Dave

There's far too many ini files hanging around windows to list what every single one does. You're better off looking at individual cases.

That's not DOS, that's a DOS emulator.

As in bus calibred, for more comedy entertainment? (btw the only "decent" series of Big Brother was when they did it the first time around for Red Nose Day with Jack Dee et al, that was quite superb )

Just by splitting the fraction up. Like 1/6 = 1/3*1/2. lim stands for "limit" - i.e. the limit of x^2 as x->7 is 49. It's a little more complex than that though

Don't think it works because it's too long; I put a max character limit to stop people typing loads of stuff in and getting a stupidly large image for security purposes. (btw I think I needed to add a dx to that integral) (p.s. use i )

Yup first two are right, although there's a slightly more elegant way of doing it. [math]\frac{\sin(2x)\tan(5x)}{3x^2} = \frac{\sin(2x)\sin(5x)}{3\cos(5x)x^2}[/math]. Now you can see that this is equal to: [math]\frac{\sin(2x)}{x}\cdot \frac{\sin(5x)}{x}\cdot \frac{1}{3\cos(5x)} = \frac{\sin(2x)}{2x}\cdot \frac{\sin(5x)}{5x}\cdot \frac{10}{3\cos(5x)}[/math]. So the first bit -> 1, second bit -> 1 and third bit -> 10/3 so the limit is 10/3. Can use a similar method for the second one as well (subst sec2(x) - 1 = tan(x) and do some other trickery).

To be perfectly honest, I'm not an expert in different types of architecture. I can't really help you with that.

The file format is here: http://cloanto.com/specs/ini.html

Well, yes. But generally they're of a very high build quality (with the possible exception of the G4 cube) and they're very nice to look at

The configuration file is just a file with a pre-determined (usually by the programmer) template. It's pretty simplistic in syntax so that the function used to read the file is easy to code (and hence it's easy to store settings to disk). Windows programs tend to use the registry for this though.

Yes indeed. I've always used Macs really and so I find them vastly superior to PCs in many respects. The RISC architecture is generally a better one (imo) but again, it's completely down to what you're doing and your own personal prefence. In regard to the frequent crashes, XP is rather silly like that, I've had quite a few problems with my Radeon; all I can suggest is to either (a) find new drivers for your graphics card or (b) reformat, which seems to be the universal "solve everything that's wrong with windows" technique.

Yes. Anyone that thinks otherwise is obviously mistaken I don't know many other operating systems that can stay up for >1 year without suffering some kind of memory leak somewhere and dying like XP does to me on a fairly regular basis.

Not really. They're just configuration files.

Technically speaking the "proper" way to do it is use \mbox{}, like so: [math]\forall \epsilon > 0 \, \exists \,\delta > 0 \mbox{ such that } |x-c| < \delta \Rightarrow \left| \frac{f(x)-f©}{x-c} - f'© \right| < \epsilon[/math] (that's the definition of differentiability at a point c)

Well just open one up and have a look around. Usually the layout is pretty standard and they're not hard to figure out. Just don't save any changes you make unless you either like breaking things or you know what you're doing

I daresay that's more to do with something to do with the network itself than the Mac's printer sharing facilities tbh (don't have any kind of problem like that at home).

Had my Analysis II paper today, and I thought I'd share a nice question with you all Find: a) [math]\lim_{x\to 0} \left( \frac{\sin(2x)\tan(5x)}{3x^2} \right)[/math] b) [math]\lim_{x\to 0} \left( \frac{\sec^{2}(x) - 1}{2x^2} \right)[/math] c) [math]\lim_{x\to 4} \left( \frac{\sqrt{x} - 2}{\sqrt{2x+1} - 3\sqrt{x-3}} \right)[/math] Have fun, I'll post the answers in a bit (in case you were wondering, I think I just about did okay on it )

Yes, it does tend to lead to that - I've cut back on socialising quite a lot myself, these exams are very important if I want to stay on my MMath course, so I've got to do as well as I can in them. Even so, I feel a bit disappointed with a few because there have been some questions on there that I could have done much better on if I had bothered reading a certain section of the notes. The moral of the story is: revise

Generally I think it is a good idea; however I think we need to get the name of SFN more widely known before we start inviting professors for discussion on subjects.

Because it is based from the BSD kernel which is inherantly stable.

Well it's not just written in English, the configuration file has a pre-determined layout and it parses the document accordingly.

Build yourself a firing box. They're fun (I'll post schematics for mine after I've built it)

Trouble is, usenet and mailing lists are pretty much the only form of communication amongst the scientific community; getting them onto IRC/forums is a bit of rarity for most

The latest incarnation of the Mac OS is based off of a bsd system (netbsd I think, but don't quote me). They developed a branch off of bsd called Darwin which runs underneath the GUI effectively, which is fairly easy for them since they know specific hardware in machines, etc. A BSD kernel is similar to a GNU kernel, except for the fact that the BSD kernel was developed by Berkeley (I think) and has different licensing to the GNU kernel (which is under the GNU Public License). As I said previously, when someone says "hog" it usually means it does a lot of whatever comes before it (that's a really bad definition, but I hope you get the picture).

They're configuration files, and written in plain text. eh? Scripting and the registry are two completely different things. Some scripts use the registry to store data and look up various things, that's about as far as the similarities go.