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  1. Re:How could they forget the sneakers! on Next-Gen Gaming to be Uber Expensive · · Score: 2, Funny

    but that's... 4 games

  2. My Tiger notes/annoyances on Detailed Review of Mac OS X Tiger's New Features · · Score: 1

    -While not Tiger-specific, Quicksilver doesn't have a calculator plugin.
    -Spotlight icon unremovable from menu bar

    And probably my biggest annoyance of all:
    -Spotlight does not index hidden folders. I've got this great desktop search app, yet it won't index ~/.xchat2/xchatlogs, even if I sym or hardlink it.
    -Mail.app looks like shit, can't mailboxes/folders on the right-hand side like the old Mail.app, and didn't import any of my old mailboxes/accounts.
    -The neat-looking RSS visualizer screensaver has to pull from Safari, and not NetNewsWire

    Hardware-wise, no issues with anything I pluggged in.

    Other than that, everything else seems snappier. Dashboard's pretty badass too, despite being a memory hog. 20-40MB per widget seems a bit much.

  3. Re:Can't play without Valve authentication on Half-Life 2 Release Date Broken · · Score: 1

    Oh bonzo, you card!

  4. On mine on Essential Software for Thumbdrives? · · Score: 2, Informative

    CDEX
    IRFanView
    Winamp
    iTunes
    FireFox w/AdBlock and various other extensions
    Some music
    Assorted pictures
    Spybot & AdAware
    XP SP2
    DefilerPak
    Novell VPN client
    Citrix client
    Farbrausch demos
    PuTTY
    and the all-important XEvil

  5. Re:xevil on What's Your Favorite Open Source Game? · · Score: 1

    XEvil is simply awesome. Too bad they stopped development on it.

  6. Re:A bit hard to follow...... but funny.... on P-P-P-PowerBook for a S-S-S-Scammer... · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    :megaman:

  7. Auterra on Interacting with Onboard Car Computers? · · Score: 1

    Auterra has an OBD-II scan tool that runs on PalmOS. One of my friends has it, and seems pretty happy with it.

  8. Re:Canopy on Wireless Technologies for ISPs? · · Score: 0

    Path Broadband uses Motorola Canopy gear as well. They're a fairly small (and fairly new) ISP in the Broomfield/Boulder, Colorado area. We got it at work for a test network, and it hauls ass.

  9. GoupWise.... on How Do You Manage Requests in Your Organization? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shared folders under a shared helpdesk email account. If you work in the office the request originates from, it goes in your folder. You fix it.

  10. Fax on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1

    Get 2 sheets of black construction paper, and a bottle of white-out. Draw a big smiley face in whiteout on the paper, then tape them together so they're one long sheet. Feed this halfway through the fax machine (works best on older faxes), then tape the two ends together so they're in a loop.

    Then choose an enemy.

  11. 192.168.1.x on Local Network IPs - 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Network of champions. I used to have a 10.x network, which was far easier to type, but I was having all kinds of problems connecting to the VPN at work. After about 5 minutes, I said fuck it, and changed it over to 192.168.

  12. Gameboy Advance on Occupying Your Freetime on a Business Trip? · · Score: 1

    Pick up a GBA and a bunch of games.

  13. Re:Mirror of the .torrent file on Mac OS X NWN Technology Demo Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Since people always seee to have this problem, and I always end up postingthis in most-every torrent discussion, I might as well post it again.

    BitTorrent defaults to using ports 6881-6889 for transfers. Forward ports 6881-6889 from your firewall to the machine that's downloading the torrent, and everything will be fine.

  14. Re:Slashdotting of BitTorrent on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 3, Informative

    Forward TCP ports 6881-6889 to the machine that will be doing the torrenting.

  15. Re:No discussion of Kinetics is complete... on Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race · · Score: 0, Redundant

    yeah...wtf. boulder's kinetics are fucking fun shit.

  16. fp on Do-Not-Email Registries? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    fr1st ps0t

  17. yeah... on 300 Episodes of the Simpsons · · Score: 1

    yvan eht nioj.

  18. Our Helpdesk on Improving Your Help Desk? · · Score: 1

    Our helpdesk consists of a Groupwise (evil, I know) email account that users are instructed to send issues to. Each member of the helpdesk (5 of us supporting 140 users) has their own subfolder in the helpdesk account's cabinet. When issues come in, they are moved to the person who's going to help them through the issue's folder. Groupwise is neat in the sense that you can set rules, so when the issue is assigned to somebody, the sender of the issue gets a reply telling them which tech has been assined to their problem, and that the tech will contact them shortly. Upon resolution of the issue, it's moved to a big "completed items" folder for archival purposes.

  19. Re:I'm doing it right now! on How Close is the Open Entertainment Center? · · Score: 1

    ...replace my DVD player, VCR, CD Player...

    That'd be an interesting mod...

  20. XEvil on Multiplayer Games For Christmas Lull at the Office? · · Score: 1

    Play some XEvil. Very small footprint, fast download, easy to learn, and insanely fun to play with 3-8 people.

  21. Here... on IT Worker-to-User Ratio Survey? · · Score: 1

    There's 5 IT guys, supporting 4 different offices and 130ish people. 5 Citrix boxes, 2 Novell servers, and some W2K voicemail servers.

  22. Re:Metroid Prime is INCREDIBLE. on Gamecube Finally Plays GBA Games · · Score: 1

    Anyone else buy a console for just one game?
    yes.
    dreamcast for tony hawk 2.
    gamecube for tony hawk 4. (i had totally forgotten metroid prime was coming out not long after)
    i'm debating a gameboy advance for metroid fusion.

  23. DOS on Moving Your Kids to Linux? · · Score: 1

    I started out on an old Compaq Portable (read: luggable). That thing was great. I would practice typing in the word processor, play my math games, and etc. I remember one day, I found a big box of disks, and proceeded to boot off the DOS 2.33 disk and see what was on them. I managed to teach myself DOS when I was 6.

    Then we upgraded to a blazing 386 SX at 25MHz with 2MB of RAM and a huge 70MB hard drive. I remember staying up very late on numerous nights tweaking my autoexec.bat and config.sys so I could play DOOM.

    From there, we got a Pentium 166 with 16MB and a 1.2GB drive, and eventually a P3 450 with 128MB and 8GB.

    Then I moved out and got a P3 800 512MB 70GB which is what I still use today.

  24. Re:lies on Microsoft Loses $177m on Xbox in Three Months · · Score: 1
  25. fp on Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets Leaked · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wheee