Spooky

Hi all, and thanks for reading. We at ChatCore are on the lookout for new guides for our chat service. I cant give you pay!!! but i can offer you staff benefits via our VPN. I am looking for dedicated people who can ofer a few hours per week to help our users get the best service posible. If you can help or just wish to chat regarding being a helpdesk/room guide please PM or email me.

They must have known they were going to be on camera because some of them had their make-up on lol

I feel the same, i used to enjoy chat and all that went with it but as time has gone on ive moved more and more away from it. I pop into the occasional room just for a look but on the whole i would say its not an interest i have anymore. If i think about all the hours ive spent in chatrooms it would scare me lol. Now i have more time to do other things i enjoy.

Easy way to do it is to create the room, then go the helpdesk and have a sysop/guide come in and set the room key for you to whatever you want.

Ive had a few of these numbers come up on my phone, as i have caller id on my home phone i generally ignore them. My wife did answer one and it was a foreign call centre offering us a t-mobile phone contract.

I wish all a very happy christmas and a very good 2010. Take care all and stay safe.

I certainly wouldnt consider that spam, thanks for letting us know koach.

As Travis said, it only disables the throttle and the engine still runs, so it wouldnt have any effect on the ABS, Power Steering etc..That said, a throttle works by cable so i cant see how it would only disable the throttle!!

The internet is on the brink of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented 40 years ago", the net regulator Icann has said. The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters. The proposal - initially approved in 2008 - would allow domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts. The body said if the final plans were approved on 30 October, it would accept the first applications by 16 November. The first Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) could be up and running by "mid 2010" said the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). "Of the 1.6 billion internet users today worldwide, more than half use languages that have scripts that are not Latin-based," said Rod Beckstrom at the opening of Icann's conference in Seoul, South Korea. "So this change is very much necessary for not only half the world's internet users today but more than half, probably, of the future users as the internet continues to spread." Relaxed rules Plans for ILDs were approved at a meeting in June 2008. However, testing of the system has been going on for much longer, said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the board in charge of reviewing the change. "You have to appreciate what a fantastically complicated technical feature this is," he said. "What we have created is a different translation system." The changes will be applied to the net's Domain Name System. This acts like a phone book, translating easily understood domain names such as bbc.co.uk into strings of computer readable numbers known as IP addresses. The tweaks will allow this system to recognise and translate the non-Latin characters. "We are confident that it works because we have been testing it for a couple of years," said Mr Dengate Thrush. "We're really ready to start rolling it out." Some countries, such as China and Thailand, have already introduced workarounds that allow computer users to enter web addresses in their own language. However, these were not internationally approved and do not necessarily work on all computers. The meeting in South Korea will also discuss its plans to introduce generic Top Level Domains (TLDs), such as .uk or .com. Last year, the body voted to relax rules on TLDs meaning companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names. Icann, set up by the US government, was founded in 1998 to oversee the development of the net. Last month, after years of criticism, the US government eased its control over the non-profit body. It signed a new agreement that gave Icann autonomy for the first time. The agreement came into effect on 1 October and puts it under the scrutiny of the global "internet community".

I dont like the idea of that system at all. I would much rather just have a tracker fitted.

For the past 5 years i have always used AVG and Zonealarm. As far as i know, i have never had a bad infection. As well as using this protection i regularly clean my pc using CCleaner.

HD TV is filmed using HD cameras, totaly different from normal or non HD cameras. Yes you can watch HD TV on a normal TV with an improved picture quality, however, using a HD TV with programmes recorded on HD cameras will give a much better viewing experience. To put it another way....there is no point having a really good sound card with rubbish speakers or really good speakers with a rubbish sound card. Hope this helps.

Some great points raised. It is ESSENTIAL to have some form of protection when online these days.

Intel and Microsoft say the Windows 7 operating system (OS) will give "better battery life and quicker boot times". The firms made the claim at a press event in San Francisco where engineers put the new OS through its paces. Microsoft is hoping its new system will perform as promised and avoid a repeat of the negative publicity associated with Windows Vista. Both firms said they had collaborated more closely than ever before to deliver a product "they are proud of". "We both made a larger investment than ever before on the engineer side to improve on the hardware and software," Microsoft's Mike Angiulo told the BBC. The two firms, colloquially known as Wintel, said that the partnership involved hundreds of engineers and was started the day after Windows Vista was released more than two years ago. "We have spent 20 years getting to know each other and have businesses that are very well aligned," said Steve Smith, vice-president of Intel's digital enterprise group. Dean Takahashi of technology blog VentureBeat said that Microsoft's previous OS - the heavily criticised Windows Vista - had to be improved upon. "The collaboration was in the name of making Windows 7 better and more bug-free than the January 2007 launch of Windows Vista, which was broadly criticised in the industry and was one of the best advertisements for buying a Mac in history," he said. Energy efficiency At a media launch in San Francisco, engineers put Windows 7 and the underlying Intel chip technology through a few of its paces to show the advancements they have made on previous operating systems, namely Windows XP and Vista. These included claims of energy efficiency, security, and performance responsiveness. Among the demos was one that showed two identical Lenovo T400 laptops playing a video. One used Windows 7 while another used Vista. Engineers claimed power savings up to 20% using Windows 7 Microsoft says that The Windows 7 machine saw a 20% gain in power efficiency thanks to something called "timer coalescing" . This keeps the processor in low power states as long as possible to extend battery life. "We're achieving a very significant amount of battery savings," said Microsoft's principal programme manager Ruston Panabaker, who would not be drawn on exactly how much overall battery life Windows 7 will save. Wintel engineers said the end performance would depend on how PC manufacturers configured their machines. The same explanation was given following an example where engineers booted the system up in just 11 seconds. "What we showed today was real capability in actual scenarios," Intel's Mr Smith told BBC News. "But the final choice of what is on the retail shelf is something the OEMs (manufacturers) will configure." Ina Fried of CNET, who has covered Microsoft for more than five years, said this issue had, in the past, been something of a hurdle for Microsoft and Intel. "One of the challenges of the Windows eco-system is in order for the computer users to get the benefit of all this work, it's down to what choices the PC maker makes. It requires them all to be talking to one another all the time. "In the Vista time-frame, we saw not necessarily the kind of communication that leads to happy users and I think they have really tried to address that this time. "We will see how far they have really got when we see those Windows systems shipping in October," Ms Fried told BBC News.

The world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones will join the PC market with its Booklet 3G netbook. The Windows-based device is about 2cm thick and will offer 3G connectivity as well as wi-fi. Analysts said the laptop was a "natural extension" of the company's product range but the firm would face stiff competition. Nokia will release price and availability information at an event in Stuttgart on 2 September. The Booklet has an aluminium case, weighs 1.25 kilograms (2.75 lbs) and its 10-inch screen is HD-ready. Nokia has released a number of small, "tablet"-style internet-enabled devices in the past to mixed reviews, but this is the first effort which is claimed to be a full-function PC. "A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility," said Kai Oistamo, Nokia's executive vice president for devices. "We are in the business of connecting people and the Nokia Booklet 3G is a natural evolution for us." Crowded market The Booklet also has integrated Bluetooth, GPS, a webcam and an SD card reader. Nokia claims it has a 12-hour battery life. But if the Booklet has an edge in the crowded netbook market, it may lie in the device's heritage. "Nokia now faces new and different competitors for the Booklet that are strong in the laptop PC space such as Dell, HP and Sony that are weak or non-existent players in mobile phones," wrote Forrester analyst Ian Fogg on his blog. Mr Fogg said the Booklet's unique selling point was an "internal mobile broadband card with a SIM slot." "Other netbooks rely on external USB mobile broadband modems for Internet access," he wrote on his blog. "The presence of this internal wireless modem is why the Booklet 3G is a natural extension to Nokia's traditional phone handset product range."