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RE: Whats Your Favourite Drink?
1. Water. 2. Quality wine, of variety appropriate for the food it is served with. 3. Beer -- porters and Belgian abbey style ales. 4. Special mention for all the IRC crowd who heard the "plum sh*t" story: [img]http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c... | Adeptus | General Chit Chat | 07-16-2006 at 01:55 AM |
RE: Paedophile Punishment
There are two distinct approaches to criminal justice: punitive and rehabilitation. The punitive approach takes the position of "eye for an eye", that the perpetrator must suffer at least equally to the suffering of the victim and this will someho... | Adeptus | General Chit Chat | 07-11-2006 at 05:08 AM |
RE: regedit?
Hi, Your real regedit executable would be c:\windows\regedit[b].exe[/b] -- it's neither a .COM type file, nor is it ever installed in the system32 folder. The .COM executable is [b]not[/b] a legitimate Windows file, but something dropped by spyw... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 07-10-2006 at 04:19 PM |
RE: [split] immigrant video related discussion
The objection to illegal immigrants has nothing to do with racism -- it's lack of documentation and lack of control. I am sure you realize having a large population that essentially exists underground is not a Good Thing. Among other issues, it pr... | Adeptus | General Chit Chat | 07-06-2006 at 06:57 PM |
RE: 4 Port D-Link Router
I doubt that has anything to do with whatever problem your friend is having. 10 Mbps is often all the ethernet connection on cable and DSL modems is designed for. It would cap a file download from the Internet at about 1 MB/sec -- is that what he ... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 07-06-2006 at 06:25 AM |
RE: Microsoft censoring MSN Messenger conversations
It blocks the URL of Pim's Messenger Plus! personality picture page, among other things. Solution: [url]http://www.secway.fr/us/products/[/url] | Adeptus | Skype & Live Messenger | 07-04-2006 at 03:38 AM |
RE: Slower Computer
I am not sure what registry modification you are considering, but it doesn't sound like a good idea. It shouldn't take nearly that long for Windows to shut down. Do you get any messages about non-responsive programs, which might shed some light on... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 07-03-2006 at 05:07 PM |
RE: Locking people out from messenger
It sounds like a description of account lockout, although I don't know whether Messenger / Passport use it. The way that works is that after a certain number of incorrect login attempts, the account is locked out for some time -- let's say one minu... | Adeptus | Skype & Live Messenger | 07-01-2006 at 09:48 PM |
RE: SQL Help (Joins)
Your understanding is essentially correct. I will give you my definitions anyway, though. The full names for these are LEFT OUTER JOIN and RIGHT OUTER JOIN. An OUTER join returns all rows from one of the tables (LEFT or RIGHT relative to JOIN keyw... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-30-2006 at 02:10 AM |
RE: Building a custom computer
I have no doubt that he will. | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-30-2006 at 01:39 AM |
RE: Building a custom computer
You will probably get sound onboard and, if you choose a nice motherboard, it may be quite good and all you need. I'd suggest at least trying it out before you spend more money on a card. As for the cards, if you really want one, I think Creative ... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-30-2006 at 01:14 AM |
RE: Back-up!
Wow. I never thought I would get to post two links to cheesy MS user level articles in one day. :P Anyway, in addition to the "copy files you want" approach RaceProUK suggests, Windows also comes with [url=http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-29-2006 at 01:51 AM |
RE: hard drive dead?
[url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Desk star+%22click+of+death%22]Oh no! :([/url] While the clicking death is not unique to IBM, it was IBM Deskstar drives -- what I imagine you have -- that made it news several years ago. The publicity o... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-26-2006 at 09:06 PM |
RE: Have u ever come to Turkey?
You mean European Union. Europe is a continent. A country either has territory in Europe or not; it so happens a small part of Turkey is located within Europe. That suffices to make it accurate to include visiting Turkey with "going to Europe"... | Adeptus | General Chit Chat | 06-24-2006 at 04:29 PM |
RE: Upgrading the hard drive
When deciding whether to add the new drive as secondary (which many have suggested), you should take in account the age and relative performance of the current 80GB drive. The speed of hard drives, although discussed less often than capacity, varie... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-23-2006 at 02:49 PM |
RE: TV Capture Question
The gold standard for that, which everybody loves, is [url=http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/] BeyondTV by SnapStream[/url]. However, note that your ability to record to different formats on the fly may be limited by the (lack of) hardwar... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-17-2006 at 03:50 PM |
RE: programing (learning to again)
I see a small language war here already, but don't think the important question has been asked: what do you want to be able to do? Programming is a practical art -- you don't just read about it, you [b]do[/b] it. If you can give us some idea wh... | Adeptus | General Chit Chat | 06-15-2006 at 01:49 PM |
RE: cam connected
You (and even the owner) could be completely unaware of some such hardware being there. It's not always in plain sight or intentionally installed: the second video device Messenger finds on my computer is no more than a mystery jack on the back o... | Adeptus | WLM Plus! General | 06-14-2006 at 07:32 PM |
RE: cam connected
Messenger thinks any (or most) video sources are a "webcam". For me, it is my TV tuner card -- not only would Messenger tell you I have a webcam (which I don't), but if we were to start a video conversation, you would see whatever is shown on the... | Adeptus | WLM Plus! General | 06-12-2006 at 02:45 AM |
RE: Router security
There is -- it's called packet sniffing. However, it is sufficiently complicated to make it extremely unlikely your roommates, neighbors, family members, or whomever you are afraid of, would be doing that. If somebody told you they are monitoring... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-12-2006 at 01:42 AM |
RE: video card problem
I assume you mean the fan and that it doesn't spin. Which is what I suspected (and suggested to you) all along. The only long term solution is replacement. It is usually not possible to replace just the fan, so you will be looking at replacing th... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-11-2006 at 10:41 PM |
RE: another linux thread
Oh, that's the royal treatment. I was imagining something well under 1GHz, with a fraction of the memory you have. Performance wise, you can run any distribution on it you want -- that would not be considered a low end machine by any means. [url=h... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-10-2006 at 12:04 AM |
RE: another linux thread
Gentoo on a low-end computer is a double-edged sword: while it does allow creation of an optimized minimal installation, compiling everything takes proportionally longer on a slower machine. We were never told the specs of what Supersonicdarky desc... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-09-2006 at 04:50 PM |
RE: Image Editing Program
Brightness, contrast and sharpening are all pretty basic functions. Almost any photo editing software would have them. I will throw out some ideas. Google any of those names to find out more. Free: Gimp, trial versions of some of the non-free so... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-08-2006 at 11:54 PM |
RE: Hard Drive Problem
The fact you can't create a partition suggests some low level damage may have occured at the beginning of the drive. Badly timed power failures can sometimes cause that. You should run [url=http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menu item.3c67e325... | Adeptus | Tech Talk | 06-05-2006 at 06:34 PM |