A normal CD lens cleaner that can be used on audio players and in most CDROM/R/RW drives should do the trick if you really must clean the lens.
NEVER try rubbing alcohol and a q-tip because a friend I know did this once and basically damaged his Gamecube to the point it wouldn't read anything anymore, same could happen with a PS2. If anything use a eye dropper to blow dust off it.
We all know that PS2's are poorly put together and thus this is why they break down a year or so later forcing you to buy a new one and hoping it WONT break down.
No - I think you are right. But then don't forget AOL is one of the biggest ISP's around, so they have billions to throw at the main people who work at RIAA. IE it's called "bribing them off" so they won't go after AOL.
Could you imagine the press it would get if the RIAA suddenly filed a few thousand subpoenas against AOL users? They'd all be crying at AOL.:D
Clearly RIAA is going after Verizon and smaller ISP's, not to mention Universities and Colleges who don't have billions or even tens of millions to bribe the RIAA off their back.
Ah well, I guess it'll force people back to the trusted (more private) sharing methods like it used to be several years ago.
I thought this was rather funny when I came across this in the article
"Many of the subpoenas reviewed by the AP identified songs from the same few artists, including Avril Lavigne, Snoop Dogg and Michael Jackson."
Whats sad is there is still people downloading and listening to music from those 3 idiots? Especially MJ who has a thing for little boys and having dozens upon dozens of face surgeries and acid baths to make himself look white.
Heck I am suprised they didn't include Britney and Madonna in that list.
I can't see why you are apparantly against this? VALVe has been doing the same thing for over four years now with Half Life and all it's mods. You have a CD key, which is thereby converted into a WONID number and sent to one of the WONID Authentication servers. If you don't have a valid CD key that generates a valid WONID number, you can't play.
I remember the custom TF servers. Catch 22 was the fellow who worked on it I believe. At the time I found it was a pretty good mod, like you said because of the tesla coils, hacking, and beserker abilities.
Later versions even have flyable mini helicopters and for water levels like rock2, you could build a honest to god submarine with torpedo's and go for a dive or two and nail some unsuspecting swimmer.:D
Quake has been especially affected by cheaters. And why is that? Because ID software basically doesn't give a damn. For several months now there has been a version of OGC for Quake 3, and last I heard ID Software has done nothing to combat it. There's probably even more cheats for Quake 3 now, who know's, I haven't bothered keeping up.
At least VALVe who made Half Life, TFC, and heaven forbid promoting and working on Counter-Strike, they have been working on several anti-cheat efforts and trying to give a damn. Then there's third party groups like UA (United Admins) making anti cheat solutions.
The point I am trying to make here is that
A) Remove bunnyhopping now from TFC and Quake 3 + other mods, you will have lots of people crying bloody murder.
B) If ID Software had never released the source code to Quake in the first place, there would not have been a sudden flood of cheating and hacked clients, and thus lamers galore, massivly cheating in Quake TF. It would be like VALVe releasing the entire source for Half Life and TFC mod, we'd suddenly see hacked clients and it would ruin that community too.
Although if you play TFC enough nowadays very rarely do you see people accusing someone of strafe jumping a cheater, yet they may be more inclined to do so with someone who bunnyhops around the map.
"Probably should have fixed bunny hopping, however. I feel bunny-hopping was the worst thing to happen to Quake. Quake is about running and killing people, not bouncing everywhere."
The way I see it now, they meant to fix bunnyhopping but didn't, it caught on in the Quake and later TFC community, and now a lot of players use it. If VALVe were to remove bunnyhoping now you'd probably have half of the community cheering the move to fix bunnyhopping, and the other half crying wolf and bloody murder at VALVe for removing it.
Which is why I haven't bothered to learn bunnyhopping, even though I could if I wanted. I don't want to rely on something that VALVe may just remove one day in a future patch and to hell with the community.
Heh one thing I forgot to mention, and friends have often asked this. Let's assume in the future if VALVe were to fix the bunnyhopping for good and remove it from TFC. I'd think a lot of those who "love" bunnyhopping would cry wolf so to speak.
I see some people mentioning that bunny hopping was probably the worst thing that happened, and I tend to agree. Yet, ask almost any Half Life - Teamfortress Classic player, and they practically swear by bunnyhoping, since Half Life was based off the Quake (and I think parts of Quake2) engine, and TFC was converted from Quake TF.
It's unfortunate in a way that ID Software had to release the source code. That doomed Quake and Quake TF for massive cheating clients and therby destroyed any community that was left.
You also forgot to mention that in the 90's PKZIP was the target of many a fake trojan and virus infected release, often with fake version numbers and warnings galore on lots of BBS's to not download the fake versions.
Bleh forgot to also mention that if you were to send any of those other files to your friends, they would likely stare at you stupidly asking "D-uhhh how do I OPEN this RAR file, winzip won't do it".
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A normal CD lens cleaner that can be used on audio players and in most CDROM/R/RW drives should do the trick if you really must clean the lens.
NEVER try rubbing alcohol and a q-tip because a friend I know did this once and basically damaged his Gamecube to the point it wouldn't read anything anymore, same could happen with a PS2. If anything use a eye dropper to blow dust off it.
Check the Firaxis site I believe they have a Windows XP patch for AC and it's expansion pack, Alien Crossfire.
We all know that PS2's are poorly put together and thus this is why they break down a year or so later forcing you to buy a new one and hoping it WONT break down.
I hated CTP 1 and from what I heard CTP 2 wasn't much better. :p
Show me one starving artist on the streets of Hollywood or Beverly Hills that works in the movie industry. Surely Arnie isn't starving. :D
It might especially if you claim you had no technical knowledge on how to secure your WiFi connection. :D
:)
You could also claim it was "wardialed" and watch them look back 20+ years to see what the term means.
No - I think you are right. But then don't forget AOL is one of the biggest ISP's around, so they have billions to throw at the main people who work at RIAA. IE it's called "bribing them off" so they won't go after AOL.
:D
Could you imagine the press it would get if the RIAA suddenly filed a few thousand subpoenas against AOL users? They'd all be crying at AOL.
Clearly RIAA is going after Verizon and smaller ISP's, not to mention Universities and Colleges who don't have billions or even tens of millions to bribe the RIAA off their back.
Ah well, I guess it'll force people back to the trusted (more private) sharing methods like it used to be several years ago.
I thought this was rather funny when I came across this in the article
"Many of the subpoenas reviewed by the AP identified songs from the same few artists, including Avril Lavigne, Snoop Dogg and Michael Jackson."
Whats sad is there is still people downloading and listening to music from those 3 idiots? Especially MJ who has a thing for little boys and having dozens upon dozens of face surgeries and acid baths to make himself look white.
Heck I am suprised they didn't include Britney and Madonna in that list.
I can't see why you are apparantly against this? VALVe has been doing the same thing for over four years now with Half Life and all it's mods. You have a CD key, which is thereby converted into a WONID number and sent to one of the WONID Authentication servers. If you don't have a valid CD key that generates a valid WONID number, you can't play.
I remember the custom TF servers. Catch 22 was the fellow who worked on it I believe. At the time I found it was a pretty good mod, like you said because of the tesla coils, hacking, and beserker abilities.
:D
Later versions even have flyable mini helicopters and for water levels like rock2, you could build a honest to god submarine with torpedo's and go for a dive or two and nail some unsuspecting swimmer.
Quake has been especially affected by cheaters. And why is that? Because ID software basically doesn't give a damn. For several months now there has been a version of OGC for Quake 3, and last I heard ID Software has done nothing to combat it. There's probably even more cheats for Quake 3 now, who know's, I haven't bothered keeping up.
At least VALVe who made Half Life, TFC, and heaven forbid promoting and working on Counter-Strike, they have been working on several anti-cheat efforts and trying to give a damn. Then there's third party groups like UA (United Admins) making anti cheat solutions.
The point I am trying to make here is that
A) Remove bunnyhopping now from TFC and Quake 3 + other mods, you will have lots of people crying bloody murder.
B) If ID Software had never released the source code to Quake in the first place, there would not have been a sudden flood of cheating and hacked clients, and thus lamers galore, massivly cheating in Quake TF. It would be like VALVe releasing the entire source for Half Life and TFC mod, we'd suddenly see hacked clients and it would ruin that community too.
Yep those were the days. I started playing Quakeworld in late 1998 - early 1999 on a 33.6! Then later a 56k :D
Although if you play TFC enough nowadays very rarely do you see people accusing someone of strafe jumping a cheater, yet they may be more inclined to do so with someone who bunnyhops around the map.
So you call Zoid a moron because he left bunny hopping in and never got around to fixing it? Nice.. "rolls eyes"
Earlier versions of NeoTF for TFC had the grapple for the hwguy class.
As Zoid said here himself
"Probably should have fixed bunny hopping, however. I feel bunny-hopping was the worst thing to happen to Quake. Quake is about running and killing people, not bouncing everywhere."
The way I see it now, they meant to fix bunnyhopping but didn't, it caught on in the Quake and later TFC community, and now a lot of players use it. If VALVe were to remove bunnyhoping now you'd probably have half of the community cheering the move to fix bunnyhopping, and the other half crying wolf and bloody murder at VALVe for removing it.
Which is why I haven't bothered to learn bunnyhopping, even though I could if I wanted. I don't want to rely on something that VALVe may just remove one day in a future patch and to hell with the community.
Heh one thing I forgot to mention, and friends have often asked this. Let's assume in the future if VALVe were to fix the bunnyhopping for good and remove it from TFC. I'd think a lot of those who "love" bunnyhopping would cry wolf so to speak.
I see some people mentioning that bunny hopping was probably the worst thing that happened, and I tend to agree. Yet, ask almost any Half Life - Teamfortress Classic player, and they practically swear by bunnyhoping, since Half Life was based off the Quake (and I think parts of Quake2) engine, and TFC was converted from Quake TF.
It's unfortunate in a way that ID Software had to release the source code. That doomed Quake and Quake TF for massive cheating clients and therby destroyed any community that was left.
LOL I should start telling people I know "Hey you know what the company name for Winzip translates to?" :D
Perhaps it was because, if I remember the docs right for LZH (It has been quite a few years since I read them) it was a Japanese fellow who made LZH.
Stuffin...Stuffout...Stuffin...Stuffout
Although in recent years PKWARE has been making windows versions of PKZIP, but it doesn't seem very popular next to Winzip.
Too bad it seems like it has spyware to show "sponsor" messages or it's downloading "sponser ads" from somewhere.
You also forgot to mention that in the 90's PKZIP was the target of many a fake trojan and virus infected release, often with fake version numbers and warnings galore on lots of BBS's to not download the fake versions.
Bleh forgot to also mention that if you were to send any of those other files to your friends, they would likely stare at you stupidly asking "D-uhhh how do I OPEN this RAR file, winzip won't do it".
*Rolls Eyes*