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Assumptions are bad. They get people into trouble. :lol: Few companies are stupid enough to roll out the very first version of a brand new MS operating system. XP will be supported for quite some time to come, especially with so many corporate users just now rolling it out. Windows 98 was only just recently dropped from the supported list. XP has quite a while to go, even if the OEMs start pushing Vista out onto the consumer market. Just because YOU don't see a valid reason doesn't mean there aren't several out there.

That's the amount you currently have. You'll have to get on the dell website or find the manual for your computer to find out what the maximum supported is.

Vista x86_64 != WINXP x86_64 If you make drivers for one it'll likely not be compatible with the other. Reread my post. I never said one would work with the other. I said the release of Vista will drive the 64-bit transition. 64-bit is still in its infancy on the windows side of the fence. Developers will either start writing 64 bit drivers to support Vista and XP-64 or lose the entire OEM market. It would be rather stupid to support Vista and not support XP when a lot of places will still be using XP. Shouldn't jump to conclusions about something I never wrote. :?

Once vista is released and 64 bit drivers are pretty much forced on the market by OEMs and the like, things for XP Pro-64 should get better, but that's still months off. I personally didn't have any issues with the programs I installed during the betas, but that wasn't a very wide range and were still fairly basic, everyday stuff.

Can you explain what is meant by "PostgreSQL"? PostegreSQL is another database system, much like MySQL. They aren't the same system, but can be used to accomplish the same ends. Like Merc said, using Access for a website system is a pretty bad idea. You'd also be much more flexible in the future if you know how to use MySQL or another more widely used DB system. The MySQL website has tons of information on it if you're every looking for something also. PHPmyadmin and the MySQL administer/query browser are very useful tools.

Classic denial. Claim you aren't wrong and then go off on a completely unrelated tangent. Just drop it before you make yourself look like any more of an idiot. :? Microwave != alpha ray != light

Both blow major chunks. Norton is a massive resource hog and misses infections. McAffee has released numerous updates without proper testing that have screwed over more than a few corperate systems. Get yourself AVG and Zonealarm if you need AV and a firewall. Both are free and already widely used.

Wrap your code in tags. It'll preserve the tabs and spacing.

I'm assuming since you called it "#tip-it" you were using the channel on swift, which isn't the official Tip.It channel. The reason you are getting sent to that channel is because your ISP has black holed whatever IP you're getting connected to for some reason or other. Talk to your ISP or the Swift admins to get a new address you can connect to.

I suggest you withdraw from all your classes and find yourself a new college that actually knows what it's talking about.

Even if the motherboard can recognize all 80gb, the windows version running on that dinosaur has no chance. :wall:

You are getting lag in RS because it's a constantly updating section of your screen being pushed threw your GPU. RS does not use the graphics card on it's own (this is why everyone says it doesn't), windows and the Java interpreter do. Most people accept "using" a graphics card as high power games making direct calls to it, not going through 2 other layers of OS and interpreter. Jagex in no way shape or form can make a call to your graphics card for a specific rendering. That's exactly why RS is so CPU intensive and exactly why it's compatible with *any* mainstream system running a full Java install; all because there's no hardware to screw around with. It may look like RS is using your card, but it's actually windows redrawing that section of screen a lot more due to changes Java is making. Correlation != causation. Just because you lag under high GPU load doesn't automatically mean it's RuneScape's use of the card creating said lag.

You better have one beefy palm to be running RS on it. Better be ready for alot of scroll bars to see the entire 800x600 rs window on that tiny screen too, if it runs at all. Looking at the link you posted, it won't. If you want to play RS on the road, get a laptop and a wireless card and a 3G plan from one of the cellular carriers, not some tiny palm that was never meant to do more than basic browsing and planning. If you don't know the difference between Java and JavaScript (Yes, they're 2 completely different things, be amazed), you shouldn't be replying. :wall:

The FAQ is your friend too. :mrgreen:

He specifically said not to tell him that. And yes, upgrading something so seemingly simple is a major problem for a college student. He's running a P3, you physically can't find chips to use for an "upgrade" on a system that old. Upgrading the CPU means updating his entire system. If you're a college student living on your own, upgrading your system is the least of your worries. Defining ram and cache doesn't help him find it. :P Buffrichie: Got to start > control panel > system The first tab (The "general" tab) that opens should display the operating system version, your CPU name and speed, along with how much ram you have. Just taking a screenshot of that tab would be easiest. :mrgreen:

AGP has been around for a looonngg time (in computer terms anyway :P ). The 1ghz machine my dad built in the mid 90s has an AGP 1x/2x slot in it. Finding AGP cards is getting harder and harder with PCIe becoming the new standard so you may want to save up some money and build yourself an entirely new system instead of wasting time finding and buying outdated hardware. Building yourself a PCIe system will also leave you open to upgrading for quite a while to come.

Dude, you just cloned my winamp setup. :| Winamp all the way. Have it on 4 different boxes, hasn't failed me yet. :

Fasterfox won't help you if you're on a dialup connections. It would most likely just slow you down because of it's prefetching feature and it trying to open multiple connections to the site you're browsing. Google's web accelerator on the other hand can help out dialup users because it compresses images (you lose quality tho) before you try to download them. That means smaller file sizes and faster load times. If you're already on cable/dsl, you don't need either of them.

Rewriting any part of RS in C++ destroys portability, would be a waste of time and money on Jagex's part, and completely destroys all the work Jagex and fan sites have done to prevent people from running random RS related exe's. Even if you're only talking about rewriting the server side code in C++, I have to ask, why? What ever they're currently running is obviously stable as hell already. Rewriting it in another language just opens the door for new bugs and wastes time they could have been using for new content on an already proven system.

Care to back that up with a real source that isn't just your fingers typing out wild claims? Security Focus has 5 advisories out for IE 7. Secunia has 3. Hell, even IE 6 doesn't have that many public vulnerabilities. IE 7 is at least a step in the right direct. I don't like IE as much as any other geek but claiming 2000 exploits without backing it up means you either need to make with a source to back it up or be slapped back to the sandbox. Edited for spelling.

Some ISPs also actively block inbound port 80 before it reaches your network (My current ISP does this) to prevent hosting of servers like that on residential lines. :? Just another factor you may have to account for. (I have no experience with configuring apache, so I'm no help there :( )

Acrobat is the "official" reader for PDF files (Portable Document Format). PDFs were meant to be a universal format that can be opened by just about anyone so you don't need some random editing program (Like word, or power point, or some exotic editor) to open the file. Create your document, export to PDF, you're pretty much guaranteed everyone can open it (the specification is open, so there's tons of other reads out there for PDF)

That's exactly why it's coded in Java. It can be played anywhere, on any platform, any time. That's the way Gower has wanted it run from day 1 and that's the way he's said it will stay. When you think about it, they're closing in on 1 million members. That's at least $5 million a month, not including ad revenue and whatever else they have going. Not bad for a game that started out as a college project. :lol:

Editing registry values will in no way effect your true access speeds. It might do something to effect your local LAN speeds, but not your ISP supplied access. Those speeds are controlled by your modem and local routing hardware in the neighborhood, which you can't change (legally anyway).

Instead of multiple if's for each page you add, you can use the following: if (isfile($_GET['page'])) { include($_GET['page']) } else { include('error.html') } It may not work outright (I just typed it up on the fly for this reply :P ), but it's the basic outline of how I've done most of my php include work. You would also have to edit the isfile() to fit your directory structure and so on, but it's much easier than having to edit your giant string of if's each time you add something.