Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 22, 2008 6:00pm PSTSo although ShackBlog is still incredibly ugly I do think there are a few things going on there that are worth checking out as you are most likely bored at work. Keep an eye on that place or just hit the RSS and subscribe to it. There are all kinds of dumb things in our industry that need to be reported on. TONS.
- Yahoo! is canning
people
- Germany's Secret
Police
- Ditching
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bags
- Yup, they are gonna save HD DVD
As for the the videogame news around these parts today:
- EVE Online Hits Steam
- Hellgate: Stonehenge Coming
- Nintendo Making Cash
- TRIBES Sequel Talk
- World of Warcraft Tops 10 Million
- Assassin's Creed PC Specs Insane
- Crazy Mofo Don King Game
- Fallen Empires: Legion Interview
- World of Warcraft 2.3.3 Patch
Lastly, RIP Heath
Ledger
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



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Also Magus sent me a kickass white elephant over a month ago but with me working 10+ hour days 6-7 days a week combined with being a lazy prick I haven't posted about it yet, thanks Magus! I'll try and get it done soon.
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I've said this a couple times before, but has anyone noticed a lot of point blank flames just not doing any damage as a pyro? It's getting pretty frustrating because a lot of the times when I should be doing the most damage nothing is happening. It's not about leading the target either, as it happens at times when I run up behind someone at pump my flamethrower right up their poop chute as well.
There have been some other weird laggy type issues as well. Tonight in the ShackWest practice Jackass was complaining of point blank back stabs not registering and I even got killed right at the beginning of an uber. Both skancore (the medic ubering me) and Jackass said they saw me ubered, yet I still died.
I emailed Gabe a little while back but didn't get a response because it seems like a lot of this started happening at the end of December right after one of the patches, but I didn't notice any patch notes regarding hit prediction or anything like that.
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I have been using this board and an AXP something or other as my server for the last 3 to 4 years now. It has been a tank. For the last 6 months I would come down on random days and find it had shut off. When I would power it back on, I would get alternating beeps. If I tried two or three times, it would boot up and run for weeks (even months) on end w/o failure. I could reboot it for updates and it would be fine. This thing was a real trooper pooper. But I knew it wasn't long for this world.
Today it POSTed one last time. Everything had been reset. I did the proper this and thats and it wouldn't boot. Back to the beeps. I took off the side to try to re-seat the memory and that is when I saw it. Busted caps EVERYWHERE. Every single cap on this board is busted. I tried swapping out memory just for grins but same thing. I'm not going to mess with it anymore. 6 years always on is a hell of a run for a motherboard.
In this thread, we post fond stories of our Asus a7n8xDx boards. It was the number one board for a year+ when the Athlon XP was at its prime. I know many of you had them! For a long time it was the only place to go for live Dolby Digital encoding. What a fantastic board. The nForce 2 chipset was a beast as well. Plus this board had everything. Firewire! SATA! I probably purchases and deployed 50+ of these things and this is the last one I had going that I know of.
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http://bp2.blogger.com/_Od5Y-KUmNPc/R5JKfz3vxOI/AAAAAAAAAQs/mUXbEhfVa4c/s1600-h/Have+you+ever+wondered+what+idiots+look+like.bmp
Not a good night for me and the league. :( I lost one game to a lurker and 2 to cockblaze! WTF!!!!!!!!!
I took a 1-0 lead into the final minute of the game with the lurker and he scored, then scored again in OT.
Cookblaze just killed in the 2 games we played. :( I really need a lot more practice in this game. Cookblaze has the shot stick down really good. I'm awful with it. :(
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http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=2382
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http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=2364
I have 0 extensions installed, only 10 tabs open. It's using upwards of a gig of memory.
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Lately I'm beginning to get the feeling that the Scout (by way of the scatter gun) is overpowered. I find I'm getting killed by them more and more, and it's starting to feel improportionate. Do I just suck? Are these Scouts just really good (playing mostly on pubs btw)? Maybe the classes I play most are just Scout fodder, I don't know, but I'm really starting to get very annoyed by them. Maybe that's the point, too, I don't know. Thoughts?
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So our team (press f10) seems to have 2 players which have no gameplay in the last 2 weeks and still haven't accepted our team invite. I don't know what you guys said about trades, but is it possible we could at least pick up a few players that weren't in the draft which have expressed interest in playing?
I know, this tourney is serious business, but I just thought I'd ask...
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4725/tf2rockbandtj1.jpg
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=180201&site=pcg
Drama-bomb!
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http://truckbearingkibble.com/comic/
Reminds me of PBF, although not as good IMO.
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I'm doing fine. It's always fun to theorycraft a build and then throw yourself before the lions to see how it works out. Well it id. It worked out wonderfully. Pulled a full pocked of Mordus Headhunters (L4) and tanked that shit like a ma... uh... battleship. \o/
Now it is time to start working on my gank, cause it takes way too long to take down a Battleship. Not good for impatient people like myself. So up up sentrydrones, guns and other fun stuff.
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CoD4 boots Halo 3 from its Xbox Live throne
There's no need to pinch yourself (we already did), you are not dreaming and this is no joke. Halo 3 has, for the first time since its launch, been dethroned from its communist rule over the most played Xbox Live games. Dethroned by another FPS that goes by the name of Call of Duty 4. Gasp!
Major Nelson's weekly list of the most played games on Xbox Live shows that last week, CoD4 took the number one spot away from Halo 3, kicking Master Chief down to the number two slot. Though, Halo 3's older brother Halo 2 still reigns supreme on the original Xbox list if that's any consolation for the Halo camp. And before hell breaks loose in the comments, know that we have faith in both the Halo 3 and CoD4 communities to act civil, respectful and understanding of each other's feelings. We know your fanboy unity will protect you from the temptations of flaming. Ah, who are we kidding? Let the flame wars begin!
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Everytime I open an certain Excel report at my job, it shows up as one page of text and like 30-80 blank pages. Then, if anyone else prints one of these reports that I edit, they end up printing all of this blank paper (even though I have told them all to print only the front page). How do I get rid of these extra pages easily?
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Ouch, she dropped the ball on that one
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Time to get prestige mode in CoD4 now that I have all this time, I'll catch up to kodiak soon enough
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Everytime I sign I think my signature becomes worse and less legible. I think in a few years it will just be a one line swipe, and I won't be able to use my credit card anymore :(
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I have about 20 laptops with users who aren't allowed to update the computers. I can't seem to get them to update on their own in the background. I've tried setting up a cron job to run systetmupdate -i -a in the background as root, but it never works. Any ideas?
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http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=261922&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1
It's strangely cool to see! Imagine if they were backported to QWTF or something :)
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