Recent content by djarran

Looking at the minimum requirements for this game (1GHz processor, "recent" video card), I think you'll struggle to run it through VPC, even if it did handle DirectX 8.1. VPC emulates a Pentium MMX processor with an S3 Trio graphics card. Nobody's idea of an ideal gaming machine by any...

It's actually sneakiness/manipulation on the part of the marketing/advertising bods for the disk manufacturers. Since a Kilobyte is actually 1024 bytes, a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes and a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes, a "4.7 gigabyte" DVD really holds something like 4,681,514,352 bytes - in...

Working on the assumption that this falls into a "fair use" category of copyright legislation, you might want to check out a utility called DVDBackup which will remove the copy protection from any DVD and create a VIDEO_TS folder containing the raw VOB files. There are any number of "ripping"...

Addendum - At home I use IPNetMonitor Pro which includes a bandwidth monitor and gives you a very good idea of your download/upload speeds at all times, without having to rely on a utility like CNET's, which reports my office connection speed as 128Kb...

Earthlink DSL at home - 1.5Mb/128Kb, and I consistently get close to the published speeds. At the office, even though I have to use a Windoze PC, we do have a 10Gb fibre connection, so I don't suffer for bandwidth ;-)

Is this a flat screen (lcd) iMac? If so, then you should just be able to press the power button once, briefly, and the monitor will turn off. Hold the power button down for too long (5 seconds), and you'll power down the entire system. Dave