Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 02, 2007 6:30pm PSTWas hoping to take pics of my WE today as I finally got my camera back but there are some charging issues. :( Please look at these:
- The aliens are coming - iTunes kinda grew - Starbucks on YouTube - $100 laptop is hot - Nifty MS tags timeline - Inside SeagateLastly, a lot of people (ok 3) are saying this article about a dude watching TV is somehow interesting.
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
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/clips/the-ultimate-final-fantasy-fan-parody-225357.php
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Oh no i didnt!!
So I was listening to the latest dotnetrocks podcast this morning, and they had a guy from MS on. He was talking about big websites that use .net and he mentioned myspace.
According to this guy, myspace just passed yahoo as the site with the highest traffic. He said they do 4-5 million simultaneous users at peak times, with over 2.5 billion (with a b) page views per day.
/boggle
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I've been waiting to get a Wii for forever (I even have all of the accessories I need) but I've got some downtime right now, which is uncommon, and I want to take advantage of it. And the gf told me she isn't at all interested in the Wii after playing it, which was one reason I was gonna try it out.
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Mega tips: www.shackhorde.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5
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Trading post: http://www.shackhorde.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=3
Updated our 'Friends and Enemies' list: http://www.shackhorde.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25
IRC: irc.nexuswar.com #Shacknews and #DND
We (Shacknews faction only) have a stronghold again. Hopefully this one lasts at least a few days. Location is 27,37 in Valhalla (near our old spot, but slightly better). Still not a factory, but this is better than nothing.
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What do you use for online investing? I have some Christmas money I would like to use to purchase some Ford stock. This is my first time buying stock so I need something simple and fair.
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i picked up tony hawks project 8.
why the fuck do i suck so bad at this game? every single objective is near impossible for me to complete, and there is no way in fucking HELL that i will ever get any of the higher ranked objectives as they are EXTREMELY out of touch for me.
for instance, there is a small thing where you have to go build up points in 30 seconds .. to qualify you have to score at least 35,000 points. to be awesome, you have to get 120,000 and to be "sick" you have to score 600,000 FUCKING POINTS.
i cant even get 35,000 points in 30 seconds. wtf? im going nuts doing flip tricks, grabs, grinds, etc. im not falling. i still can't do it. why do i suck so bad at this game? its really making it not fun for me and i really want to be better because i love these games >:(
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I bought component cables for my Wii today and after I set it all up I noticed noticeably worse picture quality. Whatever I've tried doing I haven't managed to get it to look at least as good as standard input.
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Did anyone here ever play "PHANTASMAGORIA"?
I just watched some videos of it on YouTube, and this game is fucking SICK.
A friend of mine was telling me that his friends' dad gave it to him and his friend when they were TEN years old to play.
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I'm releasing this either tomorrow or thursday. http://www.programmingbooks.org
Anyone see anything retarded?
I got memcache up and running and caching all the query intensive pages. I found a really cool rails plugin that parses all your javascript and css files into 1 js file and 1 css file, and compresses them. The only bug I know of right now is the new ISBN format that is the new standard that came out today.
Can someone with a mac using safari try out the autocomplete code on one of the rankings pages? (you'll have to register)
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Does anyone else have trouble with the optical port on their 360? I have tried 2 different optical cables and 2 different 360 cables and the connection is so loose that you can blow the cable out the back. The optical cable has no problem connecting to my PS2 or my amp?
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Any quick way to clear ALL the data from a db and leave only the table / field information in there ? I am deploying a project to the web and want to remove the test data from it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfxhVFT9b8E
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In regards to this thread:
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13566472
And specifically these two posts:
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13566489
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13566519
For frequent use by a single web-browsing laptop and occasional use by a DS Lite (all gaming PCs/consoles are hardwired), are there any significant gains to be had by purchasing the WHR-HP-G54 instead of just the WHR-G54S? And does Tomato allow you specify different encryption types for B/G (I couldn't find anything in the readme that talked about it one way or the other)?
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"But there is hope, depression is treatable"
Ugh! I was always told to never start a sentence with a conjunction. Then, I find this : http://www.businesswritingblog.com/business_writing/2005/11/but_its_okay_an.html
My 6th grade English teacher would be very upset if she saw this. I'm talking red ink all up and down the page.
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Rock on Nintendo...Rock on.
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Are component cables completely different to phono leads? Can I just buy a set of 5 male to male phono cables and connect the component out on my receiver to the component in on my TV?
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Also wondering if the image really is that much better.
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I just installed ubuntu on this pos Compaq Presario that's 5+ years old. Pentium 2 era celeron, 192mb of ram, cdrom, floppy, usb, NO NETWORK.
Ubuntu took.... a while.... to install.
I plugged my Nano into the usb and INSTANTLY it showed up on the desktop and some app named "rhythm box" pops up and shows me what songs are on the nano.
DAAAAAYYYYUUUUMMMM, that's some crizappy rocket fuel!
Seriously, that is really, really slick.
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http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7318/lapdogsruleaj7.jpg
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before: http://www.joshlyon.com/photos/Self%20Portraits/sparklytrip.JPG
after: http://www.joshlyon.com/photos/Self%20Portraits/sparklyrock.JPG
I'm sort of getting tired of long hair...
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Anyone want a super-cool camera from Japan? They're on sale, and I'll sell it at cost, shipping thrown in, after I use it for a few days.
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I bought it for 1750$, and now amazon jacked up the price to 1920. sucks to be him lol.
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Sports Illustrated 42 most interesting pictures of 2006:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0612/gallery.hidden.gems/content.1.html
Some realy good pictures in there. #20 could be considered NWS, but that's a stretch.
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