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You're either making up numbers or using some little, no-name satellite company that figured out how to speed up the earth to sat relay time :lol: . Satellite works like any other provider. Few users = higher speeds. The reason "everyone thinks" it's horrible is because of the huge ping times most people get when using satellite. Pings into the high 200ms range were a GOOD day for a few people I knew that used DirectWay (DirecTV's internet service). Wikipedia and Google both peg geo-sync orbits at about 26,000 miles up, so, unless you have something tracking multiple satellites in lower orbits, your signal is travelling about 52,000 miles just to hit a ground station again. The circumference of the planet is only ~25,000 miles, so it's not hard to figure out what's going to happen. Signals only travel so fast and putting another huge span in between the relay points doesn't help the matter. Satellite also fails fairly consistently in heavy clouds, rain and snow. I know this for a fact because we had DirectTV for a while before going cable. The dish is still on the side of my house if anyone wants a pictures. :P

The smilies need to be removed from the java chat entirely. No other "standard" IRC client displays smily images without a mod of some kind. All the currently smilies do is create spam and confusion when java users ask the regulars if they "see the smilies". It creates even more spam when the 10 year olds figure out they can spam smilies that nobody else sees and they try to find which smilies display images. :D :| :( :) :P :o :S Seeing crap like the above in the room just makes we want to smack people.

It's been like that since they got slapped for the last article attacking Jagex. People keep forgetting, we have barrows armour. Go look up the stats on both, it's better. And I just find this line funny: It isn't Jagex's job to "reward" anyone for playing Jagex's game. Just like I tell everyone else that complains like this: Don't like it? Go cough up $15 a month for WoW.

Thinking like that will only cost you more. Newegg.com handles millions upon millions of dollars in sales, solely online, and only in computers and electronics. If doing multiple millions a year in sales, owning multiple warehouses and a huge online following isn't trustworthy enough, I don't know what is. You're also going to pay quite a bit more by going to BestBuy or CompUSA, even after shipping. Both will have higher prices just because they have to staff the stores all over the place. Quick example (no links cuz you're still looking at what you need): BestBuy Online: 64.99 (before shippping) for a 512mb stick of Kingston RAM. The same stick of ram (down to the same model number) is 49.99 on Newegg with $5 shipping. Same thing, $15 cheaper online.

You might try looking at some of the UK websites in the sticky up above. Just a quick glance at the overclockers link, and it did have a monitors category.

DSL speeds depend on your distance from the local hub in the area. Wikipedia cites the max range as about 7000ft. The farther you get from that hub, the worse your DSL connection gets, along with your speeds. Not much you can do about that. :? Cable connections on the other hand, can depend on the number of people running on the system. So, if you have 2 suscribers on a line (Say, 2 houses) your speed won't be effected much, but if you get alot of people maxing out there cable line, it'll start to degrade everyone's performance on that section of the system.

That would be so cool! I would get a bunch of broadband connections together and try to download the internet. :lol: (Assuming unlimited financial resources here) You could spend your money on hundreds of home lines (which is extremely impractical), and still never make a dent in that much space in your lifetime. If you were drawing everything right off a major backbone, at the highest possible speeds (multiple gigabit lines, the pipes that run cross country and across oceans) it would still take you an extremely long time to fill that space up. Even with todays tech (fiber lines and so on), downloading an entire Yotabyte of data in any reasonable amount of time isn't possible.

Yes norton is a steaming pile of crap, yes it misses things, but so will all other anti-virus solutions if you get infected enough. It's just a fact of life on the net. The AV companies are playing a game of catchup every day of the year and can't know of every single virus that's released on the net. The programs themselves are reactive, so the virus/malware is already on your machine before you're even alerted. By then it could have installed itself in multiple places and replaced system files, royally owning your machine. If you don't have the common sense to not get infected in the first place and secure your box, the best AV program on the planet won't save you. This thread was dead for 4 days anyway. No need to bring it back up.

DING DING DING DING! We have a winner! " Dell, Sony Discussed Battery Problem 10 Months Ago" http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/19/0146221 :lol: Small quote from one of the articles linked in the slashdot thread:

I have a PNY 6800 GS, 256mb AGP. It eats Half Life 2 alive on all high settings. Episode One I have to turn down a little (the graphics got a beautifull tweaking :mrgreen: ) but it still looks insanely good. I have only recently gottten back into gaming but my experience with the card has been nothing but amazing. One thing to watch out for though is the length of the card. I have a rather large case as it is and I still have to unplug the power cable to the card to get my harddrive cages out of the case. :?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=de ... gle+Search Google is your friend. People need to learn that. :?

Buyable here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ :mrgreen:

Global announments are a forum mod added by the admins. Search around phpbb.com and you'll find it. If you're on a free host, you can't edit the files needed to add it. Global announcements are built into phpBB3, but that's still in beta testing.

Couple questions. Is it a family computer? Is he installing this keylogger from his own account, or yours? What item in the house does he prize more than anything, and is it stealable? :lol: If the computer is yours and yours alone, you can set a boot password through the bios (motherboard firmware), change your password and lock up the admin account, or, just go buy a locking doorknob so he can't get into your room. If it's a family computer, you could always tell your parents what he's doing, make a few "changes" (change the keyboard layout settings *cough*) to make it look worse than it really is and get him banned from the computer. Or you could always resort to the non-geek method Phil suggested and just beat him up till he stops. :lol: Other than that, there isn't really much more you can do to stop him from installing things if he has physical access to an admin level account on the computer. :?

Contrast ratio has nothing to do with the width and height of the screen. As LP already said, the higher the contrast ratio the better. Also, even if you don't get a true widescreen monitor (16:9 as Evadek tryed to point out), a standard 19" LCD is still plenty large. :mrgreen:

Yes, you can split your desktop between both monitors. If you have more than one VGA port Windows will be able to extend the desktop to both outputs, or clone them so both show the same screen. The settings are built into Windows itself if I remember right. My dad and I use a seperate 19" LCD when we go buisness trips to run a picture slideshow off the laptop. Works great. :D You should be able to just plug in the monitor, reboot (might not even need that), and you should have the options to extend your desktop to the left or right in the display settings (where resolution, colors, and so on are found).

Add a nice little button in the profile edit page for admins that automatically PMs the users signature code to them with a little note attached. One click, no hassle. Users gets their code, admins spends minimal extra time on it after Albosky works his magic. :P Hell, you could even have that magic button insert a default "This sig doesn't follow the rules" image/text pointing to their PM inbox so nobody has to manually edit it. :mrgreen:

License services generally do, including the WGA crap. I've not read the rest of the thread but: Get Process Explorer from http://www.sysinternals.com (under process tools) and have a look to see which process is using the CPU so much. There are cracks for WGA floating around that remove it for you, along with manual instructions. He's also already using Process Explorer if you look at his screenshots. :P System using that much CPU time more than likely means you have a virus that's inserted itself into the system files, spyware, or your Windows install is just going down the tubes. Run virus and spyware scans and see what comes up. If nothing, you may want to take it in somewhere that will give you a more hands on diagnoses.

The GIMP = GNU Image Manipulation Program (http://www.gimp.org/) It's an ok editting program if you don't have the money to buy something like PaintShopPro or Photoshop. All my sigs were made using it, but I'm in no way a major sig designer. It covers my needs, and probably goes alot farther than my skills can take it once you get use to the GUI.

This reply assumes you're using windows. Pure FTPd and Pro FTPd are the major ftp programs most places use, but neither support windows that I could see. I don't know of any other "major" FTP servers, but have used Cerberus FTP (phpBB makes "FTP." a url, why I don't know). It's free for personal use and fairly easy to use. http://www.cerberusftp.com/ A print server will be easy to set up. Just install the drivers and share it over your network. Game/web/ftp servers may be an issue if you're going to open it up to the internet. I know of several ISPs that actively block incoming ports and shut people off for running open servers on home connections. :? Cox shut me off for a day when I tryed using port 81 for a webserver because inbound 80 was blocked. :lol: If you're just going to use it all in house over your home network you're fine. You probably should load up some kind of anti-virus (AVG recommended, it's light, does the job, and it's free). I personally don't run any AV on my 1ghz LAN server because it doesn't have anything open to the internet, but it's probably a good idea to if you're going to be serving things, just in case. Even if it's not open to the net, it's good windows security incase something on your LAN gets infected and it tries to spread.

If signatures are a problem for you, open your profile and turn 'View other users signatures' to off. This is true, but not the point. It was an example. You shouldn't be forced to turn off signatures just because someone thinks it's cool to have a huge animation while others easily keep within the 30kb limit.

It's 20 posts per page now :wink: So instead of being close to half a megabyte, it's over half a megabye... :wall:

15 posts per page * 30kb per post (sigs only) = 450kb That's almost half a MB already. You push that to 200kb per sig and you're up to 3MB per page of replys, for fancy images that serve no usefull purpose. That not only slows down dialup users, it's a slap in the face from Tip.It for letting people slaughter their browsing speed. I have dialup at one house and 4mb cable at the other. Just loading 15 30kb signatures on dialup is a royal pain. And you want it LARGER? :evil:

How is this any different from someone that's never played the game before? A brand new player won't have these files in the first place, so the game has to load them from scratch, just like deleting the folder causes. Jagex "advises" you don't because if everyone started reloading from scratch with each update it would cause extremely high loads on their update servers. I've done it many, MANY times over the 5+ years I've been playing with nothing ever happening. Just because someone "advises" against it doesn't mean the world will implode if you do.

If the above doesn't work, you can also try deleting the RS files folder. Deleting it will force RS to reload *everything* and may fix your problem if something got corrupted somehow. The folder you are looking for is named ".file_store_32" (yes, with a . at the beginning) and located inside your Windows folder. Copy the folder to another location before deleting it. That way you can copy it back to it original location if you brake something.