Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 24, 2002 5:46pm PDTSo that Nightfire demo is just around the corner, really looking forward to that one. I had a chance to check it out while up at Gearbox a couple of times and if you're a James Bond nut it's like love at first sight. Check out some of the footage. Oh yeah so uh.. hey check it out for the evening:
- Taking spammers to court - Tipster had the key for catching sniper suspects. Oh, and he drove a white van. - On that topic.. inside the brain of a killer - Google excluding some sites - Making clean rooms cleaner - Tracking down that bigass net attack - New MSN launching, most annoying internet advertising ever too. - Wait, you are saying some dogs barking really have a disorder? - Gamers driving broadbandLastly, we're sending out the info on the t-shirts for the early Mercury folks late tonight to put the order in after collecting sizing information, and just because we're saucy and things turned out all fun, we've decided to just get kooky: TONIGHT ONLY: Anyone ordering 1yr Mercury service before MIDNIGHT CST (our server time) you'll score the 'shacker' t-shirt and func mouse pad that we had as a special the night of launch last week.
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
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http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid36/p2206c9012348cd740d886f750436ab6a/fd22d244.jpg
http://www.he-man.org/index/motu_toys.shtml
Yes kids. It's the 80's all over again.
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Many cars have LED taillights right? I want to build a microcontroller controlled LED taillight display for my car. It would normally display regular circles (like my car does now) but when I engage it it could say whatever I wanted. (or display smileys or scrolling text or whatever).
I'm going to use the microcontroller to drive the whole thing and store what I want it to do etc. Probably use an AVR mega 161 since they're easy to program and it would have plenty of extra stuff if I wanted to expand the features. My two taillights are 5"x10" each and I was thinking of setting each up as 10x20 LED displays. I would duty cycle them and address each column. Either using a cap to smooth it or just increasing the voltage to make it bright enough. Ultra bright LEDs and just using the duty cycle to have high/low lighting for nighttime driving etc.
probably write a winCE application to control it through serial from a palm or jornada or something (my roommate has a jornada)
Comments? Ridicule?
Yes I know I'm a nerd but the beauty of this is I don't actually have to use it. It can just be for special occasions or something hehe
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Whats the weather like?
I'm supposed to go up this weekend and I hear there is some nasty shit in the area.
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Natural selection is a really awesome looking half-life mod btw.
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5833270
Anyone else here taste their ear wax, man juice, scabs, smell their bandaides or bandages, smell the wounds, taste their own blood, other ??
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I recognize Venger, indeego, wunderbred, Ratbastard, Andromeda, Spazer and Vantager. That's it. Oh yeah, AllYourBase and Haiku. The rest of you? Where the hell did you come from?
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I think i shall go see it
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I figured I would repost my Weekly Battlefield Report for those of you who missed it in First Post. A ton of mod updates, PIX+DIVX, and all that stuff. Check it out in reply.
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Also, for those that followed my "missing manual, missing cdkey, store won't let me return it" thread ( http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5821371 ), I can report that EA has gotten back to me with a CD key only 2 days after i email them about my problems. Sure, we all have to hate them and everything, but I still think that's a cool thing to do. So, yey for me! {Venger}, I'll see you on the server soon enough! ;)
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http://www.theweathernetwork.com/cities/can/Ottawa_ON.htm
10 Things I Hate About You
Pleasantville
Mercury Rising
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lol
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Install Product
Reboot.
Install Service Pack(s)
Reboot.
Install Hotfixes for Service Pack(s).
Reboot.
Install Secondary Products
Reboot.
Install Hotfixes for Secondary Products
Reboot.
Want to do anything else to the fucken thing?!?!
Reboot.
Reboot.
Reboot.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53394-2002Oct19.html
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www.jpeg.org
wow! took a while :)
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fearing that it was a virus, i deleated the fucker the second i saw it
now the queston looms, was i automatically infected or not?
i only ask this cuz quite frankly, ive never ever gotten one virus through my outlook express....
now am i smoking crack, or am i just too damn tired from work =)
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SHOP S-MART!
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That was one of my favorite shack moments...getting on one morning and having 98% of the posts on page 1 pertaining to "the package". It goes without saying that the movie definitely did not live up to the hype :(
that quick was fucking UGLY
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THE SHACK SHIRT STRIKES AGAIN
this time the lucky victim was a cute 18 year old fresher girl
unf
rule
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People think I'm insane because I'm frowning all the time.
All day long I think of things, but nothing seems to satisfy.
Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify.
Can you help me? Are you from my brain?
I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find.
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind.
Make a joke, and I will sigh, and you will laugh and I will cry.
Happiness I can not feel, and love to me is so unreal.
And so you as hear these words, telling you now of my state,
I tell you to end your life, I wish I could but I'm too late.
Ozzy Rules... that is all.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/they.html
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hmmm interesting...
training day any one? heh
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