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Thing is anyone can create a website and fraudlently use images from a trusted vendor. Ditto terms and conditions only mean something if they are a reputable company. Suing even a legitimate company is only going to generate income for lawyers. :twisted: I deliberately left out the name of the websi...

:?: Anyone know if there is a way to verify if an online retailer is a reputable company? The site I'm interested in buying from claims to be Mastercard verified, but I would like to check. Could'nt find SA contact details on the Mastercard website, so I phoned Nedbank card division and they said th...

Final Bad Guy in Neverwinter Nights, or maybe Vampire: The Masquerade.

Notebook graphics cards are notorious for not running games, the patch may or my not help. You could try updating to the latest drivers. I'm running a Leadtek 128MB Geforce FX5200, I also had problems so I downloaded the patch, all 25MB of it on a 56k modem. Did'nt help at all. So I emailed lucasart...

Just read something about the US Military spaming Iraq with emails. "Give up or we´ll Nuke you!" or something like that... <BR> <BR>Maybe they could blacklist their mail servers? Death to spammers! <BR> <BR>"Make love, not war!" <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_cry.gif&qu...

I´m a newbie to Linux, I have been considering doing a Linux+ to improve my career marketability. <BR> <BR>I simply cannot afford to get Vendor certified, and was wondering if it´s reasonably possible to get a basic grounding and pass the CompTIA exam by just buying a textbook and teaching myself. <...

Turns out that this is a Win XP bug, and it isn´t fixed by SP1. Guess we´ll just have to live with it... Viva MS Viva!
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...hmmm. Been pondering the Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB / Geforce 4 Ti 4200 question myself. Maybe I´ll wait for the Radeon 9500 to come down in price. <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif">
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Depending on the age and make of your mainboard, you may not be able to get 4x. Best to check the spec in the manual or on the manufacturers website. <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_smile.gif">

Got a bit of an odd but minor problem - If I don´t switch on my external modem before I boot WinXP Pro, the modem won´t dial out. This can be overcome by refreshing the hardware list in the device manager, but it´s a pain. <BR> <BR>I´ve tried a CNet(Intel) and Dynalink(Rockwell) ext modem - same pro...

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Suggestion: How about a Windows XP skinning article?
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Maxtor are not bad, 3yr warranty.
<BR>Personally Iwould´nt touch a Western Digital with a barge-pole (replace many 4.3 and 10GB catastrophicly failed drives).
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<BR>Fujitsu´s OK, Segate (5400 rpm) are a bit slow. Conner also fails a lot.