Recent content by nitzero

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    City of Heroes Giving Out Refunds Next Week

    While City of Heroes was outdated, it was unique, the community and developers were superb, it was still profitable but welcome to the capitalism world, if it doesn't make enough profit, shut it down! My family, friends and I will miss it... It was a casual MMORPG that wasn't really focused on...
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    Boost Your iPhone Speaker With the Eco-Amp

    This is great but I bet you'll lose your precious iphone warranty for not using an Apple approved cardbox.
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    Guild Wars 2 Accounts Hacked Immediately After Launch

    As soon as Aion was launched in the US about 3 years ago I got many phishing e-mails with fake Aion websites and at the time I only had acquired the game, never got on the forums or any fan website. How did them get my e-mail? My guess is NCSoft sells our records to 3rd parties or even gold...
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    uTorrent Makes New Ads Optional

    I am not sure why but I'm still using Vuze and also used uTorrent previously, tell me about bloatware, I better start using Opera's built in torrent engine.
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    Icenhancer 2.1 Released to Super Upgrade GTA IV Graphics

    Rockstar wanted to make GTA IV atmosphere somewhat dark and obscure, pretty much like GTA 3, I kinda like it but I do agree this mod looks way better, I just wish it wasn't so colorful and kept some originality. Theres no need for a high end VGA to play it in 1080p with this mod, worked fine...
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    AMD: ''No Doubt, We Lost Market Share in Q2''

    I've had a lot of AMD chips in the Athlon XP to 64 era but I've gave up on AMD, their price is no longer competitive nor is the best bang for the bulk. Their new APUs are great! But really, the majority of our clients are more than happy with Intel's graphics performance on the low end front...
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    Belkin Brings Out Two New 802.11ac Routers

    I had a faulty Belkin router couple of years ago that would freeze every 10 minutes or so, I didn't care to RMA it, I just bought another one and after about two months it died, I tried contacting their support but couldn't get past their reboot the router procedures. My office's ISP also gave...
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    A lot of mechanical HDDs dying!

    About the power source I'm pretty sure it's stable enough but most of our power supplies are quality ones with Active PFC (I've had no problems with ANY power supply in the last couple of years, mostly Seasonic) I'm dealing with a lot of drives, about 70-80 computers, I'm well beyond the...
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    A lot of mechanical HDDs dying!

    I'm a system builder and provide IT support for a couple of companies, I check all PCs weekly including the HDD health keeping backups up and so on, in February I had 7 HDDs failing on me, 5 from Samsung, 1 from Seagate and the other one an older 80GB WD which is kinda old and pretty acceptable...
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    Chrome Now at 25% Market Share, IE Down to 40%

    Whatever you install on your computer asks to install Chrome just like the old "google toolbar", theres some heavy marketing behind the scenes trying to push Chrome harder on the average computer user who doesn't even care what browser they're using. Add that to Google's popular services like...
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    Epic's UE3 Runs Within Adobe's New Flash 11

    I am not sure if it has anything to do with it but my mother's computer is a Core 2 Quad 9400 with a Radeon 5570 which is not a super computer but it's quite decent. You can't run Farmville any many other flash games on it without extremely low frame rates on either browser (IE 9, Chrome...
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    25 Years Of Graphics History: A Farewell To ATI, In Pictures

    My ATI cards: Sapphire Radeon 9550 128MB - Was a solid performer and great little card for it's price but a lot of drivers issues back then. Ultima Online which was a quite old game would suddenly crash over and over, games like Unreal Tournament also had issues, ran Half Life 2 flawlessly...
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    How can I block the Internet in an effective way leaving MSN working?

    We use an older speedstream router which can block websites and services but not by IP/Mac and we can't change this router because it's provided by our ISP.
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    How can I block the Internet in an effective way leaving MSN working?

    Hello guys, I need to block the Internet and leave the MSN working on a Windows XP computer in a small business network. Our router doesn't provide anything that could effectively do it. I have tried blocking the Internet Explorer through content advisor.... They just bring a flash drive with...
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    6870 vs Gigabyte motherboard problems

    Hello! So a friend has the following setup: Motherboard Gigabyte... Unknown model, it has AMD 770 chipset plus the SB710 south bridge with onboard 4200, DDR3. (Will grab the model later) Memory 8GB Ram 1600 CL8 Corsair 4x2GB Processor AMD Phenom II X4 965 HDD 4x500GB WD Caviar Black Graphic...