fyhuang
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Whoa. Windows has an event log. Do you know how much darn time that could have saved me!?!?!. But still, Linux puts it right up in front of your face
.Best Buy, CompUSA should have some good hard drives. Make sure, before you buy one, whether you use SATA or EIDE. Then buy the correct style hard drive, remove your old one (it might be good to put it in the other drive bay so you can copy files), and put the new one in. If you're using (E)IDE, and your jumpers are set to 'cable select', the plug on the end is master (which Windows should be on) and the other one is slave (which your old hd should be on).
Since you're getting a new hard drive, might I suggest you try out a Linux
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[edit] Hey, it removed da*n and changed it to darn. Interesting
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If you haven't noticed yet, keeping Word open for a couple of hours will cause the same effect (last I checked). I think it's more of a Windows thing, possibly cause Windows lowers the priority of an idle thread so much that when it starts back up... ah, never mind.
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Web analyzer? What does a "web analyzer" do? Do you want, for example, an analysis/graphs/etc. of your server logs so you know who comes to your site and all that?
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scanlines
Correct.
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I had this problem (really, really, really slow booting and running) when my hard drive was about to die, I eventually figured out the problem by all the 'hard drive error' messages Linux was giving me, so I bought a new hard drive and everything went back to normal speed. Unfortunately, under Windows you don't get any error messages telling you that your hard drive is failing, so you'll just have to best guess...
If you're completely sure that there's no spyware, viruses, rootkits (new threat, Google it), then try putting in a different hard drive temporarily, and if it boots and runs fast, that's probably your problem.
Hope it helps!
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It's too common. Also doesn't have that 'cool' factor
. AFAIAC nothing compared to Bitstream Charter or Bitstream Vera Serif (my favorite fonts, BTW ). The only MS font I've ever liked is Trebuchet MS (Tahoma too, but that's too common), and that's also dangerously close to being Comic-y.Cheers!
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Here's a fairly obscure one:
Non-raytracing software renderers (such as the one used in Blender or DOOM or any of those old DOS games) render polygons as a set of horizontal or vertical (vertical ___s can be easier to texture and work well with Z-buffers) _______s (begins with an 's').
Sorry if the question is unclear
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I don't see much of Comic Sans, but I absolutely despise Times New Roman. I propose we all switch to Bitstream Vera Sans
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IPv4 = 256 * 4, so lemme see, 256 = 2 ^ 8, so IPv4 must be 32 bits. IPv4 then only allows up to 4294967296 (theoretically, many are already taken by private IP ranges). IPv6, then, must be 48 bits, allowing a total of approximately 1.766847065e+72 IP addresses, which should be enough for the next couple centures or so (but then again, "700 kb was all that anyone would ever need").
Random guessing on the IPv6 thing, cause IPv4 is four groups of 256 so I'm guessing that IPv6 is six groups. I know a little bit about IPv6 but not enough
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UDP is actually guaranteed to be error-free, but they aren't guaranteed to arrive in the same order or even arrive at all.
You got the abbreviations right though
. Lorian, you might have heard of TCP/IP, does that ring a bell?CodeOp, close enough so go ahead and ask the next question.
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I got one:
TCP packets are guaranteed to arrive, guaranteed to be error-free, and guaranteed to arrive in exactly the same order.
What are UDP packets guaranteed?
Cookie to whomever can come up with what TCP and UDP stand for
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Er, um, uh...
Having a hard time thinking of question
.I'll double post once I do think of one.
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s/WFG/Wildfire Games/g
From my memory, and from man ed:
1,s/WFG/Wildfire Games/g
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Opera has the best security track record of any browser.
That's soon going to change
.Is Opera available for Linux? Even if it is, I'm not getting it
. Would much rather put my time into helping out the Mozilla developers.Cheers!
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Have you updated the SpyBot/AdAware spyware DBs to the latest versions? Is Act of War a commercial or shareware game? In my experience, even though the Download.com people try to keep spyware out of their games a lot still make it in. I used to only get games from there, my computer filled with spyware. Seriously.
Are you sure there's no uninstall program? Try running the demo setup program again or look in the demo folder for UNWISE.exe or something like that.
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Is it possible that you inadvertently did something else that same day/time? Can you point me to a link to where you got the demo?
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I would use Word if I were not on a Linux... Word might install on wine but I'm not too sure about that. Besides, I nuke my wine directory regularily anyways
. Normally OO.o supports a lot of formats (save as PDF and Macromedia Flash (for presentations), what convenience ), but Word 2.0 is just too old 
. I'll have to write a patch for it sometime if I can figure out the file format. I'll try installing Office but I'm not expecting much .The data's just track meet results and such, I don't think it's of any kind of confidential importance
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Copy and paste it from... what
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My track coach sends all her meet data, results, etc. in Microsoft Word 2.0 format (her meet management application saves it as Word 2.0, if you're wondering Word 6.0 was around 1993)! OpenOffice.org does not have support for such an old Word format, and so I was wondering where I could get a free piece of software to convert it to something newer? Thanks in advance!
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Emacs/XEmacs/Zile/ee
IIRC EE stands for Electric Eyes? At least on some UNIXes... (can't seem to find electric eyes on my distro)
42 is the answer. I haven't read the books (well, 30 pages of one) or seen the movie, I'm gonna have to do that sometime soon
. I probably should have been a little less specific when asking about desktops, I would have accepted WMs too. CDE is still used on some old Solaris machines at my dad's office, but yeah it's kinda phasing out now.Let's see, if anyone else wants to ask a question go ahead, otherwise:
What does the program 'rc' do (maybe Windows-specific)?
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What is the answer (for those of you who have watched a recently released movie
)?Ummm, name three desktop environments and two editors you could find in most modern Linux distributions.
Whatever, can't think of much else
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*sigh* I always get here when people have answered a q. correctly but no one's asked a new one yet...
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What I meant was that there are no 'quick', 500 KB patches like IE has, they release 1.0.1, 1.0.2 releases, and when those come out you can't get a 'delta' patch but you have to download the full installer. The installer does update your installation instead of starting over, but it's a big waste to download the entire installer over again when you're only patching a couple of (rather important) things.
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Processor - 64-bit processor would be good if you're planning to keep the computer for a while, cause Windows 64-bit just came out, Linux's been there for god knows how long, etc. and 32-bit will eventually die away I think. For compiling definitely get a dual-core processor, you can make -j4 and it'll be much quicker. Dual-cores won't help much in gaming, most games only use one processor anyhow.
RAM - get as much as you can possibly afford
. I have 1 GB.
Graphics card - if you're not gonna be doing that much hardcore gaming (but still want to run UT2004 from time to time), I would get an nVidia 6200 or a low-end nVidia 6600 (around $100-150). If you want a little bit more (running DOOM 3 at an acceptable framerate), a good 6600 would be recommended (I like ASUS, around $200-250). 6800s are best left for the hardcore gamers. Avoid ATI like the plague unless you want to deal with driver hell in Linux. If you can handle random crashes 3-4 times a day, the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro is a very good deal nowadays.
GeForce 6+s are currently my favorite card (even though I haven't tried one yet
), ATi's latest Radeon Xs are sometimes faster but as I mentioned, Linux (and sometimes Windows) driver hell. If you're looking at GeForce 5s then I would just go ATi cause GeForce 5s aren't all that fast... besides, I saw a 6200 on Newegg for $70.
Sound card - definitely Audigy 2 or Audigy 4.
As for Linux-compatible hardware - I expect most network cards should work well with Linux (dialup modems, for the most part, do not). Graphics card, get nVidia (I can't stress how much of a hard time I have with ATi Linux drivers). Sound card, Linux supports Creative SB Live! and Audigys well (at least the Audigy 2 I have). I would be highly surprised if your keyboard's not supported (unless it's a newer USB keyboard). Avoid Microsoft mice. I personally like the new Logitech combo (MX 3100 I think), which has a laser mouse and a really nice keyboard (and is wireless). Just make sure you have $200 to spend
. Wireless networking might work, might not.
And that's about all that I can think of for now. You will have the most problems with the graphics card under Linux - nVidia's support is not perfect, but much better than ATi's.
Hope it helps!