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To add to the pile, if you have a Google account you can just use Google Docs to export it to a PDF if it doesn't choke on any fancy formatting you might have.

Buy a drive compatible with your system (most likly IDE if you're running on a 38gb (assumed 40gb formated?) drive now), set the jumper to slave, plug it into the second plug on the IDE ribbon, format it and go. If all goes as planned (and you aren't using some ancient version of Windows) you should end up with another drive letter to store stuff on. Simply googling for hard drive installation should turn up quite a few helpfull guides.

He actually works with PhpBB and is working site wide to help improve security (on a voluntary basis as far as I know). :P

1) It's currently in RC 7. The latest round fixed multiple XSS bugs and several other minor bugs, which most definately brings it closer to a releasable product. It will be released and we'll have to make a pig fly just to make you look like a fool when it is. 2) Aaron is correct. It's been said many times Tip.It WILL be moving to PhpBB3 once it's released. Reimplementing a feature in version 2 when it's something trivial like this is a complete waste of time regardless of release date.

PhpBB3 already has this built in with an 'online'/'offline' tag under your avatar and it'll most likely be available once Tip.It makes the transition (whenever that is).

*cough*search button*cough* http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=709223

That alone makes me scream 'omfg NO'. Tip.It does not need to jump onto the 'Web 2.0' bandwagon and go adding all these useless AJAX based features. It adds bloat to the code, slows down load times and usually results in annoyingly slow rendering because you get a page that then sits there waiting for the JS to execute. If you want to remind new users of the search button, use a single line of php to spit out a note when a users post count is under a certain threshold. It could fairly easily be placed right above the subject line in bold letters and saves the pain of loading something like jQuery just so people don't have to click another link and actually think a bit.

If the hard drive is no longer being detected by the computer as is, moving it to an external enclosure won't fix anything. All you'd be doing is moving a damaged drive to another port and trying to access the same damaged drive. You could try plugging it into another computer to rule out any other kind of hardware failure that's causing it to go unrecognized. If plugging it into another computer doesn't allow you to access it, you have a dead harddrive and the only way to recover anything from it is to send it to a data recovery business to physically open the drive (which you should NOT do yourself) and try to recover the data using working drive comonents.

Which defeats the entire purpose of it being a rootkit. If it's simply deletable, it's typical malware. A rootkit that's doing it's job correctly is integrated into the OS and generally not detectable because it effectively hides itself from everything else on the machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit is a good read on the subject.

He's on a Mac. He can't. Does anyone bother reading and comprehending what they're replying to anymore? It sounds like it's some kind of Java related problem with the plugin Firefox uses if it's crashing any time the Java login or RS itself is loaded. Have you tried reinstalling Java?

10 to 15 a day is a drop in the bucket compared to the 40-50+ I get and even less compared to the hundreds some people I know get. If the host offers something like SpamAssasin I'd use it (I use it on my and my dad's domains, and it does farily well). If they don't, ask them if it's possible to install it. ThunderBird also has some adaptive filters that will learn what is spam and what isn't as you mark things so I'd suggest turning that on and using it if you don't already.

Hit F11 before you close it to return it to it's original position. It automatically remembers the last window position when closing so there isn't much you can do about it unless theres some obscure option in about:config.

Once again, as collective said, that has nothing to do with the problem. RAM has nothing to do with his wireless connection. The number of people in the area coming online also doesn't have anything to do with it as any other wireless signals from neighbors will be limited in strength. I'd be shooting for either bad hardware or some kind of local interference (cordless phone, microwave, ect) and positioning problem like Collective was going for.

The Aston Marton is mislabeled. It should read "I spend most of my days in the garage and only get used on sunny, cloudless days." As such, the picture for opera should be changed to a Land Rover. At least one of those actually gets driven day-to-day. :lol:

It's only a matter of installing the proper MOD or writing the code to do it. PhpBB doesn't limit what someone can write to extend it. In the end all it would really take is retrieving multiple posts from the database instead of just one like the current quote system does. Not all that hard to do for someone with a bit of experience with PHP and how PhpBB works. This would be quite useful in the end.

1) Using size 14 for your post isn't a good idea. It looks noobish. (good thing you borked the bbcode :P) 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers 3) Opera is claimed to be the fastest (via various tests, consume with side of salt). FireFox would be another obvious choice to try out, though it can have some issues with consuming too much RAM at times, which would be a bad thing on a low end machine. You're going to have to try them out either way to see what fits your needs and your machine. If your parents forbid it, you're somewhat out of luck because us telling you what's best isn't going to be the best fit for you and your hardware. 4) I'd suggest staying away from Safari. The week it was first released it had massive security holes that shouldn't have been there, even for a beta release.

Could you possibly have a Linksys modem? A bit of a long shot since you said it was a router setup page. If you do it may be giving you access because it realizes you're accessing it from within your LAN. Rather weird though. :? (I tried loading it from here at school, no connection, so either you have a dynamic IP that changed since, or it isn't publicly accessible)

It would be worth noting, that since you're on a budget, getting your local geek to build you a machine via newegg.com (or another local site if outside the US) or just flat out buy the extra gig at another, cheaper location would be best. Adding an additional gig of ram to the setup would only run around $40-$50 off Newegg and would probably still be cheaper if you shop around the local brick and mortar stores.

You're probably confusing that with Apple's OSX "family pack" that allows multiple installs (Apple isn't exactly up in arms enforcing it either). XP has always been 1 computer per key, period (though many don't bother following it).

Being a smartass doesn't help your cause. On top of that, there is very little use for a complete list of alt-codes. Some people may occasionally need a character or two and will use the character map built into their OS or Google for it but the vast majority will never need it, ever. Stop wasting your time.

Care to source that and actually prove it? That may have been somewhat true when Intel was still cranking up the clock speeds on P4s and the Athlon64 was eating it for lunch, but that is no longer the case. Clock speeds have very little to do with performance these days. Power use vs. performance is a much better benchmark now that multicore chips are the norm and the clock speed on everything was almost halved compared to the P4 series. The whole 'which is better' argument is a complete waste of time. Buy what you feel is the best bang for your buck at that time. No matter what you buy, there will always be some advance on the horizon that will make it look like a waste.

When in doubt, use the creator's website. Download.com is generally safe for most software so I wouldn't be too worried about it if the file size is mis-listed by a kilobyte or 2, they may be rounding the file size when they list it on the site..

That is not a windows problem. That is a user stupidity problem. It is NOT Microsoft's fault the user left Automatic Updates on and happened to be playing WoW when the time to update showed up. It is a well known fact that AU downloads, installs, and reboots without notice. Using AU updates on it's own isn't the smartest of things to do for exactly those reasons. That is exactly what it's suppose to do. Stop trying to flame MS software for doing exactly what it is suppose to being doing. The stuff you cite (by proxy, source it next time) is easily fixed by actually taking a bit of time to review the updates being installed and by doing it yourself. Once again, you've proven you use your opinion sprinkled with a few weak supporting stories to try and make your point, and failed once again.

More classic examples of the 'my opinion is fact' syndrome that seems to be going around. Yes Microsoft has had a predatory past. They were even convicted and 'punished' for it. That does not automatically mean they sit on their [wagon] and leave bugs open because they want to make money. There are literally millions of hardware combinations that Windows has to run on and there is no way in hell they can test every possible combination. Vista has it's problems, XP had it's problems, both cases are far more related to size and complexity (and bad design) than money grubbing. Apple also doesn't have to support those million hardware combinations. They hire the same programmers anyone else would. Being Apple doesn't change that. They program for a strict set of hardware and don't have to compensate for Joe Sixpack plugging in that obscure video card form 1998 or Bob the IT guy running code from 1995. Apple has it extremely easy by comparison when it comes to the amount of work they have to do simply because of the limited hardware they sell. There are also no Macs at places like Walmart because people shopping at Walmart have no interest spending a minimum of $1000 on a computer. Walmart is a discount store, not the local BestBuy. Apple is more interested in squeezing every last drop of revenue they can out of their sale. Passing it on to Walmart to sell to Joe Sixpack loses a chunk of that. Go write and manage a few million lines of code that is used by millions upon millions of people on millions of hardware combinations. If you can do that and be absolutely bug free, you should be working for NASA or some other high level organization, but I can bet with fairly high certainty that isn't the case. Perfect software is a pipe dream. Even something as simple as "Hello World" can be broken by some other piece of software misbehaving on the system. You sir, need to go find another forum to post on. Every time you post, you make yourself look like that much more of an idiot by spewing your opinion as a fact. You aren't getting yourself anywhere by posting some smartass remark like that thinking you won the argument because someone else replied. Display some true technical knowledge, prove you have a clue what you're talking about, because so far, you've done the exact opposite everywhere you go. You do nothing but plug the software you use as the end-all fix (Nod32, every time), you blame peices of software for problems that are obviously not (The dell branded IE error as spyware). The list goes on and on. Please, get the hell off the T&C forum.

I don't mean plugins such as Java, Flash, ect. When Java is installed it also installs plugins in IE, FireFox and various other apps so those programs know where java is and how to use it. There's a chance FireFox doesn't have that plugin installed so it has no idea Java is there, which is why I suggested reinstalling Java. :P