,value);
 System.out.println("inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = " + index.size());
 return obj;
public synchronized Object remove(Object key){
 int indx = index.indexOf(key);
 index.removeElementAt(indx);
 Object obj = super.remove(key);
 return obj;
public synchronized Enumeration getOrderedEnumeration(){
 return index.elements();
public synchronized Object getByIndex(int indexValue){
 Object obj1 = index.elementAt(indexValue);
 Object obj2 = super.get(obj1);
 return obj2;
 public synchronized int indexOf(Object key){
 return index.indexOf(key);
 public synchronized int getIndexSize() {
 return index.size();
 }Everything seemed to work fine util I tried to add objects using a "for" loop such as this one :
private synchronized void testOrderedHashTable(){
 OrderedHashTable test = new OrderedHashTable();
 for (int i = 1 ; i<15; i++){
 System.out.println("adding Object No " + i);
 String s = new String("string number = "+i);
 test.put(new Integer(i),s);
 System.out.println("-----------------------------------");
 //try to list the objects
 Enumeration e = test.getOrderedEnumeration();
 while (e.hasMoreElements()){
 Integer intObj = (Integer) e.nextElement();
 System.out.println("nextObject Number = "+ intObj);
 }Here is the console output :
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 1
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 1
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 2
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 2
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 3
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 3
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 4
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 4
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 5
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 5
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 6
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 6
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 7
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 7
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 8
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 8
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 9
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 10
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 10
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 10
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 11
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 11
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 12
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 12
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 13
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 13
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 14
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: adding Object No 14
Generic/JSR179: inside OrderedHashTable Put method index size = 15
Generic/JSR179: -----------------------------------
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 1
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 2
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 3
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 4
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 5
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 6
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 7
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 8
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 9
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 9
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 10
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 11
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 12
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 13
Generic/JSR179: nextObject Number = 14
You can notice that the output seems correct until the insertion of object 9.
At this point the vector size should be 9 and the output says it is 10 elements long ...
In the final check you can notice the 9 was inserted twice ...
I think the problem has something to do with the automatic resizing of the vector but I'm not really sure. Mybe the resizing is done in a separate thread and the new insertion occurs before the vector is resized ... this is my best guess ...
I also tested this in a pure J2SE evironment and I don't have the same strange behavior
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong or how I could avoid this problem ?
Thanks a lot !
Cheers Alex

Am i doing anything wrong?Uhm, yes. Read the API doc for addElement() and for addAll()

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