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You are: Franz Schubert This master of the short song was also a top-notch symphonist.

Yeah, you can use Nessus. nmap is what I would use though.

Yes, when you buy a CPU it will say how fast it is, how much cache it has, and for what socket it is. Then you need a motherboard for the same socket. If you motherboard dont have network and sound chipset, then you need buy a network and sound card which will cost some more. Maybe you can goto another store?

I heard that the ATI device drivers are dumb and bloated. I also heard that nVidia used to have pretty good drivers, but in the last version they are bloated like ATI's.

Yes, cache as everything matters. I am not so sure of the importance though. Some say it is important, some say it is not. Last benchmark I saw, the difference was minimal. With those CPU's you need a motherboard with a matching socket. They are for Socket754. So you need a motherboard that are for Socket754. Since you are going for a budget PC, be sure the motherboard has an integrated network chipset, and an integrated sound chipset, that way you don't have to spend money buying sound and network card, and therefor you will save money.

If you delete the hotfix uninstallers, then you cant uninstall hotfixes you get from Windows Update. Normally you wouldn't want to uninstall them anyways. But if you have a beta, such as IE7 beta or WMP beta, then it's good to keep the hotfix uninstallers, else you cant uninstall the betas when new version comes. This question has been asked and discussed many times on forum, use the search function and search for "hotfix".

Get a remote Unix shell and nmap.

Yeah, I use Firefox 2 beta. It has an integrated spell function and it works very good.

Well gaming and budget don't go hand-in-hand. Often games (especially the latest) needs expensive hardware. Example for 3D games, a good graphics card might be needed and those cost. ?300-350 is cheap, you wont get no performance monster with that, and you wont be able to play the latest games, especially not in high resolution, high details or with anti aliasing. Clock frequency (GHz) isn't a reliable way to tell how fast a computer is. Architecture and instructions per CPU cycle is important. A 2 GHz processor might very well outperform a 3 GHz processor if they are different type of processors. Now note that Vista is a very resource hogging operating system, as far as I know it needs a fast computer with huge amounts of RAM, and maybe even a good graphics card. Furthermore it contains many features which are not to the benefit to the user, but actually to restrict the user. If I were you, with that budget I would probably buy an AMD Sempron, they're cheap and performs better than Intel Celeron. Then try get 1 gb RAM. Don't expect too much gaming on a rig in that price class though. I would buy AMD Sempron, a cheap motherboard with integrated network chipset and sound chipset.

Norton is infamous for their piece of crap software which is bloated, huge, resource hogging dumb skinned software that refuse to properly uninstall itself. With Norton Internet Security, if you chatted on IRC, all it took for someone to disconnect you was to say "start keylogger" lol.

99$ that is cheap. For a computer with monitor and printer. I wonder if it could be cut down any cheaper without printer and monitor.

Norton is widely regarded as piece of crap.

Compaq <shivers>

RC is release candidate. RC is usually more stable than beta version. Between RC and final version, there are usually no new features, only bugfixes. The last RC sometimes is the same as the final version. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_stage

That should clear all history. In Mozilla Firefox, you can clean everything by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Del. http://www.getfirefox.com/

I think that CCleaner Portable should be an official download.

Well to build a computer you need knowledge, if you don't have knowledge then you don't know how to build a computer, and therefor cant. So you either have to get that knowledge which does indeed take some time, or buy a pre-built computer.

Wikibooks has information on how to build a computer and select parts and assemble it. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_To_Assemble_A_Desktop_PC http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Computer_Hardware

I use OpenOffice, but I like AbiWord too...

Well, this guy probably wouldn't be able to build one anyways. If he wish to build a computer, he needs to know what he wants and what he needs and which parts are good. He should read up some on computer hardware, so he knows what is L1/L2/L3 cache, a core, a bus, PCI/PCI-Express/AGP, DDR/DDR2, a socket, FSB, etc.

It is better for you to buy a OEM computer since you seem to have no clue about computer hardware. If you don't know what components are needed for a computer, then building one isn't for you. You also seem to believe that a computer with higher clock frequency (GHz) means that it will perform better than one with slower frequency. If you want a cheap computer, then AMD has really low prices on their processors nowadays. Personally, I would go with an Intel Core Due (Conroe) due to that it is a very good processor. Don't go with an Intel Celeron D as it uses the Netburst architecture which sucks, it uses huge amount of power, produces huge amounts of heat and performs horrible. You can say cheap but good, but how much are you willing to spend and what do you intend to use it for? Nobody sane would buy a Celeron D, Pentium 4 or anything based on the Netburst architecture, except fools who don't know anything about a computer, see its 3 GHz go ZOMG! then buy a inferior processor that produces much heat, is difficult to cool, has sucky performance and drains power. AMD Sempron is cheap and decent. But AMD Athlon and Intel Core Duo are both better even though more expensive. But the Core Duo has performance. A Core Duo at 1,8 GHz will outperform any Celerion 3 GHz any day, anytime, anyplace while still being cool enough to overclock it to 3 GHz on air, and still use much less power and generate much less heat.

Personally, I would use TrueCrypt.

This is a hardware problem, not a software problem.

Interesting website. It can find out alot of stuff.

Someone speculated this was a move by the MPAA (Movie Picture Ass. of America).