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Good call phkninja.

MemTest86+ would be my first step. Specs of the computer?

The latest non-beta version of Notebook Hardware Control (aka Centrino Hardware Control) will not install unless .NET 1.1 is installed, regardless of whether .NET 2.0 is present. It looks like you'll probably want both for the time being.

That's the thing about Linux... if you can't find drivers for something, you may end up having to write them yourself. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if no-one's been able to help you at the Ubuntu forums, I doubt that you'll find much help here...

You have a multi-boot CD. Telling that from the beginning (or posting in the Multi-boot section of the forums) would have cleared up a lot of questions. (I missed that part in your previous post) You've got the advantage of having XP Pro and Home on the CD. There are many common files between the two, so CDImageGUI will be able to optimize the CD. It won't compress things, but it'll help lower the size of the final ISO. Look here for more information. The best way to learn is to try it yourself.

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Data can only be compressed so much. If you tell us what's on your CD, we might be able to help you find ways to shrink down each of the parts to make it all fit.

Hehe... AndreasV is awesome. For those who haven't tried it, AveIconifier is a great simple, standalone app. I use it all the time to convert all my icons to PNGs for AveDesk (another AndreasV creation).

Thanks for clearing that up dale5605. I didn't know what that little thing was, but I figured that it was important. However, after removing it, the best compression I can get is still only 6,425 KB! I've tried just about every combination of settings in 7zip...

I've never been kicked off my wireless connection at home. I had problems with the internet connection with the default firmware, but a firmware upgrade fixed that. Only disable the WZC service if you have third-party wireless management software. I don't use any third party tools, and the WZC service has never failed me (not to mention that it's a lot more light-weight than most third-party wifi managers). The card's own configuration is what determines how much it will roam from one network to the other. Check under the hardware properties for the card (Device Manager->Wifi card->Advanced). Some cards have the "Roaming Aggressiveness" option, others don't. I know that the Intel 2200BG does (It's what I've got ). Yup... always a good practice. Also, check for firmware/driver updates for your wireless card. Or change the channel of the wireless access point to something other than the default of 6. I've got a 2.4 GHz cordless phone (base station on the other side of the house), and there aren't any signal or interference problems.

Your program isn't dependant on cmd.exe. It's doing exactly what it should. It's displaying various text and then exiting. The fact that it shows up as a command line comes from the fact that it's compiled as a text-based program (the most simple kind). If you want it to stop before exiting, you'll want to change your code to the following: #include <iostream> #include <stdio.h> using namespace std; int main(void) //the main procedure (also the first executed) { cout << "Line"; cout << " One" << endl; cout << "Line Two" << endl; cout << "Line Three" << endl << "Line Four" << endl; SYSTEM("PAUSE"); return 0; } I'll need to double check the code tomorrow, but I think that stdio.h is the header that you need. The SYSTEM("PAUSE") call basically enters the "PAUSE" command into a command line window. Try it yourself. The return 0; tells the parent of the program (most likely Windows) that the program exited just fine. Some compilers will complain if main doesn't return an int, others won't. I find it good habit to state that the function doesn't have any arguments (i.e. main(void) ) as opposed to leaving empty brackets. When I'm writing code, I'll sometimes write the name of a function, and leave the arguments empty, because I don't know the arguments I need yet. If I find out that I don't need any, I fill in void. If you want to move away from the command line window, you'll want to look into using Visual C++ and learning MFC. But my suggestion would be to stay away from that until you're much more familiar with programming and Object Oriented Programming.

You might be able to recompress the files on the entire XP CD using makecab at a higher compression setting. Otherwise, you could use 7-zip installers for all of the extras on your CD.

Sorry, but no. The American's didn't want anything to do with the Second World War until Pearl Harbor. Same thing with the First World War. It wasn't until a British passenger ship carrying 17 Americans was torpedoed by the Germans that the Americans joined in. There was also this little thing called Italy, that the Canadians did most of the front line work in, except for when entering a major city. The Americans wanted the glory of the cameras, so they got it. Did you know that Canada was actually Dutch for a day? The Dutch royal family was taken in by the Canadian Government during the second world war, and the Dutch Queen was going to have a child. For that day when the child was born, Canada was a Dutch territory, so that the princess would be born on Dutch soil. It's a pretty big deal to hand over your country to an ally for a day, just for the sake of royalty and tradition. Any votes on how easily the States would have done the same thing? In my opinion, not a chance. Anyone from a country other than America will probably agree that American history classes teach American history, and nothing more. (If you didn't get that sentence, read it again) Which news are you talking about? CNN? The same news that told us all about Windows 97 and 99? American news doesn't give you a good perspective on the rest of the world.My friend and I were talking about American news shows that we get (a number of our TV channels here in Vancouver, Canada come from Seattle, WA), and how it seems like they spend about 3 times as much time talking about what they're going to tell you than the story itself (As my friend put it, "When we return, see if this dog has herpes." [break] "And now, we'll tell you if this dog has herpes, but first..."). Oh... and just to get you going... British SAS could kick the crap out of Navy SEALS anyday. Max - you can stop the anti-Canadianism now. We make better beer than you, we've got a better education system than you, and the world generally smiles at us when we tell them where we're from. Anything you say about the American's being "so great" or "better", I could give you an example of how Canada's better. The States does have the advantage of having the biggest single military in the world (which is under question with China looming on the other side of the Pacific), and the biggest piggy bank, but bigger guns and more testosterone doesn't always get you friends in the world. Just to get back on topic - I think everyone's said their piece. Everyone who works in corporate environments has said that Intels have been more reliable than AMD. Everyone who reads on TH or Anandtech says that AMD is catching up fast. Period. I really don't see any more point to this debate. It's the same thing as people who like Ford (die hard muscle fans) vs. Toyota (reliability, easier maintenance). You're going to get endless debate.

Windows Movie Maker might be able to do this for you. I haven't touched the program in years, so I can't help you on the details. Either that or if you're willing to shell out the money, Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas.

Have you even read what he said earlier? Intel processors may not be as powerful, but they're more reliable. When you're running a server, you need reliablility. Sure... with AMD it may be stinkin fast, but then it may crash. I'll repeat what I said before. My friend works at a redundant data storage company. They currently deal with about 1.6PB (1,600 TB) of data, and will soon be expanding to work with a customer that wants 4PB by 2010. All of their servers are running on Intel CPUs. The company has never had any downtime on any of their data stores in the past 5 years. They've chosen Intel for a reason. Another question to ask yourself... who invented the x86 architechture? Intel. Would you rather have your data available to you 100% of the time, or 90% of the time and a bit faster when it is available?

WPI is what you want. Check the WPI section of the forums for more info.

Use Knoppix and qtparted, or a Win98 boot disk with fdisk. Either that or if you're in WindowsXP, you can use the Disk Management features (Right-click My computer->Manage) to format the drive and start anew.

Do you have #include <iostream.h> using namespace std; at the top of your file?

Yup... did that. With 7-zip on an installer I got a compression ratio of 27.5%, while with PA2006 on maximum compression for 7-zip, I got 45%.

How on earth is Azureus a "low resource app"?!?!? Acrobat Pro 7 is actually pretty lightweight when you use Acrobat Speed up on it. There are features of Acrobat that I don't need all the time, so when I want a PDF reader, I disable all plugins except for Search, and it starts in under 1 second.

Yup... B) For the common consumer, I don't think that it makes much difference for which processor you choose. Like I said before, my home computer is AMD based, and it's run just fine for about 6 months now (that's when I last upgraded the CPU). As for the actual architecture of the CPUs, the P4s have a rediculously long pipeline, which means that they are able to reach much higher clock speeds. On the other hand, the instructions per clock on the P4 is lower than the P-M (based on PIII) or any AMD CPU. If you want actual number crunching power, you need to look at: (intructions per clock)*(clocks per second). This is probably one of the reasons why in all the computer store flyers I've seen as of late have listed the CPU model number (e.g. Intel Pentium 4 850), and not its clock speed (P4 3.2GHz). One thing that has been somewhat sidelined here - Laptops. Laptop sales have increased by 300% in the past 2 years. Intel (and the Centrino name) have been absolutely dominating here. AMD has been struggling to get a foot in the door, and they have a bit with Turion, but it's still not up to par. I've never seen any 15.4" widescreen Turion laptop get 5 hours on a single 6 cell battery (my laptop does - P-M 1.4GHz). However, I should note that in none of my workplaces have I ever seen AMD computers anywhere. None of the labs at my university have AMD computers either. Everything is Intel. If you don't want to be completely one-sided, you have to think about why this might be.

NOD32 Sygate Notebook Hardware Control (Anyone with a Centrino laptop should use this!!!) Opera Outlook OneNote Winamp MSN Messenger AveDesk VMware Acrobat Professional 7.05 Photoshop CS2 Ad Muncher WS_FTP uTorrent MathCad 12 Mathematica 5.1 Nero Windows Media Player Spybot S&D SpywareBlaster 7-zip Acronis True Image CacheMan CCleaner Daemon Tools Everest Home Edition Notepad++ TweakUI Reshacker UltraISO WinRAR Orca PerfectDisk SyncToy That should do it for now... B) I only keep the "must-have" programs installed on my computer. Anything that I'm testing goes into a VM (hence one of the reasons I have VMware), and if it's good enough, then I'll install it.

2599 songs - 13 days, 8hours, 7 minutes, 13 seconds Most of my songs are actually 75-80 minute mixes from DJ GT and DJ Doboy. Just searching for "DJ" in Winamp Media Library, I get 4 days of music...

The difference here, probably, is that the person who CHOOSES to eat junk-food, drink coca-cola, not exercise, etc., has taken the decision himself, consciously, and owns responsibility for it. Whereas breathing second hand smoke, does not fall in that category, since the individual did not suddenly decide that for some strange reason, today he wants to breathe the smoke of somebody else. Not to mention that you can undo the effects of twinkies, coca-cola, and not exercising. Smoking is permanent. The tar and soot that's in your lungs now is there forever. As for car emissions, it's not as big of a deal because the level of unburnt hydrocarbons in most vehicles is FAR less than you'd get from standing next to someone who's smoking. That along with the 2000 other chemicals that you breathe in from second hand smoke that you don't get from car exhaust.... I really don't see a reason for smoking. It's unhealthy (proven many times over), and its expensive. The whole point about it being "relieving", that comes purely from the fact that when people get stressed, their bodies begin to filter out more nicotine from the bloodstream, causing the person to have a craving. It's a vicious cycle that I'm proud to say that I've never got into.

I'm sure it's possible. Most of the time, an idea that you come up with has already been thought of. You could possibly do that with any movie making software. I've seen it done on Macs for high-school graduations and such.