maybe they did in quebec, it's the first i've heard of it, but i don't exactly pay attention to french news.
as for it happening at the g20, i'm still not reasonably convinced, but i'm willing to put it past some of my more-political coworkers. a lot of stuff happened that us citizens weren't happy with, and i believe several public investigations are going on about certain incidents. (ie: the rounding up and detaining of 500+ unarmed lawful protesters for days)
edit: actually, it was over 1000 people, and i believe one of the investigations was just dismissed before it even started.
i'm not going to argue that the g20 meeting was blown completely out of proportion, but i think you're messed in the head if you really think it was some conspiracy-fraud. you can probably buy those boots at any mark's work wearhouse store.
i think the point he was trying to make was that people are signing up just to ask their question here... this is a forum for lfs first, lfs users second...
i've seen this before on other forums, and while it's not considered spam, it is generally frowned upon.
with a 32-bit windows or cpu? you'll be capped out at 3gb anyways.
if you really wanted to upgrade the ram though, you might be able to find some with faster timings or bus speed (motherboard willing), but that's probably going too far for a machine that's (unfortunately) outdated.