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A nice little program, and it does seem to have solved my problem... Thanks for the tip.

The new Apples seem to be a lot better value than the old ones, but still not as good as your average home built gear. I don't think apple will do aany bundling of windows themselves although they havn't precluded anyone else from doing so. Apple hardware should be aable to run windows...

The Sun? Sounds far too complicated... I think my next project will be to figure out how to harness the energy of migratory birds...

O.K this is a really small thing, but it's often the small things that annoy us the most... (Well me anyway) The problem is this; Every time I view a pdf file adobe reader puts an icon on the desktop. I'm not really sure why it does this since all the program really does is to read pdf files...

Doh... Preview is my friend...

...Or some sort of local post apocolyptic tribal society who have managed to preserve a couple of dozen porta-loo's. They could trade recycled water and battery recharges to the Mad Maxes of this theoretical wasteland in exchange for using thier rest rooms... You could almost make a movie...

I believe most sewage treatment plants are already capable of powering themselves and usually supplying a little excess power too by burning methane produced in the treatment process. This is also true of a lot of landfill sites. So remember, in case of some sort of doomsday scenario where the...

So for duck hunting with the 150mm you would use flack shells? It seems that more and more that we are being governed by corporations... Well actually it seem that more and more America is being governed by corporations and Australia, and very likely Canada and a number of other countries are...

Yeah I think pee is more for portable devices...

I found that F.E.A.R caused itself some problems for me by jusmping straight into the plot. I like to have a go at a game before I get bombarded with 15 minutes of cut scenes so as I tend to do I just skipped through all the crap at the start... The end result was that by the time I was ready to...

I've been hanging out for Elderscrolls 4 and trying to stop playing WoW for a while now... As Mercutio pointed out Blizzard churn out some serious crap, especially since warcraft 2 and diablo. Unfortunately WoW is still probably the best of the MMORPGs and those things are addictive... One day...

nvidia and ati both supply thier own driver uninstallers these days that work fairly well... The last SiS video card I used was in a P90 and I think that's how it'll stay...

Qparted on a linux live cd seems to work pretty well.

inmatrix zoomplayer offers a nice alternative to codec packs by giving you a list of codecs that you might need and links for them when you first start it. I'm not ssure if any other players offer similar features but it sure beats out media players searching for codecs it doesn't have. I've...

Possibly irrelevant so long after the last post but killbox seems a fairly handy app for these situations. It can delete stuff on next boot or try a couple of other tricks to get rid of files right away. It can also kill some processes which task-manager will have trouble with (presumably by...

I'm using a pair of 1GB G.Skill PC4000 value serries DIMMs. From what I've read my Opteron is not an exceptional example, most of them will overclock at least as well. I suspect that due to being clasified as server/workstation chips they are more conservativly labeled than the consumer grade...

I'd seconds CougTeks suggestion of looking at the Opterons I just bought my self an Opteron 170 and I can clock it up to 2.5Ghz (from 2.0 stock) with no voltage increase, eventually the fact that I still have stock cooling on does let me down but a good air cooling solution would almost...

Maybe they decided it simply wasn't a problem as traffic congestion means drivers will rarely get up to 30mph anyway...

Your probably right, although I would add to that the absence of reputable computer based paper publications. In Australia at least every computer magazine I've come across, regardless of it's original intent or integrity, has ended up with glowing reviews of terrible products with a facing...

As was stated in the journal HP actually have a reputation for quality in some circles. I know this is true, I've spoken to people who have actually bought HPs for that reason, what I don't understand is exactly how they managed this... I think I realised that HP were total garbage in the early...

Is there anything particularly problematic about just having a stack on un-raided drives with all your music on them? I'm fairly sure your jukebox app won't care and it's not like you'll be wasting a huge ammount of space because one FLAC file of even one album won't fit on a particular drive...

I think the latest quicktime stuff is using apples implimentation of h.264 (Mpeg4/AVC). Other than the quicktime player there are only a couple of apps/codecs capable of decoding it, fddshow (which I've always had performance issues with) and a couple of players including VLC and Mplayer...

Maybe I should give Kristy a call at the shop to see if she knows anything... Plus I think I gave Tannin as a reference to a real estate agent so there could be confusion there..... Oh yeah and Hi guys!

I guess this would be a pretty crappy time to mention that the only difference between GForce cards and Quadro cards is software and that a GForce2 can run as its Quadro equivilent with just some software tweaking... On the up side it takes very little soldering to make a Quadro out of the...

Question: What are Americans really talking about when they refer to the bathroom. Answer: Microsoft Clip Art

I guess it all depends on what type of strategy your after... WC3 is a great game but don't play it online because everyone playes dirty and it's really boring (win or losse you spend more time waiting for the game to load than actaully playing). If your a serious strategy buff then there is...

Hmmm most chalenging... this is about all I could come up with sorry Pradeep... very random I guess... I'll keep thinking/looking.

ICQ ports can aparently be set to be whatever you like instructions are here (some of this info refers to older versions) That page also lists the ports for some other programs like MSN... The port ranges tend to be pretty large and would take a long time to open on a smoothie and leave it...

I could probably explain exactly what chemical reactions cause the whole multi-coloured effect in transition metals (like copper). But unfortunatly my group made fart-gas out of the chemicals used in that prac instead... We were very proud... Theoretically though it should be possible to...

Despite my absence of late my avatar could do with a refresh... It's still it's original lameness...

I have to disagree that using MS Visual C will make you a slave to MS... Here is a neat little trick to turn it into a standard compiler. Use an apropriate editor to go through all the documentation (Help files MSN library etc.) and replace all instances of "Microsoft Specific" with "Ignore...

Spent the weekend at a LAN where much UT2K3 was played... Just connected to the server and I'm getting pings of about 300+, not too bad against the bots but against a far less predictable human... well I'll have a go but I could get owned...

I got the full game, it rulez, everyone get it... yesterday... I'm up for a game whenever a servers up but I guess my ping will probably be a bit on the high side, especially since games will most likly be pretty late over here, and my connection tends to suck after 1:00. I warn you now though...

perhaps the only way to truly wipe out spam is to create a new mail protocol and system... SMPT is far to easy to fake/forge or otherwise falsify. During my university studies our introduction to e-mail on linux basically prepared us to fake mail messages from anywhere with a telnet client...

My windows XP box often gets rebooted 2 or 3 times in just a few hours... But I run beta software from microsoft on it... Could there be a worse combination?

Doom 3 engine, doom 2 enemie numbers... I see two big numbers in your future CougTek, one of them ends in pollygons, the other starts with $.

I feel quite similarly to Prof on this I guess, I just downloaded Mandrake 9, (bit of a pain since I had half of 8.whatever when it came out and had to start again) and I plan to install it on a couple of older machines to act as game servers or whatever, I'd love to run a linux box as my...

I have a mitsubishi keyvoard that I picked up for $28 or somthing, it has a few extra buttons including mute and a nice volume knob. The feature I really like is the complete lack of any buttons that turn off your pc. It seems somone in marketing or design was paying attention to what computer...

I'll have to download that... I played a couple of the betas but they were pretty buggy and even with a geforce 3 800x600 was about as good as it got... I can be obsesive about FPS though.. It was still a very pretty game, I didn't notice any of the old maps from UT but the bots AI was...

Well I can correct you on at least one thing there Mercutio... It was a little noticed fact that not long before they released Windows XP MS released the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer II to replace the Intellimouse Explorer I that they never admited did not work with Windows 2000... The only...

I somtimes miss the old one and two cent coins... When disgruntled customers heckel me about getting charged $20.05 for thier $20.03 of petrol... It's not that I care about the two cents of course but I tend to have a bad habit of getting a bit unco-operative after people start calling me a...

Really I can't imagine why....

I'm thinking about changing all my 120mm fans to low noise ones to try to get my PC nois level down (2x120mm sunnons and a 120mm enermax), I might do the 80mms at the same time but then I'd really have to do the PSU as well... Quiet can be so expensive...

Here in Ballarat our local newspaper had only one article on 911 over the weekend and that centered arround how much of a media circus it would be... The media purport to be about letting people know whats going on... Well what's thier excuse this time... I think everybody knows...

Water is really freeky stuff, and even if logically it should be a gas it is still very dense... More dense than ice... And that's definatly a polarity thing, although no actual bonding takes place the molecules are atracted to each other since the oxygen atom has a negative charge and the...

Trully screwed up. I've been thinking about this all day and new implications just keep popping up... Computer games are a bigger industry than hollywood money wise... How much stock in how many shops becomes contraband or worthless? My next door neighbours buisness would be illegal (He rents...

My house mates and I saw Zim for the first time last week... Within 3 days we had all of it... The doom song is number one on the charts... I'm sure we'll get over it in a week or so. Zim is good. And yes you can get it wherever cable is available... or even adsl! There are a large number of...

Probably any manager will be as good as any other on dialup (bar spy/ad-ware considerations), I have had issues with the opera manager where files are corrupted during download more often than with other managers, but it's pretty rare. Still you don't want to be doing files over on dialup.

I doubt I'll get too many key-strokes, but if it counted the longest key-strokes I'd be in with a chance...

I've been looking at that with temptation but I just think the shipping to Aus would be a bit much sadly... that machine would make a great little file-server/cruncher for my house mates and I to dump files onto.:(