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80 PSI is ~5.5 bar!
I'd be careful not to rip a MOSFET, capacitor or some other component off the board...

I use about 3 bar (~44 PSI) to clean out dirt in the car's engine and such - that's mostly sufficient for the task.

Plus, not to forget that compressed air - thanks to the ~21 % of oxygen contained - can built up electrostatic quite easily, which could fry the more sensitive of your components.
Better use compressed nitrogen if you can (no diradical moluecule such as O2, hence no statics build-up).

Anyway, for PC case cleaning, I mostly use a vaccuum cleaner with great results. No damaged components so far
It won't get off the dust-nicotine mixture, though, if you're a smoker (bad for your health and that of your PC!)...

Yeah, but collisions are more of a theorem of information technology.
While possible, albeit very rare, and of course depending on the checksum method you use, how likely would it be for a file to cause a collision (and we're not talking about CRC32 checks but MD5 at least!) and still maintain the proper file format to count as valid INF file plus be of roughly the same size?
Change just one byte and you get a completly different hash (not simply just one single character alternated).
If you calculate both, say, MD5 and SHA1 hashes, and both are supposed to collide, that multiplies the chances, hence it becomes quite indefinately more unlikely...

Anyway, if you want to manually compare file contents, I suggest you use Notepad++ with its double view planes and compare extension.

Results:

Roger, Chief!

Just moved a couple of spam posts and banned another spammer.
But I concur with the policy of taking them down before they even hit us!

That said, I think it's about time PunBB implemented Recaptcha. The current ones (I just checked) are way too easy to break for OCR...
Or replace them by some tech question; that will also keep the occasional noobs out
(I'm thinking of Leisure Suite Larry style questions for techies, if you get the idea )

Using a 32-bit OS, 3.25 to 3.5 GB of RAM will be available. Given current RAM prices, the small loss should be negligible.
In fact, a 64-bit OS (as well as 64-bit executables) will consume more RAM than its 32 bit counterpart, resulting in effectively less RAM if you only use 4 GB!
Hence, you should either upgrade to 6 GB of RAM or use a 32-bit OS.

The BASE for XP includes an update checker that will inform you (though not download anymore since we switched to torrents) of any outdated packs you may be using.

Furthernmore, there is an RSS feed available for all (NT5, NT6) DriverPacks showing you any news regarding those. You can find it here: http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks/latest/feed
Use your favourite RSS feed reader to subscribe to it!

HTH!

Frohe Weihnachten und Frohes Neues Jahr!

@ BigBrit:
I was actually trying out the deep fried Mars bar the other day (ok, we used Snickers but that should come close enough ).
Much better than you'd first imagine!

Must try the butter balls next ^_^

Ok, then you have an ISO you extract the files from?
That should generally work without issues.

Anyway, you cannot use nLite in any commercial environment, hence it is illegal to use it in your company, according to its licence.
Only home and private use is permitted!
Please keep that in mind.

The DriverPacks, however, are free to use even in corporate environments.

Please also use nLite to copy/expand the disc onto your HDD.
If you do it manually using Explorer or such, you may miss some files (hidden, if not shown etc.).
Also, try a different make of CD blanks, unless you are using a USB key for installation already.

Nice idea, TechDud.
Plus, it also sorts out that type of user who cannot read nor write (properly)...
Exactly the type we don't need around here anyhow!

+1
Sounds like a plan!

It's 30 € over here.
Just too bad I don't have a sspare 2.5" drive lying around...
As Jeff pointed out, they cost their weight in Gold right now (luckly grabbed a 3.5" 2 TB drive for 59 € just before the big raise)

Ok, if you guys delete the users and this means all of their posts will vanish, too, I will restrain myself to simply banning the users (so you can see which ones).
Saves a lot of work of manually deleting all those numerous posts!

Oh, and Jeff, there was enough trash being posted in the refular forums I didn't captch up on your posts in the Trash forum
Maybe I should, though...
AFAIK, Google's captcha as well as recaptcha are still to be broken as of current. Maybe we could switch to that, then.

Something needs to be done!

I just deleted well over 30 posts and banned another five or so users.
This is getting tedious...
Can't we set the forum registration mode to admin-consent only?
Users need to be activated and get clearance from admins/mods before they are able to post.
If the spam flood continuers to rise as it currently does we'll need wayx more personnel and man-hours to deal with it.
On a side-note, there are some forums which I cannot moderate, hence no cleanup has been done so far