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Hawkwing74 wrote:
I would think living in England for over 200 years is enough to qualify them as English.

Well. You're taking me a little too literally. I was being flippant

Having said that, until WWI the "Windsor" name didn't exist. The Royals still had a german surname "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha".

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The Royals are all German anyways.

Heh.

Prince Phillips best(worst?) gaffe was prolly when he and the queen were visiting China. He told an Englishman on the Great Wall of China not to trust the 'slitty eyed' Chinese.

Oh dear..

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It depends. My Nokia 6600 is pretty anal about new coonections too, but on my PC (with bt dongle), you can turn the authorisation requirement off.

Bluetooth does rule though. We've had it good in Europe for a long while

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Heh. Not that shocking really. When I first installed SP2 and noticed that my Norton wasn't changing the status I was weary of believing it anyway. THEN when Norton update appeared and said that the latest update 'properly reflected the virus-protected state of your computer', I was even more scepti...

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Has anyone got this working?

When I insert a flash card into my flash reader on XP systems, a wizard pops up and asks where I want to copy files. It doesn't on Server2003 (for obvious security reasons I guess). I just wondered if there was anyway to turn it on.

Cheers.

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The computer will boot slower. Windows Security Centre runs as a service, so that has to load.

Having said that. I like it. The bluetooth stack is nice and integrates into the shell much better than 3rd party bt stacks and I like the popup blocker..

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I agree about the poster who said we shouldn't be running before we can walk. We need affordable launch vehicles/methods before thinking about going back to the moon.

Space elevators, anyone?

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology ... 327-1.html

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I've been having a look at Agnitum Outpost Pro 2.0 http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/ It's looking very nice indeed. It's got all the criteria I want and a few more. It's Ad blocking actually seems to work. You can specify DNS names in the rules (YAY!), the logging is fantastic and its got a l...

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I was just wondering what software firewalls you guys used. I want to run it on a server machine. This machine runs AnalogX's web/mail/news ProxyX program, the other machines on the home network are not firewalled about don't have any direct gateway out on to the internet. Occasionally on the server...

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7650's are great. I still use the camera occasionally.

Okay, I can live without the camera actually, but the Symbian interface is brill. My bro-in-law just got a 7250. It's a bit like a smaller 7650, but the OS isn't as complete as in the 7650.

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The title says it all really. Surely its better than .jpg?

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I've got an SLK900 U on an ASUS A7NX8 Deluxe. I had to Dremel away a little bit of three of the heatsink fins to get it to fit. It broke my heart - 'canabalising' such a pretty piece of copper :( The big passive Northbridge (or whatever nVidia calls it) heatsink was in the way too. I bent one of its...

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Ahh, pointer arithmetic, reason if one were needed why C shouldn't be taught to new Computer Science students....

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Trying to steer this conversation back on topic :) My space elevator comment went largely ignored. The technology is closer than you think and NASA have commissioned a group to look into it: http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/pdf/472Edwards.pdf And space planes with air-breathing ro...

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Whatever Guinness is made of, its bloody lovely.

I'm quite into my smooth pour bitters at the moment too.

Mmmm, Boddingtons, Tetley's, even Banks's own...

*nips to local for a pint or two*

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re: 'Risky' sexual behavior & AIDS Thats a bit niave. What about millions of people in Africa who know no better, they don't have access to contraception. Personally I think more money should be spent on cancer research since statistically it WILL affect one in three of us here in our lifetimes....

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My EPIA-M's on order, should be arriving anyday now...

Can't wait.

I plan to make a little MediaPC. Has anyone tried Windows Media Centre edition?

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Just a quick question: Can you use 2 slot PCI riser cards in ANY normal PCI slot? A friend of mine says you can - I dunno whether to believe him or not.

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Hopefully we will. A lot of games do use multiple threads to some extent already. Things like media managers, loading and clearing textures and sounds from memory often run in seperate threads. Whether this has anything to do with the programmers of the game or DirectX I dunno.... You can see this i...

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How do you find your Tyan Tiger 100, Howard? I had a BP6 with a pair of Celeron 500's but it went kaputt taking a processor with it about two weeks ago.

I'm 'obtaining' a Tyan Tiger and a pair of PentiumIII 500's sometime this week

Does the PIII's cache make a big diff?

Thanks,
paul

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Pascal's lovely. Everybody should learn Pascal before any other language...

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I had no end of problems with my Radeon 8500 until I tried upping the CAS latancy rating of my memory in the BIOS (it was set to "2", I increased it to "3"). I know it's not directly related but I kept getting those error message originating from the video driver too. When I raised the CAS, it fixed...

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Wasn't the point of the PowerVR to be scalable? That doesn't have a (servre) AGP memory bottleneck because of the onchip Z-Buffer and tile based rendering means any number of GPUs can be assigned to any number of tiles. The PowerVR chipsets have always languished in the value end of the market - it'...

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But why

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I'm eying up a new board too. I want to spend no more than 150 pounds and I'm not too bothered about hell for leather DDR performance just yet. I'm gonna buy an Elite K7S5A Socket A Board SDR/DDR With LAN. Thats based on the SiS735 chipset. It's got two slots for your old SDR RAM and two for DDR RAM...

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Yeah, but as Steel said being able to use a USB2.0 drive on ANY computer with USB (albeit slower) is pretty compelling.

It truly is Plug and Play...

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Get a standard serial external one. Trust me...

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Thats why I chose the motherboard I did. It's a Jetway (i know, i know :wink: ) 830CH. Its got on board video and sound but has an AGP slot should the guy want to upgrade. He was using a Pentium class VIA based system before - that had integrated video too - I dread to think how slow that was... Any...

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Yeah thanks. I'm actually gonna buy a SiS730 based board and a Duron now. Its not cheaper, but it has an AGP slot should the guy wish to upgrade in the future.

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I'm building a cheapo system for a friend and wondered out of these two integrated chipsets which has the best video performance.

Anybody know?

Thanks,
paul

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Copy pictures wizard on Server 2003

Elevation.

New firewall hell

Why are .png format graphics not more widespread?

Ugh.

Elevator

PCI Riser cards for small form factor motherboards....

Just a thought....