Recent content by DaEezT

Yes, as long as you don't turn out the PC or get an equally big HDD to store the content before every shutdown.

Probably windows system restore stuff. Per default it's set to use up to 12% of every partition for system restore points. But that won't account for more than 7 gig in your case. The rest is probably temorary and personal stuff. Outlook for example stores e-mails in every person's "appication...

Celerons and Semprons are the cheap versions of the Pentium and Athlon CPUs, so unless you are on a tight budget I wouldn't really think about them. As for the CPU performance: It's effectively a holy war between pro AMD people (like me) and pro Pentium people. The same goes for dual core vs...

Heroes of Might & Magic 5 will ship without StarForce! :woohoo:

Ok, So H(x) has to give you a number (= table index) for a given word. Since words are composed of an arbitrary number of characters you a) have to find a function that can turn an arbitrary number of chars into one number and b) use modulo to stay within your table boundaries. Since you can...

Well, it all depends... ;) By "building a hash function" do you mean only the function itself or also concepts for managing collisions? How collision resistent does it have to be? Do you know the range of values the function has to point to and is it static? How Do you manage collisions? How...

Well, in theory you just do the same you do when you create a mp3 CD. Just use your favourite dvd burning tool and create a data dvd with mp3s on it. The dvd player should be able to play it.

I've never done this myself so I dunno if it really works, but many programs let you select the input/output sources. ventrilo: setup -> output device (dropdown box) winamp: options -> preferences -> plugins -> output -> configure -> device Dunno if WOW has that option as well. But you'll...

I could use another 4x game (as if civ4 wasn't enough of a timesink ;))

Well, as far as a remote diagnosis goes it's right back to the usual suspects: Run memtest86 to check your memory and prime95 to check your cpu/ram/mobo. If neither helps you reproduce/narrow down the source of the problem you'll probably have to do the old clean/update/replace game till you...

That's probably your problem right there. The old mobo probably can't handle 40 gig HDDs. I remember a friend of mine trying to get a 40 gig HDD to run on his old 350 MHz K6-2 board and it didn't work because the board chipset just was too old. If you want a low cost but still good linux...

Ye, I myself am waiting for the M2 (or AM2 as rumors claim) for my new PC but I'm also in conflict with myself whether to go AM2 (expensive) or old 939 (cheaper but somewhat "dead end"). Maybe I'll post a topic here in 7 months or so and we can argue about my PC :D Littel OT: Could you do a...

I agree with you again (to a certain degree :p). Right now dual core performance isn't up to it's full potential and (as I said earlier) that it's a question of performance/$. But I stick to my claim that that'll change in 2006. How long have dual core CPUs really been on the market now? 9...

Let's add Quake 4 to the dual vs sigle core fray then :D http://www.idsoftware.com/ : and a benchmark Threading, which is the basis for parallelism, has been around for ages. Civ4 runs 12 threads and even Deus Ex (the old one from 2000) runs 10 threads. You don't have to write...