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When adding RAM, how exactly do I do it in pairs? Do I just have to match up the stick sizes, or is there more to it than that? For example, I already have a 512MB stick, if I added one 512 MB and a pair of 1GB sticks, would that be ok? Here is the Diagnostic you asked for:

Well ram should be installed in pairs to make it run in dual channel. Although if the choice is more ram or running in dual channel, more ram would be better. A 2GB ram kit is fairly cheap now a days, so thats well within your budget. For a graphics card you can get a 7900GS or x1950pro for dx9. If you want to be more future proof you could go with the 8600gts which is slower and may be out of your price range with the ram. Thanks. How do you mean, future proof? Why would I want it to be slower? Sorry, I don't know a lot about graphcis cards... EDIT: Just read about the 8600, do you mean it is future proof, insofar as it supports dx10?

Ah, sorry bout the fps, it was only meant to indicate the effect of running the game at Medium/High detail. I'm into physics so we usually call things measured in (/s), Hz. If I upgrade my RAM, I read somewhere it is best to install RAM chips in pairs of the same size. Is this really necessary? I was thinking of buying a 1GB chip, and then buying more when I can afford it. I have a maximum RAM capacity of 4 GB, with 4 ports to plug it into, so is it the case that more is better, or does setup have a large effect as well? I don't install anything on my external HD, as it goes through USB and I know that that ain't exactly the quickest way to transfer information!! I only keep music and videos on it. I'll increase my virtual memory though, thanks. I was getting messages like that a while ago when I was handling large photoshop images, so thanks a lot for sorting that. I dunno about a grapchis card, I don't really know what a reasonable price is. Are there any cards that are good value for what they are? I guess the absolute maximum I would want to pay would be around ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã150, but if I dont have to spend that much I'd rather not. So, on a budget of around ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã250, to include RAM and a replacement graphics card, what would be the best setup I could get?

Well, I bought Battlefield 2 and BF2:Special forces yesterda, as they looked pretty good. When I run them on my PC though (in Single player - haven't managed to connect to a srever yet as my net connection sucks cabbage), I can only play it in Low detail mode, otherwise the sound and picture is 'broken', the frame rate is about 0.5 hertz!! I was wondering what I needed to upgrade in order to play it at a decent quality. I also get messages telling me my virtual memory has run out, and that windows is increasing the size of my paging memory (or something like that). Here are my tech specs: Processor: 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, OS: XP Home SP2 RAM: 512 MB DDR Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5200 HDD: 80 GB with additional 80GB external HDD If you need any more info give me a shout. If you recommend an upgrade, please say what I should be considering upgrading it to, as I'm not as technically savvy about hardware as I'd like to be : Thanks a lot

If you outline exactly what you want the form to do, someone might be kind enough to write one for you.

Any thoughts as to what is the best Firewall software around at the moment (free)? I'm sing Zonealarm, but Im not convinced at how good it is anymore, a lot of things seem to slip through it, and it restricts my internet access severely from time to time, for no apparent reason. Is there anything better out there I should be using instead?

Or, just turn the thing off and unplug it before you open the cover :wink: Your theory doesn't really work though, if you're grounded, electricity is more likely to flow through you if you touch something with charge stored on it (i.e. a capacitor). I think you mean that if you are grounded (by touching the PSU), you transfer any static charge stored in your body, to ground, so you are less likely to fry any delicate components.

Have you tried going to Start --> Run, and typing "cmd[Caution: Executable File]"?

Go to Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Command Prompt.

Hmm, I've already managed to display multiple images in a page by using HTML img src code (using a 'while' function), but thats not what I want to do. I want to return the image using PHP, so that I can alter it using PHP functions.

The waves converying the information is travelling close to the speed of light, I'm not sure being upstairs would significantly increase that time :wink: I know what you mean though, I'm only playing. As Doomster said, being upstairs can be a problem. When we installed a wireless router in our house, we have one particular surporting wall that blocks signals particularly well. If you were stood right on the other side of that, the signal would be reduced but you would still get a signal. Now, if you were the other side of it, and upstairs, if you imagine drawing a line from you to the router, the signal would have to go through maybe, 2 feet of that wall, because it is going across and down, diagonally through the wall. It may be the structure of your house that is affecting your speed, rather than the physical distance from the router. If you can buy an aerial on a wire for your network card/reciever, and trail that out the door to the room you're in, you may find that you get a better signal.

Ah no problems, you have a nice trip? I've been away for the last week anyways, so not been doing much work on it. I'm doing OK thanks, most of the functional bits of the site are now working, I still need to write a 'forgotten password' page(s), which I still need to figure out how I'm going to do that. I'll probably send an email to the user, replacing their password with a random one, and then requiring them to change it the next time they login. I'm having a bit of a ball-ache with images at the moment though. If you read my last couple of posts, you'll pick up what I'm trying to do. Hob

Lol, thanks! That doesn't work though :-( I've managed to split the filetype from the filename and get a switch function working that selects which type of file the file is, $image = "uploads/PEOJuCKrpe973nM0.jpg"; $type = strtolower(strstr($image, '.')); switch($type) { case ".gif": imagecreatefromgif($image); break; case ".jpg": imagecreatefromjpeg($image); break; case ".jpeg": imagecreatefromjpeg($image); break; case ".png": imagecreatefrompng($image); break; } (I'll change the $image variable later), however, I don't get an image given, I don't get any output at all. The only way I can get an output is by using the following: $image = "uploads/PEOJuCKrpe973nM0.jpg"; $type = strtolower(strstr($image, '.')); switch($type) { case ".gif": imagecreatefromgif($image); $im = imagegif ($im); break; case ".jpg": $im = imagecreatefromjpeg($image); imagejpeg ($im); break; case ".jpeg": $im = imagecreatefromjpeg($image); imagejpeg ($im); break; case ".png": $im = imagecreatefrompng($image); imagepng ($im); break; } But then, it still doesn't recognise it as an image, just a load of garbled junk.

Lol, dam. OK, I'll have a crack at it. The main problem I have is that I don't want to create thumbnail files for each image, as, whilst doing it to resize it is fine, I also want to add text and stuff over the image later on. As the text is changeable, saving a thumbnail with the correct text overlay, etc. everytime it changes, just isn't practical! I'm having trouble even loading my images at the moment though. I have found the script: <?php //header("Content-Type: image/jpeg"); $image = imagecreatefromjpeg("uploads/PEOJuCKrpe973nM0.jpg"); imagejpeg($image); ?> However, this is no good as it only loads one image, you can't load different file types, as the header has already been set. As soon as you remove the header, it no longer interprets the file as an image and just gives you a load of garbage in text form. Any ideas? As soon as I can load multiple images onto one page, I'm more or less sorted, as I can find several tutorials showing me how to resize and crop etc., my main difficulty at the mment is displaying multiple images on one page!! Thanks for your help

Hmm, I'm still struggling a little with the images. Here is what I want to do: I have my images stored in a folder, and I have the location of each image stored in a database. Now, I want to display each image on one page, resizing it at the same time. I have tried resizing it in the browser, and got that to work fine, but, on hindsight, that was resulting in the user downloading the full image, which they didn't need to do, and the resizing was crap. Instead, I want to call the image using PHP, resize it before it gets sent to the user, and then send the resized image to the user. The only tutorials I can find that relate to resizing images in PHP, are about actually creating images, which is not what I want to do. So, in short, I want to call up an image from the server, by using the location in the database. I then want to use the GD library to resize it, and then print that image on the page that is sent to the user. Can this be done? Thanks a lot.

Nope, it wasn't an iPhone. I saw it just after the video iPod came out. And yes, I was confused that it was dated '06 too.

Hmm, I dunno, I remember seeing something that looked a helluva lot like this, a mate at work had it and said that it was an iPod from America. I'll have to ask him exactly what it was, as I've NEVER seen anything like it since, but as i said, it loked an awful lot like that picture.

So, any advice on the images?

Yes, but that is still $8.99 per cartridge, approximately ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã4.50, 4.50/50 (photos) = 9p per print, and that is only using black ink. You then have the cost of the other 5 colour cartridges, plus paper,plus the cost of the printer, all pushing the cost per print up way higher than the 5p per print you can get by taking your photos to be printed at Asda. I know thats not the point you're making, as you're selling photos on location, but I'm just saying that it works out much more expensive to use your own printer.

I'd disagree as well. My printer prints them out fine, the ink consumption is a bit high, but other than that, nothing to moan about. I'd still rather take my SD card to Boots or whatever, to get my photos printed out, it costs as little as 5p a print, which is peanuts, and you just take the card in, come in the next day, and they're there waiting for you. Much easier!

I'm starting to think the same way actually. I used DMX to begin with to write the login and registration pages, as that involved stuff that I hadn't learnt yet, but I'm writing pretty much all of the code myself now anyway. I'm still going to use Dreamweaver, but only because it has numbered lines, which are damn useful! To be honest, I didn't realise how arrays could be used, I was pretty much just using variables, but now that you mention it, it is a helluva lot easier for fetching all of the data about a user, rather than fetching each bit seperately! Cheers

There is a lot of debate about this. The short answer is, yes. One common method is called a 'brute force' attack, where a hacker runs a program that tries every possible combination of alphanumeric characters, working on the assumption that sooner or later, they will hit your password. As you can imagine, this takes a while, but is guaranteed to work. Many systems have in place a method to stop brute force attacks, for example, locking you out for 10 minutes after 5 unsuccessful attempts. I don't know eough about the jagex system to comment, but I'm sure one of the more 'hacker-savvy' people on this forum will be happy to help you out. You are right in a sense though, that most RS 'hackings' occur because people unwittingly install keyloggers onto their machines.

Ha har!! Sorted, I had to rethink where I was placing my images, as it wasn't putting them where I expected. Next job - resizing!! I can do it easily in HTML, by specifying the width I want, but the resized image is very jagged. Would it come out smoother if I resized it using PHP? (possibly using the gd library)? I would rather resize it using PHP, as I want to also use some effects, such as changing it to grayscale, inverting the colours etc. How would I go about this? I've found a tutorial that shows how to transform a single image, but it gets the image using headers, so its no good to use on a page where you have other stuff going on. How do I get the image using PHP? I hope all this makes sense and I have the right end of the stick... The tutorial I'm referring to is this one: http://www.blizaga.com/tutorial/tutorial.php?id=4

Indeed! Thats awesome! So do you want the same back ground or a different one. I can easily change the background. Also I'm not sure how I'll be able to get it to fit tif standards. It may take some time to resize. If you could possibly do a different one that would be ace, but if you dont have much time, then the same one would still be cool

I've had this before, where the keyboard doesn't respond. It was caused because I'd screwed up my computer and the USB ports weren't being read properly until I'd fully booted up. As I had a USB keyboard, I couldn't do anything. Try replacing your keyboard with one of the old style PS/2 keyboards, if you haven't already. Other than that, I'm all out.