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In most all in one packages, whatever the maker of the package is actually known for will be great, but the other components can be pretty average. For instance, Kapersky Internet Suite - the antivirus is from the biggest name there is in the field, but what do they know about the rest? The downside of mix and match, is that compatibilty of components can be varied - case in point is Agnitum Outpost Firewall, which has to disable (automatically) its anti-malware function for compatibility with many antiviruses. To reflect back on router firewall versus software firewall: The router is excellent against intrusion, preventing many attacks (eg. it would save an unpatched Windows XP from being instantly attacked) and preventing open service ports being exposed (unless you choose to forward them). If you have no other firewall, on an XP/Vista PC, then configure the Windows firewall, it will nag you anyway if you don't - that setup provides adequate incoming protection, but minimal outgoing and zero application to application control.

There is already an elite system, membership versus F2P. Then I suppose you could say, everyone is equal within each, and even members are equal with F2P on F2P worlds. But no, there is still unbalance, with cash shop power items or gold, it could be unbalanced by those paying for items, but then players using real money rather than game experience to progress would be targets for those with better tactics. At the moment, it's unbalanced anyway, by those lucky enough to get high value drops, or those with more time to devote to gold-creation skills. Cash shop instead of membership would have my vote, though I wouldn't plan on buying any cash items.

When Cockroach soldiers were introduced, their ranged attack was incredibly weak, so mages and rangers would standoff at maximum range and take them apart, and the drops were pretty good too. It was fixed by giving them a more powerful ranged attack, ending the easy mage and range, though it would have been more interesting if they had been made harder to get a good standoff attack on, with their range a secondary. A side effect, it made their range attack much more dangerous to a fleeing warrior at low HP.

The router is an excellent incoming firewall, but the direction PC firewalls are moving toward is controlling process activity. http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.html - Comodo's free firewall is highly recommended, and their other stuff is worth a look as well. http://superantispyware.com/ - an excellent antispware, until recently, never knew that had a free (on demand only, no resident protection) version. If you want free resident spyware protection, then the only ones offerring that are Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html Or Microsoft Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... fault.mspx Another possibility http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/200 ... -everyone/ NB. Some of the stuff on that site flies close to the wind on abusing offers not intended for general availability.

As I understand it, you get automatic pickup, but lose some as you would if you were picking them up yourself. Pretty sure you get full exp for range (and melee hits). You get half exp for mage using the free runes.

Yes, but it's a waste of good runes, and you can't hit them without them hitting you (range/mage).

In the "old" wilderness, a wilderness skiller (eg. Goblin miner) or monster hunter MIGHT get attacked by a PKer. In single combat, the clever player could use a less scary monster to shield from a Pker. In a previous change, PKers (and now their Revenant replacement) got the ability to steal you from single combat with something else. With the Revenants, they then changed "bad luck", to a near certainty that you will be harassed by a roving Revenant. They are also way overpowered in F2P, with power more appropriate to members equipment. Also real PKers were hindered by monsters. So, they eat, they have unlimited spells and projectiles but drop next to nothing (F2P), they also tend to telebnub out when they are in trouble, so good luck actually getting a kill. One important point, they can walk through walls / closed doors on patrol, but they cannot do so in pursuit, though if the obstacle is low, they can range/mage over it. Trapping them is an art, as luring is difficult due to their ranged attacks.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... erthread=y http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_H ... _Interface Looks like you would do well to install in AHCI mode, with the drive jumpered for SATA 2 (depending on the drive, this may mean removing a SATA 1 compatibility jumper if present, or setting a SATA 2 mode jumper). It may be as well to have the Intel Chipset drivers unpacked to a floppy (if there is one), or maybe a flash drive would work, though Vista should apply generic AHCI support - in which case, apply the Intel update afterwards. http://support.asus.com/download/downlo ... odel=P5Q-E You may need the non-auto version from Intel http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_ ... bmit=Go%21 To allow for unpacking rather than installing.

Another thing, Fist of Guthix - 75 tokens buys Air, Water or Earth gloves which double the experience for 1000 ess (35 and a bit runs), thing is, can you get 75 tokens in Fog faster than you could do the extra runs to the altar? Every loss, unless you bailed out, is 1 Token for effort, wins can be a few tokens up to about 10 or so (maybe more if you really rake in the charge).

The 2400Pro graphics is pretty low end and an old series, and the Dell PSU is often too weedy to take much more. Rummaging through newegg, I spotted this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6883108189 After rebate, that leaves quite a chunk for a decent graphics card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6883227073 Or that, a step up in CPU classification, and after rebate, leaves 80$ for upgrading the graphics

I'm hammering towards 300 FoG tokens, but I'll probably go air gloves - gives away a little XP, but I really hate the path to the earth altar (though water is worse). Also, airs are a better commodity to generate then earths.

A couple of negatives, one temporary, one permanent. 1. They used an older webkit version in the beta, so it has the "carpet bombing" vulnerability. 2. It has the annoyware "google updater" - I hate background updaters, they are so unnecessary.

Lumbridge church (and completed "Restless Ghost") you can buy a 3 minute gravestone for 5000 The members only one, you can buy a 4 minute for 50000 or the 5 minute for 500000 - expensive, but they only need to be bought once.

The medium level Cockroaches might be ok for levelling. They are in the stronghold of Player safety. The other piece of equipment to consider is the ring from the Lumbridge diary. Run energy recharge (3 times a day for the 3rd level ring). 30 free low alchs per day, good for item disposal. Unlimited free teleports to the cabbage patch (not sure if you can use while under attack).

First thought was a Creative Zen Stone, but then I recall reading about quite a few charging problems - the charging sysyem seems prone to problems. My own player is a 2GB Tevion with video (AMR) - there are many players based on the Action chipset, the chinese "S1 MP3 Player" - the video ones are misnamed as MP4 players, as they are not capable of MP4. A common capability among these cheap players, is the undocumented abilty to play OGG (Vorbis) format as well as MP3 - the one I have is also capable of WMA with DRM10, and can be switched between player mode (synchronize using WMP or other software, audio only), or flash drive mode. Another name to look out for is Archos, better known for their hard disk based players, but they do have smaller flash players as well. http://www.archos.com/products/gen_5/ar ... al&lang=en - The 105 is a 2GB flash player with WMV video capability They seem to lack an intermediate model, the next one is the 405, 30GB disk or 2GB + SD card.

I can't entirely vouch for this, and the suggested auto-remove alternative is somewhat suspect (Not a malware, but guilty of scare tactics, over-hyping "spyware cookies", for instance) http://spyware-removal-guide.net/66/xpa ... l-removal/ The basic removal hints look reasonable, though I'd say it actually looks too easy - most really good malwares can defend against being stopped. It hooks an awful lot of start positions though, perhaps that is it's only real defence after all. http://www.411-spyware.com/remove-antivirus-2008-xp That looks more likely, I thought that first one lacked the usual malware convolution... NB. the "Random directory" is the same one each time. It's possible that there are variants, one with minimal hiding and the other with typical malware obfuscation.

Prime suspects have to be the guy that messed things up before, or possibly a gold site operator (hey, go DDos Jagex, it's their rules). Only other point, maybe if going after the attack launcher isn't possible, maybe reporting a few of the bots (especially those where the ISP is more likely to resolve) would be good revenge.

The chest is in the Lava maze, a deep wilderness location (level 44 single combat), with Revenants to worry about as well as a couple of Lesser Demons. The contents are: (Unstackable items) Uncut ruby Mithril bar Mithril dagger Anchovy pizza (Stackable items) 2 law runes 2 death runes 10 chaos runes 50 coins The uncut ruby is about the mos valuable of the items, the mitril bar is also good for smithing or sale, the small pack of runes is welcome for mages. The Mithril dagger, and the steel plate you may find in the area, are good to free alch with the lumbridge diary ring, and the Pizza is a welcome food booster (remember, you still have to get back to safety). It's better to have more than one key, as you can use them all and get the chest contents for each. With a decent combat level, you can get some from the Chaos Dwarves, not that far away (level 30 wild), they also drop mithril bars and some assorted mithril and steel stuff (good for free alching).

If the rest of your team is doing well around the Altar, it may pay to go and fetch more distant Orbs, or go and barrier the other teams orbs if possible. Taking the "fetcher" role can be good, if you are poor at actually directing the orb to the altar.

The TNT2 is a seperate card, but is very old - it was available in PCI or AGP 4x/universal. If the system only has PCI, then you are limited to cards available in PCI. The Geforce 6200 can be found reasonably priced in PCI, and is far superior to the FX5200. If the system has AGP 2x at 3.3v, then you are limited to AGP cards that have unversal 1.5V/3.3V support - which will mean some older cards, as current models will not be 3.3V tolerant, and the keyway configuration should prevent them being inserted in a 3.3V slot. If it is AGP 4x / 1.5v then there is a much larger choice.

Think of Revenants (revs) as: The perfect PKer, with an unlimited supply of runes to mage (damage & teleblock), a bow with unlimited ice arrow projectiles (damage and freezes you), melee skills too, a huge amount of food (they safe eat), and tele - if you ever do manage to take one out the drop is a paltry amount of coins in F2P and the odd item in P2P. Further caution, if you think you have given one the slip, it may still be creeping up on you, The only thing where they are weaker than the old PKers, is they can be trapped, as their "walk through walls" capability cannot be used in pursuit, only on patrol, where they can walk through a wall or closed door as part of their route. They were put in to make the wilderness dangerous, when PK was removed, but are far to prevalent compared to the unfortunate chance of meeting a PKer, and far too predictable compared to the possibilty of an unexpected backstabbing.

The RAM technology on a graphics card does not matter - you can use a DDR graphics card on a DDR/SDRAM/EDO/FPM system, or any other kind of graphics memory, just as long as it has the right kind of slot, and enough PSU capacity in reserve to accomodate the power usage

The Adventurers Ring (F2P!), makes Lobs and Swordies a little faster, as you can tele back to the cabbage patch (unlimited). Wilderness fishing & banking is another possible way, though the perishing Revenants can call a halt.

SP3 is close to being "pushed", that is, instead of choosing to update to it, the update will roll out automatically unless you choose to reject it. There are two major issues: Some security products will interfere with the installation, so turn off anything which may block file updates or registry changes - this can include antivirus, antispyware, firewall and hips systems. If an Intel processor image is used to load an AMD processor system, a conflicting driver will be re-activated by the service pack - not a new bug, as this happened with SP2 as well. Not even a bug really, just gross incompetence by some major system builders, as this is an unsupported procedure.

Forget Decrypter, Media companies strongarmed the author ages ago so it's way out of date. The best free ripper, is DVD Fab Decrypter - http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm - Terrible when you have to rely on China to facilitate "fair use". Keep watching http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ - they often come up with rippers/converters - a common complaint among users of the site is "not another converter". A quick guide to how Giveaway works, it's fully legit, they licence the software on the special terms: Must install and activate on the day. Do NOT extract and post the key, though it seems that they will let by suggestions of HOW to nab the key.