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 | my fave distro is PCLinux OS - Its noob friendly yet has promise for power users - its also a livecd, very cutting edge and includes most drivers and multimedia codecs. Try out the 2007 beta I also like CentOS for servers and low end pcs (runs happily on 700mhz … |
| | Re: IDE vs SATA [quote=Catweazle;73018]You will only experience a performance increase in circumstances where you are accessing data on the drive. Games will not benefit other than with quicker load times. Applications such as rendering will only benefit if the data files being worked on (and the resultant calculations) are too large to be … |
 | thats because your 256mb video card isnt actually a 256mb card as its onboard - what it actually is is a card ranging from 8-64 meg and it takes the rest from your system RAM. Why dont you just buy a new PCI-X graphics card? I got one that runs … |
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 | grr wont let me on cos im nto in the USA |
| | your friend probably turned off the pc without shtting it down properly, it [I][U]should[/U][/I] boot normally either with "last known good configuration" or "start windows normally" |
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| | is it in the visual basic 6 or VB.NET? version Both have wizards to do this |
| | i flashed a compaq once and i needed to rebuild the RAID array so yeah, i would say thats what has happened here |
| | generally certain dubious adult/warez sites prompt you to install thier special media player etc.... which is in fact a trojan or dialer |
| | if the desktop is blank do control - alt - delete then go into processes and kill explorer .exe then go into run (file menu) and type explorer this acted as atemporary fix for me when I broke my desktop getting rid of spyware dialers  |
| | have you been doing your windows updates? older versions of XP have dvd issues |
| | i have a compaq proliant 1600r and its hotswap SCSI raid drivers work with linux |
| | Re: please help pleas refrain from entitling threads "please help" as we get thousands of theese and many people who would otherwise help ignore them for that reason what do you have on your HDD? videos? music? or just lots of programs? no way programs alone could take up 60gb (40gb max maybe)  |
 | by the way dani, there are desktop macs with intel chips the new (whatever the power user version of a mac is) has an intel Xenon |
| | why on eath are you compiling from source? you should be able to either use synaptic or do [U]either[/U]: apt-get install audacity yum install audacity |
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| | Ok i got a new server but need some help settting it up firstly: Debian? CentOS? SuSE? secondly: How do I actually set up webmin, apache, ssh and ftp? i want to be able to use ssh /webmin for remote admin and have one homepage which then has links to … |
| | i have similar issues whereby the NIC in my laptop is slightly loose from the motherboard. works fine with a bit of wiggling but if the router decides to give me a new IP by DHCP (usually at 24:00) then it needs rewiggling |
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| | old compilers dont support <string> youll need to make a character array  |
| | i think .NET does as i use a small piece of PocketPC software written in C#.NET to do it |
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| | yes also NEVER poce about inside a PSU with a screwdriver even if its off as the capicators can hold hundreds of volts that can KILL you.  |
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| | hit f8 repeatedly when starting up to get into it |
| | sp1? theyve already announced that there starting develiopment on vistas sucessors (vienna/blackcomb and fiji) |
| | IE as its the only free one for Windows PocketPC and i like to sync my favourites to it.  |
| | for the USB keyboard to work: use a standard (non-usb) keyboard and go into the BIOS setup screen (hit del or f1 or whatever it tells you to when the system starts up) and enable USB Keyboard support.  |
 | email notification is finally working again for me but not in outlook still ! even after our talk on msn AND a reinstall of XP it still strips the html from them. Looks like a conflict with something |
| | i would definately get a macbook (they look so cool) but thier pricey. Main thing that put me off was compatibilty but am i right in believeng that if i sue my full copy of XP and bootcamp i can boot into a full windows environment? |
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| | The other stuff isnt that importnat. SO-DIMM is standard laptop memory and PC133 is the speed - 144 pin means the length i recently got basically the exact same meory from here for a thinkpad: [URL]http://www.orcalogic.co.uk/asp/default.asp[/URL] EDIT: Just noticed thats a UK site sorry |
| | well IE5 16 bit (for win 3.11) doesnt display any sites hardly at all  |
 | did you watch mock the week like last night? excellent debate about this. I think its appauling. Big brother is a farse and I dont think anyone should have to tolerate that kind of abuse. |
| | it should work and be legal so long as you use your product key but dont take my word on it I know for sure that with older systems like 98 you could supply any valid key whatsoever, be it OEM or not but im not sure about XP  |
| | :surprised 50/60 - 83% but there was a crappy question that said: In the context of the Internet, what is a hotspot? and it meant the wifi version but in reality the answer could also have correctly been an area of an image that acts as a hyeperlink also if … |
| | PCWorld or maplin, somewhere like that go for the expenive ones, they work better the key is : you dont need much, a pea sized amount max |
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 | Re: XT vs. Pro do a google for "ATI CHIPS COMAPRISON TABLE" (used it before) and post the number of pipelines and the clock/memory speeds here. |
| | uh i dunno if this is the same for netgear buty on my linksys i can go into "port forwarding" and route all HTTP (port 80) traffic to my web servers I.P. |
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| | Re: my PC died! take out all the recently added memory and try it with just the origianl stuff. I own a 5150 and it refuses to boot unless i use hign quality memory of the exact speed it requires |
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| | yes, either the cable or your laptops ethernet port are broken. The ethernet on my thinkpad is broken and exhibits similar behavior so i got a PCMIA ethernet card for under £40 |
| | Its perfectly possible but its slow, expensive and unreliable. upsides are not much really (people say its easier but i dont believe them) |
 | Re: how many macs? 1 win 2k laptop 1 win98 pc 2 winnt4 pc 2 winnt3.51 pc 3 xp pc 1 wm2003 pda 1 palm tx |
| | vb6 is easy for beginners im studying it at college but started when i was 13 and its very good to learn. Basic high school algebra at most is all the maths stuff you need (and a knowlege of operator order i.e where to use brackets in calculations) |
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