Recent content by mod81

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    Why are trees the dominant form of life in science fiction?

    well the oldest living things are trees, there are trees in the desserts of the middle east that they have dated that are over 4000 years old! So trees growing today will still be knocking about when we are all dead and buried Can you tell i have been watching discovery over the weekend :D
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    Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop (Dell says not compatible)

    I am using a Dell Inspirion 1501 running Windows 7 home while i write this, Since i got the laptop which originally came with Vista home which i found was slower than my old laptop running XP so i 'downgraded' the 1501 to xp and happily ran it on that for sometime until my hdd went and so i...
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    Can XP Drivers be loaded w/o floppy drive

    XP 64bit is not very well supported by most hardware vendors as it came out at a time when 64 bit was fairly new on the desktop and just before Vista showed it face so you may find getting device drivers a pain. I have ran xp on a dual 3ghz xeon box with 3 gb of memory and fast scsi drives and...
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    anti virus recommendations

    Agreed Avira is very good and free or you can pay a little extra for the full version which won't periodlically nag you to buy. If you can get a hold of it then sophos is a very good AV package but they mainly available for large corps than small business.
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    How much can you eat at one sitting?

    our local Indian restraunt does an all you can eat for 9.99 on a wednesday evening, they regret offering that when me and my buddies turn up after a few beers.