Late Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 26, 2005 9:57pm PSTAh.. home a bit later than expected but hey, home!
- Apple is hot - The ads are coming to get you - Best tech of 2005 - Age of information overloadLastly, sorry guys.. New Years has been postponed :(
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
(Mariah Carey from the *other* side)
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but what's even worse is that I didn't particularly like the movie. The ending just totally got me.
I have such a soft spot for monster movies :(
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http://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=92719
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http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/
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Interesting read from the ATi Dude about the 360 and the 7800GTX PS3.
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I got it working in the end. I installed an NVidia tweak tool which, after some playing around, enabled the control panel for adding custom resolutions. (Fuck you, Dell, for removing this by default, you cunts.)
The strange thing was, if I added 960x600 or 1280x800 at 60hz then my monitor (2405fpw) would get it wrong and display them squashed to 4:3. In the case of 1280x800 the montor's OSD claimed the image was 1280x1024, even though it wasn't (confirmed by taking a screenshot in Windows).
Since the monitor only has a global setting for whether it stretches the screen (rather than one per resolution) I didn't want to change it from "Aspect" and fuck up 4:3 content by stretching it as well.
Then I tried adding the same two resolutions but at 70hz. Magically, this works fine! The strange thing now is that the monitor reports just that it's in "1920x1200" mode (the native resolution). It's confused. I'm confused. But it works great and now I can get annoyed at CoD2 (and enjoy it occasionally as well) in 16:10 full-screen mode.
Hurrah!
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4505462782975458603
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got these for xmas. they're only $20 headphones, so they don't have any bells or whistles, not even a volume control on the cord or anything. But I am pretty happy with the sound quality .. everything is nice and crisp, at least enough to my liking. They're really comfortable as well. I've got a big fat head and a tendency to wear a stocking cap six months out of the year, and these puppies accommodate that nicely. Also quite comfy in the ear region .. they're not too tight but fit snugly over my entire ear.
So if you need some cheap headphones, I would recommend these.
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Nothing really to report, just my renewed disdain for humans.
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http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&id=108&colid=8773
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Too bad they are pretty much impossible to find in Canada.
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http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/253173
if you dont, you should practice:
http://www.thepickupgame.com/
On one hand, they all had the right idea... on other, they need to be schooled STAT!
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Have any of you ever heard of "numbers stations" on the shortwave band? Possibly used by governments to transmit encrypted data to operatives:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,65698-0.html
This stuff is pretty cool.
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I just spent 40 minutes on this site... damn I gotta go to bed
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windows explorer question.
when you bookmark a folder and put it in the links bar is there anyway to have it open in the same windows explorer instead of a new window?
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/most-no-1-singles-of-all-time/2005/12/27/1135445560293.html
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http://82.165.181.23:8000/listen.pls
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This episode will shed more light on why Eko took a mysterious 40-day vow of silence, and possibly information on his stick. Also, Claire begins to lose faith in Charlie after Eko begins to question him about the Virgin Mary statue, and Jack is an interested observer when Kate gives the recovering Sawyer a much-needed haircut. And then they all have crazy hardcore monkey sex in the hatch causing impregnation of Kate.
http://www.tv.com/lost/show/24313/episode_guide.html&season=2
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Does any devout stuff drop in UBRS?
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what is the song?
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here's a winner - http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/117513973.html
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Should I get a nice 19" Samsung LCD computer monitor or at regular 17" Flat CRT and a PSP pacl with a 1GB memory stick
So it's between this
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10063048&catid=22334&logon=&langid=EN
Or this
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=15323&vpn=LB17KSBBQ&manufacture=Samsung
and
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10068966&catid=
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Logitech G15 Keyboard Menz
At the recommendation of some Shackers earlier today, I went and picked up a G15, and must say I'm quite happy about that decision. While many games don't support that LCD, that's no big problem for me. I can control iTunes (and see what tracks are playing) from the LCD while in a full screen game, check cpu/memory consumption, etc. Then I found this little site... http://www.g15forums.com They have a bunch of apps available on the forums; one that even checks my MSN messenger messages. They also have a link to "LCD Studio" which is compatible with the G15. It lets you create custom apps for it with a drag and drop interface. Make sure you check it out. I love this thing!
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god, i treat my pc exactly how i do my bedroom and kitchen floors :(
just throw it wherever, you can always find it later.
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