Title: Geek Weekly
Description: Please give me ideas
the oob - August 1, 2005 08:12 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (templar34 @ Aug 1 2005, 07:06 PM) |
I'd just like to say that...
Invisible War sucked :( |
Other than it being too short and too easy I quite liked it.
templar34 - August 1, 2005 08:25 AM (GMT)
It felt too dumbed down, compared to the original. They cut it down, and it bit them in the ass.
Was still cool though :D especially controlling bots.
the oob - August 1, 2005 08:56 AM (GMT)
Everyone who played the original first doesn't like IW. I played IW and then the original (which I'm currently most of the way through), and I prefer IW. The weapon inaccuracy in the original is a pain in the ass (until halfway through when your skills are decent), I don't like having to sit there for 5 seconds waiting for my crosshair to contract. Plus I can't put a silencer on my pistol, and by the time I found a silenced pistol I had already riced up my normal pistol too much to get rid of it.
I actually quite like the simplifications in IW, I spend less time fucking around making space in my inventory. I've completely eschewed heavy weapons in Deus Ex because they take too much space, plus it means I don't have to spend skill points on that ability. I'm enjoying the game a lot more at the later stage though, I have the ballistic protection ability at it's max, so I just run into fights with that on and the dragon blade, jedi knight stylz :ninja:
El Matador - August 12, 2005 11:17 AM (GMT)
Ha. I just found this article I never finished writing for my old website; It was supposed to be one of those 'what if you could build what-ever gaming system you wanted' things...look at how far we've come.
| QUOTE |
Ultimate System: Keep Dreaming
We at PC Software have compiled a list of the parts we feel to
be essential when buying a high-end PC. The cost of building such
a machine comes to over $10,000, so keep checking under the cushions
on the sofa. This is Daniel's Dream Bundle, comments to xxxxxxxxxxxx.
CPU: AMD Athlon, running at 850mhz, FSB at 266Mhz
MEMORY: 256 MB 133Mhz SD-RAM
MBOARD: Asus K7V Socket A
CASE: Full Tower ATX
DISPLAY: Ge Force 2 GTS, 64 MB of Video RAM w/TV-out
MONITOR: Sony 21" G Series Trinitron
OS: Dual Boot; Windows 98, Red Hat Linux 6.4
HDD: Maxtor 45GB ATA 100
LAN: 10/100Mb Ethernet Card
IAS: Ihug Ultra Internet Account + 256 Kbps surfing
FDD: 3.5" Floppy 1.44 Mb
LS 120 MB
MEDIA: Zip 250/100 Ext USB
72x Kenwood CD-ROM
12x6x32 HP CD Rewriter
16x Slot Pioneer DVD
500w Nichole Subwoofer + Dolby Surround Kit
DVD Ready KBD
GAMES: CounterStrike, Rebel Assualt, Official F1 Racing, Hover and Unreal Tournament
MOVIES: The Matrix, The Man With The Golden Gun, Star Wars Boxed Set, The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, Jaws, Deep Blue Sea.
MISC: Proview TV Viewer, Logitech Wirless Optical Mouse
COMMENTS: Slightly more power than ARCHE (386), but would make a mean home entertainment system. |
Star Wars boxed set? I COULD SEE THE FUTURE!
Fez - August 14, 2005 11:18 PM (GMT)
Seems Ive been substituted for a girl.
Lol Homestarrunner is so last year
Steveo - August 15, 2005 04:14 AM (GMT)
Le sigh, does anyone know who this girl is?
huge - August 15, 2005 09:33 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Fez @ Aug 15 2005, 11:18 AM) |
Seems Ive been substituted for a girl.
Lol Homestarrunner is so last year |
Yeah, what the hell happened? Did you just forget to send anything in!?
Steveo - August 15, 2005 09:38 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Fez @ Aug 1 2005, 11:16 AM) |
| Due to my frat-hockey tour article not being printed this week I am not doing geek weekly anymore |
^^ is what happened
huge - August 15, 2005 09:42 PM (GMT)
Geek Weekly should include some of these:
PCWorld.com - 20 Things You Didn't Know Your PC Could Do
http://pcworld.com/resource/printable/arti...d,108720,00.asp templar34 - August 15, 2005 11:01 PM (GMT)
You know the spookiest thing about Geek Weekly this week?
She looks like my sister. Not cool.
kiwi_hockey_guy - August 16, 2005 05:19 AM (GMT)
you have to give it to craccum editors though, she does look better than fez......
Senor - August 16, 2005 07:43 AM (GMT)
IW = universal ammo = gay. pistols using up my riot prods ammo?
dunno if u have already, prolly have but a hentai review? SA did one a while ago and i swear some of the shit the japanese put into their "adult animated films" is just fucking hilarious
Fez - August 16, 2005 08:40 AM (GMT)
A SA goon be you?
Congratulations you just won yourself a password to the GTFO
Senor - August 16, 2005 08:46 AM (GMT)
i was.. 20 bux got a bit taxing, so i borrow mates account sometimes, still browse there tho
Fez - September 20, 2005 01:40 AM (GMT)
Congratulations Puchu on your geek weekly this week, twas entertaining
Fez - December 15, 2005 11:09 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE |
P2P Flooder Overpeer Ceases Operation
It's a well-known secret that the RIAA and MPAA contract third parties to employ a number of methods to inhibit illicit file sharing, including denial of service attacks and hiding spyware as music. But these tactics have become less effective, forcing one such company to cease operations.
Following the shutdown of Napster, Gnutella and other decentralized services sprang to life and peer-to-peer file trading became a seemingly unstoppable phenomenon. But even though legal action couldn't stop P2P, the record industry decided to do the next best thing: disrupt it.
The RIAA and MPAA inked deals with companies such as MediaDefender, MediaSentry and Overpeer whose sole purpose is doing just that. Using massive numbers of servers, these "content protection" firms attempt to clog up file sharing networks by flooding them with fake files and stalling out users' computers.
Earlier this year, Overpeer was even found to have been planting adware that caused pop-ups within files named as popular music downloads. These fake files are considered one of the primary reasons Kazaa's FastTrack network has become almost unusable over the past year.
But the success has also made the future murky for these companies. With users migrating to new technologies such as BitTorrent, such actions aren't working like they have in the past. The RIAA has also turned up the heat in the courtroom by going after users directly, shifting the focus away from the P2P networks.
On Friday, Overpeer owner Loudeye announced it was shutting down the subsidiary's content protection business just a year and a half after acquiring it. Loudeye said the closure would cut $1.6 million from its quarterly costs.
MediaDefender and MediaSentry, on the other hand, opted recently to find suitors in order to stay afloat. MediaDefender, which does not publicly advertise its services, was acquired in August by ARTISTdirect for $42.5 million in cash. MediaSentry, meanwhile, was purchased by SafeNet in June for $20 million in cash and stock. |
:clap:
the oob - December 15, 2005 12:14 PM (GMT)
Necessity is the mother of invention. Attempting technical solutions for p2p just means better p2p programs, in the same way that exposure to diseases improves the human immune system.
JPAR - December 16, 2005 12:13 AM (GMT)
Still a pain in the ass though, bittorrents not great for getting single tracks. Limewire still does the trick though, as long as you can handle dloading a couple fake tracks per real one.
the oob - December 16, 2005 12:22 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (JPAR @ Dec 16 2005, 01:13 PM) |
| Still a pain in the ass though, bittorrents not great for getting single tracks. |
Yes and no. With Azureus, and presumably some other Bit Torrent clients, you can tell it not to download given files. So let's say you have a torrent for album x by band y, but you only want song z from that album, you can just tell it not to download all the other songs in that album.
On the other hand, while Bit Torrent is very good for popular music, it's not good for particularly obscure music.
Steveo - December 16, 2005 05:02 AM (GMT)
Or you can get soulseek.................
the oob - December 16, 2005 05:08 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Steveo @ Dec 16 2005, 06:02 PM) |
| Or you can get soulseek................. |
But then you have the problems of fakes and having to wait for a slot, neither of which exist in Bit Torrent (I haven't even had the problem of the former, and the latter can't happen at all). It's a good alternative if you can't find a torrent for something though.
Steveo - December 16, 2005 05:11 AM (GMT)
Theres no such thing as fakes and slots on slsk,
the oob - December 16, 2005 05:22 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Steveo @ Dec 16 2005, 06:11 PM) |
| Theres no such thing as fakes and slots on slsk, |
Then why, when I decided to try it the other day, was I remotely queued when I tried to download a file from someone? I would never have that problem with bit torrent, where as long as the tracker is running (or sometimes even if it isn't with distributed tracking) I can always download the file.
By the way, with Soulseek (which I'm trying now, in order to obtain obscure music), are you able to have files with multiple sources? For instance, I have a song in my download queue, and I want more sources for it (because waiting for a slot sucks), how do I add more sources for that file? (like in DC++).
Steveo - December 16, 2005 05:44 AM (GMT)
Thats the downfall of slsk, its connections are unstable this thus you get remotely queued. You can only d/l from 1 source. I like this as I know what im getting. Also if you have other people on there that you know you can d/l just off them.
My slsk is : Stevee2
the oob - December 16, 2005 05:50 AM (GMT)
I realise you can only download from one source at a time (like most of p2p), but can you have it so a file can be downloaded from any of a list of users? So that when the right user is online you can download it from them, and then if they leave and another person with the file comes on you can continue getting it from that person.
JPAR - December 17, 2005 07:52 AM (GMT)
Hmm that's a good idea about bittorent. I use Az so i'll have to give it a go. What are good torrent sites other than torrentspy?
the oob - December 17, 2005 08:07 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (JPAR @ Dec 17 2005, 08:52 PM) |
| Hmm that's a good idea about bittorent. I use Az so i'll have to give it a go. What are good torrent sites other than torrentspy? |
Fez - December 17, 2005 09:38 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Steveo @ Dec 16 2005, 05:44 PM) |
Thats the downfall of slsk, its connections are unstable this thus you get remotely queued. You can only d/l from 1 source. I like this as I know what im getting. Also if you have other people on there that you know you can d/l just off them.
My slsk is : Stevee2 |
SoulSeek is like the oldschool Napster
You can only download off one person and if they d/c you lose the download partway and cant resume it.
It really is quite archaic in the realm of P2P. I did enjoy it until it stopped letting me connect.
Limewire does the job fine for me now.