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As I was reading Houdinis first post, I thought about it. About how technology is expanding, and it occoured to me:What if the earth isn't warming up any, but we are just better at sensing it growing warmer?EDIT: And by that, the forecasts say hotter temps. and we subconciously think it is hotter and we remind ourselves how hot it is. Well, its kinda hard for me to explain I guess, but I think it may also have something to do with our minds.Regardless, the climate does change over time, as I think someone else on this thread stated. After all, we have had an ice age or two, haven't we? So maybe its quite the opposite; we're going to a heat age. And, I suppose as I think someone else stated (atleast, I think I read it on this thread), if it is getting hotter, lets just move to the poles of the earth. Even if all the ice melts and what not, it'll still be cooler up there. It'd be quite the opposite of Battlefield 2142 where it is too cold to go anywhere except on the area that the equater is. It'd be too hot to go anywhere near the equator.Thanks for the article(s).

Okay, that is a good call back to reality. As for being a hacker, yeah, I get that. And thanks for the warning... But, they would be on my family's internet connection, so... Anyway, thanks. I will keep this in mind. Thanks!

On the news this morning, they were talking about packet sniffers and how people could use them for less then desireable deeds.So, while I don't want one for dubious deeds, I would like one to check up on our network... Our network isn't secured (my dad doesn't want to for some reason?) so I would like to check up and make sure that our neighbors aren't doing anything illegal. So, anyone know of any safe sniffers to monitor network access? Or, really, any utility to do it satisfactorily. It would be an added bonus if you could block offenders. Would also be nice if you could tell their OS system, as I am the main windows user in my house... My dad has one for work, but prefers his mac. Anyway. So if it was windows, I could be sure that it was most likely a neighbor; especially if my dad was off on a business trip of some sort. Free would be nice too...Any other nice security utilities? I know that keyloggers are often hailed as being things to ruin other peoples electronic lives, but I would like one also as a security utility. Any other interesting utilities I may be interested in? Thanks.

Okay, Windows is starting to tick me off. I mean, I will deal with it if need be; but I have been looking at Linux for a while, so I thought I'd ask some questions. What is the best Linux distro in your oppinion? I know this will change from person to person - But I would like a general concensus. I have seen Redhat stuff, and I have seen Knoppix and some "ubunto" thing... I would like also one that is bootable from live disk or whatever. I want to be able to check and make sure that I really like Linux before I install it as my main OS.I also would like a GUI. I know, I am not a die hard that will work with text very easily... So a GUI is necessary.None of the Linux distros cost anything... Right?Okay, if I remember any other things to ask questions about I will post them. Thanks!

Yeah... I can't even get my passport sorted out. It has been messed up for like a year now... That was hilarious Earthling. I knew that Internet Explorer had some nasty tricks up its sleeves with the whole you-can't-delete-this-or-windows-will-be-messed-up-bad, but brekaing links... I wonder if they'll have power over gmail and whatnot? Or, web mail in general? Hey Google... Maybe not come out with an operating system but you could come out with a web browser fairly easily?

I play AA some... As soon as counter strike has finished updating once again, I may jump into AA to try to get my AA playing back in shape... BF2 messed me up, and now BF2 is lagging crazy... Okay, personal rant sorry. EDIT: 108soc, your system will probably be able to run it. It passes the min. requirements on graphics card. The next hurtle is your processor speed and system RAM. The 256 MB card is only for higher detail or something like that.

Yeah, I use gmail to write on a short story I am working on. Its very helpful because I can access gmail where ever there is an internet connection that I can get into with my laptop. So I can work on the thing at home, and where ever else. I do most of my writing on my laptop, granted, but since its old and the hard drive may fail at any time... Anyway, this would be GREAT news to me. I look forward to it! What will you come up with next, google? An OS? A web browser? A music program? Okay, google rant real fast before I go to bed. I think google is great because they offer most of their things for free. Which is great for me. When ever my dad is talking about email for work or something I just have to throw in the fact that I have over 2.5 GB of space on my gmail account, and I am only using about 56 MB or something (approximately 2% I think the website said) So thats really nice. Gmail is really intertwined with mor ethings then I realised. When I downloaded Google talk, I didn't realise it would auto check my gmail emails for me! Okay, thats my short google rant. I am really hoping google brings this out for everyone to use soon.

Er, my oppinion is that an ipod nano 2 GB will run you I guess someone said... $200? It fulfills most, or maybe a little less then most, of those requirements. The one that I am sure that it doesn't fulfill is an FM tuner. I think it fulfills the others though. I am pretty sure it can play AAC and MP4, not sure on the OGG. I think it has a rated battery life of 14 hours, though maybe it is just 12 or so. maybe a little researc hat store.apple.com or pcmall.com and/or macmall.com is in order?

Everyone else here is a bit more of a computer expert, but as I was shopping for a computer a few months ago and basicly looking for the cheapest possible my dad ran across a few very cheap computers from HP. If you go to HPs website and go to home and home office, then to desktop section, click most left one (should say starting at $249 or something) then look for the one that says $249 or whatever then click on that. From here, you have a choice of AMD processors or Intel Celeron processors. I don't know much about Sempron processors compaired to celeron processors, so maybe a bit of research into that might be worth it. Ask around here, possibly? okay, next click on whatever processor brand you have decided on (I am using Intel for example, because I have been told its better for file stuff where as AMD is better for gaming. Don't know on that either.) then click customize. From here, you have multiple choices on making it better... For example, upgrading to 512 MB RAM is around $50 or so. Getting a 250 GIG harddrive is around $100 or so. Adding on a few nice things like a better disc drive is certainly optional, and whatever your oppinion is on it. But, you can get a computer for less then $500 that may be operational enough for what is needed. You'll just have to decide what you need... Perhaps a friend would build you one? The only problem is the large price for windows home... Its ranging at what, $100-$150 a copy? That knocks hardware spec. possibilities down a bit... Oh well, just a thought. Good luck. You might also check out compaq desktops... I have one, but be a bit careful. They seem to have a bit lower prices in some things while a bit higher in others. In addition to that, mine has been doing some odd things.

Just checked internet explorer and opera both. Both disappear. I guess I should say that its not just web browsers that disappear. Pretty much every minimizable window does. Also, when minimzing Itunes, it goes into a thing where you can access the play controls, such as stop, fast forward, rewind, etc. which DOES land on the task bar. However, if I click the bar at the top of say a web browser from Itunes, Itunes doesn't show up on the task bar at all. I will try to get two screen shots that show that: https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ - With itunes. I think. On the taskbar. https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ - With itunes, not on the task bar but above the web browser bar. Does anyone know if Steam or Counter Strike: Source or Battlefield 2 cause problems like this? Because I just recently installed these, so I wasn't sure if that might be the problem. I uninstalled Steam and Counter Strike: Source, but nothing happened. Well, thanks for the help... We'll continue on this journey together I guess, eh? I also tried unlocking the task bar. Nothing really worked... I just pulled it up though. I wasn't sure how to move any other sections around.

With a web browser? Okay, I am addicted to the internet... But, I think that would be a major appeal. Being able to check the weather at the airport? Yeah yeah, it'd be insanely difficult to navigate the pages - I think - but it could be managable, especially with an add on or two possibly.

Hmm quite interesting. And about the thing about kleenex's and ipods... Its the same way with handheld games. Everyone calls them a gameboy unless they know better. *shrug* just an observation.

*groan* so my computer with 2 gigs of RAM with a 256 MB graphics card isn't going to be enough? Ahh well. I will just wait three years, enjoy my time playing BF2. Once three years (longer, hopefully...) passes up I will have a laptop for college and I won't have money or time to play very many high end games.

Sorry, I am not very computer literate. What is a boss key? I am working on a screen shot. https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ Okay. It is a bit hard to see, but you can zoom in a little bit. I have tried resizing the bar... Nothing... I appreciate the help. EDIT: Need anything else? I may get a screen shot and crop it soon so its easier to see...

Sounds good. Its nice to see that so many kids from other countries are getting computers. I don't know if you have heard about the used to be crank computer (they changed the mechanism to generate power, which used to be a crank) that will be sold to goverments for $100 to distribute to children in their countries. Anyway, my other comment is that... Man, inflation is pretty bad in that country(ies) if 3 million whatevers equal $300. Er, no offense if anyone is from there...