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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« on: June 04, 2009, 02:08 PM »

Too late...I bought both Fallout 1 and 2 when they hit the shelves & have played them both through more than once.

-Innuendo (June 04, 2009, 01:40 PM)

When I said 'check out' I meant look at the references- I pretty much assumed you would have already heard of it, if not played it.  There was actually supposed to be a sequel, but I never played it.

As far as who owns the rights, apparently Brian Fargo acquired them back in 2003, and has apparently said that he's looking at doing a sequel, but that's only second hand information.

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Living Room / Re: Where did your DC user I.D come from?

« on: June 04, 2009, 02:02 PM »

wraith808 I've had for a while- back from long nights of playing doom and it's ilk.  The wraith references what my friends call my uncanny ability to camp without camping.  I called it being in the right place at the right time.    The 808 is a reference to our Clan, the 808Klan, which itself comes from the musical background of the founder, in reference to the Roland TR-808.

I also use hachibushu, which I created from the kanji characters hachi (eight) and bushu (warrior spirit), not knowing that there was an actual basis for the name.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« on: June 04, 2009, 10:30 AM »

I think fallout is the spiritual successor to wasteland.  Checkout fallout 2 for the best proof of that as some of the locales and npcs directly borrow from wasteland.

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Living Room / Really Huge MindMap

« on: June 04, 2009, 09:39 AM »

I don't get into the whole MindMapping thing- never had enough time to explore it fully.  But this is pretty impressive:

http://www.innovatio...ex-largest-mind-map/

A huge mindmap of "A History of Chinese Civilization".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a Gmail backup that will save labeling?

« on: June 04, 2009, 09:35 AM »

Gmail Keeper.  It's by Innovation Gear, but I don't see a mention of it on their site strangely enough.   You can find information on Bits Du Jour though.

I bought it, but haven't tried it yet.  So much software, so little time.  But the comments on Bits seemed positive.  I'll try to give it a whirl and let you know how it comes out.

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« on: June 03, 2009, 10:39 AM »

MS Flight Simulator X and other software like it that assume that you are pirates so much their software is incompatible with you having CD Imaging Software on your system.

For a long time, my son's DVD drive didn't work, so I was taking his games and using VirtualDrive to image them so that he could mount them and play them.  He plays mostly older games, so it didn't really matter.  Enter Flight Simulator.  I couldn't copy it, so broke down and took a DVD drive out of a non-working case and installed it in his system.  He installs- the first DVD installs perfectly, but the second one won't mount (I guess it's the play disc).  No matter what, or how many installs, we get errors- even a blue screen!  I look it up online, and on several sites, including the MS site, there is an indication that if you have *any* imaging software (Nero, etc) installed, it won't install! 

How far will DRM go to inconvenience their paying customers! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« on: June 03, 2009, 10:31 AM »

It's funny how many of the good old games were done by EA before their transformation to corporate tyrant, and how many of their games were innovative as opposed to now.

-wraith808 (June 02, 2009, 04:51 PM)

IMHO, it think a lot of it had to do with Trip Hawkins being at the helm in the early days. EA lost its sense of humor and much of its soul after he left.

-40hz (June 02, 2009, 05:06 PM)

I think a lot of that soul was drained by EA going public- stockholder accountability can make a company do many things that are counterproductive to maintaining the happiness of it's user base.  It's very hard to maintain a balance between making your users happy and making your stockholders happy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« on: June 02, 2009, 04:51 PM »

It's funny how many of the good old games were done by EA before their transformation to corporate tyrant, and how many of their games were innovative as opposed to now.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic

« on: June 02, 2009, 01:53 PM »

Not all by any means.  You can grind, but you don't have to.. and with my Lifetime Membership to LOTRO, I don't have to spend any more money other than on expansions if I want them.  I went 6 months before I bought the Moria expansion.  I'm not sure about the subscription plans, but I hope they have something similar for SWTOP.

I won't be prejudicial about this game based on the "Lucas Arts" label (it's an MMO, Star Wars: Galaxies now but a distant memory/nightmare), and I have to say, this trailer looks to be made of epic. See for yourselves:

Many people have said that it was because I didn't live through the NGE era, but SWG is pretty good IMO.

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Living Room / Re: Need help finding a Windows XP Home Edition ISO (for LEGAL use)

« on: June 02, 2009, 01:50 PM »

200MB per day?!?  Wow... I couldn't deal with that easily...

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Living Room / Re: Need help finding a Windows XP Home Edition ISO (for LEGAL use)

« on: June 02, 2009, 11:12 AM »

Yeah... I hate torrents that way.  I've downloaded what were supposed to be legitimate copies before from torrents (in general isos to machines that didn't have cd/dvd drives) and they've been hacked... always a question of should I go ahead and use that since I have a legitimate version or not.

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Living Room / Re: Need help finding a Windows XP Home Edition ISO (for LEGAL use)

« on: June 02, 2009, 10:18 AM »

Just what I was looking for - a clean, retail ISO

Thanks

-wreckedcarzz (June 01, 2009, 07:20 PM)

Were you able to get it?  I've been trying to solve this same problem- installing with only a key not a cd.  But deposit files doesn't have the ISO posted anymore.

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General Review Discussion / Re: UltraEdit Review and Giveaway ($50 value)

« on: June 01, 2009, 04:38 PM »

And to think, because of the necro-posting, I almost necro-posted to a 2 year old comment thread to win an UE license...  have to be more careful about looking at dates... 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager

« on: May 31, 2009, 04:12 AM »

Forgive my ignorance, but what do you use descript.ion files for?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wakoopa's First "The State of Apps" Report

« on: May 31, 2009, 04:10 AM »

Though what does bother me is the fact that there's no way to block someone from following you...

-wraith808 (May 26, 2009, 08:34 PM)

Are you aware that people can follow you without you knowing it (if your profile is public), just by subscribing to your RSS feeds? Even if you could block a user on the site, what would be the point if he could just grab your public feeds and follow you from a feed reader, rather than the dashboard?

Of course if you make your profile private, they can still follow you but there would be no point in it. They can't see your data and you have no public feeds.

-app103 (May 30, 2009, 05:09 AM)

They could password protect the RSS feed also.  I don't mind people following me, but there's been a strange occurrence of people from strange countries starting to follow me that makes me think that perhaps people are attempting to use it in ways not intended.  Perhaps if not password protect it, obscure it with a generated number rather than your username on the RSS feed.  There are options they could take... and twitter does it currently (at least the block following part) so IMO it's not too much to ask.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager

« on: May 29, 2009, 10:34 PM »

Oh.  D'oh.  I did mention I'd looked at it superficially, right? 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: XYplorer File Manager

« on: May 29, 2009, 09:57 PM »

I've been playing rather superficially with it also.  Price might be one reason it eventually does it now that it has DP, though DO has a leg up since I use horizontal panes and right now XY only does vertical.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« on: May 29, 2009, 12:01 PM »

So many of the new games just really blow- there are a few gems, but in the days of yore, graphics were not a big selling point, so they had to have the gameplay.  I don't see why they can't take some of these classics and update them and re-release them! 

I spend a lot of time trying to find games that are just as fun as those late nights; as a point, I just bought X2 off of Steam, and I'm hoping that's elite-ish.  Privateer was one that was very similar to elite, but I agree that elite was a pretty rare gem. 

But there are so many old games that could be tapped for great resurrections!

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« on: May 29, 2009, 09:31 AM »

Companies that do underhanded things to try to sabotage another company's efforts because they can't compete.

No, I'm not talking about Microsoft, but EA right now.  I ordered Mirror's Edge off of Steam, and then ordered the DLC through EA's store since they didn't put it on Steam, and it won't work!  They could at least (its been months apparently since this first surfaced) put a disclaimer on the DLC page, but nothing...

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: May 28, 2009, 10:34 PM »

Just tried it on a 60.9MB

-wraith808 (May 28, 2009, 09:27 AM)

But in the context of this thread, 60.9MB is not a large file.  Even Zeus will handle 100MB files with out any problems.

The original request for an editor that could handle 1 or 2 Giga byte sized files.

-Jussi Jumppanen (May 28, 2009, 07:37 PM)

In the context of the question, it's large enough for a reply, I think.  The person that I was replying to said something about 100MB files- thats just the largest I had readily on hand.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: May 28, 2009, 09:31 AM »

Ah.. these are plain text files.  Just masses of numbers and stuff slammed together in a fixed format, or delimited with a ~.  There's no highlighting involved- I wonder if that's what makes the difference.

EDIT - NM.  I just tried to make a significant edit (rather than just massaging a number or two) and it locked the machine down for a minute or so when I tried to c&p, then again when I saved it.  I guess it's all in the way you use it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: May 28, 2009, 09:27 AM »

I haven't had a problem with it on huge files- again, they aren't major changes I'm making... so I'm not sure if that's why it works for me.

EDIT - Just tried it on a 60.9MB file and made a change to one figure (my usual change) to see if I was crazy or not.  Total elapsed time <30 sec, and most of that was finding the number I could safely edit.  I'm using Notepad++ 4.2...

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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

« on: May 28, 2009, 09:11 AM »

I am surprised that noone has mentionned OpenOffice

-elpresi (May 12, 2009, 06:29 PM)

- you really shouldn't be surprised, because this thread is about a pdf EDITOR.

-Curt (May 12, 2009, 06:32 PM)

Well, can you import a PDF file, edit it, and export it again and get an edited PDF no muss, no fuss?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Battlefield Heroes

« on: May 28, 2009, 06:59 AM »

Game looks great.

Real money for in-game advantage doesn't.

-Deozaan (May 28, 2009, 12:02 AM)

+1.  I'm not as much of a stickler over this if you can get the advantage for free also.  Which is I guess one of the reasons I don't really care that much about gold farmers (other than the advertising tactics they use, and the underhanded methods they use to get gold at times).  If you can trade time for money, I don't see the problem.  It's when money gives you and advantage you can't get otherwise that I get hot under the collar.

And isn't battlefield heroes ad supported?

UPDATE - did a bit of research. They don't say it's ad supported, so that may have changed since I last looked at it.  And they had this to say about the money for items bit...

We won't be publishing a list of items at this time. But suffice it to say the following:
We don't plan on letting players buy a gameplay advantage, like bigger/better weapons for "real" money.
What you will likely be able to buy are items like clothing, cool looking things and fun stuff.

I guess at this point I'll take a wait and see attitude, but it is EA...

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: May 28, 2009, 06:55 AM »

Very often, I see text editors advertised as being able to handle huge files (100+ Mb) and people commenting that they work on those incredibly large files. It boggles my mind and I wonder what kind of files are you working on that are so hefty? That's equivalent to 50,000 pages or more of text. Is the capability of editing 100's of megabytes all that common as a requirement for a text editor?

-tide (May 28, 2009, 02:08 AM)

Yeah, I also wonder the same thing.  (No offense to anyone, i swear!) but sometimes I think it's one of those things where people pick one really minor issue about a program and just get totally hung up on it.  I know I catch myself doing that sometimes.

-superboyac (May 28, 2009, 02:12 AM)

Actually, this is a real requirement for some people.  I get extracts from mainframe reports that are easily this large every month.  When I have to go check to see whether I received wrong info from the mainframe, V is a lifesaver.  Then if I have to actually edit something to get end of month going, Notepad++ is a real lifesaver!

Well, a text file of around 60-100mb (which I have to deal with often) does take a few seconds on any editor that puts it in memory. EmEditor is the only one that streams it.

-urlwolf (May 28, 2009, 06:51 AM)

V seems to open it up instantly, even if I use a layout on top of it for columns.  Notepad++ doesn't seem to take too much longer...