Personally, I feel like both are pretty bad when it comes to translating text, but out of the two, Google translate far outshines Babble fish. What's your opinion? Be sure to vote in the poll!

Romulus is a bot on #smfnoobs. He is a smart one.

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN CONTENT!

What romulus thinks:
Makestation: "php"
Simmania: "can't kick it from falling into utter catastrophe, but fortunately the superhero called superman saved simmania from stuff that can do about it. there is no linux tool like hurricane electric's bgp looking glass. cloudflare connects to your father, he"
CSGforums: "you think of republicans"
Simtropolis: "you think of republicans"
SC4Devotion: ":"deep throat : think about it, but if you acutaly break those numbers into financial demographics"
Simopsis: "you think of republicans"

So as you can see here, he takes his valuable time to provide valuable criticism for various SimCity 4 Sites. I think these opinions are the most fair and balanced I've seen yet!.

Me: "my son decided to be a little stupid, so i grounded him by sending him to the spanish monk bin where he will learn many important lessons and"
Cheesesc4: "coffee is great. what do you know simlink"

He seems to have collapsed. We will interview him more later.

A session in smfnoobs: http://pastebin.com/E25k864h
Romulus can speak spanish:

I personally use Windows media player because it's simple, but I really like VLC media player as well. VLC can play virtually any kind of media file known to man, which is really nice.

What's your preference?

Pretty self-explanatory. Be sure to vote in the poll!

I use chatzilla, personally. However, I have been looking for a good independent IRC client for a while. I know mIRC exists, but it has a time bomb. So any suggestions?

If so, feel free to post a link in this thread.

-Darth Apple

I've recently acquired a lot of old Windows discs through very legal means (no joking). First of all, here's makestation on Windows NT 4.0:

And a real ancient version of IE

Personally, I love macs, but at their current pricing they aren't easy to afford, so my vote is PC. What's your preference?

There are literally thousands of webhosts out there. Some are better than others. Have an experience at a webhost you'd like to share, a recommendation, or a warning to fellow admins about which hosts to avoid? Discuss here.

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So far, the best webhost that I've ever used is Ramnode. Their prices are reasonable, their policies are honest, and their service is good. They also have a great support team, so I'd say it's a win in a lot of ways. They are unmanaged, so you have to be knowledgeable about servers, but it's worth it.

The worst paid host I've ever used is probably dreamhost. They aren't terrible, but they are very slow and have a lot of downtime. Just go to http://hardwiredgoogle.com to see how slow their servers are. Dreamhost has some other features that are pretty cool, but I'd rather have good server performance than lots of features.

Of course I have had far worse experiences at free webhosts, so I won't complain too much.

Bitcoins are a new form of currency that is becoming popular at a rapid pace. Bitcoin mining is also becoming a popular practice where people collectively work to create hashes using a giant amount of hardware and are awarded bitcoins as a result. The rapid progress of bitcoins has lead to a heated debate over the usage of bitcoins in recent times. Some feel that the electronic form of currency is a symbol of progress, and others feel that technology can always fail, and it is thus unreliable as a currency.

What's your opinion? Be sure to vote in the poll!