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Quote: Xp was stable from the outset. From release, yes, but many people around here (myself included) started with the release candidates or even the betas... I think I jumped in around Beta 3...

It would help if you tell us which game you're talking about...

I like Spacemonger

Quote: I know most public servers are perl compatible, I have only heard perl takes more steps to accomplish the same tasks as other scripting languages. Perl is great for quick applications... I have written many scripts in perl that would have taken 2-3 times as much code to accomplish the same thing in other languages. But, for large applications, it can be a real hassle. OO programming in Perl is very cumbersome. So for a large task, you would probably be better off with something else...

For a more accurate measurement, try out Iperf. Most often, I find that poor performance is due to crappy nics...

You can't use VB in HTML pages, but you can use VBScript. They are very similar, of course, but not identical. VBScript is pretty much the de facto standard for ASP, though you can also use JScript (similar to javascript) or PerlScript (if you install ActivePerl). I think ASP.NET can use any .NET compatible language, which would also throw VB.NET and C# into the mix. As for your quest to be a jack-of-all-trades (and master-of-none? ), I would definitely add Perl to your forte, as it is an extremely powerful language. The regular expressions in Perl are especially killer - there's a reason why all the other languages strive to implement PCRE libraries (perl compatible regular expressions)... imitation is the highest form of flattery.

It may be a video card issue, as I've got a Geforce2, and I previously ran it on a TNT2. Can anyone here comment on how well it works with ATI cards? Of course, make sure you've got the latest video drivers too... that's a pretty old card, so that could be your problem...

CD drives do not usually require custom drivers... are you having trouble with it?

MOO2 = Master of Orion 2 It works fine for me, but I am on XP. Do you have the most recent patch for it? (1.31 I believe...)

I installed IE-SPYAD, and while it doesn't get rid of ALL popups, I'm not bothered nearly as much as I used to be...

How about No One Lives Forever and Deux Ex?

It's easy to try it out without losing anything... [*]Hook up the new hard drive, as a slave or on a secondary channel. [*]Boot into safe mode [*]Use DrvClonerXP to clone from the old system drive to the new drive. [*]Shut down, turn off system [*]Remove the old drive, and put the new one on the channel the old one was on [*]Turn the system on [*] If it boots up, then hooray! You have cloned your drive for free! [*] If not, put the old drive back in the way it was, and go buy Ghost... no harm done in trying![/list:u]And like I said before, if the destination drive is NTFS, it doesn't care whether the drives are the same size or not. But let's not turn this into a FAT32 vs NTFS debate... Also, I used to have a couple of freeware partitioners around here somewhere... I never tried any of them, but I will post if I find them.

Copying FAT32 -> FAT32 forces the partitions to be the same size, but going from NTFS -> NTFS can be different sizes.

2000 OEM is the one for $6... for ghost explorer and XP support, you have to get 2002, which is a whopping $18 8) lol No, I agree that Ghost is the better option for any kind of advanced backup/restore system, and it would be worth the price. But for a one time hard drive clone, the freeware gets the job done nicely...

If you don't want to spend the bucks, you could try DrvClonerXP from Lexun Freeware

Quote: On another note, how does HyperThreading compare with a "real" 2 or 4 CPU system. I would imagine it'd be slower since it uses one CPU to emulate two but is that really the case and if so, by how much? I agree that it's probably slower than a true multiprocessor system, but not as much as you would think. P4's, like most new processors, are superscalar, meaning they can run more than one instruction in a single clock cycle. Normally, this is done by finding instructions in a program that aren't dependent on each other and running them in parallel. Sometimes you can't find eligible instructions for this, and you end up running only one instruction in a clock cycle with the other pipelines wasted. What the hyperthreading basically does is fill these unused pipelines with instructions from other threads. The "filler" threads could be from the same program (if it's multithreaded), or even from other programs, like system processes. Since threads are by nature independent of each other, they are safe to run in parallel on a superscalar processor. Of course it's not quite that easy, since different threads expect different values to be in registers, but that's the basic idea. In most cases, the system will make better use of the processor time, so a hyperthreaded CPU will be faster than a normal single CPU. But since a dual-CPU setup still has more pipelines to play with, it will still be faster. Hyperthreading therefore should fall somewhere in-between a single and dual CPU system. Of course I could be wrong... BTW, does anyone know if Intel is going to make dual-processor, hyperthreading-enabled systems?

All you do is open up the network connections, right-click on the ADSL connection and go to properties, and on the advanced tab you will see internet connection sharing. BTW, I would recommend a hub instead of connecting them directly. If nothing else, this will eliminate the annoying "network cable unplugged" message when the Win98 box is turned off...

Download and run this qfixapp patch (Porsche.sdb) and you will be fine. If you want to try patching it yourself, all this file does is set the "Emulate Heap" option in QFixApp. BTW, some people will tell you to fix it by deleting gimme.dll, but doing so will break other things like multiplayer. If you do it my way, everything will work perfectly...

X-Setup has an option to "Clean Up Code Page References"... I bet that will fix it for you. (It's under Internet -> Internet Explorer -> System)

AIDA32 is pretty much an advanced version of the SysInfo tool. And like I said, you can set it up for remote access, though you would have to install it on each machine. It's also free (I think corporate use requires free registration), so it definitely wouldn't hurt to check it out...

My dad has one of the Yamaha's, and he was pretty disappointed to find out how it really works... Primera has some really nice looking cd printers, and I've seen pretty positive reviews of their stuff. I've never used one though, as they're way too expensive for home use...

Those Yamaha's don't print on the top... they burn the pattern into the unused portion of the disc. So if you want to use the whole disc, you can't use the labeler. Also, on some discs you can't tell where the burnt areas are (like on black memorex cd's), so the label is rendered useless.

AIDA32 would be a good program for that. It also has a "server" mode, so you can connect to it remotely and view the stats of the server. I haven't used it for that, but I think you should be able to do what you're asking...

I don't know a way to do this, but I don't see the point either. If you could do it, it would have to downsample the image to the resolution of the lcd display. If you did this for your desktop it would make most text hard to read, and if you did it for games they would probably look worse than if you just ran at the native resolution in the first place.

Lop.com is a browser hijacker. Check out this article for a good writeup: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/lop/