General Chatter

Hehe, sorry that I haven't been on here in a few months... Been busy with a few personal difficulties.

I do play DS1, but only in SinglePlayer. The block system with editing in DS1 just doesn't cut it for me.
I mainly play/edit DS: LOA
I'm currently known as «§§» ÞHÅ¥ÐËR «§§» on ZoneMatch.

I just brought my website back up, I hadn't been advertising or getting hits lately so they revoked my subscription, LoL. I have to admit, I did miss this place.
The only update I have made to my site so far is another section to my DSLOA editing tutorial. The link to it is at the bottom of the first tutorial page.

- it's been several months since NVIDIA updated it's regular XP DX9c gfx drivers..
- get version 94.24 here..
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html

- that's for the regular WindowsXP, not the 64-bit version or whatever..
- it does for most cards - not the 8000 series, though - they're special!

(- blimey, there's so much that's new, these days..!!) :woot:

Finally being fed up with pages that contain 5 banner ads which always load first completely before the page even starts, some even containing large video clips embedded, I searched for a solution and found one. It appears to work for me.

I came upon a website which details a large list of the most common banner ad and popup ad sites, such as ad.doubleclick.
By adding this large list to your windows host file (also works for most other OS's), and telling it to use 127.0.0.1 for these, they quickly fail if attempting a connection to these sites.

Then all you need to do is go into your browser's settings and under a window that should say something like "Do not use proxies for", paste the same list in the window.

Been gone for a while and just came back to check on my DS sites.
So did the link change to HF or is the DNS server I use hacked?

This is what I got..

I made my last signature as a joke, but realize now it could be offensive to some. If anyone has taken it as a derogatory statement, please accept my abject apologies. I am editing all the signatures I can to something less offensive.

Today it's a very special day! It's the day that our favorite crazy swede and site admin gets a year older!

Happy Birthday Solly!

A new theme thread for discussing everything about... you guessed it: Books!

What are you reading right now? What are your favorite books? Who are your favorite authors? What kind of books do you like? Non-fiction? Fiction? Adventure? Suspense? Poetry? Mystery? Textbooks on computer game modification...?

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To start things off, I'm almost finished reading Frank Herbert's "Dune" series (started the sixth and final book, Chapterhouse Dune, a couple days ago). If you're not familiar with the series, apparently it's the "Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time" (according to the self-promotion inside the front cover). I find the books to be quite entertaining, as well as deep enough to be thought-provoking at times. I'm really enjoying the series and wish I read this stuff years ago (the last book was published in 1985). I don't think they're better than my all-time favorites, but are certainly worth a re-read at some time in the future (if I have the time).