commodo

I've been waiting for this one ever since 99-2000; hopefully they're going to release it soon; not to be to cynical, but considering the wait on this game they could have gone with slightly better graphics (the technology exists); it will be fun to try to enable/apply a nude patch :P

This reminds me of a bullet proof USB stick in Finland. I don't know if you guys have seen it. Just a note : the last weapon is a bit more powerful than an AK 47

Well, I guess you just have to let your curiosity lead you into discovering stuff about computers. There's no real better way than this. Most of what I know is because I got interested in it and decided to start trying it. I got more knowledgeable about bikes after I got one, same with cars and especially with computers. In computers I started when my parents bought me one, and I started to play around with it. Since there wasn't so much internet back then (in 96), discovering every little thing in the computer was the most fun I've had. Plus, I liked to combine files in several games and make them work a bit differently. I guess you have to start being interested or curious about specific stuff about computers and then when you get into finding out specific stuff you start to see the big picture. Right now I'm thinking of giving VJ-ing a try; and live video streaming. These are some of the things that interest me right now and in which I'll get slowly more knowledgeable about.

I probably should get to introducing myself too Favourite game: depending on genre : RTS : StarCraft (1, not so much 2), FPS : Half-Life (1 and 2), RPG: Diablo (1 and 2); that's about it Favourite OS: Windows for PC, Linux for server (there's really no better combination if you actually want to get work done without too much hassle); for anything else there's VMWare and other stuff you can use to virtualize/emulate Favourite console: none Nationality: Romanian Accent: South-East European (a bit like the russian accent) Sex: Male Age: ver. 25 (in theory if you think about it, you can consider yourself in versions just like software with a one year release cycle per version; lately companies started releasing versions with the year as the version; it also makes it easier to date each release) Race: Caucasian Height: 1.75 metres (5.7 feet) Status: depending on the day : Working or Drinking Beer; anything in-between is just fuzzy and pointless :P Build: no 347 (for version 25); that's about the number of days since when I turned 25 Favourite band: none Favourite book: none Favourite author: none Favourite movie: none... wait, I did like The Matrix, the Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, Waking Life and others; just don't make me choose a favorite; otherwise I'll never get this post done in time Favourite director: none Favourite TV Show: none Favourite actor: none Favourite actress: none Favourite Pinup: none Favourite Comedian: George Carlin Other hobbies: trips, coding stuff, world domination, and maybe other stuff I have yet to discover Occupation: Engineer

I have an old Master Hacker cd from the mid-90s to 2000. It got it back when we were swapping/copying CDs with software, before internet became really accessible in my part of the world. It's filled with a collection of old viruses (almost 8000 of them), both in assembly and compiled (and zipped); running a virus scan on that CD would slow up my computer. I think the CD is not really complete. I haven't used the stuff on it, but the information content and articles were food for brains for me. Anyway, you can browse it; I've set it up here. If you want I can set it up on a torrent so you can get the whole package and keep it in your own collection.

My first one was a Pentium 133 Mhz, overclocked at 150 Mhz; I only found out it was over-clocked after a couple of years, when I found out that you could do that; I also noticed that nobody else had a 150 Mhz clock rate at their CPU; this was back in late 96, early 97; The specs were: - CPU : Pentium 150 Mhz - RAM : 8 megs (EDO-RAM, not even SD-RAM) - HDD : 1.2 gigs - Video : 1 mega-byte S3 Trio 2 years later I added - 32 megs of RAM (making it 40) - a CD-ROM drive - a sound card The upgraded configuration could run smoothly Half-Life 1 at 320x240 in software; which was enough at the time, Diablo 1, Diablo 2, StarCraft, Quake 1 and Quake 2, Fifa up to 99-2000. When I first bought the computer (in 96), the company was nice enough to put on it a lot of old 386 to 486 games which I played for a while. One (funny but at that time painful) memory is that some kids around the block did not have optical drives yet, and they were begging me to put stuff on floppy drives; they kept coming with 10-30 floppies and I compressed it to floppies; out of 10 at least 2 were usually bad copies that had to be re-done. In 2003 I got a Celeron 1.7 Ghz, 128 megs of RAM, 40 gigs of RAM, GeForce 2; had to get up-to-date with the times; people were already having P3s and P4s. When I got the second one I started codenaming my computers (based on what personalities I feel they have). So the first one was called Mathusalem, the second one Druid, the third one Maverick, I had a laptop called Pathfinder, my current laptop is called Enterprise (yeah, after Star Trek), my computer is called Commodore (not named after Commodore 64, although it's an AMD Athlon 64), and I have a virtual server somewhere called Andromeda (after the ship in the Sci-Fi TV series Andromeda). I feel that naming them this way makes the experience with them a bit more memorable and meaningful as time passes. That doesn't mean I don't have a social life.