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Gaming / Re: Best Game Ever

« on: March 01, 2008, 10:57:37 pm »

Haha I dunno what I was thinking. Halo 1 is definitely better. Time Splitters is fun. I recently went to GameWorks (awesome place, look it up if you don't know what it is). I player Time Splitters 3 at the arcade. Mucho fun.

Speaking of arcades, DDR is the shit.

Halo games are alright.... I hadn't played any of them till recently, but my friend got a 360 last year and we started playing through Halo and Halo 2 in co-op mode a week before Halo 3 came out, got through them very easily even playing them quite drunk. Was highly entertaining, but I'd only rate the games as average, including Halo 3.

Summer before last I practised DDR loads, because I've got a friend whose natural at it, got up to 8 foot, going to work on getting to 9 / 10 foot next time I get a semi-hard DDR matt and a bit of time.

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Gaming / Re: Guitar Hero 2/3

« on: March 01, 2008, 10:48:52 pm »

Yeah, I've been playing GHIII with friends, you're approaching it from the wrong direction. Of course you can't complete every song on hard before you start doing expert that's completely normal.

The hardest songs on hard are much harder than the easiest songs on expert. Get good at hard, then start practising expert a lot, when you go back to the hard songs on hard they'll seem much easier than when you played them before because you're used to a much faster pace.

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Computers - Technology / Re: Transfering from small HD to larger

« on: March 01, 2008, 07:33:22 am »

I have a 114gig drive and a 300 gig drive, I transferred the contents of the 114gig drive to the 300, now the 300 says it's the 114 gig hard driive???
I used Maxtor Maxblast and it worked really smooth, but I lost a bunch of hard drive space.

Any suggestions...??

Yeah, you just need to open the rest of the drive to that partition.

You should see in disk management that only a certain amount of the hard drive is partitioned:

Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc

I forget how you expand the partition, but there is a way, play around with it. Also what OS are you on? If it's XP you are on SP2 right?

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Gaming / Re: Best Game Ever

« on: March 01, 2008, 07:26:28 am »

World of Warcraft (I'm addicted)
Halo 2
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (I still play that game)

^_^

Halo 2? Seriously?

Go play a good FPS, like TimeSpitters 

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General Discussion / Re: Firefox & This Fourm

« on: March 01, 2008, 12:52:17 am »

I don't know how it's generating shadows, but if it's via the CSS2.1 specification (or is it CSS3?) Firefox has no plans to support it until Firefox 3.next. There's a bit of a long complicated reason for the delay, but it originally wasn't part of the specifications to my understanding.

It has always supported background colours, the code just must have been badly written.

Firefox messes up alot of things

Give me a single example where Firefox genuinely messes things up and the author hasn't just badly written the website (and I count ActiveX as badly writing a website  )

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: February 29, 2008, 11:39:58 am »

Hmmm, unlucky problem...

To be it sounds like it's a motherboard problem, if there are components you can test, go through them 1 by 1.

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General Discussion / Re: Earthquake in UK

« on: February 27, 2008, 08:28:29 pm »

The floor got really wobbly and everything on my table shook a fair bit. I jolted out the room worried the floor might collapse in to the kitchen.

Had great fun the next 20 mins or so talking to about 50 people on MSN / IRC trying to work out how far across England it could be felt.

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: February 27, 2008, 08:26:36 pm »

Need to be more specific about start-up problems like that. Does it turn on at all? Does it briefly make any sounds? Is it on but nothing outputting to monitor? etc...

These kinds of problems I hate most, but I do know most common causes for them.

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Bugs & Feature Requests / Re: How long to get the Guevara Edition?

« on: February 27, 2008, 08:22:16 pm »

That's strange, sending a message to chip over IRC about this.

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: February 24, 2008, 10:58:16 am »

Sounds reasonable. Have been looking at http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Power+Supplies/Corsair+450W+VX+Series+PSU+?productId=28332.
Specs are good and would last a while. Your thoughts?
cheers

Corsair are a really good brand, specs unfortunately mean nothing for a PSU.

Either it's a good brand, it has lots of good user feedback or there is a good review on it and the only people I know who actually do reviews worthwhile reading for PSUs are Anandtech and they only started this year and haven't got round to budget PSUs.

As for this PSU, a single power rail, while somewhat questionable on safety (no one really knows with this sort of stuff) does appear to provide better performance.

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: February 24, 2008, 03:48:50 am »

Double check if you've read my last post on the previous page, especially about hard drives and stuff.

As for PSUs, they try and make them as cheap as possible and they can be real bad, this is very very common, there's the ones mentioned here in this thread so far. Also as for other budget PSUs I've had good experience with, Trust's Low Noise Big Fan series seems pretty good, e.g: http://www.amazon.co.uk/TRUST-520W-Pro-Noise-PW-5550/dp/B000J5U0ME

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: February 22, 2008, 07:40:51 am »

Apparently the drive is the WD3200AAKS-00B3A0, you can read about it here: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3236

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Computers - Technology / Re: One for you Quantum et-all

« on: February 20, 2008, 11:56:22 pm »

There's no practical difference between a SATA or IDE (also known as ATA or PATA) drives at this point.

It really depends what connectors are on your motherboard, SATA drives tend to be slightly cheaper unless you find an IDE one on sale. If you do get a SATA drive, you need to make sure you have a SATA data cable (should be a fair bit less than £1) and a SATA power cable (molex to SATA cables are as cheap if not cheaper than SATA data cables).

500GB is the cheapest £/GB ratio at the moment I think. Also a new tech for hard drives have come out called 'perpendicular storage method' this allows platter densities to be much higher, reducing the amount of platters, increasing the life expectancy and reliability of the hard drive.

16MB of Cache offers almost no tangible performance over 8MB, only get higher amounts of cache when it's the time price or cheaper.

Easy enough to pick up a 320GB hard drive in that price range. But out of all 320GB hard drives, this one is probably the best as it runs on a single platter: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124735

Edit: Not sure if that's actually the single platter one! Apparently that model number is used both for the single platter and a double 160GB platter 

Read this for details: http://www.dailytech.com/Update+Western+Digital+Launches+Single+Platter+320GB+Desktop+Drive/article10432.htm

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Computers - Technology / Re: Mouse troubles

« on: February 20, 2008, 11:40:43 pm »

Have you looked in to the settings of the tracker pad / dell's drivers or control panel?

Have you asked dell?

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General Discussion / Re: RIP HD DVD

« on: February 20, 2008, 11:37:27 pm »

  Makes me sad, having a region free, adaptive, consistently better looking format which didn't break early generation players would have been nice, but never mind...