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Maybe I've missed the boat here (I've been away a while) if anybody has a spare invite I'd be very grateful.

This was a clean install on a brand new XP machine. I've not tried removing and reinstalling yet. I'll update if that fixes it.

I've got exactly the same problem with Firefox on one of my machines.

Well for the latter the parts would be 850, 1050 and 7 respectively because that is the ratio expressed using the lowest possible integers. As for the former. I have no idea other than to suggest that the compostion may be made using several different ratios. For example concrete has different ratios of sand, cement and pebbles depending on the strength required. 1 part sand to 1 part cement to 1 part pebbles is as much concrete as 2 parts sand to 1 part cement to 1 part pebbles. I must warn you though, I'm not a chemist so there may be a more specific definition I'm missing. I'm just using the general idea of parts to a composition. If the first example goes on to ask how do you determine the amount of A, B or C then it's pretty likely that the composition can be of various ratios.

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It's very, very, very, very far from pointless. I'm colourblind and have faced the question "what colour is that?" for my whole life. Now I can finally show people how I see the world and they can gain some understanding of what it's like. Consider also that most LED indicators change from red to green to indicate whether something is on/active and sites like these may possibly help the design "gurus" who perpetuate this choice in electronics and throughout computer hardware and software to sort it out. 1 in 30 males is red green colourblind so it's a lot more common than people think. Maybe they'll consider this when they decide that a tiny LED that changes between the worst possible choice of colours is a good thing. Or a site where green and red are used to indicate different states? FAT CHANCE - it's just not cool to use blue and green or red and yellow is it?

I would assume this means parts of the whole and if the amounts given are in lbs then that's the way it's calculated. 500 lbs A - 5 parts 400 lbs B - 4 parts 100 lbs C - 1 part It's just a ratio of the components.

$5000 isn't that harsh though. The costs of network downtime can be phenomenal. As a ball park figure I'll give you an example of something that happened on the network that I admin. A user took down a mail server by doing something silly. The server was down for 8 hours as a result as exchange is a right bugger to fix after a system crash. The effects of this lost server had a knock on across the network and resulted in no email access for an entire day on part of the network. The problem is that the company this affected is huge and the area of the network where email was lost was a whole country. This left 2000 users without their main means of communication for a whole day, 16,000 man hours. If you consider that the network deals with 1.5 million emails a day you can get an idea of the amount of lost time for the company. So if Crash has removed the virus protection on this network and one, or several, file servers had gone down for the day as a result he could be looking at costing the company something like 2000 x 8 x £15 (average hourly wage) or £240,000 as many companies can do nothing without the IT infrastructure. Consider that there are over 40,000 employees in this company and a major virus attack could theoretically take down the entire network for several hours the cost gets very high, very quickly.

Seems you were asking to be caught if that's all you did to cover up. You're sessions would have been logged and as soon as you start chucking batch files on the LAN your gonna get rumbled. Seems to be a pretty dumb thing to do TBH. I'm suprised you've not been expelled as you have threatened the security and confidence of the entire network. Not a good thing to do at all. What did you expect to achieve? Or was it just a "flexing of the not fully developed IT muscles"? Good job you didn't try to take a server down or you might be bankrupt by now.

Here's a load of info on USB - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/jones_02august05.mspx If you want to run USB2 devices on a laptop with USB1 ports you'll have to get a USB2 PCMCIA card. Here's an example - http://www.bixnet.com/2poruspcmcic.html. This won't have the full performance of a true USB2 bus though.

USB 2 is theoretically 40 times faster than USB 1.1 with a transfer speed of 480Mbps. While it's probably not quite as fast as that in real world use the difference is still very apparent when moving large data files.

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It helps if you look at virtual memory as something the computer uses because it really has to when it runs out of RAM. To use the swap file the PC must first assign the data to RAM then write it to disk, then to use it it must read it from the disk and put it back into memory. It's only there as an overflow and is much slower than RAM - the best advice is to forget it's there.

There's not really much point because Windows will automatically increase the size of your virtual memory if it needs more.

Yep - I spent a short while looking at Pascal and then moved onto Delphi at university.

It's also known as the paging file: http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/mcfedries/03june16.asp

For one contributor this thread strikes me as somewhat deranged, arrogant and dull.

Ditto. Speak to the buildings owners. I'm sure they'll agree

I got Mossoi from a sequence of saved games of Doom one night in 1993/4. It was late and we were determined to complete it so the save names became more abstract. The sequence went something like this: Level 1 Near the End Level 2 Dying Arrrrg Frank Boff [sic] Francis Boff Francino Boff St Francis of Boff Whips n Chains (A prize for anybody who can find the link between Frank Bough and whips and chains) Frank Moosoid Moosoid Mossoi. So I guess Mossoi is just a typo of Moosoid.

This has to be one of the most ridiculous stickers I've seen yet, right across the power socket.

Yep. You have to forget the whole Windows sitting on top of DOS idea of Win 95/98. You are using a component of Windows 2000/XP when you enter safe mode of sm command prompt. If things are really bad you have to use the recovery console to try to get the OS back up and running. Again this is a component of Windows.

Yeah - more RAM gives better performance and higher resolution, colour depth and refresh rate.

The 5.34 GHz machine was as stable as a standard PC. It was supercooled using liquid nitrogen I believe and constructed to avoid condensation causing a problem. I'll post some pics of it if I can find them.

A database is much bigger and more complex than is needed. The db needs to store extra data that defines what it actually is. An ini file is simply a text file that holds info. that can be parsed by an application. For example: I have a lovely application that has "Welcome to Mossoi's Application" written across the top of it. Now this is fine for me but I want to make more money out of the app. by allowing other people to buy it off me, change the heading, and sell it on as their own. I have two options here. One, I can let them edit the source code of the application, find the heading and change it, or I can keep the heading in a seperate ini file and make the application get the heading from that file. The second method is far better as it means that they don't have to root through my code to find what they need. I can keep it all nice and seperate and protected from them and they don't need to be able to recognise the language I have used. They just need to be able to spot this: [MAIN HEADING] heading = "Welcome To Mossoi's Application" in a standard, easy to read text file.

I'm just thinking of the site's image.