Only improved via HDMI and other digital interfaces... SCART is the only standard RGB and/or YC and/or composite with stereo audio and a couple of spare pins. It's pretty much still standard even on the latest greatest flat panels too.

Until HDMI sorts out issues with possible DRM and other compatibility issues, RGB analog with one SCART is way easier than five RCA/cinch plugs...

Thanks for your reply.

As I think you know, one single solution isn't going to cut it. Probably it's best to trial web scans, other products and specificially targetted spyware / trojan detectors alongside specific products, and to watch the market carefully.

You also can't tell (unless of course you ran a full scan with AVG) whether the user proactively scanned using the product, or just failed to understand that on-access scanning is one link in the chain of security.

As for link scanner, I totally agree. An utter crock of shit.

I've read a lot of reviews (Gizmo freeware, for example) : http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anti-virus-software.htm which don't support this view.

Kaspersky seems to not have won out too well recently too.

Can you post a link to back up your argument?

Yahoo works for me. pop.mail.yahoo.fr on port 995 - SSL. It's free, but the Yahoo site seems to suggest it's a premium service. Maybe it's just because I've had my account for so long...

I have POP3 access to my Yahoo mail for free. Now, I signed up for it about 7 or 8 years ago so maybe it's a privilege for "old" accounts... but they definitely don't force me to pay anything at all.

Fair point Peter, but a chipset that's integrated onboard on any major brand laptop should be supported in Linux in *theory*, but some are perhaps not too auto-detectable & auto-configurable.

There are two possibilities

1. Your WiFi chipset isn't supported in Linux, for some reason like no available documentation & chipset being rare or something

2. You're not asking the question in the right way. I reckon you can probably get most WiFi working, or you can buy an inexpensive USB wifi dongle (say $20) that does work in Linux.

Which is worth more, your time to get support for a particular piece of hardware, or a quick trip to an ecommerce shop to drop $20 on known good hardware?

It was tongue in cheek remark. But anyway, of course you can control outbound links, but I'm talking about people spending more time (on certain sites) varying their outbound links. If all you do is link to Wikipedia all the time, then your posts aren't as interesting as if you spend time researching little niche articles. Those niche articles will have lower rankings and probably benefit more from your link than Wikipedia.

I wasn't talking about it as an SEO tactic (for your own site) at all.

You can get the answers by asking slashdot too.

Tin = Sn = Atomic number 50 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin]

Google directly replies with 50 if you ask "what is the atomic number of tin"

Chickens = 300 eggs/year = 5.77 a week [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken]

Second result in Google for "how many eggs does a chicken lay in a week" contains the answer in the summary.

So, you can just ask Google these questions in natural language and it's not bad at all, quicker than scanning the Wikipedia article (esp. for Chicken)

Wikipedia is the first result for chicken and for tin.

Britannica is "full text for subscribers only" so you can understand just why Wikipedia is linked to so much. You don't have to write a paragraph to explain something any more, you just link to Wikipedia. That's why it's so highly ranked for many terms.

The worry of course is that high ranked sources of encyclopedic information are self sustaining. Why link anywhere else... do you have time to find anywhere better when you've got a post or article to write?

Maybe sometimes we should think more about our outgoing links, spreading the juice around more evenly... but then we should all drive more economically and eat better too ;-).

Makes sense, and explains why I didn't have too many issues with it either, cheers

Unbelievable but true: I ran WinME on my home machine for quite some time with little ill effects. Apart from some hardware incompatibilities I've read about, what was _so_ bad about it?

Anyone stupid enough to read this article and decide avoid the Internet because it is a hive of scum & villany is just one less stupid person on the net in the first place. So much the better.

Old Skool GSM is 9.6kbps, aligned with the fax standard. Anything above that is something else (maybe UTMS?)

Obviously quite a few, because I know several Blackberry owners and clearly unlimited data is just not a priority for any people outside of 24/7 tech support...