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Internal floating point math is not entirely precise like that, so you will probably need to round off some numbers to get the desired result.

He posted an inflammatory political rant which was more like a troll than a rant.

The admins with few posts are the site owners. They are only onboard as admins so they can monitor what is going on, but they don't post much. Also the thread you speak of seems to have disappeared, so I'm guessing one of the moderators removed it.

My parents are helping me out on the cost of a Geforce 6800, but other than that, cash I guess.

It is editable on this page

My ISP address has become all but useless, getting upwards of 1500 or so spam messages per week. I have switched to a Gmail account and it has been blissfully spam-free for the few months I have had it (since June 16). I must make sure not to publically display it, however, at least not in a bot-readable way.

Why are you downloading all 7 CDs? Download the base install, and then the install program will download only the packages you want. Believe me, you do not need or want everything!

If you get the base install package it's only about 100MB and is only one CD. http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ This is the one I use.

Use Gnome instead, it's much better (in my opinion, at least). You'll also need to install an X server, either XFree86 or X.org - XFree86 is the easiest to install since you just need to do 'apt-get install x-window-system'. X.org requires from-source compilation (as do most things, if you want the latest versions).

My first Linux was Mandrake and I hated it. It "babied" me so much that I didn't know how to properly use Linux to its full potential. When I switched to Debian I had to do more things manually, but now I know how to set up a linux distro properly. I would recommend Debian if you're up for some learning. As far as driver compatability goes, the only thing you need to worry about is ATI; their drivers barely work on Windows, nevermind Linux. The other stuff should work like a charm. For optimization's sake you'll want to compile yourself a custom kernel without a lot of the features you don't need (and believe me, there are a lot of them). It sounds scary, but there are some straightforward guides out there, and it's actually pretty simple.

Just to let everyone know, a lot of this stuff has been brought to iNET's attention now and is being implemented. I think the tags work fully and the sidebar has been altered to be programming related. We apologize for how long this has taken. It seems there was some kind of communications breakdown along the way. Thanks for your patience.

I renamed that forum to "Graphics and Multimedia" for now, so at least DirectX "belongs" there. I think we should try and stay away from making the home page any longer, though one of the other staff members may disagree.

I split a portion of this discussion into a private forum, since it does not directly concern the general public. Everyone else, it would be appreciated if the subject was left alone for now.

Nothing really stops working, it's just if you leave the firewall configured to block all incoming traffic.