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A moment of silence for CNet Amiga.

I ran a CNet Amiga BBS from the early 90's till 99. It started out with one line on an Amiga 2000 and ended up with 10 lines running on a single Amiga 4000 (which I still have, by the way). Overall it was a really well written software package.

Kallisti Gold BBS

This mouse is beautiful, and it actually matches the theme of my most recent system

This mouse is beautiful, and it actually matches the theme of my most recent system.

BUT -- I won't buy it for one reason. It has a cord.

I'm using the Logitech MX700 Optical Cordless mouse with charging station and I absolutely love it.

I thought I would hate this mouse at first because it's not designed for either right or left hand use but since I normally only use my mouse with my right hand anyway I figured I'd overlook that fact.

While Microsoft's new object is designed for either hand, I just can't go back to a cord. I've gone cordless, I've gone optical, and I've gone rechargable. The only thing that can convince me to replace this mouse is one that has all those features as well as being usable with either the right or left hand.

Maybe Microsoft will release a cordless and recharagable version? Until then it's just a pretty mouse on a cord.

Actually, the closest thing to the Apple cube I've seen is the FIC Ice-Cube.

I have one, which all in all is a fair system.

It has a similar look to most of the other SFF systems, but clear and bluish like the G4 Cube. It's a nice looking case with a decent motherboard inside and plenty of room to work. Overall I am more or less satisfied with it, but it is just a small form factor system after all, and it is somewhat limited by that for obvious reasons.

On the other hand, it looks absolutely beautiful in the dark.

Oh, and it has a handle (which seems to be removable by screws, but I haven't tried.) Oh, and it's much smaller than it appears in that picture. It's only one foot deep if that gives any idea of the size.

Actually, the closest thing to the Apple cube I've seen is the FIC Ice-Cube.

I have one, which all in all is a fair system.

It has a similar look to most of the other SFF systems, but clear and bluish like the G4 Cube. It's a nice looking case with a decent motherboard inside and plenty of room to work. Overall I am more or less satisfied with it, but it is just a small form factor system after all, and it is somewhat limited by that for obvious reasons.

On the other hand, it looks absolutely beautiful in the dark.

Oh, and it has a handle (which seems to be removable by screws, but I haven't tried.) Oh, and it's much smaller than it appears in that picture. It's only one foot deep if that gives any idea of the size.

Why can't everybody be nice to each other ?? :-(

Life feeds on life.

Two very large spiders in my back yard -- Feeding or Fucking? You decide.

I ran/run a server for a while (opened to the public) that only allowed server side characters.

The module was a remake of the classic Bard's Tale and it was/is more than half way done. (more info)

Interest in it has died down since the PC players seem to have grown tired of it (it is, after all, about a year old). But those that did play were limited to the types of items available within the Bard's Tale universe.

This created two types of players, those that got pissed because they couldn't find insanely powerful items and those that were happy because the game was exceptionally hard for a single player to wander around in.

I would probably get back to work and finish/polish the whole thing up if I didn't think interest in it was almost totally dead. Or I might would give the project up to someone else to finish if they can convince me they'll do it justice.

Either way, I think Neverwinter Nights was an awesome game, and I did sink hundreds of hours into it while I was into it the deepest.

But I definately agree, don't play with groups that allow client side servers unless you want to play with grossly overpowered players in invariably stupid campaign worlds.

sorry Microsoft, but some of your competitors have a game catalog that is much bigger than yours

On one side, you have Sony, tons of games, a few that are actually good, a few that are oustanding, and a good controller.

On the other side, you have Nintendo, a few outstanding games and several absolute must haves on the way. (METROID PRIME!!! ZELDA!!! HUAH!)

So yes, Microsoft does have it very rough. But seeing as how I play everything I'm definately going to see how good XBox live truely is.

Best case scenerio, I have a blast playing tons of games online and the concept of multiplayer is boosted just one level higher. Worst case, this fails and online gaming doesn't get adopted well by the console market yet. After all, if it's not XBox live, it CERTAINLY won't be that crap that's going on over at Sony. And while Nintendo may have no concrete online plans, it's pretty safe to assume they're going to do things similiarly to Sony. They're going to just give us online connectivity and say "Here, now bug the game developers." If that's the case, expect to see a very Dreamcast like acceptance.

I disabled all of it. I don't even have that many ICONs on my desktop.

It took me a long time to get used to the idea of the start menu (only because finding a way to truely get rid of it [not just hiding it] was harder than accepting it.) I like the Tooltray though, and I don't think I'd get rid of that even if I could.

I have 4 icons on my desktop.

My Computer - which I use to get to my hard drives and browse them.
Network Neighborhood - for similar reasons.
Trash - For more obvious reasons.
And a shortcut to a folder which is essentially a bunch of shortcuts to all of the useful folders on my system (mp3s, my writings, code, etc...)

I'm something of a minimalist. The less I have taking up my desktop real estate, the better off I am. Icons on the desktop are stupid (in my opinion) since most of the time they'll be covered by applications. (Yes yes, X-Windows does in fact have multiple desktops, too bad it likes to slam windows into corners, stagger them unusably, forgets where I want them, and basically just annoys me most of the time...)

MY simple desktop can be seen at http://www.jacefuse.com/temp/desktop ...

Sometimes when I working on files, I keep them on my desktop temporarily -- but when I'm finished with something, I'll put the final verison (and any drafts I may keep) in their proper place when I am done.

The desktop, as I see it, is solely for the work I'm doing at the moment.

This minimalist approach works for me. I'll be seriously PO'd if I have to use an OS that forces a bunch of clutter on me.

"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"