All good!

Quote from ajp71 :

I really don't like how there's no option to make discs so if the hard drive died or my brother some how managed to make it lose its formatting (like he did on the laptop) it would be time to buy another copy of Windows.

A cheaper way would be to just borrow an OS disc from someone else, and use the product key on the sticker that's usually attached to the computer.

Some manufacturers doesn't deliver the OS, or a system recovery on CD/DVD, but instead have it on it's own partition on the harddrive. Usually with a program in Windows to make the disks yourself (which you should do in case of a total failure). So deleting that partition isn't a good idea unless you have backups. To invoke the system recovery, you usually do that either from a program in Windows, or by pressing a hot-key before boot. F11 or F12 for example, or from a menu inside the bios. If the recovery partition is still there, but you can't access it from Windows, or by the afore-mentioned methods, you can use a partition manipulating program and set it active, and then try to boot.

Quote from cvearl :

I ask because I just started playing again on my Samsung 226BW 22" 1680x1050 screen. Having issues finding an FOV I am confortable with.

I have the same monitor. Haven't touched the FOV settings, so I guess they're at default.

Quote from Aquilifer :

I only wonder how Arco found this... he must be googling quite a lot of YMCA stuff

Haha! Actually it was one of my team mates who found it.

I'm speechless... :wtf2: :biggrinfl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCgrG35-3js

You have to open the case and short a jumper. Usually when there's no beeps, it's the cpu that's faulty. Also make sure all add on cards are properly seated in their slots. Do you have an analog modem card? They're known to cause the problem similar to yours if they're broken.

No picture, no beeps? Try and reset the bios. Look in the mobo manual for instructions.

No, I'm just wondering if it has any features that makes it any better than e.g. Firefox? But I have to wonder why Apple bother to port the browser over to the Windows platform, when the market is pretty much divided between IE and Firefox. It surely will need some outstanding features if it's intending to beat those two.

Why use Safari anyway?
What does it do better than the others?

Youtube uses Flash.

http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer

Firefox?

Good luck Pringles, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

DX10 on a DX9 card? That would be like getting a DVD disc to play on a regular CD player. Not quite possible I think.

Results in Vista after hotfix is pretty interesting. Quite close to XP, considering Vista is a much bigger system. So not bad imo.

All you guys bashing and trashing Vista, this is exactly what happened when XP was released - "Hell no! I'll never switch, cause it's soooo slow and using all my ram! Win98 forevva!"

I'll admit that I've never been the biggest MS fan. I've mostly been using Linux for like about 15 years to do the serious stuff, and Windows for games. But I have to admit, I don't think Vista is that bad as some say.

Quote from gohfeld23 :

Vista preloads (dedicates ram) to apps you might use sometime during your on time. Sounds dandy til you realise what that software is. 90% is MS junk (media player, IE, etc) and the other 10% is what it gathers from your frequent usage.

And where did you read that? Have you ever tried Vista?

Seems like all the LFS sites has mysteriously vanished from the DNS servers here in Norway. I couldn't reach any of them, neither from home or from work. Had to reconfigure my network using the OpenDNS servers. Very weird.

Dudes, memory management is a little more advanced nowadays than back in the MS-DOS days.

Long video about Vista performance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_DreamScene

To find if 32 or 64 bit:
Run -> control system

Loading apps in Vista is definately faster for me than in XP. For instance, Firefox launches pretty much instant in Vista, whereas in XP it takes a couple of seconds.

Quote from Hyperactive :

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=575966

Lol! Good to know, finally I can stop wondering.
Weirdo Americans though.

Yeah, let as many antivirus/antispyware programs as possible do a scan. There's unfortunately not a single program yet that can catch everything, so spread the chanches by running as many as possible. Also feel free to attach an output log from Hijackthis here.

I'm linking to some of the better free antispyware programs.

Spyware Terminator
Spybot S&D
AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition
SuperAntiSpyware
Ad-Aware 2007 Free
A-Squared Free

I'm sure there's more I forgot.

I have a question - it's probably only Americans who can answer it.
Sometimes when there's an advertisement for the next episode of a show, they say "Characters welcome". What the heck does that mean? I know the meaning of each individual word, but put together like that it doesn't make sense to me. It's bugged me for a while now, so would be cool to know what the expression means.

Quote from Funnycat :

BTW new versions of Kaspersky (v6) are a LOT faster and more bug-free than the older (v5)

You mean v7?

I think it's maybe possible to run the update in safe mode, if you don't loose connection there. If that doesn't work, I think the version on the website was released just a few days ago, so it should be pretty much up-to-date.
You might also try WinSockXPFix, to see if that can cure the connection problems.

Last edited by arco, Mon 13 Aug 2007, 17:31.