Evening Reading

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  AVG Free is pretty good : AlbinoSquirrel
  • ok this one looks good. thanks : jujubees
• there was a recent thread about Kaspersky becoming free... It scores amongst the best antivirus in compar... : MikkleThePickle
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  i'm the guy who's never had a problem with NortonAV : jrock
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    What do you use instead? : dognose
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      it took me like 20 seconds to get then :[ : jrock
      • er, then/that :P : jrock
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    then you, yes you laddie, need to get off my planet. >:( NAV = TEH DEVIL : Toraz Chryx
    • the Corporate edition rocks : MikkleThePickle
• NAV 2003- you get a free year of definitions et al with it... and by reinstalling, you get ANOTHER free y... : silentw

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  Filezilla is still king, I'd say. Filezilla server has recently blown my mind. I used to use g6ftp, but f... : re-verse
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    I still use G6FTP (actually, bulletproof ftp).. what's better about FileZilla server now? Last time I tri... : suqur
    • I'd like to know the answer to this also. : tangles
    • I've got infinite bandwidth at work (we push out 6-8 gig a second generally so my ftp doesn't even show u... : re-verse
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  I loved FlashFXP.... : tomatoactivator
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    Me too. Then I needed an S-FTP client. I found WinSCP3 and it's very nice. A++ would use again. : basketofkittens
    • fyi, filezilla supports sftp : suqur
    • I lost faith in winscp. When I transfer files via sftp to my host on the inet, I max out at about 150k/... : festivalman
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  smartftp is my current fav : slickdoody
  • Same here. : Dslyecxi
  • Long time fave here. : rand04
  • I'll vouch for SmartFTP as well : MikkleThePickle
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  I'm still using LeechFTP. I've yet to find a FTP program that offers multi-threading. I hate downloadin... : Matt Burris
  • I think they all do multithreading now, pretty much. FileZilla definitely does. Just have to up your tran... : suqur
• Is there really any reason to use anything other than a free client like Filezilla? I mean, its only ftp.... : johnny skidmarks
• Filezilla is still my favorite. FlashFXP has a snappy interface and all, but for my needs (ftp'n into... : roushimsx
• FileZilla is the best out there. : FPSDavid
• I like WS_FTP but Filezilla is free. If it isn't broke then I don't see a reason to switch, especially wi... : Serpico74
• what, no love for DOS? :) : captfarrell

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  fdisk : thomas jefferson
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    even when booting from the same disk you're running it on? No chance of floppy or CD-ROM bootage... : steelsamurai
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      there shouldn't be a problem if you fdisk a partition from a different partition when you're in the same ... : thomas jefferson
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        can't boot from floppy because there is no floppy drive. Can't boot from CD because I'm travelling and do... : steelsamurai
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          PS. just wanted to be mega-careful as if this laptop gets fuxored by me doing something stupid I will fux... : steelsamurai
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            don't screw around w/ fdisk then. i'm always terrified of losing everything when i play with it : thomas jefferson
            • it's like operating on your own brain. Steady.... steady.... OOOPS * F L A T L I N E * : steelsamurai
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  right click my computer -> Manage -> Disk Management -> format the partition as ntfs : pheral
  • might have to fdisk /mbr afterwards to clear any bootloader you may have installed. : pheral
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    tried that first, doesn't give me a Format option. Only gave me an option to "delete logical drive." Sinc... : steelsamurai
    • well I deleted it, and then I could add a new logical drive in the empty space, and then format it... so ... : steelsamurai
• gparted live cd : Merconium

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir : drbriefs
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  It's not a remake of anything. It's in the style of film noir. : Chris Remo
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    Hence the link. : drbriefs
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      We posted two seconds apart, I didn't see your reply until I posted mine. : Chris Remo
      • After you mentioned the style I remembered that I took film history in college. Then I remember the film... : skitzo
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  You said you liked it, but could you go into a little bit more detail? Nothing too spoilerish, but I'd li... : felicia
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    Eh... The dialogue, characters, and plot are amazing. It's just the setting thats a bit unbelievable. : skitzo
    • Screw the setting that was a great movie. : skitzo
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    Ok, to answer your question... Super vague basics. There is a murder mystery, there is a hint of orga : skitzo
    • I think that's part of its uniqueness however. The setting, I mean. : rand04

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  This is really cool, seriously. =( : Dslyecxi
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    I read the entire post and had absolutely no clue what in the world you were talking about. I finally cau... : lord cecil
    • It's useful because it's a very natural way to control your in-game view, far far better than POV hats an... : Dslyecxi
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  What is it? : ki11_viru5
  • It's a device that tracks head movement and translates it to in-game stuff. For flight sims/racing games,... : Dslyecxi
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  Looks cool but it isnt cheap. : deeveee
  • It's totally worth it, though. There's nothing else out there that can give you such a massive immersion ... : Dslyecxi
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  Awesome! At 5:20 and 7:20 were you greying out from Gees? : AxeMan808
  • Yep. : Dslyecxi
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  doesn't this mean you have to turn your eyes the opposite way as you turn your head? I think this would g... : GloriousCow
  • You only have to turn your head a tiny bit. : deeveee
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    It scales up the movement, it's not a 1:1 translation. There are some nice videos on the NaturalPoint sit... : Dslyecxi
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      I want my VR goggles :( : GloriousCow
      • The neat thing about this is that you get to use your monitor as the viewing device, instead of being for... : Dslyecxi
• Looks frikken cool, I'm gonna give that game a go aswell. : saundz
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  I'd love to give that a try... is it available in any retail store? : MikkleThePickle
  • I'm not too sure about that, you might want to try to get in contact with the NaturalPoint guys and ask t... : Dslyecxi

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• wow, nicely done.... : MikkleThePickle
• Cool, that's an interesting way to get it done, heh. : DinK

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• that just blew my mind : MikkleThePickle

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• ALL SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSADMIN : Toraz Chryx
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  Then, when he gets back home, reboot it again. : enyakk
  • lol. : skitzo
  • *BOFH´D* be afraid, lol : Izakhar
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  That's why you have a networked KVM w/ power control. Never drive into the office again at 3AM. : ngsmack
  • VPN with VNC... oh yea : BubbaPut

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  Merom in laptops in 1 month, but the current round of mackbooks and macbook pros are still good : bolus
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    Do you happen to know when these will be available and what the differences between these new ones and th... : Ecks
    • I dont know when exactly you would be able to pick one up since it is all rumor now. If you have a need ... : bolus
    • I know they'll be 64-bit for one thing. : BlackCat9
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      the top end Macbook Pro will go like it had an FX-62 under the hood. (2.33Ghz Merom =~2.8Ghz A64, probab... : Toraz Chryx
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        will you buy me a macbook pro? : jcutner
        • You have me confused with someone that presently has liquid cash in any form available, right now I'm doi... : Toraz Chryx
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          no, because I'm skint. : Toraz Chryx
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            Some cockslap offered to buy my A8N Premium, Opteron and ram for about 550$ US and so I de-mount the boar... : abrasion
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              slap their cock. with boiling hot magma. : Toraz Chryx
              • Dismounting board = annoying, not happy :( : abrasion
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    Is it really that long? Shit. I wanted to get one for college but leave before then. : notd665
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      dude, its not like the mac and pros aren't a crapload faster than the g4's. people are playing and beatin... : not work safe
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        olol. I just don't see the point in buying something with the knowledge that a better revision will be ou... : notd665
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          Then steer away from apple products all together. : not work safe
          • This is so damn true it's not even funny. If you buy a mac, you have to automatically assume that somethi... : ovrlrd
      • you mean macbook pros for HL2. plain macbooks have shitty GPUs. : mallocated
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      you should buy it from your college bookstore anyways. the student discounts are usually even better on ... : smacknca
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        You can get those prices without going to the on campus store, you just pick educational discounts on the... : ovrlrd
        • i dont know if its the same as here in the uk. But the educational discount accessed off campus doesnt gi... : disembodied potato
  • Really, i've been eying a new Vaio with the Intel Solo (they don't make the TX with the duo yet). They're... : Morphius
  • they get amazingly hot. : skryte
• Someone just posted around here about one the other day : Magus

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• Excellent game, top 4-5 pc rpg. : Ravenkettle
• HK-47 ftw. : brickmatt
• That game was both fun and good looking but the writing/story was just so bad that I gave up. : SpaecKow

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• need more zing and less flair : annih1late
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  Needs the word "beta" in small letters somewhere. beta : Maddog_Delphi97
  • shackr : ki11_viru5
• Shack 2.0 would be called 'TingPingSingr' keeping in tradition with most of the new web 2.0 app's having ... : r3ckless
• Needs more gradient, with shitty blinding colors and a more unusual font. Don't forget the beta. : ghost in my shell
• not bad, not bad at all... : MikkleThePickle

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• is the beta public? : MikkleThePickle
• It really is cool. It has kind of killed my excitement about the new Dawn of War expansion because I'd l... : rahba
• What is cool about it? : CRasterImage

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• any tubgirl? : pheral
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  Slashdot is a cesspool of whiney little short sighted linux fanboys. I hardly see how it qualifies : godm0de
  • It's the web's foremost site for whiney, little, short-sighted, linux fanboys. If you're ever in need of ... : Sarcastro
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    It used to be a good site, before valinux. : Omning
    • and before userfriendly. You know what, it was good when it first started. : Omning
  • heh, slashdot belongs on there 100%, sadly. : porp
  • True. If someone posts that they played Minesweeper on Windows and really liked it, you'll get 500 respon... : Flynn
  • There's also a tonne of very intelligent posters there though. : abrasion
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  I've never heard of a couple of them. I'm suprised google and myspace are so low. : ki11_viru5
  • I agree about Google. I would have placed it first or second. YouTube shouldn't be there at all. It is... : CRasterImage
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  I love how half the list is shit that's came out within the last 2 years. YouTube is popular, but I do... : DOOManiac
  • i think a more appropriate title would have been "15 sites that changed how i spent my lunch hour today" : pupismyname
  • I'd say Wikipedia is a worthy addition to the list. : crummynz
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    dude in the span of 3 years i observed how everyone did research for a paper in college. it went from hou... : thomas jefferson
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      Isn't it fucking great? College must have been hard pre-internet :P : aggressor
      • If it wasn't for the internet and my TI-89 I would have failed out of high school and then college. : thomas jefferson
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    I'va always wondered what it is that makes myspace such a succes anyway.. I mean.. what makes it stand ou... : bamb
    • its the new geocities, what made that so popular that everyone had their own website there : Speed-
  • Youtube Wikipedia and myspace are just specific examples of models that were successful and new - its the... : 60days
• I pretty much agree with the list, but definitely not the order : MikkleThePickle

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• eventvwr ? : Ratalon

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  DS Lite is the only way to go. Much brighter screen and slightly smaller in size. I don't know about TV... : pigvomit
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    So the DS is cheaper? 'Cause if you can hook it to a TV, the brightness shouldn't matter. I wanna play ... : dognose
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      nothing wrong with playing it on a handheld. super toilet bros. : pyide
      • My friend bought the opera browser cart for his Lite. Bathroom buddy indeed. : Morphius
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  I know that Nintendo has a thing to display it on a TV, but I doubt that it can be bought in stores, and ... : angrytaxman
  • Oh yeah I forgot it has two screens. Thanks :( : dognose
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  You can't connect it to the TV (not sure how that would work with the touch screen, anyway). DS = old ... : timmie
  • I can touch my TV. : dognose
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  I think there were kits for the GBA to display games on TV but it involved opening the handheld. I don't ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    For the GBA there's a GBA player for the Gamecube so you can play the games on your TV. : timmie
    • Yeah but the TV kit arrived earlier than the player as far as I remember. I wish there was something like... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      Do they have Mario games for the GBA? Do they still sell those? Does it look like crap on a TV? : dognose
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        All of the NES and SNES Mario platformers are available on GBA. On a TV, they look pretty much exactly h... : Chris Remo
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          Yeah look for the Super Mario Advance series. The first one was SMB2, the second one Super Mario Worl... : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • Yep, and SMB is available as part of the Classic NES Series. : Chris Remo
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            So I wonder if there will ever be a way to play New Super Mario Bros. on a TV. Probably not what with it... : dognose
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              At various events, Nintendo has run DS games on a single HDTV panel, they just have two windows stacked v... : Chris Remo
              • Well this gives me some slight hope, for which I am eternally grateful to you. : dognose
• Outside of Nintendo and selected people that they lend them to for video presentations, nobody has a devi... : BlackCat9

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• It's got a very healthy online community as is still a shit-ton of fun to play. They even released a free... : blackhawk
• You should just go hang out with all the people playing The Ship....oh wait...lawl. Glad I didn't buy th... : soggybagel
• I thought it was Starforce'd. : Rice-Rocketeer
• CoH is so great. I can't say enough good things about it, even in beta form. I was initially put off by t... : aeg1x

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• Where di ya get it? : TastyWheat

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  Ouch, hope you have a backup. : abrasion
  • I do. Just wondering if anyone has had similar issues. : Phreakin
• If anyone signed up for the Vista Beta 2 preview, please SM me. I have a question. : Phreakin

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• as far as i know, its rare. there are definitely a few, though. check out www.ucas.co.uk and use the cour... : grimiv
• There's quite a few of them now, have a search on Google.co.uk : Bakelite

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• i would if i wasn't about to hit the sac. : annih1late
• uh I have no idea why it crashed, try clan arena... same shit but port 27502 : haiku
• lol@server. : aggressor
• did the server go kaboomy? : ki11_viru5
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  damnit haiku I am so tempted. Must keep...normal...hours. :( : boomstickah
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    join right now I need one more for 2 on 2 clan arena : haiku
    • ok 1 round : boomstickah
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  good games guys. Aggy, way to carry haiku. Way to go ki11 for not using sound and sucking ass. Way to go ... : ki11_viru5
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    way to go kill for being a complete faggot and leaving me 2v1. I swear I went on a hitting streak after y... : boomstickah
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      We were being raped regardless of whether I was there or not. : ki11_viru5
      • I'm never joining a game with agressor again ;) : boomstickah
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    I am telling you I am lagged!! : haiku
    • ban him now. He said he was going to sleep and look at him. :( : boomstickah
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  Someone tell me how to save my config so I don't have to redo it every time I join :( : aggressor
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    make it outside the game and save it in id1 folder and autoexec.cfg . Or you could save it as whatever an... : boomstickah
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      I've been doing that, but it doesn't execute it automatically like it does with other quake games. I'm ju... : aggressor
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        your a fuckin robot there is no way you are this good at quake yet you can't tackle something so silly. H... : boomstickah
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          I never played Quake, I started with Quake 2 which automatically executes autoexec.cfg! Plus it saves set... : aggressor
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            no quake does automatically exec your autoexec.cfg. Goto your id1 directory and edit it, it'll save it. : boomstickah
            • It's been there with my config. I still have to manually execute it :( : aggressor
  • cfg_save *** cfg_load *** : ki11_viru5
• I have no idea where my quake 1 cd is. Must find. : brickmatt

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• yea too bad I cant find the game for sale anywhere. Most of the usual places I buy games arent even ackn... : smacknca
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  I still pray for that day when we see Freespace 3. : pigvomit
  • Amen on that sir ;), although I player the Dark Star demo and was quite fun : Izakhar
  • you and me both :( I loved the first two : armybob
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  Wooo! : Pink0r
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    Hmm, I can't seem to find this game on any online store. : Pink0r
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      Nevermind! : Pink0r
      • where did you find it? it seems other Shackers were having a difficult time finding it as well : MikkleThePickle
      • hi Pink0r : dognose

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  No matter where she lives, who she is or what she does - a woman should never need her partner's permissi : Visceral Monkey
  • Yeah, as much as people hate Gates for Microsoft, you have to give the guy his due props for all the huma : timmie
• Yeah Gates is a cool guy and very intelligent : VegasX
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  Anyone who gives away 58% of their earnings is alright with me. : red2lucas
  • Now if he only gave me an xbox 360, I would stop spreading aids in this country. I kid I kid. OR AM ... : drbriefs
• that's pretty inspiring : MikkleThePickle
• I never hated him because the way my dad talked about him, and about how he was always trying to give awa... : felicia

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  www.ess.tv : thomas jefferson
  • oh nevermind, looks like they got shut down : thomas jefferson
• Dude just watch those DVDs of Arrested Development that I gave you. Then come back on here and post about... : angrytaxman
• Netflix. This is what I did when I trashed my knee. : yosemiteclimber
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  Youtube. Hours of fun. Also, make sure you do a google search for "tub girl". It's ultra cool, ask any... : Visceral Monkey
  • :( that's not nice. : ki11_viru5
  • b&, it's worthless anyways he's seen all of those, mostly thanks to me. : angrytaxman
• you could be come the worlds most proficient youtube'r and google vidiot : smacknca
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  tvuplayer has cartoon network. : Omning
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    are you serious? Fuck yea! : ki11_viru5
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      wow. They also have Disney, HBO, ESPN, and CNN : ki11_viru5
      • yeah the japanese movie channel is pretty cool too : Omning
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        Woah, this looks cool! Downloading! : ArtilleryMarker
        • this is pretty cool... also, asian TV is terrifying : GloriousCow
• Can you watch the Friday Night Fix during the week? : snagger
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  Animaniacs episodes http://television.aol.com/in2tv : Prozium
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    OMG awesome! Not only that, but F Troop too!!! : angrytaxman
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      They also have Welcome Back Kotter : Prozium
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        Up your nose with a rubber hose! : angrytaxman
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          Same thing we do every night, Pinky: try to take over the world! : AxeMan808
          • "But me and Pippy Longstocking, what will the children look like?" : angrytaxman
• www.peekvid.com : b e n
• video.google.com tons of great documentaries and such actually. : VegasX

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• neat. : GloriousCow