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What kind of geek are you?: Windws PC's, and more Windows PC's, photography, electronic, mechanical, gizmos, gadgets

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Games = Half-Life 2 entire series + mods, Fallout3, Dead Space....
People = Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Bell, England's Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan...too many to name....
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Posted on November 6, 2009 at 7:51pm — 3 Comments

Games and Frame Rates

So, I'm no heavy duty gamer by any stretch, but I do love my HalfLife 2 series. Some things I have noticed in reading gamer forums everybody is frame rate hungry. I got to puzzling about this, because when I got my new graphics card, the GeForce 9800 GT, my frame rates went crazy, like 120 to 150 FPS constantly. I thought, geezzzzz, that sure seems like a waste of speed, you can't see anything past 60 FPS anyway. Well, I had noticed also that there was a lot of screen tearing, you know, where th… Continue

Posted on March 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — 5 Comments

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Dan replied to Michael Armeni's discussion 'Dell ripping off my friend?'

Probably just a mix-up. Follow up with it.

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Dan commented on Fay Fuerst's blog post 'Macbook disaster...'

I just saw around here about a week or so ago somebody had a similar problem with an update. I think they restored to before the update using time Machine or something. It might have been member 'Johannes S', but I don't remember for sure.

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The Muppets was the fisrt thing I thought of when I saw you other 'Meep' story!

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That's hilarious. Talk about Police State control freak... ugh.

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At 6:04pm on November 15, 2009, Ani Boss said…: Thank you!

At 3:43pm on November 15, 2009, John Casper said…: Long time no speak, Dan. How've ya been?

At 9:40pm on November 14, 2009, Gibson said…: well the 9400M Is better then Intel media accelerator.
At least it will handle some gaming...actually i figure it will take all games at a low-medium setting decents

At 9:37pm on November 14, 2009, Gibson said…: Yo Dan, i need some input, tell me what you think of this computer..
My parents could really use something that's not running on 2.2Ghz 0.13UM single core processor...and 512 trash ram with like god knows for video.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=XW8200-XEON32-RCD-5R&cat=SYS
what you think, this thing worth it? What can u say about the Dual Xeon's i'm confused i think that's a Dual-core Xeon 3.2ghz??? 65NM????Idk what manufacturing process the processor's are.

At 5:45pm on November 14, 2009, Gibson said…: yeah haha absolutely true.
But hell i've seen some eye candy Windows-based computer's myself.
i would throw windows 7 on a Mac, it would look nice, but mind u the hardware requirements for a windows are grap all, and the graphics on those mac's sure will make windows look gorgeous and piss some mac boys right off, how silly..my nubs your master Lord Steve Jobs the Turd has allowed for windows operating system to run on your precious pieces of bubble gum.

A Message from Lord Windows.
Good..Fucking...Game.