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Completely Unrelated / Re: What addware or virus is on my computer?

« on: 2008-02-23 01:08:09 »

I had this problem a few times before, and I tried a myriad of different tools to get rid of it.

In the end the only one that worked was HijackThis.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: For Ski Jumping Fans

« on: 2008-02-23 01:04:43 »

my opinion = skiing is boring compared to boarding

im Aussie and i like to snow board

My cousin who is an alright skier swapped with his mate who is an alright snowboarder and they both set off down an easy red run,
my cousin got to the end of the run and fell over twice, then his other friend had a go and also completed the run without any problem.
However the snowboarder got absolutely nowhere with the skis and gave up before he got 1/4 of the way down, he couldn't stop
falling over.

Which leads me to believe that people with no patience prefer snowboarding to skiing because its easier to get into.

Plus you guys are on the bottom of the planet and obviously all the blood is rushing to your head making you think crazy 

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What consoles do you all own?

« on: 2006-11-25 20:28:19 »

Consoles I own:

Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64
Dreamcast
Gamecube
Playstation 2
Xbox
Xbox 360

Least played (over their lifetime) would be the ps2, most would be the Super Nes.

Out of the latest generation I'd buy a Wii or a 360 if I were you (its what I'm doing). Ps3 seems to offer nothing that the 360 doesn't in terms of games, and from what I have read the 360 is better for a whole host of reasons.  Plus I can actually play 360 now and PS3 isn't out until march.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: GHZ Wars with RAM!!!!

« on: 2006-10-08 22:53:40 »

My PC 5300 hits 1 Ghz 

And my processor is 70% overclocked.

Intel E6300 @ 3.15 Ghz (7x450), I turned it down from 7x500 because of heat issues.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Hate to use this forum as a computer advice column, but...

« on: 2006-10-08 12:32:21 »

True the X-Fi music is a very good card if it works. However, they have compatibility issues with Nforce 4 motherboards that result in crackling sound which cannot be fixed. Check out the creative forums to find out if its compatable with your board.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: I am under martial law.

« on: 2006-09-20 12:46:37 »

So is this coup widely supported then?

It seems from your post as though it would be a good thing as long as democracy gets restored.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: University

« on: 2006-09-02 18:41:43 »

So how do people react to the loners and the computer literate?  Or both rolled into one?

Well a lot of people are computer literate anyway, and nows your chance to no longer be a loner. Make friends.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: University

« on: 2006-09-02 14:01:29 »

Kings College, how about you?

I'll be going to UCL to do Physics! Have you got your accomadation sorted out yet? I'm going to be living in Camden  .

I'm going into my second year and I live at home. I have a place next year for a house in New Cross because I can't really afford to move out for more than 1 year.

Well I've heard uni has alot more people, which suits me because I'm a people person. Lectures are meant to be very strict and no talking, I don't know about tutorials. I'm guessing uni is like everything else in life, its as good as you make it.

More people is an understatement. You can get away with talking in lectures because the lecturers assume that you discuss what they are talking about amoungst yourselves. I have however used this as an opportunity to demonstrate my knowledge of the film cool runnnings, complete with accents. A mate of mine got up mid lecture and asked the lecturer where he got his hair cut (we were all a bit drunk...shouldn't give us 5pm lectures really...).

Tutorials are fairly informal but you get a right bollocking if you don't turn up (I missed one because my car broke down).

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Completely Unrelated / Re: University

« on: 2006-08-31 17:08:06 »

Well guys, only a few more weeks to Uni, if you're in the UK. What are you guys doing and where are you going? Anyone else here going to London?

Kings College, how about you?

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Friends

« on: 2006-08-25 00:17:22 »

MOT, what happened involving that girl? I hope I'm not being too nosy!

Its detailed quite well elsewhere on the forums, however I shall sum it up for you here (it's a classic boy meets girl tale):

November: Boy breaks up with a girl, meets new girl. New girl likes boy, boy not ready for relationship. Boy and new girl become friends.
December: Uni break, boy and new girl email and text constantly.
January: New girl meets new guy, new girl completely ignores boy.
February: New girl randomly talks to boy when she is bored, she is obviously still attracted from all the comments she makes and way she acts.
March: Boy tells new girl where to go because he is tired of being ignored when it suits new girl. New girl apologises and follows boy round for a few days.
April: Boy goes away for a week, on the journey home new girl texts constantly. Over next few days a hundred or so texts are received so new girl gets msn. Boy and new girl get on really well, and talk constantly.
May: New girl randomly tells boy that she only thinks of him as a friend. Boy not bothered since he is chasing 3 other girls. New girl decides she wants attention and constantly flirts. Boy ignores it.
June: New girl asks boy out on date, boy goes and has fun. New girl asks guy out on another date then 3 more 3 days in a row. New girl then tells boy over msn that she is going to sleep with him. Later new girl texts boy to tell him she really likes him and asks him to come round the next day. Next day they lie in the park, apparently all the clouds look like hearts and inspire love in the girl. Girl then invites boy back to hers. Boy walks through the door and girl ignores him for 2 hours then boy gives up and goes home. Girl then ignores boy for a day, boy asks whats going on as he thought they had something good going on. Girl says she just wants to stay friends. Boy asks girl what happened, girl tells boy it was all a joke and boy got the wrong end of the stick. Girl then decides to not talk to boy and blame him because she does not want to answer any difficult questions, such as how can she joke about liking someone.
July: Girl comes up to boy in bar and acts like nothing is wrong, boys best friend is restrained by her friend from punching girl in face. Boy ignores girl and girl stares at boy for 20 minutes before boy and friends move bar. Boy sends email to girl asking for his stuff back, girl ignores. Boy gets girl on msn, she says she will get stuff back to him and reveals that she has been dating 4 guys at once. Boy gets slightly annoyed. 2 Weeks later boy still hasn't got his stuff so sends nasty email. Girl replies and tells him its his fault she hasn't done what she said and that its his fault that they are no longer friends. Boy gets girl to mail him his stuff then rolls over and goes back to sleep (with best friend  ). Boy never hears from girl again.

My friends think she was annoyed that I didn't care when she said she wanted to be friends the first time and decided to try and get me to like her so she could do that to me. Apparently she is quite the manipulative cow.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Friends

« on: 2006-08-22 01:50:26 »

I fell out of contact with everyone of my primary school friends and I am not that interested in seeing my university friends out of university.

The way it seems to me is that at school/uni etc you will automatically group with people to avoid being on your own, but the people you first group with are not necessarily the sort of people you would usually choose as friends. Thats why nearly all my friends are from secondary school, by the end of year 13 you have worked out who your real friends are.

There was really only one person from uni I would have considered a proper friend and she turned out to be the nastiest piece of work I have ever had the misfortune to deal with. 

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Message from Jari

« on: 2006-08-22 01:43:25 »

Jari reminds me a lot of a friend of mine. She keeps promising to leave her boyfriend but in the end always comes back for more.

I was away for ages and missed what went on with you lot and how everything got into such a mess. Surely now the best plan is to leave for good, and everybody stops posting messages from other people?

Might I humbly suggest that what appears to be a rather personal issue between members is kept out of the public domain and stays confined to email?

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Learn from my mistake...

« on: 2006-07-19 13:12:53 »

In the UK if you refuse a breath test it is seen as an admission of guilt so the penalty is exactly the same as failing the test. Plus the judges see it as being uncooperative with the police so you will get maximum penalty for it - which would have been worse than the one I did get.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Learn from my mistake...

« on: 2006-07-12 10:20:58 »

Right, just got back from court. I was fined £243 and banned from driving for 20 months reduced to 15 on completion of a driver awareness course.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: The death of MxTabs

« on: 2006-07-10 23:48:08 »

I get most of my tabs from www.911tabs.com and I think most of the mxtabs archive can be downloaded from bittorrent?

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What is friendship?

« on: 2006-07-10 23:47:20 »

Argh! I was out with a few friends this evening, and I was talking to them and suddenly I heard 'hello', I turned round at it was her. So I turned back to my friends and she kept trying to talk to me. So I spoke to her for about a minute and she kept trying to get me away from my friends and come upstairs to dance with her, so I told her 3 times that I was staying put. Anyway she said she would see me later and walked off. All of my friends wanted to knock her block off, but refrained. Anyway 5 minutes later some guy I didn't know asked me why I was getting death stares from some random girl (who turned out to be her) and I turned round and she scampered off. At this point we left and went elsewhere. None of us could believe that she dared try and talk to me, but it reminded me she owed me a dvd so I just blasted off this message, which I thought was well done:

'Seeing you tonight made me realise that you still owe me my dvd. You have had it for about 3 weeks and as far as I am aware its a 2 hour film, if you are having trouble you might want to try setting the language to english since you will find you will get through it faster that way. Anyway let me know when I can have that back'

I am so livid that she just acted like there was nothing wrong, I think I might need to hire a hitman on this one.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What is friendship?

« on: 2006-07-05 11:12:04 »

Well I found out the truth.

I was going into Croydon with a few friends and I saw her walking down the road arm in arm with another guy, who happens to be her ex boyfriend. She told me once that they only split up because he was going to university halfway up the other side of the country.

All I can assume is that he sent her a message at some point when we were out saying he wanted to see her, and that explains why she just randomly went funny with me.

Feels like I have been smacked in the stomach.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Learn from my mistake...

« on: 2006-07-03 00:56:11 »

4 bottles of cheap low strength beer over 5 hours. Was fine until I drank whatever it was I was given before I left. I just wasn't in my right mind, when I left my friends they didn't want me to drive home. It wasn't because they thought I was drunk it was because they thought I was going to do something stupid like kill myself.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What is friendship?

« on: 2006-07-02 23:29:45 »

Right I thought I'd blast a final update on here to let you guys know what happened.

Basically thursday she emailed and asked to speak to me on msn, so I came online, as I thought she might have decided that I was worth it after all.

Anyway I don't know if I mentioned it but when I first met her I was still getting over someone else, she was after me, and I made it clear I wasn't wanting a relationship. She told me that she had got upset that I had rejected her and didn't know what to do, so initially she tried to not talk to me any more, but she was so angered that anyone dared to reject her that she started talking to me again to find out why. She then decided that I deserved to be got back for it (bearing in mind this was just after christmas) she decided to play me. So at first she was just randomly ignoring then being really friendly to try and upset me, but when I stopped talking to her she decided she had to do something stronger. So she decided to try and seduce me. She got me to a point where I was going to ask her out then told me she thought of me as a friend and nothing more, however that time she didn't get the response she desired because I just said fine and wasn't bothered. Obviously she was hoping for a little more so she decided to try again, this time culminating in her telling me she liked me so that I would say the same. Obviously this time it worked because I got very angry and upset. She then said she was happy that she got her revenge and that she doesn't like me or what to talk to me any more.

The events of later in the evening, as detailed in the other thread, are pretty much a direct result of her telling me this. I couldn't believe she could carry a grudge that long or do what she did the whole time just to get back at me for rejecting her. It seems so completely insane to be almost beyond belief, but it does make sense now.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Learn from my mistake...

« on: 2006-07-01 14:47:04 »

Pedestrian crossing = little raised concrete island in the middle of the road, pedestrians cross to the middle, then can cross the whole way. I have hit them quite a few times with similar effects on the car.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Learn from my mistake...

« on: 2006-06-30 19:08:29 »

No I couldn't sleep.

I was too annoyed with myself for being such a fool.

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Completely Unrelated / Learn from my mistake...

« on: 2006-06-30 14:57:51 »

Last night I went out with some friends, I had the intention of driving home so I didn't drink much, just a couple of beers that were bought for me (bottles not pints). Then at 3am we left, however just before leaving my mate got me a drink which for some reason I decided to chug back.

I got in my car and drove home. About 5 minutes from my house I started feeling drunk, but thought I'd be alright because it was 3am and I was almost home. As I drove down the road a stone flicked up and smashed one of the glass panels that make up the roof of my car. In the shock I clipped a pedestrian crossing and punctured a tyre. This also caused the fuel cutoff to fire. I tried to restart the car, but couldn't get it going and started feeling properly drunk. I had no idea what the drink I had was but it was very strong. At this point another car pulled up behind me and offered to help, I explained everything and said I was just going to try and push the car off the road and come back to it tomorrow. We put the car on the side of the road and I just had a quick look under the bonnet. I then sat in the car for a moment to collect all the stuff that was nickable. At this moment the police turned up.

One of the people that had helped me move the car had thought it was stolen because of the glass panel and had informed them. The police came up to me and started questioning me, and then said it was routine to administer a breathalyser. Probably also to do with the fact that I stank of beer due to a girl pouring it over my head earlier, because I sat down tired for a bit. I failed the breath test, which I knew I would.

I was then arrested and taken to the police station where I was put in a cell to await another breath test on a more sophisticated machine. The whole time I was getting drunker and drunker. I then failed the second test and was placed in a cell until the morning, police cells are cold places. The next morning I was taken to the front desk where I was given the following charges:

Drive With Excess Alcohol
Use Vehicle Without Insurance
Use Vehicle Without Test Cert
Drive Not According to Licence.

The bottom 3 will be dropped on production of all my documents at the local police station. However the top one requires me to go to court and I will be banned from driving for 12 months, I will also face a large fine.

So people please learn from my error, if you are intending to drive don't drink at all. Especially don't knock one back just before leaving. I think had I not had that one I would have been under the limit and was probably ok when I set off, but hindsight is 20/20.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What is friendship?

« on: 2006-06-27 19:47:25 »

That's one sharp sword...and one bad temper...

I don't tend to lose my temper but I did that time. The batteries catch fire if you pierce them

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What is friendship?

« on: 2006-06-27 01:41:31 »

She sent me a few messages this evening basically saying she wanted nothing more to do with me and that I was a terrible friend to start with. She was obviously hoping to upset me and it worked. I chopped my phone apart with a sword in my anger

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What is friendship?

« on: 2006-06-26 00:33:20 »

Well that didn't last long, she got in contact with me at 6pm Sunday.

Basically she tried to explain why she didn't want to go out with me, unfortunatly she lied to me and contradicted herself in the same conversation. One minute I wasn't her type, and the next she admitted that that wasn't the real reason.

I think that she loves being single too much and that she was intending to keep me waiting whilst she could have fun. Basically she knew I liked her and would give attention and she thought she could just take the bits she wanted and leave the rest.  She basically told me a load of stuff that didn't make sense and denied everything.

I got quite upset talking to her about it because I thought that she could at least do me the favour of telling the truth. She got quite angry with me, I think that had I just kept going along with her something would have happened eventually because I still maintain the signs were there, but I couldn't mentally take any more waiting.