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Whatever brand you buy, someone will tell you it sucks. From personal experience Advent suck and Acer are good (aside from minor random overheating like problems). Toshiba are good in my friends eyes because she's had a laptop for a few years and it's been ok. Dell is poor because their laptops blow up. but someone else will have had a machine for 6 years and be fine.

I think you should just look at specs of an indiviual machine, duo core processor and a gig of so or ram and it should be all good.

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ok. I know nothing of linux though, other than everyone thinks it rocks..

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go to run > regedit

go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

look to see if there's any blank values or " " or non ending quotes delete them (make a back up if you want).

Worked for me. something to do with windows stopping at the nearest folder or file it can find.

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haha, the onion rocks :D

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Windows MP 10 works fine :P

maybe you need a codec to play it. Where to find it i'm not sure, i normally get a error message. Maybe there's a setting somewhere for them.

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ok attached a screen shot of what itfound.. i take it it would be PQservice? because when i r-click it, all i get is help..

they're all healthy though :D

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geeks lounge. Don't know enough to venture elsewhere unless i want help XD

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used to have 11 fillings (woo dodgy baby teeth) now, zilch. coating on all but 8 of my teeth though.

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are you talking about msn messenger? because it might just be a firewall setting or something.

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There probably is a use by date on the original posters vista upgrade.

Also if you're sending payment (for p&p) to the netherlands. don't. they pretended they didnt have my cheque, cancelled the order,then cashed it. (yeah i shoulda cancelled the cheque, but i'm you and dumb and it was only £14).

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or older

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when i bought my Acer 5610 laptop, i made 2 dvd's for recovery (part 1 and 2). Well now i go to use them, part 1 is blank and part to has the info it should (80megs worth). Don't ask what happened to the first one i don't know! (same thing happened to my old laptop, wondering if my draw magically erases dvds)

Is there a way to create them again? According to the techguys website there should be a folder in all programs called "system recovery" (which there was on my old advent laptop). It's not there. I've used search to look for it .. nothing. I can phone the expensive-on-hold-for-hours phone line to order them for free (bar the phone call) as it's under a year old.. but i'd rather not. So is there any other way?

It's Windows XP Media Centre btw.

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indifferent

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I like all my music too, but out of the 4500 songs I have, lots of them don't go well with others. I prefer to have several different playlists for different moods.

ahh see, music influences my mood, rather than mood influence the music i listen to. In general anyway.

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I recall watching an episode of "Myth Busters" awhile back where they attempted to prove or disprove the myth about cell phones causing gas stations to blow up. They made many attempts and all failed.

Same thing on brainac. Filled a caravan up with mobile phones and petrol rung them all, nothing. but then, aren't you supposed to answer them?

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HAHAHAH thats because you are over 16

I had all my dental work (6 years of braces, retainers for like 2 and teeth removed including wisdom teeth) for £0 ! because i was on the NHS and was under 16

Did you get replacment retainters? because i'm sure they still charge you like £50 for them.

And yes, teeth do move back. See: mine. Not too bad, but not perfect either.

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i don't see why not. it'd be the same as buying something in a sale and selling it on ebay

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I figure out how to make a playlist, but hunting down songs to put on it was a huge pain. In iTunes you can just make a list and say stuff like "All songs with genre X and rating Y" or "All songs with artist X, or artist Y, or also on playlist Z" or somesuch. AFAIK WMP doesn't have anything of that sort.

yeah i just use "all music" as i only have music i like in my media library (and on the laptop for that matter)

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Why would they move the bar way up there?

Stick with google.co.uk orginal layout, same hits.

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hehe, yeah it's damn near impossible to eat with them in. Hey wanna feel pain? Crunch your teeth down real hard.

In good news, your speech should go back to normal soon though.

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yeah, infarction you just go now playing list > new list > playlist.

I've never used ITunes. WMP works just fine.

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If your landline is cordless. doesn't it make it just as bad?

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Do you have to wear them all the time? It should be cut down within a week to just nighttime. But yeah, drool is normal.

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Yeah tell me about it. those voices just won't quit.

Edit: ;)

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lol i'm glad someone does :D

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11.

There's a customer who comes into the shop i work at who's always swearing at people, even went up to the cashier and said "i don't want to be served by you you're a fucking idiot, fuck off" and to another "the police are after you, they've bugged your phone. I live next to Inspector *some name* and they've bugged you and David Beckam is going to get killed". Made a customer cry today after they offered to let them go infront and they replied along the lines off fuck off.

People reckon she's shizophrenic

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Braces are hardly anything. Just wait until you try headgear coupled with braces and elastics. Two anchors are put onto the back molars, and then wires come out and attach to a strap that it placed on the back of the neck, which you wear at nighttime. At first it isn't painful, but as the wires are tightened (by instruction from the dentist), it becomes more and more painful...

I swear I didn't get a good night's sleep for about a year

ditto, except 6 months. At least five times i tried to pull the damn thing out while ASLEEP! That my friend is hatred, mine was a slight variation, it was a removable brace and there was a metal bar which attached to that, plastic round my neck and elastic over my head. At one point i woke up with the metal bar wedged between my teeth and the bit it was supposed to be in the removable brace... pain like i've never felt. And i'm a girl.

Had train tracks (fixed) after that, then retainersthat lasted 6 months before i stopped wearing them. Now my teeth have moved back slightly. *sigh*.

I feel your joy at losing the braces though, did you have coloured ones? I got the colours changed everytime i went back. Was awesome.

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I think i see eyes. and yeah i suck at anything that requires imagination. The other one's i got becauss i've seen them before :-S

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I can't. all the rest i see.

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you have to sign up. Boo.

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No love for the UK?

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p.s Joeprogrammer how did you manage to get a @daniwebmail.com address?

that is sooo off topic, you are soooo getting bad rep.

sorry :D

arjunsasidharan commented: Your so rite :D +2
jbennet commented: lol +14
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uh, too much spare time there Matt?

just kidding ;)

iamthwee commented: ha ha +9
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Your mum doesn't let you watch the news? Wow, she is super strict

Nah it's not that, just she'd probably talk all over it and walk infront of the tv.

Sweet8 tats'. that's some serious artwork. Also nice " a 12year old could protect against this" comment :D

And Daniweb on tv wooo!

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*has skipped to the last page*

i found daniweb while looking for help in my IT work.

don't go christina i need the female company!

and err, yeah. I just wanted to post XD

christina>you commented: ;o) I'll stay just for you. +9
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I missed it because my mum came in >:O

I'll check the website tomorrow :)

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:icon_cheesygrin:

Someones' sig here i think:

There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't!

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or for some reason he's trying to get hits for youtube

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I see it!!!!! Woooooooooooooooooo! XD

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:D you still haven't figured that out? open your eyes HBK can't you see a kid and a lady praying.

:D

I really can't. What position are they supposed to be in? :-/

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no problem :)

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That's wrong. I didnt see this thread until today i guess. I love optical illusions.

Im attaching another one. This one is really good. Well i like it.

If you guys couldnt figure out what it is. Tilt your head on the left.

What's that supposed to be? Can't figure it, looks abit liek a dragon tail and claw.

And yes i jumped at the subliminal :D

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you might be now

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*sets alarm* ok i'm ready. :)

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i dont understand what you mean by needing a value for the stick() etc. why do you need to run stick at the start ? cant you just say stick(-1) and run a check in stick to see if -1 was entered and tell it to do what you want i.e. bypass the method ? but maybe you can clarify what you want it to do ?

right, from the start, open application, click start button. Two cards are drawn and displayed (start() ). the total value of these are the compared (eval() ). If over 21 game ends. If not we continue.

the user then clicks either twist or stick buttons.

twist button draws and displays another card and adds that value to the previous total (draw() ). Thus it needs the total which was made in eval().

Stick button compares the total to the "opponents" total (a random number) and displays you lose/win etc (stick() ). Hence stick() needs the total value made in eval() (as does draw()).

I've done each method so it's called via actionPerformed. (so when the user clicks).

updated code attached. Problem now (as well as moving the total variable around) is i've got two of the arrays loading the images, one in start() one in draw() (thanks for the array code btw). I tried doing a seperate class with them in, and changing the coding in the switch box but ket saying "cannot find variable"

and i …

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yeah i looked. Nothing. I remember where it should be.

hbk619 228 Master Poster

wow

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i forgot how to turn scripts off

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Card game (again, or still). This one's got a GUI. Problem is, the draw and stick method need the total value that is made in start. So when call draw() or stick() from the actionPerformed method it needs a value or it won't compile (stick(int) in game1 cannot be applied to () ) (which makes sense)

how do i get round that?

And what sort of code do i use to draw the images when start or draw is clicked? I've tried ToolKit and getImage sort of stuff but they all need a graphics variable to draw it, which is in the paintComponent method i believe.. or something like that.

Code attached as it's long. Does anyone know what i'm asking or how to help? :)

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