Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 12, 2002 6:34pm PDTWell then, I guess we're going to have to call Fileshack a success finally. The famous Counter-Strike releases didnt even put a dent in things around these parts which is quite the turnaround from the last release. I guess all that hard work is finally paying off a bit? Yay for us finally getting things right! A big thanks to Tapper for helping me out on some last minute recompiles of a few things. I actually completed the final recompile on a server just 10minutes before launching! The launch of Fileshack.com as a permanent website should be within the next few months. Ok happy happy victory dance aside, here's some stuff for the evening:
- Some strange tech fest thingie - A wireless alliance - Celebrities eating. Yum? Thanks Jake - More on cable providers and file swapping - Mars glider - A story on the JSF battle which my stepdad was a part of. See John Smith on the PR's? Yeah he's family!Lastly, I do need to mention one thing. We have two small bugs to track down that seems to hit about 0.06% of the people downloading through Fileshack. If you're getting stuck at a queue_file.htm or having your download abort please drop me an email. Please include your OS/Browser/connection type and include any information about your security settings and if you're going through a proxy etc.
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Capcom aims to shorten development cycle
BASTARDS!!!!!! They didn't even attempt to deliver my heatsink/fan/artic silver today!
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Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Goes Gold -- Street Date Announced
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020613/132097_1.html
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4 people fired (Out of 25, one of them sat next to me), and the only work our company is going to do is Microsoft crap like VB, Access. (We used to do cool non-MS stuff.)
If anyone got a good job for a Internet/C++ expert, speak up!
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Any of you ladies got links to the JSF in action? I read the entire article sTeve posted. Ate the thing up with a spork. The harrier always interested me, but that JSF thing sounds neat, take off vertically, break the sound barrier, then land vertically.
Looks and sounds pretty damned nifty.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/12060214.htm
Documents THE INQUIRER has seen show that running the tests without the 3D Mark test screens on all nVidia's high-end graphics cards, produces lower scores in the tests than with the 3D Mark splashes turned on.
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http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3845019
WARCRAFT 3 IS GOLD!
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020613/132097_1.html
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does anyone happen to remember the link or thread for those GTA3 videos people were posting a few days ago in FP and ER? (i've looked for awhile, no luck)
there was some really cool stuff i saw, wanted to show my roomates because they are gta3 addicts.
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Get ready for a sore index finger.
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http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemid=MGD003515
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I get a little bit closer...
shaq doesnt even look excited that they just won the championship.
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http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--1_1843_1905_7574/PD--10073967/SZ--2/posters.htm
http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--235_F23_A92/PD--10009705/SZ--2/posters.htm
She = coolest evar!
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War3 and NWN going gold in the same week!
*fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap*
I can't stop fapping...
*fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap*
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And here's my small list of films I want to see:
* Vanilla Sky
* Donnie Darko
* Mulholland Drive
* The Mothman Prophecies
What's out on DVD now that loosely fits into a group like this?
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The new version of Audiogalaxy AUTO-INSTALLS GATOR??!?!?!
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-Xian
Well suckity suck, my second choice for this group was eliminated thanks to their loss against Ecuador.
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currently it's sitting around 48c with the fan at 5000rpm.
thanks
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... and Brasil will meet Belgium/Japan/Tunisia/Russia.
... and our defense SUCKS A LOT OMFG! :/
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Devil May Cry rocked my world. I finished Baldur's Gate. GTA3 was hella fun. I put in like 30 hours of FFX. I think I only ditched it because of some stupid, "anti-established console" thing. You know, supporting the underdog, Sony is only in it for the money, blah blah. I think that's all bullshit.
There are just soooo many games for the PS2, and many of them are good/great. You can have five to ten great games, and between big releases, there are plenty of "B" to "A-" level games.
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what does that say ??
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What was it like? Are they compatible with anything? Life span? What live food did they eat? Anything special I need in the tank?
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Excited doesn't even begin to describe how I feel. It's the first time I've been camping in about 10 years, after going at least a dozen times a year since I was 2.
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http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/
Improves the sound quality of your mp3s, I noticed a difference with my mid-end Sennheiser headphones.
To make sure the decoder is actually enabled, follow the directions and hit the ID3 editor (file info box) and you'll notice it looks different than the normal winamp id3 tag editor.
It's worth it, very nifty plugin.
repost, I know..
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There are these women in my building, who I call "The Yappy Black Chicks". Usually 25-35 y/o and overweight, they will stop in any doorway, stairwell, entrance way or narrow hallway and have very LOUD conversations. Their sheer girth prevents even the tinyest of people to get past them.
They do this shit ALL the time. This morning they were standing in front of the coffee maker doing it. The coffee maker at 8:00am. They are just asking to get beaned with a coffee cup.
AND I'M JUST THE MAN TO DO IT!
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http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/3186839p-4235445c.html
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