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Well at the end of the day PC technology is upgrading so quickly that the whole argument is fairly pointless. Sure turning your computer on/off will slowly kill all the components and the thing will eventually stop and die. Having said that by the time this ends up happening (>5 years) technology will be so far ahead you will have most likely (or at least be thinking about) upgrading the computer anyway. The other end of the scale, motherboard capacitors are only rated for an X amount of hours, so leaving your computer on will bring on 'D-Day' a lot sooner than it would by turning it on/off. But again in reality by the time this amount of hours is through, you will be pretty much due for an upgrade anyway. So really, save your power money and switch it off If power isn't an issue then leave it on

+1 to everything he said.

Well basically dual monitors work well out of the box except the taskbar isn't displayed on both screens. So any programs you have running over on the 2nd screen, the icon is actually placed on the taskbar on the 1st primary screen, which is a tad annoying. So ultramon places the windows taskbar on the 2nd monitor and it basically works very well. Ultramon also has settings for wallpapers, screensaves, right click buttons which allow you to switch and scretch programs across monitors easily etc etc. It is a very handy program, although there are probably others out there.. Edit: It also has a 30day free trial, so grab it and have a play.

Its very easy to implement 2 monitors. It is also very useful. Together with software such as Ultramon (used to extend the taskbar over multiple monitors) it makes work as well as play very easy. For instance I do a lot of web development and programming work, so i'll have my IDE's open in one montior for coding, whilst browsing/testing/researching from the other monitor. It saves clutter and it also saves having to alt-tab between the IDE and Browser etc. Also at home I tend to have irc open in one monitor whilst doing everything else in the other, again meaning alt-tab isn't needed etc. Also good for running Virtual Machines etc. As for impletmenting, then you're going to need a graphics card or onboard graphics that allows multiple montiors. You'll find most Motherboards/Graphics cards these days are pretty much guarenteed to have this feature so that takes care of that. As for different adapters I don't really know what the story is with vga->hdmi (in terms of getting full HD out of it) so really it's up to you. MY graphics card has one DVI port and ond HDMI port, but both monitors only have VGA/DVI. So I obviously got a hdmi->dvi adapter for use and it works well.

Something like http://shoutcast.serverroom.us/ might be a good option if you want to just do a radio. Google 'Shoutcast Hosting' to have a look at other options. There are plenty out there

mySQL is the name of a very popular open sourced database. Most often used in relation with PHP. Unlimited just means you can create unlimited (duh) mySQL databases. If you are just using this hosting for your radio then you won't need these. Likewise cPanel is a popular control panel used to manage your web hosting. From this panel you can setup databases, email accounts, ftp accounts, use a file manager etc etc etc. This is possibly a little overkill for just managing a shoutcast server but it does give you head room for the possibility of setting up a website/forum/blog etc in the future.

Oh that is awesome. Thanks error

wow this could be fun. Anyone happen to have DestinyX lying around? That must of been one of the first I used i'm pretty sure

I usually just hang on a few different irc servers that mates run, or rizon etc

If you look in your programs menu (Click windows logo >> All Programs), At the top of that list you will see 'Internet Explorer' and 'Internet Explorer (64-bit)'. Just make sure you're opening the non 64-bit version and you should be fine. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit as well. 64-bit versions of windows are usually shipped with both 32 and 64-bit Internet Explorer.

@ is generally host there is also % for halfop although different irc software have different modes (eg the . and ' etc)

I think hes only talking about Windows 7 Ultimate, and not 7 in general

I have the same cooler. Doesn't give me as good as results as yours, but does make a huge improvement. Somewhere from around 60C to <40. So i was very happy with it as well. Well worth the buy

I'm getting into it already lol. Haven't used a connection since the good old msn days lol. err0r is helping me remember a lot too

The suggestion X made is a lot more practical than running 4 instances of mIRC. I sit on around 7 different irc networks running each network under a different /server -m ... its a lot easier than running 7 mirc.exe's