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Obviously English isn't his first language. I think he meant morally, not literally.Of course it was the US. The Iraqi government is now just a puppet for US interests. That doesn't take much to figure out. And a lot of Iraqis wanted him dead, but that doesn't mean much. Sure they all (Shias) unite on killing him. Once he's dead, they'll want all the Sunnis dead. and if they managed to do that, they would start fighting among themselves. That, I think, was the main benefit of Saddam's rule. He had his secret police, torture, and whatnot (and we somehow gloss over the fact that the US does exactly the same thing), but he kept them from infighting and creating a civil war. A dictator is what is needed in a situation like that. Look at Lebanon. Look at Serbia. We never learn from history.

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Which one is easier for someone with no skills in command line-systems? I notice that i need to make a dedicated partition for XOSL. DO i need to do the same for GAG or does it just need to be installed. i can't find a FAQ for GAG.

Of course it was all a hypocritical show, a kangaroo court held by the US and their stooges. They refused to allow testimony in Saddam's trial that would implicate them. So while I hate the US government and its stupidity, arrogance, hypocrisy and more, Saddam did deserve the death penalty, which, who knows, could have been commuted to life imprisonment. That's not saying that other leaders don't deserve it too, but since might is right and the victors (though in Iraq who the victor is isn't clear) are the ones who rewrite history to cast themselves as the heroes, we'll have to wait till some country invades the US. In that scenario, we would see Bush standing trial for war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, to name a few. And Saddam did do good for his country too. it's not that he was all bad. Iraq had one of the highest living standards for the average person in the arab world, not counting oil-rich sheikdoms. He was modern, progressive, and protected freedom of religion. All that said, where do you find that human can't kill human? Of course they can. You can't just go up to your neighbor and kill him, but with due process of law, it's perfectly legal. When God gave the 10 commandments to Moses, he also gave a bunch of other rules, and those included the death penalty. ---mostly by stoning, so we can be glad we've discovered more humane methods.

Though for a laptop 60 GB is passable, because you can always upgrade the hard disk later when you have more cash. It's almost the easiest thing in a laptop to change. So if a few months down the line you decide you need 120 or 160 GB, just buy the hard disk, duplicate your old one on to the new, and then you've got 160 GB in your laptop, and you can stick the 60 GB in an external case that costs you $10, and you've got a second hard drive right there to back up your data to.

I'm not really interested in VMware, as apparently it's slower. I don't have a problem with hard drives --- 4 of them in my computer.

Basically the extra ram will help speed access time, since the computer won't have to page as much onto the hard disk in virtual memory. Widescreen is always nice, but i don't think it'll fare all that much better in gaming. You're basically crippled by the shared graphics card's limit. even if you had 2 GB of ram, when playing a pixel-shader heavy game all that extra memory wouldn't make a whole lot of difference. but having a gig of memory will definitely speed up everything you do.

Well I gave up on booting it from the laptop, and just installed it on my desktop.

I'm interested in loading Linux (ubuntu), XP, Vista and Tiger on my computer. I know each of the systems work. but how do i install them all so that i can easily choose which OS to boot to when starting the computer. I've heard of grub bootloader, but frankly, i find the linux terminal and code out of my range. is there also a sequence i should follow for installation order?

Yes, I have already tried booting in safe mode. it won't.Yes, I have already tried fresh formatting. i can't.Yes, I have already tried Ultimate Boot CD. it hangs.I have also tried Winternals Emergency Disk CommanderI have also tried Ubuntu. It tells me everything is fine.I have updated Windows. But I'm running the US English version, so no conflicts possible there.I have checked the CPU. it runs at regular temperature. (@42c)Any out of the box ideas that I haven't already tried?

Here's the deal: no new hardware plugged in, just the default specs it came with(TurionX2 1.66 Ghz, Ati Radeon 1100 @ 128MB shared memory, 2 GB DDR2 @ 400Mhz, 120GB 5400rpm PATA HDD, DVD-RW multi)Came pre-loaded with XP Media Center 2005. Typical Acer setup with hidden partition to restore OS in case of crash.Even at the shop today they weren't able to get it to restore from there.Obviously i already tried safe mode. it crashes or hangs. i can't get into the recovery console because, as i already said, it sticks at the "loading windows" part. I've tried Winternals Recovery Disk 2005. That hangs too at the XP loading screen. The Acer recovery DVD loads into the ram, but then doesn't boot. I've run memory tests. The RAM is fine.

My opinion: the Geforce is more powerful than that radeon.The Radeon 1100 apparently seems to be the same line as the Xpress 200M, which fares worse than the Geforce 6150 in frame tests.Also my opinon (not necessarily fact): the Dual core is better than the single one, even though the single is faster, still you've got the multithreading of the dual core, of 2 processors at 1.60, which totals more than the single. more so since they're both 64 bit.I think it'll fare ok in graphics. you might want to add another 512MB stick for overall speed. It'll run things like Photoshop alright, and possibly some light gaming, but it's not a heavyweight.

I have my Dualcore AMD Acer laptop, 5102Wlmi, with a 120GB hd, 2 GB ram, etc. I had a friend buy it in the states and bring it over just 2 months ago. All of a sudden, the other day when i went to turn it on, it would bring up the xp boot screen, and then just hang there. I tried a different hard drive. no luck. I tired installing XP, but after booting from cd and loading all the drivers, right after the FAT and NTFS drivers, it says "Setup is loading Windows" and then it hangs there. I've left it overnight and in the morning it's still in the same place. I can't reformat, install, or repair my XP installation. SO i took the hard drive and stuck it in another laptop to load XP. It ran fine until i stuck it back in my laptop, after which it crashes with a BSOD whether in safe mode or normal. It seems to crash after loading mup.sys, and back when it would simply freeze, it also got up till that particular driver and then stopped. I've tried loading Ubuntu on it. No problems. It loads and runs perfectly. I've tried Vista Ultimate. It also loads and runs perfectly. Why won't XP work? I can't see how this would be a software issue, so it must be hardware. but what? And it would make sense that Vista has more stringent hardware requirements than XP, so if it was hardware-related, wouldn't Vista have even more trouble than XP?

Well, all i found was articles on running it on AMD through a virtual machine. I'm not interested in that. I want to run it natively.

Saddam perhaps deserved the death sentence, but come on, so does Bush. So does anyone else who kills innocent people. The irony is that America condoned and supported Saddam as long as it was in their best interests and he was a loyal underdog. Then as soon as he started becoming too difficult to keep under their control, they conveniently turned him into a scapegoat. If the US was less powerful, some other country could do the exactly the same thing they did - muscle into the country, murder a bunch of civilians along the way, capture the president, and execute him for genocide, or WMD, or nuclear ambitions, or whatever the current fad is. Saddam was not an angel, but he kept relative law and order in the country. When the US first was mobilizing to invade Iraq, the first thing i thought was that it would end in another Kosovo. I had just come back from humanitarian aid work there, and you saw the exact same thing: a country with varied religions and cultures, where the underlying hatred is so strong, a dictator is the only thing that will keep them together. And under Tito they lived in relative peace. Yes they had their secret police and imprisonment without trial, disappearances, etc, but is the self-righteous USA any better? What about Guantanamo? What about all the other detention camps that aren't as publicized? It's exactly the same thing. So anyways now that the US has removed Saddam, the only one who could hold the country together, all of a sudden up flare these tribal rivalries, clashes between Shias and Sunnis and Kurds and whatnot, and it's a big surprise to them? Read your newspapers. Even TIME, which is strongly slanted towards US and Israeli foreign policy, in their interviews with Iraqis today, every one of them wished that Saddam was back in power. Iraq was an Arab role model. It was technologically advanced, it had proper power, water, sewage, roads and an economy that despite years of almost complete economic sanctions was still plugging along. Saddam enforced peace between the split Muslim factions, and protected the christians. Yes, there was a large christian population in Iraq, and they coexisted peacefully. Saddam's right-hand man Tariq Aziz was a christian. There you had a middle-eastern country more open-minded than any other, and what do we do? Bomb it back to the stone age and create absolute chaos.

I was using Picajet, but once I hit 20,000 images the program slowed to a crawl and finally won't start up anymore. It simply freezes up. I still have another 40,000 images to add, and so I need to find an app that can handle over 50,000 pix with room to spare. Something that has image tags, search function, thumbnail previews, etc. Freeware or paidware, doesn't matter.

http://www.microsoft.com/err/technet/ or if you can trialware it, Diskeeper can expand and defrag MFTs and Pagefiles.

I'm a Microsoft user as well. I would like to have a Mac, and get a bit lost in Linux. I don't bash Microsoft, but i do think that they could do better. With all the money behind them, the years of planning and coding, you'd think they could release a relatively bug-free OS. Simple exploits that are discovered -- why didn't Microsoft catch them. I don't have any issue with their being the biggest company and basically monopolizing everything, as long as they don't sit back and figure that because they're already the market leader, they don't need to bother writing proper code and making a proper system. People buy MS because it's easy to use and compatible with lots of programs, but definitely not because it's fast or secure. That's the problem.

No, because i put it in quotes. Things in quotes don't count towards your points. If i would have put it as normal text a mod would have put it in quotes and given me a warning.

That's definitely wrong. Dogs are much more sensitive smellers. An extremely large proportion of the dog's brain is devoted to processing olfactory signals. I found the article you mentioned, but in reading it you see that the scent they had the people follow was chocolate perfume. Naturally people can smell that. But pit that against a bloodhound that can smell an article of clothing from a person, and follow their trail through anywhere except water, even days afterwards. Can a person do that? Of course not. Anyways, here's the article: And for particulars on why dogs smell better than we do:

Yes I agree with that. I was just pointing out that there are other theories as well, but definitely i believe that humans are at fault. It's hard to have long-term vision for things like that. You want to drive your gas-guzzler rather than get a smaller import, and the emissions don't impact on you right away, so why economise? but years down the line it all adds up. well........... not exactly. If I were to pursue this thread then I'd point out that Jesus was referring to the prophecies by Daniel, which speak of the antichrist breaking his pact with the jews who he's allowed to recommence their religious sacrifices, in which he forbids it and sets up an image of himself in its place, demanding that all worship him only. That's what Matthew refers to when he speaks of the abomination of desolation. But this is a climate topic and not estachological.

No, it can be 30 days. I've heard that some people though have had this 2-day issue, but for me it's been running 5 days now. Plus you can get keygens on the internet already for it. So that's a minor issue, and not necessarily even "warez" since it's just a beta and they're letting you download it for free anyways. Adobe's server seems to be overloaded at times, but you can get fast rapidshare download mirrors of it, and i don't think i need to explain how to find that. From what I've heard, March 2007 is the target release date.

You can choose to install it without a serial number, though, and you get 30 days to try it. I installed it parallel to my CS2, haven't had any coexistence problems.

Has anyone here installed the beta of CS3? If so, how do you find it? Do you think it's worth the upgrade? I don't know if it's only because it's a beta, but for one, it loads much faster than CS2 for me. I like minor things about it, such as the redesigned tools bar, the dynamic resizing of palette windows, quick select, and smart filters, but I'm not sure that's worth my money to go and shell out for it. The rest of the new stuff I wouldn't use enough to offset the cost. Here is a list of the new features: So what do you think?

OK. Vista cannot be totally virus-proof. Just like any other system can't be 100% foolproof. It's definitely hardened against viruses as compared to XP or god forbid win98, but that's not a complete protection scheme. plus 3rd party software, including Microsoft's own hotmail, accessed through the browser windows can serve as a conduit for the viruses. There's already been three that have gotten through like this. It's like building a big fortified castle, but leaving the sewer drain open. The whole attacking army can't fit through there, but a few men can, and if the guards are sleeping (no 3rd party antivirus, trusting only to vista to catch them) then they can open the gate from the inside, and all your hard work was useless. That said, Vista is not really XP on steroids. It's not quite the shift in core programming that would have been nice, but it is fundamentally different than XP. Of course it's an improvement. There are bugs, and like XP, probably after 6 months or so we'll see the first service pack for vista, after which it will become a viable OS. It would be nice to have a cleaner, faster, and more powerful Windows, but because of their ties to big business and software vendors, we're stuck with the same core. Realistically, switching the entire codebase would require patches or upgrades for almost every 3rd party piece of software. While people may gripe about Vista being resource hungry and bloated, they would gripe a lot louder if they all of a sudden had to upgrade every program on their computer. Or they wouldn't because they would choose not to buy it, and that's not good business sense for Microsoft. A slimmed-down version of Vista would be nice, at a much cheaper price, because that's the one thing that makes Vista a stupid choice. Who wants to shell out $500 just to use an OS?