Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 09, 2006 6:00pm PSTWell Gears of War is sitting here waiting to be played this evening.
- Everyone cry for this guy - Too much spam last month - Dude, its Gandalf - Wal-Mart black friday deals - Rollerman give you smile. - Remember VRML? Yeah this will be hot like that - You taste like baconLastly, we have a new party in power here in the US of A to complain about!
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
Wait. Wolfs not laughing.
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i usually let my xbox controller idle itself off. now i'm lying here in the dark and i notice that there's a faint glow coming off the circle of light. like very faint, almost undetectable, but it's definitely glowing. i pull the battery out and poof it's completely off now. what the hell is that? wouldn't that SERIOUSLY chew up battery life? it's been like this for almost 3 hours, and i'm sure it's like that every time i turn off the xbox.
lame, at least it's the rechargable battery pack
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Supreme Commander Beta for Fileplanet NON paying subscribers.
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/supremecommander/open/landing.aspx
Get in to it people - I'm sure this is pretty important for some of you.
Some questions and answers here.
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13217475
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/10/wii-unboxing-video/
1. Jenny McCarty is still very damn hot. Smoking.
2. The Office continues to make me LOL. Future Dwight was classic.
3. Got through the rest of the songs in GH2 last night on medium. I tried one song on hard, Shout at the Devil and made it through, but not by much. HOly god is it MUCH tougher than GH1. I Love Rock N Roll was a piece of cake on hard.
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Anyone want to meet a little earlier say around 6:15ish to grab a brew or 2 before everyone else meets?
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Tonight was hilarious.
WE ARE ALL SCREWED!
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1163156345352&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News
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350$ total a bit over my budget but not too bad really, and it should last me another year I think. Now I can't wait for the ~$300 dx10 cards so I can have a real sweet system (got an x800xl now and was cpu limited so this is still a good upgrade)
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Idiots. I work with idiots.
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OK, I'm totally enjoying this ambient/techno album while coding and debugging my C Code. Chill, upbeat music that keeps me focused.
The CD is called Idol Tryouts Two: Ghostly International Vol 2 On the Ghostly International label.
Ghostly has some free mp3 tracks on their website here:
http://www.ghostly.com/
and the CD website with links to all the different artists on the CD is here:
http://www.idoltryouts.com/
Check it out if you're interested in techno/ambient music for something like this :-)
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What does it mean if a file/directory has permissions with the group name prefixed with a # sign?
Like this:
//{drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat-test #tomcat 512 Sep 14 2005 bin
drwxr-xr-x 6 tomcat-test #tomcat 512 Mar 8 2005 common
drwxr-xr-x 4 tomcat-test #tomcat 1024 Nov 9 14:49 conf
}//
Something's not right here, and we're having trouble FTPing files into the directories...
This server recently crashed and had to be rebooted. I'm pretty sure that before that happened, there was no #.
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Anyone have experience with lowering UPS's brokerage fees on their shit? This is completely unacceptable.
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Ok, so I got my all of my new parts in the mail and I've slowly been putting them all together. I thought I was pretty much done, but when I power up the system the fan on the CPU cooler will start up, spin for a second, and just shut down. The case fans work peachy keen-a-roo and the hard drive spins up dandy-like.
So like...what am I missing here and how do I fix this? :(
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We all know the SP owns in this game, and the MP is very good, but i have a few gripes about it.
So it appears that if just one player leaves a ranked match, all points are negated and the match doesnt count. I know it's probably done to keep rankings fair, but everyone in the match shouldnt be penalized for one or two people leaving the match. Ive never seen another game that does that, Halo2 didnt, GRAW doesnt, etc...
It seems that they deliberitly made ranked matches so you cant set it up for people to quit and pad stats. shit, you get most of your points from getting kills, downs, and revives, so the points for winning matches dont even really matter.
On the mp note, the only other gripe i have is that not only are there too few game modes, but the interface is lackluster. They really need to implement a system ala GRAW or Halo2. It would allow you to easily play with your buddies, and change gametypes/maps on the fly. The system in place gets the job done, it just leaves a lot to be desired.
Aside from that, this game is stellar, by far the best ive played this year. I know the stats thing is lame, but if youre all about ranks and shit the whole quitting issue is very weak. Its almost like you play the whole match just to get fucked and get nothing for it.
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http://www.fappin.com/link_forward_base.asp?LinkID=11894&Forward=True¬opbar=True
I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGHGHHGHGHGHHHHHHH
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:D
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So, I picked up the 2 expansions (have the original) and just got going. How does this work? Should I make a character in the original, or the expansions? If so, how do I travel between them, if I can? I noticed each expansion has different classes, so if I make an Assassin in the Factions expansion.. can he travel through all the others? And if he can, how? Is there a portal somewhere? Thanks.
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Urgent Update: 250+ Zombies in NW corner (0 Survivors), 70+ in the SW and all other corners have been cleared of any Barricades.
Listen My Friends, we were careless with our Mall, fame alone does not feed our Armies and defend our Barricades. Months without Combat have atrophied our Skills yet bolstered our Egos. Shacknews may be good, but we let ourselves lose in in the end.
For shame on us all...
Caiger loses
w00! sorry the other thread takes ages to load everytime. Congrats.
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cant believe i didnt know about this!!!
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wow thats a big laptop
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Definite spoilers on the levels ahead
Rain level....
http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3317_en.html
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I can't do the vegetarian thing, I can hardly diet as it is. I don't get how other people pull it off either.
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when he goes into the psych and the music its magic... seriously...
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What a piece of shit. It's about 1/3 the length of the NES version. Not worth $5.00
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When my computer loses power (i.e.- gets unpluged from wall, power goes out) even when it is not on at the time, when power is restored, it takes forever to turn on the damn computer. The little LED goes on the mobo, but pushing the power button does nothing for like twenty minutes.
It's an Antec PSU, why does it do this?
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The 19th can't come soon enough.
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www.lmnopc.com / www.thomwetzel.com
www.shackmap.com
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