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Wow digip, thank you. Cant believe I missed that mininova link. Getting speeds of around 200kb/s just now, which is really fast for me. Thank you :) Feel kinda stupid now.. EDIT: I AM stupid. Not only could I not find a simple torrent myself, but I didnt gauge my CPU architecture correctly. i686 optimisation here i come. Woop.

Been trying to download the torrent file from arch's website, but been having problems. Is their ftp server down or something? Also tried torrents of the newest "x86 core" version from other torrent sites, but there are next to none seeders.. Well, none. Can someone upload a x86 core torrent here for me? Any seeders? Cheers, Pritchardo92

Wow. I love these desktop threads. Any chance of a quick description with the caps, explaining whats running to make it look like that, and what youv done? That'd be awesome.

Assassins Creed 2 Modern Warfare 2 Maybe Forza Motorsport 3. I love the online aspect in Forza 2. And definately Prototype. Thought I can see this one being totally overhyped, and quite disappointing, but fingers crossed.

Damn Hex, that looks awesome :). Haha, a butthole of flames. I just see awesomeness :). Damn, that description of GIMP doesnt sound too bad at all! I just hope its not too bloat-y. Old laptop + bloatware = headache :(. Looks good though man :)

@Hex I'll keep that in mind mate :). And nice idea with the pencil and smudge. I use a new layer, and the gaussian blur filter far too often. Sorry man, haven't heard about GIMP3 beta. Didnt even know they released one. Though i'll be on the lookout for it now :P. Did you notice any major changes?

Wow, that does actually make sense. I was kinda wanting the whites to pop out at you, asthough the code was ripping out of the screen. But I understand what your saying about this drawing focus away from the text. Nice man. I like this actually. Kind of inspires me to make a banner of out this.. *strokes beardless beard area* Thanks man :) @Hex: Haha, thanks man. And Im not too sure about that. Its not hard, once you find out the simple steps for abstract-y GIMP-age, it's really quite (basically, i took the stuff i learnt from GIMP tutorials online and changed it up a bit *blushes*). I think your stuff in the Backgrounds section out does mine. The SF2 concept is pure genius :)

Im actually going to throw you a bone here mate. Im with BT, and recently, I read that cutting the "Bell Wire" increased speeds. So I did it.. If speeds have increased, theyre barely noticable. 'pparently, the bell wire has no purpose, and just caused some interference, so cutting it was meant to help. But now Im taking back the bone, because your from Slovenia.. And something tells me, im not sure what, that you dont actually use BT.

Haha nice man :). Aaah, Simple is always best. Means you have to really think about everything your doing. I have this problem where I do way too much, and it just looks really busy and crap. And then I mess up, and cover it up with more stuff. I go mental with the amount of layers I use too. Sheer insanity :P. Blatant self-promotion a-hoy - My Deviant Art

How odd.. Pretty sure this beats Hex's double sticky guey.. whatever. Not even sure what to call this. Like a.. Double-accountity guey lovely double-or-not-so-double post.. ..Or something.

@Hex Wow, thanks :). Aw, awesome. Ehm, not too long to be honest. It took me a while to realise how to get it the way I wanted, but doing it didnt take long :). Yeah, I love GIMP myself. Love the custom paintbrushes and plugins :). Oooh, I'll check your stuff out soon :). EDIT: Ooh, man, theyre awesome! Haha, love the street fighter II with Darren, Snubs and Mubix :P. And the evil server ones are damn cool. Might nab them for my desktop at some point :D @Wire Haha, thanks man :). If only :P

Had this concept for a while, but took some thinking to actually get it done. Still a bit unsure of it to be honest. There was no real use for this, but I thought the idea was worth atleast an attempt. What do you think? Ideas? Suggestions?

My old Dell Latitude laptop:

Id love to see a segment, like a hack-off. Who can root who's box first :P. Though I think darren would lose - I remember him mentioning an XP SP1 or 0 box not too long ago :o

Mate, that looks the sex! Sorry for maybe nooby question, but what OS is that? Can you explain your setup? *lifts jaw from floor*

Sparda is right mate. Don't want some guy fuming, calling you "hacker" and stuff. Won't go down well with colleagues (how the heck do you spell that word?!) and most certainly won't go down well with your boss.

Assassins Creed 2. If they can fix the horrible repetitiveness of AC1, and add some pretty sweet new shizz, it can be awesome. I was so frustrated with the first, because it's such a great concept.

Thanks for the reply. Awesome suggestion. That seems a much simpler way, thanks. So I'd be able to access the samba share from my Windows boxes? Thatd be awesome. Im expecting it to take a while to encode. I was hoping to simply queue up some encoding jobs and leave it running overnight. Im expecting the computer to be around 1.4Ghz single core. Maybe better, maybe worse... I like the idea of a simple command line debian install, as ive been interested in managing a server remotely for a while, and I know that if I give it a nice GUI with Xubuntu, il be tempted to just hook up a monitor and use graphics-based programs to set her up :) Thanks. Any other suggestions?

Ive purchased a little Creative Zen, which is great for video playback and general music making. Ive been ripping DVDs and encoding them for the Zen and its great, but I have an idea to make it easier. For a while, Ive been close to receiving an old computer from a friend. Its so old, that hes not sure of the spec, because it cant stay on long enough to check without BSODing, or just crashing. The latest Hak5 episode about NetCat gave me an idea: I was thinking that I could turn this old computer into a little server of sorts. Using NetCat, I could bind a video encoder to a port, and leave it on all the time. Then, I could remotely encode videos, without it starving the resources of my current computer. Maybe the videos can be stored on the old computer itself - a problem i havent yet worked out. This is only one idea, and quite a while away from implementation, so does anyone have a better solution? As low-cost as possible, please. Student budget :(. Im a bit of a noob when it comes to Linux, only dabbling in some LiveCD loveliness, but im more than happy to get my hands dirty. :) Thanks

Just tried fdisk -l. It didnt work. Picked up my other USB drives, and using trial and error, I found that it didnt pick up the Zen. However, USBView and PupScan both pick up the Zen. Using Puppy 4.2 btw. Thanks, and again sorry for the slow reply. Becoming a bit of a habit..

Sorry for double post. I tried to install this, but could boot to my USB drive on my home PC. The PC is normally a bit of a tough one for booting to USB - even after disabling the HD in the BIOS, it fails to detect the OS on the USB, and magically boots to vista :(. I even booted into Puppy Linux to make the USB partition bootable - still nothing. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Sorry for the serious lateness. No luck within Linux either.. :( Close to giving up..

Thanks for such a speedy reply. Great project. :)

Is there an antidote? I'd love to test this on my current PC, but lack the hardware spec to run a VM.

Oh, sorry somethingtochatwith! My bad. To be honest, i didnt even know what disk management was until I finally found it in system32 folder . Stupid zen doesnt show up in Disk Management at all. @Zimmer: Cheers mate. Iv got a few Linux LiveCDs kicking about, so Ill boot to one and try and mount the zen as a normal drive. Ill report back with results :D. Thanks for the replies :)