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Wow, the iBuyPower site looks pretty good. It seems like you can get pretty good gaming machines for a good price.

For Win XP: I use RealPlayer v10 to listen to Trance streamed from SHOUTcast(which is what I listen most of the time) For streaming I find that RealPlayer is the most convenient and easiest to use of the media players. For avi's I use Windows Media Player 10.

lol, I listen to Trance exclusively and I don't listen to DnB & Breaks, lol

I used to use AceFTP, but now I use SmartFTP. SmartFTP is a really good FTP client, has all the necessary features, and its free.

Ya, I saw a story about it on tv, but haven't played it yet. It seems interesting like an interesting game, how you roll around a ball and stick things to it.

I have Win XP Professional so I just install the IIS server, install PHP, and then view any PHP files in IE on my own computer.

I have hotmail and its ok. Although the 250mb storage is enough, there are too many advertisements placed around the pages when you check your mail. GMail I think is much better, with more search features and only Google ads placed on the pages.

For me, Win XP has the most game support. It can run most older games and all new games play pretty well on XP.

Right now I only use one partition for Win XP, and I format the entire drive every time I format. I plan on installing Linux so I'm going to add another partition.

Rome Total War is an awesome game. The battles are very realistic and the commands are simplistic, but allow for a large variety of strategies. The city management part is also pretty fun, as you get to build your cities to pretty large sizes.

I've played counter-strike for about 2 years, (since version 1.3). Its a pretty good game and was a lot of fun a while back, but I haven't been playing that much recently.