Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Sep 11, 2007 8:00pm PDTA bit late this evening just because I know how much everyone here likes to party on Tuesday. Glad to see so many of you are keeping it real.
- The press is picking up this global warming fad
- Lesson of iPhone price cut
- Women want less pink? I can only assume that means more in the stink.
- Shots may hurt less one day
- Free mobile calls?
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
I'm taking interesting stuff out of the preload .gcfs.
http://users.on.net/~timsmith/tf2/
There's a bunch of wavs and some images - including the taunts for all the characters (the demoman is scottish. wtf?)
uploading more interesting stuff as i find it.
ENJOY
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I figure they must get a hundred crackpots a day with cartoon show ideas, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I just want to show them what I drew up and explain the characters to them and the overall premise of the show.
Oh and Peters4Life. ☺
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I have some backup to disk files I'm writing each week as our full backup.
I want to drop these BKF files to tape once a week also and keep them as the historicals.
Problem is the next week, when the backup runs it's overwriting the BKF's (great, the san isn't unlimited storage) but it's also removing the old catalogue and restore selections.
How can I make the weekly offsite backups contain the selection list of the BKF files they backed up?
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http://h20435.www2.hp.com/
Anyone seen the new HP/Voodoo PC? Seems like HP buying Voodoo is going to result in some cool stuff. This is a cool PC but it weighs 72 pounds! They say it's good for LAN parties. Yeah, maybe, but it's not going to be good for my shoulder.
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Anyone else see this:
http://www.screendigest.com/online_services/intelligence/video_and_dvd/updates/vi-060907-ec3/show
HD-DVD coming out with 51Gb discs that could be played all HD-DVD players, even the one that was released first (and the Xbox360 player).
Also, Hybrid discs. Discs that would play the HD-version if you put in a HD-DVD player and the SD-version if you put in a DVD player.
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fuck it
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http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/en.html
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I have no idea how to play this Quake Wars demo. Is there a tutorial I'm missing? I'd like to play it and Enjoy it. Haven't been involved with FPS for 2 years, now.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/rock-bands-bundled-guitar-to-be-wired-on-xbox-360-wireless-for/
tldr; The $200 Rock Band 360 bundle will not include the wireless guitar. However, a wireless version will be available as a separate purchase.
Also, the drums and microphone will be wired across all platforms.
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Listening To?
Orbital - Lush 3-3
Having a lot of fun with it.
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Directed by Michael Mann, takes the music from his movie Last of the Mohicans. I get chills everytime.
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Rabid iPod / iTunes fanboi review of a new 6th generation iPod Classic
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_114/1475-Are-You-Evil
It compares the Standford Prison Experiment, the Milgram experiments, and modern (and wholly virtual) versions of the Milgram experiments, with the moral choices people make in games.
In before "the prison experiment and the stuff Milgram did suck".
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Is it worth just playing all the way through one Case or what?
For this lovely project, users can select countries and/or cities to be their favorite locations. This lets us customize content on their profile page and stuff. Great, right?
Well, both cities and countries both have their own table in the DB with, of course, corresponding primary key columns (in this case, named 'id'). The favorite_locations table, as you might suspect, has a column for the user id. As you might NOT suspect, it has only one other column, named location_id.
Yet users can clearly have both countries AND cities in the favorites. So how did the previous developer make this work? Simple! The country ids are stored in favorite_location.location_id as negatives =(
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When: Saturday, September 29th
Where: Grizzly Peak Brewpub, Ann Arbor
Time: Around 6:00? Does that work?
Menu: http://grizzlypeak.net/
Really good ribs, and I've heard good things about the Brewery Steak Sandwich (sliced steak with cheese and bacon, sandwiched by potato cakes. Mmm!)
Directions: http://grizzlypeak.net/location.html
Parking is pretty scarce around AA, but there are a few parking structures around the area, and a parking lot just across the street. There's no free parking what-so-ever.
Also, I know this is a little far for the west-side Shackers, but we could always do another meet that's further west! As a tentative list I have coming: mittense, Mecha Tofu Pirate, Enkidu, and reflex33.
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Mine was TFC and I would play spy, medic or pyro.
Spy - Totally freaking out snipers after stabbing 4 of them in succession a number of times. "Damn, I got stabbed", "Fucking spy", "I don't trust anyone anymore". Also leaving people hallucinating all the time.
Medic - Infecting everyone, and that meant camping was not a useful tactic in very large maps.
Pyro - Constantly fiiring at the bell tower in Avanti from base, and that was my only job: to take out the snipers.
Your moments?
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http://www.amazon.com/Blizzard-Entertainment-71730-Diablo-Battle/dp/B00005N6K3/
All I could find in stores were the longer ones.
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"A script is accessing some software (an Active X control) on this page which has been marked safe for scripting. Do you want to allow this?"
I Googled around for a fix since it just seemed to be maybe an Active X setting in IE, but the only thing I found was this big, complicated registry editing bullshit. I have to click this fucking box about 20 times before it goes away, WHILE Steam loads making it a huge pain in my balls. Help?
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Just got my my MBP. I got boot camp installed and XP is good to go. I need to know how to partition another section off to use for universal files like music and pics. Any help would be great.
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http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001070.html
Does anyone have an extra AGP video card sitting around that's better than a GeForce 6200 with 256 MB of RAM? I think I'll need a bit of a better video card for Hellgate, and would rather pay a shacker for an upgrade than buy a new AGP card from NewEgg.
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Tomb Raider Anniversary is the topic this time around.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1490-Zero-Punctuation-Tomb-Raider-Anniversary
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http://gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=10988
Sweet
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The demand is insane right now. I'm actually having people ask me if they can "buy" their way into line. If interested shackmsg me and tell me about your rails experience. Links to sites or a resume or something would be cool.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24811.html
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A name or a link to a picture would be great! K THX BYE
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