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stingwray

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  1. You'll be lucky to find anything that will fit in the express slots at the moment, its like trying to find something which fits in a pci-e slot which is not a graphics card.

    There are some USB ones about which work how you want so if you need it quick, look for them, but otherwise you'll have to wait.

  2. I'm sorry but Torrents /= Illegal.

    Bittorrent is a valid data transfer protocol which is great for people who can't afford web hosting with large amounts of bandwidth.

    Also Windows 2003 is not as bad as people like to say, because you know, its cool to bash microsoft, you have to be careful about security, but you should be on any server.

    If you want to set up a Torrent webiste then you need to create a torrent tracker. Loads of them about which will run on a webserver, choose which one you like the look of. Other than that you just need a website to host the actually torrents, so what you need there is dependant on what you want to do with it.

  3. I'm sorry but I'm going to be blunt, but that is a truely awful website. It looks like something I would create when I was 12 after just watching the Matrix.

    1. Loose the Green.

    2. Have a number of background colours so I can tell where the content is and the menu ends.

    3. You have a large black empty space at the bottom of the page, why? I have just wasted time scrolling to the bottom to find nothing.

    4. Change hyperlink colours.

    5. Redesign the layout in general, some things are too big, some are too small.

  4. You can't RAID external harddrives which are USB or FIrewire, unless someone was to produce a 'RAID' car with these two interfaces.

    If you had eSata then it would be easy.

    Best bet its to back up once a week onto the second drive and then in between backups store the second drive in a very safe place.

  5. Why don't you want a mac because you are going to run linux of some sort on it? With a mac you can run all three operating systems without the need for visualizing any of them.

    I've just got a MacBook Pro as my first Mac ever and I mainly got it because its has such a great spec, design and build quality, plus now that all of the Apple laptops are on their second revision all the problems with them originally are gone.

    I would say get a MacBook Pro or MacBook depending on what you want, even if you are going to format it and put linux on it completely. The advantage of Apple laptops is that I have had no problems finding linux support for all the hardware inside, where my friend with a Compaq has had an awful time.

    And no, I am not a Apple representative.

  6. I wouldn't say 10 years, the big players are all working towards making Linux easy for Joe Blogs, the main problem is compatibility and maintenance, unfortunately compatibility is a problem that can't really be fixed by the Linux community as it needs to come more from the manufacturers of the hardware.

  7. The majority of people that pirate Microsoft or anyones products do so because they feel like they are being ripped off and that they are charged to much for what they are getting.

    This makes people justify to themselves that pirating the software is acceptable as these companies are sitting on large amounts of money as it is.

    If you drop the price then a lot more people will buy it than pirate it, I know the example of you wouldn't steal something from a shop isn't the best but if you relate it to that it is like saying that if the item was on sale then more people would steal it which wouldn't be true.

    If people thought they were getting good value for money then piracy would be cut considerably.

  8. XP won't be dead for a long time, big corps are only just upgrading to XP from 2000 (eg. Pfizer).

    DX10 will make a big difference, but not until DX10 hardware is perfected (nVidias 8800GTX only just counts as DX10 hardware and certainly won't be the best for long) and then you have got to wait for games to come out which support DX10.

    Give it a couple of years and it will be fine.

  9. Perhaps your neighbours AP is not connected to the internet, or maybe they have some more security that you can't deal with, eg. Captive Portal.

    But at any rate, get your own AP and use your own Internet.

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