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what the shit…something is eating my ram….

The past couple days I have been experiencing something strange. I have 2 gigs of ram in my machine but keep on getting virtual memory warnings. Something is slowly occupying all of the ram on my machine. It increases by 1 MB every second or so. Nothing in TasK Manager is using 2 gigs of [...]

Computer only sees 2.5Gb’s of my 4Gb’s of ram

I recently built a new computer and originally had 2Gb of RAM in a Gigabyte mobo. I decided that since this was my main rig and HTPC combined that it could benefit from the cheap prices of additional ram.
I added two more sticks of 1Gb ram (so 2Gb total).
When I boot the PC the [...]

opera 9.5 = shit

i blame user error. either that or piracy. i think that’s the only options, he’s an idiot or a thief.
(just kidding)While I won’t outright condemn it as shit (I like a lot of things about it) I’ve been having problems with it too. Crazy memory usage, pages not loading (get stuck on [...]

Duo vs Quad Core + comp specs

So I was talking to this guy at a computer company, and he basically said I’d be better off with an awesome Duo core computer than an decent quad core system. Among the reasons he gave, the main one was that most programs don’t make use of the quad core. So basically, it’s a waste [...]

Firefox and spam

The other day I went to one of those streaming moving sites like joox and ended up with a spam program called windows antivirus xp installing on my computer and my desktop background changing telling me I have spam.
I didnt even click anything and this thing installed.
I managed to get rid of it but now [...]

Trying to run CS 1.6 on my laptop

As the title explains, I have a laptop with the following specs:
Core 2 Duo 1.66
2GB ram
Intel 965 express chipset shared video
I can run CS 1.6 right now but when I’m in firefights or on zombie maps my FPS drops to like 5 and makes it impossible to aim etc. I know the graphics card [...]