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Oh yea it was that bad.

--Cheski(iPhone)

Test using app BlogPress

Looks like it works fairly well.






--Cheski(iPhone)

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 - Infantry Tutorial

It is a good idea if you are attempting to enjoy RO, to take a quick look at this tutorial. With accessible realism it take a bit to learn but ultimately leads to a very rich and rewarding game play.

This game it current $5 on Steam. I recommend picking it up.

--Cheski

More Zombie Action for CoD:WaW?

This should add a bit to it. Pay attention at the end.

--Cheski

Changing some stuff around...

--Cheski

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Gameplay

Talk about getting it right!

--Cheski

L4D2 vs Rob and Big

Two of the new characters in L4D2

Rob and Big

--Cheski

What's in the Box?

Half Life 2 on Earth

--Cheski

Goatse Dental

If you don't know... I can't help you.
--Cheski

A New Car(A Chicken in Every Pot)

What if the government, instead of giving the car companies all that money. They should have given each citizen/family so much money towards a new car. This would have saved jobs and kept the auto industry rolling. Added perk would be getting some older cars off of the road.

Maybe $3k towards a car?

Thoughts?
--Cheski

This is how it went.

If you can't play Titan Quest in Vista with virtual memory disabled... this may help you.

Josh: I can't play TQ through steam
cheski: what?
Josh: it doesn't work
cheski: why
cheski: what does it say
Josh: it says that virtual memory must be enabled
cheski: no no
Josh: that means I need to run it in XP mode
cheski: no
cheski: NO
Josh: then when I do that, the message is
cheski: NO
cheski: NO
Josh: Cannot Load Titan's Quest
cheski: my docs
cheski: my games
cheski: titan quest
cheski: settings
cheski: options.txt
cheski: skipCompatibilityChecks = false
cheski: skipCompatibilityChecks = true
cheski: save
cheski: launch and win

--Cheski

2060: Humvee-sized, bulletproof meat-eating spiders attack

An awesome article over at the Register by Lewis Page.

Danish boffins have uncovered an unforeseen, extra downside of the melting of the Arctic ice cap, according to reports. Not only will there be sea level rises and massive flooding*; there will also be a plague of enormous, invulnerable, heavily armoured meat-eating cannibal spiders.

The worrying yet exciting news comes courtesy of National Geographic, which has been speaking to top arachno-boffin Toke Høye of Aarhus University. Høye has spent ten years studying the flesh-eating "wolf" spider Pardosa glacialis which lives in Greenland, north of the Arctic circle.

Disturbingly, the Scandinavian spider specialist reports that over that period the polar arachnids have increased significantly in size - and correspondingly increased the thickness of their exoskeletal armour plates. In just one warm year, it seems, you can see a 10 per cent increase: and over the decade that Høye has been visiting the Greenland spider colonies there has been a 2 per cent upward trend, which he puts down to global warming.

On its own this is quite bad enough. We here on the Reg big-game and military tech desk calculate that if the spider-wolves of the Arctic grow by 10 per cent annually**, in just fifty years they will be the size of Humvees. But it gets worse: oh yes.

We aren't just looking at a swarming, ravenous horde of hairy meat-eating arachnids the size of offroad vehicles. That would be easy to deal with, as a well-placed slug from a big-bore rifle would put such a creature down. Big-game hunters worldwide would rush to Greenland to join in the sport; every sportsman's entrance hall would be adorned with enormous spider-head trophies; wealthy socialite ladies would wear fur coats made of Arctic wolfspider-hair.

By the year 2070 or so, mournful Eskimo trackers would point dolefully across the empty prairies of Greenland, where once the mighty herds of flesh-eating buffalo-sized spiders had roamed - after the glaciers left, but before the hunters came.

So, basically no problem. But in fact, these spiders aren't going to be nearly as easy to kill as a buffalo or a charging elephant. A measly .50-calibre express bullet isn't going to knock one of these puppies down, no sir.

Why? Because spiders, as everyone knows, can actually extrude bulletproof-vest material out of their arses: True fact. And all their hard body structure is worn on the outside, as an exoskeleton, thus forming a natural coat of armour plate.

Thus when the mighty hordes of four-metre-long spiders appear in 2060 or so, they will - by our calculations - be plated with 26cm arachnocomposite protection, in the same league as or better than modern ceramic body armour but immensely thicker.

They'll be as hard to take out as a tank. This won't be a jolly day's sport blasting away with a heavy rifle: nothing short of a hypervelocity depleted-uranium penetrator, a volley of antitank missiles or a huge roadside bomb is going to stop one of these. Dealing with a spider infestation is going to be like stopping a Nazi panzer blitzkrieg.

It's always possible that humanity will be saved by radical big-game hunters mounted in battle tanks or attack helicopters - or possibly ones gutsier still, who insist on taking their arachnid trophies on foot using man-portable antitank weapons for ultimate kudos. But it sounds like an expensive and dangerous hobby.

As the National Geographic points out, we might do better to hope that the spiders' natural cannibalistic propensities come into play. Pardosa glacialis are apparently well known for snacking on their young, and (among the females) on insufficiently alert sexual partners. Enormous and correspondingly peckish lady spiders might control most of the rest of their species for us, leaving only relatively small numbers to be occasionally culled by game wardens armed with cruise missiles. ®

*Before you all start going on about floating ice, do please remember that much of the arctic ice cap sits on Greenland.

**Naturally we haven't chosen to use the more realistic 2 per cent per decade figure, as it is boring.

--Cheski

nVidia's Driver Archive

I had a problem. I needed to have 3 monitors on my workstation at work. I had a PCIe nVidia 8500GT and a PCI nVidia FX5200.

This is a large generation gap as far as video cards go. The best(read "damn near only") driver that spanned that gap was a beta GeForce driver; 175.16.

The driver details and accessibility of the nVidia Driver Archive made my BSoD fill adventure so much easier to deal with.

Thank you nVidia... I am reminded why I continue with your video card family, upgrade after upgrade.

If you need access to the Driver Archive... It can be found here.

--Cheski

Tribute to Penny Arcade Getting It Right

Penny Arcade

--Cheski

Ruffies vs. Roofies

Domo likes his ruffies. I know that they are technically a play on the word rough... But roofies sounds better and good for inter-office jokes.

"Matt gave me a roofie today at work"

Bah! If you aren't slightly amused. Hell if this doesn't amuse you... Why do you come here? Go play in the street.
--Cheski

Velvet Assassin - Initial Impressions

Velvet Assassin... I am only halfway through the first mission and already I feel like I am play Thief set in WWII. I started thinking that this was going to be Splinter Cell + Thief... but it is more Thief than Splinter Cell. It has elements that remind me of the Hitman series as well.

Overall the initial impressions of mine are good. The visuals are great. I am happy with the purchase.

I purchased this through Steam on the day it was released. I have noticed that the typical Shift+Tab to enter the Steam overlay does not work. The game does stand up to Alt Tabbing back to the desktop though, so I can't complain too much.

--Cheski