CodeOptimist
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I don't shop for much, except computer/geeky things... so it'd be NewEgg and Amazon for me!
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Funny that you posted this, because I just saw this myself yesterday! Really awesome mod he has going there (reminds me of the nuke in season 2 of 24
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Yeah, Jack walking the petty officer through the basics of killing a hostile from behind was great. Definetly a Jack Bauer moment
Also, when Jack was on top of the sub and Henderson tried to shoot him, that reminded me so much of the ending of season 1 (w/ Drazin in place of Henderson) that I think it must have been intentional. Maybe just a little reference for those of us who've watched the first season?
I had a feeling something would happen with the Chinese government... they had to tie up that loose end somehow (either the Chinese would find out he's still alive, or he'd have to go back into hiding). Looks to be a great 6th season coming up
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I'm not sure about Win2K, but in WinXP you can also disable automatic reboot by bringing up the boot menu (F8 during boot) and selecting "Disable automatic restart". If you can do that, you should at least be able to see an error message.
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If it's anything like Windows XP, can you disable the automatic reboot feature? (In WinXP, it's Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> Settings -> System Failure -> Automatic Restart)
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Yeah, this is probably better in the Computer Desk. Moved
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24 is my favorite show as well. (Woot, 2 hour finale next Monday!
) Other than that, I like watching Nova (science documentary show), and recently American Inventor (probably the only "reality" show I'll watch).I've been contemplating getting into Lost, but have managed to hold out so far.
When I first saw the promos when the show was just getting started, I thought it looked kind of lame... then I saw something about the conspiracy on the island and the "Dharma Initiative" and it sounded a *bit* more interesting. (actually, my first thought was "Wow, that sounds like Myst")We recently got a DVR (ReplayTV 5080, upgraded it to a 200GB hard drive), so we don't have to reschedule our entire day around 24.
(yes, we got a DVR partially because of one show) It's turned out to be immensely helpful, even though I don't watch a whole lot of TV. The sweetest feature is being able to transfer shows between other people with the same DVR (which is why I got an older model off eBay; they canceled that feature later). There's a whole site set up for show requests and whatnot. Pretty fun to play with And Prison Break ... i have seen all the way to ep. 21... which is the season finale?
According to this page, #22 is the final episode of season 1.
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I've seen them both in the past, but I still laugh every time I watch those clips! I especially like the cat chasing the bear that's 5-10 times bigger that itself
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I bet you that the EFF is already organizing some type of mass protest by telling everyone to burn Knoppix CDs and take them into airports.
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This seems like a pretty neat little app. Not *terribly* useful, but interesting for sure.
Hehe, my roommate Matt knows the real Leeroy Jenkins. Guy lives in Fort St. John, near me. Evidently he is a complete and utter WoW nerd, lives on the comp for that game.
He does!? Is his name really Leeroy Jenkins, or is that his online nick?
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I voted for Lord of the Rings and Georgie Henley, though Elijah Wood was a close second. I think Georgie did a great job of playing Lucy.
Lord of the Rings had more heroes in it (nine if you consider the whole Fellowship), so it edges out Narnia in that category.
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That's the Apple Photo Booth application, isn't it?
I've played around with a demo of that at a local computer store; it's a downright hilarious program. I'll have to see if I can find the images (I e-mailed them to myself from the store). -
As long as we're comparing speed test results...
The BandwidthPlace test gives me:
Communications 1.7 megabits per second
Storage 205.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 5 seconds
Subjective rating Great
The SpeakEasy test gives me:
Download Speed: 2327 kbps (290.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 236 kbps (29.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
I usually average about 2.2-3Mb/s, so the BandwidthPlace results are somewhat low.
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Wow!
That's one impressively beefy connection. What's your upload speed?I wonder how many subscribers Verizon has for the FiOS service... AFAIK, it's still only available in a few areas. (I just tried their "availability checker" tool on the site and it wasn't able to verify my address, but I don't think it's available in my area yet)
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Howdy! The trout has quite a history among the Last Alliance developers (a sister project of 0 A.D.).
Glad you registered and posted an introduction!
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I'm not quite understanding what you're trying to do: are you trying to set up something so that any of the computers on your network can be logged onto with the same username/password pairs (i.e. the same user accounts on all machines)?
I have a feeling that this starts to move towards Windows Server
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Woohoo! That will be great to see. I recently saw an episode of Nova covering the previous Grand Challenge. Great stuff!
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In an ideal world I would like an expansion that pushes the timescal back even further to include even more ancient civs, like the Hittites, Babylonians, Egyptians etc. For some reason they are chronically under-represented in games.
One reason I *still* love the original Age of Empires is that it includes those civs. There hasn't been a game since AoE that has quite matched the same feel with those ancient civs.
Yes I have a had dream of making a Bronze Age addon to 0 AD. Get Mycenaens in addition to those you mentioned Aztec
Woot! Great idea; I'm with you!
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Yeah, I think it was a pretty clever idea. It's too bad that no one bid on their auction, but realistically who has $150k to hire a game dev team for 90 days? Great idea, limited market
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That's probably because it's hotlinked from another site (like http://somesite.com/someimage.jpg). It's considered impolite to do this, and some sites ban it (because it sucks up extra bandwidth) and put up notices like yours. The polite thing to do is to download the image and put it up on a free webhost or your own web server (some/most ISPs give you a couple of MB of free hosting space) and point your avatar there instead.
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I agree, I think this is intentionally ridiculous. Osama bin Laden using Linux because it's built to conterfeit DVDs and "defraud Disney"?
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You were close... it's "schedules"
I haven't seen Black Op around recently, he's another big part of the "old days". I think Matt (chichigrande?) came by not too long ago to say "hey".
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I've only seen the trailer, but the segment parodying Tom Cruise and Oprah looked hilarious.
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We've upgraded a couple of times and changed stuff around. I remember back when it was the HeavenGames-style forum system (ugh, I hate that software) before we upgraded to IPB
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What does it mean SPQR
in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion
Posted · Edited by CodeOptimist
Wikipedia has a page about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spqr