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WEP keys are quite easy to hack AFAIK, although I'm not sure that people care enough to bother. Your average Joe isn't going to know that they can be hacked, let alone how. WEP should be fine.

I prefer firefox overall compared to other browsers because of the massive addons library :thumbup:

I don't speak a word of Swedish, and you basically speak fluent English. That in its self means you can completely ignore those people complaining at you probably are just kids, as you said.

I've used it to run ubuntu and it's ace.

Mage is pretty much the way to go for the melee brothers, but you could experiment with melee. Godsword is too slow, so don't use that.

1) I have linux on my USB stick. When I install programs, then reboot, the program is no longer there. How can I stop this from happening? 2) I need system utilities for Linux. Something identical to piriform speccy would be amazing (ie. something that will tell me frequency and type of RAM, clock speed/voltage/temperature of CPU, motherboard infomation, HDD information etc). Also a Prime95 equivilant for torture tests. I checked - speccy doesn't work well with Wine. Thanks for your help. EDIT: 'hardinfo' is a good program

Just be careful what you download. You will not get a virus so long as you don't go to shady websites and don't download random things which you're not entirely sure of the trustworthiness of the origin. I think you can run MSE alongside another AV, such as avast or similar - at least I do. You could always try that.

IMO you don't need a 10,000RPM or 15,000RPM drive, 7,200RPM will do you absolutely fine. Once again, I've heard bad things about Seagate, but that could just be rumours. I would just go with WD or Samsung though. There is no RAM in that build. You need to add some. 4GB will be fine, but 8GB would be good. That PSU might be a little OTT, newegg's calculator says you'll only need 686W, but I would stay with it in case of future upgrades/massive overclocking. Perhaps the 580 may be a little OTT too. You may also want to upgrade the case - for such a good build it will get quite hot and you'll want at least one 200MM fan. Cable management is a big plus, too. I would wholeheartedly advise third party cooling, especially for Sandy Bridge. You'll definately want to overclock.

That's exactly right. If something goes wrong there is only one company to blame. Can't be passing blame to microsoft or to ati or nvidea. Apple designs everything to fit together. If there is a weak part in the machine it is there own. It's nice that there is no need to go searching for drivers ever. You appear to be making out that apple make 100% of the computers components. That.. isn't true. They use ATI cards, Intel and/or AMD cards, and probably more. I'd like to add that you don't need to go searching for drivers on a windows machine unless you've reinstalled windows because they're already installed. Your last point confuses me - Microsoft do not make the drivers, the manufacturers do. They want their parts to run as smoothly as possible on a windows machine, thus surely they would make the drivers work easily? Which they do. So I'm not sure what you're really trying to say. [/hide] Apple only uses a select few components from the manufacturers like ATI and Intel and therefore can customize their systems directly with them. I'm sure the cards from ATI and Intel are not the same as any other brand. Apple probably has a completely custom built unit for them. So you're suggesting that Intel custom-makes specific CPU's tailored to Apple's needs? Noty.

That's exactly right. If something goes wrong there is only one company to blame. Can't be passing blame to microsoft or to ati or nvidea. Apple designs everything to fit together. If there is a weak part in the machine it is there own. It's nice that there is no need to go searching for drivers ever. You appear to be making out that apple make 100% of the computers components. That.. isn't true. They use ATI cards, Intel and/or AMD cards, and probably more. I'd like to add that you don't need to go searching for drivers on a windows machine unless you've reinstalled windows because they're already installed. Your last point confuses me - Microsoft do not make the drivers, the manufacturers do. They want their parts to run as smoothly as possible on a windows machine, thus surely they would make the drivers work easily? Which they do. So I'm not sure what you're really trying to say.

Start your own thread mate, kinda counts as thread hijacking. OT: I would be wary of having 2 cards crossfired/sli'd as an initial build, you're kinda slowed by that 8x pci. Just go for a 6970 I guess, or hell, a 6990 XD

It would appear that in this topic, there are a fair few trolls unnecessarily nit-picking the rules to the finest detail. Tip.it is no small site, the admins and mods are some of the best out there, and thus I think we can trust them. It is simply one of those things that is obvious once you see it, yet a complete and conclusive set of rules is near impossible to draw up. As I said, the admins and mods are all very experienced and we can easily trust in their judgement. Some queries of course here are legitimate, but it does look like people are just arguing for the sake of arguing.. Just my opinion of course.

I'm assuming i should use them in the order gold green crimson blue? or green gold crimson blue? i've heard stuff about greens being worse xp rate than gold.

Here have some, oh wait.. it's empty bottles. I wish i had a million dollars

I'm wondering how to use my charms that I've accumulated. Like, which ones should I use first, and also on what. I have 1571 Gold 1122 Green 1158 Crimson 212 Blue Summoning level: 56 The most cost effective method would be great. Thanks all :thumbup:

I've heard rather bad things about seagate lately. Personally both of my hard drives are seagate, but they are quite old. What I've been told is that previously, Seagate was indeed good, but now they are slipping quite badly.

Their internal cpu architecture is incredibly dated and slower than intel's. @OP Stay away from Seagate, their harddrives are not great quality. I can't say I've ever heard of the 'Palit' brand, although it could be an american thing. Compatibility wise, looks fine, although I've not actually checked in much detail. I would say an 850W PSU is a little OTT. I know little about nVidia graphics cards, but I'd be hesitant about GTS, and IDK whether the 450 model is enough

Once you've chosen your parts, give us a list of links to them and we can help you with that. Physically, they should fit together because everything conforms to an industry standard, so all parts are physically the same. You don't actually need many cables for the inside of the computer, most stuff physically plugs into the motherboard. The only cables you need are external ones, and perhaps a couple of SATA ones for the HDDs, but normally the motherboard comes with a few. Assembly-wise, they don't normally come with instructions on how to assemble your computer, but it is really not such a difficult concept as some people may suggest. Sure, a couple of things require knowledge and know-how, but that's what google is for :P

Combos are always good - they save you money. Putting a computer together isn't too bad. I would definitely stay away from AMD for a good computer. I doubt you need to spend the money on a 2TB drive - 1TB will probably suffice and it is easy enough to add another hard drive if you end up needing the extra space. I would go the whole way and get an i7 2600k, although a i5 2500k will suffice. You'd definitely want third party CPU cooler because you should overclock - those sandy bridge's go crazy high. For cases - you'll want one with lots of fans, and cable management. I see the computer you chose had a seagate HDD - stay away from them.

You keep saying 'macs are good, you just have to have used one', yet you never add any substance to this argument at all >.< Please, explain, I'm curious to know. Macs are overpriced, just look at the Mac Pro.

[hide=Woo long reply] You're comparing having a minor problem with a mac, like a broken disk drive or whatever, with a large problem with a pc, such as frying the motherboard. If you fry the motherboard on any computer you're going to have to send it away. Although to be honest, with my dell laptop, I managed to mess up the motherboard and I got a technician round to my house within the week who replaced it then and there. It all depends on the brand. As are rather a few chargers.. my dell charger is still as good as new after 4 years and counting. Um... touch type. You don't need to look at the keyboard. Again, windows has a bigger market share and thus is a bigger target for virus makers. I do hasten to say that HDDs are made by other companies, thus neither a pc manufacturer or apple is really at fault if it fails. *raises hand* I have. I did say this last time, but I would be geniunely interested in hearing these benefits from a mac user. You can't just tell me 'oh you just have to believe it because I say', this is a kind of Russell's teapot thing. >Dell >Alienware[/hide]

Yes. Come on people, take the joke and feel the bieber lurrrveee...

I miss the cursor... petition to have it back pl0x? Oh, and Bieber Events Team FTW. Just sayin'.

[hide="Project: hide the massive quote chain] I'm assuming that you'll just need the normal internet and word processing capabilities, unless you need specific software? That would definately be something you would want to check with your Uni to see if it is exclusive to either mac or windows. If you don't need specific software, then why get a mac when pc's are much cheaper? I would question the point of getting a mac and then going and installing windows. Windows laptops can be and a majority of the time are much cheaper than mac laptops, so if you're going to get a mac laptop just to install windows, that would seem pointless and a waste of money to me. I would strongly advise against buying a mac simply because of its looks. Perhaps windows doesn't come with good virus scanners, but there are many many out there to download. Programs such as avast, avira, avgand microsoft security essentials, as well as malwarebytesand ad-aware are all out there to download for free. Linux very rarely gets viruses, if you were wondering. Macs can get viruses but due to the smaller proportion of market share there aren't many (it isn't worth the coders time). See above See above. Macs do have security software available, and it is definately advisable that it is installed. If you don't need a mac for a specific reason, such as the OS, I would advise against buying one. I would be cautious if the single reason for getting a mac was simply for looks. They are quite a bit more expensive than equivilant PCs, Apple has really ludicrous prices sometimes. PCs have more compatibility among programs, because of the higher market share. The community is bigger than that of macs, so if you do encounter any problems you can get help quite easily. Laptops generally aren't upgradable, so that shouldn't be something to take into account. There is the threat of getting a virus, but so long as you are smart and don't download anything dodgy or go on bad websites, and have a quality anti-virus and anti-malware, you should be fine. Personally, I would draw up some kind of pro/con list to having a mac and pc, reasons specific to you. If there are no strong specific reasons to getting a mac, go with a pc. They really are quite a lot cheaper a majority of the time. I also don't particularly like the closed environment of mac os, but that's more a personal opinion. There may be a smaller community, but this is based on the fact that the market share of Linux is small compared to windows. However, the average tech-related knowledge of Linux users would be higher than Windows or Mac users, and also more of them would be involved in some kind of community. You day-to-day user of windows/mac who use their computer for mundane things will not be part of the community, yet they are still part of the market share, whereas I would guess that a majority of linux users are involved in an online community. With regards to office software, that is completely untrue about there being no office suites on linux. There's Openoffice, Libreoffice, KOffice, and more. They are all good alternatives to MS Office. Oh, and they're all free. Office on Mac is also a pain, TBH. I've tried to be as un-biased as possible with all of this, by the way. [/hide] I would definately agree with this. I'm sure there are some out there :P Seems kind of self explaintory.. high price with macs = apples incrediblely high markups. That's undeinable fact. I'd be geniunely interested to hear them coming from a mac user, not being sarcastic or anything. I haven't used macs much, and I'd like to hear an honest perspective from the other side of the spectrum, so to speak. And above poster is right, apple are marketing wizards. Just look at the queues that there were for the new iPad O.O

Not a fan of the colours, I hope those are just experimental colours. The hood isn't amazing with the fact that it obscures the face, but actually I'm growing to like that idea, so not a big issue.