[blackharted3]

Hey! Whoa! I just read the whole page, Roger Ebert's dead? Oh no. Oh damnit no. No.

Damn it, he was one of the few critics I actually respected. My sympathies.

(My post was originally a reply to Sangman)

[Person of Color]

This is the best picture of John Romero ever.

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[Micky C]

What's the meaning behind the line in Address Unknown (that TV show in Max Payne 2) where the guy picks up the phone at the end and the conversation goes:
"John Mirra?"
"Yes, this is he"
"This is John Mirra, welcome to the next level."

Then the guy starts screaming

[Sangman]

I dunno maybe he's freaking out because he's talking to himself

[Alan]

[Kathy]

Sangman, on 06 April 2013 - 05:31 AM, said:

I dunno maybe he's freaking out because he's talking to himself

Or there is simply no meaning. It's propably supposed to be weird and not making much sense.

[High Treason]

Trooper Mick, on 06 April 2013 - 04:01 AM, said:

What's the meaning behind the line in Address Unknown (that TV show in Max Payne 2) where the guy picks up the phone at the end and the conversation goes:
"John Mirra?"
"Yes, this is he"
"This is John Mirra, welcome to the next level."

Then the guy starts screaming

Makes me think of some of sega's old commercials;

[blackharted3]

I'm in such a good mood today.

I've had such fun here, I'm sooooooo happy, these days.

[Fox]

Fuuuuck I just formatted my PC. Basically all of a sudden I couldn't run Windows, and after re-installing XP a dozen of times and formatting my main HD, I managed to make it work by installing it on my other HD. It probably is fucked up.

Now I must install all my programs again...

[Person of Color]

Run Drive Fitness Test by Hitachi. It's 3MB in size and is a bootable CD.

I don't even fuck with that weird shit anymore. If I get odd behavior when installing, I check the disc for scratches, then I run DFT, and if that passes, then I run MemTest86+.

[Kathy]

Also, having backup and system restore point is really helpful.

[Person of Color]

Not if you're hard drive is about to pull a Dale Earnhardt.

[Kathy]

Only if you're stupid enough to have backup on the same drive.

[Fox]

I am.

[Kathy]

Did you actually have a backup?

[Person of Color]

Yeah his is on a 3TB RAID array clearly labelled "NOT CP."

[Kathy]

I do hope he uses EFS then.

[Jimmy]

Why would his hard drive be cheese pizza?

[Master Fibbles]

Fox, on 07 April 2013 - 04:59 PM, said:

re-installing XP

Why?

[High Treason]

Sounds like drive problems to me too.

On a similar note, I decided I probably wasn't fair on Windows 7 calling it useless when I installed it on a pretty useless computer. I have decided that as I added new RAID drives to replace to old ones some time ago, that I could use the old ones for Windows 7 (as they are still in the machine not doing an awful lot) in my workstation, that way I can try to do some actual work with the OS and at the same time keep Windows XP so I can switch back when I get a headache and try Windows 7 again later when it's worn off. The eventual plan is that using Sony Vegas and Media Express, I'll stop noticing how much I dislike the OS (I will never like 7, didn't like XP much either to be honest) and learn to get on with it, eventually never booting the XP Partition again.

Rather ominously, my computer has had a black screen for a few mins now, but as there is intermittent drive activity I will assume it's working. I'm surprised it works at all, had to install from USB because it needs a driver for my drive controller, which obviously controls the DVD drive making it impossible to install that way.

On the plus side, I can install that copy of Vegas 12 at long last, only went and got the 64-Bit version didn't I? So I could not use it before, it'll be nice to have that CUDA support!

Oh, as I am writing that black screen disappeared, it rebooted quick, yay!

[Fox]

Mr.Flibble, on 07 April 2013 - 07:23 PM, said:

Why?

Why not?

[Master Fibbles]

Fox, on 07 April 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

Why not?

Ignoring that next April XP will no longer be receiving any updates from Microsoft, it is already a lot less secure online than Windows 7 or 8.

There are lots of reasons to install something newer than XP on a primary (gaming or work) machine. If you are building a legacy gaming PC, then XP away and just make sure it isn't going online to strange websites or you'll have to reinstall it again.


http://www.pcmag.com...,2355703,00.asp

http://www.techradar...ta-vs-xp-615167

[Kathy]

Mr.Flibble, on 08 April 2013 - 06:40 AM, said:

If you are building a legacy gaming PC, then XP away and just make sure it isn't going online to strange websites or you'll have to reinstall it again.

Or stop going to internet from account with root privileges. Like everyone should anyway.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Mr.Flibble, on 08 April 2013 - 06:40 AM, said:

If you are building a legacy gaming PC, then XP away and just make sure it isn't going online to strange websites or you'll have to reinstall it again.

Might as well build a Windows 98-95 PC, as that has none of the 16-bit/DOS compatibility issues that XP has.

[Master Fibbles]

Cathy, on 08 April 2013 - 06:48 AM, said:

Or stop going to internet from account with root privileges. Like everyone should anyway.

There is that. But then people have to do extra steps to install things and no one likes to do that; we like immediate gratification.


I am looking for a job on Craigslist (last time I made $300 in 3 days, so, hey, why not?) and I checked out the "gigs" in my area...

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Adult models / private entertainment


Half-Japanese Models for Paintings


Videographer


Like To Watch?


Penetration Tester

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Craigslist. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[Master Fibbles]

It actually got more fun as I went down the list. Apparently "talent' is the place to post about taking pictures of boobs. There seems to be one guy in the area who is willing to pay $50 to college girls to take off their panties for him (and give them to him, apparently) or to show him their breasts for his personal collection of photographs.

Seems like a lot of work and money for something one could get for free.

[Jeff]

Fox, on 07 April 2013 - 04:59 PM, said:

Fuuuuck I just formatted my PC. Basically all of a sudden I couldn't run Windows, and after re-installing XP a dozen of times and formatting my main HD, I managed to make it work by installing it on my other HD. It probably is fucked up.

Now I must install all my programs again...

I've done that before. I made a automated Windows install disc and when I set the thing to auto format and create partitions, it formatted the wrong drive. Fortunately, I had backed up most of my stuff on that drive several months ago. Otherwise, I would have been hooped.

Other thing was the drive that Windows was installed on was not the first drive installed when I built the system, so it must have formatted the first drive I had instead of the one which Windows was on. The first drive I had installed on that system was a Western Digital Black drive, versus Windows was on a Seagate drive. It was the WD drive that got formatted.

Think Windows works like that. Where drive 0 would be the first hard drive that was in the system when it was first built, and not the first drive and partition when you first install Windows.

Long story short, no more automated installs for me.

[Fox]

Mr.Flibble, on 08 April 2013 - 06:40 AM, said:

Ignoring that next April XP will no longer be receiving any updates from Microsoft, it is already a lot less secure online than Windows 7 or 8.

There are lots of reasons to install something newer than XP on a primary (gaming or work) machine. If you are building a legacy gaming PC, then XP away and just make sure it isn't going online to strange websites or you'll have to reinstall it again.


http://www.pcmag.com...,2355703,00.asp

http://www.techradar...ta-vs-xp-615167

So far there has not been a reason to install another Windows, I can use all softwares I need.

And why would I want to change my desktop from this:



To something like this:

[Hank]

Fox, on 08 April 2013 - 10:20 AM, said:

To something like this:

Because your computer will run faster and you can use this to make it look like XP
http://www.classicshell.net/

I don't like this shit either, but times moves only in one direction. Standing still means being left behind.