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  1. Main Desktop: Running a Windows 7-like theme, Bumptop (Desktop), Rainlender (Calender, ToDo and Events) and Rainmeter (System Information Bar doodad, With Custom theme). I will post my MBP up soon, I seem to have hit my quota of files with a 160KB picture 0.o
  2. shonen: Its not in my bedroom, its upstairs :P, and its actually quiet. Well, relatively. You don't notice it until the power goes out in the room (the PSU can overload the fuse sometimes xD ) and there is a noticeable whirring down, but that is mainly our switch which I got from my School for free :) , They had no use for it so they were just like, meh, you can have it. But, back to the case: it is about as loud as my Macbook Pro on full throttle, when its idle, but it makes a much more serene quiet sound, whereas the Macbook is quite harsh sounding when it gets to higher volumes.
  3. @Shonen: Well, yes they failed, but this is more service than hardware. It is probably very easy to implement this using software on the client-side. Sega and Atari are just saying this is a good idea, and EA is one of the biggest game publishers in the world. @Lyzon: It was a hypothetical situation... :P
  4. My Router (Linksys WRT54GL)(running Tomato 1.23) SSID: DD-WRT Private Broadcast: Enabled WPA/WPA2 Protected (Random Button bashing ftw!) MAC Filtering: Disabled Modem (NetGear DG834N)(Running in Modem only Mode) SSID: O2 Wireless Broadband Broadcast: Enabled WPA/WPA2: Protected (Once again, (difference) random button bushing) MAC Filtering: Disabled It looks pretty weak but over here in England I don't have Usage caps and when I notice a difference I just check out what the issue is on Tomato, but its never an outside issue, its almost always me being forgetful. Nobody near here has the technical know-how to even hack WEP, so I am pretty safe, no intruders yet. The flaw is probably the modem, because I can't monitor it too well, but I need it because I occasionally host gaming servers. Its SSID is the name of our ISP because the router they provided had that name too, and when all the computer remember the details for that, it just seems easier to duplicate the auth settings over from 1 machine rather than go around 6-7 devices changing the details every time.
  5. I got this case: Thermaltake Armor Silver Aluminium w/ 25CM sidefan Besides the design, it has pretty much the same specs (and weight :/ ) of your one
  6. Cykio, your in the battlefield heroes beta? so am I :D, whats your name (in BF:H)?
  7. Hmmm, Sega, Atari and EA are backing this up... Also, lets be honest, when you say "if this goes down, your paying for something you can't use" you have to bear in mind that that is a risk you have to take with all cloud computing systems and all multiplayer games. If Valve were to close up shop and their master servers went down there would be no servers for anybody in any of their games. If Someone at Microsoft accidentally tripped over a Cat5 cable and pulled it out of its socket, there might be no Xbox Live. Besides, its still in Beta, so they can figure out server loads at this point and upscale later.
  8. webjockey

    Quake Live

    Is it out of closed beta now? I was signed up for the closed beta, but back then the service was *extremely* slow, it was unbelievable. I just gave up trying.
  9. Well, I can't say much for our 'rigs' at school. They are all either Cheap-ass Dell's (The thinnest older model Optiplex 740s) which Dell don't even sell anymore (and those are the newer machines) and then we have a few machines from 'Research Machines' Which are really, really bad. But at home, I have: Custom PC: Intel Q6600 @2.4GHz 4GB DDR3 @ 166/667/1333 ATI Radeon HD3870X2 1GB Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 2X500GB HDD @ 7200RPM 22inch 60Hz GeneriMonitor (1680x1050) Windows Vista Home Premium Asus EEE PC 900: Intel Celeron-M 900MHz 1GB DDR 2 166/333/667 4GB OnBoard SSD, 16GB miniPCI SSD 9inch Monitor (1024x600) Windows XP Professional Enterprise, Backtrack 3 Macbook Pro Unibody (Late '08): Intel T9400 @ 2.53GHz 4GB RAM (1066MT/s) nVidia 9400M 256MB (Shared), nVidia 9600M GT 512MB (GDDR3) 320GB HDD @ 5400RPM 15inch Monitor (1440x900) Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6, Windows Vista Home Premium I will try and get pictures up, eventually.
  10. I knew the second one had to be a paedophile, Can you see him using any computer? really?
  11. shonen: Thats kind of a different issue (I think). I think what moonlit is saying is that Ubuntu, Windows XP and 7 can't show times, just percentages. Backtrack's problem is that it massively underestimates the battery power: so much so, if I am not connected to mains, it just shuts my EEE PC down 'for safety's sake'.
  12. I don't get it, you guys are thinking too hard about this. You guys have acess to running executables, full access to the control panel, and you decide the *easiest* solution is to run a vm? Just thinking about this, couldn't you get 'pskill' from Microsoft Labs, find the process name, and just shut it down with that?
  13. whats the gameplay like on this thing?
  14. steam contains the same functionality as xfire in its community feature, although (almost) always, a dedicated program is better at a job, so xfire is better for community/chat etc. but it doesn't do content delivery + Xfire requires support for games, whereas, if you add a game not bought through steam/not actually supported by steam into it, then playing it (through steam) allows you to chat to your steam friends. I think steam is a good thing, it was a step forward for the gaming industry.
  15. I am not sure, but I thought Macs only took 2 slots of RAM (except the Mac Pro). I know my Macbook Pro Definitely only takes two.
  16. As a concept, Cube2 is great. But, it did crash for me when I initialised multiplayer. And I got that feeling of detachedness too, you just had to work that little bit more to get places (when I first used it, I wasn't used to using a command line interface)
  17. Here's your list of Free MMORPGs that (I think) are better than Runescape in things other than graphics (In no particular order): Rappelz PlaneShift Second Life 2Moons Entropia Universe Rose Online Fly for Fun And if you can find the URLs, there are these ones too: Silkroad Knight Online
  18. I stopped playing that 4 years ago. I don't know why people play it: the graphics are bad, the combat is boring, there are far better free MMORPGs, with fewer 10 year old idiots and the sound is crap in runescape too, they actually actively encourage you to drown it out with (equally crap) music.
  19. Hmmm, yeah. RM (Research machines for those who don't know) have locked things down pretty far. they have actually edited Microsoft's code to get their security features to work <- logging on, and off, and changing password is all controlled by RM now, but I don't think RM themselves changed Group Policies, that was our Technicians. No more quake for us :( (except Quake Live, I don't think they have discovered that yet, but it won't be long). There are ways to Bypass SWAN (URL/Keyword blocking): Earlier, you could use a proxy. but now they are mostly blocked. You could also use the translate website feature, but most of the translators are now blocked. In some situations, using the IP does work, (if they are blocking, say a URL and not a keyword in the site) And in certain situations, only one page in a massive archtecture is blocked: Google Images was once blocked, so to get it back, you typed the query code straight into the address bar, and it came up with the results page, which wasen't blocked). Final solution: Find a staff username and password, and use it to bypass the warning and get to whatever you want, this is by far the riskiest. especially as keylogs of your activity are taken and stored (so they will know that somebody accessed a site, and used the address, and if it is at a 'dubious' time, then, well, its too risky to be worth it) @Manuel, sometimes, bypassing the school systems is for convenience, and to get something which we rightfully should have. I mean, sure it would be great to notify our technician that Google Images isn't working, and that it needs to be unblocked. But that requires me getting to his office in my own time (and he is often not there). Telling him, and then waiting a few days for 'changes to take effect' (for him to get his arse into gear and make the changes). Or, I could have some fun, figuring out a solution. It would take less time, be less frustrating, and more rewarding :)
  20. dang thats liberal, shoe != "turkey slap" , in my opinion :P
  21. Our school, in the UK, also has a feature like this, its called SIMs (School Information Management System). It does exactly the same thing as Lanschool, but our teachers have their workstations connected to a 100inch "Activboard" so they can basically broadcast whatever you are doing, if you want them to or not. Also, our school has a URL/Keyword blocking system, it sometimes back fires (and also blocks for some wiiierd reasons e.g. Humour). And, also, they have locked down everything about the workstation: We cannot right click on the taskbar. We cannot Ctrl,Shift,Escape to get the task manager. Logging in and out is controlled by a daemon (RMTutor) that starts on boot (before the login) and stops last. It isn't connected in anyway to SIMs or the Website blocking feature (SWAN). We can't open executables either. We can't change our desktop. We cannot save things to the desktop (Because all our files are stored in our own private (virtualised) server which is linked to our "My Documents" folder. Most of this information is not really necessary to my explanation, but it is all I know about the architecture of the school systems (the network is a star network where the "main" star's nodes are more switches for more stars). When we were looking at removing SIMs functionality, we decided we would stop it at its own will. To do this, we opened a file that needs to be saved (Word, Spreadsheet, Powerpoint, Text, RTF, anything that needs to be saved, I generally used Word). We then entered some data into that window (so that it needs to be saved). We then logged off. This made all the background processes to close down (except RMTutor) before we were asked if we wanted to save the file we just created. Just click "Cancel" here, and you won't be logged off, and your workstation is no longer available to the teacher.
  22. I think vote4bush has the "Outline" feature enabled in the options, not Standard. It means you have to maximise each post you want to read. I personally find that really annoying.
  23. You play Combat Arms? cool, I do too. I like it and all, but generally, games like that are prone to hacking, and I just can't deal with the renting out weapons (It suggests a commitment, and I just can't be bothered to commit that much (e.g. I don't know if I will be playing this game in 9 months time, so I don't know if I should buy a certain weapon for that long, but its blatantly a better deal, and I also don't know how well I will play with that weapon))
  24. wow, there are a lot of birthdays this month. Happy Birthday Chris, have a good one!
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