pixelsmack

I personally have always had nVidia cards which i have found to be very good, certainly if you are on a budget you can get a decent card for next to no money. i do think that the higher end ATI cards look the best though although i havn't used them myself they seem better in benchmark tests that i have read.

I think what you need to bare in mind is it doesn't matter how much money these people make they are doing there job. if you disagree with the prices of a CD or DVD then don't buy it. Its that simple something is either worth the money that they charge or it isn't. Downloading and thinking 'i'll just get it for free' isn't the answer as it is illegal. I don't want to sounds prudish but the attitudes of people who feel that something for free is there god given right is something i inherently disagree with.

in my opinion things like this can only benafit peoples knowlage of servers and the way the computers uses data. unfortunatley there are people out there who wish to use this information and abilities to annoy people.The only good thing is the people who do do this promote good coding and full testing of apps before they are released.

I have a hang over from being out last night... that was not funny lol.

SATA is newer however it does require motherboard support and isn't just supported naturally. I will say after seeing my housemates SATA HDD formatting in about 10 seconds however it is very very quick and i wouldn't buy a machine without SATA support.

i have 120gb which is starting to get a little small, i could do with an upgrade and backup since my archives of audio work are now getting on to 70gb, to much for DVD backup i think. My other machine in this house has a 4Gb HDD lol which as you can guess is a litltle small however it is only used for messing around and i have a box with a 40Gb HDD at my parents which is enough for what i do there.

C++ can be a very fast language when compiled hence its use in device drivers and other core applications (alongside C). Java is moer userfriendly for writing applications for that will contain a GUI as it is mostly self contained and will run completley indipendantly of system or operating system. C++ does not have this advantage and external compile files or systems may be required to run software you design, this is especially true on linux and unix.

I personally use OGG to store my files as they are very small however they do have incompatibilities with alot of MP3 players, so for music on the move they are best avoided.

hmmm... this is interesting because you know what i couldn't care less if they use the contents of my e-mail for coperate research and advertising. there is nothing in there to hide.As long as you are consenting to this during the sign-up then it is a free service, you cannot expect them not to have a business motive behind the idea, they are however a business.

i quite like the MS anti-spyware software, i used SpyBot fo a while but have switched over to the MS one when it was released as i read it has a larger database and have sofar found it very unintrusive and well worth using. for once M$ seems to have released some software that seems to be very good at its job and not interferaring.

this is getting such an old topic of discussion, can you honestly imagine your gran using a *nix system to book her holidays and find local bingo clubs on? even the friendlist distributions take time for someone very familiar with computers to pick up. there is very little support other than online in quite spacific groups. support for all the software average joe uses is non-existant. i don't know about other countries but i have never been in a computer store and seen games and software avalible in a *nix format. People arn't afraid of change, i used linux soley on my machine and came back to windows because although i have a server running it on my network i didn't feel it was suitable for a desktop. Sorry to disapoint you here but there is very little to back up your argument that everyone and his dog should use linux for every possible computing scenario.Don't get me wrong however i do support fully the OSS community and what they have created and ontinued to support. I also disagree with M$ on almost all of there policys regarding software distribution etc however i don't feel it is a good thing to do to start ostracising people because they don't use linux. The gpl is a licence that basically states you are free to do what you want, why is this stance not adopted by the pople who fight vaimiently for its vadility over everything else?

if you are still unsure there is a good tutoiral here that will give you step by step guidence on installing PHP on a windows machine. although it does base itself around using APACHE as your server as opposed to IIS. Good luck.

it looks from a search of the MS downloads website that there is a new 'energy blue' theme however it seems to only be avalible on the tablet edition, which is a shame cause i like blue theme's

well, we arn't supposed to discuss wares here, however there is a languages directory in the FM2005 directory somewhere maybe there is a file you could put in there on the cd called english.ltf.The game is amazing conciderably better than CM4, wonderully created and great interface. however please buy games that have as much quality as this and support the developer. it is only fair.

What a setup, that is one hell of a rig! and one hell of an overclock. I have never had the nerve to tweak anything especially not by that much. i mean p4 3.2 GHz CPU's arn't exactly cheap.