Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 22, 2009 6:00pm PSTSo playing a few skirmishes on the Dawn of War 2 beta and it is fairly nifty. I'm not
totally blown away by the thing but I am pretty sure I like it enough to buy the thing.
I'm a sucker for RTS games with robots. :(
- Social networking
href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/22/social.networking.news/index.html">is hot
- Obama keeping
blackberry
- Teleportation devices
href="http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/22/1757398.aspx">are hot
- YouTube caves to big media
href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/158190/youtube_to_let_big_media_bring_its_own_ads.html">for
ads
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- F.E.A.R. 2 demo released
- Threee new Spore games announced
- Spore expansion screenshots
- Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56877">trailer
- Microsoft is firing up to 5,000
dudes
- Sony is gonna lose $2.9 billion
and firing dudes
- Ghostbusters screenshots
- Tomb Raider DLC gets release date
and screenshots
- Noby Noby Boy release date and
price
- StarCraft patch 1.161
- Asassins's Creed 2 due next year
- Puzzle Quest: Galactrix for PS3
and Nintendo DS
- Mass EA layoffs all over the place,
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56889">200 cut
- GTA4 DLC Lost and the Damned DLC
pricing
- Spore Galactic Adventure preview
- Mafia 2 screenshots
- Ubisoft says 2012 is realistic for
Xbox 720
- Killzone 2 gone gold
- HAWX trailers
- Plain Sight open beta video
Lastly, I am sure I dont really get much sympathy but my terrible habit of not eating
enough really caught up with me again over the last couple of months. I was 6'3" and
195lbs which I was fairly happy with. I am now back down to the 170's range. Ugh. Someone
remind me to eat a sandwich.
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
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
Job Needing (Wo)Menz
Our company is actively looking for a new engineer to fulfill our product installation needs.
We are currently looking for someone in the Sacramento or L.A. area. We primarily work with Video Teleconferencing. But in general we are a video integrator specializing in extending video over IP and around the world. Although you don't need experience in video teleconferencing, some related experience is required. IT are sometimes good cross overs (unless I see you shacking all the time from work). Since management of this position will largely be remote, we need someone who is self motivated and can work without a boss over their shoulder. Some general labor experience is useful too, since there is a labor aspect to this position. If you can patch drywall and fix a door frame without cutting a toe off, that's enough to start on. If you have any interest in this, SM me and get your resume to me.
Our company grew another 20 percent this year. Our goal is another 20 percent for 2009.
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RELEASE THE PEEEEEGs!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o31rT0QilvI
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Deadwood: The Complete Series, $65 with optional free shipping at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27
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We are going to try and do a Left 4 Dead LAN Party next weekend on the 31st. We all keep talking about meeting up, so this would be a good chance to make that happen.
It'll have to be BYOC, so if not enough people feel like bringing their comps, we can try to switch to something console related.
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Well this is pretty god damned frustrating. After setting the hard drive mode for SATA to either compatibility and ehanced mode on my Pq5 I was able to detect the drive and off I went with my windows 7 install. The thing BSOD's though during install and I get a CACHE_MANGER error. I was able to get XP pro installed on it but I was unable to get vista home premium, win 7, or windows xp home installed (My XP pro key is allready on one of my computers).
So yeah I am pretty frustrated at this and don't know what to do. The installs have been taking a fairly long time and I have switched the drive out but that doesn't solve the issue.
Any advice oh great shack? Should I just re-download the ISO for 7 and create a new one?
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What's a good RSS feed reader that is easy to use, can be set to update VERY frequently (every 2 minutes would be just about ideal), minimizes to the systray, and most importantly will have a small, unobtrusive pop-up whenever new content shows up?
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/22/03TC-windows-multicore_4.html
It's just Vista with a small makeover and a different name to fool you into thinking it's something better.
Sure there are a few minor improvements, but those improvements are likely going to be sold to you as a completely brand new system. If MS behaves like M$ you'll soon be buying a small update for the price of an OS.
It's a shame too, because at first I thought maybe, just maybe I could skip Vista and go to Windows 7, but it looks like I'll be staying with XP for a long time to come.
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I have a 23 inch monitor, so playing at 1900x1200 would be sweet. I'm depressed, it's winter, and will be getting paid for some freelance I did, so rampant consumerism seems like a good cure.
They're down to $320 on newegg now, which seems like a steal. I also dig the idea of keeping the 8800 around for physx if that ever takes off.
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Anyone running the following combo.
Dawn of War 2 beta
Windows 7
ATI video card?
If so what drivers you got, the ones which come with Win 7 don't do 1680x1050 nor do they do 1280x800 - it's missing all the sexy little options.
I figure it's likely driver version but I can't seem to find a decent one
Anyone know?
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So, senator and representative aren't capitalized when you're talking about them collectively, or any random one. I get that. So, for instance, you would say "one of the senators was hanging out at the gym" or "do you know how many representatives voted for the bill?" Obviously, it's capitalized if you say something like "I love Senator Kerry" or "I'm pretty sure that Representative Smith voted for that one."
But what about the phrase "your s(S?)tate s(S?)enator"? It's referring to a specific one (yours), but he or she isn't explicitly named. So would it be "Do you know who your State Senator is?" or "Do you know who your state senator is?" I keep going back and forth, and the rest of the Internet apparently does as well. :D
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Do you guys enjoy "the chase" - as in you're chatting up a girl who has a boyfriend, but the boyfriend is a complete douche, and she seems to have so much more fun talking to you, but can't seem to lose the douchebag?
I've been talking to this girl weekly at an event we're always at together, but her pip-squeak boyfriend is always there too ... he pays her no attention, and she looks miserable, but we always have fun talking.
I doubt I even have a chance, and it'll be a while before I can even do anything, but the idea of "the chase" is so much fun?
concur ? :/
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Hey guys, I'm working on our IT intranet site at work and want to be able to list the latest modified files from folders on our various servers, typically word files with the odd excel file. Any ideas on where I might find something that does this? I can imagine a script or blob of code exists that does this, but Google is failing me.
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I tried browsing the video game catagory but I can't find it?!
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Our iPhone game demo has been approved by Apple and is in the app store! (Think Star Control, Escape Velocity, etc.)
Introducing VOID Lite: From SqueegyTBS (that guy that brought you the fan-favorite Latest Chatty) and an exclusive team of shackers (indosauros, jujubees, DHAvatar) comes the demo version of the soon-to-be-released space shooter for the iPhone and iPod touch!
Screenshots:
http://beautifulpixel.com/assets/2008/12/16/VOID-12-15-teaser.png
http://beautifulpixel.com/assets/2008/12/16/VOID-12-16-teaser.png
Video: http://beautifulpixel.com/assets/VOID_preview_01.mov
Download VOID Lite: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=301641126
We hope you guys enjoy it -- please leave a review (and pass on the word)! Oh, and keep an eye out for the full version, coming soon!
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Does it get better or worse in the following seasons?
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Watching the Fios commercial, they say you can replay recordings back in any room? Does that require additional cost per room or does it come with the package?
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I've been raving a lot about Unity 3d, and how amazingly easy it is to develop for (http://www.blurst.com has a great amount of games using Unity, including Minotaur China Shop and Jetpack Brontosaurus). Unfortunately, up until now it has been Mac only, but now Windows users will be able to part of the action too!
Unity 2.5 has just been announced for both Windows and OSX systems!
http://unity3d.com/unity/coming-soon/unity-2.5
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Is anyone playing this game on their iphone? It seems like they have finally fixed the server bullshit and the game is running great finally.
My friend code is: 126690938
Post yours and I can invite you to the mob.
For those that don't know. This is basically Urban Dead for your iPhone except with mobsters and drugs and property and marking people for death. It's like Drug Wars for your TI-83 calculator.
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oddly enough I was looking up images with the key words "all no rook same" on google
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