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This wallpaper captures the urban essence that proliferated the art of Ghost in the Shell in every incarnation of the series. Phill does an amazing job of capturing a moment of surrealism.
While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.
While there are a few, stray building angles and shadows, you find that your eye forgives the minor details and instead focuses on the overall scene that is larger than life, with lights trailing off into infinity.
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~hakuza
8 minutes ago
Wow... anyone else see that Mononoke-hime wallpaper in progress? <_< Just wow. lol
~haikoru-sama
19 minutes ago
~thebigfatwhale
32 minutes ago
>_> mewthree?
~haikoru-sama
32 minutes ago
<_< mewtwo
~thebigfatwhale
40 minutes ago
>_>
~whisprn2dawind
1 hour 9 minutes ago
Bout time! bye~
~Gatoi
1 hour 10 minutes ago
*turning off computer* BAI!!
~whisprn2dawind
1 hour 11 minutes ago
Meh... neither...
~Gatoi
1 hour 11 minutes ago
Shove him then! (good night! =))
~Moto101
1 hour 12 minutes ago
Lol I dont like Justin Timberlake :(
CPU-Fan Stickage
1 year 3 months ago
"Don't pull but twist or turn... or just turn on the setup .. the paste will heat up and would be more easy to remove.The yank method works too.
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Working on a new CAD/Gaming System
1 year 3 months ago
"Why use a desktop CPU in a graphics workstation ... ?I would go for a XEON 32xx /5xxx not sure what the complexity of your cad files are but think about bus speed to squeeze out some extra speed.
Make sure the mobo has enough pci-e lanes
Also if 4GB+ of memory .. might want to use XP64
Got two 78GB Raptors in R0 and it's fast .. but afaik the 150 GB's perform a little better...
if you can afford it .. get a SAS raid card .. I got a few highly stressed SQL boxes and the transaction logs are on a SAS array in raid 0 while the DB's reside on a S-ata raid 50 array.
Did I mention enough pci lanes... :)"
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Video card color calibration.
1 year 4 months ago
"Wouldn't it be more easy to uninstall the current drivers and re-install new drivers?"View
Mac VS PC
1 year 4 months ago
"I dislike any OS that assumes the user behind the screen is a complete utter idiot."
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A help me thread: Photoshop and tablet PC
1 year 4 months ago
"The first question would be what HP do you have?afaik the only hp tablet that supports pen pressure are the ones that have a active digitizer from wacom.
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Final Call
1 year 5 months ago
"I like a good sale .. *donated*:)"
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Vista Vs. XP
1 year 7 months ago
"I'm running vista businessUser based Local security policies = teh win
UAC .. annoying while installing stuff it's actually a good thing. (kinda the wannabe equivalent of sudo)
TCP stack is more robust / faster. (compared to XP)
IPv6 works better (had some funky weird shit on XP and 2003)
RDP 6x rocks
It runs smooth on my laptop.
1.73 GHz Mobile Pentium M
1.5 GB / 2.5" 100GB 7200Rpm hdd
Memory management seems to work better yeah it vista uses more space .. but compared to XP it's used more efficient..
Hell CS3 (beta) feels to run smoother than on XP
It took 39 minutes to install .. but +4 hours to make it work like I want. <g>
The new File Explorer stinks, but I use total commander as my "explorer" so it's not a big problem.
I always find it amazing that peeps pay a shitload of money for hardware but don't want to pay for a OS that they will use every day for multiple years.
As administrator having to maintain a company network ... I'm pretty happy with it.
Welcome to 2007 people... "
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Windows Vista Versions
1 year 8 months ago
"Running Vista Business myself ... it's always nice to have your company pay for your operating system.Still I dislike it.
I keep switching back to a hacked osX and with CS3 around the corner I will say adieu to it in a few months I hope.
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Motherboard for Core 2 Duo
1 year 10 months ago
"I second that, I love it and it's a very stable overclocking platform if you are interested in that."
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What laptop brand do you recommend?
1 year 10 months ago
"Got a Dell D810 and it performs very good had a good price and I got 3 years of NBD warranty with it.In our company we went from Dell to Toshiba and we are back to Dell again.
The Toshiba's kept breaking down and dealing with their helpdesk monkeys wasn't a pleasure.
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Kubuntu, Ubuntu or Fedora
2 years 1 month ago
"Ubuntu uses debs too... Guess 0 day exploits are something you don't have to deal with.So have we because of the large / more popular community but if the Ubuntu community can't supply a solve, chances are debian peeps can and a lot of fixed can be implemented on Ubuntu. (In my experience)
But you and I are totally different users, I work for a company that has a lot of servers in a mixed network that has aix, linux, netware, windows all networked happy together and I'm the one responsible for those.
I need solid guarantees and somebody I can hold accountable when something fucks up. With free support I don't have that. We went for redhat a long time ago but I'm inclined to migrate to what Novell has to offer. "
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Kubuntu, Ubuntu or Fedora
2 years 1 month ago
"Do your homework first. You just invalidated your whole point.
Really now, if you want the latest versions you don't Emerge / apt-get / rpm / yum / them the easy way but get the source and compile them yourself... Even your cherished Sarge hasn't got the latest of software in their repositories.
Ubuntu source in the universe repository is entirely derived from Debian and is synched every 6 months with sid. And do read my post I took a vanilla kernel and customised it for my own likings.
(I assume you know the term vanilla kernel)
If I want security I would have picked OpenBSD and then spend a lot of time to open that bitch up again to make it actually usable but this is not the point.
Again you invalidate your post by not doing your homework. If you would have actually visited the Ubuntu site you would have discovered they give commercial support aswell.
... I'm getting contradicting signals now ... might be me. :P ;)
Guess that is your opinion you are entitled to it ... But for the moment you haven't presented any real facts that would want to make me uninstall Ubuntu.
Again I say get a distro you like and harden it yourself ..
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Anyone else upgrading since AMD is price cutting their X2's?
2 years 1 month ago
"Saw a 52% pricedrop on a X2 4800 I might pick one up since they are so darn cheap now.But I'm gonna buy a Conro too to create a Media center PC based on geexbox."
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Kubuntu, Ubuntu or Fedora
2 years 1 month ago
"Oh RLY ? Why does it have a SERVER install ? For me ubuntu is a debian "fork" that works.. ;)
Besides if I really want stability I would go for BSD.
The Ubuntu server install is pretty plain and very nice to build up from scratch, I have a file server running on ubuntu 6.06
then I compiled a vanilla kernel with added kolivas patches and speedwise it's as fast as gentoo.
All I installed was SSH, SCREEN and SAMBA and it's very stable even under very high I/O
Just pick a distro you feel comfy with then customize the hell out of it.
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Whats so good about Windows that people don't use Linux?
2 years 1 month ago
"Ah cute ... with the previous builds of wine it didn't function, now CS2 is the next step and I hope the Wine(rs)
Will be able to let it function. =... Gentoo here I come !!! <grin>
I already liked linux on my fileservers ... Now hopefully it is going to be of use on the desktop too..
tnxie pbjorge for the pointer.
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Whats so good about Windows that people don't use Linux?
2 years 1 month ago
"Windows has KiXtart, VB Script, but you can put cygwin on your box and get bash.
Oh yeah? I want to run Photoshop CS on a linux machine without sticking a vm on the box it's impossible
and no gimp is not an option. <grin>
Thats why they made Ubuntu.. ;)
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Whats so good about Windows that people don't use Linux?
2 years 2 months ago
"And that is the second dumbest thing ever said ... <grin>
Nothing is good about Windows it's just that Linux stinks..
Too much freedom, a gazillion distributions and a million ways to get the same thing done.
Not to mention the useless fights about what GDM is best and don't let me get started about the dependency hell.
Of course the above said things make Linux rock aswell ;)
I hope that Adobe will release a universal x86 binary that would make it more easy to run CS on Linux.
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What is the truth about LCD Screens ? Tell me ?
2 years 3 months ago
"Oh why is that? ...TFT's still aren't color accurate atleast not the ones you find in the computer stores around the corner, contrast sucks donky ass and there is still a limited viewing angle.
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Toshiba Laptop design flaw on another series of laptops..
2 years 3 months ago
"At my company we have 2 51xx models suffering from the same problem after 3 and a half years.But since we switch laptops every 3 years it's not a problem for us.
Then we got a TECRA S3 machine .. but it has a stupid design flaw (it simply gets too hot)
Currently we switched back to DELL Latitude D810 machines and we are very pleased with the performance and service .. (companies have / get different (better) service here in the Netherlands)
I can recommend Sony VAIO and ASUS (I had Laptops from both brands and I liked both.
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What is the truth about LCD Screens ? Tell me ?
2 years 3 months ago
"I tried a Samsung 770p TFT and returned it after a week ... contrast sucks compared to my Eizo CRT(1500:1 for the samsung and it's still pathetic)
I'll keep working on my CRT till it explodes and then switch to a SED screen.. :)
Sigh, ~Zdenek talks <censored> ... Let me explain why :) :
I'll try to explain it very simple, so that even LaaLaa the Teletubbie understands it too.
First you need to know that computers like / work on a 1:1 aspect ratio.
Common CRT's have a physical geometry with a aspect ratio of 4:3
This makes 1280x1024 look distorted because it has a aspect ratio of 5:4.
Thats why for a CRT 1280x960 is recommended because it has a 4:3 aspect ratio and this makes it a
matching 1:1.
On a TFT 1280x1024 isn't evil because the TFT monitor physical geomertry is also 5:4
and since the computer can be happy here on 1:1 the image isn't distorted.
Simple ne.
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Who has RAID?
2 years 3 months ago
"My Ubuntu fileserver has a raid 50 aka 0+5 array + a JBOD setupBasicly two 4x300GB of Seagate Cuda's in a R5 arrays put in raid 0, using 2 rocketraid 454 controllers
Giving ~ 1800GB (XFS) of space.
Then 4x 300 GB in JBOD as temp / scrap disks ~1200GB (XFS)
Raid 5 rocks! (writing to a r-5 array sucks)
I mean with 4 hdd's you lose 25% (n-1) far better than that 50% a mirror eats up.
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Ghost in the Shell wall
2 years 3 months ago
"Character = NiceBackground = Nice
Character + Background != Nice
As McCoy would say: "I'm a counter terrorist agent not an astronaut." :)
Maybe use a more fitting character to fit the background. ??"
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Best martial arts fighter
2 years 4 months ago
"My favourite would be Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido.@Omnidevil
Steven Seagal is a 7th "dan" practioner of Aikido ... my Aikido sensei is currently working trying to reach his 4th "dan"..
In 1975, Steven Seagal became the first American instructor to open a Aikido Dojo in Japan.
Euuh hello ... Seagal holds black belts in Karate, Aikido and Kenjutsu and has also studied Judo, Kali, Kendo, Eastern Philosophy, Shinto Religion, and the Holistic Arts (including Acupuncture, Herbology and Calligraphy).
He is a Shodan in Shitoryu Karate and has trained briefly under Fumio Demura.
I mean when Morihei died ... he left for Japan to study Zen, Buddhism and Aikido.
In 1975 he married and continued to live in Japan where he eventually inherited a dojo from his Japanese father-in-law.
Seagal is a very very scary man.....
A bad actor yes. <g>
A fake martial arts practitioner no.
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your experiences with power outages...how you handle them?
2 years 4 months ago
"3000VA UPS + Centrino laptop = hours and hours of fun.But it's nice to actually have a power outage.
Not being reachable nobody is calling, the neighbours can't play their crappy loud music.
I just get me a fine glass of port and a good book and await the chaos to kick in again."
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Are People on Internet always Ugly?
2 years 4 months ago
"I take a poo poo on US laws and unless the US invades my country I'll keep doing so. Freedom of speach baby !! oh yeah <evil grin> ;)
If I wanted to do damage or annoy the hell out of an admin I'll make sure that I won't get caught via IP ... there is a whole set of choices I could use to cause some havoc and it would be pretty hard even impossible to get my real IP because most likely I would use a internet cafe or the wifi connection of some idiot who forgot to lock his access point, scratchcard based hotspots, free dialup providers using a unmarked mobile phone not to mention the whole list of proxies and bouncers that are available (in and out "the scene")
If you know what you are doing ... it's not going to point directly to you.
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