lost_soul
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Tis always a nice surprise when you try to decompress a giant 7z archive of backed up files to find out that it is corrupt. An untested backup is a worthless backup!
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Or just store everything on a 2TB internal drive and mirror changes to it with robocopy /MIR every night to another internal 2TB drive
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I do want a Synology NAS though...
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If your not picky like me, then a DS213J is a bit noiser (no isolation mounts for the drives) but more importantly £75 cheaper!
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Its funny how (as you upgrade to progressively higher end headphones) you hear things in music that you never heard before.
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Enjoy it while your ears last.
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Hehehe. At least these headphones will. They are the first set I've seen with a detachable cord. Since the cord is always the first thing to break, this is a great thing. It is not proprietary either.
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I agree. It's for this that now I use an AKG K240 also for my everyday computing :-D
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Brand new POS TV randomly displays garbage and restarts while connected to VGA. How does this trash make it past QC? If it turns on, ship it!
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Not sure. Upon researching this on the web, I see lots of people complaining about the same tv/problems from forever ago. In a connected era, how do they get away with continuing to sell broken products?
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If you're lucky, you may be able to feed it a new firmware, possibly via thumb drive if it has a USB port.
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Interesting idea. I figured it was a problem with the power supply. Indeed it does have a USB port.
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While searching for a small phillips screwdriver, I found myself grumbling "There's only so many places you can hide, you know?" Am I a Thief guard yet?
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Good old Benny. I wonder if they ever brought him his dinner.
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Hey Sotha, that's what happens to me so many times in life. It is a great feeling that such a small game can affect so much in your life
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The one I find myself using the most is "... shoulda been done right the first time.."
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If you wanted to do cycles-3D rendering on your laptop, but it got to over 90 degrees C and you didn't have a cooling pad, how would YOU solve the problem? (answer below!)
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what laptop is it? have you looked at putting better heatsink paste on the CPU/GPU heatsink/cooler?
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If it's an HP, it might have thermal pad instead of paste on the GPU...possibly on the CPU itself. When re-greasing the CPU, you might consider putting a copper shim (also greased) to replace the thermal pad.
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Butter, bacon and eggs. Preferably coddled.
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I would just like to say Thank You to Greebo for fixing the AAS issue for Linux users. That one resulted in me cursing more than a few times after loading new missions.
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Did he do it on his lunch break? haha I'm just messing. Nice work Greebo.
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Thanks for that Greebs.
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+1
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Ever see a board that pushes 1.48V to a Phenom II CPU by *default*? I was scratching my head wondering why one machine got so hot... It happily runs at 1.36 now.
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Yeah I was hesitant to screw with this because I have never played with CPU voltages, but when another Phemon II box defaulted to 1.34V, my spidey sense started tingling. I know of the "10% rule in engineering", so I figured trying levels at or around 1.34 is good. (providing a bit more because this is a faster chip)
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I seriously suggest you get a good 3rd party cooler as those Ph-IIs can get toasting even on stock voltage.
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One thing I'm not clear on is Load Line Calibration. I know what it does, but options are "auto", "regular" and "extreme". I should read the fine manual.
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Don't you hate it when you go to read a technical discussion, but the comments are full of sheeple saying "My OS of choice is WAY more secure than yours!!11one". If I had the ability, I would BAN all of these people...
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Yeah everyone has to turn everything into an argument. YouTube comments are the extreme version of this :/
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How about writing a Firefox add-on that filters this stuff out of comments automatically? It consists of an AI which can parse coments for their PFF (product fanboy factor) and censor them automatically.
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Firefox has that plugin called "comment snob", it can be used to filter out spelling and grammar errors so the tech exists- someone just needs to apply it.
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I made myself a private Icecast radio station, which takes sound sent to a "dummy" sound card and streams it to my phone-sized tablet. This way, I can have "wireless" headphones that don't use analog FM technology. FM wireless headphones have terrible SNR, but this setup sounds great!
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tasty...
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nice, smarty pants
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I feel like breaking out my wireless headphones now. I think they are analog.
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I think I'm in love... with ice cream. Ever buy a gallon of it? When you live by yourself, you can eat as much as you want.
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@LS watch those celeries though mista.
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Love kills.
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Love makes stuff worthwhile.
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I was about a foot away from having my foot crushed today by somebody backing up and not looking at the two people walking behind them... But on the bright side, I'm pretty sure they heard me call them an f---ing moron when I passed by their window.
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they probably never passed their test, and got fake people to do it for them.
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I have do do that on a dailey basis, but these days I try and educate these morons and if that fails then they get verbal abuse.
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Here the people mostly forget to turn on the lights in the dawning and sundown too. Some drive too fast some drive too slow. Bad drivers - bad drivers everywhere...
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Imagine a machine with 2 OS's installed and when you reboot to the other one, you find the clock changed by several hours. This is thanks to the types of people who never agree to standardize anything... extremely ****ing annoying
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I think you can get Windows to set the system clock to UTC.
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linux mint?
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Just set your clocks to be based off of UTC, since you know... this is actually standardised
(or just set your tz correctly and use ntp)
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I installed Windows 95 the other day in DosBOX, but I cannot make the (experimental) 3dfx voodoo simulation work... darn.
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Luckily for you, deliberate experimenting with malware is not illegal...
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Well, I did get lots of errors that "This program has performed an illegal operation and will close". Seeing that error again is like seeing an old friend you haven't seen for over a decade. Back in the day, that would come up, and if you clicked close, it just popped up again.
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LOL, the memories...
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Goes to update his install of 2.0 beta. Starts to get annoyed that it is taking over an hour to do. Scrolls up and notices he accidentally typed keep-kirrors and is now DOWNGRADING to 1.8 as a result. Woops! This is why you keep backups, folks. I can just retrieve it from my external HDD...
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I back up my external HD every month and lock it in my draw at work so if there is a break in or fire in my home all my data is safe at work. I also have a USB in my wallet whose sole function is to save the latest version of my TDM map onto once a week. Got all my bases covered
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The data is usually more valuable/priceless than the hardware it is based on...
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Yeah... I did '--keep_mirrors' one night. Glad I caught it soon because it was getting from too many mirrors and too many files.
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This part of the TDM playthrough *cracked nme up*
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what bit the readable or the fact he cant sneak for taff...
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Its the part right after the time index, where he goes to opena door and *hyahhh!!!* a guard attacks from the right, scaring the crap out of him.
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heh, goog old Demonfrog, we have to give him 10/10 for effort ;-D
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Anyone remember the Cistern part of Amnesia:TDD? Sometimes it is the subtile things that leave a lasting impression in a game and not the (SPOILER!) invisible monster that chases you. wow...
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I referred to the voice you can hear in the tank. As you redirect the water to progress through a flooded hall, it goes into the tank. The voice panics more and more. Then when all valves are turned, the voice stops. Creapier than any monster.
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I don't remember the voices.. let me youtube that!
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Every "let's play" I've found missed the thing (like I did)
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Mapping... its surprisingly addictive! After you build something basic, you start thinking "What if I add on an area like this?"... and so you do it. Then you decide to tweak things and add some more...
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LOL. It is rather addicting.
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Join us! Join us now!
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Just make sure you start with a small mission, or the addiction will show it's side-effects.
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Ever played a map that seems to really stink at first, but gets really good later? I was gonna quit due to being bored but I'm glad I finished it.
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I thought the FM Emilie Victor was kind of flawed at first because the early brushwork was blah, but it kept getting better & better as it went on, and now it's one of my favorites ever.
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what map was that LS..?
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The Trickster's Gem Mine Series for Thief2 was like that. Lousy start, gets better mission by mission.
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I set up a local HTTP file server to quickly sling files to any device. I then try to download a .ogg file to my droid tablet from said server. It told me the file can't download because the content isn't supported by the device, even though it can play them just fine. Folks, don't implement anti-features. If the user tells the device to do something, do it! Whether the file is a jpeg, or a zip, or a txt, or ogg, save it!
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There's an app for that.
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I did try to cheat and rename the ogg to mp3 on the server end. The tablet still wouldn't d/l it. It must look at the actual file header/MIME-type.
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This should really be in the tech support section.
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Ever have a show that you enjoyed listening to turn into nothing but constant advertising? Yeah, people have to cover their costs but when the first ten minutes is spent trying to sell you stuff, you reconsider listening in the future.
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This Gold loot was brought to you by: Heinecken. Get Gold, get Heinecken.
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Future loading screens for my upcoming FMs will now feature jokes from my upcoming stand up comedy shows. Did you guys know that before I started making TDM FMs I used to run an Origami business? Unfortunately it folded.
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Before this job I was actually a social worker for those addicted to plastic surgery. It really took off: each week I'd see more and more new faces. It clearly wasn't working.
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I've got a great idea. Let's create a mobile OS, allow external SD cards, and constantly change the default mount point. Today its /sdcard/sdcard, tomorrow it will be /mnt/external_sd, and heaven help you find it in the next version, because we don't ship with an actual file browser for you to find it!
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Why can't people pick a name for things and STICK WITH IT? This is like the problems Grayman had trying to find the names of missions a wile back...
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Every OS enjoys doing these things. how about Program files, program files (x86) and other languages like arquivos de programas...
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The fun comes into play when you have a program that expects you to enter the path manually. If you don't, it errors out. So, you get to look up the new location because it isn't shown anywhere because its "too complex" for the average user to understand... lol
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managed to trick a couple of guards into falling into the water. They were quite happy to chase me with their swords and throw rocks at me as normal, as they coughed to death! lol
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I got a new wireless keyboard/mouse combo for ten bucks! Talk about a great deal! Within 10 minutes of hooking it up, I wondered if it is encrypted. It uses 128-bit AES.
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I saw that some other wireless keyboards use 8-bit encryption. YES, 8-BIT! Even a 486 would be able to crack that.
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Blooth is the way to go, if you can find one that ticks all the boxes and doesen't cost an arm and a leg.
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Indeed. If anybody at Logitech is reading this, we love you guys. You make really affordable products that just keep going. You do not remove features from products we already bought, or do any other sleezy things. Sincerely, a happy user.
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Saw a laptop where it took 5 DVDs to create the factory restore set. Five! Do you know how much information you can fit on 5 DVDs? Given that W7 fits on one, what could possibly be in there?
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In comparison, I have an OS image that is compressed to 1.3 GB with compilers, hex editors, multiple web browsers, multiple media players, DosBOX, compatibility layers like Wine, office software, encoders and on and on.
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Sounds like a lot of bloatware in their setup. First thing I always do when I get a new computer is stopping all the junk processes.
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Depends if it's making a compressed installer like the w7 dvd, or literally just copying everything to the backup media (Seems w7 install is about 20.1 or so GB for everyone I ask). If it's backing up Program Files, theres extra data used. Still, dvd media is so cheap it's not a big deal.
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Well this is a nice surprise. Maybe it will help you all. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMDc
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"Outside of id Tech 4, when it comes to open-source games doing impressive things, two projects worth following are the DarkPlaces-based Xonotic and the Daemon-based Unvanquished." *if they only knew...*
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Yeah and this quote: "Any major open-source games using [id4 open source] yet? Not yet." Hello, we're right over here! Ok, we're not fully open source just yet, but we're headed in that direction. (Asset-wise anyway. We already are code-wise.)
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I have a strong feeling that they're doing this all for us TDM fans
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