plus the whole, "Windows Media DRM has FEWER security breaches... yet Windows Media is licensed out the wazoo." Wouldn't it make sense if it had less security breaches that it be more licensed as being more trusted. -I still hate DRM.
That's actually spammer's trying to mess with any bayesian filtering you have so that more of their viagra ads get through. I've seen an article on it, here or on digg. -Interesting.
I am pissed I paid five bucks for clash of the titans in HD on xbox live, only to find that the thing expired 24 hrs after the first time I fell asleep to it. I no longer can watch the movie I wasn't aware I was Renting, in some crappy form.
Next time bill, I'll rent it... and you won't get a dime. -One pissed off mofo.
TeamFortress - My progression from capture the flag to teamfortress was the hand of something greater that changed my life. I wasted the best hours of my life away on this game. Probably the reason I didn't have sex until after high school. Also the reason for my good ACT's, and 2.666 GPA. I saw the TeamFortress 2 trailer the other day, and I got a proud father moment. I seriously got a little teary-eyed and said, "Ahh, my boys all grown up." I will always remember those nights of 300 ping and learning to lead for lag. I still remember the envy of those with high speed cable, and those at college. Probably one of the primary reasons I went to college. Low Ping.
Faxanadu - I have no idea why I always come back to this game. My brother rented it so many years ago, and admittedly... I didn't get to play it much that weekend. But no other game has had me download emulators for it... track down roms through porno popup infested roms sites... and spent as many hours playing around with winged boots. I've still never beat it, and really wish that there was a way that I could at least see the end of the game...
Heroes of the might and magic 2&3 - I only listed both of them because the second doesn't really run within windows xp. I remember playing this for hours on end, and in fact my roomie and I still play the third in late night sessions every couple of months. I will play this game for three days straight, and then remember every reason I hate it and gave it up. Then I give it a couple of months.
Privateer 2. I remember my cousin chris playing this and thinking it was the coolest game ever. My first introduction to a game that was open ended. I remember him buying and trading things, and traveling to jump points... and thinking, "This is what Wing Commander should have been."
X-Wing, Tie Fighter, - Both of these games had me in a galaxy far far away. I remember the insanely hard missions, and how much fun they were. It was my chance to make the death star run, and I enjoyed it way too much.
I'm very grateful for these games, and if the creators ever read this page, I would like to personally thank you for the great memories.
-Thank You.
You wouldn't believe how many computers I come across with blantant spyware and adware infections, that cause mass browser hijacks, and all sorts of nefarious things to happen, all the while windows defender is running there in the system tray, activated and up to date.
Please, think of the children and upgrade to something better.
I work in the IT field traveling to customer's houses. I see all sorts of jacked up computers.. Here's the usual rundown of things that I keep on my drive.
Google Pack Installer - (three free months norton good for getting rid of virsues.) Norton Intelligent Updater - Used to update defintions for every version of norton. Google it and grab the x86 version(the second on the page.) Trend Micro Pattern Files - Same thing for Trend Micro, google it. AVG Free - Something more permanent for cheap bastards. Spybot and includes files. Adaware personal and include files. Ewido - I love you ewido, too bad you run really crappy in safe mode.
Dial-A-Fix - Reregisters dll files neccessary to components like windows update and SSL security. Fixes all sorts of permissions things jacked up by spyware as well. This is an amazing tool, google it and be amazed.
MS Scripting Engine 5.6 - This solves a lot of problems you will have with programs having blank screens, or if system restore is a blank screen, or windows update is blank as well.
XP Winsock Fix - Explicit^Software wrote this great vb script to reset the TCP/IP and WINSOCK stack to default settings. Useful if the internet isn't working, commonly associated with the nasty spyware.
Firefox - Nuff Said.
Drivers - I collect the drivers I need for the things I run into. The biggest collection are HP printer drivers, and linksys drivers for PCI cards and USB drivers.
Hijack This - Merjin software's great tool to give you the rundown on what's running on your computer. You really have to know what your doing with this tool though.
My Music - All my music that I tend to listen to.
Norton Ghost - I keep the install files for my copy of Norton Ghost on my drive, makes moving or replacing drives a snap.
MemTest ISO - Memory Tester.
DFT ISO - Drive fitness test for hard drives. If you know the brand of drive you are testing, use the tester from the manufacturer as they often print out RMA codes and have better tests for their drive. I've gotten free replacement drives this way from Maxtor and Seagate. Both companies which keep my business.
Linux Password Crack - Used to reset XP administrator logins for people that lock themselves out of their machine.
OpenOffice - I don't always have it on there, but good for people who need to do office stuff, and don't feel like being a pirate and recognize good stuff.
Linksys Firmware - Many linux firmware upgrade files for Linksys Routers and devices. WRT54g Versions 5 and 4 were buggy at times until you upgraded the firmware. Especially version 5. Sometimes the router was just plain defective.
SymNRT - Removes all versions of norton, there is also rnav2003 that removes below a certin point. Useful for when norton gets borked and ruins how the machine works.
Windows Updates - All critical sercurity patches, and a script that fires them off in proper order and silently.
SP2 - Big enough to list on it's own.
Windows Installer Cleanup Utility - Used to stop programs that constantly install themselves over and over and over and over and get really annoying.
There are many others, and I'm sure I've left out a few, but I think these will help everyone out.
They have new modchips out that allow you to dual boot firmware. One for backups, one for online. No update will fix that. -So the saga continues...
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I beta tested Captian Novilon. It wasn't supposed to be amazingly fun, it was supposed to be about how to teach kids how to balance their sugar intact(bowls of oatmeal, so forth.) during their daily activities.
Wow, I feel like one out of two people who have played that game now.
Further, I miss Team Fortress the most, probably the best mod for a game ever(flame war ensue.) Threewave CTF was amazing too. I remember the first time I saw the grappling hook in action and was hooked forever.
-Those were the days.
The story posted is incorrect, the actual situation was a customer's computer that was sent to a service center from best buy, and the service center used a hard drive from another computer(junked out as being not fixable) placed into another computer. This is the story I've heard through the grapevine of being pretty trusted. -GeekSquad didn't do this.
Socom 1, 2, and even the beta for 3 beats Halo hands down for teamwork required.
The Halo fansboys just take more time off from playing their favorite to post about it.
I like how getting to play the game you purchased with money is a "new" business model. Not merely a chance to then pay subscription fee's on top of the price you played for the happy meal manual.
Watch out world, getting a value for what you paid for is the new hot ticket!
Xbox Media Center has been doing this as well for some time. Microsoft is always King in ripping shit off and acting as if they have 'innovated'. I like the interview with Balmer saying that, "The Open Source community hasn't really provided that much innovation." Yeah, we only took your xbox and actually made it do things people would actually want to use it for.
If you look at the Xbox 360, it's actually just all the things that made a chipped xbox awesome, mixed with some better(we'll see) graphics. I'm sure all of this coolness will come at a more extreme cost as well.
Till then and forever, I will be happy with my Xenium Ice Xbox.
Cromwell Bios to run Linux = LEGAL Chipping hardware you bought = LEGAL.
The hacked bios's that run pirated xbox games and homebrew apps are illegal because they are modified microsoft code, or built using the Microsoft XDK.
The Cromwell bios is a legal bios because it does not use microsoft code or XDK, and is used only(as far as I know) to boot linux.
That they would label this article as, "Man busted for chipping box." When in fact it had nothing to do with the chip itself, but the PIRATED SOFTWARE the hard drive contained. It should be properly labeled as "Man busted for selling pirated Xbox software." if he had been selling Linux running xbox's with homebrew apps, it would have been a nonissue. As the slashdot commmunity, we do ourselves a disservice by labeling stories this way and spreading F.U.D. that would lead us to believe that chipping your box is illegal.
Next time excercise some editorial control and highlight the fact the man was selling Pirated Xbox software and that this was all part of a greater nonissue. You pirate software and sell it(Whether in Hard Drive or Disc Format) you are going to get the hammer. Guy got off amazingly light in the face of what he was doing.
Yep, and I can't really remember his name...
I used to love when they would answer emails though, because people would ask the most boneheaded things.
Then his hair would spin and his eyes would bug out. Yeah, those were the days.
Hell yeah I do... I haven't watched MSNBC since Soledad O'Brian and that computer generated guy with the protozoa on his shirt went off the air.
Soledad O'Brian has since sold out as a media craptard.
I read the article, the card didn't do that great against ASUS's 256mb card, and in fact, in most of the tests the Asus 256mb card did better. ATI got blown away in pretty much all the tests.
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plus the whole, "Windows Media DRM has FEWER security breaches... yet Windows Media is licensed out the wazoo."
Wouldn't it make sense if it had less security breaches that it be more licensed as being more trusted.
-I still hate DRM.
That's actually spammer's trying to mess with any bayesian filtering you have so that more of their viagra ads get through.
I've seen an article on it, here or on digg.
-Interesting.
and connectedlife.home group contracts and trains geeksquad to set it up. -Insider... information.
Oh jesus, who in the hell do you think will set it up for these people? -GeekSquad duh... competition my ass.
I am pissed I paid five bucks for clash of the titans in HD on xbox live, only to find that the thing expired 24 hrs after the first time I fell asleep to it. I no longer can watch the movie I wasn't aware I was Renting, in some crappy form.
Next time bill, I'll rent it... and you won't get a dime.
-One pissed off mofo.
TeamFortress - My progression from capture the flag to teamfortress was the hand of something greater that changed my life. I wasted the best hours of my life away on this game. Probably the reason I didn't have sex until after high school. Also the reason for my good ACT's, and 2.666 GPA. I saw the TeamFortress 2 trailer the other day, and I got a proud father moment. I seriously got a little teary-eyed and said, "Ahh, my boys all grown up." I will always remember those nights of 300 ping and learning to lead for lag. I still remember the envy of those with high speed cable, and those at college. Probably one of the primary reasons I went to college. Low Ping. Faxanadu - I have no idea why I always come back to this game. My brother rented it so many years ago, and admittedly... I didn't get to play it much that weekend. But no other game has had me download emulators for it... track down roms through porno popup infested roms sites... and spent as many hours playing around with winged boots. I've still never beat it, and really wish that there was a way that I could at least see the end of the game... Heroes of the might and magic 2&3 - I only listed both of them because the second doesn't really run within windows xp. I remember playing this for hours on end, and in fact my roomie and I still play the third in late night sessions every couple of months. I will play this game for three days straight, and then remember every reason I hate it and gave it up. Then I give it a couple of months. Privateer 2. I remember my cousin chris playing this and thinking it was the coolest game ever. My first introduction to a game that was open ended. I remember him buying and trading things, and traveling to jump points... and thinking, "This is what Wing Commander should have been." X-Wing, Tie Fighter, - Both of these games had me in a galaxy far far away. I remember the insanely hard missions, and how much fun they were. It was my chance to make the death star run, and I enjoyed it way too much. I'm very grateful for these games, and if the creators ever read this page, I would like to personally thank you for the great memories. -Thank You.
You wouldn't believe how many computers I come across with blantant spyware and adware infections, that cause mass browser hijacks, and all sorts of nefarious things to happen, all the while windows defender is running there in the system tray, activated and up to date. Please, think of the children and upgrade to something better.
I work in the IT field traveling to customer's houses.
I see all sorts of jacked up computers.. Here's the usual rundown of things that I keep on my drive.
Google Pack Installer - (three free months norton good for getting rid of virsues.)
Norton Intelligent Updater - Used to update defintions for every version of norton. Google it and grab the x86 version(the second on the page.)
Trend Micro Pattern Files - Same thing for Trend Micro, google it.
AVG Free - Something more permanent for cheap bastards.
Spybot and includes files.
Adaware personal and include files.
Ewido - I love you ewido, too bad you run really crappy in safe mode.
Dial-A-Fix - Reregisters dll files neccessary to components like windows update and SSL security. Fixes all sorts of permissions things jacked up by spyware as well. This is an amazing tool, google it and be amazed.
MS Scripting Engine 5.6 - This solves a lot of problems you will have with programs having blank screens, or if system restore is a blank screen, or windows update is blank as well.
XP Winsock Fix - Explicit^Software wrote this great vb script to reset the TCP/IP and WINSOCK stack to default settings. Useful if the internet isn't working, commonly associated with the nasty spyware.
Firefox - Nuff Said.
Drivers - I collect the drivers I need for the things I run into. The biggest collection are HP printer drivers, and linksys drivers for PCI cards and USB drivers.
Hijack This - Merjin software's great tool to give you the rundown on what's running on your computer. You really have to know what your doing with this tool though.
My Music - All my music that I tend to listen to.
Norton Ghost - I keep the install files for my copy of Norton Ghost on my drive, makes moving or replacing drives a snap.
MemTest ISO - Memory Tester.
DFT ISO - Drive fitness test for hard drives. If you know the brand of drive you are testing, use the tester from the manufacturer as they often print out RMA codes and have better tests for their drive. I've gotten free replacement drives this way from Maxtor and Seagate. Both companies which keep my business.
Linux Password Crack - Used to reset XP administrator logins for people that lock themselves out of their machine.
OpenOffice - I don't always have it on there, but good for people who need to do office stuff, and don't feel like being a pirate and recognize good stuff.
Linksys Firmware - Many linux firmware upgrade files for Linksys Routers and devices. WRT54g Versions 5 and 4 were buggy at times until you upgraded the firmware. Especially version 5. Sometimes the router was just plain defective.
SymNRT - Removes all versions of norton, there is also rnav2003 that removes below a certin point. Useful for when norton gets borked and ruins how the machine works.
Windows Updates - All critical sercurity patches, and a script that fires them off in proper order and silently.
SP2 - Big enough to list on it's own.
Windows Installer Cleanup Utility - Used to stop programs that constantly install themselves over and over and over and over and get really annoying.
There are many others, and I'm sure I've left out a few, but I think these will help everyone out.
They have new modchips out that allow you to dual boot firmware. One for backups, one for online. No update will fix that.
-So the saga continues...
I beta tested Captian Novilon. It wasn't supposed to be amazingly fun, it was supposed to be about how to teach kids how to balance their sugar intact(bowls of oatmeal, so forth.) during their daily activities. Wow, I feel like one out of two people who have played that game now. Further, I miss Team Fortress the most, probably the best mod for a game ever(flame war ensue.) Threewave CTF was amazing too. I remember the first time I saw the grappling hook in action and was hooked forever. -Those were the days.
The story posted is incorrect, the actual situation was a customer's computer that was sent to a service center from best buy, and the service center used a hard drive from another computer(junked out as being not fixable) placed into another computer. This is the story I've heard through the grapevine of being pretty trusted.
-GeekSquad didn't do this.
Sadly working for the Geek Squad, and not having a girlfriend,
-I do.
Socom 1, 2, and even the beta for 3 beats Halo hands down for teamwork required. The Halo fansboys just take more time off from playing their favorite to post about it.
Haven't been smacked yet... so, today, yesterday, and in a long time.
Dude, that is so not cool.
and then promptly ate him.
I like how getting to play the game you purchased with money is a "new" business model. Not merely a chance to then pay subscription fee's on top of the price you played for the happy meal manual.
Watch out world, getting a value for what you paid for is the new hot ticket!
Xbox Media Center has been doing this as well for some time. Microsoft is always King in ripping shit off and acting as if they have 'innovated'. I like the interview with Balmer saying that, "The Open Source community hasn't really provided that much innovation." Yeah, we only took your xbox and actually made it do things people would actually want to use it for.
If you look at the Xbox 360, it's actually just all the things that made a chipped xbox awesome, mixed with some better(we'll see) graphics. I'm sure all of this coolness will come at a more extreme cost as well.
Till then and forever, I will be happy with my Xenium Ice Xbox.
Cromwell Bios to run Linux = LEGAL
Chipping hardware you bought = LEGAL.
The hacked bios's that run pirated xbox games and homebrew apps are illegal because they are modified microsoft code, or built using the Microsoft XDK.
The Cromwell bios is a legal bios because it does not use microsoft code or XDK, and is used only(as far as I know) to boot linux.
That they would label this article as, "Man busted for chipping box." When in fact it had nothing to do with the chip itself, but the PIRATED SOFTWARE the hard drive contained. It should be properly labeled as "Man busted for selling pirated Xbox software." if he had been selling Linux running xbox's with homebrew apps, it would have been a nonissue. As the slashdot commmunity, we do ourselves a disservice by labeling stories this way and spreading F.U.D. that would lead us to believe that chipping your box is illegal.
Next time excercise some editorial control and highlight the fact the man was selling Pirated Xbox software and that this was all part of a greater nonissue. You pirate software and sell it(Whether in Hard Drive or Disc Format) you are going to get the hammer. Guy got off amazingly light in the face of what he was doing.
get a www.livejournal.com account and just post there.
They'll even timestamp, HTML format, and get it all straight.
-Hey, I have a great log, it's called my livejournal.
Yep, and I can't really remember his name... I used to love when they would answer emails though, because people would ask the most boneheaded things. Then his hair would spin and his eyes would bug out. Yeah, those were the days.
Hell yeah I do... I haven't watched MSNBC since Soledad O'Brian and that computer generated guy with the protozoa on his shirt went off the air. Soledad O'Brian has since sold out as a media craptard.
I read the article, the card didn't do that great against ASUS's 256mb card, and in fact, in most of the tests the Asus 256mb card did better. ATI got blown away in pretty much all the tests.
well if you watch www.own-age.com movies... it's on par.