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Its a nice use of materials, the lighting really shows them off as well. Particularly the tiling on the back wall, looks great.

Looks interesting, is that some sort of corrugated metal used at the bottom? Lighting looks very good.

well Linux is just a operating system basis and all the distros for linux use the linux kernal (which makes them linux), then each distro has there own ways of doing things, what programs they include etc. the reason why people choose different distros is personal i think, as then what they do differently. people try some and like one and then stick with it. I think the main difference between all the distro is how much support they give it.

Windows XP home can't accept more than 5 connections, it blocks them after it reachs the limit, so Microsoft can't really take the license away because unless you hack the limit (I have seen a version of XP floating around that says it has done) then your not going to go over the limit. Same with Pro but 10 connections.

All notebook CPUs (and chips in general) don't make use of a heatspreader as it is termed and leave the die exposed because the heatspreader adds another 3mm ontop of the CPU and when the manufacturer is trying to make the laptop as thin as possible it doesn't help. Secondly all that the heatspreader is useful for is stopping people from damaging their new expensive processor, it doesn't improve heat transfer, if anything it will hurt it. Because underneth the headspreader is a normal chip die we are all familiar with, this then has to have thermal paste placed on top of it, then the heatspreader, then more thermal paste and finally the heatsink. So you now have added two more sections of material for the heat to transfer through and this means there is a greater chance of reduced heat transfer.

I like FreeNAS, (www.freenas.org). Very light and its got plenty of features.

I have to say OpenBSD has the best installer, if you feel like doing everything,

Not quiet sure what you mean, but you will only be able to connect to one wireless network even when there are many that you could connect to. You wlan drivers will probably include a tool for searching and selecting which networks to contect to, if not then you can do it with the windows wireless configurator. Otherwise for monitoring and searching for acess points but not connecting to them you have NetStumbler.

Its usually a feature of the graphics drivers, at school the decent computers (the one built by me) have nVidia GFX so it is available in the driver menu. The crap machines which mostly use Intel "Extreme" Graphics have that feature when you press Ctrl then a cursor key to orientate the screen.

Well seeming you are in the UK: www.siscareers.gov.uk/ If you haven't seen it.

In different countries you are limited in what encyption you can use. I use the example of SSL in the US used to be limited to 64-bits (which is very small for SSL) because the Government prohibited the use of anything more. Windows infact used to ship in the States with IE set with a maximum encyrption of 64-bits. http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/ I found this a while back and is an interesting read. It might answer some questions you have better than me. I do wonder how someone looking at encrypted data could say whether it was encrypted with a more powerful encyption than was allowed. As far as I can think you could only use the argument that you can't decrypt it therefore it must be using stronger encyption and that argument wouldn't work in a court of Law.

I really would recommend not doing anything to school computers. You are likely to get yourself into a lot of trouble even if you permission from teachers. The only machines you can safely hack and not get into trouble are your own (unless you are a security professional with a documented permission from the owner of the systems). On your too points, if you don't wish the school to have those photos then you should go through proper channels for them to remove them. On the bet with your teacher, it sounds like its not worth it, and if you having to ask us for help then its probably not a good idea.

http://www.mathclubinc.com/leet.html Do you mean this?

I take it you mean by "ARP thing" Cain and Ables ARP Cache Poisioning Tool, just remember to put the Router/Gateway selected in the first box and in the second box the victims IP.

If you are on a private network 192.168.x.x then it is most likely to be 255.255.255.0, if you are on a larger private network 10.0.0.0 then it could be 255.0.0.0 but is more likely to be different. In windows if you go to network connections then and click on the LAN icon you want it should come up with your IP address and subnet. Other than that just run a command window and type: ipconfig And that will come up with the answer.

You don't need SSL really, its up to you though as you might want to encypt the data. I would recommend that you use a htaccess though to stop unwanted people from killing your bandwidth. I think all you need to do to see which pages are being looked at is check the apache logs, as the app is fetching the page and then getting apache to effectively host it. I would second using Linux, makes things a lot easier once you get the hang of the differences between it and linux. I had major problems getting PHP to work on Apache in windows, with linux it bascially does everything for you. Plus the other problem is that XP (I assume you haven't gone and bought 2003) has a maximum number of incoming connections which is 10 which may cause problems, Linux of course has now limit.

Its like the government wanting all your encryption keys and passwords given to them when you start using them, just so if they "ever" have to use them they have them already.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,3...39270045,00.htm Just found this, doesn't look good for us brits. I think this just takes the biscuit of everything going on in cyberlaw at the moment. What are you thoughts?

Time zones are a real pain in the ass, atlhough I would still be up at that time probably anyway so will try to remember to tune in.

The only decent reality TV show was the Apprentice, mainly because the people on it weren't too stupid.

Theres only so much that school can teach you and then you can go on to study other topics at University etc. Meanwhile someone else who learns it all themself, gets no major qualifications often gets better jobs and suceeds more. Just about being in the right place at the right time, or knowing the right people.

You could run uTorrent from a Memory Stick if you wanted, nothing that should prevent it.

uTorrent is brilliant, i moved to it from Azureus and it makes things so much easier. Only about 150KB and doesn't require installation, fast, simple, clean, perfect.

I'd be interested. Mentioning Skype it could possible use Skypcast so you can get to more people and then use IRC to gain feedback.

When you can't get to it or find it. Seriously its just me though, it works very well.