yordan

Can you please be more precise while asking this? What are you talking about?Looks like a question your teacher asks you in order to se if you were sleeping during last course, isn't it?More precisely, the DBMS is the database system, or what were you talking about?

I CANT BELIEVE NONE OF YOU HAVE MENTIONED GRANNYS GARDEN IV BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR AGES AND ONLY BUYING OR BORROWING HAVE COME UP.

You are right, granny's garden is not a free game.

More info here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny%27s_Garden

An old-school game, but I see that there is still a lot of effort on it, because there is a wine version for modern geeks!

I will try out the Opera portable sometime this week and see if the issue exists on it... it's most probably just an issue with Opera on Windows XP...

If the issue is inside your PC, the portable version will experience the same issue.The main advantage in this situation is that the portable version will remain the same one when you move it to another machine, so you can test if the problem is inside the machine or remote.

agree... tutorials are some of the reasons why i'm using youtube

This is a funny and paradoxal situation. A lot of supposed serious websites are actually used for entertainment. And Youtube, which is known as an entertainment website, is also used by a lot of people for storing very technical tutorials.
That's an example of the free world evolution, you think that something will happen a given way, and free users push it in another direction. Nice example of chaos theory example.

We need to know how these F1-12 keys are handled on your computer.Probably a daemon task is running on your computer, trapping these keystokes.If this is the case, simply kill the program and restart it when you stop playing on the computer.And if it's a service, just stop the service.If you have enough cpu and memory, another way could be playing games on a virtual machine hosted on the same computer. So, you don't need to change your physical computer settings. Should work, when you will be on the virtual system the F1-F12 keys should be passed to the virtual OS, and not to the physical system.

exactly... and that's why i said there's a lag problem... yordan seems to think otherwise - that's its a VM issue

We should not mix the problem.When my Windows host has 2 gigs free, this means that I can give 2 gigs to a virtual machine. As long as there is a lot of memory free, we are testing the cpu performance.
The disks in the PC can be accessed by a single process which exhaust the whole disk bandwidth. This means that you can comfortable work on your native host, or on your VM machine, but not simultaneously on both - except if you have fiberchannel adapters connected to a decent SAN.
So, do not mix cpu-access problems and lack of memory problem.
My friend has a 8-core laptop with 64 gigs memory, on a virtual machine he opens a big Excel file ten times faster than I do on my native XP laptop. Of course this will not make me switch to a bigger laptop, I simply know that if I had far more money, I could work far more efficiently. Simply waiting one hour costs less than finding $1000.00 in order to buy a bigger hardware!

And the probloem with

that I did a fresh install, the problem still exists.

"Fresh install" is different from "first install". After the first install on a Crosoft DoDows machine, a lot of things are written on the registry and in the system settings places.a Of course, this is also the case on Linux machines, simply the storage places are different.
So, what you think being a "fresh" install is replacing some file by other ones, but system settings don't change.
That's why, each time it's possible, I use a portable version of FireFox (or chrome), in case of trouble I remove my folder and uncompress the portable software again so that I'm back to the initial settings.

hard to show the error, you would need an Opera developer to come to your home and do all the tests and debugging To find a solution or a reason to the problem.

If you often have this problem on a virtual machine, and the Opera developer is available for working on your problem, give him a snapshot of your virtual machine and he will have exactly your problem at home.

so you're saying that running a Guest OS will be no different in performance (including lags) then actually installing it on the drive itself?I think the opposite

I think that there should be at least a small effect.
Vmware people claim that there is no difference in perfomance between a virtual machine using a given hardware, and the same operating system using the same hardware.
Some colleagues claim the same thing. Else, the whole cloud thing could not work, if too much power would be lost.
And, of course, if the thing is made correctly, this could be true.
Crosoft Windows uses a driver of the native machine in order to access the disk.
The OS inside the virtual machine sends requests to the vmware daemons, which pass the request to the native system drivers. So, at the end, the same drivers are used the same way to access the same devices.
There could be a bug making a need of retry on the SCSI or IDE channel, which would make a loss of performance, but the bug will be solved in the next vmware release.
There could be a very simple test.
Create a 10 gig partition on a native hard drive, and make a disk benchmark test on it.
Then give that partition to a virtual machine and perform the same test.
These two tests should give the same result.
Of course, in order to be valid, the test should not be performed on a partition, but on a full disk, using the same full disk for the native system and for the virtual machine system.
If you see a difference, you are rich : you sell your test to the VM designers and help them solving the problem, and you will receive a lot of of money for that very good job.

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forget this, I will contact them and I will become very rich

hehe quite true... i presume it would run alot better if it is installed on hard-drive

If it's a VM, it's on the hard drive! It's supposed to be as fast as the hard drive of your physical machine. The only difference could be if the vm hard drive does not correctly manage the Windows8 disks.
If this is really the case, it will be fixed in the next vmware release, because Windows 8 will the one of the major releases for the professional systems clouded by vmware.

for me three buttons is enough...
i had a mouse that came with a laptop i use to own few years back (a ASUS G1S or GS1)... it had 5 extra buttons

In my opinion, a standard guy has five fingers, so he can efficiently use no more than five buttons.
Moreover, if he wants to be able to move the mouse, he needs two fingers dedicated to mouse moving, so only three fingers are available for buttons.
Of course, this statement does not apply to fps shooting games nor to space-rockets adventure games, where you keep the mouse with two hands for more precision, and then you have ten fingers available, then you can devote each finger to each of the weapons you acquired. You needed so many time for earning the money in order to acquire that weapon, you have plenty of time for deciding which finger will use this new weapon and which movement will better optimize your placement for using it.
So, my definite opinion is :
For stand one-hand mouse users, a two or three button mouse is enough.
For two-hands mouse users, up to ten buttons can be managed. But you will lose time when switching from mouse-handling to keyboard-typing. So, if ten buttons is not enough for your game, switching from mouse to keyboard will be really time-consuming and you will suffer a tremendous lack of performance.

Nice problem!What is your purpose? Why do you need to transfer the info from one grid to another? Creating a fail-safe with automatic update on another platform?

COD - MW3 is probably my favourite FPS although in my opinion the BEST ever FPS game is DOOM - it was way ahead of its time when released... and also was a big boost for FPS gaming...

Are we talking about the original DOOM, or DOOM2?

Logitech G5 - $59.99(Original price)

Microsoft Laptop mouse - $5

Ha-Ha!So, we know : the price range is between $5 and $60.
Now we need a skilled gamer to clarify the price-performance ratio, and tell us if we can plot the curve and see a linear or a hyperbolic shape.

just out of curiousity, why are you using this connection method?

For instance when his DSL router is broken?I also needed this when I was out of my office, in a place where there was no public wifi available.

are you saying it can hold 60 copies of the web? i'm sure the web is way more than 120million Gigabytes by now

OK, Bob said "the biggest backup". And, of course, the web is not a single website, each system needs to have a backup, and we can imagine that the biggest single backup somewhere is 20 terabytes, which of course needs to be multiplied by the number of single copies (monday backup, wednesday backup, week-end backup, monthly backup at least).

That's a modern feature.Some tens of years ago, it was normal to wait until three other persons are free for playing cards.Today, if I want to play, I want to do it right now. It's possible with online games, without waiting.It's a modern times feature : we want everything immediately.I still think we can mix both : playing online as soon as I want, and playing around a table with my friends as soon as they are available, maybe next month.

Seems to be a network problem : the site responds too slowly.Check your network, try a ftp upoload for instance, and see if your networks responds correctly.

Seems that you need a (x,y) matrix. Capture the mouse position. And, if x is between a and b, and y is between c and d, call chapter 3.

Youtube amongst other for entertainment...

Can Youtube be used for something other than entertainement?

This is part of the war : when I have to choose between several smartphones at similar prices, I will not choose the ugly one, I will take that one which has a nice design.

I hate these square tile icons! Is this really the new way designers think that we will love looking at our phones?

i would like a run command for getting to a Connections Properties... especially if its only one Network Connection available

You want to know or to change the properties ?
To know the properties, just type

ipconfig /all

Of course, it's "ifconfig -a" if you are on a Unix or a Linux system!
And, to change the properties on a windows system, what about righ-click or left-click on the small network icon? Or right click on the "network" icon on your desktop? That's what is done by most of the sytem administrators which happen to be as lazy as I am!

awesome thanks... now i'm wondering if anyone knows how to get to a network connection property - i mean instead of typing ncpa.cpl then right click on network connection to view properties... is there a run command for it?
cheers

Really? Are you asking about network management inside a disk management topic?

Maybe this is a new function, but now you can compare directories simply whit
diff /direone/ /diretwo/

it compares the files in each on and the contents.

Quite true.
Unfortunately, the teacher asked the student not to use "diff", in order to learn how to manage recursive commands and how to pass variables to scripts.