Wonderful, Pred! 

Here:

http://www.utorrent.com/

http://www.mindwarppavilion.org/smf/index.php?topic=3967.msg61972#msg61972
great...see, yesterday I decided to change the usual
"W.E. want all...stuff to be uploaded to MWP"

to

"W.E. need all ...stuff to be uploaded to MWP". 

I'm in a quandary.   

I'm plann'n on a new box and wonder'n which Win OS would be best: WinXP 64 or Vista 64?
I'm install'n Unbuntu, but can't decide which Windows I want to boot a long with it.  Any suggestions?

BTW, does anyone know if older games (ie Quake and Blood) have issue with either OS?     

do you actually need a 64bit OS?  i.e. are you currently/ever likely to use more than 3.5GB RAM in your machine?  I've heard that lots of 64bit drivers for XP are still not available, whereas they're much more readily available for Vista nowadays.  Also I've noticed with buying a lot of machines at work that machines pre-installed with Vista 32bit also come with the media for the 64-bit version for you to install if you want.  Remember that lots of software still hasn't been updated for 64-bit use, Adobe Flash Player being a prime example 

FWIW, I actually use Vista Business as my main OS at work these days and don't have a problem with it, I could do with a little more RAM as it's a little sluggish (I only have 2GB, generally running several terminal services sessions, several Outlook screens, several browser windows open, various other screens), but other than that it's fine (now that I've disabled UAC, anyway)

If you're into games, or building levels for them, say with the unreal engine, which is popular one right now, even if Epic seem to have washed their hands of the pc at the moment; then 64 bit makes a huge difference.  Because 64 bit doesn't mean twice as much as 32 bit, the number of individual things it can handle - think 3d map here, imagine a map as a box filled with pixels, height, width AND depth - is enormous.  In real terms, if you're playing a WWII shooter, and it's D-day, then rather than a mile or so of coastline to attack, going 64 bit means lots more - 20 miles?  Imagine playing team deathmatch in an accurately modelled Manhattan.....

If you are being completely forward thinking here, and have no need to look back to older technology, then I would think 64 bit is the way to go. However, I do know that you have ties to the distant past in your preferences, so going 64 bit could cause you some pain.

And... What the hell are you doing that you need 8 - 16 GB's of memory?

I posted this over at Groundplan where a guy was having issues and we needed screenshots. This looks like a good thread to get back on topic! 

Typically you would hit printscreen and go through the rigamaroll of pasting and cropping in a graphics app. I've been using the following method for years so here is my shameless cut&paste from my post over at GP:

I use Purrint For automatically saving screenshots to a pre-configured folder. It sits in the system tray and uses damn near zero resources. One caveat however, you need to click on the little pic in the options dialogue to get to the advanced options so you can make it really work automatically:



Clicking that little pic takes you to the advanced options where you can set it to automatically dump the screenshot to a directory you choose:



As always, the printscreen key alone dumps the whole desktop, using alt+printscreen only snaps the foreground window. The app runs in my system tray and uses 188k of memory. You can run it on demand,  however I prefer to put a shortcut in my startup folder so it's always running when I need it.