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Another thing is you could use a file/partition recovery software to recover your files back. I mean scavenging through your hard drive's MFT records to recover back your deleted/wiped file. A very good example is file scavenger. I cannot remember the link to their website. Do a lil' googling with file scavenger as your search query and you should be able to get their web url. I bet you are gonna recover back all your files irrespective of having reformated your partitions/HDDs.

You are right there delivi. It aint like the pentium is out already in the CPU race but a 2.0GHz is kinda out of date. I remember that the first Pentium 4 processor I ever used on my PC was a 2.4GHz P4 A and that was about 2 years now, since 2005. I wouldnt go for anything lower than a Core2Duo and a minimum of 2.4GHz on that for any computer I am gonna buy from now onwards. ANyways, I am going for a Quad for sure this time.

does all these really affect SEO? You got any ideas where I can get any good SEO ebook? Im gonna go do some googling right away.

Now isnt this lovely? This is exactly wht I am looking for. I know that the Bluetooth data transfer might be way too slow for the required bandwidth for the gaming network. Thanks rvalkass for the info.I would go through the tutorial from Microsoft. I am using Windows Vista Ultimate and I hope its gonna work in there.thanks again man.

Nice site man. Just registered myself in there. I really do need the link exchange at this moment. I can remember a time my previous website (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ [No longer in existence]) used to rank among the first 10 websites in Google for some specific keywords.I need to start working on my site's SEO again to get to that position again.

It is not like I am defending the whole thing. But the issue here is that I was made to understand that it aint like I am going to design the website for them, but that I am designing it for us. Meaning that I am included in the very day2day decisions concerning the company. Of course, we have to reach an agreement about the whole thing.Concerning what this man has achieved in his past, he is the president of a Non Governmental Organization that has really helped a lot of children in my country. He is more or less the not gaining type if you understand what I mean. Has been trying to give me taht impression that he will never try to cheat me.

OMG! another virus on the line-up? Why would people write malicious programs that would only cause harm to others's computers?It makes no sense at all to destroy others' properties

Now, that is what I m talking about. Hey man, I tel you what? I am really in love with that thread out there. had to copy and save it somewhere in my laptop. Already disabled some of them services that I aint using.Checked my winsxs folder and found out that it is 3.94GB in size. I opened it and saw a lota junks (am i right to call that junks?) in there. whatever they are meant for.

Thanks for the warning Mike. Gotta be more careful with 'em emails now.

I would say for sure that their website was generated by MS Frontpage. You cannot get a good web admin to design your website and you wanna offer webhosting to some other people.I would rather get my hosting with all them updated packages here in Xisto than go there and pay $10

Lets face some facts in here. There are still some parts of the US and UK where a black man (I am a black) is and will always be treated like *BLEEP* simply because he is black. You know, I simply dont get it. For instance, a friend of mine living in the UK (I am not gonna call names in here) once told me a story of a guy that got arrested by the police simply because he was walking past a place they call as white quarters. Can you imagine that? I cant help but ask myself and any other person tht cares to listen...Are we not all created by God? why were some people created to seemingly be higher than others? I used to think that racism is a thing of the past and that those who practiced it has been brought to judge but no....That idea has died in my head after I heard this story from my friend. Too bad...the injustice of man.

A friend of mine wanted to play a network game with me. He wanted to know whether there is any way he could connect to my laptop using his laptop's wifi or bluetooth and be able to play these games.Is this possible at all? and how can it be done, if it realy is possible.Another thing is that we dont want to go into buying stuffs like wireless router and stuffs like taht. Just wanna know whether we could do a Peer2Peer connection and be able to play our game in a network? Can the bluetooth's Personal Area Network do this?

Well, for me, the hardest game I have ever played is DOOM 3. I got to a stage where I had to fight with this monster called Sarius and meeen...beating that thing was something else. I do think there is some error in the game that made it quite impossible for me any of my friends to beat the monster.Finally, I had to end the endless fight with some cheat codes.

I would wonder a huge company like MS would have that kinda messd up customer care. Yes, I m using a genuine Windows Vista which came with my laptop. Unfortunately, I am in a country quite far away from where I can reach them (Nigeria) and apart from that, I dont wanna go to that lenght. I am not gonna stop using Vista though as thats what I am using at the moment. Only that I got pisss off by what happened.

YEa I undestand the fact that it really is a gamble. And I also understand that these people are olf enought o be my dad and might wana hve their way. It is not more like I am just gonna be their Director for information tech, but they are depending on me for the existence of the company. It is a company that, irrespctive of having a physical office and genuinely registered as a company, would be making most of its monay through online advertisements and getting people know about tourism in Africa and where the locations are and what to do to get their and probably providing you with a road map and stuffs like taht. Yes, they will be depending on mwe ,cos they wont just want anything to happen to their website. One person amongst them suggested using a Content management system (CMS) software to get the website done, but I tols him that I am gonna code the site from the scratch. if i do it that way (I know its gonna be a very difficult task that I dont even know how long its gonna take me to finish the whole website of more than 200-300 pages) it would be very difficult for anyone to imitate my codes and layout and everything I put in there. On the other hand, if I decide to use the CMS software, anyone with enough computer knowhow should be able to make any necessary changes in what I have in there...which means that they can really do without my expertise which is one thing I really wanna prevent. I dont think it would be that easy for them to let go of me as they understand very very well that they need an expert in the field and not just anyone out there.

You know what sarah? Your story sounded somewhat like what happened to me only that I, as the guy, got the boot and the girl has never bothered to come back to her senses (been about four months+ since we literally broke up and coupled with her mom worsening the whole thing by telling me all sorts of things, I never bothered to call her again. Infact, I literally cut her off 'cos of hurt and the feeling that I have been used). Well, let me give you my own analysis of the whole thing the way I see it. In my own case, it wasnt some emotional issues like your ex. It was more or less some hardships that has to do with going bankrupt and having to depend on my ex to help me out and sustain me. She did stand by me then, but I guess that she, Like you, got fed up. You know what? Sometimes, I really do wonder at women...the way they reason and what goes on in there heads. You see a girl and she likes you and tells you all sorts of good things and the next moment, she starts telling you that she is fed up and dont wanna be with you again. Well, I guess God has created them the way he did and there is nothing we can do to correct that. Like your Ex, I am also the possesive type. let me tell you something Sarah, THE ONLY REASON WHY YOUR EX. WOULD BE CALING YOU FREQUENTLY IS MOST LIKELY BECAUSE HE IS SCARED OF LOOSING YOU. You know, there is one thing I generally tell my ex the time she started behaving somehow, it is a saying that goes this way..... "IT IS ONLY THE PERSON WHO IS MORE HUNGRY THAT WOULD EAT AND HOLD ONTO THE POT". Literally, it means that you try to hold onto that thing that means a lot to you because you are scared of loosing it. Like the very hungry person, who tries to hold onto the pot of food because he doesnt want the other person to make away with the food, you ensure that you struggle to hold earnestly to whatever it is that you love so much. Back then, I would generally, like your ex, call my ex more than 6 times pre day. I have, on some occassions made a more than 2 hours non-stop call to her in a bid to ensure that everything is alright betwen the 2 of us. But, you know, like the saying also goes... "PEOPLE DO NOT VALUE WHAT THEY HAVE UNTIL THEY LOOSE IT". This is exactly what is happening to you now. You want him so badly right now, but it was still the same you that rejected him back then because you thought that he was bugging your life[/b]. It just escapes my imagination to really understand women and their way of thinking. Well, you wanted him to be happy and now that he really is happy, you want to go back to him again. What is happiness and what is love? Can someone please answer me that? This was exactly the same thing, the same reason that my ex was giving me. She would tell me... "Mike, I know that you would not understand the reason why I am doing this at this moment, but I promise you that when you do, you be happy we split. I just want you to be happy and nothing more. I wouldnt like it if I come to know that you did something rascally because of me." Now can you please imagine that? You want me to be happy while on the other hand, you are just about to make me as unhappy as I can ever be. Like I said before, only God knows why he created women the way they are. Like your ex, I kept calling my ex, even after we split, in the hope that she would come back and everything would be fine (which never hapened anyways). well, finally you were able to get him off your back. You called his calls annoying when he was somewhere wallowing in hurt and want of you. And now, because you have been physically attacked by this boyfriend of your, you think you still love him. Let me ask you Sarah... PUT YOURSELF IN HIS SHOES, DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD WANNA ACCEPT BACK SOMEONE WHO TREATED YOU THE WAY YOU TREATED HIM? I bet the answer would be a NO!!! Sometimes, we need to put ourselves in others' positions to be able to really understand what they are passing through. Well, I tell you what Sarah, he might want to see you, but he would definitely not want you back, because of the way you treated him...I might be wrong though 'cos everyone aint the same and we all dont reason the same way. But, if you would do something like that to me, personally, I would not want to have you back, irrespective of whether I still love you or not. Right now, I still love my ex and at times, it gets so much that I would wish she would come back, but still, somewhere at my subconsciousness, I dont want her back. Reason...YOU CANNOT WASH OFF THE LEOPARD'S SPOTS. If I continue, I bet I am never gonna stop in my post. Well, I wish you as much good luck as you wish yourself. Only remember one thing...WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.

256MB of RAM in this age and time? Now let us get one thing very straight here. 256MS is way too small for your computer except all you have to do with the computer is simply type some ducuments with MS word or something. If you are thinking of playing games that contain a lot of graphics, then I would suggest you upgrade your memory to a minimum of 512MB.I am currently using 1GB of RAM on my PC but yet that aint enough for my day2day activities. That is the reason why I am planning a 4GB RAM upgrade to come with my next major computer upgrade.Now about the graphics card, Intel Extreme Graphics (I assume that is what your mobo uses) sucks. It is only using what is called as hyper-memory in which case it collects only 8MB of memory from your RAM (shares the RAM with the system) and boosts it to say, 64MB or thereabout. You know, I would recommend you forget about the RAM and buy the Graphics card instead. That will be if you willnot be playing games that require more than 256 MB of system memory.

Understood. You know, if not for the hardware requirement of Windows Vista, I personally prefer Windows Vista to Windows XP. My laptop runs Windows Vista very well irrespective of all the Aero graphics and every other thing in there.You know, vista has more security than XP. I have witnessed it myself in a situation where by my friend tried to hack into my laptop (a test hack though) but was quite unsuccessful. The same thing was done on his desktop that is runing XP but he was able to hack in. Why? Because I am using Windows Vista Ultimate.

Like everyone in here does, I design websites. There was this man whom I met and who wanted a website designed for his Non Governmental Organization and another website designed for a Tourism company he wanna start off with some other people. After looking at the mightiness of the job, I told him that he would be paying the sum of N550,000 ($4,230 approx). He said that he doesnt have that kinda money at the moment, but he also made me a proposal which is: Design the website and get paid.... or Design the website and dont get paid but you will get a share in the tourism company (between 15-20% share he said). I have tried to evaluate the two options. The first one allows me to immediately have access to my money and that means that I can do about anything I wanna do with te money as soon as I can lay my hands on it. The 2nd option though has a promising fuuture if you understand my line of arguement. It means that I will become one of the board members of the company and I will have a huge say in the company since, Like he said, I will be the Director for Information Technology. My friends have offered their own advice, telling me taht I should understand the fact that I could get cheated in the long run and that I should also understand the fact that I am dealing with people who are much much older than I am (Old enough to be my dad) and that I have to be very careful about that. I have tried to make them understand too that cheating me means crashing their website which I believe they are very unwilling to do considering the fact that this is gonna be more of an online company that wouldnt wanna do anything to jeopardize their online presence. I wanna know you guys' opinions of this and your advices too. This is one thing I really need now so I wouldnt take a wrong decision I would regret later in life.

I understand your line of arguement my friend. I have always been an Intel fan all my computing life. You know, I have my personal reasons why I wouldnt wana go for an AMD. one of which is the fact that AMD processors are power hungry chips. Compare an Intel Xeon QC processor and an AMD Opteron CPU, the xeon takes about 120W-150W while the Opteron gulps a whooping 260W. Now, if all that should go to the CPU only, what would the remaining hardwares in the computer utilize? Apart from that, AMD CPUs have a higher tendency of getting fried while in use. I am a system techie and I have seen this happen a lota times. Not once nor twice, but many times. that nevertheless, AMD is still good in its own way. You know, comparing the Intels and AMDs, you find out that the Intel processors have higher mutimedia capabilities than their AMD counterparts. I have mede a lota comparisms, both real life and synthetic comparisms, so I know ahst I am saying. It will take an AMD Athlon XP +3200 about 1.6 times the time it will take an equivalent Pentium IV to render a high definition video. I have to put all these things into consideration while thinking of the kind of CPU to buy for my upgrade. Like I said in an earlier post, I want this computer to be able to handle any task thrown at it. And I mean any task at all. You have to understand something. Cosair might be good but there are still other good products out there. Yes, a lot of people do recommend Cosair, possibly because they hve made their nme in making very good products, but I wanna use this particular PSU because people who have bought it really rated it very high considering the fact that it has a high Current (Amperage) output in the +12V power rail and I really love that cos' I generally make a lot of connections in my PC.

The computer isnt meant for any particular job. It is meant to be able to undertake any task thrown at it irrespective of whatever field it is coming from. My budget? I am looking at anywhere between $1,300 to $1,750. Anything that falls in there will be fine with me. Actually, I have been doing quite some research concerning this computer because I dont want something I will buy and it wont be able to do some of the things for which it was bought. I have spent about 2 weeks+ on this research. I know why I wanna buy it from an online store. Like you said, I have access to a vaariety of products from different manufacturers and that means I can select from any. I have never been an AMD fan in my life. It aint like I hate AMD or anything of that sort, but I just love Intel for some reasons. I prefer Intel because their processors have a lower tendency of being baked while in use. In most cases that I have seen, the mobo goes bad instead of the processsor, which I think is preferable since the CPU happens to be more expensive than the mobo. Did you say something about power consumption? OMG!!! I hate AMD for that. Can you imagine that the later Opterons use as much as 260W of power? That is what I call outrageous power consumption. Imagine where you are using that kinda CPU in a computer with the sort of configuration as the one I am building? I guess you are gonna need a 1000W (1KW) PSU to power taht PC. I aint praying for something like tht. I am going for an ASUS P5K LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail mobo. It has dual PCI E x16 slots. I cant be talking about using dual ATI GPUs on Crossfire if I aint gonna buy a mobo that supports that very feature. I know everything about Windows Vista's RAM consumability. it just doesnt utilize the RAM, it gulps them. I am actually going for 4GB of RAM just to make sure that this is one computer that can understake any task. Well, I am gonna be using Windows Vista (as I am already using it on my laptop ATM) and Windows XP Professional x86/x64 (but most likely the x64 version because the x86 versiob of Windows does not suport more than 2GB of RAM.....too bad). And I guess I am gonna go find the 64bit version of Vista too so that I can utilize the full RAM there too. talking about the PSU, I believe a 680W PSU should be able to carry a computer with that config comfortably. I am going for a APEVIA ATX-AS680W-BL 680W Power Supply - Retail which is quite good 'cos everyone who has bought it is rating it quite high. The case I wanna buy has quite a lota room within for anything you wanna put in there. It is called Antec Nine Hundred. They are refering to it as a gaming case because it is well ventilated for any hardwares you stack in it. it is carying 3x 120mm and 1x 200mm cooling fans. Has quite lota perforations around it. You need to have a look at this casing to undersand tha reason why I went for it. I know very well that there is gonna be a lota heat generation in there and a good ventilation will be required. Did you say HP mas produced mobos with nVIDIA chips with support for crossfire? hey thats quite a good story for people like me. Though I aint goning for the 680i SLI mobo again. I dont want complications at all concerning this computer. Decided to go for another mobo with an Intel P35 and with support for ATI crossfire. At least a certified one is better than taking unnecessary risks. Yea, I know that one 8600GTS cannot outperform 2x HD 2600XT. I have read a lot of real life reviews about this particular Graphics card and what I read is actually what is giving me the confidence to go ahead with this dual GPUs using the HD 2600XTs. Some people say that going Quad is crazy. Even my friends down here where like..."Oh men, what the hell are you gonna be doing with your PC? Run a Yahoo! server? Shouldnt you buy 2x Core2Duo instead of one Quad Core?" Well, I told 'em I prefer the Quad core 'cos it wil still outperform any Duals you bring inclusing the Xtreem Dual Cores. So far, I only have one friend in support who said it is better to have all the performance in one system than having several with lagging performances. I am one person who dont joke with performance where my personal computers are concerned and the more reason why I am going for this quad core. I hate it when I have to wait for any computer to respond to any command I give it. Listed below is a list of all the Hardwares I have selected @ Newegg with their respective prices... Processor: (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - OEM) $280 Motherboard: (ASUS P5K LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail) $135 RAM: WINTEC 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Memory (x2) $160 HDD: (Open Box: SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD403LJ 400GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s - OEM) x3 (1.2TB) $210 VGA: (MSI RX2600XT Diamond Plus Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR4 PCI Express x16 OC Edition HDMI HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail) $330 CD/DVD: (LITE-ON 20X DVDąR DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black SATA Model) x2 $66 Monitor: (Niko NIKO-2017MAAW Black 20" 16ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor) x2 $340 PSU: (APEVIA ATX-AS680W-BL 680W Power Supply - Retail) $110 Case: (Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail) $130 Speakers: (Creative Inspire P7800 90 Watts 7.1 Speaker - Retail) $90 Sound Card: (Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy SE Sound Card - OEM) $28 FM/TV Tuner: (SAPPHIRE 100204L Radeon Theatrix 650 PRO (lite retail) - Retail) $65 Keyboard+Mouse: (Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110 967561-0403 Black 102 Normal Keys 12 Function Keys USB + PS/2 RF Wireless Standard Keyboard Mouse Included - Retail) $30 Final price for now is $1,945

I dont think you know about avant very well if you have this to say about it. I have used avant for more than 4 months and i have one thing to say about it...it aint a good browser. I am not an IE fan though but I prefer IE7 to avant. I generally use Opera or Firefox or navigator for my browsing. I use IE only whihle debugging my web pages during developement just to make sure about compatibility of the web pages with all them major browsers. While I was using avant, it will generally make my CPU to run high for some reason which I just cant figure out. Even after I reformatted and reinstalled it back, the same thing kept occuring so I had to stop it outright.

You are welcome Kuuldot. Why do you have to say that sarahscope? hmm.....isn't it surprising that a woman would say something like this. I would swear any lady/woman would try to defend themselves. Anyways, the reason why you said that is best known to you sarah. You know what rayzoredge? girls/ladies/women are more or less like your shadow. run after them and they run away in the opposite direction. Run away and they come after you. Actualy, this current girl isn't just serious with me and I aint liking that at all. She is too young 18 yrs to be exact. I didnt even go for her. After the previous encounter with the half-cast, I decided to stay off women. Out of no where, she just came and started pestering me with calls. At first, I never wanted to have anything to do with her, but when she persisted, I softened a bit and decided to give her a try, thinking that she might be genuine. Then what happens? All of a sudden, she comes up with this idea that she just wants me to be her best friend. oooohh!! I just couldnt digest that. Ok, I was finally able to convince her against that, but I still noticed that she was becoming more and more unserious about the whole thing. I wouldnt know whether to attribute the slack to her immaturity (or so I think, you never can tell whether a woman is imature or just pretending towards you) or that she aint just liking the whoe saga. Anyways, I havent called her for more than one week now and she hasnt bothered to call either. I am just gonna give her another day or two and then invite her for a chat. I will try to talk some sense into her or maybe we could just separate amicably in order that no one starts feeling cheated or lied to. I do like her though, but like the previous one, I cant force her. I now understand where my mistakes are coming from. It would be too bad if, after experiencing everything that happened to me, I am not able to make some changes to myself. I guess my new girl is getting pissed off 'cos I am not being that soft on her (OMG! I hope I aint being too hard either.) BTW, I noticed that the topic of this my thread has been changed for some reason which I am yet to understand. I would appreciate it if it could be changed to the original topic I used. I do not see anything wrong with that. In case you have forgotten the topic, it is...Oh my God! I have been used. I am not liking this

You've got a very good point there Saint. Never thought about the dual monitors. But since you've mentioned it, I am gonna put that into consideration this time. Actually, I have decided to buy the case and the PSU separately. I prefered an Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail and going for a 680W PSU (APEVIA ATX-AS680W-BL 680W Power Supply - Retail) which I believe is gonna power the computer very well. BTW 680W is just 20W short of 700W and thats fine enough. I am not going for the 680i SLI motherboard again. I never wanted to face any risk after installing this PC. I have shifted to a P35 Motherboard this time and the mobo was certified by ASUS to be working with Crossfire. Don't think it works with SLI cos they didnt specify that. I am buying a retail mobo. Changed from the open box verrsion to the retail version. Thanks for that advice Saint. But I am still using the same mobo. Only changing from OEM to retail. Everything I am buying in there are all Brand New from Box. No no no!!! I aint going for any expensive risks in here concerning this computer. You dont spend your money on risks...do you? BTW, will a single 8600GTS outperform a HD 2600XT on CrossFire? I have had a look at the specifications and all what they support and tahts why I finally landed myself with the HD 2600XT from MSI. I believe that this aint no bad configuration. Because of your advices, I have shifted form the X1650PRO which supports DX9.0c to the higher HD 2600XT which I belive will serve my purpose. And I have also added a FM/TV tuner to the configuration too. It is a SAPPHIRE 100204L Radeon Theatrix 650 PRO (lite retail) - Retail. I guess I might add the dual monitors which Saint suggested. But then, I am not going down on the size. Instead, I am gonna make it a dual 20" Wide Screen LCD. I bet that would be real cool. And refering to the question about the final price for this computer, everything in there is costing me a huge sum of $1,805. Which, if converted to my currency (Nigerian Naira) is amounting to N234,650. Now, this aint no small amount of money, but I wanna make this a one time buy and then stop bothering myself about buying a personal desktop for myself. OMG! I have forgotten about the Dual monitor stuff. If I hve to add the 2nd monitor, everything will land at $1945 which is equal to N252,850. WOOHOOO!!!

This is not just a benchmark by some software that provides you with a synthetic benchmark result, but a real life gaming experience by someone who has used this card and noticed the goodness of the GPU. You know, I am not even buying ony one of the HD2600XT card. I am buying two of 'em cards so that I can use then on Crossfire mode.Now, imagine what it would look like to use two HD2600XT (512MB of GDDR4) with DX10. Your gaming is gonna be real kooooolll.I can only wonder at what the graphics will look like in there combining it with the Q6600 Quad Core which I will be O'Cing to 3.4GHz or more considering the fact that I am gonna be using a case which has been refered to as an EXTREEM GAMING CASE 'cos its got a lota cooling.Well, thats gonna be a real computing experience.And BTW, I have added a Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy SE Sound Card and Creative Inspire P7800 90 Watts 7.1 Speaker - Retail to the list to make everything complete.