MrBowser

I have a santa. I bought it last summer for 15.5 mil. I left runescape. If I sell my hat, I might come back. Is now a good time to sell a santa? I was going to sell at Christmas, but I forgot and then the price at the GE was 14 mil, a while after. (Preferably, I'd like to sell for 19 mil, but I'll take what I can)

My setup has changed a lot over the years, and I'm more knowledgeable now. Firstly - Don't use a software firewall. If a virus starts on your computer, the firewall can be shut of from it. And a software firewall is not necessary as protection from external threats - at least I have heard about no exploits that way in years, and it's pretty much considered unnecessary by most operators. There are hardware firewalls that will do a great job on both ends, and can almost always tell you when you have a virus, as well as preventing them from phoning home, bu they are expensive and I wouldn't worry about it. Software firewalls are just difficult to use, and hinder all communication with the net. Next, as an AV program I use Avira AV, which has kept me secure for 3 years. it is consistently rated the best free program, and better then most paid ones. Has stopped a few hundred viruses for me, and I go to some pretty bad places. :twisted: It also has had little impact on my computers performance. The biggest change is in start up speed - I lost 3/4 of a second. I do actually run a few free AVs on my PC occasionally - just to ensure I have nothing bad installed. Here's my trick to leave nothing behind after their scan - I install them in a sandbox! If they ever find something, I'll look up the virus, ensure it's not a false-positive, and install a remover specifically tailored for the virus. Those are the best ways to remove a virus, as some counter actual AVs. These are small and new, and can almost always delete the virus. Another AV I'm keeping my eye on is Threatfire, because I think it will be the way all detection goes immediately, but for now it's not good enough to remove my other AV, and I don't want two on my computer. Just some tips for general computing - always run [Caution: Executable File] files first in a sandbox, and see what changes it would do, or upload it to a site like virus total, to check it there. Install Secunia PSI and schedule it to run biweekly, to ensure your programs are up to date. Uninstall programs with ones like Revo uninstaller, so as to make sure nothing is left behind. And delete your temp files and all biweekly with ccleaner. You won't regret it. Computer runs so much faster! Good luck! Just remember - free can be good too!

I'm relatively sure that all those capacitors don't exist on laptops - I've taken apart it's PSU, and saw no capacitors. Likewise around the screen. I think laptops are pretty much harmless :)

I'm going to go right ahead and say.... No. It could be very difficult to fix your speakers. The best you could hope for would be a lose wire you could solder or plug back in. I recently toke my laptop apart, and noticed that the speakers were damn near inaccessible. I'd bring it into a shop to get it repaired, if I were you.

You've just scared the heck out of me... I really don't know what to think. I'm in shock. That's a lot of passes/sec. Then I did the math, and if I didn't screw it up, that still takes billions of years to crack my pass :) What I like about using words is that I can remember a word as easily as a letter - and caps kill me. So if I use v, that's 1/26, or 1/74 of we're using all the characters. But if I remember farce, that's 1/500k, which is a much better deal. I throw in a lot of numbers and characters too so that a dictionary based attack will have to start guessing random characters added in. And do you want to know a secret? Regardless of weather or not you used caps, if the software assumes you did, it will still take that long to crack it :) I know one word can be found very easily, but when you use a few words, as well as random chars... Takes a lot longer. Oh, and I have several throwaway passes too, and groups of passes - I use the same pass for about 5 wikis I edit. I'm really supprised I'm the only one who uses words, though. Adding misspellings can defeat dictionary based attacks, too.

Recently, a friend of mine had her password stolen for her banking account, and I've decided to get off my lazy [wagon] and stop using 3 passwords. I was setting my passwords uniquely for every site, when I realized how impossible they are to crack. At lease, I think. See this: ##LONGWORD#*#LONGWORD#*#LONGWORD## Now, assuming 500k words in English (there are really more then a million, plus scientific terms) 100*500000*2600*500000*2600*500000*100 = 8 450 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 That's 8 hextillion, 450 septillion. Does anyone think that's just a tad paranoid? Oh, and I have about 35 of those to remember. What'd ya say, tip.it? Am I crazy? What kinda passes do you use? And am I the only one who wants to immolate every site that has a character limit on passwords less then 64? Cheers!

I'm waiting for a cheap smart phone to come here in Canada. We had a spectrum auction recently, and some new guys are entering. If you're aware of how low the competition is, one pay-as-you-go play for data is .05$/KB. So yeah, I'm waiting for something running android, or a iphone without a horrible contract. (Ours is the 2nd worst IN THE WORLD!) I think I'll use it for everything, as people I know have said they do. I suggest you get a smartphone. :)

I use CD BurnerXP. It hasen't crashed for me yet, which is something. Is free, and intuitive.

I think he does, and at least I'd like it. There is little point in planing to train past 68. Figuring out how from the guide to 99 is kinda messed. Another tab that is only to 68 would be much appreciated, really.

Can I ask who didn't grow them before the update? They very rarely died! Stupid people are doing this, methinks. But, then again, this could be a culminative effect after there were a few large purposes. I've noticed it happening a lot before, and with the GE, people don't say "screw you, I'm going to find someone else who'll give me a better price! I sure liked trading better without the GE... No huge fluctuations unless there really WAS much more demand...

Everyone who believes literally in some ancient holy book should be eliminated from this world for the sake of humanity! Everyone who has nothing they would die for is not a human. God, I really COULD do a better job then these teachers! Send them to work at fast food places! I want ALL of you down on you knees, before me! You know what? I really do think I'm superior to you, get a grip on your emotions and grow up! This would be so much easier if bodies dissipated when they died... You spend 20k on a funeral? He's dead! spend it on a psychologist, if you want to feel closure! I don't care about your sister, aunt, mother of daughter's story - don't complain about how they are treated to me, I didn't do it! Guys sure don't care when girls rape them, so why should you! ^ ^ All some pretty horrible thoughts, eh?? And the grand final, which I actually think is not unethical, but you might - Sheltering the stupid encourages stupidity, so, well, just, DON'T!

Evolution is one hell of a hard thing to comprehend - I don't think we have numbers to describe the odds of humans evolving! It's no coincidence that an inherent property of organic compounds is self-replication! And, the odds of consciousness evolving are probably the greatest ever - now we are masters of our own DNA! (not yet, but soon, anyway) But then again, the universe is one of an infinite number, each containing a incredible number of planets. And what about alternate dimensions? But, I have studied evolution, thoroughly, and believe that it is incredible probable that other life exists too. Although I don't think it is probably conscious. So god is not necessary for us to be. Although it is mind-boggling how we exist... If god did exist, though, I think he designed the universe, with the laws of physics, so that we might evolve, but tried other places too, and may have even decided to stay in one universe. He might also have been trying to create an equal to him. If so, humanity = fail. Consider these arguments, all against a christian/catholic/islam god.

OK, I've been divvying up how I do my farming since I am doing a lot more herb farming, and have decided that trees should be done on a unique route. I've been thinking really hard, but I am not finished, and am hoping you guys can give me a hand :) When I say trees, I mean fruit trees too. This is my best try: Lumbridge tree, canoe to champions guild and do a poison ivy, varrock tree, GE bank. Then fruit at maze, fruit at gnomes, tree at gnomes, bank at gnomes, balloon to tavelry, balloon to crafting guild plant ivy, balloon back to gnomes, bank and go up to the gnome glider, cactus at al kharid, glider to wolf mountain, fruit there, bank. Take the ship to brimhaven, fruit then qalquat, tele to fally, plant tree, teleport to llyeta and plant fruit, and done! Any comments would be appreciated.

Impressive. 9/10 for unnecessary items, though. I mean, four types or nails? Empty tree pots? And way too many potions with odd doses.

Oh, dear... so, you fought 2 bats, eh? Well, see if you can top this: I used to live on PEI, and had a big chimney. It was not one of those little pipes, but a full brick, 16"*16" chimney. And, apparently it had nothing covering it! When spring rolled around, we started hearing chirps. We thought it was mice (we'd had some trouble with them before) and set traps, but after a week of catching nothing, decided to forget about it. One day, we were outside late, having a barbacaue, and someone said they just saw a bat fly out of our chimney. We didn't believe it, but, about 20 mins later, a group of them - about 30 - flew out. We were all amazed. Throughout the evening, we figured 2300 flew out. We called a pest killer guy, who told us to start a fire in the old wood stove that we never used. Boy, you should have seen them all fly out - It looked like the sky was black! Although counting bats that fast is impossible, it was definitely more then 3000! We kept the fire going for a week, then bought a grate to put over it, and well, that was the end of that - although there was a fair bit more soot for a while, and plenty of bones. Oh, I miss that old house :(

Thanks for that. * I usually take an average of 10 minutes, but people do it faster, even better :) * The whole point of the Pack Yak is that you don't need to bank, so thats where you use skills necklace and explorer's ring (run recharges). * I would have used a skills necklace, but you see, I always need to bank. (unless my herbs had died). So I prefer banking and running from there. I also plant limps which take extra 3 spaces. Thanks.. Lord Shalaj My route is Trollheim, Combat bracelet(faster), Catherby, then Cabbage teleport, ectofungus, where I also plant mushrooms, then I go through the fairy ring, and get a slayer task after a little running. Occasionaly, when I am doing a larger route for xp(all trees), I go to oo'glog, chartering a ship there from catherby, and then to part sarim.

... OK, since when have historical figures came back from the dead? Turned water into wine? And... a bunch of other stuff. Don't claim it's been documented to have happened, or anything like that... please! What (I think) you are trying to say, is that it is likely that a person named Jesus Christ(although that might not have been their name, if either of those names had previous religious importance) whose story was was written down, and later (480ish, I think) written into a book that was supposed to hold an empire together. Many of the things in there are lies, stolen stories, and twisted meanings. The Dead Sea Scrolls, I believe, told a probably true story - with nothing defying the laws of physics :) OT: I am forced :(

What ads? You guys still get them? Tee Hee, the only ads I see are the ones on billboards. And I still watch TV, browse the net, and buy things - although not the big name brands... When they started putting ads on my pop, I went generic :) I pay enough for my products - If you think you can make money by making me buy another product you tell me to, think again! Although I do so dearly love when I buy a computer and it's got a bunch of trialware on it - I brutally remove them! But one commercial from my childhood that sticks with me is the duracel ones, were they say that all sorts of people I respect use their batteries. I'd call that effective.

Skilling can be monotonous. It is only done for the rewards, and some rewards, like a 99, are not worth working too. (IMO) Although I often try to be able to do everything in a skill, I find that somethings are incredibly not worth it. Especially since the addition of the skill help thing, I have no ambition to ever spend money to get to the level of, say making p++'s. But compare that to real life: you're grinding if you work at McDonald's - you do so for the money.

....OK, you have an active imagination. Wormholes? Come one! Ships were being detected because they interfered with earth's magnetic field, as they are large blocks of metal. The instruments for detecting ships that way were incredibly crude, at the time. However, they magnetized their ship through electromagnets, and they made sure their it was magnetized with their north going north. This eliminated any disturbance, and the practice was rather successful, for a time - although I thought it was on a British ship, and it was shot down after it got caught by radar... OT: They'll never scale it up, and it would be billions if they could. What scared me that's invisible are carbon knives that are thinner then 300nm. As they are smaller then the wavelength of light, they do not created any visible light - but can be strong enough to cut through you neck! So.. be scared. Very scared.

I too sleep as if I'm in a coma. My door was once repeatedly knocked on for 15 minutes, before they found a key to come and check on me. I have slept through fire alarms - even one real one! My brother yelled and insulted me, and I got up though, and saved my [wagon] from the burning motel :) On my side, both arms in front of me. I sometime fall asleep facing my wall (next to my bed) but I always wake up the other way. I have great trouble falling asleep - I keep being mad that I am not asleep! I can never stay in happy-land for long... Any suggestions on where to go would be appreciated.

This September, I am returning to school. And there is someone who I like right now, and would like to ask out. I've known her for a year, and I'm not totally sure her opinion of me is a very nice one... But I do like her - I think I have for a long time. I began to like her about 4 months before the school year ended. We had all our classes together, and, during gym, I think I scared her. I did nothing, as I felt she did not like me, and did not want to be rejected. Now, I think I'm a little braver, and more able to do things with a girlfriend now, (mind you, we still have no public transport) and I think being her girlfriend would be a great thing. I mean, she's not super popular - she's kinda shy, nice, and very cute :) I dream about her a lot. She is in band with me, and quite possibly will be in our school musical this year, as I would. I'm asking if asking her out is the right thing to do, or if she will just be hurt. I feel so hopeless, sometimes, just thinking about her. And is asking someone out at the start of the school year an ok thing to do, If I want it to last? It really does feel good just to write about it :

OK, I'm gonna try to make this kinda short, because the last time I tried to make a blog, I gave up, and quit runescape 2 months later. I've rejoined runescape because I feel the damage that was done to a good portion of runescape has been undone. I'm also making a blog because I want to improve my typing speed, which is still relatively slow, and I learned that in RS I did not type a lot. I guess the biggest reason I'm back is that I want to do things with people, and RS is a good place to do that. I also want to show off :) Most all of my runescape goals are reasonable, and I love to be able to do all that can be done in a skill. My newest goals: FIRST PRIORITY! I have no summoning, and I want a BoB bad! So I expect to be slaying for the charms. If you have any tips, feel free to share! I want Karamja gloves 3! It is the only thing preventing me from completing them! (well, that and the fire caves, but I've never tried that...) Probably will be gotten through slayer, as I hunt for charms for my summoning goal. With all the new runecrafting stuff, I feel that I want to become good at runecrafting... I want a giant pouch, and to craft my own death runes. My old goals that are old and rusty, from when I played before I quit: Yes, I feel the need for a spirit tree... I have 4 seeds, after all! Not sure how I'm gonna train it right now. Ah, herblore! I get most of my herbs from farming, and slayer. Which reminds me: are the kwuarn gloves any good? I might get them. Have 3.8k grimy cad's that would have gotten me there, but it is no longer good to make sup. Def pots, even if you get the 2nd yourself. So I'll sell them for 1.2k each, when the price climbs there, again. OK, I really want to steal from those elves, and everybody else. I get mad every time I pass by a gem stall, and can't steal from it! PP all the way! I have a scepter :) Here I just want to feel competent. I think sometime I'm a noob :( This is also something I am not in a rush for, I want to be able to catch manta rays well in the trawler minigame. I have a bunch of stuff to plug the holes with, so I'll get it done eventually. Will be trained through barbarian fishing of Leaping Sturgeon when I want caviar for potions. This would be my least wanted done goal, I only want this so that I can cut mages efficiently. I''ll be buying a dragon axe when I go for this, but that's pretty far away. Then Again, I could use one for farming... Will be trained through the tree I cut farming, and probably some yews somewhere. Oh, and mages in some far-off place while I practice my trumpet in Real Life. (That is NOT AFKing; you're still in the room!) [hide=My bank] [/hide] I think that's all for now! I'll be saying more later, and maybe make some more goals, but It's late, and I'm tired. PS: for a good program for making screen shots, look here: http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories ... pture.html

Just a tip about your item section that you have not yet included into this: You can buy talismans from Wizard Elriss in the new minigame, for 50 tokens each. I can get between 1500-3500 an hour, so that's somewhere around 55 an hour. These are easy to bank, too, as for 15 tokens you can buy a teletab to the runecrafting guild.

I agree completely with bazzaminxer. The game is not fun with 2vs4, and balanced teams are kinda a necessity. I;m wondering just how many people can be on one team - It would be horrible with more then 8! Barriers would cover all the entrances... Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot, in some ways. It was strategy, but I always got so mad when my teammates interfered with my plans! Also, every time it laged for 1/2 second, someone had blown my ball the wrong way. Not too fun. Wish Bell wasn't such an [wagon]. :evil: Oh well, nothing doing. I don't think I ever cause my team to win single-handedly, but I still feel like I did a great job - much better then my team mates, I got probably 3 times my fair share some games. Anyway, I;m waiting to learn whether or not it is a good way to runecraft before I play anymore - I was always mad when my team stank :x