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I'm currently using mIRC but I change when I get bored. I was using Hydra for some time because it has some good sound support. When I used to just sit on one or two channels I used Xchat, but I like mIRCs windowed approach for multiple channels. For quite a long time I used irssi in screen. I occaisonally use gaim if other clients aren't available (the implementation isn't all that bad really).

#binrev is no where near as busy, nor full of as many noobs, as #hak5, last time I checked. I agree with moonlit. Spam makes my computer beep fast...;)

Same, all versions of Antispyware/Defender detect TightVNC as a backdoor. I assume that the vnchooks.dll etc. are sometimes used in combination with genuine trojan backdoors, and so it unfortunately also flags up genuine installations. I've lost VNC a couple of times because Antispyware/Defender has pwned me... ¬_¬

I'm sure someone here apart from me has the Debugging tools for Windows (aka WinDbg et al) for debugging crash dumps... Evidently no one who saw this thread! ;) If they are/were seemingly random then it's usually RAM, in which case a reformat wouldn't help you. However if the same error + culprit file were coming up, then it could potentially be a software/driver issue :).

Bah, got beaten to it. Using archive.org to host a podcast is enough to make you buy a domain. Seriously, I had nothing but problems with it.

I had some issues when I tried to update IE7, but that's about it. Ended up having to reformat as it screwed with some critical Windows stuff. Practically wouldn't let me in. Probably could've run SFC, but it needed a reformat ;)

Is Fbill that one percent? ;)

QFT ;) I don't use Google Video much. Or, come to think of it, YouTube. So I don't care either way. Whatever happens I think Google will do something cool to mark their influence.

Yeah Cooper that doesn't sound good at all. 6gbps full-duplex on a 48 port switch?!

If you've never organised something similar before, then start off smaller. The only LANs I've ever done are 6 people or so (though I reckon I could do 10). There's a lot of things to consider, the website linux4eva gave is an awesome one. The main issue is power, and keeping everything organised. LANs take a lot of consideration to scale up. The more people you have, the harder, but more importantit is, to keep things organised 8) .

For £50 you are really going to get nothing. 3 Logitech desktop microphones, which will have mini-jacks on the end, so maybe a combining adapter to bring that into one computer? Or a bunch of adaptors to make them 1/4", then into a mixer that isn't really a mixer (ie. not made by Mackie, Yamaha, tapco or whatever), something a bit like this. For £50 you're not going to sound that great. http://www.podcastrigs.com/ is a good site. But you're looking below the entry level, but it might have some ideas.

I've seen loads of Illegal Operations and BSODs at airports. Not to mention broken screens where an image has burnt in on them ;)

Definitely go for the 2MB Cache AMDs. But as VaKo says, you might want to go Intel right now, as they outperform AMD. Check out http://tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html. Always handy.

Yeah....

Completely turning of DEP is a bit of a security risk. I can't understand why it would pick up on RealPlayer? That suggests that RealPlayer is buffer overflowing (as I believe that is what DEP protects against to some extent). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention