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DJ Phaze

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  1. Mac's are not *bad*!!!

    If you like the way their interface works, and are prepared to sacrifice 99% of x86 PC Games, then nothing's stopping you (Y))

    Yes they are expensive, but they are high quality pieces of machinary - and yes, you do pay some extra ££ for style..... but I think it's worth it.

    They can do everything (just about) that x86 can do - and M$ have ported over some of their applications to the MacOSX - MSN Messenger/Office/Internet Explorer etc

    :: Phaze ::

  2. Have a look on Google for the "Offline Steam" hack someone did. It makes Steam register on localhost, as opposed to a server..... then you can register, and unlock your game without getting online!

  3. It's for protein folding - biological research at Standford University (USA). Have a look on their website, as I'm sure the results they have analysed have had "real-world" contributions for the good of mankind....... something in the disease department, if I remember correctly...

    Wouldn't you feel something, if your computer contributed to finding out a cure for some terminal disease? Especially when it has no impact on what you do on your computer - performance wise :turned:)

  4. Windows Me was an OS M$ released when XP was delayed. It's also known as "Windows 98, Service Pack 2" - as it has the same underlying code :turned:

    It was the first Windows version to have "System Restore" and a few other nifty features of XP...

    Get rid of it, and burn the CD. Get XP Pro or Windows 2000 (with SP4)...

  5. I bet I could notice the difference in performance, I'm gonna sign up ^_^

    As Folding@Home is designed to have the LOWEST processor priority, you will not notice the difference...... If ANY application wants to do something, then the processor will stop using Folding@Home and concentrate on the application....

    Like I said, you wouldn't notice it's there....

  6. When you are just browsing the net, or word-processing - are you *really* using all of your computer's resources??

    Put those spare resources (CPU power, memory etc) to a GOOD CAUSE.

    Stanford University has a distributed-computing project, all about protein folding - and they need your *spare* unused computer-power to help them.

    It's a project contributed to by 1000's of Teams - or you can do it individually - who are contributing to the computation of very technical and detailed experiments..

    Read more about it here -> http://folding.stanford.edu/

    How to join...

    1. Download the client at http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html (Or directly here for XP - http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/Folding@Home503.EXE )

    2. When it asks for Team Number - type in 42023

    3. Just forget it's there!

    It will download data to process, and do it in the background - you won't even know it is there, as it is on the lowest priority for the CPU.

    When it's finished, it will upload the results to Stanford's Server - and then download a new set of data to compute ;))

    Clients available for:

    Windows (all)

    MacOSX

    Linux

    Happy Folding!

    Questions? Just post below :D

    :: Phaze ::

  7. I must admit, when I first read an article from The Onion, I was fooled - then I caught on, and slapped myself for being so silly.... :">

    I will never forget an article about Stephen Hawking, and his revamped Wheelchair - it was a rocket-suit (The type of gadget Bond has....) - so he could get up stairs!!!

    And there was another one, claiming Bill Gates used to be a Window Cleaner - and Linus Torvalds (sp?) used to be a Penguin zoo keeper.....lmao

  8. DJ Phaze, why do you know so much (Y) lol

    You'd be supprised how much you know about something when it's been your hobby for years......

    Ask yourself random questions about bike - and you'll see what I mean... you'll soon jog your memory about bike facts which you had forgotten....

    Like what was the hot Rock Shox product of 1998?

    How much Pace Race forks were when they first hit the market?

    How wide handle bars used to be, compared to now, etc etc...

    When did free-riding and Street start appearing?

    And digging around old MTB magazines is fun too - you laugh at the ridiculous price of what was considered *amazing* bleeding-edge technology...

    :: Phaze ::

  9. Right, here we go - this is what I would have on an XP machine...

    Anti-Virus - Kaspersky Personal 5.0

    Why? It's the best have by far - it can update every hour with new virus definitions... It also scans P2P file transfers - which other have lack.

    Chat - GAIM (Gnome AOL Instant Messenger) - an open-source chat program (mutli-platform). Supports: MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/IRC and a whole host of others..... very very good.

    Security - Windows Update - get the latest updates, as they are essential (Y)) Get SP2 too - if your key is *cough* blacklisted, then PM me for a genuine one (which works with SP2...)

    Music - Winamp or iTunes

    File Sharing - Shareaza - the big daddy of all P2P programs on Windows platform

    Graphics - Photoshop CS

    Spyware Protection - Spybot Search & Destroy - a program highly recommended by many professional websites and magazines. I use it on Windows, and works a charm :()

    Internet - FireFox - I don't think I need to say anymore.....

    CD/DVD Authoring - Nero Burning Rom - highly praised by many :S)

    Defragmentation of Hard Disk - O&O Software Defrag Professional Edition - works far better than the native Microsoft one. Find a serial or something on Google....

    Any other applications?

  10. Yeah there are alot of missions on this one! I'd never complete all of it! Simply because I cant be bothered to look around for all the little things! Im on the second island, about half way through! Dont play it much though! I love it though, definatley the best game out!!!

    Rob  :P  :D

    If you like that sort of game, then yeah it is :P) HL2 takes my vote for the "Best Game of 2004" :)

  11. Sony MDR-EX71 is what I would recomend, £35, and the best headphones I have ever had, and strong too! I always break headphones but these have lasted well!

    Are they the ones which fit *inside* your ear, like a rubber plug, and block out all outside noise? I had some like that - Sony ones - and they rocked :P)

  12. and plus "unlimited" never means unlimited

    Very true, very true.

    A hosting company would be suicidal to offer "Unlimited" bandwidth/resources...

    They may allow you to use a maximum of 5% of the bandwidth at any one time - which may not seem much - but they have big fat fibre-optic connections in data-centes (5Gb/s or something sick. I know Google uses 2.3Gb/s....) ... and you'd struggle to fill this.

    They say "Unlimited" becuase they *know* that you couldn't possibly overload their systems -

  13. OY! u never mentioned the fit house mates!!!! They work in bar ba's with u? if so, im comin over Canterbury sat night  :D  :D"

    They don't work in Baa Bar's with me, and they're back at home now - returning when term starts......although they're moving out to another house :D

    I know shit-loads of fit girls here in Canterbury - the ratio of guys:girls = 1:4 (so we're in high demand.......)

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