Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 01, 2005 6:55pm PDTSo what do you do when you type something up and things lock up? Say screw it and go eat. You know? Maybe have a tasty beverage.
- Some dude is gonna hack your car - One login to bind them all - Second spacewalk went ok - Hackers not impressed with Cisco's response to flaw (more) - Al Gore has launched Current - New Sony cam is hotLastly, been hoping something like this would pop up one day. A rating system for open source software. Of course we're all hopeful for very lengthy debates about what is the most clever way to setup the system.
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
What was the last true RPG hit? BG 2? I don't think even Morrowing had anything on BG 2. Are RPGs just something for the past?
Where are our Fallout 1&2s, our BG 2 or Planescape: Torments? Why does everything suck so much now :(
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flop comes A, 6, J. we both have trips, i have ONE out in the whole deck...a 6. turn comes...6. holy shit was awesome.
http://maulmx.com/screens/holyshit.jpg
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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warlock&t=457322&p=1&tmp=1#post457322
Next patch will change Conflagerate (the 31pt destruction talent) so that it's instant, does considerably more damage, but takes more mana. As a destruct-o-lock this is pretty good news. No soulshards to cast either! Won't be much good for endgame instances (too much fire resist) but it should own for pvp.
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Today's episode deals with MacGyver's childhood as a bloodbrother with some other kids in his hometown! It's flashback-filled, with MacGyver mentally zapping back 25 years to 1963. They buried a time-capsule, and we're going to learn more about how exactly MacGyver swore to never use a gun!
Oh nos! This (present-day )guy is getting threatened by a gang (which consists of two hispanics, and a fat, innocuous white guy). But he gets saved by a guy threatening to drop a big rock on a car! And a 4th gang member (white with MEGA-MULLET) pulled a gun on him so he dropped the rock in shock! Oh nos, crack is involved. This is like some surreal after-school special.
Is the 330ci really worth it over the 325 series ? I have a buddy who keeps telling me if I get a beamer to get the 325 over 330 for reliability.
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Says I have 6 new emails, but I have none!
Anyone else seeing some weirdness with this?
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Basically, about 10 years ago I just gave up on everything the diabetes doctors were preaching. I started eating whatever I wanted and never tested my sugars. That was also about the time my A1C dropped from 14 to 12 and then to 9.
You'd think I'd earn a little respect from these diabetic doctors. I just went to the doctor's office and all they do is give me shit about basically everything I'm doing "wrong". Then I get my A1C results and it's 6.4. Some of the stuff they say seems like they have genuine intentions, and others it just looks like they're trying to find something to give me shit about. "Do you test every time before you drive". No, I just fucking told you I don't test ever. "Well, you should, because you don't want to drive with low blood sugar." I've been diabetic for 17 years, I know when I have low blood sugar, and I wouldn't dream of driving when I had it. "Well you should test beforehand"
I know this doesn't apply to any shackers basically, but I see rants that I don't give a shit about all the time, so there was mine! You won't see another one for one year from this time.
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http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/
wtfomghellfrozeover++
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It's usually too hard to even really click anything in the big mass of monsters anyway.
Maybe it's not the case in 40 man raids, but I haven't done any of those, so I wouldn't know. But I think I've just about had it with 5 man stuff.
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I'm thinking it's the 6600GT, but I could be dead wrong.
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Is there any way to run a win xp box remotely from my computer via the network? Is that what remote desktop simply does in xp?
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I need to find one of those send an online greating card sites that automatically sends a notice back to the sender that the receiver went to the site and saw the message.
I also must be able to put any text, with some decent length, into the message/card/page.
I don't care if it is happy birthday, good day, condolences, whatever. One of my clients is in the middle of a dirty divorce and the husband is ignoring e-mails / not sending read recipts. I thought about sending an e-mail with an embeded image and checking server logs but so many programs stop image loading.
PS - If no one knows of such a site/system, just may have to do one from scratch.
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So apparently there's a protest going on outside Take-Two's headquarters in NYC, lead of course by you know who.
I need suggestions for crazy shit to do when I get there...
And yes, pics + divx when I return.
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Allows news feeds, customized wallpapers and hotmail account access. Mind you, it requires MSN desktop search.
Anybody else use any RSS screensavers they want to recommend?
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http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7424
Hmm... This guy a Shacker right?
Pretty crazy Warlock PvPer. Anyone know this person?
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Probably a repost but I don't care!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/fishing.html
A fishing tournament :D
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Anyone have a link to today's patch? And maybe some patch notes?
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Is it just me or are widescreen monitors total crap, I did some homework and they all seem to have gimp native resolutions and response times.
Screw that.
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http://www.miramax.com/thebrothersgrimm/
Looks like a Victorian version of The Frighteners, not at all what i was expecting when I read the title.
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Medusa? Please. Throw more than four at me and maybe we'll talk. Those heads pop off nicely, and their minions are nothing more than a wish-bone for me to snap.
Don't even get me started on the pussy Minotaurs. It's like a free health dispenser every time one spawns.
Next up: Ares, you bastard. I don't care how big you are; your ass is mine.
I am Kratos, and I am a badass.
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what would you rather have as a roomate out of these type of guys? A hippie, a druggie (haha! same thing, except one has a job...sort of), a punk anarchist, goth, or a religious fanatic?
Me, I'd probably pick the punk kid. Tattered clothing and questionable pals aside you could always laugh at his ramblings about a new state ruled by the people, while my second choice (hippie) would have me punching the wall every time he spoke.
plus, punk rock rules, as long as you ignore the lyrics. Lol @ anti flag.
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Anyone up for this?
Reading alot of positive feedback from the US bf2 shackbattle here, and I was wondering if anybody from my side of the atlantic would want to try it out. I'd like to join in the US battles, but the latency and time difference makes it a bitch. ( 150-200 ms ping, and it usually starts at around 4.00am )
We would need someone to host a server. I currently have access to a linux box on a phat pipe ( in denmark) , but unfortunately its on a 100gig/month traffic restriction, of which about 60gigs/month are being used, and I'm not really sure how much traffic a large bf2 server will use, or if the server specs is sufficiant. IIRC its a dual athlon 2400+ with 2 gigs of RAM. Anybody knows this?
Anyways, this is a clanserver, and I would kinda need the clans permission to use it, so before setting things in motion, would anyone actually be interested? I'm not even sure there are enough bf2 playing euroshackers around.
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On the topic of Windows 2000 Terminal Services, does a Windows XP Pro box connecting to the Windows 2000 Terminal Services (in application mode) use up a license, as in a TS CAL?
I have been looking and so far everything I have found says that this is not the case. Windows 2000/XP do not burn a TS CAL, due to their inclusion of a "free" cal with those operating systems and anything considered a "Professional" version of their OS lines will not use up a TS CAL for their respective server lines.
Can anyone just clarify for me... Is this true or not? Does an XP box connecting to a TS 2000 server use up a TS CAL?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_poop_girl
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http://www.cafepress.com/wowit/670135
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1.) Anyone have a link to the video of the girl dancing naked to the Bananaphone song?
2.) Anyone interested in buying my Xbox?
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Smart things: Play WoW.
Masterbate.
Browse blogs.
Stupid but fun things: Sneak into a cement factory and then into reservoir after thinking you set off an alarm at the factory, then returning to the factory and climbing up huge 300ft cement tower.
Guess which one I picked... 300 pics, checking them now.
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http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/7125/outlookwtf5bn.jpg
see that "REACH PS" mailbox? It's an Outlook public mailbox. it claims to have 4 unread messages in it, but there are actually none. It's been like this for days. I think the "( )" notification started after I deleted one of my own messages I had posted in that public mailbox, and hasn't gone away since.
It's "annoying" to see that there and think all the time that there are new posts that I haven't read yet. I've tried highlighting all the messages, marking them as unread, then marking them all as unread...no dice.
Any clues?
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