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But the problem here is that gaming IS their life. WoW addicts DO have real jobs you understand. They just decided that they rather live in a fantasy world than in reality.

It is sad but true. I have quite a few friends who, from all outward appearances would be just the same as they were years ago. However, the amount of free time WoW consumes is ridiculous. The problem, like you said, really comes when people decide to live in the real world, but always dream of the fantasy world where they have something different than the usual every-day (thinking about WoW outside of the game frequently is the largest problem).

Nothing is wrong with the game itself, I played it myself for a while and it was enjoyable to a point. Limiting oneself is difficult for some reason when it comes to MMO RPGs, and it is very VERY difficult to climb back out once one decides the fantasy world is better or more enjoyable and fulfilling than the real world.

I did some research on that monitor, and I appears that there are significant hardware problems that come up frequently. Of course, make sure that your drivers are up to date. I found what appear to be updated ones here:

http://www.driverfiles.net/

In any case, reviews do point to frequent hardware problems with your current model, most notably capacitor problems according to a few review website, such as:

Viewsonic Troubleshooting

I hope it is a driver problem, best of luck!

Luckily, this happened at a time when most people probably didn't experience many difficulties. Well, that is to say, those in the United States probably didn't. I know I didn't notice anything because it was at such obscure hours in my timezone. Also, even if it had been during more regular hours, my website isn't fully up yet, so I don't have too much to worry about yet But I'm glad to see that Xisto, or the entire Xisto network I suppose, has everything under such outstanding control that a DDOS attack caused so little damage and was recovered from so quickly. Props! I feel like my website is safe Keep up the great work, and thanks for being awesome!

I personally much prefer Level 1 (as you labeled it) because I absolutely will not install every update Micro$oft tries to forcefeed me. For example, I'm very computer literate and am able to protect myself from malware; I don't need Micro$oft's program, which may be sending information about my system abroad for all I know. Even if it isn't, it's still a waste of the time to download it, the space to store it, and the time and resources to run it. I don't install updates that are a few MB's just to tell me that my copy of XP is legitimate. I also do not want to install Internet Explorer 7 because I don't want to waste away HDD space and risk another Micro$oft program installation when I use Mozilla Firefox exclusively. I'm not one of those that will update all of my programs merely because a newer version is available, regardless of whether I like the company / individual or not. For example, on most of my computers I still use Firefox 1.5 because there are quite a few settings I prefer and a few extensions I use which are incompatible with Firefox 2. Once I start visiting websites that tell me they require Firefox 2, maybe I'll consider updating the remainder of my computers (my laptop is using Firefox 2), but until then, I'll stick with my preferred versions of programs. I can make my own choices as to if I want to update, be it my Operating System, my web browser, or my text editor.

Thanks a lot serverph and jrummer! Both of your suggestions worked flawlessly. I tried merely copying the image locally (using explorer) without uploading it or putting it into an HTML file, but for some reason, it doesn't work. Oh well, writing a generic HTML file and changing the links is easy enough, and that batch file is even simpler! Again, thanks.

I would say that making sure you maintain a healthy diet is the most important thing, as you mentioned. However, artificial sweeteners are indeed artificial... I prefer my nature-made sugar. Sugar has never harmed anyone! Just make sure you know how to control your consumption, as with any food or drink, and you will be fine.

That is a really cool trick that I actually didn't know existed, but unfortunately, it doesn't validate at http://validator.w3.org/ Still, very neat.

Remember the movie "Hackers?"
What were the Plague's four most commonly used passwords?

Love, Sex, Secret, and God!

Wow! I can't believe someone just brought up the exact thing I thought of when I saw this topic! Great ideas everyone. My passwords tend to be somewhat secure... never terrible, but never great. Alas, such is the result of laziness.

I've had bad experiences with NTFS file compression as well. As Hard Disk Drive prices continue to plummet, I would suggest purchasing a new HDD, as much of a generic answer as that is. You could also backup files that you are not going to change and that you don't access often onto DVD's; that always helps keep my 80GB HDD from filling up. Unless you're not concerned about performance at all on your PC (which I know everyone is), I would not manually compress your entire HDD because of the performance hit. As reinux mentioned, you should archive your files (though use 7-zip, it's much more efficient than ZIP) if you're unable to follow any of my other tips.

Vista is the plague of all operating systems. Using Vista is equivalent to saying, "I want to make my up-to-date hardware run as slow as possible. Maybe I can even reduce it pre-five-years-ago speeds!" But seriously, as previously mentioned, Vista has a ridiculously high memory and CPU usage. This is why Linux is so great: everything is able to be personalized! If you're like me and always set up your Windows XP machines to use no graphical effects and not use the Luna display theme because it will slow down your PC ever so little, you can find or make a Linux distribution that has a small footprint. Or, you can always continue to use a combination of XP and Linux like I do.

I have two very strong disagreements: mspaint and Windows Movie Maker! Both are extremely useful programs, although mspaint is by far the superior of the two.

 

Mspaint actually has a somewhat large, religious following. It is used extensively for pixel art, and it's a very lightweight program for doing simple editing. How convenient would it be if I had to start up the GIMP on my laptop every time I wanted to do a small resize or simple change? Not at all! I can tell you of the terrible experiences I've had with OSX and its lack of a small, lightweight image editor (although there are a few very good third-party ones!).

 

Now Windows Movie Maker isn't the best product to come out of Micro$oft's depths, but it's definitely not one of the worst. I've used it to create some pretty decent videos for a video editing class. While you have to keep in mind that this is a high school class, the videos were still quite good. It does have an array of features that make it at least good enough to do simple video edits for wedding videos, home videos, or small projects.

 

They actually messed up the number one most worthless Windows feature: Windows ME! The entire operating system was so bad that I honestly believe it should be above such terrible products as Internet Explorer 6, Windows Genuine Advantage, and ActiveX Controls.

Personally, I'd say that's a little too expensive of a price for that PC. I would suggest you shop around for a little while longer. It's especially expensive considering you're doing this for what sounds like a charity, so you should get a pretty good deal from whoever is selling you the PCs. However, if this is the best deal you can come by, it's not so bad. I merely suggest you keep looking because it's not a to-die-for deal.

I know the Zune line will never be able to compete with iPods; the public has been brainwashed to think that the only music players that exist are iPods. As a result, add-on products for iPods are beyond number, and I don't think that Apple will ever lose it's top spot in the MP3 player market.However, I have always had some beef against iPods. The biggest thing I have against it is the price. The price for any type of iPod at any capacity is always beatable by another high quality brand, such as Samsung. Speaking of Samsung, their Sansa line is quite to my liking. While I haven't personally owned one, I have used a few, and I really like their interface (and their prices!). Another thing I have a problem with is probably my own fault: I don't like to be a conformist when a product or service has such a ridiculous monopoly over the market. I could go on for a lot longer, but I'll finish by saying that I'm not sure about everyone else, but I am NOT OK with a company taking away my rights and telling me how I'm going to use something that I buy. This is the feeling I get with iPods, iTunes, and the music purchased there, and I'm not alright with the way Apple feels like they own you once you start using their products.

Saint_Michael's post was really helpful. Before I saw it, I was about to suggest you check out Firefox Portable, because that's another option. This isn't what it was designed for, but it would work well. So if you're using Windows, now you have two choices.

I was just wondering if these features were set the way they were for a reason... I mean the people at firefox probably set these this way because of a possible problem they ran into. Just curious if there was a possible security reason they set this up this way. Just my two cents..

It's not enabled by default because it's only useful if you have a broadband connection. It could actually slow down your browsing if you're using dial-up because it can't handle so many connections at once with such little bandwidth. It also puts more stress on the server you're connecting to.

It can't be 4x faster if your dial-up line maxs out.

This tip works best on broadband connections.

This small hack make the page appear to load faster, but it seems to be just rendering the HTML quickly and then the images (and other content) later.

What it's doing is allowing Firefox to open more connections with a server at one time. It shouldn't change the way the page is rendered.

meh.. i did that on the computer and it is CRAP.. IT slowed my internet moz friggin DOWN.. That little trick is also posted all over the world in nearly every 'young' forum i've been to.

It's actually very useful... if you have a broadband connection. I'm guessing you have dial-up, and you're opening too many connections for your line to handle, so it's actually slowing down.

You have to realize how little number of exploits or insecurities there are in Firefox at all, though. Holes are discovered in Internet Explorer all the time. Now, I know that IE is more often targeted because it's what most computer novices use and has the higher market share, but Firefox usage is on the rise, now making up over a third of those browsing online, so it's quite obviously "Safer, Faster, Better." Firefox can also be easily fixed officially or non because it's open source .Also, I wouldn't exactly call two flaws "Galore," especially when one is really a flaw in MSIE

Hey, that's a pretty useful yet simple tutorial. Great job. However, wouldn't you rather just use 7-zip? The 7z format's compression is superior to anything else I've seen. I also like how the program doesn't seem as cluttered as other archiving programs I've tried. But I understand that WinRAR is more popular. I don't mind WinRAR too much. But again, great tutorial; keep it up!

Dude, I would try out this game on your server, but your website seems to be down. It redirects me to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, but that site is down too...? Anyways, I'd be interested in giving it a try if you get it running.

Wow, you spent a lot of time researching this and playing these games; thanks a lot from the rest of us! I'll have to try some of these out. I never knew free games like these could look so nice!

Wow, it's a close vote. Now if you would have included SMB3....

At the moment I'm playing Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3), Ridge Racer 7 (PS3), Tekken Dark Resurrection (PSP), World of Warcraft (PC), Guitar Hero I and II (PS2), Shadow of the Colossus (PS2), and God of War (PS2). Oh, well of course I'm always playing Super Mario Brothers 3 for NES

Yay I finally got through it That was really a waste of time... but it was sort of fun. There is a second one, but I can't remember what it's called.

I found the cassette now, but I still can't find that battery. I knew I needed one, but I've looked everywhere multiple times...

Serverph, thanks for the tips. I'll try that first one

I can't find the wall safe! Where is it? I already got the "ordinary key" that you get from the cd player's drive. I have the pipe and both rings in the red box. Now I'm really lost