Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 10, 2007 6:00pm PDTHad a great time playing Portal last night and I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy Episode 2 over the next few days. So I apparently hit the lotto with this Q6600 as it clocks to 3.4ghz (!) with almost no effort. I havent overclocked in years but after reading about these things I had to try. Crazy jumping from 2.4 to 3.4. So then, shall we?
- Hot robot facials!
- Cute Japanese cars
- Mozilla smartphone... hot?
- Flying car. Yawn.
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
What started off as a nifty little puzzler got REALLY badass and just fantastic. I did not expect that, dude.
If you're playing it and thinking, "Muhr??" just wait.. Oh man.. THAT's an ending to a game.
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$125.99 Asus P5K-VM Socket 775 http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=014632&cid=MB.157
$203.00 INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6750 2.66GHz http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=349885
$88.99 Kingston ValueRAM 2 GB ( 2 x 1 GB ) http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=234198
$79.99 Western Digital 320GB CAVIAR SATA II 7200 RPM 16MB http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=338445
$119.00 Antec Sonata III 500W STANDARD ATX http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=342463
$38.99 ASUS 18X DVD-RW DRIVE BLACK http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=335824
$297.99 EVGA GeForce 8800GTS PCI-E 16X 320MB http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=335849
$399.99 Dell UltraSharp 2007WFP 20.1''
http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&sku=320-4688
$115.00 Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop
http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=3472
Total: $1468.94
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Need Aperture Science tee shirts, coffee mugs and baseball caps STAT.
Also there are like 3 billion possibilities for awesome ring tones of Glados.
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http://www.myspace.com/asacoon
Seriously, he goes to a school with TONS of black kids and his name is Asa Coon? And his last entry was on the 9th:
"fuck life, i’m sick of this shit
i'm sick and tired of this shit. people at school pissing me off all the time, the teachers are all assholes. i got suspended yesterday for fighting with some faggot even though he started shit with me. fuck all of them, i hate everyone there. i hate the school and i hate fucking cleveland"
I see
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First person to reply with their email address gets mine.
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So, everyone remembers the big OGame fad over the summer, yes?
I had stopped playing regularly in August because it took too damn long to effectively raid. Unfortunately, playing every few days just invites people to trash all your stuff. When I first started, I told one of my real life friends about the game, saying it only took like 15 minutes a day and was really fun. Little did I know at the time what a time sink it would turn out to be. I lost everything and built back up several times before just deciding to not play anymore.
Little did I know that the day after I told that friend about the game, he went and got together a huge group of all my other friends and they all joined OGame with the express allied purpose of destroying me!!
Their plan was to built up in the game sufficiently to suddenly and decisively crush me in a series of devastating attacks out of nowhere. They got like 15 people in on this, mostly other friends of mine, but a bunch of people I have never met as well, haha. They all joined with aliases, some not even joining their alliance so that they could scan me without arousing suspicion or reprisal. They coordinated their efforts via phone and even planned that one friend would suggest we go see a movie so that I wouldn't notice all the other people sending their huge fleets. I would visit their places and they would scramble to shut down their browser windows and hide notepads and all this stuff, acting all suspicious for the last 3 months.
Too bad for them, I had absolutely no idea any of this was happening and I canceled my account last week, before they could make any sort of move, hahahahaha. 3 months of effort, coordination, backstabbing, inner-squabbling (they accused one member of tipping me off, thinking that an unknown member of their alliance was me and I was feeding myself resources)... ALL FOR NAUGHT! They were seriously playing too, hours every day to get as powerful as possible before hitting me. 15 people, each of them playing an hour of ogame a day on average. Crazy.
I'd never had any sort of secret nemesis before (Zoesch was my not-so-secret shack nemesis) so it was rather gratifying in a way. I was going to ask the Shack alliance members who still play to go and take them out, just out of principle, but I don't know if anyone actively plays anymore?
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From the comments I've seen, level 19 promises to be pretty cool. Really looking forward to it.
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SPOILER ALERT!!!!
A few people in steam have been asking how to do some of the speed challenges.. I did lv13 and 14 and uploaded them to youtube.
SPOILERS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnVCANAcbaw <- lv 14 speed run, 9 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWO4TNStHU <- lv 13, 19 seconds
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Portal btw
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http://xkcd.com/305/ (WS)
Well, he went and actually created wetriffs.com!
http://wetriffs.com/gallery/ (NWS)
The result is pretty hot. The first chick in particular...
How many of you are there? I'm going to be in SD at the end of October/beginning of November on a week-long business trip, and I don't anticimapate it being a week straight of business... what is there to do in that crazy town, and is there any hope of a Shackmeet in that timeframe?
A+ certs are a given, but I never hear of job openings for stuff like this.
=(
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http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/BAaf/~3/168250678/20071010-nonlethal-microwave-heat-beam-hits-the-market.html
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im just jealous
I'm going to stick an hardware thead in here and see if you guys reply, for a change.
I got the new motherboard and Intel Quadcore cpu going for a few minutes last night, then went to sleep.
The CPU fan was way too loud. Spinning fast and loud.
The case was open but still...
I'm also looking for a good PSU in the 100 - 150 USD price range. Any suggestions?
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34396
I've never read the story, I'm meaning to though, but this poster just screams AWWW HELL NAW and didn't iRobot have that EXACT same bridge in that EXACT same state of destruction? As if we need another Will Smith vehicle set in a glossy future where he wears leather jackets and belts out terrible one-liners. What the fuck is wrong with cinema.
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Needs a third person option with crosshair. Don't get me wrong I much prefer FP but it could be so useful sometimes as a spy, engie, medic.
If there is a console option that works well lemme know.
ALSO TF2 has officially cured my love for Rocket arena sessions (Soldier) sometimes heavy or demo. It has also gave me a WoW fix (spy, backstab). 2 in 1!
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I was always interested in programing and computer stuff - since I was a kid. Always enjoyed working on a problem and finding a solution to it.
But recently I just hate everything related to programming code, testing, bla bla bla.
To make matters worse, I always get someone else's code that's a pile of dog shit that I have to fix or add new features fast. Man, I need 2 weeks to even learn what's going on in here.
BAH, this just SUCKS! :[
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I don't think we'll ever get more gaming value out of $50 than we did today. We might as well shut this whole shit off.
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That bit where Alyx is backing you up with the rifle while you fuckass around trying to get to the car. Where the grenade ammo box is, just for fun i decided to lob some grenades where Alyx was supposed to the with the rifle. Well, all of a sudden a combine sniper corpse falls from the building and i no longer have sniper support :(
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So far on my list this year (current airing) are, in order of how much I like them:
Pushing Daisies
The Office
Reaper
Chuck
Journeyman
Smallville
Shows I know I should watch but just have not started yet (some playing, some not)
Heroes
Lost
Weeds
The Sopranos
Anything else out there new and good? Missing anything substantial?
I'm sad that Veronica Mars was canned. I like quirky shows like that, too bad it never decided what audience it wanted.
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http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/49379
Okay, so let me explain. If you've look at the japanese weekly sales charts for the past year, Nintendo has been dominating the top ranges, with Nintendo systems usually having anywhere from 7-9 of the week's best sellers. Some games may take #1 for a quick stab, but it always goes back to Nintendo. Monster Hunter for the PSP was one of the exceptions to this, and actually revived some of the life to the PSP itself.
Well the 3rd game which was supposed to come out for the PS3, is coming to the Wii instead, because it's cheaper to develop for and the install numbers are so impressive.
I call this the moment where the wii takes the position the ps2 held in the last generation, in japan at least.
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I'm researching this with a view to replacing an old Server for a very very picky client.. normally I'd either reconfigure everything from scratch for the client (which I won't do because they're very funny about even desktop icons changing) or go down the swing migration route http://www.sbsmigration.com but this has to go perfectly for my client and I can't risk any down time due to AD getting it's knickers in a twist when the metabase cleanup doesn't work properly.
If Acronis just works (as it has for me in my trial) and the Server remains stable then Acronis is going to save me a good few days worth of work which is worth the $999 tag alone.
Any thoughts appreciated!
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I reinstalled steam, redownloading hl2 now which i never finished because of warcraft / WoW and... i cancelled my wow account. Gonna buy the orange box when i have played through hl2.
Whether i'm going to thank all you valve chatters or come back to kill you when my wow addiction plays up is still a mystery.
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talking about upping the ante in her training, the dude grabs a crowbar and says, "That's right boys and girls, I'm about to get analog on your ass."
GUN
I hope this show gets canceled, I can't seem to make myself stop watching
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Finally got an Xbox 360. I need to go get the VGA adapter for it so I can play it on my widescreen. Heading about all the Red Lights of Doom problem is it recommended to get a cooler for the xbox? I see various cooling stations for it like the following
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10081541&catid=23556
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10077969&catid=23556
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10091341&catid=23556
Are these any good? I remember back in the day reading about how the cooling systems were actually responsible for xbox 360 deaths, but not sure if they have become better and actually useful now?
Advice needed asap!
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Spiderpig, spiderpig,... does whatever a spiderpig does...
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HG:L, Portal, Ep1, NWN2 and Mythos don't seem to have any problem.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Am I going to run into any kind of compability issues compared to the 32bit version or is that not an issue at all with Linux?
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I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS
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hey sexy, i remember u well, u wer da fly gurl in skool i got 2 admit, i was just a boy then but i hope u dont mind me adding if i had the chance 2 go back in a time machine i swear i'll kneel n kiss ur hand, coz u giv me da feelin. at the moment i'm in cairo, graduated from medical skool last year . the thing is i am a secret admirer frm skool n got in da game unfortunately afta skool tho body language accounts for over 90 percent of a conversation i'll try n boost up my "long distance keyboard communication skills"...keep in touch
so which one of you was it?
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does anyone know if you can use the nintendo wifi usb adaptor as a normal wifi usb thingy.
or does it only work for the ds?
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