Posted by Caliber on Wednesday February 3, 2010 @ 10:05pm
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Hey dude, I am right there with you on some of the hows and whys of your deletion plans, but was curious if you would be interested in continuing the conversation here. I'm actually quite interested in what volt's comments, as he dropped the hint that he had something to say. Besides that, this is one of the few places where we can talk about shit like this without having someone go psycho nutbag about it... except maybe krux... because of his mormon roots and all

Posted by MadArab on Tuesday February 2, 2010 @ 09:59am
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st00ph! I figure any kind of help your way would be appreciated. :-p

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Posted by unicron on Monday February 1, 2010 @ 04:57pm
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Was told by a tech here at work that 3/4 of the valley's cable modems just took a shit. Supposedly they're so flooded with calls you have a 9/10 chance of getting to a 3rd party answering service instead of getting to a Cox tech. Anyone having issues?

Posted by Krux on Saturday January 30, 2010 @ 06:20pm
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I know it's been out for awhile, but I just started playing Borderlands. Just doing single player at the moment, but talk about a fun game.

Posted by Krux on Friday January 29, 2010 @ 10:34am
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"The only way to get to the bottom of the problem is to set maggie on fire and watch her burn."

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Posted by MadArab on Thursday January 28, 2010 @ 10:27am
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This is freaking hilariously awesome!!!

From Wikipedia: The .577 Tyrannosaur or .577 T-rex is a cartridge developed by A-Square in 1993 for the hunting of large game in Africa. The .577 contains a .585-inch (14.9 mm) diameter 750-grain (49 g) Monolithic Solid Projectile which when fired moves at 2,460 ft/s (750 m/s) producing 10,180 foot-pounds force (13,800 J) of energy.

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Posted by Stealth on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @ 03:14pm
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Posted by unicron on Monday January 25, 2010 @ 09:03am
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They really, really are.

And yes, I'm aware this probably isn't real, but I got a good laugh out of it.

Posted by Caliber on Saturday January 23, 2010 @ 10:30pm
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Rented Gamer today. While it was a reasonable excuse to see titties and dudes losing their heads, I was very unimpressed overall.

[fucking SEVERE Spoiler Warning]

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Posted by Krux on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @ 11:40pm
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So I decided that this year, I am going to build a RepRap desktop 3D printer. I had been looking at MakerBot Industries Cupcake CNC, but decided that it would be more interesting to build the RepRap Mendel. For starters it's a less expensive option, and secondly it can print larger items than the Cupcake CNC. There are also projects in the works to expand it's capabilities, which seems pretty cool as well.

http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Version_II_Mendel

What's cool about this, is that the printer can print a lot of it's own parts. Of course that means you need to know someone with a 3D printer, in order the print up the parts to make your own. Fortunately, a friend of mine recently purchased one of the Cupcake CNC machines, so that step is soon to be taken care of.

So what do you do with your very own desktop 3D printer. Well print "things". If I need a plastic bracket for something, it's a simple matter of opening up your CAD software of choice, such as Solidworks or Google SketchUp, design your part, and then print it. Or you could simply download the design that someone else made and print that. There is a whole bunch of stuff over at Thingiverse, which is an open source repository for stuff people have created.

I already received the first batch of parts for the machine, and I'll be posting a more detailed account of my progress over on the DorkbotLV web site.

Posted by Caliber on Sunday January 17, 2010 @ 11:58pm
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Fucking rub, probably sponsors this shit.

So my primary antivirus protection is not downloading shit. That works great, and when combined with hijackthis and teatimer, is good enough. I don't run your standard virus protection n my main computer because data is routed to a network drive (which does have AV) and it greatly reduces overhead. If I really want to download something, I will usually pretty exhaustively research it then download it onto the server. Except today

today, I decided I just wanted to wipe all tag entries from my MP3s. I have been putting it off, literally, for years and ended up with a wild hair. So I grabbed a reasonably high rated program off of CNET and tonight I get smacked with one of those bullshit "your computer is infected, we can save you" popups. Gah! ok, so I will see what hijacthish says... oh no, hijack this has become "infected" and you need our software to scan it. spybot, same thing... fuck

So a few forays into safe mode and reinstall of spybot (it had done something that made it permanently impossible to download updates, probably something to do with an unmodifiable "read-only" state) and all is well. I have restarted about a dozen times to make sure no regens are in play. seems to be cleaned up... but fuck, off cnet... sad day

Of course, the whole thing hit after I had personally consumed an entire bottle of ecco domani chianti. So trying to work through the cloudiness to fix everything was quite challenging

fuck the internet

Posted by unicron on Friday January 15, 2010 @ 08:15am
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First Person Tetris