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I use a Saitek Eclipse. It has a backlight and clear letters (keys are silverish). It lights up around the keys and the actual letters/numbers/symbols. It's quite useful in dark rooms and is quite comfortable to type on. I had a Logitech G15 keyboard, but never used the LCD screen, it was completely useless. I never looked down there and it could only display limited information and information that I really didn't care about or had on my desktop (Winamp, system monitoring, etc). Personally, I think the ZBoard is a fad and utterly useless. A friend had one and I hated it. It's a pain to type on and it doesn't feel right. The keyboard layouts that you can buy are a gimmick and nothing more. I never used the Razer keyboard, though they do make quality products. In the end, though, I'd go to Best Buy/Walmart/Target/Staples/etc and look at their keyboards in person and then decide. They might not have the Razer or ZBoard, but they will have a nice variety. Stay away from the gimmicks, you'll never use them.

You say there's "absolutely NO reason" to use a firewall. That cannot be further from the truth. Routers and Windows Firewall only block incoming connections, not outgoing. Those are completely useless against trojans and other viruses that infiltrate the system by other means. A real firewall will allow you to monitor incoming AND outgoing connections. For the sake of everyone, please don't spread non-knowledge. Just because you don't use a firewall does not mean they are useless. It's thoughts like this that are the reason why there are so many infected computers. It's the whole 'It can't happen to me' mentality and all it does is make things worse when one's computer eventually gets infected.

Computering in the nude is awesome. Don't knock it 'til you try it.

I woke up with a sore butt today :confused1:

And if he is successful then she'll come into the room and go down on him.

If you don't understand the point of this thread, then you were never meant to understand the point of this thread. The point of this thread is not something that can be said, it is groked. It cannot be explained. Either you get it or you don't. If you don't get it then you won't get it and you never will get it and you will have to hope that groking will come along. GOOD DAY SIR.

Learning another language is a skill every person should master. It takes a lot of patience and determination to learn a language that is not your own. I regret not paying attention in Spanish class (they didn't offer any other language back then). I also regret not taking any foreign language classes in college, even though I really wanted to. Nihon go ga wakarimasen :ohwell: Good luck on your test. Your mother is only giving you shit because she cares about your future, be happy for that. In 10 years, probably less, you'll look back at all of the hell she put you through when you were in school and you'll thank her for it. It will make you a better person and qualify you for better jobs. Parents don't interest themselves in their child's education enough these days. They just drop them off at school and let the teachers handle everything. It doesn't work that way and it never will. I fear for our future generations at the rate our education system is going.

A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim, a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, a sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap, a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort, a gut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a canal--Panama.

Yours would too if you were that desperate to show some camel toe.

George Bush and Barack Obama are sitting at a bar talking politics when Donald Rumsfeld walks in. Bush says, "When I become the next Hitler I'm going to kill all the Jews and one clown." Rumsfeld replies, "Why the clown?" Bush, looking at Obama, says, "See, I told you no one cared about the Jews."

I told Haggard to take $10 of my donation and give it to Ganzta for his admin privileges. I wonder if he thought I was kidding . I like what this place offers and feel it's worthwhile to contribute to.

I'm still miffed that those other guys donated after me. I wanted to be on top Maybe next month. PS: Yes, I'm that vain.

I proposed to my fiance on Christmas as her last gift.

That is a picture of TCP were he a duck.

Firefox 3.5 beta 4 is amazingly fast compared to 3.0.x. Obviously, extensions make Firefox the browser of choice (long live Ad-block Plus).

Your best bet is to find an image you like and then try to photoshop some pizazz into it. Usually, I'll just find an image in Google Images and crop it to my liking, not a fan of the whole in-your-face images. To each his own, I suppose Good luck. Also, if you don't want to get Photoshop, you can snag Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net) or The GiMP (http://www.gimp.org).

Good on ya for getting a Thermaltake PSU. Quality stuff. I would have been disappointed if you had purchased some cheap no-name brand. The PSU is quite possibly the most delicate peripheral of a PC. A bad one can fry pretty much every other part of your computer, I've had it happen twice (same PSU, two different sets of equipment). However, I think I would have purchased a more powerful PSU just to future-proof yourself, depending on the prices of 500w+ models. It seems like you don't upgrade often so I don't think it'll be a big deal, honestly. Your next upgrade will most likely include an entirely new, and hopefully not eMachine, PC. Best of luck, let me know if you need help with anything.

Not sure about that. Some of our SonicWalls blocked it for no reason. I think it's the content filtering service (CFS) that the SonicWalls are subscribed to. We don't block every website that's porn/gaming/etc related, we let the CFS do it and just allow certain sites. Contact your school's network administrator and see if they can unblock it. I doubt they purposefully blocked it, probably just their CFS similar to SonicWalls.

Definitely a GTX 2xx series. Newegg has promotions on them all the time now so you can get 5-25 dollars off. Sign up for their newsletter and see what comes in. I have a GTX280 and it's incredible, but fucking huge. Don't SLI/Crossfire video cards, it's absolutely not worth it. Also, don't forget about your CPU. Just because you get a new video card doesn't mean you can up the settings if you're still running a crap CPU. CPUs are just as much of a bottleneck as VGA cards are.

Seems like some settings in the UnrealEd got messed up. Reinstalling the SDK should have worked, unless you didn't confirm that it was deleted. Try removing it and making sure the UnrealEd.ini file is gone. I think I had this issue in the past when I was playing around with UT 2004.

Definitely the video card. Looks like the on-board RAM fried (artifacts). If you used the motherboard's on-board video and didn't get any artifacts then it's a safe bet that it is indeed the video card. What model is the computer? You shouldn't need a new PSU if you're going to a 9xxx model, depending on that eMachine's age, it should have a 400w+ PSU. Also, most video cards come with a lifetime warranty. Contact the manufacturer and see if you can RMA it for a new one. If they don't carry that card in stock anymore they will probably give you a free upgrade to the closet thing.

Good on you for protecting your router A lot of people don't and it can lead them to getting in trouble. As long as you're not using WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) then you're good. You can also hide the SSID (make it so it doesn't broadcast) and also only allow specific MAC addresses to connect (though, they can be cloned). Depends on how paranoid you are

Not true. Routers and Windows Firewall only prevent incoming connections, not outgoing. Most trojans and viruses will utilize outgoing connections to contact their host. A firewall like NOD32 or some other derivative will allow you to know exactly what programs are accessing the internet. Don't assume a router will protect you because it won't forward all the ports, that just stops some incoming attacks from worms and networked viruses, but there are ways around it.

The best anti-virus solution is a smart user. Don't use Internet Explorer, use Firefox, Opera, or Chrome. Firefox has an amazing array of addons (Ad block+, No Script, etc). Make sure you know what you're downloading and running. As far as software goes, AVG is decent. Both Norton and McAfee are crap, unless you get the corporate versions but even those aren't that great. NOD32 and BitDefender are both the best, in my opinion. Kaspersky is a resource hog and I didn't care for it. NOD32 and BD are both lightweight and offer excellent protection. If you don't want to spend money, get AVG. Personally, I don't run virus software since I just watch what I do and only I use my PC. Edit: There's also AntiVir Personal, I think it's free, and it's quite good.