TimothyA

Bleh, i totally hate de_dust...just gimme some of that good old cs_italy and de_aztec! BTW, camping is a legitimate strategy!

If I have to trust my sources, Win2K is the most stablest server platform in the windows series. Windows XP is more for the home user and can be stable if all the bloatware is stripped. So far the most stablest windows I've used was Windows 2003 BETA (Yes, it said beta). I was the early adopter of all three Windows 3.x 95 and 98 and I found them all to be REALLY unstable. But that's just from my point of view.

Yeah, I'm getting parts getting flied in end this week from newegg....that's going to last for 5 years for just 400 bucks with the case being the most expensive thing

A dell or a gateway costs 5000USD+ over here...so I got a "reletively a cheap" computer. However this time I'm going to build it myself for 500 USD :(And thanks for that offer, but I hate intel with a passion (Damn DRM creationists!) and HT is just a myth!AMD is all the way to go, and I'm going with the SLI northbridge from, who else?, nVidia.Btw, the cause of the frying was because the electricity company sent like a few to many volts into my house >.>

Nevermind , I just opened it.... there was ABSOLUTELY nothing to reduce heat! Not even a CPU fan!And there were no screws...everything was held togheter with ductape o.oAnd yes, the PC was a "custom". And 3000USD seems "reasonable" for a crap computer.

Well, for starters I got this computer like 6 months and a day ago for 3000USD...it was craptastic quality for double the price and 1/4th of the quality... Most of the parts were from 1999 and earlier, of which I only got to know about 2 months later. So now, ONE day after the guarantee expired....the HDD fried itself, the CPU blew itself to bits and the motherboard can be modified into a skateboard to give it AT LEAST a purpose. Now, I want to know why this happened EXACTLY one day after the guarantees?And second of all, why are parents so stubborn to not ORDER QUALITY PARTS that are WAY cheaper than here from america or europe? Instead I'm forced to buy a 2000USD computer that will be total garbage within a week instead of a PC that will be able to function for at least 5 years for the price of 300USD...someone tell me, please...As for the actual problem: Why did this frying happen to my PC?

The difference between a dell and an alienware PC is that alienware has been thoroughly tested and over-priced. Dell on the other side is the most hated company next to Microsoft. I recommend you to do some looking at http://www.newegg.com/ and put togheter your own PC...cheaper and better, and you are sure you will get quality parts AND you will know what's inside your computer!

Power to the fox (and the pinguin too)!IE just plainly sucks, and having tried the IE7 beta...I'm defintely planning on switching to linux for once and for all!

Stephen Hawking's. And don't write it wrong ever again!Back on topic...if it happened, we couldn't do anything to prevent it... though luck for ya if you were in the radius of one

One, millions of spam messages is NOT a lot if you compare it to the world population. Second, he might have been killed by the maffia in russia (Conspiracy theories may begin now.). Third, it was on slashdot a long time ago.

It would be less confusing if the topic stats "What FTP CLIENT do you use?" Oh well, guess here goes nothing... FlashFXP!

Ever paid 100USD for a 25-pack of DVD-R's of memorex and then finding out it is a fake and only allows 1x? Now THAT is what you are going to hate when it's hardware related.... However my HP writer still works (1x CD-R though) and just a few months(years?) my LG (HUH? o.O) DVD-Reader exploded into parts along with my Windows 2003 BETA [i thought it was fireworks from outside...].

Denying firefox access... one of the most horribly things you could ever do. Second, why design for IE if FF is taking over the market? Third, design for FF and after that you try to apply hacks for IE. Fourth, fix the shoutbox so it doesn't shows the horizontal scrollbars on default. Fifth, who is Owner?. The google ads could be placed in the middle of that sidebar to make it look a little bit more perfect....Design: 8.5/10Code: 5/10 - Make it work with FF and I'll give a 9/10

I think you want to go with fluid CSS designs instead of forcing changes on the viewer's side... or are you talking about resizing/positioning an popup ad on the viewer's side?

As for compatability with windows XP....nil. Unless you run some emulation software like WINE or WINEX or CEDEGA, the latter 2 are for emulating the DirectX library (meaning Games). WINE is usually for the emulation of simple windows apps. As for further, you could compile windows applications by source with CYG libraries and the same for windows to use linux applications. However support between distros depends on what packages are installed, like debian has a different packaging system than mandrake and redhat. So it could become a problem if you try to use a .rpm in a debian distro. As for interferences with windows, there will be none as linux can't read by default a NTFS drive, and even less write to one. Of course you would have to have the harddisk partitioned BEFORE installing linux or windows, or if you don't care about maybe losing your data you could resize your partition so you have some space to install linux on. I hope my information was correct and helped you deciding to move to linux