sonoftheclayr

I have to go Ubuntu and Kubuntu as they are the only ones I have used (I know they are pretty much the same, the only difference being Desktop Environment). I would like to try Fedora but the download is so darn big!

I started off using GNOME on Ubuntu but switched over to KDE a couple of months back, it is the best thing I have ever done, KDE is much faster than GNOME. Back on topic I think it is great that the French government is starting to use Open-Source. Another great step in the on-going war between open-source/free and Windows/closed-source/not free. I don't have anything on my computer that isn't open-source! (Guess what side I'm on?)

The forum is a discussion between developers. We would be creating the game from scratch on a different server (we did have one but that disappeared)

I, along with several others, am making an online game called Galactic Rifts (at the moment). It is a sci-fi text or graphical based game set in the future where you have to conquer other players and dominate. The address is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ so if anybody would like to help come along and sign up. We are currently in the planning stage so any new ideas will be welcome.

I am pretty sure my computer is overheating as it averages 70 C when idling, after I cleaned the fan out with a vacuum cleaner.I am not sure this is average for a 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor but I'm sure it isn't as my laptop hovers around 40 C.The hard disk in it recently stopped working and I was wondering if it could have overheated as well and if there is anything I can do to restore the files off it or at least get the (or some) files of it.Any recomendations for a new fan? I am looking to spend no more then AU$50 and would like a good fan that will keep my system cool.Could you please help as my entire family is biting my head off complaining that they have nothing to do.Thank you,sonoftheclayr

I have a wireless router that simply routes our internet connection through and I think it is great.I just about always have a strong connection from my room (which is right next to the router) and have a good connection, if not excellent, all around the house.I have enabled WPA encryption, MAC address filtering and it no longer broadcasts the SSID. I am not that concerned about security as my town is very small, some 400 people, of those 400 people around 3 would have sat up a wireless network and regularly use it (including me) as well as the community hall (I picked up the signal once).I really don't think anybody would know how to set up wireless on their laptop let alone hack into my internet connection.

I am sure you have all heard of the double zero degrees question.Well, I have an answer.We are going to be using Celsius and Kelvin to figure this out.1) Convert 0 C to K: 0 + 273.15 = 273.152) From 273.15 which is equal to 0 C we double it with a result of 546.3 K, this is twice as much as zero degrees.3) Convert it back in celsisus: 546.3 - 273.15 = 273.15 CTherefore twice as much as 0 C is 273.15 C, interesting isn't it?

Yes the universe is expanding, at a fairly rapid rate too.They recently found out that one of the numbers in Hubble's Theory was off and the universe is expanding faster than we originally thought and that it has expanded more than we thought, how they know this I don't know.But what is going to happen when the universe can't expand anymore?There are several theories some such are:Big Tear (or Rip) - The universe rips apart pulling everything into an empty voidBig Freeze - The universe freezes because it has expanded so far that there is not enough lightBig Crunch - The universe implodes upon itselfThere is always the question "What is the universe expanding into?"If anybody has ever read Cosm you will know that the universe is (sort of) expanding into another universe.There is also the widely believed fact that the universe is in an empty void filled with countless other universes.There are many theories but than we have to ask ourselves "How did all this start?" Creation gods come into the equation here.

Thanks for the help guys, I upgraded the BIOS, Sound card (The sound does work!), Network Card and anything elese that needed upgraded. We didn't get any BSoD's yesterday (First time in a while) after I upgraded the drivers.To anybody else: Don't use windows update to upgrade drivers! Go to the manufacturers website and get the latest version from there, or go to your motherboard's manufacturer and get the driver updates from there (It had updates for all the hardware that came with the computer)

I actually done a persuasive essay last year stating "That Pluto isn't a planet", turns out I was right so I asked my old English teacher and now I get a retrospective A+!It doesn't really bother me much, though, because, when you think about it, Pluto never was a planet under this new definition. It was always misclassified as a planet and has always been a Kuiper Belt Object, and not the largest one at that.In the 90's when people started to think about Pluto not being a planet Clyde Tombaugh (the discoverer of Pluto) said "I don't care what you do with it".

I use XAMPP as the development server on my laptop but recently the Apache version bundled hasn't been working saying that there are "no listening sockets available". It is currently set to the default port of 80 but even when I cahnge it to something unused it still doesn't work.I can't find a version of XAMPP with Apache 1 installed as I heard that downgrading it might work. I can't thinkof anything that would cause it to stop working but even when I close all the programs and stop running all the background services except explorer it still doesn't work.Can anybody help me with this problem as it is really stalling the development of my web page and I am starting to get desperate.

Our family computer is running Windows XP Home SP2 with all the latest updates installed and we constantly get Blue Screens of Death.The most common is DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS in NDIS.sys and portcls.sys.I have googled this many times and found nothing to help but I have heard the two files are for the network card and sound card respectively.The computer has the following specs: - Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz - Gigabyte 85661FXMP-RZ motherboard with Award v. 6.0 BIOS - NIVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 - No idea what the network card and sound cards are but we use the network car to hook up to ADSL via a Belkin wireless router so I can have the internet on my laptop.It has ZoneAlarm Security Suite installed (whatever the latest version is) and whenever I run a virus or spyware scan (yep, you guessed it) another BSoD comes up, although this one isn't as specific and just gives me a string of numbers.I have checked all the drivers and they are all up to date except for the sound card because I loose the sound whenever I upgrade it.The BSoD's usually come up when we are playing a game namely The Sims 2 and Civilization IV and running a virus or spyware scan.I have also heard that it might be a problem with the CPU overheating or something wrong with the BIOS but I don't know what settings to change.If anybody could help it would be much appreciated because we are all getting sick of the blue screens.

What about in Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga where people are fitted with a memory chip and when they die or when they choose to they are cloned and the memory chip is implanted with all that person's memories? Different body, same person.I have no problems with cloning organs or cloning out diseases, even if they can only prevent them. So what if some people are more susceptible, the diseases will dwindle with less people to prey on, wouldn't they?I don't have a problem with cloning as long as the person being cloned has a valid reason such as medical reasons or if they are dead and it allows them to continue living. I wouldn't mind a clone of myself.So some people might think it is morally or ethically wrong, ethics and morals come from what people think is right and 'not dirty'! I don't get them to be honest, what is the point of saying cloning is morally wrong and then going to watch television and seeing half-naked people walking around? It really depends on the society you live in and how technologically thinking that society is.

That is the most disguisting and pointless website I have ever seen!What's next, Virtual Vomit! I'm not even gonna Google that!(Wheres the green sickly smiley? There should be one!)

In 1997 the International Astronomical Society (IAS, the governing body of Astronomy and objects in space) met to discuss the "Is Pluto a planet" problem.They declared that Pluto would be included as a planet no matter what and now they are meeting to discuss the future of Xena (2003 UB 313) and other Kupier Belt Objects and if any of them can be called planets.The term planet does not have an official definition and, depending on what you look up, there are anything from the 6 'original' planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as discovered by the ancient Greeks) to 100's of asteriods, comets, planetiods, moons, etc. (Any heavenly body that gives off light).So you see, there will be nine planets in the Solar System until September when the IAS declares what a planet is when there might be 10, 11, 12 or still 9.Large Planetoids: - Xena - Quoaor - SednaThere are more but I can't remember them all.