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I havn't had time to upgrade my Beta2 install to RC1 yet, but from what I've seen floating around, it's been greatly imporved over the last beta. Most places are still saying it isn't ready for release yet, but it's apparently *a lot* more stable and has fewer major bugs. We'll see when I get time this weekend. :mrgreen:

Both sound like dialup companies. :? I know AOL lookups all return a city in Virginia because of how they route all their connections. I think there's a few other ISPs that get listed out of Houston too, for the same reasons. Either way, the format RS gives you the IP in is a standard format, so you aren't going to get any closer than you already have.

I'd still go track down your dorm staff/techie just to be sure. :P

Weez mentions a movie function (I have no idea what Fraps can do), but if all you need a screenshot utility to automatically save shots as you take them, I'd suggest Gadwin Printscreen. I've been using it for several years now and it's never given me any problems. Easy to install/configure and it does the job well. :mrgreen:

I've seen this one on 2 of my systems. The first was my mom's Compaq and it would randomly BSOD with that error (different memory locations) while idle. It also did it once while being used. I did a fresh install of XP and it all went away. Same hardware, same BIOS settings, just Windows throwing a fit about something. The second was on my current AMD box. It happened every so often when I would be playing HL2 and no other time. Turned out to be bad video drivers or the card itself. Did a driver upgrade and it never happened again, but have since changed to a newer AGP card. I never really had a chance to stress test it after the driver upgrade. :?

Being in a dorm (assuming college/univerity), you're most likely being thottled for going over your weekly/monthly download limit. Every dorm system I've ever heard of has a limit on download ammounts because of the sheer number of students that abuse the high speed connections torrenting things. It could also just be the network is being saturated by everyone else using the system, going back to the heavy downloading that goes on. :? I'd check with your dorm staff/website/admins and find out if it's a network/limit issue before going to hardware. It may also be bad hardware (Do not assume this first). My old d-link router decided to crap out on me and was only giving me about 1/3 of my total download speed, while still running fast enough for uploads to run at 100%. After switching out hardware I was back up and running at full speed. I gotta say it again, check this last.

DNSstuff has never been close. These guys are much, much better at what they do, being a full time geoIP company. I've used there City IP location to scare more than a few self proclaimed internet experts back into line. :lol: As the others have said, having an IP address doesn't really mean anything. It could be dynamic, it could be a proxy. Best thing you can do is notify Jagex of the date you noticed the IP and the IP that wasn't you and let them do whatever it is they do about the matter. They should be able to track down where the items went and ban the offender. Other than that, you're stuck with resecuring your account/computer and moving on.

A 100% mark-up on the price isn't "reasonable service". Just a small example, to prove a friend of mine wrong, he gave me the specs for a $3800 Alienware machine off their website. The exact same machine (I'm not exagerating exact here, it was matched down to the model numbers on the parts), cost me under $2000 (after shipping too) off Newegg. He was rather glad he didn't order it after that. You're paying for a name and that shiny injected plastic case. If you want service, go find your neighborhood geek. (S)he will gladly put together a machine that matches Alienwares specs, and it'll cost you several orders of magnitude less.

He meant AMD processor on other mobo with onboard video. Technically AMD does make video cards. They bought ATI, remember? Just to put it in perspective, my dad had it running Win 95 when he first bought the box. :lol: It's still more than enough to play RS smoothly though. The thing is a dinosaur and has zero to do with the ATI deal. r3dh3adkid: Java is CPU driven. You could play RS on 2mb video memory if you wanted. Your video would just be scaled back over the entire system, not just RS. As for d3nic's issues, I'm out of ideas. :?

Even if you pay for AV software, your data isn't safe if you get infected. Reactive software isn't going to save you if you're stupid enough to get infected in the first place. :? Common sense supplimented with any AV program (free or payed, depending on your paranoia level) is the best solution. Or you could just switch to *nix or OS X. :lol: I use AVG free on all my home systems, never had a problem with it. Then again, I've never been infected either. :wink:

It should run RS perfectly fine, and no you don't need the card. My little 1ghz AMD plays RS flawlessly with it's onboard video. It's definatly not your hardware. If you're running on dialup, there's a good chance that may be the reason. If you have DSL or cable, then you may want to run a quick spyware/virus scan, just to be sure that isn't the cause.

1) Been suggested, many, many times. It just straight up doesn't work. You can set the minimum character count to 500 or more and spammers will just add a mix of characters and spaces to the end of their post to get around. It also isn't very hard to get around any checks that look for just repeated characters too. 2) More work for the already overworked admins. Removing post count entirly would have fixed that already, but most Tip.It users are too number loving to part with it.

Weird. I just tryed turning that option back off and nothing in RS changed. Whatever worked I guess. Atleast it's fixed. :mrgreen:

GIMP is a free image editor. It's much, much better than using paint for things, but nothing close to Photoshop. It's usefull for general image editing stuff though. http://www.gimp.org/

If you had read the thread, you'd notice he can't because he doesn't have IE6 installed. It sounds like the RS applet is somehow being clicked threw when you right click, causing FireFox to generate a menu for some reason. A few quick things I can think of is making sure your Java is up to date, and trying to reinstall FireFox. Make sure you back up your FF profile before you reinstall, so you can save all your settings. You can find instructions on where it's stored on the mozilla website. If reinstalling FireFox doesn't fix the issue, we'll have to go find Cameron and see if he knows what's up. :lol:

There's an extention called "Noscript" (found in the Firefox extentions website) that allows you to block javascript and other plugins on everything but trusted websites. I've never used it before but keep hearing good things about it. Probably worth a try. You can also find Adblock and the Filterset.G updater for it on the extentions website. Again, never used before, but worth a try.

Efficiency has nothing to do with stability and readability. You can have the most efficient code on the planet and still have a horrible product that crashes with the simplest changes to it enviroment (No, I'm not pointing at opera). You can also have extremely efficient code that is the most gumbled up pile of symbols you've ever seen. Just because it's "efficient" doesn't automatically make it readable and stable for a production enviroment. I personally use FireFox. I have 4, maybe 5 extentions loaded that I could easily do without. It's more secure than IE, and anything that has had issues has been fixed quickly. You can't really ask for much more in a free product and I still to date havn't seen anything in Opera that would change the way I use the net one bit. Opera may have "fewer" security problems, but it's also a closed product and not so widely used and abused. Firefox was in the same situation when it wasn't widely used. Few known holes, no market share, life was nothing but smiles. I also have a question for the Opera users arguing it's greatness. If opera is so much more usefull, efficient, and stable than firefox, why does it still hold 3rd place in the browser wars? Its now free and isn't some niche, unknown browser anymore (Nintendo has plans to use it in their products), so, why isn't it so widely used? I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm simply asking a question. If someone tells me it's because it isn't as widely known I'm going to slap them.

Opera may render the page faster, but the Java VM (what runescape runs on) will still be the same across all 3 browsers, leaving it's speed unaffected. The downloadable RS client from runescape.com is just a stripped down IE window that only allows access to runescape.com. It's handy for those of use that like to have a dedicated window for RS without the tool bars standard web browsers have.

Some will pay very, very little for "impressions" (viewing the ad), but as far as I know, most only pay by click count.

It's possible, but it would run extremely slow. You could add more RAM and a larger hard drive as blade said, but that isn't really worth the time and money on a system that old. You're better off just building yourself a new $500 system. It'll run XP smoothly and still run just about anything out there on atleast low settings if you put a decent video card in it.

To change the top left logo, you need to replace the image called "logo_phpBB.gif" in each of your themes or find the line in overall_header.tpl for the themes you are using and point it to the new image. You're probably better off just replacing the images with another so you don't have to edit files. You should be able to find out how to edit rank colors and so on by searching around phpbb.com.

Comparing AOL to cable and DSL is idiotic. AOL is dialup, bloatware, and an overall a crappy program. AOL doesn't run it's own Cable/DSL lines either. They resell other providers in the area branded as AOL. Trying to lump AOL and cable/dsl doesn't really make any point. 1) Just because I have seen mountains of info in general, friends and personal experiences pointing to satelites terrible latency doesn't make me ignorant. People that assume such need to be slapped multiple times. 2) Cell signals travel at most 20 miles to hit a tower (If even half that). Big difference when compared to the 10's of thousands your sat signal is traveling. 3) http://speakeasy.net/speedtest. Up/down rates != ping times, but you asked for it anyway, heh. If you want the millisecond times to a site and back, open a up a command line and use the ping command. Threads dead, weez got cable. :

I'm not going to bother argueing it, but, I still don't beleive it with all the info I've seen saying otherwise and only your word saying it's great. Comparing the two is nothing like comparing a Model-T to a Ferrari. Both satelite TV and Internet have to travel the same distance to the satellite and back to the ground, causing higher latency. We aren't comparing a high end car to a low end car. Protocal differences might slow one down over the other, but nothing is going to change the time it takes that signal to travel out and back. Again, see my lines about friends getting 200ms ping times. Either way, something that can be taken out by heavy clouds isn't worth your money if you have land lines as a choice. "120kbs and upload at about ... hmm 70-90" from your first reply is hardly anything to brag about either when you can get DSL that goes 3 to 4 times faster for the same price. See http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/rocket_sci/satellites/geo-high.html and any other credible source you can find through google. And what does 2*10^8 have to do with anything? Yay for weez getting cable. :mrgreen:

We're talking dream machine here :D. Just because it's a "dream machine" doesn't mean you have to buy the highest priced part you can find. You'll actually find that some high end parts perform worse than the midrange stuff if it doesn't fit your needs. Follow rick's "buy what you need" advice. It'll save you money and still build an outstanding rig. Actually I almost gave up on waiting and get it now just for that reason. I read an article about them THEY ARE AMAZING. And affordible. Buying now and dropping your 3-5 year estimate would be like shooting yourself in the foot the way GPUs are moving right now. Nvidia has already released a dual GPU card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150160) that lets you build quad SLI out of two PCI-x slots. Waiting longer just means higher end cards for when it's really time to upgrade from what you have now.

Both work from here and both domains have DNS entries, so, it's not something on their end. It is most likely something going on with your ISP if they worked before and suddenly stopped. I'd suggest waiting a day or so to see if it starts working again on it's own and callling your ISP otherwise. Not a lot we can do to troubleshoot DNS issues for you. :lol: