I have to say that one of the most useful things I've gotten my hands on in a long time is an IDE to USB cable. It saves tons of time hooking up drives that aren't able to boot for one reason or another for data extraction. All that slaving to another system and rebooting gets old real fast, but I end up working on quite a few laptops. I'd also reccomend a hard drive duplicator/maintainence station.
As far as tools go, everyone has their favorite for one stop shopping, but I prefer the Swiss Army Cybertool. It's way more useful than the model with a USB drive, and has nearly every commonly used PC maintenance tool I need, including a pin for reset buttons. A bit bulky, but I wouldn't be without it in my pocket.
I don't know what type of KVM you use (USB or PS2), but I would also reccomend keeping a genuine opposite, read not using adapters, keyboard and mouse handy. Typically, I use PS2, but every now and then I get a system like a Compaq iPaq (the desktop not handheld) that only has USB, and doesn't work well with adapted PS2 devices.
This is the whole reason why people aren't gaming nearly as much on PCs anymore. PC owners hate constantly dropping cash on a $500 video card just to have the latest games look their best. This is also the reason why developers are putting games out with greater frequency on various consoles. With all the various possible combinations of hardware that they have to test for and find a "happy medium" on releasing their game for it's incredibly difficult to meet a reasonable development cycle let alone have an end product that can be as tightly optimized as a console game. This is the whole philosophy behind consoles! Reducing variables for developers means increased number of games for the masses to enjoy (or not). Unfortunately, this also has lead to a lot of crappy games cranked out on overly tight schedules by development studios trying to boost their yearly income reports *cough* EA *cough*, but as a long time primarily PC gamer (since the Apple II and C64 days) I've found myself rarely playing games on my PC anymore in favor of trying to keep up with the good release on my PS2, Gamecube, X-Box, and now the PSP.
Although it seems like a new console is always coming out the lifespan of each console is about 5 years. Look back, we're right on track with that on this console generation.
You know time seems to speed up as you get older, right? I can feel it whizzing by, myself.
It seems a little odd for the inventor of a game where you manipulate breasts so that you can catch somone and "score" to be condemning anything. Not that rape is what is implied, but the lack of taste certainly is pretty evident. Yes, GTA is a violent game, and yes you are required to do some pretty nasty things to win. Technology limitations of the time notwithstanding, however, I find Gotcha to be more tasteless, especially when stopping to consider what the game if made with modern technology might look like.
I usually just lurk, but this man made such an impression on me at an engineering presentation that I have very strong feelings about what he says. He may have made some revolutionary contributions, but from what I heard he seems to only consider the implications as an afterthought. Basically, his presentation was 'My vision for the future of the internet' with an emphasis on IPv4 (this is just earlier this year, mind you), which was largely fluff. What struck me what he went on for some time about how everything in the future will have an ip (how original), and started talking about how great it will be to be able to find your socks based on the location of their ip. No more missing socks apparently, although this neglected to address quite a few logistics questions. Then he threw out a scenario where a man would get caught by his wife going to a bar when he said he was working late because his socks had an ip and she could tell the it was being tied into the network from the bar instead of work. Okay, so the finer points aside, in his envisioned future where a man's wife can track him to the bar by the ip in his socks isn't it equally likely that she can track him to his other lover's apartment after meeting at that bar? Doesn't logic follow that the government could also track his socks any time they wanted if these alleged socks are so unsecure that his wife can find him at his lover's? These were the things going through MY mind, but good old Vint kept on rattling off more fluff without the smile once dopping off his face or discussing possible privacy issues that might pop up in his 'future.'
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I have to say that one of the most useful things I've gotten my hands on in a long time is an IDE to USB cable. It saves tons of time hooking up drives that aren't able to boot for one reason or another for data extraction. All that slaving to another system and rebooting gets old real fast, but I end up working on quite a few laptops. I'd also reccomend a hard drive duplicator/maintainence station. As far as tools go, everyone has their favorite for one stop shopping, but I prefer the Swiss Army Cybertool. It's way more useful than the model with a USB drive, and has nearly every commonly used PC maintenance tool I need, including a pin for reset buttons. A bit bulky, but I wouldn't be without it in my pocket. I don't know what type of KVM you use (USB or PS2), but I would also reccomend keeping a genuine opposite, read not using adapters, keyboard and mouse handy. Typically, I use PS2, but every now and then I get a system like a Compaq iPaq (the desktop not handheld) that only has USB, and doesn't work well with adapted PS2 devices.
Umm, good idea. That's called the PC I believe.
This is the whole reason why people aren't gaming nearly as much on PCs anymore. PC owners hate constantly dropping cash on a $500 video card just to have the latest games look their best. This is also the reason why developers are putting games out with greater frequency on various consoles. With all the various possible combinations of hardware that they have to test for and find a "happy medium" on releasing their game for it's incredibly difficult to meet a reasonable development cycle let alone have an end product that can be as tightly optimized as a console game. This is the whole philosophy behind consoles! Reducing variables for developers means increased number of games for the masses to enjoy (or not). Unfortunately, this also has lead to a lot of crappy games cranked out on overly tight schedules by development studios trying to boost their yearly income reports *cough* EA *cough*, but as a long time primarily PC gamer (since the Apple II and C64 days) I've found myself rarely playing games on my PC anymore in favor of trying to keep up with the good release on my PS2, Gamecube, X-Box, and now the PSP.
Although it seems like a new console is always coming out the lifespan of each console is about 5 years. Look back, we're right on track with that on this console generation.
You know time seems to speed up as you get older, right? I can feel it whizzing by, myself.
It seems a little odd for the inventor of a game where you manipulate breasts so that you can catch somone and "score" to be condemning anything. Not that rape is what is implied, but the lack of taste certainly is pretty evident. Yes, GTA is a violent game, and yes you are required to do some pretty nasty things to win. Technology limitations of the time notwithstanding, however, I find Gotcha to be more tasteless, especially when stopping to consider what the game if made with modern technology might look like.
I usually just lurk, but this man made such an impression on me at an engineering presentation that I have very strong feelings about what he says. He may have made some revolutionary contributions, but from what I heard he seems to only consider the implications as an afterthought. Basically, his presentation was 'My vision for the future of the internet' with an emphasis on IPv4 (this is just earlier this year, mind you), which was largely fluff. What struck me what he went on for some time about how everything in the future will have an ip (how original), and started talking about how great it will be to be able to find your socks based on the location of their ip. No more missing socks apparently, although this neglected to address quite a few logistics questions. Then he threw out a scenario where a man would get caught by his wife going to a bar when he said he was working late because his socks had an ip and she could tell the it was being tied into the network from the bar instead of work. Okay, so the finer points aside, in his envisioned future where a man's wife can track him to the bar by the ip in his socks isn't it equally likely that she can track him to his other lover's apartment after meeting at that bar? Doesn't logic follow that the government could also track his socks any time they wanted if these alleged socks are so unsecure that his wife can find him at his lover's? These were the things going through MY mind, but good old Vint kept on rattling off more fluff without the smile once dopping off his face or discussing possible privacy issues that might pop up in his 'future.'