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This is an unavoidable artefact of the webcam's large field of view and the lens's small aperture. Try forcing the lens aperture wide open (you might have to break it), or zooming in with the webcam...

I've always made up the account names, but I've also always triple checked the account number. Making up account names is quite amusing. Quite. Very amusing. I'm often amused by myself.

I'm not sure about those routers in particular, but some access points have an isolation feature whereby local machines connected to the same ESSID are disallowed from communication with each other....

It used to be the case that buying faster RAM and underclocking it allowed you to achieve tighter timings, which yielded performance improvements, although minimal. This pretty much sums it up.

I used netflow to monitor traffic with my Cisco router(s), and at the end of every month I too would notice a slight discrepancy. The ISPs do not publish specifications on what they do and do not...

I have a pair of HD595s and a pair of HD555s. The former are wasted on my crappy integrated nForce audio DACs, but the latter provide excellent sound for the price. Excellent.

Beyond that you're...

After I moved back home I couldn't get cable (in Wellington - so close yet soooo far), but and there was an existing Go-Large connection. My solution was to get a second line and a second connection...

I agree that D-Link consumer products are rubbish. There's nothing wrong with their higher end range, though. It's just that none of their ADSL 4-port router combo equipment falls into this category....

You know, if you wanted to and had patience and even a remote inclination, you could learn PHP and some web development skills, then try and do some freelance contract work.

I've seen quite a few...

If you're going to be running virtual machines then the quad core will come in very handy, but for general use the newer, smaller process E8400 will be a better choice. Significantly multithreaded...

There's also an addon called Messenger Plus that provides a large variety of extra features, like chat logging, which may be helpful. I used to use it with MSN 4 - 5, but haven't really needed it...

Some programs require that lame.dll goes into the program's 'plugins' folder - located within the program's own special folder in Program Files. You can put it anywhere though, if your program lets...

They could start by doing something about the appalling journalism they plaster all over the 6 o'clock news. I stopped watching TV3 and One's evening news hours several years ago in anger over the...

Have you tried a different DVD drive? Are there any visible marks on the reflective side of the disc that could be causing issues?

I use it to open links on new tabs all the time... that and CTRL-T, CTRL-W serve as my weapons of choice...

Do you mean hard freeze? As in not even hitting numlock toggles the numlock LED?

Physically inspect the motherboard for signs of fatigue / excess current draw (my motherboards used to melt,...

I run WPA2 enterprise where I can - using an active directory domain (or other directory service) to authenticate users (RADIUS through IAS, or freeradius). It works really well if you have your PCs...

Do you have a price range?

I wouldn't go for the quad core Q6600 chip. It's nice to have four cores, for sure, but if you're gaming you're still better off buying a higher-clocked dual core chip (the E8500 comes to mind). The...

FreeNAS is a good choice, but is really only suitable for filesharing (though it does have other - quite interesting - features).

If you don't want to run windows, my personal favourite weapons of...

Hello gentlemen! And thank you!

I've had a relatively internet-forum-free year, actually. I feel terrible.

Getting withdrawal symptons...

Hold me.

Oh wow - you guys remembered me! I'll admit I haven't been round for a while, I had to cut the number of forums I frequented down to help keep each day manageable (tough call, I know). You guys...

You can do this without the addition of any extra software with a simple .vbs script, but it doesn't have as many features and is hardly easier to use... I guess you could argue that it's just so...

Hello again everyone -

I'll keep this short.

I'm desperately looking for a ThinkPad T60p (IBM/Lenovo), which has a 4:3 letterbox LCD. These were taken down from the Lenovo website a couple of...

I was going through my hoarded collection of computer goodies (yum), so as to catalogue them and start again fresh... when I found this card that I bought.

It's the same as the one in the OP...