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Blizzard, WoW and Bots / Are people really this out of touch?

« on: June 20, 2009, 02:40:38 am »

[Sem] whispers: how do you get the blizz mount
To [Sem]: go to Blizzcon
[Sem] whispers: www.blizzcon.com
To [Sem]: [Big Blizzard Bear]
[Sem] whispers: can you sow me
To [Sem]: No, literally, go to the event
[Sem] whispers: event
[Sem] whispers: go on event
To [Sem]: wow, seriously man?
To [Sem]: there is an event... called "Blizzcon."  It's a convention.
To [Sem]: You go there... in real life...
To [Sem]: and they give you stuff
To [Sem]: like a card, that you can trade in to get the blizzcon mount, and a Starcraft 2 beta trial

Really?

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Entertainment District / Learning Curves for Common Editors

« on: June 19, 2009, 04:39:06 pm »

Found via Stackoverflow:

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General Discussion / So, this is awesome

« on: June 16, 2009, 04:12:18 pm »

Apparently, someone hit my company's servers to help spread this virus:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/305676/thousands_web_sites_stung_by_mass_hacking_attack?fp=4&fpid=16

One of our employees got compromised, her username and passwords for several internal and a couple external (client-owned) servers were stolen, and a number of FTP servers that she uses were broken into as well.

Ironically, she's a Mac user.

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General Discussion / Anyone ever have pink eye for < 24 hours?

« on: June 11, 2009, 05:30:21 pm »

I'm not sure that it was exactly less than 24 hours, but pretty close....

Yesterday driving to work my right eye bugged me most of the day; I occasionally saw this funny blur out of it.  Finally after going crazy itching it a lot yesterday before I left the office, I checked and my eye was all red, and I had some dried goop (I assumed mucus) on my lower eyelash.  I wiped it off and went home.  It came back a bit later, and had spread to my left eye; by the time I went to bed, both eyes were flushing.  I woke up a couple times in the night and when I checked they were both very pink.  When I got up this morning the first thing I did was call the doctor's office for a prescription for a med, but then I took a shower and used a washcloth to get the crap off of my eyelids. 

By 10:00 am this morning I was fine, my eyes seem to have cleared up.

Anyone ever have something like that?  I'm sick this week - I figured it might have been bacterial conjunctivitis (I'm on antibiotics, azithromycin 250mg, for strep).  But I've never heard of it hitting and receding so quickly.

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Blizzard, WoW and Bots / I've been clean for three months

« on: June 09, 2009, 05:30:20 pm »

That's right.  I haven't touched WoW.

But..... I'm thinking about doing it again.

What should I do?

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General Discussion / MOVED: Breaking News: rabbit=mod nazi

« on: April 16, 2009, 02:58:14 pm »

This topic has been moved to Trash Can.

http://forum.x86labs.org/index.php?topic=14096.0

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General Discussion / MOVED: Fox News etc

« on: April 09, 2009, 12:46:04 am »

Here, we can put this in the place where the bullshit is REALLY ignored.  Troll at will, Warrior!

This topic has been moved to Politics.

http://forum.x86labs.org/index.php?topic=14065.0

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General Discussion / Happy Christmas from down under!

« on: December 24, 2008, 05:11:06 pm »

And for those of you in Canada, maybe you can explain Boxing Day to me?  It was a bit of contention with my friends in Canberra, but that's ALL the commercials have been talking about.  Boxing Day this, Boxing Day that, blah blah blah blah blah, sheesh.

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General Discussion / Hello from tomorrow!

« on: December 22, 2008, 01:53:10 am »

Actually for most of you, you're going to be catching up to today fairly soon, but I'm in Canberra, Australia right now at GMT +10. 

I just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be (mostly) afk for the next couple weeks.  Cheers, mate!

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Entertainment District / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

« on: December 15, 2008, 02:51:54 pm »

So I was watching House on Hulu and saw some ads for this.

I saw that it's based on a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote one of my favorites, The Great Gatsby. 

Anyone read it?

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General Discussion / iago on TheDailyWTF!!!!

« on: December 09, 2008, 10:18:20 am »

Of course, they alleged he worte something on the Sidebar.  Durrr....

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General Discussion / Network infrastructure setup help

« on: December 01, 2008, 04:58:00 am »

I just bought a house (closing in < 2 weeks!) and want to set up a better network than I have right now.  Having never wired a house or anything substantial for internet, I'd like some validation on what I'm planning. 

I've done some math and figured out that there would be 7 ports throughout the house that I'd want to set up:
* 1 in each of 3 bedrooms
* 1 in an outside "bonus" room
* 1 in a living area
* 2 in a common area - 1 for the Xbox and 1 for general use (like a desk)

I currently have a 4-port Linksys wireless N router, but I don't believe I want to use this as a primary router for a couple reasons:
* I want to install the networking hub in my utility room inside of cabinets.  This would put the wireless signal coming from a non-central part of the house, AND it would be close to electronics that could disrupt it, specifically, the washer/dryer.
* It only has 4 ports; to get this setup I'd need at least 7.

I still want people plugging into wired networking to get a dynamic IP address unless otherwise configured, so here's the final setup I've come up with:

Cable company -> Cable modem -> Wired router -> 8-port switch

The switch has cabling to each room connected to it and is the central point.  However, with an 8-port switch I'm not able to connect any additional devices (7 rooms plus connection to the router).  The connection to the Xbox will then go through my wireless-N router which will be configured as a gateway (so DHCP functions are disabled).  All DHCP assignment should be handled through the main wired router.

Ultimately, connections might look like this:

* Cable company -> Modem -> Wired router -> Switch -> PC
* Cable company -> Modem -> Wired router -> Switch -> Wireless Router -> Wireless Network -> PC
* Cable company -> Modem -> Wired router -> Switch -> Wireless Router -> Wired port -> Xbox

Is this correct?

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General Programming / MOVED: Re: Hiring programmers

« on: November 29, 2008, 10:47:15 am »

This topic has been moved to Off Topic Discussions.

http://forum.x86labs.org/index.php?topic=13634.0

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General Discussion / Gmail Themes

« on: November 20, 2008, 01:59:11 am »

Oooh la la!



I ended up going with the planets theme, though I did consider using the Mountains theme at first.  I was disappointed that the Planets theme didn't ask which planet I was from. :-/

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General Discussion / What is nature's call?

« on: October 12, 2008, 05:01:30 am »

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