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• ATI TV Wonder : klerck
• ATI TV-Wonder? : adnans
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  ATI TV-Wonder? : {Venger}
  • ATI TV-Wonder? : bradley!!!
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  Not the ATI TV-Wonder. : cyclone
  • ATI TV-Wonder? : {Venger}
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  ATI TV-Wonder? : bradley!!!
  • ATI TV-Wonder? : bradley!!!
• ATI TV-Wonder? : Beer
• what he said : Brandino
• *BUMP* : Beer
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  Uh...for some reason, this thread scares me, heh. : BLulight
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    Not a fan of the ladies, eh BluLight?? : Vantage
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      Eh...wha?...I'm confused. : BLulight
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        ...and btw, it's "BLuLight" : BLulight
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          ...either that or "blulight." : BLulight
          • bright blu? : plutonium245
  • elevision. had quite a bit of work experience : Barbarian
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  ATI TV-Wonder? : Ominous
  • ATI TV-WONDAR. : smax
• http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/tv_wonder_usb/index.html : [sikander]
• ATI TV-WONDER LIVES! : adnans
• GEFORCE 3 GTS MAX : jokemon

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• haha THANK GOD i say!! : {Venger}
• hey are you dissin my photo! :( : abrasion

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• I thought his name was "B" ? : hawkeye

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  yes u did !! : [sikander]
  • tee hee ;-) : OverBurN
• oooooh yeeeeah : El Guapo

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• not! : BLulight

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• works for me in tiny personal firewall using the rules configured for IE. : boolean
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  sweet! now i can look at non-worksafe stuff! : kenmis
  • hehe, nifty innit. : chinchilla

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• I quit for 14 months. : jackalope
• I had stopped for a while while I was teaching myself web development. That was a couple of years ago, t... : x-eyd|mary
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  you make it sound like its an addiction : boolean
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    um... are you disputing that? : Torias
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      only pointing out an observation. sounds like quiting smoking . : boolean
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        heh well i feel a draw to play tribes 2... it's pulling at me... it's a damn fun game, and i'm glad i... : Torias
        • Tribes 2 pulles me in all the time. I've got to get a new site design done, but every time I start, Trib... : x-eyd|mary
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    HAH! Speaking of "addictions" who won the "no fap pact" ??? (Damn was Madgrad funnay when he bowed o... : UBER-Solstice
    • BTW, NOT a Solstice Sanctioned event..... : UBER-Solstice
• i feel for you. my mobo before this one had a glitch in it that made performance in 3d games poor but to... : kenmis
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  I know what you mean. I used to upgrade one component at a time and kept getting burned. Eventually ... : Raziel
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    See thats what I thought too. I ended up getting a whole system an just replaced the videocard and I've ... : baron calamity
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      :[ Sorry to hear that mate. Maybe I just got lucky. Then again, my athlon refuses to turn on in the... : Raziel
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        First one or two compuers I build had that too, until I figured out two things - a) You get what... : Sander Pilon
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          First one or two compuers I build had that too, until I figured out two things - I built my first : baron calamity
          • Is your power supply adequate and performing well? (Meaning that both its specs and actual output ar... : Sander Pilon
• I did, Too much Uncertinty and cheating in CS, General all around bugginess and not enough servers in Do... : Hizzow
• I had to quit gaming; those freezes after 15 minutes of play have really spooked me. I think it's the b... : the archvile

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• haha that's funny - commie bastard. : thegreatbadger
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  2367 hehe :) as much as i hate yankies im still gonna move there someday : disembodied potato
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    Canadian or European? : Zoesch
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      #2380 European, scotland to be exact :) : disembodied potato
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        do many people actually wear kilts for day to day stuff in scotland? : Torias
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          #2388 No :) Same clothes over hear as anywhere else, Glasgow (not scotland's capital but biggest city... : disembodied potato
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            coolies... I'll add scotland to my list of places to visit (along with ireland, denmark and canadia). : Torias
            • #2398 Cool, if u do vist dont just go and see the natural beauty sites like Ben Nevis and Loch Ness an... : disembodied potato
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        Wohoo... my boss is scottish BTW, nice fella from Ibrox : Zoesch
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          #2390 Ibrox is in glasgow about 60 miles northeast of me :) Im on a small coastal town called prestwi : disembodied potato
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            I know... I have a friend at work who is half scottish/half irish, he says that half of his mind wants t... : Zoesch
            • #2394 haha! thats so scottish, half the fun of getting pissed is devising new ways to get ur mates to ... : disembodied potato
• yay! I live of the land of "something else" : Torias
• And to think that I was born in the land of the free and the brave, then moved to here be dragons and I'... : Zoesch
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  Americans as Europeans see them. : lbsn
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    I'm not european, and I see the sterotypical american as like that. of cause they see the sterotypic... : Torias
    • Sorry. "America as the World Sees It". : lbsn
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  * S U P A R E P E A T P O S T E V E R Y D A Y ' D * : xvdl
  • things become cliched for a reason : Torias

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• Bloom County rocks : Vis Inack
• Excellent. : bugsY
• PURE, COMEDY, GOLD : jo-papa
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  nice. Except they made the classic error. : xvdl
  • yup...set up us...no set us up... : lacker

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• sniffing in morse code? : xvdl

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• That's what you get for going for the cheapo units :( : Zoesch
• i bought a palm IIIxe about a year ago and really like it..i mainly use the calendar, phone book and not... : lacker

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  hey steve post some pics of crystal for us! :D : fatbeaner
  • NEKKID! : abrasion
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    Here is the tell all picture! www.shacknews.com/images/crystal1.jpg omfg! : Steve Gibson
    • wow she has a nice... ummm. back of a head... : UBER-Solstice
    • i've been playing too much worms. I couldn't help but think <right click, select "prod"> : kenmis
    • steve that shits highly explicit.... fucking great area to be at - get any more pics of it? lo... : abrasion
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      I've been to alot of places like that. Where was that pic taken? : Poor Yurik
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        Some park in northwest washington (i already forgot the name... heh) was there in the area over the week... : Steve Gibson
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          Canada! : Squirrely
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            Er my fault... I mean Canadia! : Steve Gibson
            • Good job :) : Squirrely
    • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DONT JUMP CRYSTAL!!!!! STEVE CANT BE THAT BAD!!!!!! : OverBurN
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      is that a cigarette in her left hand? ;) : Raziel
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        Nope she's not a smoker. I react pretty bad to smoke actually. : Steve Gibson
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          So you hate me then :( : Zoesch
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            well... unless steve has an advanced and unpublicised system of smelling you over the internet, I don't ... : Torias
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              I can smell that dirty smoking bastard! I refuse to talk to him! : Steve Gibson
              • wow, I knew you had a l33t shack monitoring setup, matching ip's and all, but i didn't know you had a sy... : Torias
    • JUMP! JUMP! : Sander Pilon
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    here is the little bastard cat when he was younger that now enjoys sitting on my shoulder and farting. ... : Steve Gibson
    • my dog Heidi would kick its ass! : klerck
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      rupert? fuck steve your sense of humour is almost perfect :) : abrasion
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        Hehe shoulda seen how long it took me to convince Crystal that it was the perfect name for the cat :P : Steve Gibson
        • haha no doubt not an easy feat if she's a clever girl. : abrasion
    • shit man thems some big ears.. : UBER-Solstice
    • awwww.. *rubs belly* : plutonium245
• you're a good man, Charlie Brown! Steve Gibson! : andromeda

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  sequenced? Is it MIDI or MOD? : the archvile
  • MIDI... I started looping orchestal samples, sequenced a death metal drums and orchestal keyboards, star : Zoesch

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  and furthermore, wtf is the mission editor the box speaks of? : Poor Yurik
  • editor.open() : klerck
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  never tried single player, heres my method of learning Tribes 2 skillz: play CS and inflate balls : fatbeaner
  • scrotal inflation? You sound like a filthy linux deviant to me! : klerck
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  i think they mean that 6 mission tutorial, which i rather liked, i actualy would have liked to have seen... : kenmis
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    That was supposed to pass as a CAMPAIGN? : Poor Yurik
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      well, if you read the mission breafing, it starts with a patrol and the last mission is you dissabling o... : kenmis
      • *DISAPOINTED* : Poor Yurik
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        I can't fucking BELIEVE that they worked on the game for 4 goddamn years and they have only 6 single pl... : Poor Yurik
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          Four years? Are you sure? : klerck
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            I saw the first screenshots of it when I was a junior in highschool. I was in my second year of colleg... : Poor Yurik
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              I have a feeling that your sense of time is off by a little. : klerck
              • At least I don't believe in UFO's? OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SLAM! : Poor Yurik
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              That was the Tribes 1 expansion pack that you saw shots of 4 years ago, which was then cancelled. : Barbarian
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                And they couldn't incorporate the SP maps they made for THAT in tribes 2? : Poor Yurik
                • Hmm, yeah it was a lot of single player, but it was training for Tribes 1. Tribes 2 is a different game ... : Barbarian
              • they were working on T2 at the same time. They cancelled the expansion pack to move everyone over to T2,... : xvdl
• * D A I K A T A N A ' D * : the archvile

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  not all alone. you'd be with a horde of fellow geeks and nerds. they're pretty easy to pick as well :)... : Torias
  • it's getting from the airport to the hotel and then to the convention center that's got me worried. i'll... : kenmis
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  Where are you traveling from? : Packet Loss
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    Ames, Iowa > Des Moines Int'l Airport (one flight to canada, Int'l my ass!) > Dallas Tx > LAX. : kenmis
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      Bring a towel(you'll be prepared for anything...or at least look as if you are) eat some peanuts (you'll... : Packet Loss
      • I really should reread them *sniff* : Torias
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        Well i was planning on bringing my Glitter Boy Mk IV powered armor with me "just in case", but i found o... : kenmis
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          was that from rifts? : Torias
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            Nope Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy.. : UBER-Solstice
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              glitter boy powered armor is from hitch hikers?????? I don't think so... : Torias
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                oops thought he was replying to the post abouit the pan-galactic gargle blaster... : UBER-Solstice
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                  nope :) I replied to that with #2341 X By: Torias [ replies: 0 ] [@May 16th 2001, 06:57:23 am] : Torias
                  • See? Hoots = loss of ability to read.... : UBER-Solstice
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              Don't know this has been posted already: "An asteroid was named after Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galax... : Packet Loss
              • Yup, the universe actually ends there, it's a very depressing sight but everybody goes there anyway :) : Zoesch
            • No Torias is right, it's from Rifts. : kenmis
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        And most important of it all Don't Panic I just hope they don't screw it with the movie : Zoesch
        • www.dont-panic.com ! : klerck
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          you mean DON'T PANIC..... Large, Yellow, and Friendly... : UBER-Solstice
          • I couldn't be bothered, I've been dead for a year for tax purposes : Zoesch

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  It starts tomorrow : Hizzow
  • IT HAS BEGUN!!! : Zoesch

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• They're all aboard for Mu Mu land : Zoesch

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• FOR GREAT ATI TV-Wonder!! : Zoesch

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• Oh, also might add KLF-Justified and Ancient or PWEI-Preaching to the Perverted : Zoesch

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  I know what you mean but I don't know what sub-pixel font rendering is or how that would help. : jackalope
  • its a technique that uses the three sub-pixels (for red, green and blue) of each pixel of a moniter to i... : boolean
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  WindowsXP has what they call "Cleartype" which is anti-aliases type. It pretty much rocks on LCD's, and... : jasonepowell
  • it's still EXCELLENT though : abrasion
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    actually no, cleartype does not work by anti-aliasing fonts. cleartype is microsoft's proprietary imple... : boolean
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      on the other hand, who cares? : jackalope
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        or as I was going to say apple shmapple : Torias
        • apple shmapple = Snapple!!! (/me goes in hunt of a tasty beverage....) : UBER-Solstice
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        this is an internet messageboard. obviously people care. i do, as do the people replying to this threa... : boolean
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          trolls shmolls : Torias
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            uh huh : boolean
            • uh huh shmuh huh : Torias

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  If only he knew that water doesn't swirl in the loo, oh well might his dunny be overrun by emus :) : Zoesch
  • hehehehe : Torias
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    I don't give a damn what anyone says - you guys do not speak English down there. I don't know what th... : RatBastard
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      Hey! I'm american but living in Oz, with time you learn to appreciate it you know? wanna lollie? : Zoesch
      • Naw. It'd ruin my brekkies. -Rat : RatBastard
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        one of us, one of us : Torias
        • Had a blue with the missus! She bangs like a dunny door in a storm! But me jeep goes like a shower of sh... : lbsn
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      um, yes, we do. by the way, what colour is the aluminium on the building in the centre of your town, a... : Torias
      • Which one? There are two aluminum (whatever) buidling in the downtown area. -Rat : RatBastard
• heh, someone was paying attention in their jr. high science class! : kenmis
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  isnt that sorta from a simpsons episode? : fatbeaner
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    Yeah, Bart calls an Australian boy collect and asks him which way the water swirls. : riptyde
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      fuck they portray the Australian boy worse than a fucking hick too ... : abrasion
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        well that's because you're all filthy criminals : klerck
        • no, we wash regularly. : Torias
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          My parents came over from England willingly, hence non criminals not to say i'm not a dodgy prick... : abrasion
          • you're a *gasp* pommie!!! :) : Zoesch
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            actually, if you were born and raised here, you would be a product of the austrlian culture. and that ... : Torias
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              hell, it's even got stuff by that weird ass band vantage keeps pimping. : Torias
              • oh, that was meant to be a reply to 2285... : Torias
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      dys's site seems to be down, which means in the last days of me being at this l33t office with unlimited : abrasion
      • hes at home for the summer. expect the site to be back up in the fall. : fatbeaner
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  coriolis effect speak to carnivac about this i hassled him all the time about it when he moved to t... : abrasion
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    a small imperfection in the sink will completely screw it up .. normally the swirling you see is from th... : Barbarian
    • True. If it was that strong there's no way people could ride bicycles or motorcycles, they'd fall ove... : RatBastard

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• ATI TV-Wonder? : Zoesch

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• * A G R E E D * : UBER-Solstice
• someone already made it. a site you can go to and set a number of seconds for it to refresh... : Torias
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  Optional, I hope. I remember when it had auto-refreshing ads (20 seconds?) and it got me in trouble at ... : Barbarian
  • If you use Opera 5, there's an option to automatically refresh the page as often as you set. For instan... : jasonepowell

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• errr money rder= money order : UBER-Solstice
• um, the karma doesn't actually work :) : Torias

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  My main websites. Shacknews Tabcrawler Arstechnica Sandbox Any link from here :) : Squirrely
  • Shacknews, Ars Technica, Yahoo...... : UBER-Solstice

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  btw, got it on sale, 139 bucks. (it's 54rpm) : Poor Yurik
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    54rpm? must be slow! : klerck
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      damn, beat me by 2 seconds : Torias
      • you are slow! : klerck
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      rofl, i meant 540. : Poor Yurik
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        That's still damned slow! -Rat : RatBastard
        • hahah : Torias
      • SLOW! : klerck
  • on 54 rpm??? that must be insanely slow!!! heh : Torias
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  ibm 60gb or maxtor? : abrasion
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    Maxtor. : Poor Yurik
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      54 or 72? i got their 54, hated it - fucked up twice on my in a VIA board. : abrasion
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        I got it for 10 bucks more than a 30gb hd, so i think it was worth it. I've heard of VIA causing proble... : Poor Yurik
        • if you have a BX, you have an excellent cheap disk there or any intel chipset. : abrasion
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  btw, I too, enjoy tribes 2. I'm still learning a lot about it though. : Torias
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    shazbot! : raunchy
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      I GOT YOUR NUMBER! I GOT ALL YOUR NUMBERS! : fatbeaner
      • heh, that taunt is awesome. : Poor Yurik
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  Why not one massive partition? Multi OS? : indeego
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    To reduce the cluster size from 16k to 8k. : Poor Yurik
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      I thought you didn't have to do that anymore? : kenmis
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        I have win98. : Poor Yurik
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          not sure if it's diff in 2000, but I had to make partitions under 16gb to reduce the cluster size. : Poor Yurik
          • ah, bingo. i was told i didn't have to w/ my hard drive, but it was a 13 gig, so that explains it right ... : kenmis
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            I don't know wtf you're talking about but I have a 40GB partition that works fine in 98. : cyclone
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              But your clusters are 16k, assholio. : Poor Yurik
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                what the hell are you talking about, didn't you format it in fat32 : cyclone
                • I most certainly did : kenmis
                • OF COURSE. : Poor Yurik
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                  http://www.compuclinic.com/osr2faq/index.html#fat32 : andromeda
                  • thanks, thats exactly what i needed to know. : kenmis

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• thanks : Magitek

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• bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh : snuff

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• DOH! : Barbarian

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  I WILL DESTROY THEIR GENERATORS! : fatbeaner
  • THE ENEMY IS IN OUR BASE : raunchy
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    PRIVATE! YOU GO FUCK THOSE 2 GUYS IN THE ASS, AND WE'LL SIT BACK HERE AND MASTURBATE!!! : Poor Yurik
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      what's the key shortcuts for that one? : kenmis
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        rofl. in case there is any confusion, i was paraphrasing a kids in the hall line. : Poor Yurik
        • Are you dead yet? No. Are you? -Rat : RatBastard
    • ahahahahah brain candy : jackalope
    • THAT WAS GRACEFUL. : fatbeaner
  • SHAZBOT! : smax
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    I WILL GO FOR THE ENEMY FLAG. YOU ARE WELCOME. (bot voice) : Barbarian
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      Quiet! : kenmis
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        YES! : kenmis
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          NO... : kenmis
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            I NEED A BOMBARDIER : raunchy
            • INCOMING VEHICLES! : Barbarian
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              {Shack}Raunchy needs vehicle support. : fatbeaner
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                SHACK NEEDS TRIBES 2 SERVER! : Poor Yurik
                • COMMAND ACKNOWLEDGED : raunchy
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                  lets wait till Operation Flashpoint comes out and pick which is better for multiplay. : fatbeaner
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                    of course you know its not shipping with dedicated server support. will be added in a later patch. : raunchy
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                      *fatbeaner's heart sinks into the bottom of the sea* : fatbeaner
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                        He's a spokesperson for Codemasters! Believe everything he says! :D : Poor Yurik
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                          whats the release date for the US? : fatbeaner
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                            september : raunchy
                            • well, at least ill prolly have upgraded my pc to a tbird 1.3+ by then. : fatbeaner
                          • august or september : kenmis
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                            June, last time I heard. : Poor Yurik
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                              That's in Europe. later here. : kenmis
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                                And in an interview, Marik said that the US version was coming out at the same time, so it's kind of um... : Poor Yurik
                                • lead coder in a meeting "bitches the game comes out when i SAY it comes out!" : fatbeaner
                      • fraid so. i really think they are screwing themselves by doing that too. in order to build a large fan... : raunchy
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                      Actually, they are probably going to add dedicated server support in for the initial US release (which ... : Poor Yurik
                      • you may be right. of course im not going to wait that long after the euro version is out. : raunchy
      • No. : Barbarian

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  Okay. What's your point? -Rat : RatBastard
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    it's interesting : klerck
    • The sunken city would be cool if it's real. -Rat : RatBastard

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  there are other sites? : kenmis
  • WHAT YOU SAY!! : raunchy
  • Not anymore! sTeve bought the entire Internet (what do you think the "save a shack" thing was really ... : RatBastard