Futurama

Odd... I come home, turn the computer on from the plug and I can access windows normally again. Either way, i'm reformatting tomorrow...

Chasing Amy is an amazin movie. Dogma, Clerks 1+2, Mallrats, Dogma etc...yeah, he's a good actor.

(excessive profanity self-removed.) My hard drive crashed this morning. Is it just a simple case of whacking windows xp disk to format in or something more?

Yeah I know it says that, but I bet most people who buy them buy them for that reason. I just don't appreciate being talked to like i'm a complete cretin because I made one mistake first thing morning ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâì_ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâì

^^ Blimey, I wondered what was going on in that avatar when I first glaned at it...lol XD

11 - Air Bud?

They got way too popular when Eyes Open came out. That album isn't even really good, and i'm so sick of chasing cars... ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâì_ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâì Final Straw is a much better album. Run, Chocolate, Final Straw, etc... :)

It's a CRC error, and from what I gather this means it can't access the data, probably due to disk damage. Story short, your disk is buggered. I'm pretty sure if you send the disk back to the company and ask for a new one they'll send it you for free, there should be something in the instructions telling you where to send it. Alternatively, if you've got a DVD burner, try copying the disk and installing from the copied disk. Don't worry, it's legal. 2nd Alternative, borrow the installation off a friend (just to install) then use your own CD Key or whatever, as usual...

There is an incredibly easy way to make something similar to swiftswitch, and invisible to jagex. However, absolutely no way am I releasing it for the good of the game. :)

Personally I think buying UMD movies at ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã15 each to watch on a tiny screen is a rip off, when most of the dvds I buy are under ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã10...would rather buy a portable dvd player. I'm not crazy on either to be blunt, I think they're both very overrated. Gameboy Advance all the way for me; just games you can enjoy rather than are too busy showing off new graphics.

Doctor said i've damaged the outer part of my internal ear (aka around the ear drum but not the drum itself) so i'm fine, and to clean it out using cotton wool and don't worry about it...guess I got lucky because it could've been much worse. On the subject of them growing back, the ear drum can actually heal itself quite well, just not all the time like if we cut our arm over and over again. As trapical mentioned, the 20,000 white hairs in your ear each respond to a different frequency, and they DO have the ability to grow back - however, many grow back deformed and out of shape (and therefore useless as they're so minutely different from each other) or just not at all depending on the damage. Once you start losing these, you start losing your hearing :) A friend of mine blew out one of his ear drums due to acoustic shock trauma (a loud unexpected sound right next to the eardrum, like an explosion) and was able to close his mouth and hold his nose, then whistle through his ear drum apparently, hahah. But a few weeks later his hearing was better and he couldn't do it anymore. What can happen, however, is that the skin on the eardrum is often weaker than it originally was, and prolonged exposure to excessive sound levels can result in tiny holes in the ear drum slowly opening up, and this isn't repairable. And to all the people posting cocky replies telling me i'm apparently an idiot for one tiny mistake, it was just a warning to what could happen.

Today, I woke up as usual, had a shower and brushed my teeth; the usual. On the way back from the bathroom I began clearing the wax from my ear with a cotton bud; leaving it in there for a second and turning round, I knocked it off the side of the door, pushing it deep into my ear and piercing my ear drum. Let me tell you; feeling warm blood mixed with an incredibly sharp, aching pain in the inside of your ear is not a nice experience. It's bled again since then, and it feels horrible. Tomorrow I have to have the morning off to go to the doctors and find out if there's any long-term damage. A lot of my hearing in that ear is shot, I have to refrain from sleeping on it, and truth be told it hurts like hell. So just a heads up, don't use cotton buds to clean your ears.

Yeah I guess you've got a point, then again i'd never been inside a computer until I cleaned mine and found it pretty simple! Suppose not everyone will be as lucky as me though... As for the compressed air, I never even knew you could get that, hence why I was trying to find household items everyone has...still, if you have that, use that. I'm not sure if it's common or not :) As for the configuration, it worked wonders on mine, with 2400+ processer and 512mb RAM... Cheers for your comments mate. :)

Okay, after about 2 straight days of messing about with my new soundcard i've put the problem down to the IRQ assignment of the card. According to the equipment manufacturers tech support, the irq should definately be below 10 and preferably set to 6 or 7, and my slot 7 is unused at the moment. However, I can't change the settings with device manager and it's currently set to 18. I've tried changing the pci slot IRQ in BIOS but it just didn't seem to change at all. Yeah, i'm stumped. Can anyone help me change the IRQ assignment of this card? THe card i'm trying to install is an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 (PCI)

An easy guide to computer optimization, by Futurama. This guide was written on a 512mb, 2400+ AMD Athlon computer running Windows XP Home, so if something doesn't make sense on here, it's probably cause you're running something different! Why use this guide? Because you're probably sick of your computer being half the speed it was when you bought it and it won't take more than a few hours to get it running up to scratch again. Also, if this get's stickied, it'll stop people asking about computer performance all the time. You Will Need: 2 hours or so of free time, access to the inside of your computer and the confidence to go in there, large plastic sheet(s), rubber trainers, duster, x-headed screwdriver, vacuum cleaner, internet access. 1: Physical Computer Cleaning. Fans Loud? Computer a bit dodgy? Here's one of the reasons why: most computers have two fans inside of them to help cool internal hardware; and they accumulate a LOT of dust over long periods. Never opened up your computer before? You're in for a shock... Pop your rubber trainers on and sit on your plastic sheet to earth yourself and prevent any static shocks; open your computer by any means nessecary: if you have the name and manufacturer of your case, there's more than likely a guide on how to open it up correctly on their website; once it's open, touch the metal chassis to discharge any possible static, and remove any dust you can see using the vaccuum and a duster. Once all of that's off, take off the two fans inside your computer. Filthy, filthy computer or what! Remove all of the dust using your duster and vaccuum. Once that's done, pop the fans back on and close up the case: your computer will go from sounding like an F1 racing car to a Nissan Micra. Awesome. Give your mouse and keyboard a proper clean too, cause they're probably disgustingly filthy aswell! 2: Cleaning Software Run ALL of these! Ad Aware - Removes Spyware and Adware Spybot: Search & Destroy - Removes Spyware and Adware. Again. Registry Fix 3.9 - Removes old registry entries, broken links to startup items, old DLLs, etc! HiJackThis - Open this and click "do a system scan and save a logfile". Now ask your nerdiest friend (or on this forum) to go over it and tell you what you need to remove with this. Be careful though, because if you tick something wrong and remove the wrong thing, it can mess up your computer bad. Disk Cleanup - Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Removes old stuff to give you more space on your computer. 3: Defragmenting This is a tool within windows that takes a few hours to run, but basically rearranges everything within your harddrive so it can access it more effeciently; it speeds your computer up awesomely, so do it! Start - All Programs - System Tools Just choose your hard drive from the list and hit defragment, then go watch a movie or something. 4: Manually deleting the junk you don't need any more. 1,000 pictures of Melissa Joan Heart eh? Or that secret stash of Family Guy episodes you never got round to deleting after someone bought you the box sets as a gift? Get rid of everything you don't need on your computer any more. This includes clicking add-remove programs on control panel and getting rid of that copy of Barbie Riding Club your "Sister" wanted to buy, and anything you just generally have no use for anymore. 5: Windows & Drivers Updates! You should be updated anyway, but update windows by clicking Start - All Programs - Windows Update to give yourself full security and fix bugs in your computer. After this click Start - Run and type "DXDIAG". Find out what graphics, soundcard, and anything else that requires you installing drivers you have, and update the drivers! This'll get your equipment running at full whack so you can get the most out of it. 6: Configuration Don't worry, you're almost done: go into Control Panel and select System. Hit the advanced tab and choose performance: then set your computer to "adjust for best performance" (or tick boxes manually depending) - this will just generally make your computer run faster. 7: Protect your computer! Read Ard_Choille's guide on how to protect your computer from threats. 8: Breathe a sigh of relief, make yourself a big long drink and have yourself a mini apple pie. Wallow in your inflated sense of self esteem. You're finished! :) Credits: Me Me Me, Me Me and Meeee.

Open to discussion, informative, interesting, non-offensive. that's what i'd probably say makes a good thread here.

nah, chilli dogs actually have chilli on them, normal hot dogs are still hot dogs in the usa (or "dawwgss" if you live in detroit) USA [garden tool] = Prostitute, UK Hoe = Gardening Implement. USA Tire = UK Tyre

yeah, avg antivirus, found nothing... i'll update my graphics drivers now, thankyou :)

http://www.download.com/Alarm-Clock/300 ... ag=lst-0-1 worked for me i plugged in headphones to the computer and turned the sound all the way up, it was the right volume for me that way. :)

I don't know what's going on lately. My fans have been going crazy; sometimes they'll be quiet as anything, but then sometimes they seem to keep loudly changing speeds all the time. any ideas? also, i've ran nessecary spyware programs (ad-aware, spybot etc) but my computer still seems to be slower than usual; and it happens before my computer loads properly, because on the welcome screen of xp home (where you choose your user) i click my user account from turning the computer on and the animation is choppy/looks like it's processing something even when i havn't clicked it yet. then all my startup programs load after this... it happens throughout, and it's driving me insane; i can't run music programs (listening or writing with) because playback is choppy and dodgy, but it's not my soundcard drivers because i just bought an m-audio 2496 with asio full duplex and upgraded to the newest drivers. im thinking it could be a setting in bios or something, but i'm stumped. my computer often overheats and i cleaned out the entire thing last night, took all fans off and everything. i'm running an AMD Athlon 2400+ (set to auto in bios) with 512mb RAM. can anyone shed some light on this? :(

ah yeah, just had that on to get a couple of tracks for my gf's sister :/ lol

fixed :)

So, since a discussion in class today i've decided to test peoples/knowledge on the allegations regarding health problems with diet coke and coke zero. and please, no pepsi jokes :) The sweetener in Diet Coke is made from a chemical called aspartame; Alleged harmful effects of aspartame ingestion include seizures and a change in the level of dopamine, a brain neurotransmitter. Symptoms associated with lupus, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease have been claimed to result from an excess intake of aspartame. As well, aspartame consumption is claimed to increase the difficulty of diet-dependent diabetics in regulating their blood glucose level. To tell you the truth i'm stopping drinking it to be on the safe side; sounds dodgy to me, so don't wanna take any risks :)

my friend told me today that coke zero causes cancer. after i drank 1L of it... what the sod did i quit smoking for? :/

oh and, Refused. oh man refused are awesome :)