Cruiser

Seeing the image type takes a bit of technical knowlege, which would then translate to knowing how to save different formats. Most don't know either. Your personal experience still doesn't provide a compelling reason for the rule change. You did say something like that. You said exactly that. 'Impose a size limit' is taken by most as a command or some other 'do this now'. It has no hint of suggestion about it. I think that sums up how Albosky sees it too since he linked to it as his only reply. Either way, you still havn't given any practical reason beyond your own personal opinion for changing the rule.

It's an avatar, not a billboard. Adding another 20/50kb to the current 30kb signature size results in 80kb per post (assuming everyone uses it all, most already do). Take that times 15 replies per page and you're up to 1.2mb per page. Still a huge 'we don't care about you' to dialup users. The current limits are 36kb per post, which is still over 500kb (maximum) per page for dialup users to chew on. They are signatures, they don't need to be the fanciest images on the planet. I think the usability of the boards is a bit higher up the ladder than what people think others should be downloading just for show.

One of the most popular paint programs around here also doesn't default to said formats. It defaults to BMP, and with the large number of computer illiterate users around here that don't know any better, banning the format stops most of the problems. You are not the decider of the rules here. Telling the staff to 'Impose a size limit' gives no value to your argument. Justify your suggestion, don't just tell people what to do.

800kb is a kick to the groin to dial up users. You take that 800kb and multiple it by 15 posts per page and you are pretty much telling people on slow connections to stop visiting your board. The current limit was kept low for a reason and the dial up side of it was a very big argument in the last increase. 800kb is WAY too big for a signature on ANY forum.

Is there any point to arguing this or are you just arguing it because the rule is there? There are plenty of other formats out there that keep the size much, much smaller and are much more commonly used. Pointing out this rule without a legit use for BMP over JPG/PNG/GIF is a waste of time. Edit: By forbidding BMPs, you also force the less tech literate among us into using compressed formats, decreasing file size and stopping anyone from 'accidentally' posting a massive BMP.

128mb was old well before 2001. Either way, a ram upgrade would be a very good idea. 2gb isn't really needed unless you have a good use for it. Throwing in another 512mb stick would be more than enough is you just surf the net and play RS.

My god please learn to resize! :wall:

ShadowFax stole my keyboard!

YouTube doesn't provide a button to download videos. It's possible with a FireFox extention that's floating around but not directly provided by YouTube.

Posting something more than 'It doesn't work' would be helpful. We aren't mind readers.

Running 'cmd' from Start > Run is the same thing as the accessories shortcut. Using run is just faster for most people.

Any recent changes to software or hardware when this started? Any power outage or internet outage around the time it started? If it just one morning started responding very slowly, you may want to call your ISP and have them check the line to make sure it isn't an outside issue causing the problem (like squirrels chewing threw phone lines... :lol: ).

1) You'll need to find the drivers for your sound/audio device and try to reinstall them as a first step. 2) Go to Control Panel > System > Advanted Tab > Click on 'settings' in the Startup and Recover section > Uncheck "Automatic Restart" This with force your computer to display an error screen (blue with white text) the next time it crashes. Write down what it says (or take a readable picture) and post it here so we can see what the error is. If it doesn't display an error message, there isn't much we can do but tell you to take it into a computer shop and have someone physically look at it.

Reading threw the stickies would have saved you a bit of time posting and waiting...

Because you will go "OMG" when you find a website that is actually readable when you remove the CSS and layout. :lol:

Assuming they don't use MySQL just because it's a cgi script is plain stupid. Assuming it is the cause of the error is also stupid. A script error could be caused by javascript, just about any language they are using server side and a number of other things.

1) "Stupid CGI Error" doesn't give us any info other than you get an error. What is it? What does it say? How often does it appear? 2) Yes RS works with FireFox. RS will work with any modern web browser that supports Java.

I'd love to see you search threw the 783 results returned by 'third' for relevant info too.

I'll believe it when you scan and post the invoice from Hitachi for that multi-million dollar machine. :lol:

Thats wrong every applications uses the graphics card, runescape just doesnt require a very powerful one. The problem seems to be connection related. Although it maybe taht there is a program in the background slowing your pc down. This is why some of you people shouldn't be posting advice here. RuneScape itself does not make graphics calls to the card. The graphics you claim RS is drawing are calls made to Java and then on to the OS. RS does not make any of it's own calls to the card like the major 3d games do. Let me repeat, RS does not use the graphics card on it's own. The logic you people keep using isn't in line with what people normally mean when they say 'using the graphics card'. RuneScape's 'use' of the card is on the same level as the OS and puts virtually 0 load on it. If you guys are so hell bent on saying it uses a graphics card, go look at the detail page. There is no mention of a graphics requirement. Why? Because it's all CPU and RAM dependent. RS doesn't need a graphics card.

There are so many incompatibility issues right now that you'd be beating your head against the wall well before you had a 'normal' machine. Yeah you could buy Vista now and get some use out of it but a lot of the software out there just doesn't work with it yet.

Thank you both for repeating what was already said multiple times in the 2 linked threads I posted yesterday. :wall:

Learn to search please.

They didn't get rid of it, it's just off by default. Right click and you should find it in the toolbars menu. Even then it appears under the address bar though, which doesn't follow any other windows program I've ever seen. :?

FireFox. Why? Because I'm too lazy to bother changing to anything else. :lol: It does its job, it does it well and it does what I want it to when I want it to. I tryed Opera way back when at version 7 (or whatever it was that had the ads in it) and had some issues with it (crashing randomly, don't flame me Opera lovers). I do have Opera 9 installed for web testing but never use it beyond that because FireFox is all set up the way I like it. :mrgreen: