First Post!
by Maarten Goldstein, Jul 01, 2005 3:12am PDTWell I got the apartment I wanted, so I'll moving out real soon. I'll be close to a movie theater, the train station, the shoppping mall, other stores, and various bars. And when I say close I mean I can walk to most in 5 minutes. Let the breakdancing commence (getting a decent rental place is pretty difficult around here, so I'm real glad I found this). Also on FileShack
- Brian Lara International Cricket demo - now with commentary.
- Unreality Episode One - singleplayer mod for the original Unreal Tournament.
- CTF-Semiramis - UT2004 map.
Mad Riders trailer goes heavy on the meta
Anarchy Reigns finished, delayed by Sega anyway
Jet Set Radio making its way to Vita
Diablo 3 patch coming next week
Elder Scrolls Online plans to sort out bugs with long beta
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I've been getting a lot of questions about how I got mine up and running (20+ shackmessages and emails), and figure I'd write a little guide that should answer anything. There are three parts that should describe everything you need to get off the ground. If you have any questions, drop me a line
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Not even the brightest mathematician could calculate an F-ratio in under 20 minutes when the problem consists of fucked up variables and 30 scores per group (in this case 5 fucking groups). Oh, and what's this? after you're done perform a protected t-test?! and LSD!! is that all? NO!!!! NOW PEROFMR AN EPSILON TEST!!!
...guess what, you've got 6 more problems to go! WOOOOOHOOOO
ORRRRRRRRRHJJJ!!!!
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Wasps are scary + I'm a pussy.
Last summer here in KS we had a weekend of all rain. I don't remember exactly how much, but it was a lot. For some reason, all this rainwater caused a rather large sinkhole in our backyard. I would say around 8x8 ft wide and 4ft deep right along the fence-line, burying 2 of the posts and knocking off a couple slats.
Well after a while we paid some dude to come in with a crap ton of dirt, fill up the hole and pack it down with a front end loader. Well, he didn't do the best job but we ended up fixing the hole+fence half assed but it worked.
Then sometime in April we had another weekend where it fucking rained the whole time. Guess what happend, the sinkhole sunk again and we're back to where we were last summer.
So, my brother and I are pretty lazy bastards, and we didn't even fuck with the hole for around 3-4 months. And everytime we walk passed it now, we see about a dozen wasps coming in and out every second. I'm pretty sure they won't like us dumping lots and lots of dirt all over their hive and I really don't want to get owned by 50 wasps. I've never been stung in my life, and with my gay allergies I don't know if a sting would lead to some stupid allergic reaction.
So, wasp experts tell me what to do. Should I....
1- Man up and put on a large jacket, dump the dirt and plan on getting stung?
2- Attempt to dump the dirt in the nighttime so they will be asleep? (no idea if this is true, but it seems less risky)
3- Put all the dirt in a big wheelbarrow, dump once and run like a little bitch.
4- ???
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Current specs:
AMD 2400 :/
6800GT
1gigram
I want to get a AMD3200 or above, what advice do you guys have for me?
will I see a BIG increase going from 2400 - 3200 ? and do I need to reformat when I change CPU and MOBO?
anyone have a setup close to mine but with the 3200 ? what performanec are you getting in BF2?
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watch "tom cruise gets wet" heh
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Holy shit I haven't seen this show in years and it easily is still the BEST interpretation of Batman that I know of. And I read Bats faithfully in the '90s. The animation still puts anything out (American-based) to shame and really set a good standard for JL, and Teen Titans. I think the Superman series gets released sometime soon. Well worth the purchase.
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Extra topical thanks to BF2!
As promised, here's the picpost from the machinegun shoot I was at on Thursday. If anyone has any questions about anything featured here, feel free to ask them in reply..
ATTENTION-GRABBING TEASER IMAGE:
http://dslyecxi.com/images/mgshoot/teaser.JPG
This training was for IA's (individual augments) heading to Iraq or Afghanistan in the near future.. six people from my unit were there, and myself and another coach from my unit were brought along to teach classes on the weapons. The range wasn't set up all that well (no targets were brought, so everyone was basically shooting at dirt), but it was still a hell of a lot of fun to be around all that firepower, particularly when I was being allowed to take pics + divx of it all. We were under "Black Flag" conditions all day, which is to say that the weather was uber-fucking-hot and sticky, but nobody went down as a heat casualty as far as I know. Sadly, I only got to fire 15 rounds during the course of this, since I was there primarily as a coach - and that was from an M9. Sigh.
But I did get lots of pics + divx for you all.. so I guess that counts for something..
Anyhow.. here's what was utilized during the shoot:
What was fired:}y
M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon, Light Machinegun, 5.56mm
M-240 "Golf" Medium Machinegun, 7.62mm
M2 Browning Heavy Machinegun, .50cal (12.7mm)
People also fired their individual weapons, which were..
M-16A2 and M-16A4 Service Rifles, 5.56mm
M9 Service Pistol, 9mm 124gr +P
We thought we'd get some M203 practice rounds, but alas, that didn't materialize.
Oh, right.. there was some little douchebag there who was actually bitching that he had to fire the weapons, he thought it was a "waste of time". I so wanted to take that 200-round belt of 5.56mm that he was about to waste and strangle him with it. I mean.. what? Free ammo + machinegun + non-combat situation = FUN FUN FUN. I almost quipped that there were Shackers who would kill to be in his position, then realized that hey, he wouldn't know what I was talking about anyway, and words were better saved for people worth talking to. =(
PICS + DIVX IN REPLY
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my first standard transmission and actually my 3rd time actually driving a standard. I think I drove it pretty well only staled it 3 times on the way home. Only screwed up downshifting once on an off ramp went from 5th -> 2nd. It was a little bit over a 1 hour drive home as this dealer was a bit far from town. But it was a great deal was worth the little bit extra drive. Anyway got a lot of practice that way on the way home.
And to my surprise yesterday while they where detailing it and checking out a few things on the car they found out it had a Turbo Exhaust-Dump valve installed aftermarket. It has a small toggle switch to the left of the steering wheel to open/close the valve. Man with it open sounds like a completely different car, I doubt I will use it much if at all though as it makes it a bit to loud for my liking.
Thought I would post some pics.. sorry for the crappy shots sun was going down and didn't have the flash on. And now the sun is down so can't take any more.
http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/pics/wrx_01.jpg
http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/pics/wrx_02.jpg
Now gotta go drive it some more.. cya! :D
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this recent thread about 1 year warranty on retail disks scares me - i think my 400gb was retail (I can't recall)
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Since yesterday evening, whenever my buddy tries to log onto WoW, his graphics go to shit...as seen here: http://s119508344.onlinehome.us/img/wtfwow.jpg (note that taking an in-game screenshot results in a perfectly normal looking screenie)
It only does this in WoW on his computer, he can play CS:S no problem. Any ideas?
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I just went to a link that someone just posted here, and obviously it was a virus or adware site. Now I have popups all over the place and stuff keeps wanting to autoload on my comp.
What programs can i use to get rid of this crap?
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(sorry for the cam phone pic)
NVS (not vegetarian safe)
http://web.uvic.ca/~mwquinn/yum.jpg
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Do any of you know of any good tutorial sites?
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I have a EDTV connected to a Scientific American 8300 cable box. sound comes out a tuner -- no speakers on panasonic tv. how in fuck's name do i get a ps2 connected and displayed? the easy "put the three cables into the cable box" doesn't work -- what do i need to make this fucker work?
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take me to another place, take me to another place
Those lyrics are extremely cliched and in every song ever written. Anyone know who did this one in particular?
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This little game makes me a happy kitty.
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I have Metroid: Fusion and its not bad, but I hear Zero Mission is better. If so why?
Also, why the hell hasn't Super Metroid been ported to the GBA yet!?
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Sometimes my players only let me play 20 seconds of a file that should clearly play much longer - the time bar only goes for 20 seconds. When Media Player goes past 20, it starts going choppy, showing one frame every 5 seconds or so... remedy?
Dell 8300 AGP P4 @ 3.06GHz with 1.5GB RAM
60GB IDE 7200RPM HD
eVGA GeForce 6800GT 256 AGP
Creative Audigy 2
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I think some of them may have been under the influence.
http://www.alwaysnetwork.com/shack/felicia.jpg
Help a brother out?
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I have the following program requirements:
When an 'init' function is called, I need to start something that listens for TCP requests on a specific port.
When an 'update' function is called, I need to process all requests that were sent to that port. A request is just a text string or something.
Any good resources for how I should do this?
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Toronto. Shackmeet. Help break the curse.
http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=2067
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