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Ah, then maybe it does have switching capability. It's not clear from the specs the manufacturer provided, so since they called it a router, I assumed that's what it was. Some manufacturers have a really annoying habit of using 'switch' and 'router' interchangeably, even though they mean two completely different things. I guess Speedtouch are one of them. Anyway, glad to hear you've got it working. If you have any more problems, let me know - after the monumental struggle it took to get the network in my house working properly, I've got quite good at troubleshooting these things.

Just to check, you are aware that even when it's fully working, the speedtouch probably won't allow you to play LAN games with other computers connected to it, right? That device is a router, which means it will only connect you to the internet, and not to any other PCs connected to it. You need to use a switch to connect devices within the LAN. As for setting it up, first of all check to make sure your network adapter is set to obtain an IP address automatically. The router acts as a DHCP server, so it should automatically assign the IP adress etc for you (in theory). You can check by going to Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections, then right clicking on the network adapter and choosing 'Properties', then selecting 'Internet Protocol Version 4' from the list and clicking the Properties button. Make sure 'Obtain an IP address automatically' and 'Obtain DNS server address automatically' are selected, and click OK. Reboot the router, and reset your network adapter (right click on it -> disable, then once it's disabled, right click -> enable), and see if it works. If it doesn't work, see if you can do a factory reset on your router; it should explain how in the manual somewhere. It should be configured with the correct settings (standard IP address, DHCP enabled, etc) by default. If it still doesn't work, you can try configuring it manually. Go to the IPv4 window again, and select 'Use the following IP address:' instead of 'Obtain an IP address automatically'. In the IP address field put 192.168.0.2, put 255.255.255.0 in the subnet mask box, and put 192.168.0.1 for the default gateway. Click OK, reboot the router and reset your adapter, and see if it works (though I doubt it will unless youre very lucky. It looks like it's more likely to be a problem with your adapter's configuration than a problem with the router. Your ipconfig results say that DHCP is disabled, which is probably why you're having trouble connecting.

I'm going to assume this is running on the Event Dispatch thread (if you're not using multiple threads, then you don't need to worry about this), if it's not, you'll need to use SwingUtilities.InvokeAndWait() to update the button. If you haven't messed around with threads, that shouldn't be a problem. AWT and Swing are probably the two worst GUI libraries I've ever had the misfortune of having to use in any language ever, so there could be any number of silly reasons why it's not working. You could try and force the button to redraw by calling repaint(), validate(), or pack() on the container it's contained in (presumably a JPanel or JFrame or something) right after you update the string, and see if any of those works. What do you mean by a 'small box'? You can create a separate class with all your random generation methods in, if that's what you mean. Could even make it static, if you don't plan to use it for anything else. Something like this: static class RandomGen { public static String[] name1 = { "a", "b", "etc" }; //more name variables etc public static String GenName() { String name = new String(); name = //name generation code here return name; } public static String GenHomeTown() { //etc } } Encapsulation is when you make a variable within a class private, and then use a method to access it - meaning you can change the variable etc within the class, without having to worry too much about other classes accessing it. eg: private String something; public String getSomething() { return something; } public void setSomething(String str) { something = str; }

What software are you using to add the .class files to the jar archive? You could try using a different one, such as IZarc or 7-zip, to see if that works. It could be the files aren't being added properly for some reason. EDIT: Just realised this thread is a bit old. Serve me right for not checking here often, I guess :P

I have an HTC Desire, and while I'll admit the battery life isn't great, it's not too bad either, depending on what I'm doing. When I'm doing something *really* intensive, like playing games with TigerGBA, the battery only lasts 2-3 hours. Under normal usage though (texts, solitaire, a bit of web browsing, the occasional phone call), it lasts around 3 days, which is acceptable. By all accounts it's better than the battery life of most Blackberries. My old Nokia N95 (one of the first smartphones) lasted about a week though, which is something I miss.

A year, not a month. RE: bandwidth calculations. 125TB of bandwidth a month. If we take your Amazon example of $2614 for 6TB of bandwidth (or $435 for 1TB) that would be a monthly bill of $54,458 ;) I know what I'm doing :) RE: traffic going down; the trend is upwards right now. Well now I feel like an idiot. That'll teach me to post while drunk, I guess :P As for the 125TB of bandwidth a month: Bloody hell. That's a pretty staggering amount, I'd never have expected that much even from a site this size. In that case, yeah, Amazon S3 is definitely not the way to go. It's good for reasonable quantities, but when you need significant amounts of something (be that storage space, bandwidth, or computing time), it quickly becomes inefficient. You could probably still make long-term savings by replacing those DELL servers, but since that would require a fairly big initial investment of capital, it would only yield benefits in the long term; and is almost certainly too expensive to afford, unless you have a huge load of cash saved up you're not telling us about. So yeah, pointless even mentioning it really. When you need to expand your file servers in the future, however, you might want to look into using something like the BackBlaze storage pods for the extra space - I've looked into them as part of a study I'm doing for my degree (looking into the possibilities for designing a national HPC centre; pretty interesting stuff), and it seems that a custom solution like that is the cheapest way to go per petabyte.

I don't mind the ads too much; the popups were extraordinarily annoying, and the ads which play sound, or worse, set off my antivirus, really make this site seem pretty dodgy. But since these flash videos don't play for me, the site usually looks fairly clean and professional, as the majority of other ads are a couple of unobtrusive banners in the corner. Anything more than that does give a bad impression, imo. If the site does cost £80,000 a month to run, then I completely understand the need for these ads, so I'm not complaining at all. But I have to say, £80,000 a month does seem like a bizarrely high running cost for a website, even one of this size. It sounds to me like there are probably quite a few cost-cutting measures you could take which would greatly reduce the need for all the intrusive ads. I don't know how much bandwidth this site uses, so obviously it's hard to give any kind of accurate estimate, but assuming the site uses around 6TB/month bandwidth, and takes up around 8TB storage space (based on your post here) then storage and bandwidth for both the site and file servers shouldn't cost you more than $2-3000 a month tops. Hell, according to my calculations (which again, may not be accurate, and certainly don't take into account all the potential factors), you could run the entire site off Amazon's S3 cloud (which is one of the more expensive storage solutions around) for $2614 a month. And that would give you a global CDN, multiple redundant backup, and unlimited expansion space, plus no need to worry about maintenance etc. You may need to add an extra $500-1000 to that cost depending on how you set things up; you'll need to take into account processor time for handling database queries etc, but nothing too significant. Amazon's EC2 HPC cluster is quite good for small tasks like hosting websites of this size. There are cheaper solutions too, in terms of monthly running cost, but they would mostly require investment in new hardware; and I doubt that's feasible. If you can afford to invest in significant amounts of new hardware, then Backblaze-style storage pods are probably the cheapest solution for storage, but that doesn't take bandwidth into account. And it would require building the system from the ground up, which would be difficult. Of course if you hire a web developer on a full-time basis, and a part time software developer, I guess that probably takes up the lion's share of the monthly cost anyway, but my point still stands: it sounds like there are some efficiency savings to be made which could mean being able to remove the more irritating ads, which in turn would make this site look a lot more professional (though it's improved massively over the past couple of years anyway). References: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ http://calculator.s3....com/calc5.html

The developers never even tried to suggest that Dungeons was supposed to be a Dungeon keeper clone. Clearly DK was a major inspiration, but they tried to do their own thing instead of just copying it, which I heartily approve of. I'm told it's actually a decent game, if you don't try and treat it as a DK clone. It was only journalists and people writing about it who tried to treat it as a DK clone, it was never actually marketed as one, and definitely shouldn't be judged as one. That said, maybe the devs should have worked a bit harder on creating a slightly more distinct art style... you can see why people got the wrong idea.

You don't need some strange program for seeing what the Bluescreen is, so I'd recommend not installing that program Erik suggested. Instead, go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Startup and Recovery Settings, and make sure 'Automatically Restart' is unchecked. That way, your PC won't restart when it BSODs, and you'll have time to see what the bluescreen says. If it mentions something like "nvdisp.dll" or "atiecl.dll" (or something vaguely similar to those), then it's a problem with your graphics drivers. If it lists something different, post it here and I'll try and offer some advice.

Do you have any links? I've been following TW2 fairly closely, and haven't heard anything about them saying that, so it must have escaped my notice somehow. As for their fans' comments, there's nothing CD Projekt can do about that, so you can't really blame them for it.

How are they disrespecting other developers, exactly? And they're not using GoG to distribute because it's a good old game, they're using it because they own it, and it's a good way to independently publish their product without having to pay a publisher loads of money to do it for them. As for the collector's edition... that's just the biggest collector's edition available. There's also a 'premium' edition, which is cheaper but has less stuff in it, and the GoG DRM-free download version also comes with a selection of bonus goodies (soundtrack, art book, etc). I think the way they're handling this is really great, it's a shame more companies don't treat their customers so well. Not to mention the various free games and GoG store credit you can get if you preorder it. There's details of all the different things here. As for the tool set... I could have sworn they've already announced that there will be one for the game, but it won't be available immediately at release? We may have to wait a month or so longer to get our hands on it.

If you are looking for a good corp to join Vin, my corp PCG Enterprises is always recruiting. Since I'm CEO, I can give you my word that I don't order people around at all :) [/shameless plug] Azrael: If you want this other corp dealt with, we might be able to come to an arrangement. My corp members are getting a bit bored atm, so trying out a bit of (cheap) mercenary work might be a nice change. Get in touch with me in-game if you're interested.

It's finally online, and I have to say I have mixed views about the new avatars. If I was a new player to the game, I'd probably really love it - the characters look so much more human, it is actually very impressive. But in some cases the changes are extremely drastic - for example, one of my characters has suddenly turned Asian. She looks amazingly realistic, just like anyone you'd meet in China or Japan, but considering I always thought of her as being English, it is a bit jarring. My main has also gone from being a wise elder type person to a fairly typical-looking muscly soldier guy, because that was the only real way I could make him. He certainly looks very different to how the old pureblood Gallente used to look. There isn't a brilliant variety of hair colours either, and very few clothes - I was hoping for a larger variety in that department, to be honest. All in all though, it's not too bad. I quite like it. And no doubt they'll be expanding the number of options even more when Incarna comes out.

A potentially cheaper alternative may be to use something like a Matrox Triplehead box. You plug all 3 monitors into the box, then plug the box into your computer - to the computer it just looks like you have one really wide monitor, but the box spreads the image out across all three. It effectively gives you one desktop of (up to) 5760x1080 resolution, which can be better than the way dual monitors are normally handled (though I don't know much about eyefinity, so I can't really compare them). http://http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/ EDIT: It would be nice if

IIRC, the electronics skill increases the amount of CPU available for fitting things, so it's worth training that up if you get a chance. There are various skills which reduce the cpu use of certain modules too.

The first thing to check is whether the problem still occurs when using a wired connection to the router, or if it only happens when using wireless. Knowing that will help narrow it down a bit. Also if you can, try it using different computers and see if they al have the same problem.

I'd finish the tutorials before joining any corp to be honest. That way you'll be a bit more prepared for the inevitable wars we sometimes end up in. :)

Fixed that for you. As for legal places to get it online, personally I prefer to use Gamersgate, since they don't put any DRM on their games - they just give you a .exe installer you can download, no need for an intrusive client or anything. They have the GOTY edition for £22.50: http://www.gamersgat...vion-goty-guide (not sure what the American price is). EDIT: whoops, wrong link. That's just the strategy guide. GG don't seem to have the actual game for some reason, which is disappointing.

So long as you use common sense, and remember that if it looks too good to be true, it probably is, you'll easily be able to avoid most scammers etc, so don't worry too much about that. :) Do all the missions for all the tutorial agents is my advice, not only will you get to experience a large variety of the different things you can do in Eve (industry, combat, exploration, etc), but you'll get a lot of useful skills and equipment for free as rewards. It's very useful. The epic mission arc is also a good choice for new players, you'll get directed to it at the end of the tutorials I think, the agent who you need to talk to for it is Sister Alitura. You should also find some friendly people to hang out with, you'll probably have lots of questions at first, so having someone to help you out is very handy. My characters are Jonan Amraphenson and Liara Amraphenson, so get in touch if you need any help with anything. Feel free to join the chat channel PCG Community if I'm not around, the guys who hang out there are a good bunch. A few people from the Nexus sometimes hang out in the XDIN channel too, so you're welcome to stop by. There are plenty of good corporations who are very helpful for new players too, so you might also consider joining them. Eve University is a well known corp dedicated to teaching new players how to play Eve well, so I highly recommend looking into them. My own corp, PCG Enterprises has a lot of new players too, so you're also welcome to join us if you like :) See you in space o7

You can add them manually by dragging the games executable into the game window. Ah, I didn't know that. Still, it lacks the ability to add descriptions and fill in missing information yourself (though it does download cover art for most games off the net), so this batch script does still do some things the explorer doesn't. If people want, I could try and make something to do the job, with a GUI etc. Shouldn't take too long to make, it seems like a simple enough project. @martinthemage: Visual Basic would also be a good language to do it in, though I'm not a fan of it myself. VB, C#, and Java are all extremely similar; once you've learned one (not hard), you've pretty much learned all three. C# and VB.NET even use the same IDE.

You'd probably do better to use a more functional programming language for something like this. Using ancient MS-DOS batch scripts seems a little silly, and is a lot of extra effort for nothing. Try writing it in C# or Java - you can probably do the same kind of thing much better, in less lines of code, and can add in all kinds of extra functionality with ease. If you're using C# in Visual Studio, or Java in Netbeans IDE, you can do a GUI pretty quickly too. Windows Vista and 7 have a game explorer which does something very similar, but adds games automatically when they're installed. It does have a habit of not adding all games though, and theres no way to manually add them that I know of, so this could come in handy if it had equivalent functionality to the default windows one.

Eve News 24 did a series of articles on RMT and botting recently, and it sounds like that's where Nadimos got his information from. It was an interesting read, part 4 ishere, and contains links to parts 1 2 and 3. The bots seem quite easy to use, and powerful, though you couldn't make 7-800mil a day with just one bot. It is possible to run several bots on a single pc though. Personally, I think CCP are doing their best to catch the people using bots (remember operation unholy rage?), it's just hard to conclusively prove that someone is using a bot, and they can't risk banning someone innocent by accident. They could do more to stop the bot software from working though, I agree.

Merry Christmas guys! The selection of fine Belgian beers I imported specially to celebrate hasn't arrived in time for christmas sadly - it's particularly annoying since I ordered a couple of things along with it to give as presents, so I've spent the day hurriedly buying chocolates etc to give tomorrow instead. Hopefully it'll be here in time for new year's though, so we can drink it then instead :D

We have almost a foot of snow down here in Cardiff too. Considering we're usually just about the only part of the UK to not get any snow at all (except for the odd sprinkling which never settles), I can't begin to imagine how bad it must be further north. Been having massive trouble getting home from uni for christmas because of it - we can't get the car out of our street, so there's no way to bring all my luggage home until it clears up. My PC is too big to take on the train. On the plus side, watching the constant stream of cars trying to climb the hill outside my house, only to slide all the way back down the street again never gets old. :D

I have to agree that female shepard is better - the voice acting especially is far superior, though I'll admit neither of them are much good. I generally prefer to play as female characters in most games anyway though - I figure most of the game is spent looking at the main character's arse, so it may as well be a nice one.