Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 21, 2008 6:00pm PDTOk that NBA 2K9 thing is just
hilariously sad. Sports games already have it bad enough on PCs without that kind of
thing.
- Plant blogs are hot
- Apple vs MS ads
href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9117560">are
lame
- Eel power!
- Dinosaur dancing floor
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Original Max Payne game producer doesnt
like the movie
- Fable 2 ships with missing inserts
for unlocks
- Microsoft delays another dashboard
feature
- Alan Wake resurfaces! New trailer
and screenshots
- Dragon Age on consoles wont be
typical
- Beware the Rock Band / Guitar Hero drug
of profits
! - Grand Theft Auto DS screenshots
- PSP 3000 screen features crappy
lines
- LPB song writer explains
- Far Cry 2 launch trailer
- Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO announced
- NBA 2K9 is keyless!
Lastly, sorry about those hiccups today. We'll just write it off to us being dumb. You
already knew that though.
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
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
I load peggle, click start, then bam I get the CTD:
StackWalk failed (error 299)
then loads of jargon underneath in the error report
Im on vista 64, everything else works fine etc.
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US players - did Blizzard fix any of the patch nuisances during maintenance? I'm hoping for nonbugged instanceservers (arena, battleground and dungeon), less lag and queues and the much needed ret pally nerf. Speak up!
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http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/42453/Dead-Space-PC-Mouse-Lag-Work-Around
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Relic seem to be releasing a few tidbits about the mutliplayer ramping up to some big reveal in the coming weeks. I've gather the relevant quotes in reply...
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Explain it to me.
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Anyone else got their hands on a copy?
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http://www.q1043.com/pages/news/gunsnroses/
Thoughts?
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The idiot commenters at woot all guffawed at it too, but you can never have enough bridges :P :P
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136155
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=962899
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Wooohoo, paid to Shack and read until it's back!
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http://lifehacker.com/5065213/igoogle-sidebar-collapse-removes-the-new-igoogle-sidebar
The iGoogle Sidebar Collapse Greasemonkey script toggles the visibility of the new iGoogle sidebar with the click of your mouse or with a user-defined keyboard shortcut.
Install link:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30414
Direct install link:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/30414.user.js
It works wonders, and I'm using it right now. It really makes the new UI work just like the old one.
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http://www.thelocal.se/15138.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rambokills.png
I love Wikipedia.
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Achievement List: http://www.left4dead411.com/left-4-dead-achievements
This list shows all of the escape vehicles for every map, which confirms that No Mercy's is a helicopter, Blood Harvest's is an armored truck, Dead Air's is a military plane and Death Toll's is a boat of some kind.
Impressions and Shaky-Cam Shots of Dead Air: http://www.left4dead411.com/dead-fish
Shows a tarmac with destroyed airplanes as well as the interior of the airport.
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Do any of you who bought wii fit still use it?
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I seem to be having trouble with RDC again. I thought it was the nvidia drivers again but my girlfriend has the same pc with the same drivers and hers works.
The problem is that when I connect and put my password in, the screen goes black and just hangs. On the host PC the screen goes black and the PC becomes unrecoverable. the hdd light goes on every once in a while but the reset button on the case won't even work and I need to hold the power button to power off completely.
This is beginning to get really frustrating because I wanted to start Far Cry 2 downloading on steam when it's released today and I won't be able to. I set up a scheduled task to run steam at 3pm today in hopes it will autodownload but I'm betting it's just going to wait there for me to right click and install. :(
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Oddly, Woot sent out an email today announcing the woot-off tonight. So at midnight be sure to load up http://wootoff.mancide.net/ and track the upcoming woot-off.
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This is it.
That is all.
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here's that extended watchmen trailer from the scream awards.
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There is no easy way for my mom or fiance to buy me games as Christmas gifts. Granted there is a gift option, but they won't download and install a program for that. Just a web interface would be nice. And to be able to set a "delivery date" so an email would be sent to me X-Mas morning or something.
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Here at my company they use Altiris, which I have heard about, but never used. In my last jobs, we used everything microsoft to RIS computers and deploy patches using a wsus and group policy to do anything else we needed.
What are some handy tips for using Altiris and any good websites that you suggest that I should research to get a head start on this software?
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Moving to SF brb
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The current one isn't working for me: http://shackchatty.com/
And Stonedonkey's isn't showing replies: http://shackapi.stonedonkey.com/
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