Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 24, 2005 6:42pm PSTEveryone cool?
- Shocker, people forget stuff in cabs - ISP offering torrent services is hot - Oh no.. not a national ID card! NO!!!! IT IS SO SCARY!!! - Einstein may have been smart - Napster getting into moviesFireFox dude hired by Google, your Google browser is coming
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
I'm trying to get my damn cable fixed, but the techs don't give a shit unless I can't download or get on the net.. I'm getting packet loss and 9ms-100ms which sometimes spikes up to 800ms just to my gateway alone! Very annoying.. I can't play anything but my downloads are still fine.
http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=1754
E3 2005 shackmeet page of dooooooooooooooom
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I soiled myself severly. I went ahead and bought a new joystick.
I wouldn't mind some nice FS2 ShackBattles on this.
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Acclaimed artist, Dave McKean is making a movie, written by Neil Gaiman, releasing later this year. Looks to be produced by the Jim Henson Company...and someone who worked on Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal...
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/mirrormask/main.html
Theres a trailer on the site under "Previews"
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I can buy a 3.8 Ghz Dell Dimension with 1GB RAM, integrated 5.1 sound, 160GB SATA HD, and PCI-express NVidia 6800, for $1190.
My current gaming PC is a 3 Ghz Dell Dimension with 1.5 GB ram, AGP 6800GT and Audigy2, no SATA. It works great and never had a single issue with it, but most games these days are CPU-limited, so I figure 3.8 GHz and PCI-e should be a pretty noticeable speed bump. I am getting a PCI-e 850XT in the mail in a couple of weeks so video card is not a problem.
The 3.8 GHz for $1190 seems like a prett good deal to me. So I ask teh Shack: worth it to upgrade?
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Indiana Jones > Jack T. Colton
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=filmNews&storyID=2005-01-25T113239Z_01_BOM28818_RTRIDST_0_FILM-LEISURE-INDIA-SEQUEL-DC.XML
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a plugin to winamp maybe?
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After 3 seasons of solid fun, and a few good episodes in the fourth, 24 (aka JBPH) has officially Jumped The Shark.
I had hopes that perhaps Keifer and crew could pull off another rollercoaster ride of intrigue, badass action, and plot twists so shocking as to make grown men weep (which, as a matter of fact, nearly happened to me at one moment in Season 3). But now, the show has degraded into the typical action movie cliche. Completely predictable, and so cheesy I can no longer willingly suspend my disbelief.
I mean come on, Terrorists can "remote control" every nuclear power plant in the US??? *cringe*
Steve was right--this is going to be the last season :(
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http://romero.smugmug.com/gallery/480/1
totally gold.
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What’s the easiest cheapest way to get my "foot" in the Mac door. I'm checking this out:
http://www.macofalltrades.com/product.asp?dept%5Fid=2&pf%5Fid=G4400SA2&mscssid=SJ17984Q7ESN9M256JFNLQLR66A34VN4
Seems like a decent deal. Now, I'm not going for fast. I'm going for something I can mess around with for a while then eventually give to the wife for basic web/email stuff. I know everyone is going to say MacMini, but it's just out of my "Just Messing Around" price range. Also, upgrading the RAM seems to be fairly cheap on the G4. $300 sits nice as opposed to $500.
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http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/06/liger.shtml
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I can take out the first wave, but then I hit the second room with turrets, and it's just impossible. I take out 3 or 4 waves, then literally 8 silver Elites pour in, and I have almost no ammo. My tactic of dropping their shields with a plasma pistol, then switching to the battle rifle and dropping them with two bursts works really well, but not against this many.
My ass is sore. Every game I'm playing lately has been kicking the shit out of me. I am getting slow.
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anyone getting it? it's probably at least worth getting on iTunes...
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North Americans, I implore you, WATCH THIS SHOW!
srsly, best sci-fi show EVAR
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When does WoW come back up again?
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^_^ more here:
http://www.choiceshirts.com/dept/c1...hirts/p/0/n/12/
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*signs up for Dishnetwork*
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***Drum Roll***
The Napoleon Dynamite soundboard:
http://gorillamask.net/flashndsoundboard01.shtml
Click and let the fun begin!
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http://www.woot.com/woot_detail.aspx
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http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
i just took out some ram to troubleshoot another computer, then put it back in. now i'm getting repeating high/low error beeps from bios. i tried googling what that means, and it's supposed to mean bad cpu. but i didn't even touch my cpu. anybody got any ideas? this is freaking me out. :(
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I wrote a long post about this thing with the conclusion that overall I like it, but I accidentally did a "select all" in the edit box and then pressed some random key so I erased my entire post. Safari didn't give me an 'undo' for some reason so I hate it now. Starting over!!
It's not fast. This is the minimum config version, a 1.25GHz G4 with 256MB ram and 32MB video ram (plays a role since the OS is accelerated). The speed is not a surprise since Windows XP is slow with this config aswell. It is sadistic of Apple to sell computers with less than 512MB ram but I guess it makes sense for this particular model. A half as fast G4 with 1GB ram runs OSX very well so it's really all ram-related.
Despite all this, it's not really horrendously slow either. It's a natural and smooth kind of slow, you get used to it and then you don't mind it. Once I got back to my PC I felt SWOOOSH!! but now when I'm back I once again forget about it. Both my PCs on the other hand are all vrrrrrmBANG and then I start over. This is like a monkey just chilling in a tree. Yeah.
About 30 seconds after I wrote the previous sentence I have now crashed GarageBand. Atleast it crashed with dignity. And I got to write in an error report that the Swedish king now hates you all.
I'm downloading UT2004 now to test some gaming. Rootletoot!
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so I've been using a 7inch tripod for a while with good results. I think it's time to get a "full size" tripod. I'm thinking of this one because it has a "bubble level"..I'm hoping that will help with panoramas etc.
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&dept=20007&sku_id=0926INGFS10010948&catid=&newdeptid=20007
any comments? I know nothing about these things.
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Ok New thread...continuing on!
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