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TomWeston

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About TomWeston

  • Birthday Apr 04, 1995

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Wales, United Kingdom
  • Interests
    Skateboarding
    Playing Guitar
    Web Design
    Programming
    Hardware and PC Building
    Cars
    PC Gaming
    Music (Metal mainly but I can listen to almost anything)
    Computing and Technology in general
  • Biography
    Hey guys, I'm Tom. I live in South Wales, UK. I'm 17 years of age and am currently attending college on a
    BTEC Level 3 Computing course. I like playing guitar, skateboarding, and PC Gaming. That's really
    everything you need to know about me.
  • Occupation
    Computing Student
  • Member title
    Junior Member

TomWeston's Achievements

  1. As a Skater: Swag-people wearing skate-branded clothing that they mocked skaters for wearing 3 years ago. As a Computer-enthusiast: Having to use poor-quality peripherals whilst in college.
  2. When I was a little kid, I forced a MiniDisk inside a Floppy Disk-sized case into the Floppy Drive of our hand-me-down Windows 95 PC. We never got that out, even after years of trying.
  3. Thanks a lot guys, really helped. :) I had a look at some of the things that were mentioned and it seems like I'll be okay with them. I had a B in maths at school,but I put that down to a bad teacher (grades went up from D to B after getting outside tuition around a month before my exams, plus everyone in my class that didn't do this failed the exam). :blink:
  4. So guys, I'm located in the UK, therefore some education things may be different (like we start college at the age of 16 and go on to university after 2 years of college, pretty sure it's different in the US and other countries). I am currently studying a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Computing at college and planning on going to university to study Computer Science in September 2014. My questions are: How much math is involved in an undergraduate Computer Science degree? What kind of math is it? How would I prepare for doing this kind of math so that I have a bit of background knowledge before the course begins? The course descriptions I have seen generally say "there is math involved in the course however this type of math is often not taught at school or college level", so I'm a bit worried I'll fall behind compared to other students on the course that are better at math and stuff.
  5. Whoa, a contest open to the world for once, this never happens anywhere. Thanks Linus, Intel and Gigabyte, hope I win!
  6. Thanks for all of the suggestions guys, however after a lot of Googling I have found out that the particular Pentium 4 in my parents' PC isn't 64-bit compatible unfortunately. Didn't realise this at the time of posting and should probably done more research first before creating a thread about it.
  7. Ahh I see, I feared that may be the case. Thank you for your help. :)
  8. Yeah, the computer with the 32bit Operating System was one that my parents bought pre-built without asking me whether it was suitable first haha, I have 64bit on my gaming rig, so that's all good for my needs :D
  9. Sorry if I explained it badly, its not the product key from my current PC, but the product key from the original installation for my parents' PC; I would just be using the disc as a way to install the 64bit software on there. You know the small Windows stickers that come on the side of Pre-Built PCs with the product key on them? I'd be using that to activate the OS, not the one that came with the disc I bought for my PC. So theoretically it is only one PC activated with that license key. Windows licensing policies confuse me greatly :(
  10. Hey guys. this is my first forum post ever so sorry if its a bit noobish. My problem here is that my parents bought a new computer (pre-built) for themselves and it came installed with 32bit Windows 7. This was fine for them until my little brother decided he wanted to try and play Technic Pack for Minecraft on there. It has the maximum usable memory on 32bit Windows (around 3.25GB I think) but whenever my brother plays Technic Pack, it keeps saying "Minecraft has run out of memory". I would like to upgrade it so my brother could play Minecraft Technic Pack on there, but can't add more memory with the 32bit OS. This Christmas I finished off my first computer build and I still have my retail copy of Windows 7, so my question is: Could I use my 64bit Windows disc to install the 64bit version of Windows on to my parents' PC, and use the serial code on the Windows sticker that came with their PC to activate it?
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