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if you have him set rate limits of upload download, he wont lag your net out, depending on your connection that is generally 10-15kb/s upload and 50-100kb/s dl, the dl isn't nearly as important as the upload to be honest.

its not entrapment, you agree to abide by our rules on our servers, if you break those rules and no one catches you, you are still breaking the rules and an idiot, an admin catching you just means you get to add punishment to your high crime of douchebaggery. its not like we are rule nazi's or somehow have impossible to follow rules either.

the bios controls how many active cores you have running, anything in software does not physically stop the actual core working, so you shouldn't have "broken" anything, but your bios will have an option to turn on or off the cores. swap that and you should be fine.

the official rule is that if an admin is undercover, and is for the purpose of demoing or catching a rule breaker, that other admins are NOT to reveal that person. Many admins choose to play with different names in order to not be bothered by random requests or bitching, as long as you don't see them use admin powers, leave them be. if you want to talk to them and ask, use admin chat. abuse of ma_admins is something we frown upon. cumulative issues lead to bad reputation, and a much reduced chance of being promoted by your peers at the minimum. If you are not wearing your tag, and are using admin powers and are not an AO or above, then you will receive a strike unless good reason is given. AO+ are exempt from this rule until otherwise noted.

hi, im in a thread with beth and blargh about masturbation. kinky... on a more serious note, (trust me i know its difficult) if the tech is improving to the point where stuff like this is becoming more mainstream, its likely to find a rather interesting niche in the market, when/if a female version is completed that works with similar technology, i bet you will see more long distance relationships working. anything that bridges geography for intimacy is likely to be more popular then most people admit, though when /if uncle sam starts issuing it to front line soldiers... then i think ill start passing on modern warfare games....

well back in XP days, i had my linux kernel replacements for explorer.exe not even show a taskbar, i dont need or want it, its just taking up screen space. and firing up the taskbar fired up explorer.exe so it was pointless to use taskbar related stuff as it was just back to running the less efficient windows file manager kernel. and depending on how you are using windows or what you are comfortable with it makes sense to customize the UI to your individual liking. its his opinion that he likes quicklaunch, why rip him a new one over it? if you every troubleshoot pc's for anyone not PC savvy, windows 7 is a massive shift in "relearning" how windows works, most of them dont care about faster cleaner or better, they want what they had as they had it before. My grandfather (at 80) wanted his quicklaunch, he was used to it, so while its not every ones cup of tea, its not a bad tip for those who want that functionality for w/e reason

ill take off your pw and settings somethign is messed up, were you logging in with the password you gave me?

you can not bridge a connection without a set of 2 wired Ethernet cards, one to take the data in, the other to act as the "bridge" and send data out. unless the ps3 has 2 Ethernet ports, its not going to be possible to do so easily. you can try to do a wireless to wired bridge but if the ps3 functionality isnt there, there isnt a way to add it. its easier to a buy the wireless pci card or usb adapter. or if the cable run is shorter, buy cat 5 Ethernet cable and simple hard wire your pc to the router. your network throughput will go up. (54megs-100megs a sec is fastest wireless gets wired is well over 100 megs theoretical on old old tech. gigabit ethernet is closer to 1 gig or more network bandwidth) if you can hard wire your pc you will have the most stability and fastest speeds possible, but grabbing an Ethernet usb or pci adapter from fry's/bestbuy/walmart isn't that expensive most are 20 bucks to 30. if you must work with wireless, get 802.11 G or N compatible (n is better then g) you will be safe from needing to upgrade, and both are backwards compatible if your router cannot use G or N (would be wireless B if it cant do G) G is ubiquitous these days.

wow akaru. wee bit peeved that nvidia doesnt currently hold the fastest card? whether nvidia or ati are currently faster doesnt matter ATI fired a shot across the bow of nvidia that is good for all of us. a monster flagship card that destroys the competition which is what we see every 6-12 months. what we dont see is a 400 dollar or less pricetag. ATI might just be bringing the flagship cards inline with their actual worth, hopefully nvidia will respond with price cuts and we all win in the long run. I am very tired of seeing the "best" card with 200 bucks of parts and labor being sold for 600+ dollars. bout time this crap got reasonable.

she throws up rainbows and kittens, blargh is just that leet

cloud disconnect your bank from paypal if you have to, that way they dont have the authorization to put you deeper into the red. paypal will be unhappy, but they wont be hitting you with fee after fee after fee along with your bank. once i pay my bills if i have stuff left over ill let you know, but not sure at this point how that will go.

well two things, if you have antivirus running, then no AV wouldnt be lagging you likely, if it is SCANNING then yes it will lag you. if your css skins are not well made, or tested, they can severely lag your computer, i would recommend taking skins out then trying and putting them back in and see if that is your issue if the file verification/defragmenting turns up nothing. if you have bad fps check your ping as well, if your internet is lagging the game slows and your fps drop. also certain maps with hdr on crash my fps down from around 200 to 100ish easily if there is a firefight on. i had to fix certain settings to allow the game to not choke too much which was restricting my fps and lagging me.

do you have time to wait? if you do have say a month, then recommendations is to wait and see what if anything nvidia is going to bring to the table to fight the 5870/5890 cards and their various versions. Reason a month? well if nvidia cant roll new tech out they are likely to drop the price on their dx10/10.1 cards right before or after Christmas in order not to get hosed on one of the bigger tech sales periods. if nvidia does have tricks up their sleeve its still worth waiting as ATI is likely to price cut a bit off the 5870/5890s to compete if they get blindsided. the tl;dr version. wait til christmas/post christmas to try and lock in the best price for whichever you go with. ATI is currently better and cheaper then expected, 5870/5890 are the fastest around at around $400 nvidia isnt out of the game, and may get cheaper to compete, or might yank a hell of a card out of its hat by Christmas. and please for the love of god the nvidia 9 series is the nvida 8 series with some minor tweaks and a firmware update, they are hotter, and less efficient overall. you are paying for an 8800gt that nvidia updated to cover a missing market area that ati was slaughtering sales in. when it comes to gaming, get a gtx 2xx series at minimum if you want "new" nvidia tech. everything else is their older bigger core sizes.

there was an issue with .org that connects to .com, so when .org had a hiccup, .com forums couldnt call up the lgsl stats. thats what the error was/meant.

have you checked to see if the card is muting itself, or has the irq issue? if the drivers load but there is an issue device manager will tell you.

we have some web admins. but they are lumped into the tech admins sincewe need to fill more then one role.

uninstall the driver completely from the system. reboot your pc, if it detects the soundcard and asks for drivers install them and go. if it will not detect the soundcard you may have an irq issue. which if you look under (right click my computer, properties, then the hardware tab, then to device manager) and see an exclamation point and a yellow caution sign is usually the case. you can fix it in there by either reinstalling the driver or redefining the irq it uses.