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no the max is like 4GB i think atm. 4gb is actually tiny when you start getting into servers and such. 4gb is just the limit on most consumer boards. Like this quad opteron board from Tyan. Costs $1,230 for just the board, but it supports up to 64gb of ram when you use 4gb DIMMs. :mrgreen:

Net neutrality was about ISPs charging companies extra for "priority" connections, so if they didn't pay up, they got throttled over other companies that did pay. It was basically charging a 3rd time for something the user and company had already payed for. User pays to access the content, companies pay for bandwidth to serve the content, and another company in the middle wants a 3rd chunk for extra speed. If it did pass (I havn't seen any news on it :? ), it just means all ISPs have to route packets without looking at who sent it or who it's going to, so they can't throttle specific companies/users. Verizon on the other hand, might be throttling the entire port range/protocal on their own network, in and out, without looking at where it's going or who it came from. It's their pipes, they can throttle is as they see fit to keep it running smoothly. :( Anyway, you can usually get around it by changing your listen port to something outside the 688x range. If that doesn't do it, you could always try calling verizon or looking through their website to see if they intentionally throttle torrents. I opened up the torrent you listed and quickly jumped to well over 250k/s downloading, so the seeds are good. Editted for grammatical junkets I noticed. :anxious:

If you're using a dialup ISP, you may have been assigned an IP address from someone else that already voted. It's been posted about a few times and unfortunately there isn't really any way to reliably track voters annonymously and keep the poll somewhat accurate. If you don't use dialup we'll have to prod one of the crewbies that coded it up to see what else is preventing you from voting. :?

Java is CPU driven. The only graphics work your card or onboard graphics will be doing is redrawing the screen as if there was no RS open. There's a reason it pushes CPU usage to 60%+ and theres no graphics hardware requirment on the loading pages.

1) You don't need to bump threads. If someone wants to reply, they will. Pushing it to the top of the board won't fix it. 2) The macro system is much more than just players reporting them. 3) Telling players what to look for will just send out even more vigilatie players looking for people to report. We don't need that. I get enough crap from people thinking I'm a macro just because I don't answer their hi in less than 5 seconds. Example: "Hi" 1..2..3..4..5.. "Hello? Are you a macro?" 1..2..3.. "I just reported you..." *Dork wanders off*. We DON'T need more of that clogging the system. If you know what to look for, that's fine and dandy, you're helping the community out a bit, but telling people what to look for will never be accurate enough for people to be correct even 50% of the time. It's just the nature of most of the RS populatoin.

Double post, 3 minutes apart. Proves that whole server lag sucks thing. :P

Avartars would add up to around 674mb (according to google) if every user registered as of this post used their full 6kb limit for an avatar. This isn't the case either way you look at it. You personally have a 4.3kb avatar. I don't have one at all, along with many other people. These images are all stored seperatly and are just a quick check through the file system to find and send. Images and static pages are simple for even a 200mhz webserver running apache to serve to thousands of hits. It involves a simple "I need this file", a disc read and it's sent. There is no processing of the image needed. It's just read and sent as is. The underlying forum software, being written in PHP, is translated on every hit that is made to it. Apache gets the hit, has to run through the code, execute any database queries needed (to a database that's "well over a gigbyte", see here), create usable information for us to read, translate any bbcode, urls, ect. , create the html page you receive and then send it all. It takes a lot more work to read a 1GB+ database than reading 15 tiny images (90KB if all 15 posts per page have 6kb images) and sending them. The images arn't even loaded untill after your browser receives the html. It needs the html page to request the correct images, leaving the debug time at the bottom of pages for PHP generating the page, not images. It doesn't take 30 seconds to send 90kB when you're paying for a dual xeon box. If images were such a problem for the server, tip.it wouldn't be hosting them on the box. Simple as that. In the post count debate, Albosky pointed out SQL queries were a great reason to get rid of them. If you read through the thread again you'll find them. He also posts here and here that the number of DB queries from a cash mod addition would "lag the hell out of a forum database that is well over a gigabyte...". Images are a fraction of the total disc reads the server will be making. You need to check your browser settings then, because even default IE renders HTML before the images have loaded. Changing the image load to 20 different image hosts won't change the fact your browser will still be waiting for those images from those 20 differnt hosts. If one of those hosts dies, no more avatars from there, and you wait even longer for the connection to time out before your page renders. The "full picture" involves more than just the images you bring up. You forgot inbound and outbound bandwidth, CPU time for the PHP and DB query processing, total users requesting things adding load to the CPU, server settings and many other things. So, even you don't see the whole picture. I bring up PHP and SQL queries because they are what's taking up the majority of the processing power that's slowing the server, not petty little 6kb images. And why should I "watch out" for a boohoo smily? Are you going to send it to my house to break my legs because I didn't agree with you?

Nowhere did I say I have one. You posted a link to a 12TB server (from Tiger direct too, eeww), so I posted a link to a bigger server that fits in the same rack slot. The Sun server also comes preloaded with everything you need to use it, along with support.

I know it's already been shot down by the community, but it's one of the many useless things that's makes SQL queries that we don't need. I just like prodding the admins about it. :P Images being stored on the forum server is just a few more kb in bandwidth and another item sent from the webserver after it's run through all the PHP. The real problem is the PHP and SQL queries underneath it all that actually drives the forum software. If you look at the page generation time at the bottom of the page, it's telling you how long it took the server to run through the forum software before even spitting out an imageless page to you. On a good day, that should be well below .5s. :? For quick comparison, the phpBB3 beta on my webserver, with just me browser around, generates pages in .07 seconds. The tip.it server would be doing that too, but it's handling 100's of users at the same time, bogging it down, and sometimes causing errors. It wouldn't be a problem if Tip.It had a beafier server, but that means more money that they probably don't have. Not being able to buy a bigger server means trying to speed up the software, which is why I was for the removal of post counts. It's one less thing to update when someone posts and one less thing to grab from the DB when a lot of people are viewing threads. Just browsing around while replying to this I ran into this beauty of a time: They do their best to keep it running smoothly for everyone, even if we do see a few errors from time to time.

No, most sites arn't. Sites with owners that can't find $6 a month for web hosting host there. Anyone that's remotely serious about their website or actually cares about reliablity and usablity WON'T host with one of those.

If you want the most storage packed into a 4U box, you need one of these. 48 SATA II Drives packed into a 4U rack case. Sun ships it with up to 24TB if you're using 500GB discs. Way more when you start using 750's. 2 dual-core Opterons, up to 16gb of RAM. It's a beast. :mrgreen:

Even the most stable of programs can start having problems when you stick it on hardware that can't handle the load. The forum server just has issues with the user load at times and has to go clean itself up. :lol: It's like the DB connection errors people see. Nothing terrible, just the server hiccuping under the load or an admin playing with things. Nothing you can really do about it without getting rid of a few thousand users or buying Tip.It a bigger server. :? Or now that I see this at the bottom of the page, prod Albosky into removing some of the useless SQL queries. postcount :P

1) Run a speed test on your line. http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ has always been a reliable test for anyone's line I've used it on. 2) Try multiple wireless channels and run a speedtest on each to see if you may be getting interference on any specific channel. 3) If you can, run an ethernet cable to a computer in the house and check if you're wired speeds match your wireless speeds. Both should easily max out a 9mbps down pipe if your router is only 5 months old. If the speeds threw both the wired and wireless on your router aren't matching what you should be getting, plug directly into your modem and test speeds threw there. If it matches your router and didn't max out your line, you most likely need to call your ISP. If you max out threw the modem, but not the router, time to start looking at settings again or try out another router. It's all a matter of hit and miss when it comes to trouble shooting computer problems unfortunately. :?

Only a terabyte? I could fill that with justs my dad's photography storage and the family DVD collection. :mrgreen:

If I remember correctly, MS is currently giving out free copies of XP if you tell them about whoever sold you the pirated/invalid key. Your best bet is to check with the company you got the computer/key from first (as mementh said) to see if they will remedy the problem with a valid one. If not, contact MS. They will most likely activate you or give you a new key/copy if it's a bad key.

Movie Maker comes with XP too. Facts people, facts.

24 <-> 20 pin power adapters: 20 to 24: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812189061 24 to 20: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6812189060 I don't know if plugging a 20 pin plug into a 24 pin slot will effect your board in any way, I just know you're most likly better off using a proper adapter. You'll have to do some more research to be sure it won't effect your board. I do know that the seperate 4 pin plug DOES NOT go into the extra 4 pins on your 24 pin motherboard plug. The seperate 4 pin plug is pluged into a completely seperate plug on your motherboard or nothing at all. Again, you'd have to do a little research as to why, but it doesn't go along with your main 20/24 pin plug. 24 and 4 pin plugs: This is a Newegg image used from the same motherboard you have linked in your post.

Norton has a better detection rate because it's actually publicly posted to boost sales. Norton is a huge drain on system resources and not worth the headaches it installs. AVG does it's job well and without annoying the hell out of the users. My dad's P4 system is a prime example. We recently replaced the harddrive and had a golden XP install (with the bundled crap from HP, it was fixed under warranty and reimaged) that was starting, running, and shutting down as expected. Jump foward to reinstalling Norton, and the box slows to a crawl when booting, takes 2+ minutes to log into any users, and hangs when shutting down. Jump foward again to removing Norton, and we're back to fast boots (as should be expected on a brand new XP install), and the normal shutdown times. Norton also include a few fun little "safeguards" you can use to drop people offline with plain text over IMs and IRC. Those were fun when they hit the IRC channels. :lol: McAfee isn't much better either. Not long ago (March 06), they pushed out a software update that wiped more than a few corporate systems because they didn't test it properly. Both have given me and many people I know nothing but headaches. AVG quietly does it's job once it's set up to update and scan on it's schedule and has yet to give me any problems.

Assuming you're using windows: Minimize all windows > right click desktop > click properties This should open up a window called "Display Properties". Go to the settings tab and you will see a box with a slider called "Screen resolution". Adjust this to make things on your screen larger or smaller. Most monitors have a screen resolution they work best at so if you have your monitors manual, flip threw it and see what it says is the "Native" resolution. If you don't have that, just try different resolutions untill you find what works for you or looks best.

A Pentium 4 is still plenty of power for anyone that just browses the web and plays RS. It's plenty for playing most new games when it's coupled with a high end video card. One down side to Pentiums is they put out alot of heat. If you're on a budget, stay away from the brand new dual core chips. AMD's dual cores just had their prices dropped, but still not worth paying the money for if you aren't going to put it to use. You can pick up Pentium 4's and Athlon64 chips for under $100 now, so it's very easy to get a cheap computer built now.

Trying to code on a DS is like trying to do your calc homework without a calculator. Do'able, but a massive waste of time. If you really needed to write code on the go, you'd be shelling out the $500 for a laptop so you weren't using a stylus to poke at each character.

I love your enthusiasm, but I don't trust someone that supposedly knows HTML and CSS, but can't bother to check their sigs bbcode. :lol:

You arn't going to find an adapter to convert from VGA to s-video, atleast as far as I know. Even if you do, you will still be better off buying a video card that supports it nativly. If you have open PCI slots you should be able to pick up a cheap card that supports s-video out that will do what you want it to do while still using your AGP or PCIe card for the heavy lifting.

Sounds like you have a stand alone access point at the moment. You need to get a wireless router. Most come with 4 ethernet ports in 10/100M speeds (you can get gigabit now if you look around), and still support 802.11b/g wireless. If you don't already know what wireless standards you're running in the house, you should probably get someone with some more computer knowlege to look at your hardware so you don't go buying something your current wireless cards won't use.

That is what i'm not sure about. I'm sure that phpBB wouldn't simply say "Now you have to trash your old boards and convert to phpBB3", but i guess why it's the BETA release. The final probably won't be available until later this year though. Even if phpBB did say that, they can't enforce it. They would have to tell literally thousands of boards to upgrade, and even then, those boards are free to do what they what with it because of the license phpBB is released under. Even with the phpBB3 release, there will be a complete upgrade path between 2 and 3 so everything is converted over to the new system. Mods made by The Almighty Albosky won't get carried over automatically, but the DB will be converted to whatever new system they've developed.