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  1. fury

    So, what's your rig?

    Aye
  2. fury

    Happy birthday unclehobart!

    :beerbang:
  3. fury

    Downtime around the 31st - hard drive upgrades

    Servers will be receiving new, bigger, faster hard drives some time today, and that will mean a short downtime as I move stuff. Not sure when they will do it though. Shouldn't be too long.
  4. fury

    So, what's your rig?

    All in favor of me dropping the 10 character minimum limit, say "Aye" ... oh, wait :P
  5. fury

    Looks like Crapple is ditching IBM

    Quad-cores are just around the corner anyway, from both Intel and AMD. I'd be more concerned about what each core could do with what amount of juice (and spitting out what amount of heat), though. Quality over quantity and all...
  6. fury

    Looks like Crapple is ditching IBM

    I think Apple did pretty well off with the switch to Intel. Back then, there was all kinds of "No way! Now it'll be slow!" and now they've got every Mac fan eating out of the palm of their hands, especially with all of the banter about how Windows runs better on the Intel Mac than OSX does. If...
  7. fury

    Old DOS games that you never thought would last this long in your collection

    Yeah, I think it emulates all of it.
  8. fury

    Old DOS games that you never thought would last this long in your collection

    I told you in the original post :P http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ Complete old-computer emulator. Runs about like a fast 486 or mid-grade Pentium on the latest 2ghz machines.
  9. fury

    Old DOS games that you never thought would last this long in your collection

    Did you try running it inside DOSbox?
  10. fury

    So, what's your rig?

    Exactly. Back when cutting edge didn't mean having to cut the cost of the rest of your computer to afford it.
  11. fury

    Old DOS games that you never thought would last this long in your collection

    For me, it's Tyrian. It's an upward-scrolling, space flyer shooter game. The main attraction I have to the game is the endless possibilities for destruction. You have a wide selection of weapons (several different types for each of a front gun, rear gun, and left and right sidekick weapons or...
  12. fury

    Xibase ICQ Active list is officially dead....

    Yep, in fact bought a year of SkypeOut access I could use to save cell phone minutes (some months, for some reason, I just hit that dreaded 450, can't really understand why). It's OK. The call quality is better than on my cell phone, obviously, but having to be anchored to a decent internet...
  13. fury

    So, what's your rig?

    Good point. I just miss the days terribly where you could pick up a decent video card for under $100. (trusty ol' Voodoo 3 2000... it let me play Quake 3 at last)
  14. fury

    Xibase ICQ Active list is officially dead....

    I have an MSN account that I log into from Trillian, but it doesn't do as well with MSN as it does with the others. I can't ever get file transfers to work on Trillian's MSN, and its group conversations are about as pleasant as diving head-first into a pool of nails. Not that group conversations...
  15. fury

    peek a boo (not for kids)

    The cost of living is higher here, and it's hard to scrounge up any decent quality pocket lint.
  16. fury

    Xibase ICQ Active list is officially dead....

    Nope, it never did. I use Trillian now, it's been a better ICQ/AIM/Yahoo client than either of the three clients it replaces. I don't know of any modern equivalent to an ICQ activelist. There's always IRC channels, but people who haven't been using IRC already for a while have too much trouble...
  17. fury

    peek a boo (not for kids)

    A dirty hand job.
  18. fury

    So, what's your rig?

    $829? Jeez. You can already play the latest games at max HDTV resolution with all the features turned on with a bargain bin $300 card. And if for some reason that isn't enough, you can buy two of 'em still cheaper than this.
  19. fury

    So, what's your rig?

    Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro SLI 2 gigs of OCZ PC3200 LL Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0ghz Zalman Reserator Plus BFG Geforce 7800 GT OC (256mb) Hauppauge WinTV 2000 for video input (The video in on the Geforce lags too much) 74 gig second-gen WD Raptor 300 gig Maxtor SATA Antec NeoHE 500 Memorex 16x dual-layer...
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