Goofus Maximus

I dunno. I kind of like the Hinata development in the latest episodes. I've been watching the 17 - 20 episodes of "Ah! My Goddess" second season, with Chinese subtitling! Sigh. When will the English subbing get done?

Behold the power of steam!

It started with Naruto, then went on to Bleach and One Piece. Every episode! I'm impatiently waiting for someone to finish subtitling episodes 16 and 17 of Ah! My Goddess, so I can find out how the fight between evil Urd and Good Urd went! I've watched all 199 episodes of Naruto (subbed, since I hate dubbed anime), all 16 episodes of Fate Stay Night (what a depressing ending), and I'm not done yet! Somebody stop me! Help!!! I'm turning into a Youtube Couch Potato! I've not had time to game! Help!!!!

I for one am happy to see our admins hardly working... er...

Mew-n Kamph! Zeig-MEOWL!

Good grief! I forgot to mention the free online antivirus scanners like House Call by Trend Micro.

Yes, pull out the card, run the vacuum to get the dust out of the slot, and off the card, then plug it back in. Be careful though, since all that rapidly moving air can generate a good static charge, and that might be what happened to your card with the last vacuuming. Also look to see if you may have accidentally knocked something loose while you were in there.

The free a-v's I know of are AVG-Free, which I use, Avast, which many claim to be better than AVG, and, for Linux, Clam-Antivirus, which I use when I have the Kubuntu Linux HDD plugged in instead of my Windows one.

From what I hear, modern wallhacks use transparent textures, which are hard to deal with, since they use the same procedures as "realism packs" and Homer Hosties...

Heh! We could call your plane "The Decapitator!"

Extensions: the new ActiveX... "NoScript" is one of my favorite extensions, that keeps things like this from happening in Firefox. There needs to be something similar for Thunderbird. I'm loving the new "Glowy Wine" theme for Firefox.

Evidently modern electronics makes such small turbojets feaseable. I was reading the specs on the JetCat engine, as well as reading a forum thread somewhere on jet engines for model planes (which is evidently a bigger market than I would have figured on), and software seems to be a big factor in running these things.

*the Monty Python lumberjack song* Oh I'm a Terrorist and I'm okay! I shoot Cee-Tees who then say "no way!" Chorus:Oh he's a Terrorist and he's okay! He shoots Cee-Tees who then say "no way!" I wear women's undies when I go to play! Chorus (backing away slowly): Uh, he's a Terrorist and he's... okay... he wears women's undies when he goes to play? I put on makeup and do my nails this way! Chorus (now in a snit) He WHAT!?!?! That's gross! Let's get out of here. Yeah! No more singing this stupid song! Yeah! Chorus tromps off in a huff...

Kitty is all better now, and is back to the rambunctious little annoyance we've come to know and love... except at 5:00AM when he thinks the house should be waking up and playing with the cat, and feeding the cat... I found it ironic that we left a piping hot house, with nothing but cold food available, to go to a cool building, and eat piping hot food...

That is a real jet engine, just it's a tiny one, It sounds just right for it's size.

We just got our power back Saturday afternoon, and the internet only made it's reappearance Sunday evening. What really stunk was that the day after the storm took out everyone's power was the hottest day of the year so far. We were really concerned about our cat, who was listless, and wouldn't drink any water. By Friday morning, we weren't in much better shape than the cat, but breakfast at the lone airconditioned hypercrowded McDonalds (who's drive-thru line stretched for two blocks at times) really revived us. We finally got Boo to drink some water by putting catnip in it. Friday evening, we finally got a break from the heat and humidity, (the dewpoint on Thursday was 80 degrees, so we spent all day hot and sticky and exhausted) and the outside was finally cooler than inside our house, so we could open all the windows and get a refreshing... lack of any breeze whatsoever... except for mid-morning and early evening, the air did not move at all, except for a bit of a chiminy effect from upper floors. Still, the sounds of birds chirping, neighbors talking, and... obscenely lucky neigbor's generators making a racket, was oddly peaceful, especially when the curtains belled out and a nice little breeze would envelope one, while the newly perked-up cat enjoyed stalking those chirping birds, and exploring the rarely opened enclosed-patio. Still well over half, possibly 70%, of the entire bi-state St. Louis area is still without power, and the temperatures are going back up over 90, and back into the upper 90's this week. We are obscenely lucky, though not as obscenely so as those neighbors who had portable gas-powered generators. With all the competition for Amerin-UE's attention, we here at Wood River didn't get a single line repair truck till Friday. The local St. Louis Regional Airport is a mess, with peeled back hangar roofs all over, and one regular building roofless, with fiberglass insulation covering the nearby field with sodden pink wads. I don't envy that cleanup job.

Here's the NZone page It looks interesting, but it beats up my gfx card like nobody's business. While my "load" temps are usually near 80c, this game pushes the load temps over 90c!

The chipset (mobo) temps will be higher just because the chipset is working harder, with your improved graphics solution giving it a higher bandwidth of workout. Among other things, your PCI-e solution is pushing more power through the mobo, which causes heat all on it's own. Also, your chipset is just processing and pushing through more raw data than before, and that will jack up the heat, as well.

This temp is quote-normal-unquote for all 6x00 and 7x00 series cards. The temperature throttling doesn't even kick in till the temps are over 100° C If the "under load" temps go over 80° C when you play, you might want to get a third-party HSF for your card. They really do help.

I get that occasionally in CS:S, and used to get it in DoD:S as well. I stopped playing DoD:S though, since after playing for a while, areas would develop where I'd get single-digit fps, and a crash would eventually follow, if I didn't stop right then. It was like accidentally trying to run through a tar-pit. In CS:S, the disappearing models is a sign to type "retry" in the console. I don't know what exactly is causing it, since, if it was heat related, I'd expect the models to disappear again in short order, yet that's almost never the case. Basically, I think Source just has very sloppy memory-management, and "loses track" of player models or props on occasion. The crashing is a different issue, and is just Source+HDR "Situation Normal" in the World According To Goofus...

I can stop any time I want to! *hides emergency stash in the lampshade... ARGH! The computer won't fit!*

Man, I thought this thread was about me! Phew! I'm having severe hip pain in my left leg right now, so I felt every "ow" from that kid. The guy with the camera needs to be taught some respect.

I've got to try out some of those suggestions! The clothing rack one sounds really fun! So does the antidepressant one, but I'm afraid I'd get arrested! Of course, darting around the store, while humming the Mission Impossible tune is SOP for me. I don't see what's so funny about that.

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