MadMonkey: Whenever I need some new software to do something, I always take a look at OSALT (Open Source ALTernative) first: http://www.osalt.com/

MadMonkey: Opera has been my email client for years now, and I benefit from just that - internet browsing and email/RSS reader integration into a single application.

rabbitoid: Yep. I've been using Ubuntu for over a year now. At first I even gave myself the trouble of going configuring Opera properly to share the same profile from both Windows and Linux. But it's been months since I last booted my laptop on Windows .
I'm also one of those guys that accomplishes a lot of things through the command line, so I can find my way around problems rather easily. But, even for the basic user, the foruns of the Ubuntu community provide lots of help, sometimes.

MadMonkey: From what I've heard it seems like Windows 7 is a whole lot better than vista. This comes even from some M$ ceptics, so there could be some thuth behind those feelings.
As for Ubuntu, give it a go for at least a week or two before making your mind up. There are bound to be things you miss from Windows... There are bound to be things you'll be missing from it if you get back to Windows, back it takes some time to find out about what you don't know it's there

MadMonkey: Works on Opera and IE too (in IE it doesn't spell-check, since this browser doesn't have that feature - but the page goes into edit mode).

But what's the point of spell-checking an email AFTER you send it?

sundiro50: They're actually JellyFish match files. Basically they contain game notation so that you can open and review the game on a software that supports that format.
http://www.paulspages.co.uk/bgreplay/

Binabik: Do you have any plugins? Some of them tend to bloat FF a lot...

(V): I thought the same but then he said 50% of the total volume was available... so I don't think that's it

Binabik: Diskeeper will almost never do a full defrag (only 1 fragment per file) because it's just not worth it.
Defrag is usefull when your disk is so fragmented that permance suffers greatly because reading large files will imply running from one sector to another half way accross the disk. However, if when you have large chunks, there comes a point when it is more time consuming to move such large chunks around than the performance gains you may get from it. If you look at that log in detail, you'll probably find out that most of the resulting fragments are large and that few files will be spread accross more than 3 or 4 fragments (except, maybe, for really big ones)

I think this is explained in greater detail in the application's help but that's the general idea.
Still, you can request a full defragmentation somewhere in the options, if I'm not mistaken...

Fencer: 2 million (dollars), actually: http://sitevaluecheck.com/

MadMonkey: The basefont element was deprecated in HTML 4.01, and is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.
I think it's only supported by IE, though some browsers may keep some compatibility mode for it to work.
If you need to set the font throughout the document try http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/character_famsupp_208.html

MadMonkey: Also check that the CPU is not overclocked or something like that. Overclocking may cause the CPU to heat more than usual, especially during the Summer...

MadMonkey: Yep, probably over heating. Check if the fans are all working properly. Also, does it take longer to happen the first time it is switched on?

yeah, I suspected as much... but how do I know which number corresponds to each symbol? I mean, last I checked 13 was code for Enter, not for a note... or has this nothing to do with ASCII and UNICODE's?

Can someone please explain me how do you put special chars in the messages like the notes I see in so many profiles or some other symbols?
And is any unicode char supported in this way or is there a selected set of admited chars?