Is it perhaps using a cruddy undersized heatsink? The Barton core (which I believe your 2700+ is) is toasty chip if not used with a compatible 'sink.

Err, if you're running windows I guess you could use netstumbler : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v225/sixteen_bit/netstumbler-1.jpg Stick it on the screen shown and by walking around with the laptop you'll get a better idea of where the signal is stronger / weaker in the room. This might help yo...

Yeah, it's online but their web player sucks so stick the following into media player, VLC or winamp: mms://s-lon-01a.global-mix.net/rapturetv

I just got a new computer so I'm not really desperate. I can definitely spare $350-$400 for a decent laptop. Bear in mind that for his original asking price you could get a comparable new Dell: Intel? Celeron? M Processor 380 (1.60 GHz/400MHz FSB/1M L2 Cache) Genuine Windows? XP Home Edition edit 1...

Ok, having issues. If I pop the Supercard in should it boot into GBA mode and display the contents of the SD card? Supercard Only: Boots into GBA mode. Can run GBA games and GBA homebrew from the SD card. Supercard & Passme: Boots into DS mode. Can run all games and homebrew from the SD card. S...

Lartrak wrote:Anyway, is there any practical advice or information I should be aware of?

Yes: Buy/build a decent screen. The difference in brightness, contrast ratio and overall image quality is well worth the $80 - $100 it's gonna cost you.

The Demo's controls (on PC) were terrible, no? It wasn't just my machine?

melancholy wrote:What exactly is this device anyway?

It's a device which lets a DS load unsigned code from the GBA slot. It sits in the DS game slot but is around twice the size of a normal DS card.

Their main use nowadays is to load flashme onto a DS.

slight edit for clarification

Anyone still playing Animal Crossing? Is it worth buying nowadays?

Don't forget Meteos if you're into puzzle games.

ccb_v2 wrote:I see. Now for a really tough question. Which multiplayer games can you play where only one person has a copy of the game in their DS?

Bomberman comes to mind here.

Hawq wrote:..saves me the download time

BoneyCork wrote:I need a better link.

http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/bluey ... h_demo.exe
I don't know how well this'll work outside the UK cable network but on NTL 4 meg it took aroud 45 mins.

Some neat tricks to try if you've already exhausted the demo : http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/ ... 7691028074

Gmc wrote:I have a Sony-Ericsson W800i. Better than any motorola imo

My contract's up for renewal and there isn't a single phone I'd rather have than my W800: The K800 looks neat but is huge, the W810 is cool but lacks camera shutter. I'll probably sell on whichever replacement I'm given

Anyone else tried the Dark Messiah demo yet? It's a first-person RPG set in the Might & Magic universe, built on the Source engine, that feels a bit like Oblivion except more fun.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hu2MGAubHwY

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/darkmessiahmm/downloads/

Quzar wrote:I was talking about a straight through male svideo-> female rca cable, not a device. Most of the early video cards (at least ati ones) with svideo out came with these.

I coulda sworn a friend's used one of those cables with his laptop and gotten full colour output before. YMMV.

MKE wrote:Ram- 1x 1GB DDR2 -70

That RAM is both needlessly slow and incompatible with Socket AM2 - Swap in some budget DDR2 instead

With my 1.6 softmod I can only IGR if the game is launched from the dashboard. It won't work if a disc is in the xbox as it starts up.

MKE's right, sounds like IGR is disabled in your particular BIOS.

Computability & Complexity
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Sounds like a right laugh, eh?

Totally useless but still awesome .

I don't know about the other people, but 7+Mbit doesn't really differ that much from 4Mbit considering most sites have trouble maintaining that much :\... It's all about the newsgroups. On a more legal note, most torrents and many sites are able to saturate my 4 megabit so 10+ isn't such a waste TBH.