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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.

What is everyone going on about Beiber for? My mouse has been him for ages... :-w

If your computer can not handle having a custom curser, then you should probably buy a new one. It's april fools, don't take it so seriously! :)

Clear your browser cache. If that fails, you could always resort to reinstalling java. You could always consider using the RS Client.

I presume the they've already done obvious things like replacing A with B, or A with C, and so on and so forth.. although there are 6.156x10^36 combonations, if my calculation is correct... There are almost an infinate amount of possiblities, especially if he changed code halfway through, or hid the actual code inside the encrypted text >.> Thus brute force is pretty much useless here I think... I wonder what the significance of the brackets is.. perhaps its some code that he's using to encrypt it? Or perhaps not, seeing as there are rather a few. They must have some significance though, looking at the frequency of them. Looking at part 2 again, some of it does look like slang, or words with letters removed in such a fashion: wrd wt ltrs rmvd n fshn Complex... it would be helpful if the FBI could/would disclose what they had already tried on it.

On some slower computers, and computers which have trouble running Java, it is a very useful tool. I personally used it for that exact reason. There's also something about having a separate window rather than running it in your internet browser which is good. OT: So, bots click randomly on an area with a specific item ID (I assume, from my somewhat limited knowledge). I would assume that it is within a certain timeframe that they click an object. Example, when an ore is mined, I guess there would be a specific interval between the bot clicking on the next ore. Depending on how the bot is coded, this would be always below a set time, and probably above a set time. Over the course of say, a month (perhaps less), the delay could be monitored and looked at to see trends. Then again, this could be largely impractical and could take up a fair amount of data. There always is the old trick of looking at gameplay time statistics, to see how long a character is playing per day. If there is consistant gameplay per day of, say over 20hours, then this could be flagged up for human review. The core issue with catching the bots is manpower.. there are simply so many bots and there will never be enough people to monitor them all physically. I'll have a bit of a think, and perhaps edit this later, but all of these solutions have to be 99.9% automated and accurate, which is the hard bit >.> (stating the obvious somewhat, I know). EDIT: Seeing as I assume they work with item codes, surely there is a way for jagex to differentiate between whether things are being chosen by GUI or by item ID..? Seems feasable

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.

I'm typing this off of my laptop running ubuntu off my USB stick, so it works! :D Are there any good software repos? I'm looking for system care things that will work on windows machines, i.e. this bootable usb will defrag windows hard drives, if you get my meaning. And just good software repos anyway. Thanks :) ubuntu >>>>>>>> XP

Bear in mind that, IIRC, if you use all of your workers, it doesn't matter what you put them on for day-to-day. I seem to remember that it only takes into account what you put your workers on when you withdraw your stuff.

Why I said dell drivers specifically was because when trying to fix this recurring problem with the Intel GMA965 driver, I downloaded ones off the Intel website but was promptly told to go download them off of Dell's site. So.. I plan on installing Ubuntu onto a USB drive (which I should probably do anyway, regardless), and then running it on my laptop just to verify everything works, before wiping everything on the HDD and doing a clean install. Does that sound about right? Cheers.

Defragger means defragmenter. In short, fragmentation is where parts of the same files are scattered in different physical places on your HDD, so a defragmenter moves them together again. The default windows one is not great, so I would use the Auslogicsone or IObit(they're essentially identical). It can really speed up your computer, especially if you haven't defragmented in a while, or even ever.

I have a dell latitude d630, I'm a bit rushed for time so I will post specs tomorrow. What I'm wondering is whether or not I will be able to install linux on this and it will work? My concerns would be with the drivers, particularly display drivers. Dell use their own, modified Intel drivers for the GMA 965 (I think that is the adapter I have), and I'm unsure whether these will work on linux. Same goes really for all of the other drivers (wireless adaptor, chipset, ethernet etc etc) I wonder if someone could shed some light on this please? Cheers.

That's correct, you can't hack just by knowing the IP address. Try booting into safe mode and doing a scan there. If you haven't removed the virus, changing password and recoveries is pointless because the hacker will just get them again. Did you give your password to anyone else? In future, be careful not to go to any dodgy sites, and be careful what you download.

I think I'm going to go for a HTC Desire, it looks really sick. Never used an android before, only iOS, so it'll take a bit of getting used to, but that's fine :P Cheers all :)

That much is true. I was more talking about physical degradation of the parts in my previous posts. OP just needs to figure out if he needs a new computer and for what reason.

> 48,369,159 O.O She definately didn't expect that lol Nigahiga remix is awesome though tbh. '7 AM and I go back to sleep'

Really? All of these quotes I'm looking at are from 3 :P Nah I don't intend on getting a blackberry, even if everyone does have them. Looking into the HTC Desire too, I'll take a look at samsung etc.

So yeah, I'm looking into getting a HTC wildfire. Basically do any of you have it, and do you like it? Do people know of any good equivilants around that price range? And a more general question, is 1GB really enough for 3G? Or would I be better going for an unlimited data plan? Cheers :) Edit : I guess a primary concern of mine is that during the 24 month contract, it may get a little out-dated and slow etc. Edit2 : Decided to go for a Desire, cheers all :)

I'ma say that I dont think this is strictly speaking true. Not just HDDs, which do break over time (they're mechanical, after all), but the electronics in other components from CPU to GFX Card to Motherbord run down, AFAIK.

One of the main things to look at when building a computer is what you want out of it, then you can tailor it exactly to your needs. You need a solid image of what you want to get out of it, and if you will want to run better games in the future without upgrading. Compatibliity between parts is an important option. I'm not sure if newegg deliver to Canada, but if they do then thats your best bet. [spoiler=Parts of a computer]CPU RAM Motherboard CPU cooler (if the stock one is not good enough for you) Hard disk Case Power supply Graphics card DVD drive (if applicable) Operating system For gaming, a good graphics card is what you're going to want, rather than a massively high end CPU.