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I get on average 580 per day. A month or so ago, I was away from my computer for only 3 days and had close to 2000. But I have had a domain since 1992, and I expect this. I am fairly ruthless with spammers and if I am annoyed enough by one I will track him/her down and get them booted from their ISP. I have actually managed to get a few of them Black Listed with all U.S. ISP's. I use Eudora for my mail program and have filters set to put everything in the trash that is spam. I have it to the point now that if a piece of e-mail is in my "In Box" it is spam. Once a week I take time and make n

From a site deaking with such issues:

IIRC the *best* a 56k modem can do is 43k-46k. You will not ever get 56k.

Also keep in mind that with WarCraft/StarCraft there are only two ways to play with human opponets... 1. Using Blizzard's BattleNet service 2. On a LAN There is no way to run a server for hosting either game across the internet. Oh, and also Diablo as well.

Blizzard routinely does this every so often. Too many people playing on a single CD key, people using hacks/cheats, etc. Too bad that it really has no real effect for long, it is nice for a week or so, then all the hack/cheat users are back, and all the fun is gone.

That would be the only thing I would change. I'd get the 2500 instead. Edit: The reason I would choose the 2500 over the 2600 is I feel that you get more bang for your buck with the 2500. Right now with the system I have I have my 2500 overclocked to a 3000 with the stock heatsink/fan. Not too bad for a $90 CPU.

Pretty short list for me... Ghost Recon Restaurant Empire WarCraft III:ROC and TFT StarCraft and StarCraft Brood Wars KISS Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child Beavis & Butt-Head Bunghole In One (mini golf at it's finest!! :punk: ) UT2k3

Elite for the Commodore 64 Anyone besides me ever play this on the C64?

This is a favorite answer of mine.... please take no offense at it. R.T.F.M. Here are some links to help you out: Photoshop 7 Flash MX

As CPUs and graphics cards and motherboards move into faster territory, more fans (and sometimes higher speed fans) are required to cool the machine. Example my motherboard has a fan on the Northbridge chip (well it's actually the MCP as it is an Nvidia based board), my graphics card has a fan on it, I have two 80mm fans in the back, one 80mm fan in front, plus the 60mm fan on the CPU heatsink, and the two fans in the power supply. That is a total of 8 fans in my case, so it does have a bit of sound coming from it when running.

And don't forget you can also type in phone numbers into Google as well and find out who/where it is.... Be sure to use the full phone number, area code and all.

I rarely trust any "commercial" entity for a review. After all they are *paid* in most cases to do the review. I get my reviews of upcoming or already released games/software/hardware from firends who went and bought them. Granted, I rarely buy any game/software/hardware at first release anyway. For games I usually wait until they hit the $20 (US) mark (except WarCraft: The Frozen Throne, bought that on the day it was released ) As for codes/cheats, I have yet to use one for any game at all. For me it defeats the purpose of the game.

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New Virus Info Here you go.

Now that I have bought XP Home (should mean that MS is ready to now release a new OS. Yes I am s-l-o-w to switch to a new OS ). This now leads me to a question... Anyone have any links to any articles talking about partition sizes for XP? (you know, page file, OS, etc. Not the creating of the partitions). Or just any links for good informative reading on XP?

Here's another one from Dan's Data How to destroy your computer Ah, just how great and wonderful the internet can be!

I must be "old school" then when it comes to flashing the BIOS. I still prefer to flash the BIOS while in the BIOS. I personally just get that warm, fuzzy, safe feeling when flashing that way.

Hey, no problem, glad I could help. I still remember the pains of being on a dialup connection.

Thanks for the insights on this. I'll sit back and do some research and see what course of action I will decide to take.

Downloading it as I type. E-mail me with your mailing address and I will burn it and mail it to you.

I'm not worried about not having any support from MS. I've never used their support other than web based updates, etc. anyway. I think my main concern over purchasing the "upgrade" version of XP Home was the bad taste left in my mouth from the 3.1 upgrade to 95/98. I still have a 98 CD that you have to install WinDogs 3.1 first. To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure why I want to switch to XP Home... peer pressure maybe? After all most people are running XP now. As for MS and their piracy issues with OEM versions, as long as ZipZoomfly is selling legal versions, and MY serial nu

Hey, why did't I think of that! Just did a quick check on XP Home OEM version: GoogleGear... errr, ummm, ZipZoomfly - $90 free Fed-Ex 2nd day NewEgg - $96 free Fed-Ex Express (3-4 day)

What is the difference between the two? I'm looking at getting XP Home but hey if i can save $100 by getting the upgrade, why not, right? i'm starting to think it may be time to finally give up 98se. I'll either get it for my graduation (Le Cordon Bleu - 4.0 GPA) on this Sunday (Oct. 19th) or for my birthday on this Tuesday (Oct. 21), I'll be...well older

When at the main BIOS screen press Ctrl+F1, this will unlock "hidden" bios settings on GigaByte motherboards. EDIT: Forgot to add that I flashed my GA-7N400 Pro to BIOS version F11 and had similar problems. I flashed it back to the F9 version and it has run rock solid since.

Well this one is a 30 day trial...RegCleaner, so to me that is not free. And I was mistaken on the other one (RegSeeker) it is free for personal use. Thanks for the links Rocky.