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Re: f**ked off with my iMac already... Unlucky, but a hard disc failure could happen on anything! w*nk in what way? I've never had a problem with any of the mac's I've owned - desktop or laptop. They look pretty and they do everything that I want them to do, and they do a hell of a lot more...

What's more worrying is that once vista is released, Microsoft are going stop providing security fixes for XP home immediately! Not that it bothers me, I use a mac. :)

It's like "pop music". It's definition obviously means "popular music" but as far as I'm concerned it's become a genre of it's own, sh*te line boy & girl bands exist in that genre. Just because a metal song is at number one, doesn't mean it's pop in my eyes!

What a big pile of crap that article is! This line sums it up "They can't spread as easily, and most would only be installed by a careless user clicking "Accept" on a dodgy install dialog" If you click ok on system change/install dialog without knowing what it is or what caused it, then you're...

I've got a G4 desktop and a G4 powerbook, but I'm tempted by the macbookpro, but I think it's worth waiting until: 1) They're out in the wild 2) At least second revision hardware is shipping so that any niggles have been ironed out. 3) VMWARE for mac has been released. (purely so that I can...

I think he was trying to be funny! ;)

Should have got a PC, they're quicker and cheaper. ;)

NT4, that's so 1996! ;)

We use mcafee enterprise here, about 5 million times better than the kiddies interface you get on the normal one. Never had any major issues, I was wondering why sometimes I had email sending issues, but found the setting in mcaffee yesterday that was causing it to block smtp access. Sanity is...

Sweet, you wont regret it! :D

Yeah, I wouldn't expect it'll be long before a universal binary version of photoshop appears, adobe were one of the first people to put full support behind the mactel. Apparently theres not a whole load of speed difference between native & emulated apps anyway - universal binaries are coming...

lol. yeah, it's either the first or second thing that a PC user says when they're "dissing" a mac.

astraweb for unlimited nntp access. Got an astraweb account but rarely use it, tend to stick to easynews (web interface), instant search, autounrar for web downloads, preview images for movies etc. 20 gig/mo for $9.95, but unused gigs keep rolling over into your gig bank. 40 day retention...

You'll be needing 2 h-bridges, one for each coil - just look up the h bridge circuit, it's 4 transistors arranged in a H so you can alter the direction of the current flow. You'll also need a few logic gates to control the gates of the transistors so that you can accept a single "step"...

Yeah, I'd definately have the hardware one turned on, just for NAT - to stop unsolicted traffic getting anywhere near anything on the network. A software firewall can be useful addition, as any half decent one will alert you when an application tries to use sockets - and gives you the...

:eek: Have you got a specific reason for doing that? Unless you've got a good reason, I'd turn it back on to get the inherent extra security you get from running with NAT. (And keep your software firewall on the PC)

yeah, like a nipple! He should have a SO-DIMM slot free.

Is it one of the nipple iMacs? If so there should be a so-dimm slot (with nothing in it) somewhere in addition to the normal dimm.

F1 GP & the EA games dissapeared because sony have the exclusive rights to formula 1 games. Papyrus went bust (iirc), they wrote some awesome stuff (gp legends and like you said indycar racing), but it was "niche" market, "simulation" rather than arcade racing - I'd imagine most gamers just...

Dan, you should know better than to mention the "M" word round here! ;) :evil:

He's running 98 though, I'm guessing his hardware is going to be rather out of date and wouldn't run XP well - there's probably no hardware worth salvaging from it either. Either way (pc or mac), I suspect he's going to be buying a whole new box of tricks. Edit: bah, loony posted in the...

But your original comparison was based on market share! You implied, unless I misread it, that PC's are better because there's more of them. Most people will be using windows PC's at work, they'll settle for what they know, doesn't mean it's better or worse though. I guess when the...

An idiotic question deserves an idiotic reply!

What's market share got to do with anything? Are you suggesting that a metro is better than an enzo?!

Like what, beside games?

Go to john lewis/apple store/pc world etc. and have a play, have a look at the software you get with it. The only "extra" piece of software you might need is office, but I never use that anyway! Once you've had mac, you never go back ;)

OS X is far better than anything Microsoft has ever released. Many of the features that vista promises are already in the version of OS X that apple has been shipping for the past 6 months. Out of the box you can watch dvds, edit movies, download pictures from your camera. It's got mobile...

Re: plusnet looking a bit sh*t lol. Not their upstream, it's BT's upstream. All BT wholesale customers (i.e non LLU) have the same upstream rate!

Try this, this will tell you whether or not it's exchange contention or plusnet.

Did you migrate in? What speed were you on before? What were you trying to download, from where? Is you exchange showing as red? Sometimes they have the exchange sync set for 2 Mbit, but rate limit to 1mbit until you poke them. If it's none of the above, then it's more than likely you've...