Evening Reading

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• I thought TDVC was bad. Lots of effort + research a good novel do not make : itsjames
• I loved The Da Vinci Code, it kept me interested all the way through : Chrono Trigga
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  The Da Vinci Code is great, but I liked Angels and Demons even more. : johnny skidmarks
  • Ditto. : dltrem
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    /signed : illwill18
    • WTF? I didn't post this message. : illwill18
  • Cept the ending sucked. : mojoald
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  I've been hearing mixed stuff about his "other novels". I loved the Da Vinci Code, but I heard his others... : K1Bond007
  • Deception Point was very interesting, that's all I can say until I read TDVC. : king_darius
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    Davinci Code sucked compared to Angels and Demons, although his whole "actually this symbol really means : sammyl
    • See I found all that stuff kinda interesting. Not to say I believed it or anything, but if he can make a ... : K1Bond007
  • Angels and Demons is great, just finished the other day, I enjoyed it more than the Code. Reading Digi... : illwill18
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  Angels and Demons > Da Vinci Code > Digital Fortress > Deception Point : Arsenal
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    A monkey with a blue crayon > Dan Brown : silent prophet
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      ^IASOWTG^ much better writers out there. dan brown is the clive cussler of religious action fiction : sting7777
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        meh, keeps me interested enough to continue reading.. so until i need a book that you enjoy i'll just con... : Arsenal
        • Same, people talk a lot of shit about Dan Brown, but in the end I read books because they are entertainin... : illwill18
• OK - anyone else annoyed by the whole cell phone thing in Angesl and Demons? CELL PHONES DONT HAVE A DIA... : sting7777

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  shift right click -> open with -> check off 'always open with this program' ? : derelict515
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    Done that, doesn't help. :-( Windows is hell-bent on using WMP to open movie files if I open them via Exp... : nudel
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      Open Windows Media player , Options, File types, unselect mpeg. : Barbarian
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        Weird! I went in there and mpeg was not selected, but I deselected some other filetypes (since I don't wa... : nudel
        • (This problem was happening before SP2, btw, that wasn't the cause. Fixed now. Hurrah!) : nudel
• no registry entry associating mpc with .mpg filse : itsjames
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  I've noticed something odd with the .mpg playback in MPC - when I try to skip around the file with the sl... : SpaecKow
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    mpc has been giving me a lot of crap like that lately. I've found myself using VLC more and more. : derelict515
    • Hmm, just Googled it, looks good - thanks :) : SpaecKow
• Dearest Nudel, We here at Microsoft are very pained to hear of the troubles you're having with our sof : K1Bond007
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  I've successfuly removed WMP from my XP installation before my latest format, and I couldn't use it anymo... : esky
  • Try turning on/off the alternative WMV seeking in MPC if it's WMV files you're seeing problems with. : nudel

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  If you do 3D modeling, get 1GBx2 instead of 512MBx2, and then just get a 6800Ultra. Everything else look... : cajuncook
  • Does using 1GB sticks really make a noticeable difference? Or are you just covering my ass if I ever feel... : inkninja
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    My problem with 1GB sticks is their higher latency ratings. :/ : inkninja
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      higher latency has a VERY minimal impact on A64's. : johnny rotten
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        Really? *looks for recent 1GB stick reviews* : inkninja
        • Bah.. every review seems to only cover 2x512 bundles. :/ Just go with a reputable company like OCZ/Corsai... : inkninja
• The retail cooler is really quiet as is. I have a 3500+ in a V1000 and the loudest componet is my 9800Pr... : smacknca
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  Oh yeah, video card is BFG 6800 GT OC, but NewEgg doesn't carry them, so... add ~$400. For audio, I wa... : inkninja
  • ... and I'm moving my existing data storage over, so that's why there's only one 74GB raptor. :) : inkninja
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    if you're going with pro medias dont bother with onboard, you'll want a dedicated card. Audigy ZS if you... : johnny rotten
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      Are there good alternatives to Creative boards for surround sound or are they still pretty much a monopol... : inkninja
      • Not that I know of. I have a Via Envy24, but it doesn't have hardward 3D sound :( I've been looking fo... : qwpeoriu
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    The BFG GT OC's fan is LOUD. Ruins my quiet pc. : peter
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      Really? :( I know it's definitely quieter than an Ultra, but I'm sure having an otherwise quiet PC makes ... : inkninja
      • ugh.. "noise". brain.. mush... (all nighter) time for a nap -_- : inkninja
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  Changed memory to 2x1GB (Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8) and added ZALMAN CNPS7000A-AlCu (will change to model B whe... : inkninja
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    dont you want the Cu not the alCu? : sting7777
    • and I would throw in a 16X Asus DVD-Rom (reads everything under the sun) as its handy to have a second op... : sting7777
    • Hmm, well, I'm not planning on overclocking and the alCu performs well at a much lighter weight. I don't ... : inkninja

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• You are dead to me. : RatBastard
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  I've seen bad movie previews before, but holy jesus that Superbabies2 movie makes me want to kill myself ... : forgottenzero
  • yeah like the ghetto lingo black baby sterotype.....wtf : pigvomit
• That's a negative ghostrider. : deathmuppeter
• Whichever movie we see, we all lose. : pigvomit
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  I am going to see Hero tomorrow. : Lightzout
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    Meh, I don't get whole jerkfest over films from the far east. Maybe it's a language / culture thing but ... : Chrono Trigga
    • I watched Shoalin Soccer tonight, it was very wierd, but once they got into the soccer matches i it was c... : pigvomit
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  gonna see AVP this weekend : fsck
  • bleh, don't encourage them :(. : Boxelder
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    Good movie, I really liked it. : Chrono Trigga
    • you are joking right? : lodit

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  http://www.latinosportslegends.com/2003/garciaparra_weds_mia_hamm-112303.htm : peter
  • Wow so soon she'll be a MILF, eh? : jrock
• Oh this one has disaster written all over it like the Tiger Woods marriage. First Nomar wouldn't get the... : dougdisturbed
• The two met at charity event in 1998 and started dating last Thanksgiving, shortly after Hamm divorced he : monohydrate

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  It's what? 300 MB out of 2.3 GB? w00t? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    no, just the fact that its happening : r1cola
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      Perhaps it's only Gordon and Alyx 69 porn. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        it actually says this: A locked copy of Half-Life 2 is now on your computer exact words and the steama... : r1cola
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          They'll probably have the 'actual release' be a patch + a program to decrypt all the data : TheNiXXeD
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            im surprised somone hasnt figured out the crypto on the .gcfs yet : r1cola
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              Why, is it flawed? : bargeld
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                isnt everything? : r1cola
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                  Only on a metaphysical level. : bargeld
                  • Consider the lilly : gingerninja
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              If steam itself has the decryption abilities built in, I agree... but I'm willing to bet they didn't let ... : TheNiXXeD
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                The thing you want to decrypt is the KEY. It's pretty small, relatively speaking. :) Knowing the encrypti... : bargeld
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                  But I'm saying, it might be contained within the steam executable... that would be interesting. : TheNiXXeD
                  • That's not how it works. The key has to be a variable. You know people use PGP for email? The format is a... : bargeld
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              Wouldn't really matter. It not any of the program files, just art, sounds, and anyhing else that's been c... : Helter Skelter
              • yea, they've already rls'd the executables :( : r1cola
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    A hair over a gig, actually. :) : Helter Skelter
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      i have CS:S in there too :( : r1cola
      • Yeah, so do I, but that's only ~435mb. Just that much less to D/L when it finally gets released, though. : Helter Skelter
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  That is pretty cool but after HL2 comes out there wont be anything of its scale to pine for (at least tha... : Lightzout
  • Battlefield 2 and Halo 2. :) : bargeld
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  Shows exactly how I thought Steam would handle under this pressure which is NOT VERY GOOD AT ALL. I've ha... : Entity
  • It did that to me for about an hour. Did you try logging out and logging back in? If you take a look at t... : m0nkz

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  Yeh, ZipZoomFly seems to have generally cheaper prices than newegg now. I think its cuase they got popula... : cack
  • Oh yeh, but the reason I always try to order from one place for my parts is because it really sucks getti... : cack
  • well, there's a certain peace-of-mind with newegg. you know they're not a fly-by-night operation and tha... : ariakaz
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  Toss monarchcomputer.com into that list as well for comparison. They did good by me, just had to pester ... : smacknca
  • Hmm ... I may renew my bargining skills How much for the 3500? No, $300 too beu-coup, $250! : rosewood
  • i get my smack from monarch. they've always done me right. : ece_ssg
• ZipZoomFly is the old GoogleGear. I guess google made them change their name. : RAMDrive
• I agree. Newegg seems to have really jacked up their prices on some items. I was looking at the AMD64 350... : ferus
• Yes, newegg is now using their good name to make a little extra green. I'll shop elsewhere. : yakz
• I got my Radeon 9800 Pro from GameVE when I was building this system. Great prices there, I found them th... : al9000

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• yeah, he's a fucking comedy genius. : ariakaz
• thx for the post; that guy is great. wished Steve Carrell was still there too. Even Stephen was a ... : mrspyral

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  Bah, screw it, I found out it had something to do with refresh rates. : rotten element
  • if you have an ati card there is a setting called reduce frequency for high res monitors or something, ch... : alexthegreat2
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  Throw one of the monitors into the sun. : pres589
  • Best advice of all time! : fredphone99

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• uh-oh, looks like someone forgot his old cranky man medication. : verbatim
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  how about a free hug? : ibrokn
  • It's been 2 weeks since I heard that phrase. :) : cajuncook
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  how about you collapse the thread and get the sand out of your vagina, you dirty canuck? : genjuro
  • They still get pretty obnoxious after a while. SA has banned threads about them, as has stoofoo. : Helter Skelter
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  Free Hat!!! : radula
  • free my pants!! : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Hey, those babies deserved it. : broly1718
    • if Hat hadn't killed them, they would've killed him. When that many babies get together they can be like ... : thetangent
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    free tibet! hello, china? I'LL TAKE IT! : davislovestacobell
    • That's right......ALLL the tea..... : thetangent
• you did not get your free iPod? : ghost hacker
• send it to american address, have them send it to u e z : xilulus
• I don't understand why some industrious Shacker hasn't made a site for this Amway shit like they did with : Rauol Duke
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  free perm ban [Click Here] : mista mista
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    Fuck you, the link's broke! : Jumperus
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      you need three referrals first : GloriousCow
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        Shit, and I left my kneepads in storage. : Jumperus
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          Tie your socks around your knees. Works every time! Er... so I hear. : GloriousCow
          • I said it was our little secret... but hey if you want to go embarass yourself there's only so much I can... : pr_stealth
• I just collapse them : thejm4n
• IFAWTP. : RatBastard
• if you'd just help me out, I'd shut up. seriously. : hirez
• Don't you put up some tread like this every night? : pres589
• I laugh at people that bitch...get over it. ;) : Scotty22
• When it first started, I asked for a filter as a joke. It was a joke then. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.... : bunkminster
• We keep them to one thread. Collapse. Go on with life. : geedeck
• www.freeones.com ! (nws) : dodob
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  fuck off viagra spam mail!!!!! : polansk
  • Look who's here! :D : Mad Brahmin Disease

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  StarForce. It installs a driver that blocks cd emulation software. I wouldn't touch it with a dead hobo's... : GloriousCow
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    And if you're wondering "Why the hell protect a demo?" apparently their reasoning is that crackers use un... : GloriousCow
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      what a pack of cocksuckers. : headless
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        http://www.boycottstarforce.org/games/ : GloriousCow
        • thought i got the same thing with chaos league. oh my god XIII had that, what a suprise. thats the game t : paganritual
    • this pisses me off no end. This is seriously out of line. : drucifer
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    like i said, i got no choice. i double clicked the exe and it installed it itself, and said i had to rebo... : paganritual
    • Yeah, it won't ask you. As far as they are concerned you give permission to install that venereal disease... : GloriousCow
• Starforce, I presume. Some evil new form of copy-protection. : nomaad
• http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/11/1920245 : zerologik
• first that then a 10 second pause with nothing happening when i start. then 3 intro screens you cant skip : paganritual

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• Except... I wanted to beta-test this post. So now I'll make it in FP. : geedeck

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  Amen to that. I know alot of women in the office who like their coffee strong... as long as they dump twi... : silent prophet
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    "Breakfast" coffees are getting out of hand. Whipped cream? Caramel? Chocolate chips? As Bill Maher s... : EvilDolemite
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      I think some of them have over 400 calories in them, wtf? : haokah
      • One of my office women accidently spilled half a bottle of... coffee cream... a while back. If you ever w... : silent prophet
      • Easily. A Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts dessert drink can have 500. : EvilDolemite
  • My girlfriend loves her coffee strong; I'm the pansy, since I need my fat-free French Vanilla creamer and... : Ride-My-Rocket
• preach on, brotha. they need to get rid of that muddy water : freakord
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  I like my coffee like my women...dark and bitter. : bunkminster
  • There's a "filled with cream" post just dying to... uh... oh. : silent prophet
  • 'cold and bitter' : drucifer
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  you sound like Jimmy : r1cola
  • "Do you see a sign..." : EvilDolemite
• I HATE the see-through coffee of the lesser mortals. : freqq28
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  I am reminded of a Dennis Leary skit right now. : Kiriakos
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    Coffee flavored coffee. : Reignman
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      .. and pull up your pants! : Fredrik S
      • They got Mochaccino, Frapaccino, Al Pacino...WHAT THE FUCK?! : Ryno
• MMMMMMmmmmmmmmm Good Coffee, Strong CoffEEEEEEEEEE!!! Jars of Clay had a neatly "coffee song" that the... : enigmatic

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• you land a job with them? : r1cola

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  PVP are worthless, seriously... when are you ever gonna need that? : drucifer
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    at a party you can be like "hey, check this out!" and show some girl goatse. : GloriousCow
    • oic. ok, they aren't worthless... :P : drucifer
• ugh.. dont buy it!! I worked at CompUSA, we actually had the Archos display model explode!! It happe... : Shadowdane
• Had an Archos. Big hard drive, great souns. Broker in the first week. Sent me another and that died in : dougdisturbed

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• Where's it from? I've recently reconsidered seagate because they've extended their warrenty from 3 to 5 y... : Crimson
• outpost has been having 250gb drives for 140 bucks. : stgdz
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  Seagate is fine. And so is IBM, since they sold off their HD fab to Hitachi. : Helter Skelter
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    Is Matrox the company that's having problems right now or is it WD? I usually suggest those, but I thoug... : zerologik
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      You might be thinking of Maxtor, the hard drive manufacturer. Matrox, they make video cards. Peegs like : Buster Hymen
      • hey neat, Maxtor and Matrox are anagrams. : foo the feeble
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  seagate is godlike. Seen one DOA drive, never had one fail on me other than that one DOA : headless
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    I've replaced a lot of seagates lately, but then again, every other brand seems to fail too and I haven't... : GloriousCow
    • Yeah, temp is a bigger deal than some people seem to realise. : pres589
• i've got 2x120GB seagate SATAs that have been running in a system for 24x7 for over a year now...no issue... : vex5150
• I'm almost ready to order 4 of these to replace the 2 120 and 2 160's in my media server : mattfl

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  1. speakers on the back, they "bounce" off the display bezel. 2. 256 MB soldered in, and one free sl... : Postal
  • Is Toraz Chryx gonna have to choke a bitch? : Toraz Chryx
• 1. speakers are at the back, they bounce the sound off the screen 2. 256MB soldered onto the board, one ... : Toraz Chryx

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  Dude when'd you get the iBook? :D : Paranoid Android
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    school gave it to me for the year. : lacker
    • That seems like a pretty popular option, my mom's school (she teaches at an elementary school as well) ga... : Paranoid Android
• score : Draugluin
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  I hear that "DVD Jon" released an app to let you use other media players, so you aren't stuck in iTunes m... : rasputinreborn
  • on windows that is. : rasputinreborn
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  COMPLETE SUCCESS!!! fucking windows firewall. once i turned that off itunes detected the stereo speake... : lacker
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    Is it wireless through the AirPort thing or something? : khaosman
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      I have a linksys wireless router in the bedroom. i bought the airport express and plugged it into the liv... : lacker
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        This makes my consumer-sense tingle. I want one :( : Dan[WSB]
        • it will be great if we have a new year's eve party. customized party playlist streaming over. oh yes. : lacker
      • Damn that is pimp. I'd buy one but I have a mod chip for my xbox... just need to install it :/ : khaosman
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  oh cool, did my link help or did it get lost when er showed up? : DoubleAught()
  • i had tried that last night with no luck. : lacker
• I do kinda the same thing with XBMC, my xbox is connected thru my receiver, and xbmc is mapped to my mp3 ... : mattfl
• I've got my TiVo streaming music and showing pictures from my network right now, too. It'll have to do u... : FrayLo

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  they're only streaming some assets for now. : ariakaz
  • oh wait. - 1 reading comprehension. yes, that's one of the 'bonus' aspects of buying directly from Steam... : ariakaz
• In theory yes. However publisher deals and such would not allow it to comeout before being in the stores... : Crimsonbeak

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• MMORPG is the devil! : slacko
• I call Photoshop : freakord
• FilePlanet Subscribers are guaranteed a spot =( : zerologik
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  Why is Date & Time Properties open? : jrock
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    he's showing you what time he was installing... it was a rediculously late/early hour : Crimson
    • http://img37.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img37&image=missing.png : Bakelite
    • Except you can set it to whatever date/time you want so it's pointless. : jrock
• where is the fileshack subscribers WoW beta :( : skynet

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• Whoa, cool. : EvilDolemite

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• I thought my ferrets were projecting their dreams last night. : bunkminster

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  Yes and yes it is funny. : Omaha
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    I found it extremely sad. : trove
    • But it has funny moments, and that is what matters in the end. : Omaha
• I liked it. Not a keeper though. : trove
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  I just watched it a couple days ago because I thought the trailer was great. The movie was horrible:( I r... : grasshoppah
  • Perhaps, it had quite the success in Germany. : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• er... drive : mrtony
• chkdsk : Shadowdane
• RIght click on the drive, hit properties, then look in the tools tab. Is that what you are looking for? : jahulio2
• Scandisk. In explorer, right-click the drive -> properties -> Tools tab -> error checking. : carrioN luggagE
• post for later reference. : bunkminster

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• oh snap, I finally found them. Thx anyway. : fatman

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• 2.53GHz is pretty inexpensive and more than enough power for a HTPC (provided it's not doing intensive ga... : EvilDolemite
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  anything in the 1 ghz range would be sufficient... seriously. That's what I've been running for 2 years n... : drucifer
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    Yea, I've been capping some gaming from my main PC with an old 900MHz AMD I've got sitting around and tha... : Do_Or_Die
    • basically it's nice to brag about having a suped up HTPC, but in the end, you'll never use the extra hors... : drucifer
• 2.53ghz is kinda excessive for a pure HTPC, but at least it'll be snappy. : nomaad
• My main PC is a 2.53G rig and I run a HTPC in the background without any problems. : bunkminster
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  It depends on if you want to play this kind of stuff or not: http://www.wmvhd.com/ : Buster Hymen
  • Probably not, at least not anytime soon. I don't have an HDTV and this will not be hooked up to a monitor... : Do_Or_Die
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  Another question: How much RAM would you all recommend for an HTPC? 512 should be enough right? : Do_Or_Die
  • That's what I have in mine and it is plenty. : Zakko

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• http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/killawatt-review.html Something like that's the only thing I can think of. : JHelgie
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  run an extension cord from the house next door. : jwnin
  • Thanks, Homer. : bunkminster
• compare it to the previous months bill, and pay the difference. : drucifer

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• I agree with the 1st bit, not the 2nd bit. although it does get hard, not hard enough to change down a le... : red2lucas
• 12 hours or so... shrug : Gauss
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  Veteran isn't hard at all and I can't see how it took people 20 hours. I looked at everything there was t... : scarb
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    Took me about 24 play hours. I never hit F5 though. If I always played a level as far as I could till I d... : Slowtreme
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      That, to me, is rather pointless... I don't like playing through a part more than once, unless it's me go... : TheNiXXeD
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        It's just a responce to the "it's too easy" posts. If you play without ever having risk It's too easy. Ev... : Slowtreme
        • I found Far Cry to be pretty damn hard on Challenging. : EvilDolemite
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          I guess the only reason why I am sorta 'meh' about Doom3 is the moments where I really enjoy the game are... : TheNiXXeD
          • I think that's about right. If a game (as in the actual gameplay - not the experience of witnessing its l... : bargeld
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  So... which one is longer - Doom3 and Far Cry? : xphil
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    Farcry. Only because it's ALOT harder. : scarb
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      It's also 20 HUGE levels. I didn't find it that difficult, just the bit where you lost all your weapons. ... : nomaad
      • I hate those 2-hr-to-complete levels in Farcry >:( : slacko
• I feel the same way on most games I play. I know I can go through them much faster, but I feel like it t... : s2jason
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  How do people even know how long it took them? There's no in-game timer. I think a lot of people undere... : EvilDolemite
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    I totally agree. : drucifer
    • In fact, I'd like to abolish in-game timers altogether and strike game length knowledge altogether. Qual... : EvilDolemite
  • The only reason I know is because I beat it in 3 sessions of 4 hours or so. : scarb
• I usually play on a harder level the first time through and then if I want to run through a game later on... : Sze Ior