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I've been doing some of that and I'll be doing more of it because I really want to get some points of view. ;) Thanks for all your networking help, I'll make a backup of the files for my wireless adapter. Ah, Windows will probably use different drivers from what Linux wants (typically, you'd have to install the drivers as a module for your kernel). So if you planned on backing up the files windows currently uses, that's probably not a lot of help.

Aye, specially akward silence. Merm, didn't really mean that kind of silence. But silence is good when it gives you time to reflect and enjoy the things around you, and just generally become at peace with yourself and the world.

Which ones? I already answered you on IRC, but for the benefit of the topic: I'm wondering why, for example, Toy Story made it high up in that list, but the Lion King, Alladin, Snow White, Bambi and all the other classic Disney movies are nowhere to be seen. (Mary Poppins, anyone?) Keep in mind that such a long list is hard to make any statistical analysis on, plus I don't know all the movies, but I think the list is rather male-oriented. All those Star Wars and lord of the rings movies, and then the huge amount of movies about war and/or crime/detectives. I know plenty of girls who'd vote for things like Notting Hill or whatever. Now, I personally ain't that fond of movies like that, but I'm wondering why there are none in here :). A movie that I, personally, like very very much and isn't in here is A Beautiful Mind (Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, directed by Ron Howard, music by James Horner, received best movie award at the Oscars over Lord of the Rings - The fellowship in (I think) 2001).

2.9.0 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 170,914 3.8.9 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 124,915 12.8.7 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 78,114 13.8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 174,782 15.8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 131,414 18.8.6 The Usual Suspects (1995) 114,911 29.8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Am̮̩̉̉lie Poulain, Le (2001) 68,065 32.8.5 American Beauty (1999) 121,699 33.8.5 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 60,423 34.8.5 The Matrix (1999) 159,309 46.8.3 Boot, Das (1981) 32,061 <-- I tend to forget which submarine movies I've seen, so maybe it was one of the other ones... they're all alike, really :\ 50.8.3 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 67,886 59.8.3 American History X (1998) 68,603 60.8.3 Some Like It Hot (1959) 28,235 67.8.3 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 110,927 95.8.2 Donnie Darko (2001) 63,226 110.8.1 Batman Begins (2005) 61,336 114.8.1 The Sixth Sense (1999) 106,998 131.8.0 Lola rennt (1998) 36,510 133.8.0 Back to the Future (1985) 76,387 135.8.0 The Green Mile (1999) 67,973 154.8.0 Gladiator (2000) 103,580 159.8.0 The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 8,781 164.7.9 The Hustler (1961) 9,309 184.7.9 Spartacus (1960) 19,186 192.7.9 Twelve Monkeys (1995) 69,054 199.7.9 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 10,931 221.7.8 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 72,196 I'm not proud of how many good movies on that list I didn't see. I'm not proud of how many bad movies are on my have-seen list. But I think IMDB should not be too proud of that list either - there's some movies on there which I definitely don't think belong in any movie top 250. And it's missed out some of the ones I consider to be really good. That's just me, of course, but still...

I have for some time now wondered why not everybody uses 7-zip. 7-zip is freeware, it does both rar and zip (and various other compression formats) and it's easy to use and install. I'd recommend it to everyone :)

Most of the relevant things have been said. Keep in mind that it will be hard/impossible to run most of your windows games (like Half-Life, Age of Empires, you name them). As for your wireless card and other hardware, it's wise to do some research about how compatible they are (ie, whether there are Linux drivers available for them). A good idea is trying a Live CD, as mentioned, so you can leave your pc intact and just try it out once (or a few times). Most major distributions offer some form of Live CD. Knoppix is probably the most popular Linux Live CD around, it is a modified version of Debian/GNU Linux. When you really want to replace windows with Linux, you're probably best off using a distribution that's easy to install. That rules out Slackware and Gentoo. Examples of what you could use are Fedora Core 4, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Red Hat (if you're willing to pay), or Mandrake / Mandriva. Personally, I'm a Debian fan. Both Debian and Ubuntu (and I think Mandrake and Mandriva too) use apt. APT is a way of packaging applications, and it basically means that you can tell your OS: I want to install software package x (just giving it the name), and it will automatically find the appropriate stuff to download, download it, install it, and in some cases keep it updated for you. This is good because you don't have to find everything you need to get it installed, you won't be told to look for the appropriate version of supporting drivers (for Windows, comparable examples are GDI, DirectX and OpenGL software which you sometimes need to install before running certain games) and you don't have to worry about what version of the software to use. All this is taken care of by the operating system, though, as with anything Linux, everything is configurable (so should you prefer to do things yourself, go right ahead). Red Hat and fedora use a comparable packaging system called rpm. I don't have any experience with using rpm myself, but in many cases people claim apt is better. That's just hearsay, of course, so don't take my word for it :). If you don't use that wireless network for your internet and you don't pay for your internet on a per-minute or per-mb-downloaded basis, you are probably best off doing a network install. Most distributions provide these kinds of installs - they're usually small .iso files which you download and burn to a cd (typically they're smaller than 150MB). This then installs a /very/ basic Linux install, and allows you to then download and install other components you like (such as a graphical interface like you're used to on windows, your webbrowser, your office package (eg OO.org), your games (NeverBall, TuxRacer, what have you) and anything else you may want. This way you only download what you really need, instead of downloading (multiple) cd/dvd(s) which have lots of stuff you won't be installing anyway. If you do use that wireless network for your internet, you probably do want a normal cd, as you won't be guaranteed to have drivers for your wireless card on a normal network install cd. If you can find drivers beforehand, it's probably wise to copy all of those files onto a separate cdrom, if not having wireless leaves you without internet access (because that means you'll have to download them somewhere else, and copy them to your own disk, see if it works, try again, and again, until you finally get internet in order - which can be very annoying, trust me, I've done it once :) ) I'd also advise you to search this board for linux-related topics. There have been several over the last months, and any advice you can find is probably going to be useful :)

Your main site's template looks horrific in Firefox, I bet Opera won't like it either. Your site is also slow, and you don't have your own domain name. Way to give a first impression.

I really have no idea. I'm not sure what you mean, either. Do you want to know what runescape runs better on? Or (I'm not sure if you are) would you want to compare between a Mac running on the new intel chips and macs running on (older) powerpc chips? Or between 'normal' pc's and macs? Or...? Kinda having to do with Mac moving to intel. I'm just curious, no practical matters here. Are they moving over *just* for Windows compatibilitty? And will the new Macs use two processors, or will MacOS run on Intel as well? And if MacOS does run on intel, will it run faster than on a PowerPC? Well... you won't be able to run MacOS on a normal Intel pc. As for speed comparisons, I could really not give you any info on that, though you may try to find stuff on sites like http://www.anandtech.com Basically, I think Apple is moving to Intel processors so they can lift up on the innovation Intel is doing (meaning, they won't have to do lots of the hardware innovation / speeding up of processors themselves), and it may cut costs and, as a result of that, prices (I don't know about that, though - it may not). The point is, for now MacOS will not run on your normal Intel pc, unless you use a cracked version (I believe one such version spread over the 'net a few months ago - the protection Apple put in place on the OS was not very good, apparently). I think they said you would be able to run Windows on a Mac, though I'm not sure about that. You should probably try finding some of the announcements and FAQs about it on apple.com and otherwise using Google - I doubt there are people here who have ordered the developer preview machines (which are rented out to developers so they can move their mac apps to the new processor architecture) and as such could give you any speed comparisons themselves. I don't believe Intel Macs have hit shelves yet, either.

Silence is one of the best free things in the world.

I really have no idea. I'm not sure what you mean, either. Do you want to know what runescape runs better on? Or (I'm not sure if you are) would you want to compare between a Mac running on the new intel chips and macs running on (older) powerpc chips? Or between 'normal' pc's and macs? Or...?

If you can't even spell it right, you probably shouldn't bother trying. Seriously, it would mean you cannot play any of the games you're used to (except runescape) without a lot of hassle. It means you'll be compiling programs from source code, have to do without the fancy configuration screens and use a text editor to write to configuration files. Make a good typo and your computer won't boot properly anymore. Why do people use Linux, then? Because it's good for programming, debugging and other 'geek'-like matters. It might not be very good for playing the general kind of computer game, but there's still a lot of other things you can do better on Linux than you can on Windows. Of course, Linux is also free, and you can examine the source code. There are also very few viruses and worms out there that affect Linux, partly because its codebase is very secure (more so than windows, it appears), and partly because lots of people use windows, and very few people use linux, which means lots more people will be affected by windows worms or viruses than will be affected by linux ones. Either way, I don't recommend trying Linux if you don't even want to switch browsers.

What linux distribution are you using, Dan?

I was estimating $1000 = ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã1500-2000 http://www.google.com would tell you that atm, 1 usd is about 0.5635 british pounds. So your conversion skills suck :). You should be able to get a somewhat decent computer with that money, but please state whether you can reuse your current monitor (or want a new one), as well as if you have suitable keyboard, mouse and speakers. This kind of affects the amount of money you can spend on core components :) Edit: as for 'gaming' - what kind of gaming? Like, HL2 / Doom3 / AOE3 at highest quality with full anisoptric filtering? Or just a game of runescape? There's a difference, you know...

if you can't read the extremely clear instructions on the homepage (provided in more than one place, it's like impossible to miss), there's no way in hell you'll be able to use it and make good signatures with it.

Turn based is way too static for me. I enjoyed the demo for AOE 3, I'll be getting that when it gets out here (Europe) on Nov. 4.

Maybe because Andrew himself said sound didn't work cause they used an IE specific command.

It means you can install various tiny features into it - if you want. For example, I have an extension installed that will let me use BBCode easily (the formatting code this forum uses), an extension that will let me control my media player from my Firefox browser window, and a chat client extension (ChatZilla), which I also work on as a developer.

If you actually read my post, you would have seen the suggestions I gave and the explanation about what's going on. This is the explanation taken right from the bugzilla bug database for firefox and other mozilla products, and as said, it could be anything that's using up your cpu power, not just runescape. Try using task manager when this happens, to see if anything's eating CPU. In the meantime, insulting people who are trying to help doesn't help you.

The Firefox cursor code is influenced by the fact that you're running something that sucks 100% cpu. Meaning, something is keeping your computer's processor very busy, and as a result the cursor doesn't work well anymore. This could be runescape or any other program or script (such as the mentioned special text editor (I'm assuming this is a kind of rich text edit control). You can try to see if it is fixed in firefox 1.5, you can get a better computer (with a better processor, so it doesn't hit 100% when you're using Runescape or something else that might use a lot of processing power) or you can try using another browser such as Opera. I'd suggest Opera over IE seeing as Opera is still a lot more standards-compliant than IE, and has tabbed browsing and more of the features you've grown used to when using Firefox.

Allow javascript to replace the context menu in Tools > Options > Content > Enable JavaScript > Advanced.Tools -> Options -> Web features? Perhaps it's been renamed content for 1.5? Indeed it has. Good catch, Cameron :)

Allow javascript to replace the context menu in Tools > Options > Content > Enable JavaScript > Advanced.

Okay, people... if you guys enjoy sucking up to people because they have more yellow pixely coins in their digital bank, so be it. In general, I would say How2pk definitely has more people liking him - for who he is, and not for his money, or his graphical 'talents' (sorry TJ, but I've honestly seen better work by you...). I doubt anyone would like 'fans', and being respected member of a community largely made up of 13-year olds trying to discuss what the best way to get fr33 st00f is can hardly be seen as an achievement. In short: stop flaming people who may not like TJ's work or the fact that he's posted it two times so far, only degrading quality. If you can't cope with the fact that not everyone will like you, then don't spend time on a public internet forum.

Its been "out" since the 8th. You just need to go shopping at better stores. I downloaded the demo a while ago but havent even installed it yet, the game looks pretty cool but if its not to my tastes I don't want AoK memories to be tainted :P It was released on the 18th in the US, it's not out in Europe yet, due for release november 4th. Installing the trial as we, err, post, I guess.

Dido - Sand in my Shoes Kind of a personal story why that means a lot to me (I don't think it's that brilliant a song). There is one other piece of music that means a lot to me - but it's not something anyone would know or care about, as it's religious music. I'll refrain from posting it :)

A friend of mine who lives close to me got his bike stolen. The bike was locked, but he'd forgotten to lock it to the bike rack. So, I tend to keep my doors locked. Leaving them open (I can't close the door without 'locking' it - if I close the door, you can't get in from the outside without a key) is just asking to get robbed. If I leave the house for the weekend to visit my parents, I actually also 'really' lock the door.