stingwray

Looks cool but it won't happen anytime soon. I have seen computers in CF cards, as I am into embedded stuff I want want to play with. But can't do anything like that though as you still need a normal screen.

Poor old Harisson with no votes.

If it has USB see if it will boot of a USB drive, that way option are practically limitless. Other than that just boot DOS on the laptop, copy the SAM file and then take it home to your computer and brute-force it.

That has to be one hell of a system. Hopefully in 4 years time I will have that sort of cash to drop on a computer. I have to say though if I was going to buy a stupiding powerful system I would get one of the nice 4U Tyan Servers. The one that comes to mind is the one with 8 Socket 940 all dual-core capable, so put in the top dual-core opterons. Then it also takes 128GB of DDR400 RAM so also add that in. A PCI-e Quadro Card for GFX and a 1TB SCSI Raid Array in 15000rpm drives. Yes you would need it in another room to stop yourself from going death but by god it would be fast.

There was a rumour with some pictures of a prototype apple laptop with the new AMD turion inside it. It would be nice if it came out to be true.

I think Vako that much be your setup then, I've never had that problem and have built over 30 different Athlon 64 machines and configured hundreds literally and never come across a problem with skipping music with alt-tabbing or anything else like that.

UK isn't too bad with an age limit of 18, although at 18 we can buy or do anything now, theres no staggering. We can buy a beer with a meal at 16 here but the laws a bit wierd so its not done much. Although it seems from experiance and the statistics that us Brtis start getting drunk about 13-14 on average.

The only reason that I would buy an Intel is if I was doing lots of video encoding which they fly at and AMD are slower. Otherwise for everything else it has got to be AMD everytime.

If you mean by early 2007 for quad-core CPUs is early, then yes it is early. However not this year mate.

I'm a very happy loving drunk. I supposed it is better than being a angry drunk.

Macs have their problems like all computers, not a reason to hate them though. Its just what you are used to though.

Yes that is a nice bit of kit. Now imaging getting the mobo with the four PCI-e 8x slots that gigabyte make, you can fit 5 GFXs in there with one being normal PCI. then put that adaptor on each of there dual out puts and you have got 60 monitors you could have. And thats from one PC! You'd certainly get a productivity bonus out of that if you could find the window you wanted.

Yeah, go for the drunk harrison, that way also people signing up to the forums will have at least watched Hak.5 or spent a decent amount of time browsing the forums.

Perhaps us Brits just enjoy good IPTV. Now to start making some.

It is getting a bit annoying now. I second the posting of the IPs so we can punish them Hak.5 Style :twisted:

I might have to give debian ago then. I have always used Suse for my Linux machines and that is become a bit big and resources intensive. I'm moving all my servers over to FreeBSD but BSD still lacks something for desktops I feel.

it would be good to change the game fairly often so that everybody gets to play their favourite. also if we knew what it was going to be in advanced then we could go out and buy it in time to play if we didn't have it.

In theory they make a good wardriving machine, in practise they are too slow. My main laptop is a 300MHz PII with 128MB of RAM, trying to run Whax on it is impossible.

PC is fine for me at the moment. I have other things to spend my money on rather than a Media Center. Plus a Media Center isn't much use at Uni so i'm going to wait a bit for that.

we can always have times for UK as well, put any times would be good so we know when people are going to be on.

At the linux world conference it was great fun chatting up the Novell girls that would come round and ask to scan your barcode and give you free stuff like Fluff Tuxs, Pens, etc. But they were truely non-geeks.

I don't think Ping packets will be able to do much, the time it takes also won't be effected much by the signal quality anyway I don't think. If it does work then you would also have to take into account your position and signal quality. Too much like hardwork if you ask me.

Well if he is trying to break in then he probably hasn't got a connection then so I don't know what to suggest. If you can get his MAC address then you can probably work out who makes he adaptor but I don't know what use that would be. I don't think you can do what you want with a wireless set up. You could try and get or build a directional wireless sensor that picks up signals at 2.4GHz then track him, that way if he is using his adaptor then you should pick him up. Long shot though of working.

I've overclocked my 3200+ A64 from 2.0GHz to 2.4GHz, nothing special I know but I was just playing. Overclocking is great if you have a machine that you just use to work on and not store anything on, it just don't trust it if you have all your data in that machine, too much chance of corrupting it. I might have another play when my file server is up and running.

You could just walk around with Netstumbler running or something and when the signal gets weaker you are going in the wrong direction and if it gets stronger then you are getting warmer. Unless you want to just look on your server or something from your desk and it tells you. I suppose you could have a map with were your AP is and then if you know the signal strength and have a key that tells you how far away they are then you would have a pretty good idea of where they are.