Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Sep 10, 2007 6:00pm PDT

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Yes yes.. I've missed you guys too. I'm looking forward to giving Quake Wars another shot when I get back home in a few days. Of course I've still got to play through BioShock and finish Prime 3... hmmm. Things could be worse!

The latest battery nonsense for cars
Got gamer regret?
Viking queen
Rocketplane issues :(
Mobile phones are 20

Lastly, I checked out the NBA Live 08 demo that hit XBLM the other day and by some kind of miracle it seems those guys finally unsucked the game. 06 was just unfinished and 07 made me want to cut myself with how sloppy it was. I now look forward to kicking Maarten's ass on the internets with NBA Live 08. I sure hope season mode stuff is good.

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So today as part of the local area's United Way Day of Caring, myself and a bunch of other people from work went down to the local Boys and Girls club and completely re-vamped their computer lab. We had no idea what we were in for O.o Most of their machines were pentium 2 slot As or original Celerons. We have 6 new machines we are donating next week, but as a stop gap we picked the best of the machines(including 4 unused G3 imacs! and one G4 imac) then stripped all the usable parts out of the leftover crap and put them into the good machines to salvage them.

By teh time we were done we had 12 machines, all running windows XP or Mac OS X, fully loaded with office, child filters, account control, and high speed internet access. the rest of the crap we loaded up into a big truck and carried back to our warehouse to be disposed of environmentally. They had a lot of crap as you'll see in the pictures here:

http://solrflare.shackspace.com/dayofcaring/

All in all a great day and I feel really good for what we did for them despite it being one hell of a pain in the ass :D

Sep 11, 2007 6:30pm PDT

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So today as part of the local area's United Way Day of Caring, myself and a bunch of other people from wo... : SolrFlare
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- hotness! well done. : snagger
- Great job! : dmason
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  your mom would be proud of you : ^-SeaWolf-^
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    your mom would be :p : Rigor Morts
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      i miss you guys :( needs more vegas : ^-SeaWolf-^
      
      We should play tomorrow before skate comes out and takes up my free time. : .sticks.
      
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      I've been pretty busy lately but lets get some vegas this weekend. And definitely Halo 3 co-op/multiplay... : SolrFlare
      
      tomorrow i'm going to the mets game (in reply to sticks), we should definitely do it saturday as that's t... : ^-SeaWolf-^
- awesome man.....great job : Rigor Morts
- Internet... Coming Soon! : RikiTiki2
- the old imacs are so adorable. nice work! : electroly
- Also it was hilarious when we were driving the truck back. We were just high speeding it around corners ... : SolrFlare
- very cool, nice job! : re4ctor
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  You'll have them setup just in time to teach them the joys of TF2! : shavenewok
  - Definitely not on the older machines lol. Some of them were running windows 95. My favorite though were... : SolrFlare
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  One of my friends' boss told him to get an estimate on what it would cost to get new machines at work wit... : TwiLyght
  - I can see it maybe being possible with remote desktop, but I'm pretty sure it still violates the Office (... : Arcanum
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  That's awesome. Great job :)
  
  Sep 11, 2007 7:36pm PDT
  
  That's awesome. Great job :) : red2lucas
- right on man. I hope Karma gets you back! (in a good way) : hirez
- rock on, I do the same every 6 months at a local Woman Pregnancy Help center, I was adopted so I like to ... : zagzig32
- you should left one computer without child filtering man just think about all the kids fighting over w... : spaceless
- So you went for a simultaneous multi-goatseing, right? Nice work. : SiW73
- Geebus. You're smart, generous, hardworking and handsome. Lucky kids to have a role model like you. I ... : sHugamom

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