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You want something that looks and feels like Windows without viruses, crashes and IE/Outlook? I suggest you use Windows XP SP2, and try not to be retarded enough to actually get viruses in the first place, screw anything up to the point that you crash or use IE/Outlook.

I haven't had a virus in over 3 years and haven't seen a BSOD (with the exception of those caused by overclocking and bad hardware). In addition, you aren't FORCED to use IE nor Outlook, install Opera (or Firefox + Thunderbird) instead.

I used to be THE Microsoft basher around here, often preaching about the evils of Windows, but when it boils down to it, Windows is totally useable and stable if you aren't a complete fucking retard. Yes, there are superior OSes around there (most notably GNU/Linux, of which I used daily for 3~ years and still use today alongside WinXP), but Windows really isn't as bad as some of these anti-Microsoft zealots (just like I used to be) make it out to be.

In short, if you're getting viruses and managing to consistantly make Windows crash, you're an absolute fucking imbecile and shouldn't be allowed near computers.

A 2GHz dual core chip != a 4GHz chip. Unless you have some AMAZING, super efficient form of load-balancing, the only advantage to having a dual-core is having less performance degradation whilst multitasking (or when working with multithreaded apps, but the gain is nowhere near the same as comparing a 2GHz chip to a 4GHz chip). You're not going to see any notable raw speed increase. If you run ONE single threaded application on a 2GHz dualcore chip, it'll be roughly the same performance as if you were to run it on a 2GHz singlecore chip, not a 4GHz one. [/rant]

Also, lol vista

lol vista

That's #3.

Strideh doesn't deserve the mod award! He closes my lolthreads :<

Cash, chocolate, shortbread, new matched pair of JJ 6L6GC's for my GH50, bunch of DVD's. Probably gonna save the cash and find me a nice RG770DXLB or something, always wanted one and they don't go for that much.

Don't click links unless you're 100% sure of where they may lead period. This applies to every situation.

Guthrie Govan - Wonderful Slippery Thing

and

Guthrie Govan - Fives

LOL I LIEK RED CARS. RED CARS ARE MY FAVORITE.

I have taken this form in order to talk to you, but I can take many forms. Does this suit you better? Or perhaps you prefer this form? I can take whichever form I like.

I'm an Ibanez fanboy

Ibanez

Though Frank Gambale owns Buckethead in the face when it's comes to musicality, but not neccessarily technique (I still <3 Buckethead though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cssxcv0xLMs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOF_lZ8v4lo

Shawn Lane is also made of win:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0TyZU8k4lU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5s7uVnaQmU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogoFWACRiV8

As is Wes Montgomery (OMGZ he r teh black):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f402svQhuGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQRc959Sx1E

Technique is a means to an end, not the other way around. It's all very well having perfect technique and being able to play at 20nps, but if you can't apply MUSIC to that technique, you're not a musician. However, Buckethead does make awesome music, but I'm really talking about morons like Rusty Cooley and MAB who are only known for their technique.

Technique is great, if you use it to create music, not a bunch of random notes strung together. Of course there are various styles of music, and some of them are more technique-centric than theory-centric (though a vast knowledge of music theory helps when working with any genre of music).

But seriously, the garbage that people like Rusty Cooley and MAB (there are others, but those are the two that come to mind) it's disgusting. If you're gonna shred mindlessly, it should at least be musical (like Paul Gilbert, who has both great technique and a great sense of melody and can make even the most mindless shredding sound tasteful).

In short, theory > technique. Don't bother working on your technique if you can't even hear the difference between C7, Cm7 and Cm6.

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PunkBuster isn't really a rootkit from a technical perspective as it makes no attempts to obscure it's existence and it doesn't try to take control of the OS, so I worded that a little wrong, however the fact remains that an anti-cheat system shouldn't need to be running at a driver-level (cough PnkBstrK.sys).

While it makes detecting driver-level cheats (they do exist, many private bots now run as service/driver combos just like PunkBuster does) easier, makes updating easier and makes it possible to play PB games on a non-admin/power user account (which shouldn't have even been neccessary to begin with, gg flawed design EvenBalance), the fact is that PB's detection is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING USELESS. I used to play Enemy Territory heavily, and even with PB correctly setup and multiple 3rd party master ban/detection lists on the server, even people with PUBLIC bots would manage to get away with it.

On another note, PB could ALSO be a potential security risk, seeing as it has administrative rights, being a service and all. Pretty sure it'd be possible to exploit it somehow (though I'm just speculating now). Oh and also, have I mentioned how much it bogs down memory usage/performance?

In short, I might actually at least ACCEPT PunkBuster if it actually worked, but the fact remains that as an anti-cheat system, it's close to useless. EvenBalance should take a lesson from Valve, you tend to see FAR less cheaters in VAC2 games than you do in PB games, and VAC2 doesn't have to resort to residing in the background as a driver to accomplish it's task.

One more thing, did I mention that the PB EULA basicly says something to the effect of "by agreeing to this, I accept that PB may be considered 'intrusive' and may collect data found on my system"? As a matter of fact, many people have witnessed PB opening random plaintext files on mounted drives.

Whether it actually uploads any of this to EvenBalance servers or not is another question, but still, the fact remains that it shouldn't HAVE to do that. Essentially all it has to do is check for evidence of hooking and scan running processes and their threads for evidence of hooking/injection.

So in short (for real this time), PB is a useless, resource-hogging, intrusive mess of a program.

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Not to mention it uses PunkBuster, which is essentially a rootkit.

Game of fail.

Haven't changed it in over a year.

I know you only need one cube to do 13, but it's definately not possible with 3~ portals without jumping up and grabbing the first cube, and putting it on the first button, which seems near impossible, but should be do'able

I can do challenge 13 with 5 portals, I just can't pull the first cube from the ledge without using a portal no matter how much I try Same deal with the second cube, I just can't figure out howto get onto the platform without a portal, it just doesn't seem do'able :/

I got a silver for "least portals" on the first 2 challenges and that's about it, I know HOW I can get a gold on the first challenge but I haven't actually managed to pull it off yet =[ Overall, Portal is awesome though, EP2 as well.

The Source engine is still looking sexy as hell despite it's age (yes I know they've changed a fair bit since HL2 was released, but it's still the same engine), and the forest areas looked beautiful, despite the some of the obvious lazy mapping (sprites for tree foliage, 2D skyboxes in a few places, etcetera, but then again I assume alot of that is down to performance tuning as opposed to laziness).

I've yet to play TF2, but Portal and EP2 are superb.

Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg - Time is the Enemy

A combination of D and B.

"R U SRIOS?"

1. Guns'n'Roses
2. Scissor Sisters
3. Gorillaz
4. Matchbox 20
5. Radiohead
6. The Eagles
7. Lemonheads
8. Smashing Pumpkins
9. Rolling Stones
10. Alice in Chains
11. Whitesnake
12. 50 Cent
13. Eels
14. Sex Pistols
15. U2
16. Iron Maiden
17. White Zombie
18. Beach Boys
19. The Cars
20. The Doors
21. Jet/Foo Fighters (?) <- The B52's
22. Eminem
23. Queen
24. Red Hot Chilli Peppers
25. Black Flag
26. Spoon
27. White Stripes
28. Garbage
29. Phish
30. Prince
31. Led Zeppelin
32. Crowded House/Block Party (?)
33. Black Crows
34. Sting and The Police (?)
35. Talking Heads (?)
36. Blur
37. The Pixies
38. Green Day
39. Korn
40. The Rats/Boomtown Rats/Ratt (?)
41. Yellowman
42. Kiss
43. Madonna
44. Seal
45. Dead Kennedy's
46. Deep Purple (?)
47. Dinosaur Junior
48. Great White
49. Hole
50. STYX/Nine Inch Nails (?)
51. Twisted Sister (?)

What we've got so far. (?) Indicates ones we aren't sure of.

Epic fail.

Please insert more LOLCOINS to continue.

It's not old for you because you fail at the internets. Please insert more LOLCOINS to continue.

LOLKEYLOGGER

and Dave knows because he bought it

I lol'd at the epic win of that statement.

I've got some old'ish pics of my RG on my site.

Filefront >>>>>>>>>>> Fileplanet in every possible way to be fully honest.

But my dream smash....

At the moment:
'01 Ibanez RG550SA (DiMarzio ToneZone in bridge, Blue Velvet in center and Air Norton in neck)
Laney GH50L + random Laney 2x12 cab (JJ/Eurotubes EL34L pair and JJ/Eurotubes ECC83S quad)
Morley Bad Horsie II
ADA MP-1 (3TubeMod)
D'Addario XL 10-46 strings

RG550's are just plain awesome, they have ridiculously playable necks (not comfortable if you have huge hands however), lovely trems (Edge and LoPro are FAR FAR better than OFR's by far, way more movement both ways, far smoother and far more "buttery" to use) and just plain own really.

Dave3499576898798734598734509823409834597 should've been banned a long time ago tbh.

And alot of people are mentally numb morons, your point?

There is only ONE virus (excluding it's variants) that can actually damage your computer and that's the CIH virus, which corrupts a number of BIOS upon it's payload, though usually it'll only be able to overwrite the BIOS on Intel 430/440 chipsets (think Pentium Pro/Pentium II era). Personally I went without an antivirus for well over a year (though still checking manually every now and then for suspicious registry/disk/thread activity with ProcessMonitor from the excellent Sysinternals) and had absolutely NO problems. Antivirus software is a precaution, not a solution to stupidity. Unless you got infected with CIH, saying a virus ruined your computer is utterly fucking stupid, and even then, you haven't "ruined" your computer, you can quite easily hotswap BIOS chips and flash them in another computer.

Stop whining about Steam. I've been using it for a long long time with little to no problems (the only problems I have experienced have been in it's early days). Valve aren't a big scary corporation who want to steal your personal information. Stop whining, seriously.

And now back on topic, Symantec consumer products (aka Norton products) are awful in every aspect. I've heard Symantec's corporate products are very nice, but they're also very expensive and they cannot be pirated as they require a subscription as far as I know. I personally suggest NOD32, if I remember correctly it has the lowest detection failure rate of all consumer AV's, it doesn't cost much and it has VERY low CPU and RAM usage (the whole thing is written in Assembler). I'm using it and I have ZERO performance degradation, plus it's easily removed and doesn't leave any traces behind. It's also updated 10 times a day or more on average, at least from what I've observed.

This thread is now about dragons.

Health charger? =P

I didn't see the video, but I can guess what it is about. Police abuse power all the time, nothing new. Power corrupts. EOF

m0p, it doesn't star Vin Diesel.

I never watched the trailer, but I can guarantee it'll suck balls simply because the Hitman series sucked, 99% of action films suck and 99% of game-movie transitions suck.

Yet another generic action film featuring Vin Diesel.

All of your components sound fine, but go for as high CFM fans as possible, silent fans are always really low CFM and thus aren't really that effecient. For a coolant use "1 drop of Spectrus (biocide) + 1 drop of Continuum (corrosion inhibitor) + 1.5oz glycerine (raises water's thermal conductivity co-efficient) to a litre of distilled water according to Hound53. If you can't get that, then Zerex at 5%" (quoted from a well known overclocking/cooling forum). You don't need any fancy expensive coolants, distilled water alone is very good but you'd do well to add a corrosion inhibitor and a biocide to prolong the life of your loop.

Make sure you use thread tape (PTFE) and good metal hoseclips too unless you want everything to end up leaking and going wrong. Once again, you DO NOT need expensive "non-conductive" coolants if you do everything right. Distilled water is THE BEST coolant around, it may not be the safest if you are totally retarded and don't leak test everything, but provided you have a smallest bit of commonsense it should be fine. Just make sure you use DEIONIZED/DISTILLED water and DO NOT use tap water under any circumstances, especially if you have hard water in your area because it WILL fuck your pump up and unless you keep it running 24/7 it WILL corrode your block and possibly your tubing.

Avoid nUbuntu and download Slackware ^_^

Big Rigs!

Are you having seemingly spontaneous connection stability difficulties? Are you achieving dismal latencies between the various boxes on your network? You might be suffering from a WIRELESS CONNECTION! For your free consultation and 10 meters of CAT5 cabling please contact m0p today! ^_^

PS. I'm not giving you any free cable, buy your own.

To put it simply, wireless FTL, wired FTW.

I wasn't really assraped, more like I assraped them with annoying questions.

To be fair, everyone was a nub ONCE. Even I used to be a HUGE noob back when I first joined this place. After you've been here a while the big pr0 elitist attitude rubs off on you (yes I know what you're thinking you sick fuck), and the nubness tends to fade.

I'm just a little bit country.