Steel Battalion Heavy Armor demo now on Xbox Live
Civilization V getting free Steam weekend
Report: Average Old Republic server has less than 350 players online
Xbox limitations led to annual Magic: The Gathering games
New Pandaren mounts revealed for World of Warcraft
Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Feb 13, 2002 5:23pm PSTThat GTA story was some pretty interesting stuff eh? Noticed that GTA3 has once again taken the top spot on ShackReviews as it is well deserved. Funny to see some guys wasting their time voting turd on 50 games and excellent on 1 game. I uh.. delete those votes btw. We'll call it fanboy control.
- Online dating is picking up in Europe - Phone companies are now charging arrogant bastards extra. Thanks tomservo - Some olympic team is complaining about their food. I dunno, McDonalds is good stuff. - Comcast backs down on their privacy prying - States want to see the MS source code. - Hillbilly's can get rich too! - United Airlines may have a mechanic strike.Lastly, So I'm spending the evening struggling with configurations. Got a hold of the new servers [1,2] today and there is all kinds of fun RAID stuff and multiple ethernet card things to play with. Was also pretty cool when the first time I fired them up all kinds of surge alarms started going off since I was drawing too much current.. and that was only one machine, I havent turned the other one on yet. Woo! I didnt drop anything but I did manage to cut my foot on one of the corners already.
Well, I sit and sit and it keeps comming - finally its over - i go to wipe and its dry! I check the TP and nothing! I stand up and there is nothing in the toilet
i couldnt tell if the water discoloration was solly from piss and the fact our water is very coppery or from pure liquid shit
but then my anus would have been slightly moist but again - maybe not
it was really fucked up - so I presume it was just gas
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They asked her how familiar she was with Asperger's Syndrome. She told them that her brother has it. They were surprised and amazed.
If she gets the job, it'll be interesting to walk in and see mirror images of me in my younger years. Of course, I was never lucky enough to go to a specialized clinic; I grew up the hard way.
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And for the 19th year of my life, I'm alone.
*sigh*
Come on basic training...let me ship out now......
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Comcast was using a proxy to cache web pages frequented by subscribers. This apparently may have broken federal law.
http://www.tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/02/02/13717174.shtml
Now, if federal law was broken, wouldn't all Internet Caching devices be illegal?
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This post is gonna change your life.
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i can see it now 7 swat shields sidebysidebyside and AWP's in between:(
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Counter-Strike Grenade Throwing
Around abouts beta 6 there was a quite embarassing bug around the implementation of left and right handed models. Your guns would shoot at the left and right horizontal crosshairs based on whatever side of the screen you had your weapons on. In beta 6.2 I recall they fixed it, but it was never fixed for Grenades.
You can aim grenades by using the left or right horizontal crosshair lines. I have right handed models so I use the right horizontal crosshair line. This trick can be used to throw EXTREMELY accurate grenades.
Also remember that grenade speed is affected by player speed. The grenade is always thrown in an arc, so you can achieve a flatter, longer skidding throw by looking down about 20 degrees when you release. Running forwards makes the grenade go further (jumping moreso). Running backwards allows you to do "drop shots" with grenades, where they basically trickle to a stop; very good when enemies are charging towards you or you just want the grenade to bounce a short way around the corner. Crouching (to create very low arc grens) and bouncing grens off slopes is also effective.
Flashbangs require a direct line of sight to affect the victim. If there is a box or a small incline or ANYTHING in between the flash and the victim the victim wont be blinded. Even a small staircase will screw up your fb if it lands at the bottom step and the enemy is just a step back from the edge of the stairs. I always try to throw fb's in advantagous positions. Big open areas are the best. Tight, twisty cornered corridors suck ass. Throwing FB's into the dust corridor as a CT 9 times out of 10 does nothing because the fb's always land behind that fucking crate halfway towards the bombsite. The charging T's often have their line of sight blocked by the crate and are therefore unaffected.
Last but not least, even if an FB lands at your feet, turning and facing directly away from it reduces the blindness enough so that you have some limited vision. In other words FB's are mostly useless unless in specially crafted situations or when the player runs right out into one in the open.
Go practice throwing grenades. The distance you can get on them and the accuracy by using the left/right xhair technique is crazy. HE grens are sweet. Go practice getting the arc right to throw your HE's at the far end of the Aztec rope bridge.
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BAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!
MICROSOFT = OWNED
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http://www.doublepcspeed.com/partnercode/hispeed.html
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1820000/1820200.stm
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( I've got a lamp for every one of you! )
I'd kinda like to watch that 1v1 recording of me and Venger playing CS, but I recorded it with CS 1.1 ?
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watch this http://www.x96.com/old/Women_1.asf
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heheh, I love killing people who are speed-wall-aim hacking. Intense satisfaction.
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nothing's what it seems
searching, my head,
for the words that ya said
tears filled my eyes,
as we said our last goodbyes
\m/
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WS!
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they are the silent majority you dont hear or see when the muslims are making noises.
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Could it be the next Shack server in development?
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
", IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., It's extending Linux÷and developing operating system kernels to run under it÷to control a computer with 65,000 processors.
IBM plans to build a computer operating at 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second"
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Yes, I am also not a pussy.
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Everything seems to go fine, but when the headers load there is no text, just all black lines. I can highlight stuff and see the size in mb grow as a result, but there still isn't any text in the window.
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http://www.bitterfilms.com/anesthetics.html
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Valentines day is officially cancelled [ http://www.msnbc.com/news/706812.asp ] due to the war on terrorism.
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Basically, our Olympic guests from Holland took over a country club about 10 miles west of my house, and they're hosting a party there that is free of charge. The only thing you gotta pay for is the alcoholic beverages (mostly Heinekins), but it was SO dope
let me tell you, our friends from Holland know how to throw a party. :)
Damn damn fun. I got there, and you show your id at the door, and they ask 'who is driving?', I said me, since I was... anyway, we got our wrist bands, I got a white one saying "I dont get to drink because I'm driving" and my friend got a green one saying "I get to get shitfaced because someone is driving"... well, my friend got me my Heinekins anyway. :D I had two, and they were NOT Utah beers. I drank them pretty fast because I was a little sketchy about getting found out, and I dont drink very often, so I was feeling slightly buzzed when we left about 2 hours later.
It was SO SO Fun though :) just lots of people having a good time, good loud dance music (they did play Eye of the Tiger and some Michael Jackson shit, so it wasnt all bad), and lots of sluts dancing around, etc. Even the people that were just walking around with those waiter platters to collect empty bottles were having a good time.
We're gonna go back tomorrow, and take my digital camera. We made it a goal to get pictures taken with as many different people as possible. :D
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and I totally suck at talking about CS when I'm not playing it, so I'm gonna host a small server off my NAT box and hope they get passable pings to it...
soo, making voicecomms 'everyone wide' ?, possible utilising the HL voicecomms?.. if so, what's the command?
AND, stopping an internet visible CS server from sending a heartbeat to the master servers? (so I don't get DDOS'd by gamespy users refreshing their server lists)
anyone?
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* giggles *
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/02/14/iraq/index_np.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/02/14/iraq/index_np.html
are the new microsoft intellimouse opticals w/ even better sample rates out in stores now?
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bye bye topless britney :(
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