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thanks mate. i'm willing to hand out 2 at this stage too.

can i get one? =email removed=

ok, what is the host OS, and what are the guest OS's, and how much ram do the guests have assigned? it could also be the laptop hard drive limiting you. but as i said, if the guest os's are compatible, install vmware tools, and if thats not working out, give a few of the other vm solutions a try. personally i like virtual box because of some of the awesome features such as auto guest resolution change when switching between fullscreen and windowed, and when you resize a window (so in effect, the whole screen is always visible). and performance of it is good too imo. nothing beats vmware's networking stuff though.

as long as you install vmware tools (go to VM->install vmware tools) the OS shouldn't run that slow (unless ofcourse you haven't got enough ram in the host, or haven't assigned enough to the vm). If that's not working out for you try something like virtual box or virtual PC and MS's other vm package. if you are still having issues with speed sure you can go to multiple partitions, but it's nowhere near as convenient. what sort of PC are you running these on, especially important is how much ram it has, and how much ram are you assigning to the VM's? what are the guest OS's and what host OS?

think of java or python. meta script is meant to be a similar vm based language, correct TomB?

i'm not gonna link you directly to the software you want, but i will point you in the right direction. go to sourceforge.net and search the projects hosted there.

i will buy a new pc every 4-5 years. and i'll replace a few odd parts during that time, maybe a bit more ram, faster cpu, faster video card, whatever i can afford and consider worthwhile. the reason i will buy a whole new pc is generally because the pc can't really be upgraded due to new types of ram, new cpu socket or whatever.

cmon man. Captain Crunch IS eccentric. i have yet to see proof otherwise. after reading iWoz, and seeing a few interviews with him, it's impossible to draw any other conclusion. ofcourse, that doesn't mean he is a bad guy, or not intelligent. but he IS eccentric. i haven't been able to read the article yet (appears to be suffering a digg/slashdot type effect at the moment) so i haven't been able to see how negative the article is to him regarding that.

ubuntu should support your wifi (a lot of distro's don't due to strict open source policies), and a live cd allows you to very quickly and easily try linux. dual booting can be a pain, and with no experience you can risk your data. and a flat out switch is gonna be a HUGE shock to you.

Hey my name is Philip, a.k.a BorisTSR, Boris The Sneaky Russian Favorite Games: Max Payne, Max Payne 2, Call Of Duty 2, UT2004 Favorite OS: depends on my needs. Favorite Console: Wii Nationality: Australian Accent: Australian (i am told) Sex: Male Age: 19 Height: 180ish cm Favorite bands: varies greatly Favorite book(s): iWoz, Band Of Brothers Favorite authors: *shrugs* Favorite movie: too many to list, some would be hackers, v for vendetta, the recruit. Favorite director: *shrugs* Favorite TV shows: Stargate (SG-1 & Atlantis), Jericho Favorite actor: Bruce Campbell Favorite actress: Rachel Weisz? Favorite comedian: Eddie Murphy Other hobbies: SciFi, Programming, archery. Occupation: currently studying and working on some software for sale in january. Hope to be a professional game programmer, (or another reasonably interesting topic in programming)

oh, you don't need to invite people to do that, this is the internet after all :POn a more serious note, yep, thats pretty much all there is to it.

i don't know of any software that does this, but i do know windows(assuming you are using windows) has API's that allow you to simulate button presses (works very well from my experience), so you could quite easily write a java app on your mobile and a server for your laptop (any language as long as you have access to the bluetooth device).

i love the pic on the wall! :Pi'll make sure to take photo's some time tomorrow of my room.

from what i can tell using hyperthreading, it gives priority to the first core, and when that is in use, chucks the process to the next core etc. it seems to be pretty balanced. you can set processor affinity manually though.

is that metric or imperial? :Pon a more serious note, he is right. Multiple cores need applications to be designed to use them. or you need to run multiple applications to use them. such as, if i were to rip a dvd on my computer (being a single core) and then try to run a game, i'd notice a severe performance drop. if i were to do this on a multi-core system, i'd notice little to no performance drop. i find it hard to explain further without delving into software design.

stupid son? hahaha thats what nino means if my spanish is right.Edit ohhhhhhh you meant son as in sun.. at least i think it's also the name of a re-occurring weather pattern. i got a few books: Band Of Brothers iWoz (Steve wozniaks auto biography, man it's great, if you see it, pick it up. very interesting and inspiring) The Story of Google a few dvd's including The Evil Dead trilogy :D Games: Unreal Anthology (so i can finally play ut2004 and unreal 2) Call Of Duty 2

I love visual studio as an IDE, nothing else has come close to it from what I have used. Whenever possible, I use visual studio. On linux, if I am doing a large amount of coding, I'll fire up a windows vm with visual studio, if I am doing a small bug fix or something I'll use codeblocks. For building, I use visual studio's stuff for windows, and depending on what I need done, either a hand written or modified makefile, or just use codeblocks in linux. I used to be one of the hardcore "I don't use IDE's and do all my compiling on the command line, and don't use code completion", then I realised that it just made programming more of a chore, for no benefit. I now take the approach of "if it helps me to accomplish my goal quicker, I'll use it". I prefer finding a solution to a problem, not screwing around with typo's or bugs in the build procedure. There is no point.

if more people used it, there probably would be more viruses written to attack it also most linux distros are free so there is no need to sell it ;) while you raise a good point, several things stop it reaching a level that windows viruses reach.lets see: *not many people run linux as admin. there is little need to once it is set up, so a lot of things can't be acheived by the virus. *things can't be hidden with root kits as the virus would need to be compiled on the machine and then it'd bitch and moan about not having the required dependencies :P

they CAN be more efficient, in regards to performance IF the programmer knows assembly well. an average programmer who learns assembly will more than likely be beaten by a good optimizing c compiler. i highly doubt nod32 is written entirely in assembly because assembly is such a bitch of a language to work with on large scale projects. the code is not clear and it takes a lot of code to do simple things. in general your development speed would be MUCH quicker when using a higher level language and the program will be much easier to maintain. the only times to use assembly is: *you are working on a system that has an assembler but no other compiler *you have profiled your code, performed heavy algorithm optimizations and you still need less memory usage and/or faster code. you will find assembly does not outperform c/c++ enough to justify rise in development time and costs. i find it hard to believe any modern program is written entirely in assembly, i do however know a fair few programs have portions of them written in assembly.

woah, geometry instancing! we've only had that for many years! (this is how many trees as well as large armies are done). There is also a step further to this idea called "imposters" which will render the object to a texture then draw a single polygon every time the object is used.Sorry to be an arse, but thats a common rendering technique, not a technology provided by an API. i intensely dislike what microsoft have done with direct x 10, there is no good reason why they couldn't have it available for xp as well, it's just to force users to upgrade. I can also see it backfiring, for developers who don't want to double their workload or loose customers, direct x 10 will not be used, they'll either stay with direct x 9 or move to OpenGL. It means they have to write 2 renderer's. one for direct x 9 and one for direct x 10. at the end of the day, these API's are not revolutionary, the hardware improves all the time, and the API's are just ways of interfacing with the hardware. Also, i can't see improved graphics "revolutionizing PC gaming". Aren't games meant to be about gameplay? if anything has revolutionised gaming, it's the Wii. Personally, i will be getting Vista, as a developer i need to be able to test my software on many different OS's, but i won't be getting it until i get a new computer mid next year. Vista offers a fair few features over XP, but none of which make me go "I NEED to have vista" they'd be ok, but i can definitely live without them. If i wasn't a developer, i'd stick with XP. My advice for upgrading to vista: Cases to get it: *You need to test software on many OS versions *You need to learn it for your career (network admins and the like) *You are getting a new computer and it's bundled *You are building a large expensive gaming computer (or an upgrade to a directx 10 graphics card and have money to blow) If you don't fall into any of those categories, you won't see that many benefits, especially not for the cost of the change. Not to mention that in the early days there will be LOTS of bugs with a lot of the software you commonly used.

ROFL. There is also an International Computer Driving License. My college course did all the required subjects for it but didn't actually offer the accreditation. I am eligible to sit the test, but it costs heaps for zero benefit. i think what the college gave me would have more weight (even if it isn't "officially" recognised in every country)

Unlike compression, encrypting an encrypted file would work. Assuming that you didn't use encryption methods and keys that by some freak accident the second one reversed the first one. Although, if you used a strong encryption method, and a good key, the need for this is pretty much non-existant (unless you are a REALLY interesting guy, but honestly, your porn isn't that good :P).

My wii (technically my brothers, actually) is: 6196 8446 2844 7059 Definitely interested in a evil server mii. It would be interesting to see how you personify a computer :P My brother and I went to a local game store for their midnight launch. We were 2nd in line (waited an hour) so we got our entire pre-order, including the stores only copy of Call Of Duty 3.

depends entirely on how hard it was hit and where.

imagine doing that on 50 computers. fair enough they can write a script, but booting ubuntu is hardly quick. and yes they could do it on dsl or whatever but i doubt a search is any more thorough than a search for "*.wav *.mp3 *.avi *.wmv *.wma *.mpg". due to the amount of computers they need to check and the average computer literacy of highschool students, anything more is not worth it. not many would even know it's possible to undelete. geeks aren't in high numbers at high school. btw, you also forgot that there are hundreds of tools capable of scanning drives and undeleting files from within windows itself. i just don't think it's gonna be that thorough. i'd have to say truecrypt would be the best solution (as it also stops you from loosing your data incase it gets overridden by something when it's deleted), even just make it a virtual drive, don't worry about hiding the partition just call it data.pak and chuck it in a game directory.