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General Discussion / Re: Muslim plotter gets life
« on: February 18, 2008, 08:44:57 pm »
Oh right, sorry, got confused, didn't know what part of the news article it was referring too.
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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all
« on: February 18, 2008, 09:38:28 am »
One more item for thought would be a new internal HD. Maybe 160GB ??
I can hear you laughing Quantum. Yes the extra`s are starting to come in now. Not to mention quality faster Ram
Still an old man must have his fun,lol
cheers
IDE or SATA? I hear Western Digital have come out with a 320GB hard drive that runs on a single platter. Also have you read anything about perpendicular storage method?
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General Discussion / Re: Muslim plotter gets life
« on: February 18, 2008, 09:29:53 am »Maybe trying to ban Muslims from joining British Army.?
You're kidding right?
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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all
« on: February 17, 2008, 08:06:33 am »
Sounds nice 
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Computers - Technology / Re: Start up
« on: February 17, 2008, 08:04:05 am »
Yeah, what Texas suggests isn't bad.
But you may have to select that box carefully, you may have important things like config utility for a wi-fi card or the like, but you can mess about in there as much as you want with fairly low risk to mucking up your system beyond needing to go back in there and ticking more needed options.
That said, I've seen this particular error before and that's never solved it before
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But you may have to select that box carefully, you may have important things like config utility for a wi-fi card or the like, but you can mess about in there as much as you want with fairly low risk to mucking up your system beyond needing to go back in there and ticking more needed options.
That said, I've seen this particular error before and that's never solved it before
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Computers - Technology / Re: Start up
« on: February 17, 2008, 06:59:02 am »
Oh gawd I hate windows. I've seen this happen all the time and very rarely have I figured it out.
It could be a start-up key, a service, a common start-up, a windows process, part of the windows kernal or an application. Bugs like make me install Linux on some of my computers.
It could be a start-up key, a service, a common start-up, a windows process, part of the windows kernal or an application. Bugs like make me install Linux on some of my computers.
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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: virus
« on: February 14, 2008, 10:56:28 pm »
What virus scanner do you use?
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Computers - Technology / Re: Mouse troubles
« on: February 13, 2008, 09:44:36 pm »
Is it a mouse or a tracker pad? Are you sure you're not just very lightly tapping the tracker pad?
If it is the tracker pad do you get the same behavior with a USB mouse?
If it is the tracker pad do you get the same behavior with a USB mouse?
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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: FEATURE REQUEST!
« on: February 13, 2008, 09:42:43 pm »
I'll point this post out to Chip (the developer). But this seems to pose many logistical problems, not least of which the total number of Bit Che users could overwhelm private sites and they'd be having to ban large amounts of accounts on a daily basis, when they worked out whose fault it was they would more than likely try and render their site in such a way it made it very difficult for Bit Che to use their search results.
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General Discussion / Re: Firefox 3 Beta 3
« on: February 12, 2008, 06:55:58 pm »
Updated to Firefox 3 Beta 3, still got Firefox 3 Beta 4 to come later this month and then we should be on the Release Candidates and final release 
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Computers - Technology / Re: CPU usage
« on: February 02, 2008, 11:47:23 pm »Install Ubuntu?
Windows XP gets like that, it degrades over its lifetimes, I tend to re-install it for people and make sure they keep using low resource applications. Like you could use Pidgin instead of Windows Live Messenger, not as many features but a lot less hassle.
Thanx Quantum,
I was advised to uninstall Norton, and install AVG free version, but i liked it, and bought it, bad mistake, the pro version of AVG is almost as big as Norton, but i must admit it does the job. If I was to keep off ...err..certain web sites I prob wouldn't need a large anti virus program.
I will check Ubuto, and Pidgin out.
Ubuntu is an entire OS, so it replaces Windows XP entirely, but it's lower resource and has better management. Takes a little to get used to, but I got my Gran using it very effectively in about 5 minutes. There are some limitations as mentioned before, like certain programs just aren't made for it. But for the most part you can get around it, like you can use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office, it reads and saves the same file types and more, you can use Pidgin instead of Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Google talk etc... etc...
Only hassle is backing up your data and spending a few days full getting used to it and ironing out any kinks.
AVG is better than Norton by a long way, changes are Norton won't be full removed from your computer with just an uninstall. I'm fairly sure there are free legitimate products out there called 'norton cleaner' or something which gets the crap off.
Speaking of which it might be worth downloading ccleaner, it removes temporary files, I'd run its cleaner and registry cleaner. Just make sure to back-up the registry when it asks you, also carefully check through the options in 'Windows' and 'Applications' tabs in the cleaner, I didn't want my Firefox cookies and passwords or my MSN data removed for example. But the rest is usually temp files you don't need.
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Computers - Technology / Re: CPU usage
« on: February 02, 2008, 09:58:06 am »If you like it then that's good for you. Personally wouldn't touch it. Plus maybe okay if your a gamer, many of us don't use our pc's for gaming.
Whatever your happy with dude
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Well it's good for messaging, office work, e-mailing etc... So I'm a bit lost on what you can't do with it
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Computers - Technology / Re: CPU usage
« on: February 02, 2008, 03:17:17 am »Wouldn't it be just better to take some of the windows programmes out. Ubuntu you can hardly do anything with, so of course it's going to be better.
Erm, you can do almost everything with Ubuntu, in fact there was an article on Slashdot saying that Ubuntu is more compatible with XP games than Vista is.
It just has way better program management, so things like registry files and start-up systems don't become a real pain.
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Computers - Technology / Re: CPU usage
« on: February 01, 2008, 08:47:53 pm »
Install Ubuntu?
Windows XP gets like that, it degrades over its lifetimes, I tend to re-install it for people and make sure they keep using low resource applications. Like you could use Pidgin instead of Windows Live Messenger, not as many features but a lot less hassle.
Windows XP gets like that, it degrades over its lifetimes, I tend to re-install it for people and make sure they keep using low resource applications. Like you could use Pidgin instead of Windows Live Messenger, not as many features but a lot less hassle.