How To Behave On An Internet Forum

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Quote from ajp71 :

He should still be more than capable of safely landing the plane. The BA flight that crash landed at Heathrow was being flown by the co-pilot and the pilot opted not to take controls when things went wrong.

The co-pilot that landed the plane went to my school. Random fact for the day.

I eat chavs for breakfast.

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

I think he was referring to the 20 Ghz as the bullshit - not the fact that he had 2 quad-core processors.

Yer possibly. Although of course it's not true to say you have a 20Ghz CPU or whatever, it could be said that for applications that support multithreading, and there are more and more of those about these days, he does have X amount of processing power available.

Quote from andybarsblade :

well, you have 20ghz as you have two cpu's according to your spec.

but anyway i call bullshit

BS? The other day there were a bunch of Dell Precisions with dual Quad-core Xeon X5355s IIRC (8x2.66ghz) going on ebay. They came with 'only' 4GB ram, and a 15k rpm HDD. They roughly sold for around £700. That's about £300 less than your rig was isn't it Andy?

Quote from Inouva :

Same here , there is a beta Sp3 for xp but is only beta

a) It's not beta, its a release candidate.

b) It's freely available on the m$ site.

And yes, I do have it.

Quote from pine-fin :

I don't understand why would someone buy an account you can create for free.

He's not selling a free account, he's selling the games associated with that account. It'd be cheaper to buy the account and the games than buy all the games 'new'*.

*Of course its just data, so you can't really complain it's even 'used' and there's no packing to get tatty etc.

Quote from MINIz guy :

The most I plan to do is surf the web, chat, do schoolwork and play LFS on that.

So remind me, what's the point in a $1500 laptop?

Mmm Dirt is awful, quite like the damage model though...

Quote from The Very End :

It`s more than enough proof saying that it`s human made. But some people just not want to belive, or like you, are ignorant. But don`t worry, it`s only our kids and their kids that going to get ****ed up, so we shouldn`t really do anything since it don`t concern us...

Ignorant? I very much doubt you are more educated in this subject than me, so don't try to tell me what I am thanks.

Tristan has covered all the points that I was going to, however was busy earlier.

Quote from The Very End :

There have never been a temperature rising this drastically as it have been the latest years, and it`s proof that it`s human made.

Wtf that's not proof. Despite a semi-lengthy post, you managed not to prove 'global-warming' is human's fault once. n1.

Quote from ColeusRattus :

While global warming definately exists, there is no proof that it is man-made.
In fact, we started collecting data about weather in the Little Ice Age in the in the mid 16 hundreds, and the temperature was rising more or less rapidly ever since (with a few dips downwards due to reduced sun activity and volcanos). As a matter of fact, we haven't reached the temperatures of before that little ice age. Back then, wine grew in GB.

Of course, we might have influence on the global temperature, but I am somewhat sceptical that we can alter it in a way which would cause quasi-apocalyptic events to take place.

Hehe we're not gona start our 7 page or so discussion on global warming again are we?

edit: Not that you're wrong.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

If I wanted to go the same speed as everyone else, I'd use public transport.

I'll conceed that there is a sensible limit, and at some point the performance is unreasonable for every day use, but every person is going to consider this to be at a different point.

The problem is that regardless of what speed you give someone, there will always be someone who deems that a lower speed is enough. Not having the performance to safely overtake someone who is insisting on going 20-30mph under the speed limit would drive me nuts. It would also make me late for meetings and appointments.

You can state that people should just leave more time for the travel, but at what point does that become excessive?

I'll give you an example. This afternoon I was on the A36 in Wiltshire going down to Dorset to pick up some kit from a client, before their offices shut. I needed to get this kit today. I was stuck behind some berk doing 40 in a 60 zone. There are very few dual lane parts to the A36, and the ones that exist are very short. Not having the performance to increase my speed to the limit of the zone in a reasonable time would have caused me to arrive after the client's offices had shut, which would've rendered a round trip of 3+ hours as useless.

Most of the clients and locations I have to go to have at least some part of the trip like this.

No you don't need a supercar, nor do you need something amazing, but unless multi-lane roads become ubiquitous, you don't have a lover of this idea here.

You can really tell you live in London

+1

Not a big fan of the A36 anyway, too many 40mph limits. And by too many I mean >= 1.

Quote from Jakg :

Out of interest, what IS the times?

DDL

Torrents are so 2 years ago. Get with the times...

The script does work, you're just not using it correctly. You can't just copy the form into an html file. You'd be better off reading through the documentation, then maybe modifying the relevant files to your own needs.

It's not the slowness that annoys me as such (although there is a noticeable framerate drop in LFS and other games), it's the entire bloated layout of the OS.

If I have a bunch of documents in a folder, and then a media file, the last thing I need is for the OS to 'recognise' the folder as a media folder and give me something stupid like a thumbnail view or whatever. When I say apply my details layout to every folder, I mean it. I don't mean apply it some, then piss about with others. I just don't have time to waste messing about with a useless layout.

I used it for about a year, then just gave up. Of course I realise we all have to learn new operating systems given time, but learning the upgrade from OS X Tiger to Leopard took all of about 5 minutes, and every new thing I found was actually useful. Similarly every time I upgrade Linux things just get easier. I still wouldn't recommend it to the average user (don't know about these 'user-friendly' distros like Ubuntu, didn't like it myself). However if you need a job doing, get the right tool for it first.

As a multi-OS 'power' user I now rarely use Windows for anything other than games, thus my streamlined XP does the job perfectly for me.

Maybe take a look at this: http://www.evolt.org/article/P ... ature/17/60265/index.html

Again, doesn't deal with SQL injection though, so you'll need to think about how to manage that.

Quote from sgt.flippy :

I can't help but wondering why so few people say: what a moron he was?

Agreed.

We can bang on all day about him being young and driving a fast car was the problem here, but in reality he was being an idiot.

In conclusion, don't drive fast down a road with a massive great drop at the end of it.

Bollocks to it.

Gone back to nLite'd XP SP3. Much better.

Lets just take a step back here and think about what you need/want.

If you want a login/registration system that allows multiple users to login with data relevant to them, then yes, you will probably want to use a PHP/MySQL system.

However, if you just want a password protected area that say, an admin, can access, it would be far simpler just to password protect it using either your host's built in features, or by modifying your .htaccess (etc) files.

What I will say is, you need to rethink your site design. Please don't try and add to the site you have already built, as it's a complete mess, sorry to say.

Hopefully your new login script is more secure than your current one...

Just to add to this, I suggest you look at some more examples of site design, and specifically login scripts. There are plenty of good examples out there, and designing your site properly first will save you a lot of time and headaches when you come to build it, rather than just adding in bits of code here and there. There are many knowledgeable members on here, however unless they spend hours going through the fundamental design with you, they can't really help.

Mmmm personally I wouldn't do it like that. If you're going to use the CMS, I'd make the site based around that, with the other bits and pieces integrated into it.

Frames = horrible.

Quote from Jakg :

The E8400 will work fine in the P5K-E. It also runs faster clock for clock (iirc a 3.0 GHz E8xxx runs about the same speed as a 3.6 GHz E6xxx

Hmm I'm not sure, I thought I read 'they' only noticed a 5-8% improvement in speed over the E6850, I may be wrong though.

Quote from neilmichaelcasey :

Hi there - mmmm - not sure, whats the main difference, will i get 2-3 years out of a E8400? (i do like the price though!). Cheers.

The differences between the E6850 and E8400 are:

The E8400 is the new 'Wolfdale' 45nm architecture, whereas the E6850 is the current 65nm type. In a nutshell this means the E8400 runs cooler than the E6850 at the same speed. It also means it's cheaper to produce (for Intel) which is reflected in the consumer price.

The E8400 has a 6mb cache compared to the E6850's 4mb, essentially meaning quicker processing (slightly, you may not notice it though in a normal environment).

The E8400 also supports SSE4 instructions, not that those are widely used yet, as the older Core 2 Duos don't support it.

They both have the same clock speed as stock, however the E8400 uses an 8x multiplier, which could potentially mean less overclocking ability, however the 45nm architecture shoudl counteract that disadvantage. This may or may not be of any value to you.

Overall, there are no disadvantages to choosing the E8400 over the E6850.

However with regards to future proofing your computer for the next 3 years or so, I would seriously consider a quad-core. Depending on how quickly you want to build this machine, your primary options are the current Q6600 (2.4Ghz) or the future Q9450 or Q9300, I'm not surely what the release date for those is expected to be, but I believe it's around Feb-March time.