Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 15, 2005 7:11pm PDTStill not really used to the idea of actual content showing up around here. We'll just see how long that silly idea lasts!
- More on TiVo downloads - Pee Power - TV tries podcasting - Point-and-click crime - Someone finally figured out you can burn music to CDs - Koreans dig CRTLastly, Google to offer national free WiFi?
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
Me and the wife are carpooling a lot more now. Really sucks but I can't imagine what it is going to be like when gas hits $3.00/gallon.
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I just thought of some killer stuff i'm going to make tonight.
Me and my roomie picked an assload of blackberries last weekend. We've already made jam and sorbet, and i was thinking of making blackberry infused vodka, since i've got a half gallon of smirnov sitting around.
I think i'll eventually make the blackberry stuff, but not right now. What i've got in mind will be much more fun and evil.
I think tonight, i am going to buy about 6 habaneros, and let them sit in vodka for a few weeks. I'm curious to see how hot they can infuse the vodka.
I'm expecting it to be fairly close to liquid death. I have a feeling it'll make good bloody marys.
I'll definitely be updating when i have a finished product. I think it'll be fairly deadly awesome.
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I am posting the link in reply because a few of them are of the...Shall we say "NWS" variety.
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/jarhead/large.html
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srsly
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My wife's new job has requested all this info and it freaks me out. She doesn't want to ask why due to her really liking the job. It seems really intrusive to me and borderline illegal as a condition of employment.
The only reason I can think they need all this info is to get a Military security clearance... but she is not certain.. bizzare.. If they asked me for my driving record the first question I would have asked is "why?"
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Anybody here know what a "Team Foundation Server" is?
Also, I've a DVD here for "Visual SourceSafe 2005 Beta 2 English June 2005"... does anybody here have an opinion one way or the other about how well it works for archiving source code?
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It looks like everyone had so much fun I'm tempted to go next year. Also, do you have to be a FPS god to go?
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/ramblings.php?p=2765&cat=17
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now, it should be noted, I only have a 2Mbps downstream, which tops out at 230KB/s.
HL2 Substance size 87.2MB, Round down to 87 for ease of working out.
Dialup intarweb over a decent 56k modem, presuming 5KB/s realworld.
89088 / 5KB/s = 17817.6 seconds / 60 = 297 minutes
assuming near saturation of 2mpbs connection
89088 / 230KB/s = 387.3 seconds / 60 = 6.4 minutes
46.4x faster than 5KB/s over dialup
o_O
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AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BPBOX - Retail
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX1024-3200C2PT - Retail
Leadtek WinFast PX7800GT Extreme TDH Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
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Aim: to build a linux server:
Preferences: Small as poss. Cheap as poss.
Constraints: under $500 total cost.
Component/Case recommendations are welcome.
If i could buy a mac mini to do the job, trust me I would.
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http://www.robotcombat.com/video/elvis_hi.mov
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bwahahahaha. This is the best line in the story though:
"...Terrell plans to reward you with a season for the ages. Where small men succumb, great men overcome!"
ahahahahaahahaha! He's such an arrogant a-hole!
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when i opened that accoutn during their little promotion, i didnt sign and fax or mail fuck all. i didnt give them any billing info, etc.
now that their litte trial is winding down, i find that they wont close my account unless i sign and fax or mail shit to them, and if i dont, they'll automatically upgrade my account and bill me for it (how, i dont know, perhaps by sending paper bills to my old address)
ive emailed them several times telling them that theres no fucking way im going to go to the trouble of printing, signing, and then faxing or mailing a cancellation form to them, since i neither have a printer nor a fax, and doing this is a signifigant pain in the ass. they tell me that they can't cancel it for legal purposes. i call total bullshit. i close paypal accounts at work all fucking day, those have ACTUAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION on it, and people dont need to fax or mail fuck all. so its just their retarded policies.
anyone else had any drama trying to close their 1and1 accounts?
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Is there anyone looking forward to Kingdom Hearts 2?
Looks like it's due out on Dec 1st.
I loved the first game, but never finished it because i got the last guy and them had to move apt. By the time i picked it back up, i didn't feel like relearning the combat, and stuff.
I'm really curiosu to see if the sequel holds up to the original at all. The original was a different style of rpg.
I've been browsing http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom2/ a bit, and the game looks pretty neat. I'm sure everyone who wants to has already seen the trailor, but if you haven't, get into the site, click the bottom link in the menu, and then browse to the camera icon.
Looks very similar to the first one, but it also looks like they're adding some new gameplay elements (the transformation stuff, etc.)
I'm excited to see how this game turns out.
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Well I've come to the conclusion that I will never be good at a FPS that requires pinpoint aiming (like CS) because of my left handedness, and using the mouse with my right hand. I've played more hours of CS than any other FPS and I'm still no more than an average player.
I've tried converting to using my mouse with my left hand but I gave up... It's just too much hassle. NO ONE here uses a mouse with their right hand.
Anyway, I was always much better at frantic deathmatch style games because they're slightly less about pinpoint aiming and more about movement. What is the most popular these days? I have UT2k4 and Quake 3 sitting here but I don't want to install them if no one is going to be on the servers. Also, what mods will I need?
Cheers.
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how can i set up a VPN server at home behind my DI-524 router and make it work :X
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=38238
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Needless to say, I'm now fucking pumped for Quake IV. We're going to need some dedicated Shack servers for this mofo!
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It'd be nice to have one. :(
I was just outside the front of my house, trying to figure out where the front gate was scraping on the floor and sticking (I need to shave some of it off). While I am doing this, two kids who can't have been more than 14 come walking down the road screaming "arse" at the top of their lungs every few seconds, I just look up and thing to myself "what a pair of cocks" and carry on doing what I am doing. Now I am crouching down, looking at the gate, one of the fuckers comes up to me, puts his face about an inch away from mine and screams "ARSE" right in my face....what the fuck?!
I ask him why he did it and they just look at eachother and just laugh, they then run off down the road - pissed off, I throw a sprite start running after them, catching up with them after about a minute, grabbing them by their collars and ask them again, "why the hell did you do that just now?" - "I was bored".
I ask them where they live and they don't say so I march them back up the road, explaining how if they don't tell me where they live I'll just call the police - one of them finally tells me so I go to their house and knock on the door, which is answered by their mother (or at least the mother of one of them I never did find out). I explain what just happened and she somehow manages to twist the blame/guilt onto me (wtf) and just says "oh it's the school holidays, they're just bored" and then slams the door in my face - WTF?
What the hell is wrong with people these days?!
ARGH!
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New news: Zelda delayed - in a big, big way. Also, Game Boy Micro street date.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/16/technology/personaltech/nintendo/index.htm
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I will be soooo glad when they prop the new BG. WSG is played. So played.
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this fucking department we're working on continues to push test files into our production environment without even asking us first
FUCKCKKKKK
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