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Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 03, 2008 6:00pm PDTIt is state fair time here in Texas! I plan to try and find as many things deep fried
as possible down there. Rumor has it they are frying up coke syrup now even. I'm sure that
must be good!
- We are all saved! Praise
the government!
- Space elevator
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html">for humans
- AMD talking Windows 7 in 2009
- No Jobs heart attack,
href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/03/technology/apple/index.htm">Apple stock drops 10%
perhaps prison
for report
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Pikmin sequel is still planned
- Developers fighting used games
with DLC
- BioWare Star Wars MMO announcing
soon
- Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55087">announced
- Resident Evil 5 screenshots
- Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe screenshots
- Gran Turismo 5 updated with 3 free
cars
- Spore already heading for
expansion pack
- Diablo 3 screenshots
- Rock Band DLC update
- Nintendo wants you to own a DS
- LittleBigPlanet trailer
- Alan Wake screenshot surfaces
- Prince of Persia trailer
- Guitar Hero: World Tour trailer
- Xbox 360 new marketplace unveiled
- Former EA CEO to head US Olympic
Committee
- Crackdown guys talk APB
Lastly, that free Crysis Wars
weekend coming up is going to require a pretty hefty download, but we'll have it
available on FileShack.
i'll leave my system on for a while, recently i left it on for 4 days while i was away, and it will get the windows has to shut down because of an error thing,or some other bluescreen, sometimes with some .sys file causing the problem. most recently ntfs.sys and ecache.sys. i'll turn it off and try to turn it back on and i will continue to get blue screens until i shut the thing off for a while. like last night i had to wait until this morning and now it appears to be working again until the next blue screen comes.
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it just costs a couple bucks?
does it copy the songs to your hard drive or do you need to load the cd in each time?
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Famous band - Lesser-known band [album]
Ozzy Osbourne - Hellfueled [Volume One]
Motörhead - Chrome Division [Doomsday Rock 'N Roll]
Evergrey - Awake [Illumination]
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I dropped $800 and just ordered all this. I already have a nice case I can re-use, and a DVD and DVD-R/W drive. I don't have a monitor anymore so I went cheap, but big.
1 x ($159.99) VGA SAPPHIRE 100245L HD4850 512M RT - $159.99
1 x ($139.99) CPU INTEL|C2D E7300 2.66G 775 RT - $139.99 <===== (45 nm)
1 x ($84.99) MB GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L P35 RT - $84.99
1 x ($69.99) PSU CORSAIR|CMPSU-450VX 450W RT - $69.99
1 x ($69.99) HD 500G|WD 7K 16M SATA2 WD5000AAKS - $69.99
1 x ($179.99) MNTR ACER|LCD 22" 5MS X223WBD R - $179.99
1 x ($62.99) MEM 2Gx2|GSK F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ R - $62.99
I didn't see myself going with RAID or a crossfire setup, so the motherboard ended up being pretty cheap. Anyway, I haven't had a PC capable of playing games for more than 3 years. This rig will let me play some CS:S, TF2, and L4D when it comes out. Plus now I can finish HL2.
Any other must play PC games I've missed? Feel free to let me know how much my new PC sucks too, I'm bracing myself.
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Go to 1:00 mark and witness the brilliance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRL7D0wcXM&feature=related
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My fiancée's MBP has been on the fritz lately. She fully charges the battery and then after using for only a short period of time, it will suddenly just turn off. No warning at all. It doesn't do this when plugged in. The battery health is at 69% according to iStat Pro.
The second problem has been happening for a lot longer. Her wireless will often just suddenly drop out. We have two routers, one in N mode and a second one in G mode (for the Wii, so I don't have to sacrifice N speeds on the LAN). She wireless signal will drop out no matter which router she's connected to, while I, with my identical MBP, have 100% strength sitting right next to her. The problem is less of an issue the closer she is to the router, but even still, sometimes with it only 3 feet away it will just drop the connection.
Any suggestion for either of these issues, or is it time to give Apple Care a call? We bought our lappys last in June 2007.
Thanks in advance!
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Samsung SH-S223F/BEBS SATA Black 22X DVD-Writer OEM $28.49
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Ultimate Gamer Case $99.99
Seagate Barracuda (ST3500320AS) 7200.11 SATA NCQ 3.0Gb/s 500GB 32MB Cache $66.99
Mushkin XP2-8500 DDR2-1066 4GB (2x2GB) Extreme Performance Series CAS 5-5-5-15 $136.99
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Quad-Core Socket LGA775, 2.50 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache, 45nm (Retail Box) $273.99
Corsair TX Series TX650W 650W ATX 12V 52A 24PIN ATX Power Supply Active PFC 120MM Fan $109.99
EVGA e-GeForce 9800GT 512MB (512-P3-N975-AR) nVidia GeForce 9800GT Chipset (600Mhz) 512MB (1800Mhz) GDDR3 Dual Dual-Link DVI PCI-Express 2.0 $149.99
Asus P5Q-E Socket 775 Intel P45 + ICH10R Chipset Dual-Channel DDR2 1200/1066/800/667MHz Dual Gigabit LAN 8-channel High Definition Audio 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slots 8x SATA 3Gb/s $174.99
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6709594
I can't copy large (600MB+) files from windows to anything over the AExt... Seems like it's not an uncommon issue either. You'd think Apple might have a touch better quality control in their firmware, or maybe that's just expecting too much :(
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Cool Flickr PHP stuff
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Thinking of buying a Dell S2409 tonight. Should I or shouldn't I?
If not, any other decent monitors in the same budget range?
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I thought I would post the Soundfont I used to record it... this is a very high quality General MIDI soundfont it will work on Audigy & Xi-Fi cards. It should work on any other card that supports Soundfont (SF2) Format as long as they can load a 240mb soundfont file.
SGM v2.01 Soundfont (General MIDI) - 135MB Rar
http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/SGM-V2.01_Soundfont.rar
Some Samples:
Doom 1 - E1L1
MIDI: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/Doom1-E1L1.mid
MP3: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/Doom1-E1L1.mp3
Doom 2 - Map01
MIDI: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/Doom2-Map01.mid
MP3: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/Doom2-Map01.mp3
Duke3D - Grabbag
MIDI: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/Duke3D-Grabbag.mid
MP3: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/Duke3D-Grabbag.mp3
Duke3D - Map01
MIDI: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/Duke3D-Map01.mid
MP3: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/MIDI/Duke3D-Map01.mp3
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P.S. : listen to the song, it'S fucking awesome ACDC - money talks
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When did Domo become huge in target?
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Antec P180:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129154
I don't really *need* a new case, but I this one has the PSU at the bottom and the HDD cages look like they can be pulled out easily to config HDDs. Mid tower, something that makes working on 3.5" HDDs easier. Ones that point the rear of HDD out the side of the case are awesome, also greatly prefer at least 2 120mm fans and PSU at bottom. I just really want to find something cheaper than this one. $135 is way more than I want to spend on a case. I have a Skyhawk aluminum now that isn't bad really, but I just hate putting HDDs in and out. With a long video card and wires everywhere it sucks. I guess I don't move stuff in and out that much. I dunno. =\ I spent hours looking through cases, but if someone knows of a cheaper case that has HDD mounted inward from the side and is otherwise a sufficient midtower I'm all ears.
PSU:
Thermaltake 480w (already own)
Not sure if my current PSU is enough or not. Fairly quiet. I like it. I figure it is enough since I'm going with a midrange CPU and vid. I will have at least 3 HDDs (one of which is SCSI) and probably just one DVD drive. So far it is fine for a 7900GTX (2x power adapters), 4200 X2 939, 3-4 HDDs (one of which is IBM 10k SCSI). I won't get big money selling it used either.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822116063
Fujitsu 15k RPM U320 SCSI 74GB. I've been running SCSI for years with an IBM 32GB 10k drive. It's slightly loud, but I don't mind that much. Hopefully this Fujitsu isn't *stupid* loud. I have an Adaptec 29160 U160 card. U160 is still plenty fast for a single drive. I figure this will still make a 10k SATA drive look silly. $155 is also dirt cheap when those Velociraptor drives are $moneyhats$. I am keeping at least two 250GB SATA drives for storage. This is mainly just for C:, boot drive, swap file, and /program files.
Open box 4850 reference design:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121253R
I have a 7900 GTX 512MB now, but I think I'll have no problems selling it and getting $50-60 back on it, so why not. I don't need a retail box. I already have plenty of DVI cables. Should be a decent jump in speed. I will probably be buying a 1900x1200 screen soon, but I am happy playing games at lower resolutions and letting it scale.
Asus P5Q Pro:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131299
I like a board with heatpipe on the northbridge rather than a fan that will no doubt fail in 2 years. Was going to go with that cheaper Gigibyte D3SL or whatever, but the combo deal with the processor is great ($35 total off).
E8500:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115036
Duh. Only a few bucks more than the E8400 right now. Seems like speed/price is about dead even on the two. Not sure I'll overclock since I'd probably need to blow another $40 on a fancy cooler. I'll deal with retail for now. Combo deal with this and the P5Q Pro for $35, so why not.
Blahblah 2x2GB DDR2 800:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134582
I guess memory isn't a big deal. I think there are better deals, but mostly MIR, shady brands, high voltage, etc. I'm not really sold on heat sinks and I like the BGA mount. Call me crazy. It seems like memory is not a big deal these days as far as latency and clock speed, so this looks good enough.
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So my brother purchased a premade system refurb from dell, the Inspiron 530. The system is a C2D and the system is lacking on power and we are going to an 8800Gt so we need to do a power supply switch. He had a fairly new PS from an old PC we were just going to switch, but the MB connector is different(old PC was a AMD 2600+). So is this common? I've never noticed the power supply differences maybe I've just been lucky.. I know that some other connectors vary for the board and other hardware, but the actual MB connector is throwing me off. While I don't have it here, I think the MB connection on the Dell had 4 or 8 more pins.
Does dell use a different connector or is this just a change between the boards before I go pick up a new PS at CC? I can't find any info on the PC as to what one they are using.. I also see that they used a special setup for a few years, but I'd assume that this one is using a regular connector since it's outside that time frame? Wiki shows 20 pin connectors and 24, but the c2d all seem to use the same number of pins, so I'm confused.
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My dad took a ton of videos while in Alaska and half of them are corrupt and no longer showing up on the SD card. I just tried some other program to recover them but they want $100 for me to now save the files it found. So I know the files are there, but I don't want to pay $100 to do so.
Anything free out there I could try? Tia
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If you were me, would you just throw everything away and start over from scratch? The butter, cheese, and eggs had no nasty smells or mold or anything like that. I threw away pretty much anything else in there that could have been bad.
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I was thinking about a couple of enhancements it could use though:
1. keep the reply button on the image even after you reply. If you have to go away for a minute, take a call, whatever, then you lose the ability to continue talking to that person
2. It would be cool if it had the option of saving local copies of both the 'in' and 'out' images so you could view them again. Visual chatlogs.
3. It should keep a list of who you've 'talked' to. Not their names or numbers or anything, but maybe like assign everybody a random number and then let people save those random numbers in the app. Then you could contact them again if you both happen to be online. Obviously it would need some of the IM functions like blocking people or whatever, but this girl had really nice paint in her living room, and we had a whole conversation about it, and it would be nice to be able to talk to her again when my wife makes me do that same paint in the kids playroom.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/10/03/amazon.kindle.2.leak/
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Case - Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021
RAM - CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145197
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115041
HD - Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148335
PSU - CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Retail - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139004
here is what is left
1. Vid Card: Going to be a choice between a 260 and a 4870 - not sure which. I want a system that is somewhat future proof, but i dont need to be balls to the wall
2. Mobo - God, i have no clue - just one that is reliable as fuck - i don't care about overclocking
3. OS - Do i try for Vista SP1 or try to get XP pro??? 32 bit vs 64 bit? Again, would like a little future proofing
4. CPU Cooler - is the stock cooler good enough? Or should i go for something like ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134
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http://www.fileplanet.com/60685/download/Grabbag-(Duke-Nukem-Theme)
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Tonight @ 8PM PST
Shacknews Chicago @ 75.102.27.194:27015
The usual password.
We will play 2 custom maps and 1 gimmick map.
Tonight's Maps:
Custom Map: MAKE A SUGGESTION
Custom Map: MAKE A SUGGESTION
Gimmick Map: MAKE A SUGGESTION
Come and play some custom TF2 maps @ 8PM PST on Shacknews Chicago!
Please make suggestions for the custom maps for tonight.
I will periodically check this thread during the day and when we find some we like I will choose them and update the thread.
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http://scotiabanknuitblanche.com/
I think I'm going to go wander around. Not sure where yet. Is anyone else going?
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