Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 22, 2005 6:41pm PSTIs your clock wrong? WTF?
- IBM launches spam filter - You can always trust your freinds at the EPA - Tech at your grocery store - Internet porn illegal in Utah - Netspeak is good for you!Lastly, I cant help it... I know I dont really need one but the PSP looks so cool I know I'm just gonna have to get one for those random plane trips I take. I cant resist. :( Hold me :(
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
Darksiders 2 releases June 26, pre-order bonuses announced
PlayStation Home getting avatar 'fighting' game
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http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2005/03/20050322220911.shtml
New stuff coming in MacOS 10.3.9 (aside from bugfixes)
- support for NTFS formatted volumes
^^^
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WHY. why would you TOUCH this stuff?! 90% of the posts here have the word "terrifying" in their report and last i checked, that's not a good thing. but they keep doing it, hoping or trying to return to 'breaking through'.
i'm not a big drug fan, pot three or four times but.. yikes. and this shit is LEGAL.
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Why?
Because a buddy of mine recently returned from Vegas with a coupla grand in his pocket. So he built himself a new pimped out rigged, and decided to throw in a Gigabyte 6600GT with the Silent Pipe cooling for me to replace my ol vanilla 9600.
I was shocked. Totally unexpected.
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I have 1.36% intrest on my checking
5% back on gas, supermarkets , drug stores and 1% everything else on my credit card
and now I'm curious about this offer. http://www.emigrant-direct.com/
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What an obnoxious thing becomes when you're trying to fire off a few comments before beginning work. Now I have to sit with extra windows open with replies already typed waiting to go until the timer runs out. It accomplishes nothing other than wasting posters' time. The replies are still going to get posted, they're just wasting resources, sitting in browser windows until the PRL expires.
There has to be a better way to enact flood control around here. Not trying to tell you how to mod your board but this PRL is getting worse and needs to be cut back.
Expected reply: "But we haven't changed the PRL in years, man."
Bull. It never used to be this tight.
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Curse shack lurking and the forums at a certain place I can't mention (even though they closed the file forums) .......... I can't beleive it - I must learn to use the delete key.
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http://www.twcnet.edu/html/athletics/sports/wsoccer/members.htm
Quick, someone give me 45mb of space on a server with extremely large amounts of bandwidth!
because I'm never touching BitTorrent again. Thank the hit and run Silent Hill leechers for that
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www.jpop.se/omfg.jpg
www.jpop.se/wtflol.jpg
/ V
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http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/anyhoo.htm
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I really despise CoS. Give me some suggestions of how to play with them :)
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http://www.foxnews.com/images/157753/19_27_032105_congress.jpg
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goddamnit, could someone go blow something up or something to get something else onto the news programs ffs!
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Every other place only has the 1.2.4 > 1.3.0 upgrade, but I need the full update. Ugh, damn you wait times.
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Depending on your tastes, you could argue that it's the best PS2 game ever. I could see how some gamers would argue for things like Metal Gear Solid 3, Final Fantasy X, etc., but it's really like arguing over who the basketball player of all time is. Cases can be made for Michael or Magic or Larry, but those guys are all undeniably brilliant players. God of War is an undeniably brilliant game. This is a game that every PS2 owner should experience.
http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/god-of-war/598019p1.html
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http://www.intervocative.com/dvdpro/Info.aspx
For games and stuff, thenedjp's MediaChest site is quite rad:
http://www.mediachest.com/
One of these days I'm going to have to go back through and update all of my stuff on there again (last time I tried, I couldn't add anything new)
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I'm currently testing out the BitComet client as an alternative to Azureus, and so far the automatic configuration of connection settings and relative ease on system resources is very encouraging. However, I'm having trouble getting a PeerGuardian-style IP filter database working. The ipfilter-howto.txt that came with BitComet recommends http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/help.cgi?l=1&rm=show_topic&topic_id=142 for help, but I don't quite understand how to produce a properly-formatted ipfilter.dat file for the client.
Does anyone have enough experience with the BitComet client to help me out on this one? The IP filter problem is really the only thing holding me back from converting, even if I have to update the database manually from time to time (compared to Azureus' SafePeer plugin's auto-update feature).
Thanks in advance! :)
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been playing it for like 3 days now. i figured since ill mostly be playing from midnight-6am pst, it should be ok, since there wont be tons of people on. and true enough, i hardly ever see more than 1 or 2 people around unless im in orgrimmar or something.
every morning at 5am, it goes down. monday it was a reboot, yesterday it went down for 6 hours for a patch. i dont see how it can take 6 hours to apply a patch, but whatever, im not making the game, and i was about to quit and go to bed anyhow so i dont really care.
but now, its 3am, and 'the world server is down'. wtf is this shit?
this is why i fucking hate mmorpgs. i have to buy the game, then i have to buy it again every month, and i cant even play it when i have time to. i can only play it when blizzard says i can, and even then, when something catastrophic doesnt happen to bring down the world server, auth server, or some other fucking server to prevent me from getting in.
and when i do get in, i play for 20-25 min, get booted out, and when i get back in i see that nothing i did in the last 20 min even happened.
no, i dont think ill be buying any subscriptions. 3 days in a row now ive been booted out of it for xyz reason. if im paying for it every month i should be able to play whenever the fuck i want to.
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http://www.fox.com/lifeonastick/
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So I watched the Animatrix last night...
First short: Now THAT is what I'd be using that kind of a computer for. Hell yeah!
Last short: By far the most awesome, but there is one thing I don't understand about the ending. Did the woman die after the runner plugged them both in and she screamed at it in VR? If not, is she just knocked unconscious? wtf? I'm just wondering because she wasn't shown out on the cliff with the runner in the last frame. Was the runner supposed to be the 'only survivor'?
Overall I liked the changing animation styles in each of the shorts. It gave some good background information on the Matrix universe, but don't think I'll be picking it up for just a few short 'toons. Maybe if there were more than 9 of 'em.
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The fiancee and I decided to try to make the perfect grilled cheese, but sadly didn't acheive the zen Phil was able to create.
http://dannyross.smugmug.com/gallery/448497
Try 1 was me and Try 2 was the fiancee.
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"The patch could not be applied because it does not match the file checksum. This problem can usually be corrected by uninstalling and reinstalling the game and then patching again.
File name: World\Maps\Kalimdor\Kalimdor_35_27.adt
If you are unable to correct this problem, please contact Blizzard Technical Support."
.... hard lock in the middle of the first attempt at the patch, and now this.... well, there goes my chance of ever playing tonight.
/sigh
/reinstall
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http://media.ds.ign.com/media/682/682841/imgs_1.html
That first shot is pure awesome :)
http://www.idvinc.com/html/image_browser/UE3.htm
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http://sys.us.shuttle.com/ModelsL_2.aspx
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I got some from the Japanese market, fried it for like 12 minutes (the package said 2 minutes lol).. it's golden and crispy outside and smells great but the inside is still perfectly pink but scorchingly hot.
Hmm what did I do wrong, moreover is it safe to eat... I wonder =p
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You know, wave at a group, hope they wave back and spare you.
Wave at a lower level to let them know your peaceful intentions.
Not anymore.
Some damn tauren killed me while I was lagged out. Couldn't get off my mount, didn't even fire a shot. He must've known something was up. Or maybe he didn't.
I found him 5 minutes later, and killed him 6 times in a row. Then took out almost all of Tarren Mill.
Some damn rogue 9 levels above me killed me while I was fighting mobs. Found and killed him several times in a row.
It's rewarding in some sense. You waste 5 minutes of my time, I waste 30 minutes of both our time.
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The director is talking about how scary it is about how little people know about what goes on in outerspace. Of course, this is just after Ben Affluck says "always talking about slingshoting around planets, how does that even work?" So he says "You have to define the rules of your outerspace."
This is before you have things like FIRE IN SPACE