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Since people seem to be too busy bashing the kid for no picture, here's one from newegg. It's a standard 1/8th inch jack, like a headphone plug. You need an 1/8th to RCA (red/white/yellow) cable (picture, cable on the right). If your dvd players has the ports, it should have come with one. :? Doing a little digging around, you can find the same cable types for the Zune and iPod (although I don't know if they're compatible). Taking it into a place like radioshack or BestBuy (tho I doubt the BB drones will know) should give you better luck than the boards here. Printing off the picture of the cable would probably be helpful too. Newegg doesn't sell just the cables as far as I can tell.

Virtual memory is pretty useless when it comes to gaming. The swapping to disc will just lag the game even more because it's so much slower than pulling directly from ram. The 160ghz is most likely 1.60ghz. Nothing runs at 160ghz, including video cards and memory. Before you go out buying another stick or ram (although an upgrade to 768 or 1gb wouldn't be a bad thing), you should go download Memtest86, burn it to a cd, boot to it and let it run for a while to see if your memory throws any errors. If it doesn't accumulate any errors after running for a while then your memory isn't the issue. As for waiting for hours for the computer to shut itself off, it isn't needed. You can hold the power button for ~10 seconds to force a hard shut off. It isn't the best thing to do but it's no different than letting the battery die. It just saves you the hours of waiting.

Riding a bike doesn't involve relearning everything you've ever known about computers. Once you know how, you're done, period. Switching to Linux for the average user is like expecting a 4 year old to know how to drive a sports car without totaling it. The average user doesn't care about how great Linux can be after hours of configuring and tweaking. They just want it to work with minimal fuss. The 2 hours of searching and troubleshooting it took me to get my wireless card running is a prime example. The same thing windows does on it's on, at boot up, took me 2 hours. If it isn't done when windows loads, it's as simple as inserting a driver cd and clicking a few times. You tell my mom to spend 2 hours trying to install my wireless card and she'd rather get up, drive to the library and use what she already knows and what already works than spend any amount of time trying to get it working. Even if she did want to try, she'd have no clue where to start. The average user doesn't care and wants it to "just work", regardless of the name on the box or cd. Windows comes with their machine, it does what they want, it takes no extra effort to deal with and when it does, they just call Dell to have it fixed. Untill Linux does that, all the arguing, technical knowledge and love for FOSS in the world won't help it. Every linux user on the planet spreading the word won't change the minds of the non-technical people (ex: most computer users) that barely understand the "training wheels" that is windows.

Someone quietly implemented image resizing on the boards, so images that would stretch the forums out get reduced. Why it's resizing RS sized images doesn't really make sense tho. I tested this with a 1280x1024 desktop screenshot I PM'ed to myself. It got resized by the server . Edit: It was reduced to 700x560, which matches the 700 wide of the distorted RS shots

Any place with a concentration of kids could become a target. Sure there are literally hundreds of thousands of other places one could search for people but that doesn't some how magically exclude Tip.It. If people are willingly giving out info, it will attract them, regardless of location or medium. As others have said, it should really be up to the users personal choice, but then again there's the admin's views that they need to protect everyone from it in the first place.

Better yet, go into Control Panel > Accessibility Options and make sure it's turned off there. Pressing the shift key several times isn't a sure fire way of getting the option to pop up.

There will be 1024 installed, but for some reason or other the machine isn't reporting all of it. On board video is an example where that happens. Both of my towers report something like 1020 RAM while both have 2 512 sticks installed. No real idea why they do because onboard video is non-existent but it's never really been enough of an issue to go researching.

First, punctuation. Use it. Please. I had to read your post 4 times to understand WTH you wanted. :? Anyway, the only current way to get highscore info is to rip/download the html page within your code, remove the html tags, and extract the needed data from there. Ripping this link: http://hiscore.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/hiscorepersonal.ws?user1=zezima will return the html page with Zez's stats, which then has to be cleaned up (remove html) and then parsed in some way to extract the neededs stats.

Sounds like something beyond Winamp is broken. I've had the last 5 versions on 4 different machines and *never* had it crash. :? I'd have to say my most hated would be IE 6. It's a major PITA when it comes to web dev. IE7 does better (it renders the stuff I work with fairly close to FF and Opera) but IE6 just mangles things beyond recognition. :( Everything else I use was easily replaced with stuff that works. :mrgreen:

For site ideas you can look around at sites such as Open Source Web Design and other free/open source design sites. It'll give you some design ideas (or a template to just use as long as you credit the designer) and give you source to look at if and when you build your own layout. Errdoth, some people would much rather host their software themselves instead of throwing them into the sea of trialware that is download.com. If he has the hosting and bandwidth to host them on his own site, there's no reason to move it elsewhere.

Every BIOS I've ever seen has been blue with white text. :-k

My OS of course. Without it, I can't do anything beyond stare at a blank, useless monitor. :lol:

On top of Cadburys' reply, your memory card may have gone bad. Try saving and loading a few other games in different places to check and make sure the entire card hasn't died if you havn't checked it already.

Exactly why I bought it. It was Walmart's "Black friday" laptop. Dirt cheap, brand new and they had it out 2 weeks before the start of the holiday shopping rush here in the states (yay). Had to stand in line for about half an hour at 12:00 in the morning but it was worth it for the price.

There is no "upgrade" for a machine that old unfortunately. There is only a "throw it out the window and buy a new machine". You could possibly keep it for playing around with linux (if you're that tech savvy) or as a second machine for just web browsing but aside from that, there's little hope for it.

If it sucked so much, it wouldn't be in use as the defacto business desktop on most corporate systems, no matter how much you or your father kick and scream. The elitist attitude you're showing here is another reason people shy away from *nix based OSes. They don't like being told they're stupid when they're new to something. I've used Windows all my life, I've NEVER been infected by anything like you say Vista will be. Period. The same goes for the other 5 towers and laptops in my immediate family. The fact you're kicking and screaming about viruses and infections before it's even been released to the public also shows how worthless your arguments are. You being 13 really shows through in the way you write your replys and writes you off as any kind of credit to the *nix OSes out there. I know I sure as hell wouldn't touch it if you were the first person to tell me about it. Your dad did well in teaching you to mindlessly hate MS.

Dell press release of planned acquisition. - March 22, 2006 Dell press release on the completed sale. - May 9, 2006

You need to read the announcment and post the relevant info before you'll get any help. Telling us it's broken and expecting us to magically know what's wrong will leave you with a broken mouse...

Tracking cookies are only set within your browser when you visit a website. Generally the time and date of your visit and other user specific info. They aren't keyloggers. Some people just see them as spyware because websites use them to track site usage and other statistics about the user.

If you're limited in your web hosting you could tag your download links with Google Analytics to track clicks. It uses javascript so it doesn't take anything special server side. Takes a little reading up on to figure out how to tag specific links but isn't too hard once you get it. It'll also give you good traffic stats for the site in general.

...and a waste of money when a bios password does it for free.

I never really understood why MS put that feature in there, but that's what the problem is. It's annoyed my parents quite a few times. :wall:

I didn't plan on posting to this, but I'm bored, so here goes, heh. Main Desktop Athlon64 3000+ @ 1.8ghz 1gb ram 120gb + 40gb drives Gefore 6800GS AGP 19" LCD at 1280x1024 Running XP Home Laptop - Edited Jan 21 Sempron 3300+ @ 1.8ghz 768mb ram 120gb Hard drive 64mb shared video (up to 128 possible) 15.4" widescreen at 1280x800 Dual booting XP MCE and Ubuntu Edgy (It was on sale for $400 brand new, made a nice school laptop ^_^) LAN Server AMD Duron @ 1ghz 1gb of ram 120gb HD (does the job for the house for now :-w ) 32mb video card with no monitor (guests always wonder what I'm doing with a headless tower... -.- ) It's still running a stripped down copy of XP because it runs some windows only stuff :uhh:

Replace "+1" posts with [i'm too lazy to spend 30 seconds typing a real reply...]. That should get the point across eventually. :lol:

That involves letting windows boot, which he already said he doesn't want. There should be an option for a "Boot password" in the system BIOS (F-key when the computer boots, don't remember which exactly). This will prompt you for a password while the system boots and before windows starts loading. Be sure you remember what's set because you have to reset the BIOS to defaults to clear it.