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    White House Calls for Government IT to Adopt Cloud Services

    I can't possibly see anything going wrong.. http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/12/14/intentional-event-redirects-cloud-traffic-from-apple-google-others-through-russia Oh.. well, I'm sure they know what they're doing.
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    Your Nominees for 2011 Most Disappointing Game Award

    If by straight from COD you mean 1943 in college, followed by a brief stint in Vietnam and then years of BF2, BF2142, BC and BC2 - then yes. I haven't had as many crazy times as BF2 gave me, but to be fair I haven't played it nearly as long. Currently playing BF3 on PC and 360 and am quite...
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    Games as a kid you got but were bad but you had to stick with.

    Definitely F-15 City War. Bleh!
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    Possible to stretch 4:3 netflix content on PS3?

    Wouldn't mind being able to stretch the 4:3 content. Short Fat video better than burned in black lines on my Westinghouse LCD.
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    Minecraft

    Some interesting changes to the multiplayer game there. This morning I updated my server to see what it was like. Checking out my underground railroad system, prepping the switches to route my cart from my castle train depot to the depot the next island over. Suddenly I see a blur of white...
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    Police: Suspicious Package is your Amazon Order

    I could see at least 50% of my userbase at work doing this.
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    KiNeCt!!! Who picked one up!?

    Got it from Amazon with the xbox slim. I'm happy with both of them. I was worried about it being problematic given that I use a ceiling mounted forward projecting projector. It didn't have any problem with it. As another user noted my Kinect Adventures pictures were a tad blurry because...
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    Minecraft

    Wow - doesn't that make me just feel like crap for what me and my friend have done on my server. Unbelievable.
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    Anyone play Infinite Undiscovery?

    I actually really liked the game. I remember it being short (for an RPG) but good. It's one I'm planning on going through again soon.
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    'Hurt Locker' Sharers: Expect Docs Like This

    Hmmm I thought that was the movie "Jarhead".
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    Hulu's Backers Bickering

    "You've been chopped" ? That's a shame though - I actually canceled my TV service last spring and have been watching Hulu for my tv needs.
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    xbox 360 - 1/4 red ring

    That's a tough one - I haven't sent one in in a couple years and the last time I sent it in I bought a new one for the HDMI anyway. I read fairly mixed reports on it when I was googling the very same question yesterday. I'm not expecting mine back any time soon. The shipping to and from...
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    xbox 360 - 1/4 red ring

    Depends what the error code says when it comes up - I just sent in another one of mine yesterday with E72. You can do it entirely on the website without calling them - it's pretty easy - even printing out the shipping label - no cost anywhere in there for mine since E72 1 red light (General...
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    12 Things You Can Never Say in the Office

    Glad I'm not the only one who choked on a good number of the "words". PDA? We have quite a few that are useful and not phones... but I guess being a "smart phone" doesn't require it having a phone in it. Sounds smart. Thin client eh? Yeah, we have a couple hundred. Or I thought we did. I...
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    PS3 Slim Shipping Tomorrow?

    Put in an order for the slim last Friday - with two day shipping the status says it hasn't yet shipped - though estimated to arrive on the 28th (this Friday). Here's hoping. Picking up an HD Fury 2 tonight so I can use it on my VGA loving projector (grumble). Ordered Dark Knight and Iron man...
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    Newegg/bing Cb back @ 10%

    heh yeah close.. believe it was the 27.5" HG-281DPB for me =P
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    Newegg/bing Cb back @ 10%

    Thanks OP. Was on the fence over a monitor on sale - but this pushed me over the edge to try it. $30 cashback for me now makes it a pretty sweet deal.
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    How many 360 controllers have you smashed?

    I'm on my fifth - but not anger issues so much as spilled vodka related incidents. Buttons are never quite are the same even after complete disassembly and wipe down with rubbing alchohol.
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    Anyone played City of Heroes/Villians?

    If you read the comments (and believe them) the professor's side of the story is rather one sided. He's obeying the laws such that he uses the letter of the law to defeat the spirit. It appears he teleports other people into opposing guards so the guard kills them. Or so it seems from reading...
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    The Legend Zelda: Spirit Tracks

    Duuuuuuuuuuuuude..... Nin-ten-do... It's a cereal!... Nin-ten-do... It's for fun! Supermario and Zelda... two cereals in one! That's a blast from the past. They weren't as good as the Zelda Gummy Snacks (The hearts were the best) but still better than corn flakes!
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    Pranks on IT Dept

    I've done a number of the above - at least the more normal ones - the guy with the Seattle bathroom being one of the NOT normal ones.... yuck. Mostly played on the front desk secretary. Set her desktop background to be a cracked LCD image, then tip her monitor over and tell the next...
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    Xbox 360 - USB Hard Disk and games

    Wow - didn't know that. That'd be very handy when it comes to end game content jumping between planets means reloading disks alot. Next time I get to end game I'll try not to be so fast at deleting the previous disk's image. Thanks for the info.
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    Star Ocean: The Last Hope

    Part of the style I believe. Adds to the challenge and suspense I guess. As far as the groups of shadows - that was the one place in the game where I decided to sit and grind levels - especially given the save point / energy point just before the fight. Got everyone to 50 and it was cake...
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    Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia

    *laugh* that was... odd.. and funny.
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    Lewis Black on Video games

    A bit dated but it's alright. The GTA part hit close to home though - seeing as every time I pick it up intending to actually play its missions.. that is exactly what happens. Spot on on the running down the owner of the car as well. I chuckled - even if not so much as the OP.
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Hrmm well - typing from it now.. bypassed the router straight to the cable modem and rebooted it - she went. Now the fun of trying to get the router to accept it. On the latest firmware, but maybe I have to downdate it to an older version. It's a shame - it's been such a nice router...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Nothing pretty - used my old Antec P180 case from my previous build 3 years ago. She was once pretty - but not so much anymore. It's what's inside that counts right?
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    hehe no pics yet - not quite done, stuck on installation. The hardware all seems to be working, but can't get Vista 64 to actually go on the Internet - so she's still in pieces. Updated the motherboard's drivers, reinstalled vista, tried setting static IPs, reset all the networking equip -...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou *cough* it posts... back to configuring thank you =P
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Well, seem to have hit a snag. All the parts came finally - after the wonder of having an entire airport close - so much for Overnight shipping. Assembling the pieces - get it all together. No dice on boot. LEDs light up - fans kick in, phase lights show green,green, amber, red - which I'm...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Well - ended up doing the entire thing through newegg - Amazon had an unexpectedly strange definition of overnight - somehow it meant '5 days'. Kept the PowerSupply corsair 750 - but went with the Gskill RAM instead. Further reading on the corsair was yielding too many bad reviews - though...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Yeah, I thought about the win7 beta thing - but I figured if I get Vista now - I can get the upgrade version of 7 when it hits in - well... whenever - guessing August or September myself. I've tried the beta a bit, I threw it on my secondary comp at work - and found a few things that don't...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Hrmm kept the same parts - but added Vista 64 bit ult - decided to upgrade to that too - use the old version for the remnants of the old comp. However changing things around, if I get same cpu bundled with vista through newegg instead of amazon I get $50 off up front for combining them -...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Alright - here is what I've come up with so far. RAM: $58.99 $30 rebate $28.99 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB ( 2 X 2GB ) PC2-6400 800MHz 240-pin DDR2 CL5 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit - TWIN2X4096-6400C5 MB: $79.99 GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail CPU...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Hmmm. I really didn't want to do a rebuild - but starting to really think about it. I'm admittedly prejudiced toward the nvidia side - I know I know, for some reason I just have a hard time not buying evga/nvidia - which seems to point at the superclocked 9800GTX being the best performance...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    So... went to turn the computer on today - Wouldn't boot - was a buzzing, left it for a bit.. started to smell smoke. Unplug it - smoke smell goes away. Talk about being cursed - Powersupply was beautiful for years - find out it wasn't the best PS - it immediately stops working. That's...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Thanks for the replies guys. I'll try this out when I get home from work tonight - thanks. Curious, you mention Smartpowers - my PS was a truepower - same thing I'm guessing? It hasn't made any noises yet - for what it's been given it's done great, but I don't ask alot out of it. Just...
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Yeah I was hoping to avoid upgrading the holy 3 (CPU/mobo/RAM) as long as possible, hoping the GPU upgrade would let me float by until something worth overhauling my PC for comes along.
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    Gotta have those elves pretty...

    Greetings all. I was curious to see which particular component is holding me back - CPU vs GPU. Current Build: Proc: Opty 165 running at 2.7 Ghz on air GPU: eVGA 7900GT CO PCI-E 256MB RAM: 2 Gigs Mobo: DFI Lanparty UT NForce4 Ultra- D HDD: 150G Raptor 10kRPM 16MB Cache PS...
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    Do people really have trouble finding games on launch day ?

    I usually have success getting 360 games on launch day - but there have been a couple occasions where I couldn't get them. PC games I always have to preorder to get on launch day here however. Small town of 13k - it's between Gamestop, Walmart and Target. Our Walmart and Target get PC games...
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