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Recomend me a set of ear/headphones SogniX needs headphones!

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• we’re cheating the public! -modern music production. Technical discussion on compression’s impact on CD audio volume and quality.
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• Will iMacs ever get 256mb? Predictions on video capabilities of future iMacs; also a technical discussion on the GPU’s overall effect on system performance.
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The Black Death first appeared in Europe in 1347. Over the next three years it swept through Europe, killing 40% of its inhabitants. Over the next three centuries the disease was ever present, culminating in the Great Plague of London in 1665. While Black Death dwindled in Western Europe, in Eastern Europe it remained active until 1800. While the spread of the Black Death across Europe was a terrible tragedy, it is hardly news. However the legacy it has left is. One in ten Europeans posses a gene whose development was greatly encouraged by the Black Death in the Middle Ages. This gene, called CCR5-delta 32, prevents HIV from entering white blood cells.

Since 1900, historians have spread the idea that the Black Death was caused by bubonic plague. However, according to Professor Christopher Duncan and Professor Susan Scott of the University of Liverpool, this idea is incorrect. They say the plagues of Europe were instead outbreaks of a lethal, viral, haemorrhagic fever which used the CCR5 mutation as a gateway into the immune system.

In an article on the University of Liverpool website, “Lethal, viral haemorrhagic fevers were recorded in the Nile valley from 1500 BC and were followed…
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I’ve just been reading something that seemed a bit odd. Apparently Microsoft has put several ISPs and any Apple’s Mail program on a blacklist for hotmail because of spammers sending from these ISPs and faking the Apple Mail headers to get round spam filters. All this to me sounds a bit harsh.

Microsoft are punishing people because of spammers taking over Windows computers and sending out lots of emails. Why should people be blocked from sending email to hotmail accounts because of security flaws in Microsoft products?

In other news, I’m sick of seeing the Windows 98 setup. My dad brought an old (circa 1999) Sony Vaio laptop home from work that randomly shut down after Windows had loaded. It never did it in Safe Mode, nor during any set up. I found this website saying that it was due to some capacitors around the processor having failed resulting in an unstable voltage to the CPU. Windows then detected this and shut down.

Apparently you can turn this off in Windows 98 and I followed the instructions to do so… No luck. It still randomly shuts down. So if anyone has any ideas for fixing a 6 year old Sony laptop which shuts down at random intervals after Windows has finished loading please leave your comments below.