Posts by akac

I do heavy C++ development using eMbedded Visual C++ and VS 2005. On the 17'' screen its not bad for awhile. Its better on my 24'' LCD through DVI though

Quote: Originally Posted by Radiation walk up to the door and hit your "use" key. I'm pretty sure I tried that...in fact I know I did. "can't use that" is what I got. But now that I know, I...

Call me ignorant or whatever you want. Its been so long since I've played HL2 now I must be rusty. How in the heck does one GET into the church? I've done everything I can possibly think of - including getting over the gate which I...

Also - on the web cam that comes with Sagers, I don't think anybody on earth has ever gotten those to work with Win XP.

I don't know. I had a Sager 3790 which was the best Centrino laptop for awhile. Although it performed well, the casing was the cheapest crud I'd seen with very thin plastic breaking even with it sitting on my desk 90% of the time and...

I've owned both and I believe the Dell XPS Gen 2 was at least 3x more reliably built than the Sager. Every part of it just seems a lot better than the cheap case the Sager came in.

OK - but that doesn't really answer the question. For example, when I run Half Life 2 the main screen shows HL2, but the laptop LCD still has my desktop on it. The problem here is that I'm not focusing my full 256MB of video RAM to the...

I'm using an external LCD via DVI for my main monitor - and I keep the XPS screen open as second display so that I've got two 1920x1200 screens going simultaneously. This is great for my normal workday. But when I want to game - I...

Yeah, I keep hearing about AVG and Nod32. And I like what I hear. My biggest concern is the AV-comparisons.com tests where they don't seem to fare very well consistently. Nod32 actually fared very well this last time. My biggest pet...

I know I asked a few newbie type questions on this forum even though I've had more than a fair amount of experience - much of that was that I know that my past experiences and "knowledge" isn't always de facto and its helpful...