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General Discussion / Re: Official "post your desktop" thread!

« on: July 13, 2006, 07:00:51 am »

I got a new one too! Just some DaoC mood..

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General Discussion / Re: BitTorrent to be method of legal movie downloads OFFICIAL!

« on: July 13, 2006, 06:58:34 am »

http://www.techspot.com/news/22161-bittorrent-signs-deal-with-studios-to-release-movies-over-the-internet.html

Blahhhhhh. This is going to bring more unwanted attention to BitTorrent, and it'll become harder and harder to pirate stuff. .

Back to IRC!

Back to newsgroups  . Served me for years, still the best resource. Amen!

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General Discussion / Re: First 750GB Internal 3.5" HD

« on: July 07, 2006, 06:43:42 pm »

That's an easy one.

Current hard disk technology with longitudinal recording has an estimated limit of 100 to 200 gigabit per square inch due to the Superparamagnetic effect, though this estimate is constantly changing. Perpendicular recording is predicted to allow information densities of up to around 1 Tbit/sq. inch (1000 Gbit/sq. inch).

1 terabit = 1012 bits = 1,000,000,000,000 bits (one trillion, long scale: one billion)



Ok, I give.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording

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Blizzard, WoW and Bots / Re: What YOU'RE doing in WoW right now.

« on: July 07, 2006, 02:57:00 pm »

I just finished waiting for the fourth night in a row for our warrior to show up so we could run Uldaman. I haven't done Uldaman since 41, and now that I'm 46, I'm a LITTLE pissed off that we STILL haven't run it again. Took us so friggin' long to find a warrior that wasn't Fury specced, and now that we have, he's never online long enough anymore to do jack shit except get too tired to run (like, get to the instance portal and then back out), or his "net dies". Ri-hight.

I guess it wouldn't be so bad if we could actually PvP, but we beat the  Horde's asses so much they won't queue up for WSG anymore. *sigh*

Zul'Furak, thanks.  I personally have completed Uldaman once, just to read the lore books.  The quests make you go back several times and reward you with like, negative xp.  Don't bother with it, nothing good drops there.

Well, I did get a very good polearm from Ulda. But, the main reason that we're going back is to wtf-pwn the statue boss because we wiped on him twice at level 41..

And, our priest sucks at healing so ZF eats us alive.

On a side note, though, I have to say that, despite the fact that I'm level 46, I *STILL* wear the green whelp armor for PvP. I can't tell you the satisfaction I get when I'm down to 6% health, a warrior and shaman are beating on me, and almost simultaneously, they both fall asleep. Needless to say, I made it out alive... They didn't.

The whelp armor is also very good to have in ZG in the encounter with the Panther boss. She has 30'ish panthers randomly targeting group members and you must not hit them, this armor does the trick. It's fun to see 30 panthers sleep around you .

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General Discussion / Re: Official "post your desktop" thread!

« on: July 06, 2006, 05:05:06 am »

Seeing as my geforce melted, mysteriously (underpants gnomes?), I'm using a Matrox 16MB Millenium G400 and am limited to 1024x768 for now.

Click for full size.