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ummmm, just gonna throw something out there, but you do realise ftp stands for file transfer protocol? Not being a complete expert on the matter I'm not going to say it's impossible to run forum software or chat room software from an ftp server, but it would probably be better to use an HTTP server that has php and such installed as there is a lot of software that already exists and is freely available then. FTP is really more geared towards storing and retrieving files, not interactive content.

sorry, but I disagree, I have on board AC'97, and I do not have incredibly discerning ears and I can notice a world of difference between my onboard audio and even my rather old sound blaster live! card. not to mention the soundblaster cards do take off a slight burden from the CPU as it has a dedicated sound processor. Not a huge difference, but for the gamer who wants every fps he can get, it will make a slight difference. As for which to get rid of, I'm with everyone else, the physics card as it's poorly supported for the time being.

well, I'm sitting at a 1.0 right now, but that's cuz my graphics card caught on fire and it currently under RMA work with ATI so I'm having to use a radeon 9000 for the time being. But once that gets back to me, I'll have a 3.9 as determined by my 2.8 GHz processor.

under vista RC1 build 5600 I'm averaging pings of 52ms to my ISPs DNS server and 48ms to my ISPs homepage. Might be a problem with a driver or maybe there's just a lot of congestion on the net in your area.

you do things the hard way, you could just leave the dialog box that asks for a key blank, and it'll pop up that screen asking you to select which version you'd like to install. If you want to activate it though you'll need a valid key.

open up the run dialog box, run msconfig, go to the startup tab and start unchecking stuff that you don't need.

I've never used the express edition, but in the acedemic version you can't do it using C# or J#, but if you choose for a new VC++, click the plus to open up the menu and select MFC if you'd like to create an MFC project (MFC is sort of a precurser to .NET, not as nice IMO) or win32 project (win32 isn't actually a framework like .NET and MFC are, it's just using the straight win32 API, very useful for system level programming). Hope that helps

okay, I'm bored at work right now and can't resist your challenge. 1) This is out of sheer blind luck that win2k doesn't completely go to crap because when a processor is run outside its over clocking limit, it gets to hot, when it gets to hot, gate delay becomes overly long and you start running into problems with signals not propagating far enough. Because this happens, you don't have any idea what the processor is actually doing, it's literally executing random commands which are in no way related to what it's supposed to execute, as such, it not foobaring win2k and it is messing up winxp has nothing to do with either of the OS's and everything to do with luck. 2)I've never had to activate XP other then on initial installation. Granted, if you change enough hardware you will have too, I've never come across this and I often change hardware in my box. I believe you have to change at least 3 hardware components before it requires a reactivation, and seeing that a guy like me who constantly changes hardware has never run into problems with this, I don't see it as a serious problem. And as someone else already mentioned, if you don't like activation, get a volume license, it actually is possible to get these legally if you have the right friends. 3)Registry tweaks, my computer at one point had these turned off, though I turned them back on because I found them rather convenient. Heck, the computer I am typing on this very second doesn't have that feature turned on. Every time I insert anything, I must go to my computer to bring it up. 4)You know, you could always hit that little button that says "Don't send to Microsoft", or again, simply turn off error reporting via a registry tweak. And also, configuring all firewalls requires this knowledge you speak of. With default configurations you either end up with too lax of rules, or the more common way to restrictive rules which annoy the crap out of me. I prefer the Microsoft route because I rely on a hardware firewall and prefer to say what can and can't come out of my computer over what Microsoft thinks I should. But then again, everything dealing with configuring security should always be handled by the individual and not some faceless company you buy the product from. 5)Yet again, this can be turned off by a simple registry tweak, I know this because I have it turned off on my box at home. Granted if you used firefox instead of IE, you also would avoid this problem. As such, this is more a problem with IE and not XP, so since IE is technically a separate program from XP and you are in no way required to use it, it can't be held against XP. If your IT people require to use it, it's still not fault of XP but your IT people. 6)Ummmmmm, wha? In classic mode, I don't see any recognizable difference between XP and 2K. Tool bars are the same size, task bar is the same size. Everything is the same size. In fact, to go above and beyond, even with the XP look, all the bars are still identical size as the classic look, they're just textured with bitmaps. If you're talking about the size of icons in IE, again, this is an application and not the operating system. 7)Okay, at first I had to see what your problem was with this, but now I see, if you put too many on there, it starts scrolling them, but you say grouping is no good cuz you can't find what you're looking for. This one I truly don't get seeing that when it groups them, it still leaves them in order with the most recently opened at the top of the list and oldest at the bottom. And you get the added bonus of seeing the entire window title instead of just the first letter. So unless you spend all your time switching between two windows next to each other, I don't see how it's any faster. I mean, with grouping you can actually see the name of the window and not just the icon. 8)Of course after a reinstallation you need to reconfigure stuff to make it feel at home. Everyone likes a different configuration, Microsoft tried to default it to one that appeals to the most people, if you don't happen to like it, of course you've got to reconfigure some stuff. But for that, simply do like me if you find yourself having to reinstall often and write a script to do it. Your complaint isn't that it isn't user ready out of the box it's that it's not you ready out of the box. Sorry if they try to make it convenient for the maximum number of people possible and not for a select few. 9)Odd, I've got an XP SP2 install disc and I've always had the option for fat32, not that I'd use it seeing it's painfully outdated. I mean, I know how favorable it is, being able to address all of 36 gigs and all, and that's only if you use the updated fat32, and NTFS is terrible with how it scales it's file lookup table size with the size of the disk and all. Terrible that they'd do such a thing as want to use a dynamic file system instead of a static one. Oh, and as for the increase in installation size, did you know that there's this thing called virtual memory located in a file called pagefile.sys which increases in size the more system memory you have. And there's also a hibernate file which increases with the more system memory you have. As such, the actual bulk of increase in install size for windows XP has to do with having more system memory and not with the operating system itself. And as you said before, you regularly run 50 programs at a time, so you need that memory to run all those programs. 10)Wow, that's not even a factual argument against XP. So in other words, according to you, because with age an OS has it's kinks worked out, we should still be using DOS? Sorry, but to have new features have the kinks worked out eventually, they must eventually be added to an operating system. And again as said before, why was he using XP as a server? It was never meant to be used as a server. As such, with deadlocks, they tend to ignore them because it was never meant to be used as a server. Sorry, but you try to use a geo metro in a drag race, you can't get upset about it not performing to what you want because it was never meant for that. Also, you really need to define "destroyed itself" cuz I can think of several hundred ways something can destroy itself, some are minor, some are major. 11)Ummmmm, WEP is wireless encryption protocol used to make a wireless router as secure as a wired router, or so says the marketing. WFP would be windows file protection, which is there to keep stupid people from trashing their own systems and can be easily shut off via registry tweaks. As for your instant directory listings under win2k, could you please tell the IT people at my school how to do that because god knows, on a win2k client, accessing a win2k server, directory listings are exactly on par with winxp client on to win2k servers which are pretty much the same speed as my grabbing winxp directory listing between xp boxes at my house. Now, I can't say I've ever dealt with grabbing directory listings from a winxp server, because as mentioned before, xp wasn't meant to be a server, as such, I've never been stupid enough to try to configure it as such. But all in all, I've NEVER had instant directory listings anywhere, not until windows caches them after the first access that is. 12)That's odd, my monitor has a max resolution it supports, my video card can go higher then that, but windows xp only shows the settings my monitor can support unless I purposely tell it to show all settings supported by my video card. Me thinks your monitor isn't plug and play, which would mean the monitor is incapable of telling windows what it's display settings are. 13)You mean that easy access disconnect the USB device icon? cuz I'd rather have that icon in the task bar then having to get to it through the control panel. And I still don't see the issue cuz even you yourself stated how to eliminate the problem. Again, something isn't configured to the way you want it but to the way the majority want it so you complain about it. You need to stop being so self centered you know. Not to mention, I know, using that entire 10 pixels by 10 pixels, how dare they! 14)Did you know? Hard drives effective performance begins to drop dramatically when it becomes more then 80% full. hard drives like many other data structures are not meant to be utilized at 100%. In fact, UNIX and Linux actually flat out bar you from allowing free space to drop below 5% because of problems it causes with the operating system. Whether you know it or not, win2k probably has this low disk feature as well, it may just hide it from view like Linux and UNIX by simply disallowing you to use that much of the disk. As such, low disk checking is hardly expendable. 15)Actually, if a file is in use, even just normal use, not just OS use, it's impossible to delete it. So quite clearly, before it can be deleted, the system must wait until it is freed. But all operating systems prefer to simply say the file is in use due to not being able to predict when it will be freed. So quite clearly, the operating system isn't using it if you were able to delete it. And as for a hang on deleting, are you talking about deleting many files at once, because win2k has always paused on my while it indexed them just like winxp does. and finally.... 16)Okay, I'll give you this one of windows xp not remembering window locations, and honestly, I've never paid enough attention to if any other version of windows remembered window locations because honestly, if that's the biggest reason for not using an operating system, you need help. That isn't even an incontinence unless the window consistently appears off screen. And that is a problem I've never had in XP, I can ensure that. At least not with windows spawned by xp itself, cuz sometimes other programs which keep track of that thing mess themselves up and save the window display coordinates off screen, but that's hardly windows fault. Again, just because a lot of things aren't configured the way you want them, doesn't mean it's windows XPs fault. Fact of the matter is, they have the options to configure these things, and many of the configuration choices they make are due to trying to protect the ignorant from dangers of the internet or trying to protect the user from themselves. They try to configure it for the majority, so just because you don't like how something is, doesn't mean they should change it for your choice when everybody else wants it a different way.

@bartpeek not to seem harsh, but if you can't figure out how to do that with the above code, you should consider giving up on programming. Though I don't like how the previous person implemented it and how I would do it is create a dice roll method that returns the value 1-6 randomly and call it twice storing to ints, adding them together and using that value to increment a position in a pre-intialized array. Then run a for loop to print out something along the line of System.out.println("The value " + i + " was rolled " + tally + " times.");

honestly, I'd be curious as to if you hadn't run into some sort of built in window limit. And anyway, if you want to try to use up all your memory, you shouldn't run multiple instances of one program. When multiple copies of the same program load, the OS tries to use as much of what is already loaded into memory multiple times for the sheer purpose of not running out of memory. If you want to run out of memory in a hurry, download some long flash videos and play them all at once, those things use huge amounts of memory, I had one 4 minute video that would use as much as 300 megs of RAM.

well, that depends on what you want to do exactly. when you do cout << "Please insert Folder path\n"; you are adding that string to the screen buffer and not actually writing it to the screen. It won't be written to the screen until either the buffer is filled or flushed. on the other hand cout << "Please insert Folder path" << endl; the endl has an automatic flush buffer built into it so as soon as it's sent into the buffer, the buffer is flushed and the text appears on the screen. so basically, "\n" will write it to the buffer with a new line but not put it onto the screen until either the program exits or the buffer is flushed while endl adds the new line as well as flush the buffer and immediatly place the text on the screen.

"We have already made computers that are able to compute far faster than all of us combined (Blue Gene anyone?)" Actually, I think that's a very arguable point. It's hard to say whether we've made a faster adder than we , ourselves, are capable of. It couldn't be known until we can get our brain to simply do addition and stop all that other "emotion" and "learning" that it constanty does, and compare them on identical tasks. And to those who argue assumptions are being based on current technogoly, I'm simply stating that 50 years isn't long enough. There's a fundamental problem with learning and problem solving machines that are bounded by the fact that logic is fundamentally sequential and works poorly on parallel platforms, in it's current state. And problem solving is so complex, and our current microprocessors are starting to be limited by simple molecular and physical limitation. As of right now, processors are having a hard time running any faster for sequental instruction streams. If modern sequential processing is too slow to do any real problem solving and problem solving is inherently a sequential problem that doesn't scale well to parallel platforms, this causes a severe problem for developing any sort of decent artificial intellegence. Until someone can figure out how to parallelize logic, no matter what building block logic processor we use, it will be too slow. And if you think why not just parallelize a sequential process, especially one like logic, to a point where multithreading it would actually be useful, then please go ahead and do it, because nobody has the slightest idea as to how to do it for a general case logic problem. Edit: fixed some really poor grammer that was especially bothering me.

sorry, but I think anybody who says robots can learn, need to actually read up on AI. The number one thing in AI programming is developing tree traversal, if you know what that means, you know why AI really is a joke. And then there's also the problem that computers are purely derterministic. When designing, as my proffesors constantly mention, there are choices and consequences. A deterministic machine is not capable of making different choices based on different consequences for different design constraints. And if you don't mind me throwing in some philosophy, nothing can make anything greater then itself. If you believe that fundamental bit of philosophy, then it's completely impossible for a human being to create something bigger than itself. But even if we do pull designing something greater than ourselves, there's still the problem that design is often a matter of opinion. And the second you put opinions into a machine, well, I don't think I need to finish that statement.

sorry if this is impossible in an RIS sever, never dealt with them personally, I mostly deal in unix land when dealing with network stuffs, but can't you just simply set permissions so they can't read, write or execute the file?

I had a problem like that once before, I created an install disc for both my laptop and my desktop, it worked fine on my laptop but would just reboot constantly on my desktop but would work in safe mode. The problem turned out to be that I was using a modified ntoskrnl.exe and didn't realize there was one for single processor and one for multiprocessor, I'd modified the one for single processor, hence why it worked for my laptop, but my hyperthreaded P4 in my desktop needed the multiprocessor one. Once added an if statement into my batch file to check which one to use for loading, everything worked fine for me after that.

http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate/users.htm I recommend the NET User method because I've personally had better luck with that method.

I can't help but to think that though everybody is saying this ruling is the end of P2P much as RI/MPAA would like it to be, I really don't see how it will affect anything except innovation. The problem with this ruling is, it's based off the idea that like napster, other P2P applications can be shut down by shutting down a centeralized server. I'm just left wondering what happens when grokster shuts down their servers, but 5 years from now the network is still up and operating? What happens if you're ordered to stop a network and stop working on your application, but despite your efforts the network persists, can you be sued again? It seems to me that no one involved in the plantiff side of this case or within the courts understand what decentralized networks are, and what would be involved in stopping them. Just my two cents.

Actually the ability to aquire a list of updates and download them automatically has been removed in the free version, at least to the best of my knowlege it has because I've never had it download anything for me since I started using the latest version. What you have to do is manually download the files yourself and place them in folders named as such in the "What goes where" portion of the xpcreate website. The update/patch type folders need to be in the same folder as you installed xpcreate into. A list of the updates can be found in the unattended forum, I think it's one of the stickys.

back in my days of hardware manufacuring for HP we always used rubbing alcohol with ultra fine cotton swabs when we had to clean processors, connection points, pads, pretty much everything.