Would it be possible for you to post the details of the config that you are using on here so that the rest of us can play

(Please)

Llyando Autora

/me rubs his hands together

you install windows
you install your isp connection driver before every else drivers, you go on MS website to download your updates but before anything happen... WTF ! your computer is going crazy : ctrl alt del and regedit are blocked...

Wrong, you delete the partition, reformat the partition (properly not using the quick function) Then you install windows and it works nicely
You then install a virus scanner. Then you connect it to the internet...
I am unsure what you mean by installing isp drivers but if these include any free internet acceleration drivers, there is the source of some major problems.

After having installed a decent virus scanner, and then used windows update, EVERYTHING WORKS!!!!

As far as viruses are concerned, the reason that there are lots of viruses for windows is simple. Percentages.
More people use windows than use all other OS\'s combined (this was true 6months ago apologies if it has changed since then). If you want to cause an impact, you target your virus at the largest population. There is no point in making a virus for OS X, 97% of computer users wouldn\'t notice! and with linux, people would probably assume that you have built the kernal incorrectly. So you target your virus at companies, and goverments and the public. Virtually all of which use windows!

anyway I have gotten sidetracked.

and I simply learnt that XP SP2 would peanut me once I install it because of their DRM and others peanut like that...

You mean that you are forced to pay for media content that otherwise you would pirate for free? Shock... Horror...

Now to actual ideas as opposed to countering other statements:

OpenGL has been designed from scratch to provide an alternative for DirectX. The creaters of OpenGL have worked to ensure that it works well under windows as it currently does. Now why assume that the creaters of openGL will call it a day and stop trying? Someone there will almost certainly be on the beta list of Vista and so can then start trying to come up with OpenGL2 or other evoloution. Just because Windows changes doesnt mean that everything else will fall in a heap, just that it will have to adapt and improve.

Also, DOS 6 was a wonderful operating system at the time. It was stable, it was fast(at least for the time), so why have windows 3.1? Everyone had to rewrite their software to make use of the new features. But the computer world improved. Then comes windows 95. Again a vast improvement, changes had to be made, but again the software evolved and became better etc. etc.
Now we have XP which works very well (as long as you dont voluntarily install spyware/spamware on it) and we are complaining that someone might make somthing different because it may involve some more work for other people.

How about having a dualboot sytem on a comp (XP and Vista)? or a shortcut somewhere that reboots using XP? (in a similar way to OS9 or classic running on OS X). There are many soloutions to whatever problems that are faced, and whether they are solved by Microsoft, or by people developing freeware, if it is a big problem, then it will be solved.

So let Microsoft actually release their software before telling them it wont work and then looking like fools when it does work.

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I, Llyando Autora, Sentinal of Keldjan, have returned once again to Hydlaa.
If you are interested in the nature of Keldjan, or indeed wish to join our quest for balance. Please feel free to speak to me during my frequent trips to Hydlaa.

[ooc] whilst our esteemed guild leader is unable to connect due to the nature of his computer *cough*mac*cough* please feel free to speak to me in game about our guild or if you wish to join.
I will try to be online each night between about 8pm and 10pm BST (English time) but on this I make no guarantees.

I use gcc, it is open source and works like a charm.
http://gcc.gnu.org/

Works on windows and I think it works on linux as well.

Yeah I have leveled up, when I go to the magic shop and ask to train there is no bar for the red way.

Are there any other limiting factors on magic training, do any other stats need to be above a certain level for example?

I personally like the fact that magic takes a lot of work to make powerful.

Well, with and Intelligence of 95 and 12 levels of Blue Way, Freeze still pretty much sucks.

I assume you are comparing the damage you do with magic to that which you do with a sword.
Consider what you are trying to do using flame burst; with the power of your mind, you are forming a fireball in your hand and throwing it at your enemy. With freeze you are cooling down every part of a creature so that their temperature drops dramatically. This is not some thing to be tried upon a whim, it is a life long journey to perfection requiring both strength of mind and a strong focus of  character.

Also consider this:
With a sword, even with very little training you can kill a man. With more training, yes you will become better at killing men, but try taking on an army of men or a herd of large beasts. One sword, no matter how skilled you are with it, will not be of much use.
However, take red magic. Without much training fire magic is little more use than a flaming torch (which requires no training at all to use) however with a dedication to training in this art, fire is at your command. With fire obeying your will what difference does it make if you are against one man or one hundred the outcome is the same, the only change is the number of coffins.

Currently with a will of 93 and a skill in the red way of 2 I am no more than an inexperienced conjurer. Yes it would be easier to skin a few rats with a broadsword each day and make enough money to buy bread and ale. But I wish to become a sorcerer, and whilst training in magic is a sacrifice, everything in life is like that and so I do not see the problem.