Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 29, 2008 6:00pm PSTSo at least U-Verse is going to be worth while around these parts as the new bandwidth
package available to me is 10mbit down 1.5mbit up starting in a couple of days. It seemed
a near pointless upgrade over DSL before that. Glad someone at AT&T noticed. I'll drop
these commies in a moment though when FIOS shows up.
- Qtrax got
dissed
- iTunes movie rental
href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2008/01/ipod_rentals">SCANDAL
! - Revisiting Siberian
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/01/29/asteroid.recalculated.ap/index.html">asteroid
- Voting
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GadgetGuide/story?id=4209626&page=1">without
confidence
- Google says recessions
href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2008/01/google_recession">are for pussies
- The new Aboriginal DRM
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Virtual Hilton announced and
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51020">screenshots
! - Gran Turismo 5 Date and
screenshots
- Animal Crossing Wii in 2008
- Futuremark / 3DMark Game Studio
- Tiberium Trailer
- Valve Announces Steamworks
- Blizzard Media Release
- Spore Delay AGAIN?!
- Nick Loves Fancy Joystick
- GRAW 2 Co-op Media
Lastly, we happily avoid politics on the front page here but sadly it does infect our
chat threads. I would like to encourage everyone out there though to make sure and vote.
Super Tuesday is around the corner and rumor has it there are some pretty important
political issues going on lately.
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
It took me over 20 minutes of nonstop crashing to get to this...
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=2517
1003 car pileup
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If you have a 360.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/30080.html
Be happy.
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Whats the trick to setting up an Exchange account in Mail? In outlook all I have to do it put in my Exchange server host, and it pretty much does the rest.
I've filled out the name, address, incoming host/user/pass, and used the same info for outgoing. In advanded I set it to NTLM, based on my outlook settings. But it doesn't sync.
any ideas?
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another flood update!
the insurance company sent over some restoration dudes today. total amount of damages:
they said the damages are easily $10K+. we have to put all our stuff in storage, put my cats in a kennel, and live in a hotel for a week or two because they have to redo the floor throughout the entire condo. i guess the bright side is that i get new floors and new paint on the walls?
protip: don't let your washing machine flood
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New blog post on Syd is up. She has moved on to nasal cannula, and should start feeding from the boob this week!
http://sydkatz.blogspot.com/
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I'm sure some of you know about it, it's right on the recommended plugin page, but it's this one called PicLens, it basically turns a number of image sites into Cover Flow view from iTunes. Here's the link, check it out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579
It's sooooo much easier and sleeker to browse sites like google image search and DeviantArt. It will load someone's entire gallery and let you swoop through it really fast. After using it for less than a day, I'm desperately hoping these guys make and offline image viewer like this, or extend the plugin so you can browse local folders with it.
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The good thing is that I had an Antec NeoPower 530, so I can grab another one of those (probably a 600+) and I wouldn't have to redo all of the wiring to my devices (not fun when you have 3 HDD's + optical and everything else to go along with it).
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http://stats.enemyterritory.com/clan/8708
Why are we playing together more? We have more than enough people to play on the server.
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Snow days at this college do not come around that often (mostly because toolbox foreign students like to sue for that days tution expenses whenever a snow day occures and we can take the snow abuse) but when they do, oh so sweet
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=49931&extendedsun=sunon
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Some of these pictures are OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD...
photos of his grandparents when they were kids and stuff.
I'm going to scan them and give my now fully operational battlestation a proper workout cleaning them up and repairing some of the damage the prints have, so they're 2400dpi, 16bpp, they're coming in at around half a gig a frame.... for photos that are about half (or less) the size of a postcard.
My point?
I need a faster scanner. *sigh*
The damned LiDE 500F seems to sit for 2-3 minutes doing nothing before very quickly scanning the entire image at the desired resolution. wtf. get on with it you fucking thing.
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Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial) by Coheed and Cambria (cover)
Working Man by Rush (cover)
Siva by Smashing Pumpkins
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http://cannabisodling.1av10.nu/orange_high.html
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I am going to just sleep I think.
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http://stgdz.shackspace.com/Shack/fireparty.wmv
:)
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It's Out!
There goes my afternoon...
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BEWARE!! GOTHAPOTAMUS
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SanDisk 4 GB Cruzer Titanium USB Flash Drive with U3 $28 shipped
I wanted to shill this a little since I have the 2g version on my key chain. After owning two privous thumb drives this is the first one I am not afraid to leave on my keys. Also no cap to lose made it worth the $40 I paid for the 2g version last year.
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I will never look at a .50 caliber machine gun without popping wood again.
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http://www.elizabethbear.com/tideline.html
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:)
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http://www.killsometime.com/Games/Game.asp?ID=680
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http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08013001sony35mmcmossensor.asp
24 megapixels
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Argh, I can't login to any server, I click the server and click login and nothing happens, and when I try to report the issue on the messageboards I can't because I can't login to the messageboards, I put my info in and it keeps leading me in circles
Finished No More Heroes today, took about 18+ hours to complete the game 100% finding and buying everything.
It just got better and better and there is huuuuuge replay value (wont spoil why). Great game. Very addicting and hard to put down.
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