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My wife is going to let me spend about $2k, so I need some advice. This is for gaming and it will be a dual-boot Vista/Ubuntu box. My questions are: AMD or Intel? Best chipset for each platform? More RAM or more video card? Crossfire or SLI? Air or liquid cooling? Best TV capture...

I recently found this and like it quite a bit as well. The tabs are goofy sometimes, but other than that a great editor. The VBS dictionary file that you download off the site is ugly as sin though. If you plan to do any VBS, create your own. :-P

If you are in to RPGs Elder Scrolls IV and all its expansion are very engaging. I had a great time with them.

Forget about the graphics. The gameplay mechanics of UT2K4 are 100x better than Halo 2. Halo 2 is slow, the weapons are unbalanced, the radar is stupid. I feel like I am crawling when I play Halo 2 vs when I am playing UT2K4. The fanbois are going to unite, but in my personal opinion, Halo 2...

You failed to mention if your games are performing smoothly or not. If they are, who cares? 3DMark is pretty much useless when it comes to benchmarking actual performance.

It won't get them anything for the first 5 minutes. I second the vote for PGP. All of my personal data, Quicken stuff, tax returns, scans of personal documents, etc. are kept on a PGP encrypted external hard drive. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Just pay for it yourself, especially if you itemize. Tax preperation costs are deductable, so purchasing it actually lowers your taxable income.

You have Home, but you are pirating Pro? 90% of home users are not even using the features of Pro, especially if, as you state yourself, you want Windows to play games. I would almost bet you aren't using the features of Pro. In that case, you are a pirate to be a pirate, just like 99% of the...

Has anyone heard of any plans to open-source MBM since they are no longer doing any active development?

It's not very good for a logo. When trademarking a logo, your lawyer will definitely suggest that it be clearly readable in black and white and in any size. I don't really feel any of those fit the bill. Consider revising the colors you are using as well. Blue and green colors according to...

This *HAS* to be a CS clan because crap like this never happened back when I was clanned up in UT. Just another reason for me to hate that game.

Post the text log, with the additional info.

Seriously, that has to be the dumbest argument I have ever heard in the advocacy of warez.

Rodriga Costa, Microsoft's OEM Chief, will tell you something entirely different. He'll tell you their prices are based on volume. Since the specifics of the OEM pricing are confidential and I am speaking of something akin to how my company's partnership with Dell and Microsoft work, I know it...

Well, I looked through all the DataGrid code I have and it's all columns with records from a db, I am not passing any GUIDs or special characters. I'll look through the link [MS] posted and see if I can help point you in the right direction. On EDIT: Check out the second link he posted...

Big OEMs like Dell don't pay per license. They basically pay what equates to a subscription fee.

Whatever, if you use it, it's worth paying for. And if you think the only difference between XP and 2k is the cutesy features you are sorely mistaken. Keep proving my point...another elitist who thinks he is too good to pay for Windows.

The only DataGrid code I have is VB6 and Visual InterDev stuff, but I will pull it up and see what I have to see if there is anything comparable to what you are trying to do.

That is limited to commercial purposes, i.e. you can't burn the episodes to a DVD and sell it on eBay.

We use Ghost, but Drive Image is looking better every day.

This is correct and it has to be for personal use only, you are not allowed to rebroadcast them. I have every episode of Lost and CSI:NY on my hard drive. I just don't have time to watch them during the week.

Maybe I am over-simplifying, but couldn't you just append the chr values to the string? chr(123) & "string" & chr(125)

Weak argument. You are still using a product not licensed to you. That in and of itself is illegal no matter how many licensed copies you own.

If your eBay auctions fall through, PM me and we'll talk. I see you are in Fremont. I will be at a VS Live in San Francisco the week of February 6th and would be more than happy to meet in person for the exchange.

Man, everyone thinks I am talking about them personally. Did you take your over-sesnitive pills this morning?

I think you can using netsh, but that might only be with ipv6.

I didn't and I didn't really mean to point fingers at you, I was speaking in a more general tone. Whether MS should require activation is a whole other debate. Personally I am against it, but I still believe people pirate because they can not because of the cost.

You should EASILY be able to get that. The S45 is a quality camera and 4GB of space is just priceless.

These are great. I have some time to do some now, so keep an eye on this thread.

Say what you will, theft is theft. Microsoft can charge whatever the hell they want. They make a quality product or you all wouldn't be using it. People like to bitch about Windows, but I don't see you all running out and switching exclusively to Linux either. :rolleyes:

That's a sad attitude really. Most people wouldn't dream of walking into Best Buy and stealing a stereo, but that same person will go home and pirate an operating system or another piece of software without a second thought. It's just odd that people can't make the distinction between theft of...

I can do a few, but it won't be until later tonight. Keep posting some stock propaganda photos so I have to work from.

You could boot safe mode and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum reg key. That will cause Windows to rescan all the hardware. Make sure you have all your driver disks handy if you do this.

Everyone is going to point the finger at Microsoft for doing this, but it's not their fault. It's the fault of the user. It's like stealing a Mercedes and taking it to the dealer for warranty work. I don't know about you, but I don't think they would honor the warranty on a stolen vehicle.

Personally speaking, battling spyware has to start with the user. Too much reliance is being put on applications to fix your problems for you. Start with some common sense, a little more strict security settings when browsing and a good knowledge of the OS and registry and you'll be better...

I should also clarify, THIS IS NOT A SHELL REPLACEMENT. It just allows developers access to the WinFX APIs. Don't install this thinking you will have a WinFX shell when you are done because you most certainly will not.

You can all run this MSI, it doesn't make any changes to your machine. It just drops an ISO and some documentation down. This is definitely something you do NOT want to do on your home machine though. This is purely meant to be done in a testing environment. Here is the readme file:

I'll download and see what it does. I can load it in VMWare and not hose my machine. I'll post pics if it is the replacement shell.