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  1. George, please read the forum rules carefully. Those are not written in vain.
  2. Definitely the one with the antenna. I heard that people mostly have weak signal with the routers without antennas. You decide
  3. Well, I've upgraded the board so it might be related to that. I've noticed strange behavior too. Can you try to delete temp files and cache from your browser and see if it will happen again?
  4. Strange, please check this article. It should help you: http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/VB.NET/Getting-Hardware-Information-using-Visual-BasicNET-and-VBScript-continued/
  5. How can you say it's a ghost town, start with yourself, you have registered here 2 years ago and you now have 37 posts. I wouldn't call that a contribution. Maybe our members just don't have much experience with netbooks, but you don't care right? If you ask me I would always go with lenovo, although I'm not very familiar with their netbook product line. I've recently got a new T500 Lenovo notebook and I'm more than satisfied with it. I can tell that Lenovo surely is a step ahead in overall notebook quality. Also, you've posted in the wrong section. I'll move this to hardware section instead.
  6. First, we'll discuss the 4GB RAM limit on x86 systems. The 4GB limit is hardware-based (well, almost - I'll explain the workaround later that allows up to 128GB) - the x86 architecture can really only address memory addresses at 2^32, or 4,294,967,296 (4,294,967,296/1024x1024=4096, or 4GB). So, no executable code can be at any address higher than the 4GB "boundary". However, there were 2 workarounds (hacks) that Intel put in place awhile ago to try and extend the life of the 32bit platform until it could get it's 64bit Itanium platform mainstream, and these were PAE and PSE (read here for more on why Microsoft chose to implement PAE rather than PSE). The hack you speak of, used in Windows, is called Physical Address Extension (PAE), which was added by Intel in the Intel Pentium Pro and Pentium II lines of CPUs (and continued subsequently to this day) to allow data (and data ONLY) to be mapped into RAM above the 4GB boundary - however, there is a set of limitations on this window. The first limitation is that this window to the RAM above 4GB *must* be mapped into a contiguous memory address range in the application's original 2GB (or 3GB, with /3GB) process space, because again the x86 architecture can only address memory up to the 4GB range (so mapping it into this window allows it to be addressed, with the application handling the management overhead). That brings us to the second limitation, specifically that this window must be managed entirely by the app, as I mentioned previously - there is no using the OS's memory manager, as the OS does not know how to handle memory above the 4GB boundary, thus placing an overhead on the app. The last limitation is that the memory window *must* not contain executable code (again, the CPU's eip register doesn't understand addresses above 0xFFFFFFFF, the address limit of the x86 architecture). It's a hack, and if you want to actually *really* use memory above 4GB, you *must* use a CPU architecture that supports it (Intel's Itanium ia64 or the AMD/Intel x86-64, or x64). The section portion of this sticky is the problem people see when they boot up an x86 system with 4GB of RAM, but Windows only reports the available RAM as somewhere between 3GB and 4GB. Rather than be lengthy about it and rehash old threads, I'll simply point to them to explain why this happens: 1. Start here, here and here for a technical overview of how this can happen, and 2. Read this, this, this, and this to see real-life examples of this happening, and what can (and cannot) be done to resolve it. Now it's been stickied, so if you ask these types of questions going forward, you will simply be pointed to the contents of this thread. These are not Windows problems, these are architectural limitations of the 32bit architecture - especially the second issue, where the BIOS reserves memory for hot-add/hot-swap memory, PCI-X/PCI-E buses, and (if it applies) your 256MB or 512MB video card reserve memory resources for their usage, causing the discrepancy in reporting of installed memory vs *available* memory to the OS. Thanks to cluberti.
  7. Well, I wouldn't like to have a lot of skins for sure. That just isn't right IMO. We have another skin which sponsors and staff members can use. Also, several mods here are unique (colors) for all skins, so it would be really messy to have larger number of skins.
  8. Warez Discussion! Member Warned! Topic Closed.
  9. These guys have giveaway again, so you can download and use their another product called 'WinX HD Video Converter'. WinX HD Video Converter is a professional video converter specially designed for HD video conversion. The friendly interface can assist you to effortlessly convert HD videos mutually with no loss of image & sound quality, like MTS, M2TS, TS, HD MP4, MKV, HD WMV, and HD MOV, etc. Besides, it also lets you convert between HD videos and regular AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, etc. To get the full version for free, please download the program and register with the following Information. Reg Name: HDgiveaway Reg Code: WINXHVC-5230-1898-1278 Source
  10. NIM

    Argument

    I just had an argument with a girl I know. She was saying how it's unfair that if a guy f* * a different girl every week, he's a legend, but if a girl f** just two guys in a year, she's a slut. So in response I told her that if a key opens lots of locks, then it's a master key. But if a lock is opened by lots of keys, then it's a shitty lock. That shut her up.
  11. Hmm, strange it just stopped working. Have you changed anything else before it stopped working?
  12. Check it out. Really nice game.. http://machinarium.net/demo/
  13. Well, if this is a closing project, I think that we all should be notified. Shouldn't we Lego?
  14. Thanks for your response, but it seems that the song I was looking for is only made for Police Academy 2 by Gerry Rafferty. Check this video and you'll see that this isn't the same song. It sounds like the baker street, but like it was added only for this movie <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLhXeVaRgHM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLhXeVaRgHM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLhXeVaRgHM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
  15. Fixed, if you don't see the change, please do a hard refresh of your browser with CTRL + F5
  16. NIM

    hello,,

    welcome to wincert
  17. Sorry for that, still haven't get required help from our skin maker I will try to ask again. Update: Problem fixed. Thanks for reminding.
  18. I was big fan of MJ and this video just bring back those NBA memories, when I was watching this as crazy. Hopefully, you'll like it <embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/yt-SGLaKfEyRL4/michael_jordan_half_air_half_amazing_greatest_moves.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" name="Metacafe_yt-SGLaKfEyRL4"> </embed><br><font size = 1><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-SGLaKfEyRL4/michael_jordan_half_air_half_amazing_greatest_moves/">Michael Jordan - HALF AIR HALF AMAZING ( Greatest Moves )</a> - <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">The top video clips of the week are here</a></font>
  19. Thanks a lot guys. Very nice of you all!
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