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This kind of insanity annoys me... Apart from anything else in todays climate of fear regarding the possibility of someone attempting to hijack a plane and crash it in to something or someone I suspect that one wouldn't be able to successfully hijack a plane if allowed to get on board with a 9mm...

The other day I was discussing iTunes with a guy in the hostel I was staying in, he was kinda surprised that I didn't think that it was all that good and asked what I used citing some examples including WMP and realplayer. When I pointed out that I didn't think they were much good either he...

I suspect going from composite to s-video would be unreasonably expensive for what you want to do, if you can figure out any way to do it so your going the other way it'd be a lot cheaper.

I always recommend a monochrome laser and a trip to big-W or the like for printing in colour. I quite like the canons, their cheap and they're basically exactly the same as the old near-indestructible hp laser printers. I think Tannin sells mostly xerox lasers which are probably a fair bit more...

It seems it's another case of totally ineffectual anti-piracy measures being a complete pain in the arse. The alternative procedure of; Grab the latest trial or non trial version from the website and install Replace executable and update dll with modified version Forget about it Is so much...

My annoyance with Call of Cthulhu wasn't really with the insanity or fear factors but more in the complete inability of the player to even pretend to define their own destiny. Take the scene where you wake up in he middle of the night and have to escape from a gang of angry villager types. It's...

What makes you think that you'll be substantially less subject to the whims of the US government in any of those countries... At least where you are you can try to vote them out...

I played that for a while but eventually got sick of endlessly repeating sections because the scripted nature of the game meant that you had to play it in exactly the way the designers intended. Kind of Dragons Lair meets an old sierra adventure game just in first person... Also some elements...

I'd pretty much agree with all of that. It constantly amazes me that this stuff isn't common knowledge yet, not necessarily about which spyware removers are good but I can't see how otherwise rational people can fail to notice how terrible Symantec and McAfee products are in particular. The...

I ditched them a while ago when their software started to become more bloaty...

In that case sometimes just changing the password a few extra times helps... Generally you can turn that feature off unless your in a work environment where there is a password policy, and in that case the group that define that policy will generally be the same guys you have to call every 5...

No, I have to get a job before I can get a place to live, and I need one of those before I can join a club and import my rifle.

I've been thinking of building a new system to function as a download/tv box to grab and watch tv shows on. I thought my best bet for an efficient quiet machine would be one of the promised 35 Watt AM2 Athlon 64s, probably an ADD3500BOX since that seems to be the only single core one available...

I am reminded of this (thinkgeek) poster.

I'm actually looking forward to the release of the Nintendo Wii... Sure it's a console with a dumb name but it looks like it could be fun. An importantly it's own kind of fun rather than a half-arsed bastardised version of a PC type fun.

DVD shrink quite possibly doesn't know how many cores/cpus you have, it's just that when it's reencoding it's quite definitely doing two seperate things, it's decoding an mpeg2 video stream and then encoding another mpeg2 stream, since these tasks are done by two seperate instances of the mpeg2...

Good DSL is closer to 20-30 in my experience for close servers like your ISPs games servers or another company they peer with, I've seen it go below 10 but only once or twice. Interestingly enough my wireless internet was consistently arround 25 to most Australian games servers.

I have to disagree with you about Starcraft it's at least the most fun RTS ever made by Blizzard, the Koreans just don't seem to realise that other companies make RTS games at all... For Lineaghe I have to agree allthough your CoH anecdoet would suggest that maybe it's popularity is due to the...

I'm looking at building a very similar system to that for my sister in Italy. I'm hoping I'll be able to get her up and running with Ubuntu and have Windows running in VMWare player in case of emergencies where she absolutely has to have windows for work. With a low end dual core AM2 A64 with...

You could try using the rockbox firmware for your ipod. Apparently it's pretty good and it allows you to use your ipod just as a mass storage device. Also it allows for dual booting so you can still use the ipod firmware if you prefer it. Also did mubs really just suggest that merc buy a S*ny...

I've just recently come across the cowon iaudio players... They seem to be getting great reviews, apparently their sound quality is noticeably superior to the ipod, they can record and they can play flac files which seems like a nice feature...

I use debian for my file server at home. It's probably not as simple as it could be but I also log into the system remotely and use it to download things when I'm at work. I use EVMS to maintain most of the storage space, it has a fairly simple interface and is extremely powerful for managing...

I don't know of anything useful on the second disk. I've been running 2003 as a desktop OS without it for a few months and I haven't missed anything...

Perhaps you could create a proxy script that automatically replaces innocuous button images with more, suggestive, fare... I'm sure you could reuse a lot of code from some readily available porn/ad filter scripts, you just need to swap the input and output around...

I found that eventually Oblivion does suffer from the same faults as Morrowind, your character is so flexible that you essentially become invulnerable long before you have time to explore everything in the world. Of course getting to that point takes an insane amount of time. I stopped playing...

The option of just borrowing a club rifle does seem easier, but it would be a bit of a shame since I only just bought my target rifle (actually I expect to get a permit for it this week, but I only just paid for it). It's a musgrave single shot mouser-style action in 7.62, with a custom stock...

Cool I've been looking forward to this... Now we just have to wait another 5 or so years for it to become cost competitive with other memory...

It is nice and easy, although I am limited to two years living there and one working, if I had a parent or grandparent who was a UK citizen I'd be able to live and work over there for up to 4 years with no restrictions. My next challenge will be to find out how hard it will be to take my target...

I'll be heading over to Turin at the end of August, my sister is getting married there so the whole family is going over. After that I'll head back to London to live and work for a year or two so hopefully I'll get a few chances to go over and check out Itally (My return flight from London to...

You should be able to get a factory overclocked version of that XFX card for another $20-25. Normally I wouldn't suggest people bother with factory overclocked cards but all the reviews I've read suggest that the XFX7900GT one is noticably faster than the stock 7900GT cards. The top end Nvidia...

I've generally found that all my network compatability problems in Linux have been configuration or hardware related (I've had a couple of dodgy network cards die on me recently which caused some problems). Once I have everything set up properly and working I've had less trouble hooking my...

Well perhaps instead of killing our 10-20 people outright we should just enslave them and work them to death contructing an army of advanced robots to do all the work for us...

I think you should be able to play with the samba mount in the disks and filesystems area. You should be able to remove the fstab entry you have and add a new one by browsing to the share and selecting which user mounts it etc. I'll have a look tonight at how I did it. Failing that check out...

On my Kubuntu system I just have root mount the samba share to a directory under / which is owned by the user. Try using the GUI tool for mounting samba shares it does a pretty good job, and you can always check fstab and the sab config files to see what it did. I recomend mplayer for playing...

I think they acctually can offer less because they are only really warranting thier workmanship. The fan is, as you ultimately discovered, under waranty from the manufacturer and ultimately it is they who will replace it. Whilst it is obviously plain good customer support for the retailer to...

I think the thing that pisses off most non sports fans is the insanely high regard sports and athletes are held in. Sports stars on the whole are better known than, let's say Nobel laureates and I for one find that a tad annoying. Sport may be fine as a tool for social interaction or...

No I don't think so. Blizzard are pretty paranoid about anything that might allow someone to do anything they havn't specifically prepared for, in my opinion a sure-fire way to make your MMO ultimately boring, but I guess it's worked for them so far. WoW has some crappy spyware program that runs...

In a case like this I would attempt to make a raw image of the drive and then use a copy of that image to try to recover data, that way you know you can't lose any more data whilst trying to recover stuff. Also once you have the image read errors should be much faster since there should be no...

I've never truely understood the compultion to watch sports at all... I've occationally played a sport or two, I played basketball and soccer when I was in high school and these days I shoot fullbore on the weekends (Which I'll agree is technically not so much a sport but it's in the...

Looks like women with advanced prostate cancer are fresh out of luck then...

Is it just my Firefox setup or does everyones RSS feed have this threads topic shortened to "Computers :: New weapon in the terrorist arse..."?

I'm guessing that's China's problem... Whilst this is obviously unlikely to be a problem in a fighter or spyplane it does bring to mind an image of a fighter dropping a load of chaff to avoid a US missile only to have the whole lot stick to the persuing fighter... Still unlikely but perhaps...

It almost sounds like the systems are going into suspend mode and then crapping themselves (which I've found computers like to do when they go into suspend mode). Maybe SAV monkeyed with the power management configuration. That would explain why you need to pull the plug (can't turn on a...

Well with the sata power connector for hard drives and in the future optical drives and the newer connectors for PCI-E video cards one would expect that it pretty much will go in the next couple of years.

If you don't much care what the problem is as long as it's fixed you could try implimenting your array using evms, it does much of the partitioning and such for you and might get arround your problem.

We could just mandate that as children reach sexual maturity they get some tubes tied and some genetic material (sperm or eggs as may be) harvested, genetically ideal (or as close a s possible with available materials) children get pumped out at a governmentally madated rate and parceled out to...

from what I've heard it seems like it'll be hard to turn Vista into a ddesktop OS...

I'm thinking about getting a Mazda MX5... Not remotely as much space as the element but a somewhat better power to weight ratio with as good or better fuel economy... I have a slight lead-foot problem as well but I prefer to solve it with less weight rather than more power... I was always a bit...

That element is one ugly car... Looking at thier official website they come in a few flavours but start at a bit under 18K... Generally I'd stay away from new cars as a little too expensive but less than 1K for a car 3 years newer and with 0 on the clock just kinda seems like it would have been...

mJpeg actually seems the most likely to me, video was probably largely an afterthought to a standard still camera and mJpeg wouldn't require a whole lot of extra hardware to impliment. Realtime mpeg compression would be extremely processor intensive for a camera. Even dedicated digital video...