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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.

i didn't like FFVIII as much as the others later in the series, 10 and 7 were brillient however the characters wern't as strong in my opinion in 8.

Very well written tutorial, this is something i spent AGES experimenting with about a year ago, and struggled with. Wish i had a high quality tutorial like this then.

I think that this would be a good idea, still leaving the open OS forum for the usual Windows Vs Linux threads (come on they do seem to spark debate even after the 15th one!). it would certainly allow more concentrated disscussion.

i know a friend of mine has been running it problem free for a few weeks, i think hes even ported GNU chess to it, however i can't say as i have seen this or know of how reversable the process is.

I agree, i never had anything to do with him in my short time here however that is the sign of an excellent administrator! i am sure he will be sourley missed by all.

now i am aware that the OSS community is very much into crazy things, however this does take the proverbial bacon. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, would any iPod owners be prepared to install this on there iPod's. I don't have one myself although i have it on good authority from a friend it works although is in an early stage. The potential for user development comes out greatley with this project with potential features such as roaming file swapping txt-to-voice etc. i do wonder what Apple will think since they do have quite a closed legal policy i think. Its certainly an interesting project.

i do accept that ponit, however what i was trying to say is what is there? a piece of cloth with an image that happens to look like a man on it. does this really mean it is the piece of cloth that burried jesus? possibly possibly not. There is far more historical evidence for the exictence of a jesus character in history that the turin shrowed being even from the same pre 40BC time period.

yes with a server running apache, the only way to use a custom '404' error page is with the .htaccess file. Xisto does let you do this (at least i have done it and no one has complained to me ). logging in with your FTP client and entering the /public_html directory should display a .htaccess file there for you.

I once saw in the news that there was a piece of toast with david beckhams head outlined in the burnt areas. This was sold on e-bay for lots of money. now the obious point to this post is people spend money on stupid things on ebay, but the real point is that this is just something that happend. i doubt that god (or david beckham) decided to make the ephigy on a piece of toast but it happened by pure chance.The turin shrowd may just be the same as the david beckham piece of toast, i don't think i have ever seen anything that has been able to specify or prove one way or the other how it came into existance.

forgive me for asking a silly question here, but is the UT2004? the same distribution as the windows one? as in is it the same DVD you would use to install on a windows machine. I ask because althogh i would like to use linux for gaming i dont really want to have to go out and spend £35+ a shot on games i already own SN's for.