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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 - NEW APPS FOR THE NEW YEAR 2015 - START YOUR ENGINES!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 08, 2014, 11:45 AM »

Please please please someone with artistic abilities make a custom mug design.

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Living Room / Re: Movie Trivia: How Many Can You Get?

« Last post by Deozaan on October 08, 2014, 11:37 AM »

Spoiler

3. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
4. Psycho?
16. Forest Gump
20. Blade Runner?

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Living Room / Re: Who is your Favourite "Doctor"?

« Last post by Deozaan on October 06, 2014, 04:27 PM »

Who?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam is Changing...

« Last post by Deozaan on October 06, 2014, 03:05 PM »

The new Steam Discovery Queue is worthless. 12 games (at a time) it thinks I may be interested in.

"This game is in your queue because..."

• "It's popular." -- Yeah... I don't really care if it's popular. Not interested.
• "It's a top seller." -- Yeah... this is just another way of saying it's popular. Still not interested.

And that's it. Imagine how well that would work introducing you to other people.

"We recommend you get to know John Doe because..."

• "He's popular."
• "Most other people are getting to know him right now."

But what is he like? What are his interests? Do we have anything in common?

It's totally useless.

How about "This game is in your queue because..."

• "You spent 500 hours playing Terraria and this game is popular among gamers who like Terraria."
• "You spent 300 hours playing Civilization and this game is similar to Civilization."
• "It's a 4X strategy game, and you play a lot of 4X strategy games."
• "A lot of your friends play this game."

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Living Room / Re: Samsung pays MS $1 billion in royalties for using Android. wtf.

« Last post by Deozaan on October 06, 2014, 02:42 PM »

Links? Sources? etc.?

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Living Room / Re: Win10 Navigation Pane scrambled

« Last post by Deozaan on October 03, 2014, 08:52 PM »

If you read my original post to will see that I was asking for "ideas".

-Cuffy (October 03, 2014, 08:36 PM)

Here's an idea:

Try being a little more considerate to people who are trying to help you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on October 03, 2014, 08:27 PM »

Heh.  The Admin on W9 Forums had to scramble to change everything to Windows 10.

-MilesAhead (October 02, 2014, 09:13 AM)

They couldn't just do a search and replace on it! What if they accidentally turned every reference to Windows 95 or 98 to Windows 105 or Windows 108? The results could be disastrous!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on October 01, 2014, 11:40 PM »

How are you people installing it? The 64-bit USA ISO just has errors in VirtualBox when I try to install it.

-Deozaan (October 01, 2014, 11:19 PM)

I had problems too so ended up using VMware.

So far it seems to be the same as Win8 without the hassle of bypassing the Metro screen.

-wetsmellydog (October 01, 2014, 11:36 PM)

You caught me! I removed my post because after I asked, I tried again and got it to work.

I'm not sure what the solution was, to be honest.

I tried it with the 32-bit ISO and it warned me about needing to enable PAE, so I enabled it and got to the setup screen. Then I mounted the 64-bit ISO and rebooted my VM and it worked. So maybe I needed to enable PAE to get it to work?

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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 01, 2014, 09:52 PM »

How'd you get it to install? It crashes my VirtualBox VM during boot.

-Deozaan (October 01, 2014, 05:38 PM)

I installed a 32-bit copy in a 64-bit Windows 8.1 Hyper-V VM. From initial boot to desktop was just a bit over 5 minutes. While it runs just fine, I was rather disappointed that the sound card didn't work. Now I've learned to expect that out of a Linux distro ... But Windows on Windows??? Yeish!

-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 06:53 PM)

OK. I guess I'll try a 32-bit ISO. . .

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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 01, 2014, 05:38 PM »

How'd you get it to install? It crashes my VirtualBox VM during boot.

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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 01, 2014, 04:08 PM »

Windows 10 x64 Tech Preview ISO Image - Direct Link

-Josh (October 01, 2014, 03:11 PM)

Heh heh. Notice the URL contains W9TPI, i.e., Windows 9 Technical Preview Image.

According to Microsoft's website, the SHA-1 for the above ISO should be: EB75A3D3C0F621F175B75DC65DB036D0E00EAC43

But don't you also need a product key for the ISO to work?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Risk of Rain 4-pack

« Last post by Deozaan on October 01, 2014, 02:47 PM »

If you like Risk of Rain, consider backing this game called Warlocks which is very much inspired by RoR:

https://www.kickstar...229931946/warlocks-0

It's in the final 24 hours and needs ~$1,500 to reach its goal.

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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 01, 2014, 01:44 PM »

This is hilarious...

http://www.infoworld...s-to-windows-10.html

-wraith808 (October 01, 2014, 11:21 AM)

Please note that that was an April Fool's article from 2013!

They thought they were being silly, but they were prophetic!

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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!

« Last post by Deozaan on September 30, 2014, 07:59 PM »

Uh oh... I think the universe is going to collapse on itself.

Windows is well known for sucking every other version. XP was good. Vista wasn't. Win7 was good. Win8 wasn't.

We were all expecting Win9 to be good. But if Win9 is going to be called Win10, but Win10 is supposed to suck, but Win9 is going to be good...

CANNOT COMPUTE!

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare October Challenge 2014

« Last post by Deozaan on September 29, 2014, 03:07 PM »

It's that time again for the Ludum Dare October Challenge!

The purpose: Just as Ludum Dare encourages you to make a game, the October Challenge encourages you to sell a game. Or put another way:

Finish a game — Take it to market — Earn $1

That is your goal. That is the October Challenge.

-http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/09/29/october-challenge-2014/

Read more here:
http://www.ludumdare...ober-challenge-2014/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam is Changing...

« Last post by Deozaan on September 29, 2014, 01:37 PM »

So far I've found it harder to find what I'm interested in. I don't care about curators. I don't care what other random or YouTube/Twitter Famous people recommend. The only recommendations I care about are from some people I actually know, and they will usually tell me "Hey, you should check out this game!" instead of making a review/curation page for me to look at.

"Endless" scrolling things suck. There's no easy to way to link to it or resume where you left off if you click a link and then the back button.

I like the color scheme. I guess.

One thing that I really do like, though, is that it is now very easy to see which games you already own, since there is now an indicator across the game's banner image which shows whether you own it or if it's on your wishlist. That's nice.

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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!

« Last post by Deozaan on September 29, 2014, 01:30 PM »

Not quite. (emphasis added below)

Andreas Diantoro, the president of Microsoft Indonesia, confirms that Windows 9 will be a free upgrade for all Windows 8 users.

It's a free "upgrade" for people who own Windows 8. That excludes a lot of people, myself included. So no, Windows 9 will not be free.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Deozaan on September 27, 2014, 03:34 PM »

OK. Sorry.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Linux bash exploit discovered

« Last post by Deozaan on September 27, 2014, 10:07 AM »

Why are they all pronouncing it "lye nucks"?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Deozaan on September 27, 2014, 10:00 AM »

How is that a syllogism?

An instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs.)

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Living Room / Re: Kevin Mitnick Is Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

« Last post by Deozaan on September 26, 2014, 07:01 PM »

Is that even legal? Seems like a good way to land himself back in prison.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Play Guild Wars 2 for Free from September 26 – October 2

« Last post by Deozaan on September 26, 2014, 06:45 PM »

They're doing it again. Another weeklong trial. Previous Trial accounts will be given another free trial:

https://www.guildwar...rs-2-for-free-today/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Linux bash exploit discovered

« Last post by Deozaan on September 26, 2014, 06:00 PM »

This is my primary source for information about the bash exploit:

Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug

As I understand it, it's not just Linux. It's pretty much anything with bash. This includes Unix systems, OSX, Linux, Internet of Things (toasters, thermostats, lightbulbs), routers, and even some tools for Windows that include bash.

It's a pretty severe problem. )c:

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ludum Dare 30: August 22-25, 2014

« Last post by Deozaan on September 23, 2014, 07:09 PM »

I caught up with this, and it's a cute little puzzle game!

-TaoPhoenix (September 23, 2014, 12:29 AM)

Thanks for your review of my game! It was really nice to hear a more thorough review. I appreciate your feedback.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Tresorit - Secure, end-to-end encrypted Cloud storage service (FREE)

« Last post by Deozaan on September 22, 2014, 10:48 PM »

Isn't Mega.co.nz supposed to be encrypted end-to-end?

There's also SpiderOak, which has been around for a long time.