Recent content by PeterM

Wow... how wrong was I. So let it be written, I was dead wrong here. http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productlister.aspx?n=6,39 I can't believe it has been so long since I checked the price of monitors! This is one of my regular suppliers and even these guys have got !7 inchers for £80... a £50...

If given a choice between a single or a dual core, then get the dual core. Dual core CPUs are the best on the market (actually, quad core are, but multiple cores = good). Basically, instead of one CPU doing everything, a dual core chip has one CPU piggybacked on top of it, so when its doing...

Finally finished a "short" reply ;) Hope it helps!

Hey Ive got a loooooong list of things you can do to speed up your machine. The fastest relief is most often given by following this: - Go to Start - Run - Run: "msconfig" (no quotes) - Go to the Startup Tab Here you will see a long list of things that are starting on your machine. These are...

I'm gonna chime in with a clearly off topic: the Wii is in a league by itself and its awesome, and as such has much less to fear from its competitors :D Back on topic, I hope Sony do get their act together soon, because a world without Playstation is like a world without Sega consoles. Sonic on...

Bloatware: the consequence of lazy programming. Should Vista really need a whole gigabyte of memory? NASA landed people on the moon with less memory than a modern pocket calculator. This is the phrase that defines it best for me: "Windows XPs new memory management features require more memory."...

Yeah, I have it as my homepage too. I used to use Yahoo! for a homepage, and AltaVista for a while, now its just the page that I generally need to use first when opening a browser.

Actually, there isn't. Yahoo! uses Google developed technology now and has done for the last few years. The only true @competitor@ is Ask, and they use software, though developed by themselves, that is actually incredibly Google-esque. There are ostensibly better web crawling robots, capable of...

nMonks: You're right, Mac OS was, back in the day, based on Unix. The similarities in the kernels are still very apparent, but in desktop apps the similarities have all but gone. Mac OS is awesome, UNIX is still essentially a command line surrounded by weak-bearded sys admins... I'm allowed to...

I used it solidly for the last two weeks. Last night saw the re-installation of Windows XP and I am very angry with myself for changing to Vista. I should have known how it would end, because it has always ended this way. I'm a web developer and I recently forced myself to choose an OS -...

I'm with this idiot ^^^^^ :P Nintendo have always lagged behind in the areas that the competitors are still focusing on - principally graphics but also game libraries. You don't need to have the absolute best graphics and a library of 10,000 games to have a successful console. The Wii delivers...

Sorry for the overload.. I get carried away ;) Have you considered buying hosting for yourself and re-selling to your friend? They wont have access to a cPanel control panel, but they can have whatever they need for their site - FTP accounts, email addresses, web stats, IIS (for Frontpage)...

Out and out the best host on the Internet is HostMonster.com for this kind of service. I can say this with confidence, Ive been a pro webmaster for eight years and you get 2 terrabytes of bandwidth per month with 200 gig storage for $5.95 a month - those figures are accurate. Theres also 100...

White Spirit... to clean the outside of the tank... Well, it certainly will clean the tank! Pouring salt on an open wound will make it likely to heal faster too, and removing someones heart is a sure way to ensure they never die of a heart attack... point being you will reach you goal but there...

'lo weebl :P There are updates for Firefox in the Ubuntu update manager thingie, try those. Failing that use a proxy, its likely that if the site pings but wont load then your IP has been blocked, check your PMs ;)