Evening Reading
by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 16, 2007 7:55pm PDTOh hey ladies, please open up and take these
- Anniversary of the CD
- Jenna Bush is off the market
- Action figure modification
- Better smile at airport security
- Chinese couple wants to name kid @
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Demon's Souls servers extended again
Those dipshits over at slashdot and your general internet know it all are constantly saying how close linux is to being 'nearly there!'
Anyhow I've got Ubuntu 6.10 on my laptop and I have 2 TEXT documents I want off it
I copy them to my USB drive.
Re-boot into Windows, the formatting is fucked
I think jesus, ok so I re-boot
Re-save them as the other format (not UTF, Western?)
just to be sure, I open the text files in open office and save them with that too - I now have 3 copies of each text file.
Re-boot into XP.
open office the 'nearly there!' application defaulted to saving odt files and the .txt files STILL have a busted layout.
Ridiculous.
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Does it get any better? Im about to turn it off for this reason alone. >:(
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Mine's pretty dated, but I'm sure someone can beat me.
AMD Athlon 2800+
ATI Radeon 9800 128meg
512MB Ram
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GrandCentral doesn't replace your phones; we just link them together and help them do more. How do we do that? We give people One Number...for Life(TM) - a number that's not tied to a phone or a location - but tied to you.
With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know whether a call is important before you take it.
What else can I do with GrandCentral?
We're not your typical phone company. And these aren't your typical features.
- Check your messages by phone, email, or online
- Keep all your messages online for eternity
- Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
- Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
- Click-to-dial from your address book
- Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
- Forward, download, and add notes to your messages]q
Please to be replying in this post with your e-mail address and favorite body part.
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(Yes, I know it's the devil, boo Micro$shaft, yada yada yada)
Has anyone had a problem where WMP completely locks your machine when you start it (start WMP, not start your machine) My library isn't THAT big, and everything else works fine. I can play the files in VLC just peachy.
When I try to start it it paints the window, and the "Now Playing" pane and stops. At this point, I can right-click or select something on the task bar maybe 5 or 6 times before it hangs, at which point my machine is frozen. The numlock key is still responsive, and the mouse moves, but nothing responds to input. Ctl-Alt-Del and Ctl-Shift-Esc do nothing.
There wasn't much on google other than a thread from the MS newsgroup from pre-release builds, and towards the end it got polluted with "HURR, I double click on music and it doesn't play, HURR" kind of posts.
I've deleted the library and cache files, and only once has that managed to bring it back to life, but I re-added my music folder, and it worked fine for a little while, then it dies while syncing to my handheld and hasn't come back.
Any ideas?
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TIA
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New System: Aquired
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6850 - Retail
EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
(2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual
LIAN LI PC-V1100APlus II Silver Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - RetailCrucial Ballistix 2GB
Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
I also bought a new 550w power supply and used an old dvd/cd/burner.
The Lian-Li case is pretty much as I imagined with one massive suck-point - the power supply didn't fit in the bay. I had to use Motherboard standoffs to get it attached to the case. It's pretty solid now.
I installed WinXP. Everything is quite fast, I'm really impressed with the performance increase (old system amd 3400, 1gb, 7600 agp).
One problem - I ran the performance test from CS2 and noticed there's some purple coloring at some points where some shader effect should be. I'm running the latest nVidia driver and did a manual install of DX9, what else could be wrong?
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1. A GeForce 7600 GS OC / 512MB GDDR2
OR
2. A GeForce 7800 GS CO / 256MB GDDR3
Notice how the one with the lower clock speed has more RAM. Or is it six of one, a half dozen of the other?
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New preseason episode. yeah, its on myspace, but its still and awesome episode.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=77036068&MyToken=4f8ad7e5-55b8-497d-81be-ce90f9e3dc21
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http://www.icetruck.tv/index.php?id=f138e2bfe0d7de7157d1ab6a90c25810
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Remember that Team Fortress 2 Heavy video from a few months back that everyone was so wet for?
If you missed it: http://steamgames.com/v/index.php?area=game&AppId=960
There'll be a second one featuring the solider next week, straight out of Leipzig, says Doug Lombardi.
Here's a teaser image:
http://aloader.com/files/28/tf2solider.jpg
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http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7383/rugerkf9.jpg
It's a Ruger Mark III Hunter. Tackdriver/plinker/can/varmint destroyer of doom.
Anybody own one? I shot some cans and targets and other random objects with one a few weekends ago with a buddy out at the range and had a blast. What an amazingly accurate, fun little gun. And 500 rounds of Federal ammo is like 9.99!
Anyway, this is fun. Yay. I just got done running solvent through it, degreasing it, and applying a coat of oil. GOOD TO GO.
Oh, also my concealed permit should be coming fairly soon which means I have to decide on a carry weapon. I'm really torn between the Glock 26 and the Glock 27. I want .40 cal but I don't want .40 cal recoil in a subcompact frame. Anybody shot both?
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I really want to watch Amadeus, and I plan to watch it today! But what are some other movies that are big and awesome and classic like that? I mean shit that's not sci fi or horror or action and so forth. Great dramas, classic movies I might have missed (I would have missed most of them from say the early 2000's and before because all I watched back then was fuken sci fi).
How many people love their wireless carrier and have zero/very few problems.
I love Cingular/ATT. I've been with them for almost 10 years. Only problem I had was their auto bill fucked up once and didn't pay my bill. Only time it drops calls is when I'm driving around places with hills and buildings where it's to be expected.
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Well after that now my screen has been paused for like... 8 minutes. Can he leave it paused indefinitely? I will out wait him.
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The problem is that all the links I find point to pages that have content removed or don't exist anymore. The only file I managed to snag was Rebirth, and only because Fileshack is awesome. Does anyone have a copy of these things that I might be able to procure?
Much love,
xoxox
ieGod
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what's the damned password already? my char name is slaphead.
Also looks like I fifth season of Entourage.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117970427.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&query=Flight+of+the+Conchords
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I'm also not a huge fan of football in general. I only kinda understand the rules and stuff. Is this going to be an exercise in frustration?
Anyway okay who's a good team to play?
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Discuss!
What is it about mining space rocks that turns people into such huge assholes?
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Fatal error: Call to a member function query_require_rows() on a non-object in /data/www/www.shacknews.com/htdocs/include/common.x on line 545
that's a new one.
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I can't believe how wonderfully bizarre the movie is. It's just hilarious.
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