Liam

The standard of these competitors is amazing. Back in the day we didn't have this many members.

What you need to be careful of here is once a server starts to send out large quantities of similar emails it doesn't take long for them to end up on automatic SPAM blacklists, its certainly possible but depending on the volume & frequency it could backfire. One other point...for the love of god don't write anything in perl...php, python, c/c++, bash shell script, anything but perl. For me, perl>>all else. If you just want to get a job done, nothing comes close -i.e. simple jobs that would take me hours in c. Off topic, though.

You could quite quickly knock up some perl scripts to do the job. It wouldn't take long, there's likely to be modules to do exactly what you need and you'd have full control over everything. Bet it could be done in 50 lines of code or less. Hell, if you're looking at paying a small fee to do it, I might even be able to find time to put something together.

Did you see this a couple of years back? http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-09/092807reply.html#i4 Having trouble finding the info on Randi's site, but basically he offered his $1M prize to anyone who could identify the Pear cables repeatedly in blind listening tests, with any reference kit they should choose to supply. The thing is, there are scientific and engineering projects that rely on similar principles and which don't have cost limitations, but cables like these are not considered useful. The company I work for manufactures subsea detection kit at £100k+ a pop. This kit works on audio frequencies, and the design of the output stages is basically an audio amplifier -a very good one. If these cables gave us even a slight benefit over dirt cheap cable picked up from Radio Spares, we would use it. $7k for 12 feet would not be a huge hit on our BOM cost. The same can be said for scientific experiments, medical instruments, defence technologies.

That's got to be a joke! Do you think?

Is 64bit going to make a big difference to music production? When performing computationally intensive tasks involving large datasets, then 64bit registers will provide significant benefit. If you were in science or engineering, or at a push perhaps video editing, then I'd say yes. As it stands I doubt you'll see any real benefit, and as Steve says you could potentially run into driver issues.

http://clonezilla.org will do the job. It might be worth looking at Win7 next time you flatten and start again, but if you're all set up with XP, don't worry about it.

Just get your porn from a newsagent and skip the 'genuine Rolex' offers. Over the last few years, I've been called in to fix many people's computers that have 'a virus'. More often than not it's just something they've messed up. "user32.dll? I couldn't possibly need that. I'll free up some space!" *click*

^ what he said. Also: apologies for feeding the troll. I should know better after many years on the internets. p.s. Technics are better than Vestax.

A Unix-based OS is susceptible to a virus just as Windows is. It's often argued that Windows has far fewer (identified) security holes than OSX does. Given that Apple's market share is increasing significantly, OSX will become a target. Besides, the point is becoming somewhat vague; exploits are shifting from OS vulnerabilities toward browsers, software etc., Abobe Reader being among the most targeted. But I digress... There's plenty of free disk imaging software out there. What exactly are you trying to achieve with it? Backup a fresh install with all your default software?

Even if your hardware supported iOS4, I would warn against it. All the iOS4 features worth two shits are dependent on newer hardware. iPhone 3G owners have been struggling with severely reduced speed and many have downgraded to 3.1.3, which is generally thought to be the best for all but the fastest models.

Work/gym/life -not much time for computer stuff these days. Thought I'd check in, see if the old board is still here. Much changed?

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/01/sega-urinal-games/ Sorry if this is a repost...

Much as I hate to admit it, Sky provide a decent basic service. If you have any of their other services, it also works out cheap.

A long shot, but check wake-on LAN isn't enabled. Some broadcast packets can wake up every system on a network. Also exists in newer implementations of WiFi. Could be that there's a device on your network that makes use of broadcast. Check 'Scheduled Tasks' in Control Panel, check anything that's in there. Open each task individually, and under the 'settings' tab you should find something along the lines of 'Wake this computer to start the task'. If trying the above gives you no joy, post up again. I don't check this board often but I'll try and remember to check back.