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Limewire is just a Gnutella client, so if you're after content off the gnutella based network, then try one of the other clients listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella PS. Used Limewire a LONG time ago on MacOS 9.2, which it was ok at the time. But still preferred WinMX over it...

Ummm... So some of us have been using aliases? CougTek == Wavemaker. Merc == Edit. Fill in the rest? :wink: PS. Tea == Tannin??? (Or you just both work/live together?)

Umm, Yes I think so... (if Corvair == CougTek)

Overall, it won't make that much difference between the 2 cards, certainly not $100 in electricity over 12mths. I would just get the cheaper card, and save your $$$ for beer and women (or for that 2GB of RAM). PS. Welcome to SF PPS. What games? as some games prefer ATi vs nVidia and vice versa.

Work laptop... I only play it at LANs, which I take the laptop... (Anyway, the current release of WINE apparently plays BF2 ok-ish, so that has FBSD covered). BF2 only requires Hardware T&L, and initial tests by Intel (taken with a grain of salt), say 1024x768 medium detail is "playable"...

Vista, the first week Well, it's been a week now. Admittedly Vista isn't all bad, however the bad points are certainly greater in number than the good points, which IMHO make the system Beta quality at best. I've found out the problem with Battlefield 2, which in the end wasn't Vista fault...

Everyone I've spoken to, tend to agree with that statement.

Tannin, unfortunately we are being pushed to use Vista (so that our compna support staff can support it, and the applications that the company develops on it). Since I mainly doing system infrastructure planning and system installations, I need to know Vista. (and how it'll effect the business...

Hi Guys, Work has purchased a new laptop for me (I got to choose the model, it had to be a HP however, since the company I work for is a HP reseller), and it came with Vista Business x64. Specs: HP 6710b, Intel C2D T7500, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, DVD-RW, etc. IMHO it's a pretty sweet laptop, except...

I only rip on FreeBSD, and use either cdda2wav/lame from the commandline, or if feeling lazy will use 'Grip' if I'm enconding both MP3 and FLAC versions from a DVD-A or CD. On Windows, I know WM11 can rip to MP3 (Tools > Options > Rip Music and select MP3). However it only does CBR, not VBR...

Here is OZ, Fuji S6500fd (or S6000fd as it's known in the US) is ~AU$460, vs Nikon D40 is ~AU$930... and for an extra AU$250 to get the D40 with a twin lens pack (total AU$1180). (AF-S DX 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G ED II and AF-S DX 55-200mm f4-5.6G ED lens).

Thanks for the info, I'll start shopping for a S6500 then... (unless someone else can recommend a similar spec'd camera, in the same price category).

Has there ever been a definitive answer on CMOS vs CCD? It seems recently that many players in the field are switching between the two technologies, so been hard to get an layman's idea of which is the desired technology to have in your camera? (Like the whole Plasma vs LCD TV thing). I know a...

Sort of like USB 2.0 Full Speed vs USB 2.0 High Speed???

Interesting article. However I've noted that the latest version of TrendMicro PC-Cillin 2007 loves RAM. (Don't install it on systems with only 256MB of RAM, you need at least 512MB). The company I work for, has recently advised NOT to use Norton products due to incompatibilities between it and...

Don't forget that for most dual/quad socket systems cost more upfront as well, so people tend to value the system more. eg motherboard typically 3-5x the cost, 2x for the CPUs, more for Reg/ECC RAM or FBDIMM's. My personal 2CPU system is approaching 3yrs old, and will be keeping it for at least...

Seconded. It's a pity prices for Opterons are not falling at the same rate...

Planning on seeing "Knocked Up" shortly, (comes out in Cinemas next weekend here in Oz). Went and saw "Transformers" yesterday (Sunday) as a rest after running the Gold Coast Half-Marathon on Sunday morning... Very impressed with the movie, despite all the negative views from hard-core fans...

Getting a little OT... MI was a great series... Great pirate swashbuckling adventures, where voodoo magic was common place, swords fights won with the best insults, and fun/stupidity was placed above all else! The puzzles where damn hard as well! (Well for a 13 yr-old anyway). Back OT... Yep...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Island_%28series%29 Just need someone like Jessica Alba to play Elaine... ;)

I've been playing with it on FreeBSD-CURRENT. Very sexy technology... But due to lack of spare drives (only have 2 drives in the volume), most of the good technology goes to waste. eg, hotswap drives, redundant data arrays, etc. I personally see ZFS taking over from the other volume managers...

According to the Australian 2007 census results just released, current birth rate is 1.8 children per couple... (Population replacement rate is 2 children per couple)...

Funny enough, yes. We spent about 5hrs on Sun looking at names. Nothing definite yet though. Udaman, I don't think any sane person would bring a child into the world today, yet we (as a society) continue to do so... The pregnancy wasn't planned, but neither are 87% of them out there are. The...

Only just found out, so am happy, nervous, worried, Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch, etc... Due in mid-late Feb 2008...

I guess the title says it all... :-D

Just left over pork onto a fresh pizza... I do make my own dough and sauce though, so none of that store bought crap... Left over pizza is only good for the morning after session with a couple of beers after a big night out drinking with the boys... (Providing you bypassed the dodgy...

My personal preference for a single topping pizza is either a triple smoked ham, or last night's left over pork roast meat... (The pork is slow roasted on a webber bbq, marinated with a honey/mustard glaze). Any left over meat makes for a great next-night pizza topping... Mmmm...

DD, what's up? I've just read through the last 20+ posts, and while the last few have a brighter side, some of those earlier ones, well... real downers? Glad to hear things are going well for you, in regards to your partner. Having kids is a big responsibility, and as others have said and even...

In many respects, yes for the later developed layouts, or they are simple the native form of QWERTY for that particular country. We just have to remember that most keyboard layouts were designed in a time where mechanical type-writers were the only option, so items like internationalisation...

None that I've seen. But it strange that any application can capture the ALT+keycode sequence...

Worked it out, it's a bug in IE7... (and a few other apps). We've switch his keyboard layout from "US" to "US-International", which changes the functionality of the right ALT key (makes it AltGr). To access the additional characters he needs, he can just use the right ALT key, plus the...

Hi Guys, A Danish friend of mine recently made the move from IE6 to IE7, and while is happy with IE7 is having some trouble with keyboard input. His keyboard is US English and spends most of his time in English, however occasionally has the need to type in Danish. Rather than switching...

Ended up getting a MacPower Icecube Pleiades Gen 2 USB2/FW400 enclosure + Seagate 7200.10 500GB for AU$310. Currently working well. The enclosure is using the Oxford 911+ chipset, which has a pretty good rep.

I have, and as mentioned price difference is about AU$10-$20 in favour of an enclosure + drive purchased separately... So either way is open to suggestion, (If someone knows a really good enclosure that's worth getting)? It's more of a case, of what brands to avoid, rather than what's the...

All the current enclosures I've seen with firewire, also have USB 2.0, so that's not a problem... The firewire requirement seems from not having USB2.0 on my main PC.

Hi Guys, I'm in the mood to purchase an external HDD, for when I'm at LAN's. Reasons are twofold, 1, I'm now using a laptop for gaming, so HDD space is limited. (I can't be bothered carting around my main PC to a LAN anymore). 2, I can just share drive around and have it connect locally to...

Did you watch the c'net video embedded in the blog? (It has the instructions) http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-25854.html

Sounds like a dead controller board on the HDD. (I've had SCSI chains fail in a similar fashion, due to dead drives). Best course, send it to a professional recovery company. I recently used CBL Technologies (Queensland, Australia), and they managed to pull critical data off a drive whose...

A quick Google finds this... http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2007/02/make-windows-vista-look-like-xp/

Thanks for the confirmation, just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed it, or LSI was using an alternate name for the same functionality. Like Merc says, I haven't had a lot of success with Ghost (early versions) on real RAID controllers, so will have to obtain a newer Ghost version or a copy of...

Hi Guys, I've recently inherited a fileserver (SBS2003), who's main duties are fileserving and MSSQL2K for the Point of Sale (POS) System and Intranet/Sharepoint. The POS was installed at the same time we inherited the management of the server. Long story is, they are receiving numerous SQL...

I'm still here? When did I ever mention that I like that look? :scratch: Even though my current partner (who is the same age as myself), grooms herself in a similar manner (no wax, just razor) it was entirely her choice and she had been doing so for many years before we meet... In fact she...

When I originally purchased my ATi R9600XT, it came with the "HL2 voucher". After sending away the voucher and ticking "PLEASE SEND ME A CD" and including CC details for shipping, I never got the CD (wasn't billed either). I emailed the support for the offer about 2mths after sending away...

Just purchased this album on the weekend and have been listening to it more today... A pretty good album, very different, very conceptual in it's nature. Having just finished watching/listening to "NIN: Beside you in Time" DVD, I found "Year Zero" to be very industrial in it's sound, and...

After shopping around for a new fan to replace the stock Asus fan, couldn't really find anything. So just ended buying a Zalman VF-700Cu for AU$29 incl shipping. Fitted without any problems, and running great... There's about 4-5mm between the HSF and the next SCSI card, even though the Zalman...

What a new review at SR! Better go read it... Actually I preferred the old look of SR! Seriously, I've only been visiting SR as part of my morning round trip of website looking for new news, and SR forums have stagnated as Udaman suggests. No new posts in B&G for about a week, and on avg 4-10...

Reminds me of the IQ scale. If I have an IQ of 100, then every second person I meet is less intelligent that I am...

Re: Vista Kernel performance... Speaking to our dev guys, a lot of work went into the kernel and there has been improvement within the kernel in regards to performance. However improvements within the kernel, don't mean much if you change the driver model associated (which is what they did...

I would like to go to Vista on both my home development PC and my work laptop, however there are a few catches that I would have to live with... Vista no longer supports Tape Drives with the inbuilt backup utilities, and since I actively use a tape for backups (VXA) this would be a problem...

Reg ECC DDR hasn't seen much of a price shift recently, particularly 1GB or 2GB DDR400 Reg ECC Single Rank DIMMS (roughly ~AU$200 for 1GB or ~AU$550 for 2GB per DIMM for Kingston Value RAM).