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Core i7 has been around for a while. Admittedly it has been priced very highly, putting it out of the reach of most people, but enthusiasts have been using Core i7 for a few months now. The Core 2 Duo range is being pretty much phased out now in favour of the Core i5 label for mid-range processors. As for extreme specs, check out the PCs entered into CustomPC's Dream PC contest this year. The winning entry featured the following specs:

According to Gateway's website, your laptop has an intel Celeron M 360 processor. That's a socket 479 processor, so you would only be able to use another socket 479 processor, so the best you'd be able to get is a Celeron M 390, which is a 1.7GHz processor compared to your current 1.4GHz. However, you also need to consider whether the cooling setup in your laptop could take the extra heat produced by a faster CPU. Your current CPU produces a maximum of 21W, whereas the 390 produces 27W. It doesn't sound like much but can make a big difference in a small laptop chassis. An Intel dual-core chip is out of the question because it wouldn't physically fit in the motherboard and would produce too much heat. Upgrading the RAM is a possibility and fairly common. According to Gateway your laptop's motherboard supports up to 1GB of PC2700 SODIMM memory. You'd want to get two 512MB modules, like this one from Scan. You can normally replace the RAM through a removable cover on the base of the laptop, often secured with a small screw or two. Opening that cover should reveal the current RAM, which you can take out and replace with two new sticks. If you search the Internet you should be able to find specific instructions for your model of laptop. A hard drive upgrade is also fairly common and easy to do. Same applies, normally a cover on the base or side of the laptop that you can remove to replace the HDD. Any 2.5" laptop drive should work as long as it matches the IDE interface used on your laptop (as far as I can tell). However, some motherboards won't support sizes over a certain amount. If you have the manual for the laptop it should tell you, or you can contact Gateway and ask them.

A heat sink is a device for transferring heat from something that needs cooling down, so that object doesn't over heat. Generally heat sinks are made from copper or aluminium, as these metals have high thermal conductivity and can rapidly dissipate the heat they pick up from whatever they are cooling. They also tend to have large surface areas (normally created with the fins common to most heat sinks) as the amount of energy they can dissipate is proportional to their surface area - a greater surface area allows more heat to be removed. Of course you still need to get that heat out of the heat sink. For smaller heat sinks this isn't normally a problem and the process of convection is good enough to keep a supply of cool air to the heat sink. However when there is a need to remove a large amount of heat, such as with a CPU, a fan becomes necessary to keep a constant supply of the coolest air possible hitting the fins of the heat sink.The 'clear stuff' you put on the CPU (normally actually silver or grey) is called thermal paste. Despite their appearances, neither the surface of the CPU nor the surface of the heat sink are perfectly smooth. They are actually covered with microscopic grooves. When you put the CPU and heat sink together, only the peaks of those grooves would touch, and therefore transfer heat. The rest of the heat would have to pass through small amounts of air, filling the grooves on the CPU and heat sink. The thermal paste fills those grooves in so that heat can be transferred quicker. The thermal paste normally has a very high thermal conductivity to transfer as much heat as possible as quickly as possible.

I think the reason we can store what seems like a huge amount of information and memories in our brains is that we're not storing quite as much as we think. Take my walk to University each morning. If I recorded that walk on HD video I would have colossal detail. I'd be able to stop it frame by frame and count the number of bricks in walls, read the registration plates on cars, count the white lines down the middle of the road, all that sort of stuff. In my mind I can visualise my walk very well, but not quite in the same detail - we remember the important parts and generic details (such as a white van rather than that particular white van) and fill in the gaps when we need to, which computers can't really do. As far as I know, at the moment, we aren't quite sure exactly how the brain stores information. You couldn't take someone's brain, point at a little part of it, and state that part contains memories from their 1994 summer holiday. Until we have a better idea of how the brain stores and retrieves information then there is no way to make it more efficient or investigate further.

Nope, you'd be getting credits twice for the same content. If you do copy your stuff to Xisto you'd need to wrap quote tags around it

If you can change the nameservers on that domain to point to Xisto's nameservers then you can use it with Xisto's hosting. As that domain would still be set as the main domain for your previous hosting, you might have problems logging into your old hosting once you move the domain, but if you're moving hosting providers then that isn't a problem. If you have a top level domain as your main domain, and stop paying for that domain so that it expires, then I think you would have incredible difficulty logging in to your cPanel as that relies on your domain name to get access. If you had other parked or add-on domains you might be able to use those, but you'd still be in an odd situation of your hosting being based on a domain you no longer own, and I'm not sure how cPanel would react to that. Not worth trying it out to find out Xisto is unlikely to fall to the ground unless someone accidentally demolishes the world's datacentres or meteors hit them all or something, which would take everyone out rather than just Xisto Also, in that event, your hosting would stop but your domain would be fine. It's still yours, you still own it for the year no matter what happens to the registrar you used at the time.

Why though? Before we switched over to the new myCENTs system my main domain was rvalkass.trap17.com, and I just parked my top level domain on top of that. That way I always had a guaranteed domain for my hosting, so if I ever decided to stop paying for my top level domain then I could still use my hosting. Once I had the top level domain I used it in my email addresses, web addresses and FTP address instead of the subdomain. It seems like a lot of hassle to get rid of the subdomain for no benefit...

Just log in to your cPanel and go to the parked domains area. Add your top level domain as a parked domain, and you should be able to use it in your FTP address straight away.

I only know a little bit of C programming but in all my learning and attempts at programming, I have never found it to be really annoying. What in particular annoys you about C? I guess certain things could be annoying if you're transitioning from another language and are used to that language's style and functions, but other than that I can't see how it's annoying

As far as I know, cPanel does not let you delete your main domain, because then there would be no domain associated with the account, so you wouldn't be able to access cPanel. I think it also requires quite a bit of configuration to change it. You will need to speak to your hosting company and see if they are willing to change your main domain for you. I honestly can't see the problem with the main domain being a subdomain though. If you park your top level domain using cPanel then you can use that in exactly the same way, including in your FTP address. You don't need to change your CNAME records to use Google Apps. You only need to change them for verification if you can't upload the verification file. However, you do need to change your MX records to point to Google's mail servers, a process I detailed in one of your earlier topics. I'll see if I can find the link later. I think you're free to delete the file, however there is no harm in leaving it there. Not in cPanel. You will need to contact your hosting company and ask them very very nicely to reset your hosting, and see if they'll do it. I think they are generally reluctant because it is quite a bit of work to do it and get it all working again. Google will update its records for your site each time it crawls your site. How often that occurs is up to Google and the settings in your robots file.None of the stuff mentioned above should affect your SEO - it's all behind the scenes stuff.

Does Mac OS already have a MySQL server running in the background anyway? Are the servers being started when you boot up instead of when you request them to start? Do you get any specific errors or more information about this other instance of MySQL? Do you mean open the folder where the files are stored, or access the web server using a web browser? If you can't get into the folder then you should just be able to change the folder permissions so you can get into that folder. If Apache is giving you a permissions error then there is likely a problem with your Apache configuration file that is preventing you from accessing the web server. Always take a backup before performing any major task like upgrading the OS. As far as I know, Apple's upgrade process keeps your personal files (home directory) but not a lot else. Depending on where your files were stored, it probably wiped them during the upgrade. I'll take another look at your email topic and discuss that over there. How is there a "bad" domain as your main domain? You can't delete your main domain because if you did then your hosting would have no domain associated with it, and therefore be inaccessible.

You can set one account to forward its emails to the other account. You would be able to use Google's Mail filters to label the emails depending on which account they were sent to. However, sending all your mail to one account like that slightly defeats the point of having the two separate accounts in the first place. It might be worth downloading a program such as Thunderbird to check all your email accounts at once, in one program, while also making it clear which accounts are separate. Download Thunderbird here. It doesn't make one iota of difference which one is the administrator email. The administrator email is the one you have to login with if you want to create new email addresses and things like that. Only you will ever need to use it and nobody else will ever know which is the administrator address. So, whichever you want

When you order your hosting, choose the package you want. On the next screen, choose the third option: Enter your domain there and it should work fine. If not, you will need to send a ticket to support to ask what is going on with your domain.

I upgraded via the Internet rather than doing a fresh install and it actually worked this time! The only issue was that the switch has been made on Kubuntu from a dark desktop theme to a light one, and the light font settings were kept from my previous preferences in certain areas. One setting changed and all things working fine

Without an action, your form won't do a lot. You will need to point the action to a file that takes your form's values and emails them to you. This will most likely be done with PHP. There are plenty of tutorials available online, such as this one that explain how to make the script. Or just click this for the search results: search:php email form tutorial

People using TOR and proxies would probably actually be fairly effective at defeating the system. Encrypting the connection with SSL should also work - the content is not revealed on its travels across the web. The question that immediately leapt to my mind was how would they tell what you're downloading? Take standard HTTP downloads - they could just look at file types I guess, but there are way more legal audio and video files than illegal ones, so it would require manually inspecting every single downloaded file, in transit, to see if it was copyrighted material. That's just impractical. It also doesn't work for archived files, unless colossal amounts of processing power is used by ISPs to decompress all downloaded archives. So, let's assume they focus their efforts on BitTorrent. They can't prosecute based on whether you use BitTorrent or not - again, there are plenty of legal files transferred via peer-to-peer, such as Linux distributions. Again, manual inspection of the contents of every torrent would be required to work out what files are in there, and whether those files are copyrighted or not. Again, incredibly impractical. What worries me is the government's traditional feeble and flawed effort. They'll just go for anyone using file sharing, and I'll probably get my Internet disconnected for downloading the latest version of Kubuntu. To do it properly, to distinguish between legal and illegal activity, not just the presence of the activity, requires technology and resources that neither the government nor ISPs will invest in. Using libraries probably wouldn't work. Port blocking, strict Internet filters and the lack of peer-to-peer software pretty much puts a stop to it. However, with more libraries and public places offering free WiFi, it becomes easier to use your own software and harder to track exactly who is doing what. :D By comparing file sharers with thieves you fall into a common trap. With a theft there is physical loss of property or goods. Fair enough. With file sharing, there is no physical loss, only a copy of information or intelligence. As far as I know, that doesn't fall under the definition of theft. On the subject of online distribution - appeal to people's trust rather than annoying them. Use a "pay what you think it's worth" system and you would be surprised at the success. If someone gets their connection cut off I think they'd just cancel their direct debit. Another problem. It looks like there is no system for appeals, and guilt is automatically assumed rather than innocence. Kinda flies in the face of the British justice system.

Most web hosts (including Xisto) let you pay for more bandwidth when you need it, and upgrade your hosting package if you outgrow your space or bandwidth allocation. The best approach is to buy a fairly low-bandwidth package, with enough disk space to hold all your content. Watch your site grow over the first few months and predict how your visitor numbers, and therefore bandwidth usage, will grow. When it looks like you're getting close to the limit, upgrade to the next package. That way you never need to pay for bandwidth you don't need.

I have a Razer DeathAdder which is the best mouse I have ever used. This is a very good mouse both for gaming and general use. Razer make a range of different mice - all use the same technology but they're different shapes and designs to fit your hand size, grip type, etc. If you use their configurator to say what style of grip you use and what features you want, it'll tell you which mice would work for you. Based on my use of the DeathAdder I would recommend all of Razer's mice. Update: It looks like Apple's Magic Mouse doesn't work with Windows, according to Apple's online store. Sorry.

Could you post the code you are using please? Debugging is a little tricky without the code to work with

Unfortunately not. As jlhaslip said, integrated graphics chips are build into the motherboard, so impossible to upgrade or swap around. Generally the upgradable components in a laptop are the RAM and HDD - apart from those, everything else is usually customised to fit one particular laptop or manufacturer, so it's very hard to get replacement or upgrade parts. PC video cards are now reaching 12" in length, take up two PCI slots, run fairly hot and require 2 PCIe power connectors. I'm guessing that won't work well in a laptop Laptops with dedicated graphics use special 'mobile' versions of graphics chips. However, you don't often see these for sale because they are often custom designed to fit a particular model of laptop. Also, if your laptop doesn't have the space or motherboard connection for a new graphics card, it would be impossible to fit. Sorry, it looks like a new laptop is the only option if you want better graphics.

Erm... I've never heard of that happening Also, you can buy crossover ethernet cables specifically for connecting two devices together without using a router or switch. For example, a few years ago we had our desktop PC and XBox connected directly together via ethernet to share our Internet connection. Obviously nothing shorted out

Subdomains (such as username.trap17.com) are free. Top-level domains (example.com, example.org, etc.) will cost you $9.99 for a year. This is because Xisto gets charged per domain it registers, so the cost for that has to be passed on. The cost for the domain name is the same whether you order it with hosting or not. Hosting on its own starts from $1.95 per month I believe, going up as you add more features.

I'll admit that dead pixels were obviously a worry for me, especially when spending this sort of cash. The LP2475w gets slightly special treatment as a 'performance' display. They guarantee that the display will have 0 bright sub-pixels and up to 4 dark sub-pixels and guarantee 0 full pixel defects. They also guarantee against any contaminants getting into the display during manufacture, which can cause irregular dark spots on screens. I have had no problems with dead pixels so far, and can't find reports of this being a problem.

The University of Exeter, UK: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/ I'm currently studying Physics: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/ Also, for some reason, the supercomputer (called 'Zen') gets its own homepage http://hpc.ex.ac.uk/

I've finally got the time after building my new PC to sit down and review some of the components, so here goes HP LP2475w Ł435.22 from eBuyer (http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Computer/cat/Monitors/subcat/24%22-Monitors) (best price at the moment) As the name suggests this is a 24" monitor with a native 1920x1200 resolution. Rather than being based on cheaper TN film technology, HP have opted for a high quality IPS based display. Considering the price, this monitor can only be seen as a long-term purchase to be kept for a number of years while the rest of your PC goes through various upgrades and replacements. The HP LP2475w oozes quality in every way, and the build quality means that you will certainly be able to keep this monitor for years before you look to replace it. It arrived in what can only be classed as a colossal box, providing plenty of space around the monitor, filled with polystyrene, to protect it from the less-than-steady hands of couriers. I must say that my box arrived without so much as a scuff or dent, so well done there eBuyer! The monitor arrives separated from its stand. This is simple to fit, just lowering the screen onto the stand until it clicks into place. As expected for this price, the monitor moves around in every possible way - height adjustable, vertical pivot, horizontal swivel and even portrait rotation. All of these movements feel solid and sturdy; at no point do you feel that the monitor is loose or wobbly in any way. The actions are also reassuringly stiff; enough to keep the monitor wherever you put it, but not so much that it requires more than a purposeful nudge to move. The monitor has a smooth, crisp matt black finish, with silver used for the model name, button detail and discreet HP logo. The base is matt black, with a silver ring forming the main supporting base. The screen itself is finished in a matt anti-reflective coating. This is far better than the glossy coatings used on many monitors, and does actually work to eliminate reflections and glare - I haven't had to shut the curtains once to block out glare The LP2475w also has every input imaginable, with 2 DVI ports, DisplayPort, HDMI, composite and component inputs available on the back. There is no D-Sub port, but a cable to convert D-Sub to DVI is included. The monitor also features 6 USB ports - 4 on the back and 2 on the left hand side. I'll be honest, I don't really see the point of the 4 on the back, but the two on the left are handy for easy access, especially if your PC case doesn't feature convenient front USB ports. There are no in-built speakers, but if you are spending this much on a monitor it is likely you can also afford speakers. Also, most in-built speakers are fairly tinny, and would only diminish the excellent quality of this display. The on-screen display menus are easy to understand and navigate, and feature every option you could want. Out of the box, HP seem to have selected some odd settings, with the monitor appearing incredibly bright. Turning the brightness and contrast down to 18% and 65% (from their default 90% and 80%) respectively solves this. The colours are vivid and accurate, revealing details in my digital photos that I'd never seen before. The monitor also passed all the Lagom.nl tests with ease. Video and games (on Linux) both play smoothly, without any apparent ghosting or blurriness. At normal viewing distances text is also crisp and clear. I know the price is high (although it varies wildly - I managed to get it for around Ł300) but a monitor of this quality and build standard will last you for years, and can be seen as a good investment, especially compared to other computer hardware. I really can't recommend it enough