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[s]James Baster wrote on 11:08, 4th Apr 2003:Hardly nowt got done, just lots of faffing around.

I'm so glad it's not like that any more.

Right. I took my PC to pieces and put it back together again. Cables everywhere. Tried a spare hard disc. Everything. Nothing worked properly. Looked in the BIOS. I must have accidentally switched the CPU Level 1 Cache to "off". Bugger. Incidentally, if you know what any of this means then you reall...

[s]TheGamesMaster wrote on 18:26, 3rd Apr 2003:
Well other people are just wrong then.


Surely you jest, scoundrel that you are!

Now I have a question... :) This morning, as it has done for the past week or so, my PC switched itself on at 9:00. It's OK, I told it to do that, it's not posessed or anything. The noise of all the fans wakes me up. Anyway. The problem was that instead of booting up the operating system like it nor...

I've got it (and I'll be buying the CD when it comes out). Yes, the quality is excellent, but the version that's on the net isn't the final version that will be on CD. It's not been finally mastered yet, and the journos who have heard the real version (which has been digitally watermarked so they ca...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2895001.stm

You look at the pictures and can't help but laugh

[s] MrGreedy wrote on 17:43, 1st Apr 2003: However, universities aren't likely to defend their users' privacy like any other ISP would, and are far more likely to assume guilt without evidence. You weren't just breaking international IP/Copyright law, you were also breaking IT Services Acceptable Us...

If it's like the normal warnings ITS give out (e.g. http://www.thesinner.co.uk/messageboard-viewthread.php?thread=3151 ) then it's just a warning, and all you should do is remove KaZaa (or whatever filesharing program you use) and delete said MP3s. ITS are well within their rights to cut off your co...

A preview before finally submitting would be pretty useful too.

Anyone played this?

http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/

It's a bit rough around the edges, but I get phenominal frame rates, and very little lag.

[s] Unregisted User Madman_Legion wrote on 02:59, 28th Mar 2003: Why would a cleaning cd knackers a CD/RW? Because they're designed for regular CD players. The ones with brushes are known to cause damage to the writing laser head. The manual for my (Samsung) CD-RW explicitly states that I should not...

Has anyone got Digital TV here? I hear that it's either extremely good for poor-reception areas, or you need a huge and expensive arial extension. I'm currently in the kinness valley, and I can't even get Channel 5, which means I'm missing out on dodgy soft porn and documentarys on Hitler.

http://youplaygames.com/

The answer to your debt problems?

[s] James Baster wrote on 16:04, 25th Mar 2003: [s] teamonkey wrote on 12:08, 24th Mar 2003: [i] Not an option. Leave a Windows box on the end of a fixed IP for a few months and see what happens. Or a Linux one to. [/i] True. I'm not saying that Linux is invulnerable, but most hacking tools, viruses...

You can still get Winamp 2 from the Winamp site.

I've been after a cheap (preferably free) low end pentium with monitor to use as an X client for a while now. If anyone has one, let me know

Generally Linux isn't too picky about motherboards. The only ones to watch out for are the ones with onboard graphics cards, sound cards and stuff which may or may not have Linux drivers. If your case is a standard desktop/tower then you'll want a Socket A motherboard in ATX form factor, (or micro-A...

[s] Valen_gr wrote on 09:25, 24th Mar 2003: It worked just fine with no firewall and all ports open.Only this year WITH the firewall have we had these numerous network outages caused by the firewall itself. It's always been like that as long as I can remember, even before the current firewall. Someh...

Julian does seem interested in what we have to say. Breaking the notion that nobody at ITS works at weekends, he's suggested that if we have any issues (or potential solutions) we present them to him in "digest form".

Post suggestions below.

[s]LeopardSkinQueen wrote on 11:57, 22nd Mar 2003:
Oh, and I'm very much female. For some reason, people think I'm a bloke online.


Probably something to do with your name.