Not all malware is a virus, just about every virus is malware. Viruses aren't all that useful to people who are trying to steal your bank details, because they're indiscriminate.

Slashdot does not allow edits for a reason. Editing troll posts 24 hours afterwards makes for very disjointed discussion, and makes other people look stupid.

I read all the Wheel of Time books until about 7 or 8, after which I lost interest. However, I've currently nearly finished listening to the total series on audiobook (half way through a memory of light). It's 19 days, 5 hrs, 25min long, so if anyone spoils the end for me now, I may well be a little pissed off.

No, I won't be reading any replies to this comment.

Never heard of autocon. I'd bet it used some of that 640k though.

Salt, and water. That's about it.

Anyone who buys a graphics card based on how much memory it has is going to be disappointed. It's _way_ cheaper to chuck mediocre cards out with lots of RAM than it is to produce good cards.

Benchmarks, benchmarks, benchmarks, people. Don't look at what it is called, or how much memory it has, look at what it _does_. I'm talking about real world gaming benchmarks here, not 3dmark or anything. And yes, they do manipulate these a bit, but it's much, much harder to manipulate them.

All that being said, this is a shitty move by nvidia.

My autoexec.bat by the end was just a menu with 7 options at the start, with it jumping to the right parts depending on the thing I wanted to run. The config.sys was not as easy to automate - you just had to rename the files and reboot. Getting DOOM to run on 4 separate computers together back then was.... challenging, especially if you didn't run IPX natively. It was possible, though, and when I got doom set up 4 person multiplayer, it was a revelation at the time for me and my friends. This was 20 years ago, and it was new. One of the computers was a 386, and (unsurprisingly) had a pretty awful FPS rate... the worst players always seemed to end up on that one ;).

And yes, I did have different autoexecs for every machine.

When upgrading from 2k, installing Vista, on a brand new computer, I had a load of problems with it. I needed newer versions of directx, being a gamer, which were not available with 2k. It'd BSOD at a certain point in the installation, without fail. I didn't have the internet by other means, so I thought.... why not just try to boot off of the old 2k hard drive? This was just a HD spat in a new system, no messing with it at all.

It booted in 640*480, and I was amazed. Standards FTW. I managed to connect to the internet (after a while), and then find my problem (which was not my problem).

It turns out it was the original Vista not working with nforce motherboards with more than 4gb RAM installed, at all...

The solution was to install Vista with 2gb, then add the other memory later after having applied a hotfix.

Since then Vista has been good to me, I've had good uptime (4 months+), and constant stability.... but I'll always remember 2k.

No one *needs* to hear the engine noise to know when to shift. Feeling the car's velocity and knowing what gear one's in is sufficient information most of the time.

Tell me exactly how one "feels the cars velocity"? When you're going a set speed, there is no feeling at all. Relying on a change of direction to tell you which way to steer is awkward.

If you meant visual cues (but didn't say it), they can be less useful in lots of circumstances. I personally know corners by aural engine speed and other feedback, and learning them again in a different car is different.

NA and turbo engines sound different, but they're both awesome.

I drive an Integra type R, 1.8 litre NA, and I don't mind if it "farts" once in a while. This is not because it's not "tuned right".

For driving a manual car the engine noise serves a purpose too, but it's getting more and more rare even here in Europe.

To be fair, automatics have been getting better and better recently. Most new lorries are automatic (I learnt with a 16 speed gearbox on my HGV test, though). As long as there's a separate test in the UK for automatics and manuals, most people will take the manual test. There's talk of allowing HGV tests being allowed to be taken in automatics currently, though.

Note that anyone taking their HGV test will already have passed their car test in a manual.

I drive a 1.8 litre 4 pot normally aspirated Japanese 4 seat hatchback, mainly because it didn't cost much (£2,500, used obviously), it is reliable (1 major breakdown in 5 years), hasn't cost anything for basic maintenance (2 new full set of tyres for £100 a set in 5 years, literally no oil except for services (it doesn't lose any)), and can get 30mpg or so.

It also does 0-60 in 6 point something seconds or so, has a top speed of 150, and sounds amazing naturally.

I don't treat it right, either. I play with lift off oversteer a lot, and rev the engine to 9000 rpm or so when accelerating.

Now the bad : It's useless as a long distance cruiser, it sits at over 4000rpm in 5th gear at 70mph, it hasn't got a 6th, if you want good mpg you're going to have to sit at 50. Added to that, it is more noisy because it's got lots of sound insulation stripped from it as standard. Also, insurance isn't that great either, I'm currently paying £400 or so (which is a lot, because I'm almost the lowest risk there is). That's about it.

Integra Type R DC2. I bought it because it sounds amazing. I kept it because it was.

LOL, there's an advertising slogan if ever I heard one.

If you poke a bear cub with a stick long enough, its mom might come and maul the shit out of you.

Yeah... you do know that bears are not people, right? We generally try to hold Muslims to higher standards than we do bears.

"Non-profit" does not mean they're not paying their employees massive salaries, and never did. I don't know where people got the idea that non-profits had to pay their employees less.

XP will go down in history as the best OS made. Ever.

Win2k was better.