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The link: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html Hijack This is the #1 attraction there, but they have several other handy tools as well. Hijack This: don't leave home without it.

Hijack This rules. Seriously. We use Ad-Aware a lot, and Spybot whenever we are not confident that other tools are cleaning the system up, but the single most powerful, useful tool we have is Hijack This. We clean the spyware out of maybe 30 machines a week. Spyware is by far the single most...

Lunar, Contax are getting out of the camera business. I would have considered one of their models for digiscoping, but I didn't want an orphan. You can get add-on lenses for the A95 (and probably most other Canons too), but they are just tele-converter things. Or macro converters, I think you...

I switched over from my Nikon Coolpix 4500s to a Canon Powershot A95 recently. In general, the Canon is a substantial improvement, with much better control and menu layout. (It has many and various other improvements too - faster, more pixels, and the like, but most of these can be put down to...

Never mind the fast switching, just having a whole slew of users is an unmitigated disaster. Ever tried to clean the spyware/viruses out of a system with 7 different users? I am seriously considering revising our standard price list for cleaning crap off systems so that it applies on a per-user...

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PS to my PS. Great ingo, Igary. Thanks.

Oh, and the 1915 uses one of those power brick things, where the 1715 has a proper 240V plug in the back of it. For 19 inch, I'll see if there is a higher-end Acer model or else go back to Mitsubishi, I think.

Bit late, but the Acer I like is the AL1715. It does have DVI, I see. I'll try to find a spare moment to recheck the difference if any soon. Obviously, not on the Matrox G450 it usually attaches to. Also, we got a 19 inch AL1913 just now. Great price, but not an outstanding monitor by any...

Darn good equipment choice, Santilli.

Oh, I didn't mean that, Gigabyte's all-in-one boards are, given their design parameters and target market, just fine. We use them all the time and, maybe aside from a particular Biostar model, just about the only things in KMxxx space I've tried that you can sell with complete confidence. I...

ASIO???

The answer is Gigabyte. No, not for you Merc, you want stuff that practically no-one else wants, and your chances of finding it are poor. (As you already know.) Your nest bet is the basic mainboard of your choice and add-on cards for sound and possibly SATA. But for you, Greg, it's high time...

(yawn) Creative haven't managed to persuade me (or pretty much anyone else I know either) that there is any point in replacing the Sound Blaster Live I already own. Come to that, they haven't managed to persuade more than one buyer in three thousand that there is any point at all in...

I remembered. Phillips is LG. (I think.)

The early version as horribly broken: you had to set your system to location USA and fiddle with the language settings, reboot, scan, then set everything back. But they fixed that, it seems.

We have been selling the Acer one you mention with great satisfaction. (At least I think it must be that model: they have about three in 17 inch: * A slightly cheaper one that is OK. Just OK. * The one we sell which is ugly (crappy black-silver colour scheme, flimsy-seeming but in practice...

Much as I hate ATI, the Mach 64s (once you figure out the horrible drivers) give excellent picture quality. I have a box of maybe 20 PCI video cards lying around, you'd be welcome to half a dozen - but the freight would kill us.

It needs to be a dialog box, same as Mozilla, same as Internet Explorer, same as the old Netscape, same as ... everything except Opera.

WTF is a PSD?

It would need to be a very small bicycle. (She has trouble reaching the pedals.) (Though holding onto the handlebars with her feet and pedalling with her hands might be a possibility.)

Firewire it is then. I'll get one of those dual-mode enclosures so that I can plug the same drive into normal systems if I need to. Can you get enclosures that run off built-in batteries? Or will I need to carry a mains power adaptor unit, and rely on my 12V car inverter?

Good news. Actually, my notebook is the only system I own where space is even an issue. In a desktop system, yuo just add extra drives as needed. In a notebook, it's difficult. Befre too long I'm going to be reduced to carrying an external drive. BTW: which is better for this, USB2 or Firewire...

It's a series of little things, mubs. None of them are all that important on their own, but they add up to an overall verdict that Mozilla is good to use, Firefox isn't. (Well, it's better than Explorer, but then so is custard.) You can't search nearly as easily. Wih Moz, you just type the...

You are much too intelligent to have read the articles Buck linked to and not seen the connection, Pradeep, so you obviously haven't read them. Do so! It's an eye-opener. The connection is direct and obvious.

.... and what poor ability might we have to comprehend the revelation?

The more I use Firefox, the less I like it. Mozilla rulez. Opera ain't bad. Firefox is a great browser messed up by dumbing it down for the ignorant masses. IE .. well ...... considering it's old enough to draw a pension, it's surprisingy usable, if you ignore the security disaster.

Mubs, I agree entirely. (But he's still a moron.)

Thanks Jake. That's around $500 to $600 more than the Mitsubishi for the same picture tube. Of course, you are including the callibration device, which isn't strictly needed for my uses but would certainly be more than useful. How much is that on its own? And, seeing as it uses the same...

Charlie Cooper is quite clearly a complete moron who doesn't know jack about computers, or the computer indistry. Yes, he is quite right to claim that Symantec AV products are approximately as attractive a a steaming pile of dog poo (although somewhat more likely to leave you with a bad...

I am a computer equipmenmt recycler!

PS: don't bother trying to be cheap. Aim to be good. People don't mind paying for demonstrated expertise and real quality. If they do mind, tell them to f- off and waste someone else's time.

That's more-or-less what I did ~15 years ago. You won't make a great deal of money doing it, but it's as pleasant a way to pass the time as any other. And the systems you build wil be about 350% better than the average crap you see around the traps. If I run across anyone in your part of the...

They really need to try harder to get the install routines sorted. Mozilla has had problems with over the top installs since ... er ... since 0.1 or something. (Well, probably 0.11 - one can safely assume that a 0.1 build will be a fresh install, I guess.) (Hint to the developers: it doesn't...

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/#othersystems

This thread must be getting close to being one of the most read around here. As, indeed, if the BOFH. And rightly so. I rarely visit the reg these days (too many other things to do) but this one keeps popping up to remind me.

damnit! I'm always too slow on the uptake

Oh, undoubtedly, Bozo. But the question is, would the CPU make a difference at real-world resolutions? A quick look at those 640x benchmarks suggests to me that those particular games probably hit the GPU limit at .. oh ... maybe something around a Celeron 2000 .... and you could run them on a...

Thanks Pradeep. That's a very interresting article, and tells me a good deal of what I need to know. As I read it, it's a reasonable bet that an A-64 will make a significant difference in this case - well, certainly for half-life. This may or may not translate to other games, but I know flight...

Not even close to enough. My current car can go 600 on a tankful, half as far again with a jerry can in the back. On the roads I travel, that is essential. But wait - you are talking miles. I didn't think of that. 300 miles isn't enough, but it's not all that far off. Hmmmm ..... Mind you, the...

Thanks Bozo. The really interesting thing is that all the game benches are at 640 x 480 - which no-one in their right mind would ever use. That seems to suggest that at a sensible real-world resolution - oh, maybe 1280 or so - the CPU wopuld become irrelevant.

I have a customer with an Athlon XP 2800, 1GB DDR, and a Gforce 6 6600GT. He likes the gaming performance, but still wants more. I am reluctant to tell him he needs to spend even more on the video card than he just did - hey, AU$395 is the last sensible stopping place before you go into the...

Let's try a thought experiment: Build a good-quality standard system. Use, let's say for the sake of argument, a Gigabyte VIA main board, the CPU of your choice, a fanless Gforce 4MX, a GB or two of quality RAM (Geil or etc.), a pair of Samsung hard drives. Now run Windows 2000 on it (or any...

We moved on two years ago. What happened to you?

Hey, how bad can it be? You need drivers for: * video * network card * modem * sound card * PCMCIA (possibly) Finding and loading them sounds a lot easier than buggerising about with an over the top install on a system that is virtually certain to have all sorts of Compaq-specific crap...

Yuo see? even two of us can't manage it! :)

It is something a little like this for me too, Howell. I spend at least a little time every day, and quite often practically the entire waking day, trying to understand things: why is the sky blue, why does this species of plant only grow on the north side of the sand dunes, why does the hill...

It is something a little like this for me too, Howell. I spend at least a little time every day, and quite often practically the entire waking day, trying to understand things: why is the sky blue, why does this species of plant only grow on the north side of the sand dunes, why does the hill...

On the other hand, you'll still be faced ith all that complete crap that Compaq load into their systems. Can you be really sure thatyou've got rid of it and have a stable, reliable system? Especially given that you won't be there in person to support it if something goes wrong. I'd play it...

Seems fine to me Handy. Good job. (Upgrades are scary! I never really trust the damn thing to come back up with the database intact after an upgrade.)