Yes, you are quite right. Humans are too greedy and power hungry for such a system to not become corrupt and oppressive. What a shame, hey?

Steven.

I`ve been a bit busy recently, adding value to goods and services in Japan. However, I will address a few points. On the question of what is defined as market capitalism (raised by jephthah), I was...

Hi everyone. Now, I`m sure that by now most of you are pretty tired of hearing the world`s politicians blaming everyone they can think of for the financial crisis, but....bear with me. My argument...

Result:

When you open your eyes again it feels like a inordinately long span of time has passed, almost as long as it was since the last post in this thread. You find yourself in a place of...

Perhaps a worse fate is to survive for so long that we become weary of our own existance and long for it to end. Forever is a long time.

Steven.

Hi. You are certainly correct in saying that even at 0 K a quantum system still contains energy. However, a quantum system in it`s ground state cannot emit any energy because the ground state is...

I wouldn`t have believed time travel was possible through the use of programming, before I watched the Futurama feature length episode "Bender`s Big Score". It turns out you just need to utter the...

The guy in the shop did say this is possible, but that you have to do a new installation from the recovery disk. I decided to pass on that option in case it didn`t recover. I managed to find the...

Hi. I live in Japan and recently bought a second hand laptop, with Japanese Windows XP on it. When I got it home I promptly installed Opera 9.61 (my favourite browser :) ) and started browsing...

Hi. If you gained the ability to look inside every other mind that exists, do you think you would lose the ability to hold any particular point of view, given that you were now aware of how everyone...

Apple has been engaging in the kind of anti-competetive behaviour you mentioned for some time now. So, I found it quite amusing when they were sued by Cisco over the iPhone name.

The only way to gaurd against servers and networks overloading when under rare and extremely heavy load is to have large amounts of spare capacity sitting around doing nothing most of the time. This...

Hi. Some people might remember a post made a long time ago, which contained a link to one of this set of irritating games (http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/jeuxchiants/index_eng.htm). Well, as you...

Hi. I recently removed one of the user accounts from a Vista laptop I've been using. I was asked if I wanted to delete the user's folder as well and selected yes. However, after creating another...

Hi. In my house we have an IPv6 capable router, for which the owner of has kindly given me the password for the settings page. It is a Linksys DD-WRT wireless device with Linux installed. When you...

Hi. I was at work in my call centre today when a colleage asked me to have a look at a customer issue. We support BT broadband customers, but we're not BT (they just pay us to do it). So, this guy...

Hi people. The idea of this game is to make people guess the answers to rather obscure questions, like....

Which of these two has the larger data capacity?

(a) My CD collection

(b) The hard...

It must be possible to get a dropdown menu by right clicking the install file. This is most likely the way to solve the problem.

Steven.

When you say "the DNS is changed to point towards porn and phishing sites", do you mean that (for example) the locally stored DNS entry for www.hsbc.co.uk could be repointed to a fake version of this...

No, it's running at the out of the box speed. There is another sightly odd issue with it though. It's supposed to have 1 GB of RAM, but the BIOS shows it as having 894 MB (which is also 2 MB less...

I'll give that idea about the BIOS a try. I've got a 9 year old computer which the battery is still fine on.

Hi. I've got this issue on my Vista laptop that's been there since I got the thing about six months ago. The system clock falls behind the actual time at a silly rate, which can be up to several...

Hi guys and girls. Has anyone else heard the new Radiohead album In Rainbows? The gimmick is, you can choose what yoy want to pay for it on their website.

Steven.

That's a good suggestion. Except that the machine has an off board ATI graphics card with 256 MB dedicated RAM. At least, that's what the specification says.

Steven.

Hi. I've got a Packard Bell laptop that is specified as having 1 GB of RAM. However, looking in the Windows system information and the BIOS both show it as having 896 MB. Does anyone know how I...

A teacher is more likely to be bullied by one of the staff of their school than it's pupils. This is something a member of my family has experience of.

It's more a case of where we'll draw the line. I'd just refuse to give a sample if it came to that. Same with identity cards or having to tell the government the moment I move house. In any case,...

Hello. I started learning Perl some time in 2006 and found it very suitable for the development of a web based application. I was impressed by the way you can get so much done in just a few lines...

Ever wondered how ADSL (or broadband internet access over telephone lines) works? I often have and, having worked
for an ISP in the UK (BT Retail) for about 6 months I can offer a slightly better...

Hi people. Just thought I would warn about a little issue I had with my Vista system last night. I tried to install colinux (http://www.colinux.org) and the system crashed to a blue screen. When I...

Firstly, I work on a BT Business technical desk in Bristol. I must say Serunsun, there is nothing more satisfying than getting a residential customer come through to you and politely transfering...

Perhaps Sun deliberately make Solaris a bit tricky to use so they can keep selling IT support contracts for it. I wouldn't blame them, seeing as the software itself is free now. As to whether Solaris...

The harsh conditions mentioned in Bill's report are primarily the cosmic rays the silicon components of a computer are exposed to in space. A cosmic ray is a fast moving proton ejected from the sun....

Hi. I wrote a simple test web server script in Perl a few months ago. Did I read any HTTP specification documents before starting to find out what I'd need to parse? Hell no, I just listened on...

I think there is another option to consider here. Perhaps it would benefit some people to ditch the OS concept and run software on the "bare metal". You'd have to write the stuff first of course,...

I work for an ISP (BT Retail, business broadband) in the UK, on the help desk. We're getting a steadily increasing tricle of businesses calling us about Vista issues. However, I've not so far...

Hi everyone. Could anyone tell me how I can enable non - admin users to run programs installed by the admin user? I installed Opera 9.1 as an admin, but I'm not sure how to allow other users to...

May I take this opportunity to point out a few other treats from "over the pond" to our American members? OK, great....

1. Phoenix Nights: It's difficult to make Oldham famous, but Peter Kay...

Hi everyone. My apologies if this has already been said but....having come to this thread late I'm too lazy to read all 52 pages. I have read enough to get the gist of it, honest :) . So, what you...

In fact, what you just said makes them seem pretty related. State changes in materials usually do occur as a result in temperature change and it is usually a progressive transition that can occur...