Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 14, 2004 6:00pm PDTDoing a little time travel this evening... do you mind?
- Save the frogs - Google desktop search O_o - New lie detector - Tiger Woods is a terrorist - Dell after iPodLastly, Ashcroft is coming after pirates
Daily Filter: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13: The Masters, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Dear Esther Mac port confirmed
Killing Floor hits a million sales, discounted on Steam
Jam Live Music Arcade announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Metal Gear Online to quietly die this summer
Mad Riders: Techland's ATV racer coming to PC, PSN, XBLA
Notch 'can do' $13 million for Psychonauts 2
Shack Giveaway: Mighty Switch Force (3DS)
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack preview
Alan Wake 2 would be 'much quicker' than first game, says Remedy
http://www.geocities.com/hangelikas/30.2.jpg
that's no moon... that's a space station!
(and alas, it's not mine)
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I am looking into an upgrade of my current P4 2.6, 512mb PC1006 RDRAM system. Already got the vidcard (AGP 6800GT) and a DVD-burner (NEC 3500) 2 months ago.
Normally i'd go the intel-route without hesitation. The awesome stability of their chipsets + hyperthreading makes baby jesus happy. Not this time though, cause the presscots tend to generate lots of heat (but not performance) and intel decided to only bake PCI-E into their 9x chipsets.
Did some research and i have to choose between two setups:
RIG1
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (S939, Boxed)
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (nForce 3 Ultra)
512MB x 2 (1GB) PC3200 DDR CL2 (Corsair TWINX1024-3200XLPT)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, 160GB (7200rpm, SATA, 8MB)
Lite-On 16x48x SOHD-167T
Chieftec BX Miditower, Black Case 360W PSU
RIG2
Intel Pentium 4 560 (S775, 3,6GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB, Boxed)
Asus P5P800, (i865PE)
512MB x 2 (1GB) PC3200 DDR CL2 (Corsair TWINX1024-3200XLPT)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, 160GB (7200rpm, SATA, 8MB)
Lite-On 16x48x SOHD-167T
Chieftec BX Miditower, Black Case 360W PSU
My question to you guys: wich of the two rigs shall i buy? I use the rig to game. A lot. So performance in games + stability is important for me. Can the nForce chipset do that for me? Last time i went the non-intel-chipset-route i ended up with a VIA-chipset, wich i will never buy again. Ever.
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1. for the uninitiated: this game is so badass, I'd buy it! but it's free! play it.
2. for the pros: what the hell are the radiators for? they're more expensive than any of the other upgrades and don't say in the description what they really do. even the rather useless-seeming drills have a more useful description. and I couldn't find an explanation in the forums
3. for the players: 702,250 so far (but only at about 500ft depth, which seems to be about 10% through), what's your current highscore?
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20041015l.jpg
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DS screenshot at the bottom, looks pretty good
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http://www.ocremix.org/detailmix.php?mixid=OCR00781
any other recomendations?
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Anyone have any tweaks or a know a link to a tweak guide for CS Course. It runs fine on my system until i get into a firefight with more then a couple of people. It stars to studder bad, I've tried lowering the detail level but it didnt help much.
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Does it have singing? If so, how much?
The South Park movie pissed me off with all the singing. That ruined it for me, would have enjoyed it otherwise. Sure, Blame Canada was great and everything, but they sing for half the f'n movie.
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So I've finished the newly released boxed set reissue with the controversial changes that Lucas made. I TOTALLY enjoyed it! Fine, the ROTJ disco scene was a little weird, and in ANH where Greedo shoots first was whacked, but overall it was just so well done in terms of the colour treatments and the commentary. The documentary Empire of Dreams was amazing too...
I guess I'm not part of the SW fans where it's about watching the original one untouched, though I still agree that the original version could've been on the other side of the DVD.
What do you guys think?
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chali 2na is my hero.
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http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20041013/gatesqa13.art.htm
Q: Speaking of security, Internet Explorer has had well-publicized holes …
Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.
so it is now users problem if IE has bugs?
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Okay, I'm about to go on my second mission and I'm wondering how I should manage my leveling up. Should I do it FF6-style and swap out team members regularly (because everyone might be needed in the end), or can I do it KOTOR style where I have 4 complete badasses since those are all I'll ever really use.
Help!!! Thx in advance and stuff...
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Everyone ready to go? Anyone still riding with me? I got a PM from cpt_gloval saying he was going to still be in Seattle tomorrow morning if anyone needs to catch a ride with him. We can all meet up at my place in Oly and head down to Portland in style. Hell, I'll even give the Lexus a bath so it is all pretty and shiny...
Pics of the Str8Dog socermom-mobile: http://str8dog.com/gallery/5.aspx
Link to the Shackmeet page: http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=1449
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Supercar Challenge
We extended invitations to a varied group of expensive, super-strong cars. In 2003, when we ran the little guys, the average as-tested price for the four-bangers was about $45,000, and the king of the hill claimed 450 horses. Big difference from the current runoff, where the average as-tested price is more than $130,000. Four of our entrants claimed peak power of 750 or more horses.
Results: http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=15&article_id=8745&page_number=1
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i am having trouble with my bros computer
it is a Celeron 2.4ghz, Asus P4VP-MX, 256mb SDRAM, MSI Geforce 5200
anyways, for some reason I cannot get NHL 2005 to play smooth. the computer has updated directx, graphics drivers, and via 4in1 crap. his computer is much much higher than the recommended requirements.
for comparison, even the game Asheron's Call won't run smooth (i can run it super smooth on my 1.2ghz 256mb, geforce4 ti4200). AC is like 5 years old before anyone starts screaming at the ram.
something is wrong here and I cant seem to find it. The pc is running winxp sp2....
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That's both impressive.. and very very scary.
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server is fixed, map cycle is fixed, pings should be better, i'm pinging better then rydoggs/ashke's.
cs.fuckshitup.org coil
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http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-541&depa=0
I just bought a stick yesterday for $90 with $.99 shipping... and I got a stick before that for about 87 shipped a couple months ago...
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Over at CNN you look at the Technology section and see all these old articles, or ones that are relatively irrelevant and more mainstream. BBC News's front page has a link to Intel's latest statement about making a shift away from clock speed. That's pretty cool.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3746640.stm
Don't get me started on the excellent coverage of world news, irregardless of geographic location. I've never learned so much about Africa or South America events until I started reading BBC regularly.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-10-15&res=h
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It's a 256x256, 24-bit, .tga file that I imported using the "import logo" button. It displays in the options menu, but won't actually spray into the game world :(
Please help my dumb ass
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is it worth my hard earned moneys?
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http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=POP2_Demo.zip
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Right now, somewhere, baby Jesus is crying.
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It truly is a cruel world we live in.
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I can confirm they bought dildos with union money and shared them out.
O_o
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now if anyone can give me a listing of Credit Unions in New York that would rock. need to call in my payment but left the damn letter at home