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    How much do you pay exactly for your iphone bill?

    ~$60 a month after taxes with 25% service discount from corporate FAN.
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    The Official Resident Evil 5 thread (coming this Friday!)

    A few friends of mine have different views of the game. Fans of the old RE games don't like RE5 because they think it's becoming too much like a regular shooter game and doesn't have the 'atmosphere' of the old games. FPS gamers don't like RE5 because they don't like the idea of playing a game...
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    Help me optimize vista.

    I was under the assumption you were using relatively stable programs, but alas buggy software is most likely the culprit. 1.7 GB on startup seems a bit high to me. My Vista install starts up with 1 GB/4 GB memory usage for reference. No major tweaks done on my part.
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    Help me optimize vista.

    What programs are you running when you reach your physical memory cap? Just WoW and a movie? What settings are you using in WoW and what kind of video is it? You may need to turn down your settings in the game. You have a very capable machine and OS, but it still has it's limits. Your usage...
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    Virtual Memory ... worth to modify ?

    Are you confusing the page table with the page file?
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    Virtual Memory ... worth to modify ?

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    Virtual Memory ... worth to modify ?

    Can 32 bit XP/Vista even address that extra memory? I was under the impression that it couldn't without PAE support, unless you're talking about using a separate hardware device like an iRAM.
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    Virtual Memory ... worth to modify ?

    Ah, glad to hear the misunderstanding was cleared up. Also, I'm not completely dismissing RAMdisks. One performance improving application I can see for them is reducing compulsory misses during load operations with unpopulated TLBs, which the OS cannot predict but you can. Placing...
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    Virtual Memory ... worth to modify ?

    Point taken on preventing Windows from resizing the pagefile. Although the cost of resizing is amortized, I can see why some people wouldn't want that. It's similar to how some programmers don't like hash maps being resized and allocate more memory to it at initialization. It all depends on your...
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    Virtual Memory ... worth to modify ?

    What's the value in putting the pagefile in a RAMdisk? It seems counter-productive to me. You're just using the RAM for the same purpose, but instead of being used directly you're adding pagefault/lookup overhead to memory accesses. In fact, I think you're wasting memory because the OS needs to...
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    Gamer loving my new Asus 26" VK266H

    Mine has 1 hot pixel (pink) near the middle of the screen. Annoying, but I still like the monitor. Strange thing is the pixel's red color seems to only go from fully off to fully on. I tested with primary colors and could not detect it. It only shows up in grey/brown/purple colors. Not sure what...
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    Software to highlight differences in txt files

    vim -d file1 file2 Displays both files in a vertical split and highlights differences. Large sections of common text are collapsed.
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    Can someone explain AT&T's iphone plans to me

    I have the most basic plan -- 450 daytime minutes, 5,000 night/weekend minutes, and unlimited data. Normally costs $69.99 a month, but I get a 25% discount off data and voice service charges from work and pay $52.50 a month.
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    Sell Me This OS Called Vista!

    Depends on the game. This thread lists benchmarks for FFXI, and some users posted XP scores to be much higher on identical hardware than Vista. I get some stuttering lag in Civilization IV right before a leader dialog shows up when playing on Vista that isn't there in XP. It doesn't affect...
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    Ubuntu 32 or 64?

    I suggest using VirtualBox over Virtual PC.
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