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Well, China and the United Nations (which the U.S. was a member of) did clash during the Korean War. After the surprise Inchon Landing, North Korea was getting pounded by the UN forces. The North Korean's retreated back up to Pyongyang (NK Capital) and China stepped in, mainly because China feared that if North Korea fell to the UN, then the Chinese border would be threatened also. The Chinese+North Koreans eventually drove the UN out of Pyongyang and North Korea and back down to South Korea, where the war remained a stalemate, and a treaty was signed. So yes, going by the theory of 'history repeats itself', it North Korea was attacked by any hostile forces, chances are China will step in and defend that country. Because if NK falls, that's a fairly large chunk of their border exposed to invasion, and they won't like that :D And yes, me and a classmate had to do a 50+ slide powerpoint on the Korean war :mrgreen: Well, you did forget to mention that North Korea first invaded South Korea (which then got UN support). Otherwise, very true stuff. However, I doubt China will dare help North Korea if they launch a nuclear missile - it would create too much tension in the world and between the US/NATO and China, and China wouldn't be capable of handling that.

Woo.. i didn't know that window key + D minimises ur desktop.. i always use window key + M :o Both work, and to me it's still a mystery why MS thought they needed both. *shrug* Cameron, he might as well get 1.0.4 Prerelease. Sucky Extension install / JS exploit fixed :)

How odd, I thought those kind of retaking tests were standardised all over the globe - they're normal in Holland too. I think it's a good thing, if people can't drive anymore, they should be kept from doing so, for their own good. As said above, restricting them based on age is codswallop :)

Congratulations! I hope your sister and her baby are well :)

Which means height: 100% on html / body will make it 100% of the viewport (not the full page). Thus, Firefox is rendering this correctly. Unless I'm very much mistaken, Opera will render it the same. I think you'll have to fiddle with positioning to get this to happen cross-browser. Googling around, it seems the problem can be given various solutions, which are probably page specific. Anyhow, maybe changing the 'height: 100%' to 'min-height: 100%' would fix it :).

Known problem with Runescape when you use it in Mozilla Firefox (this affects all your typing). Jagex noted that this is probably a Firefox problem. There is no way to solve it, except getting a faster computer or using Runescape through the official client or IE. I can't be bothered getting you a link to all the info, but it's been mentioned a couple of times on these boards. Next time, search before you post a new thread.

1. Open the m3u file in WordPad or a similar text editor 2. Edit > Replace 3. Find: "C:"; Replace: "E:"; Replace All 4. Save under another name in case something went wrong 5. Try to open it :D (the m3u playlist files are just text files. Which is nifty :) )

To me, it sounds like something magnetic / metallic is causing interference... but I'd guess you checked that already? (presuming, of course, that you can actually physically access the pc - I dunno where your grandma lives (as in, how far from you)) Other than that, my guess would be that the soundcard is fudged (if other speakers / headphones don't make a difference)

Compiling big software programs (*cough* mozilla.org stuff *cough*) can see a performance gain when using more RAM, even in situations when you already have above-average RAM (1GB is still above average, even though it's not all that unusual anymore). Other than that, usually the performance gain won't be noticeable at all. So as said, it wouldn't be worth the money. Maybe later, when there are actually normal programs that use such amounts of memory. :)

I think you're best off posting a hijackthislog here, AND deleting that file. Google seems to never have heard of it, and the cursors directory shouldn't contain dll files anyway.

That's probably because either the WMP plugin or JAVA sucks. They tend to hang the process. Firefox developers are working on a workaround - but essentially it's a plugin problem, if I recall correctly.

Bad Idea in this case. To the poster: Install the latest version of DirectX, from Microsoft. Search their site (it may even be linked from the front page).

Compatibility? Thousands if not millions of programs, drivers and other hardware pieces which have not gone to 64-bit at all, and pieces of code rely on the byte being 8 bits. It's not worth the trouble to change that.

If you'd ever spend 10 minutes looking through topics on Tech And Computers, you'd know that is not true. Sadly.

MyOtherForm.Hide() PassWordForm.Show() You mean like that? :) Then in the handling of a correct login, you can just do: PassWordForm.Close() MyOtherForm.Show()

I'm pretty sure your computer's infected with a strange virus/malware program then... have you tried updating and scanning with both Ad-Aware SE and Spybot? You could also try going into Safe Mode, and remove the files from there, and see if they come back that way. (They will probably come back once you log on to Windows XP normally, but from safe mode, you may be able to figure out what the problem is.

It just means you've been looking at the wrong kind of sites (pr0n is my first suspect) or opened a weird email attachment. Probably. :)

Because he's willing to help people, if they're not freaking stupid enough to ignore sensible advice and questions. Merc is one of the people on Tech and Computers who knows what they're doing. The fact that you totally ignored everything he said, and insulted him in the end made sure you stand very little chance of getting help here - especially if you continue to behave as non-helpful as you have. Boil in your own soup, I suppose... :roll:

No, "Lineage" is just another online game (just like Runescape, WoW, Matrix Online, PristonTale, etc. etc.), not some kind of genre or something. I think it's very popular in Asia especially - but I've never played it so that's all I can tell you.

okay, uninstall MSN, and if that doesn't help, simply remove the directory. It sounds fishy to me :?

This should be in tech and computers. Anyhow, 1. Find the 'firefox[Caution: ExecutableFile] file. (probably in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\) 2. Go to Start > Run 3. Enter: "PathToYourFirefoxExeFile\firefox[Caution: ExecutableFile]" -profilemanager Be sure to have quotes around the path, but not around the -profilemanager option. The correct thing to enter if you installed Firefox in the default directory is the following (as an example): "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox[Caution: ExecutableFile]" -profilemanager 4. Before you click OK, close *all* open Firefox windows (don't forget the Download Manager, the Extension manager or whatever else could be open, just make sure you close *all* Firefox windows. If you want to be sure, open the Task Manager and see if there's a 'firefox[Caution: ExecutableFile]' process running. This should no longer be the case. 5. Hit OK in the Start > Run box. 6. You should be presented with a list of all your profiles, and some buttons. Select the profile you want to use, and make sure the 'Don't show this dialog again' option (it's called something like that, anyway) is ticked. Click 'Start Firefox'. If you still have problems, ask for help or use Google.

Or something keeps putting them back? In which case, the original poster should: 0. UPDATE WINDOWS! 1. Update his antivirus program. 2. Do a full system scan (and remove any crap it finds). 3. Get Spybot and Ad-Aware SE 4. Update both. 5. Scan with both (and remove any crap they find). Hrm. After rereading everything in this thread, I think the above can only be done if you have some more space (yay for that). First, do what Mercifull suggested. Next, download Sequioaview. this program can be used to create a graph of your disk usage, which shows which folders / subfolder use a large amount of space. Maybe this can help you to find out what uses a lot of space :)

Too true. Another thing is that right now, Firefox is getting a lot of publicity because it fixed flaws in 1.0 for 1.0.1, then made 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 quite fast after eachother. Recently, CNet also had an article which was titled something like 'Major security flaws in Firefox raise privacy concern'. The entire article was a rant about how bad the flaws were, and all the way down at the bottom was this one sentence: "These flaws affect every version of Firefox except 1.0.3 and every version of the Mozilla Suite except 1.7.7" So basically, they could also have written "Firefox developers fix security flaws" (since that's what actually happened). It's just that Firefox got a lot of positive press shortly after the 1.0 release. Now readers are getting bored reading raving reviews on Firefox, so journalists need a new approach. This is apparently the new approach they've picked. Now, the funny thing is, that all these people quoting bug counts forget one thing: the number of fixed bugs vs. the number of non-fixed bugs, the bug severity, and the time it took to fix the bugs that are currently fixed. All these three factors favor Firefox over IE, so I wouldn't say Firefox developers "don't care about bugs". Tell me, how long have IE developers known about CSS 2(.1), partially transparent png's, position:fixed and all the other junk IE does not support yet? How long did it take them to get a security release out that stopped popups, and made people more cautious about the dangers of ActiveX exploits?

You'd be best to not touch the gold stuff on it too much, too, but apart from that -^-> what he said ;) Oh, and I would check the manual of your motherboard to see how much RAM it can handle, how many slots it has and how big one RAM stick can be. Checking if you actually have free slots is also a good idea :)

I know there are programs that offer this kind of functionality - my school uses them to make certain cd-roms available over the network. Depending on the game, you may simply have to adjust a path in a .ini file somewhere, or you may need special software. For the latter, Google is usually good. When I visit school again, I'll ask my system admin about it if you haven't found anything by then.