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The web filter at work seems to be a bit judgemental dont you think?

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This guy decided to recreate the famous wolverine claws from the x-men.

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1. Fish Tank Side Case

It’s a novel idea, instead of looking at the computer parts you are proud of why not some plastic fish? This side replacement takes your window unit and transforms it into a fish tank. Too bad you cant use real fish because the lack of oxygen and extreme heat would kill them in as much time as it takes to exit assassins creed.

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This is the first thing I thought when I saw this question:

Whenever I mention the word “Lan” to my normal friends I almost always hear the word right back in question form. Well ladies and mostly gentlemen, I present to you, the Lan Party.

The Lan Party: A gathering of computer gamers for one main reason: to play in close proximity.

Video games are almost always viewed as this kid:

The kid sitting in his room with his console playing by himself. Well for computer gamers, this is partially true.. we are sitting by ourselves but most of the time we are playing online with others. A lan party is perfect to meeting those who you regularly play with online and gives you the ability to talk smack to them in person instead of over voice chat.

Back in the day, console gamers, in order to play multi-player had to actually go over to that persons house and play. Computer gamers have never had this luxury however. Ever since I can remember we have always had multiplayer over the phone lines or some form of long distance communication. A lan gives us the best of both worlds: Proximity and the greatness of computer gaming.

I am not going to say computer gaming is better than its console brothers (it is) but computer titles have always lacked the ability to sit with others and just play. The lan party however fills this need.

So your interest now? What do you need to set one up?

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Try it. I am going to. Its just like myspace but with a pyramid scheme.. Its nice to see theres potential money to be made. Click the image to find out what its all about.

Edit:

My experience with this site is nothing but sad. I gave it a few days, but unfortunately the added bonus of talking to people and checking out other peoples friends have become so much more than that. It seems to be a rat race of individuals trying to see who can get who to sign up and who can get who to make the most money. All the while the developers are enjoying the revenue. The constant friend invites, the constant spam, and the most annoying popup ads after every click would have to get me to disagree with this service. I am not sure there is a way to babysit the users and get them to actually use this site as a networking tool instead of an advertisement one.

Granted, some people are very helpfull, and contacts can be made from this site, I would still say to stick with your normal myspace/facebook/hi5 websites for actual conversations. If you do have something you would like to get the word out on however, this is the place to do it. It almost feels like a link exchange from all of the advertisements being shared by everyone. its just sometimes you get to put a face behind the person trying to get you to buy something or get you to do something.

Basically in a nut shell: Yuwie = Pyramid Scheme + Social networking.

We all have them; site that you used to always visit but now find yourself never going to them again.

Stage 6

Why did I go to it?
This one used to house a huge collection of full documentaries as well as high quality music video’s and everything else under the sun.

Why I dont anymore?
The site shut it down. Apparently they couldnt handle the bandwidth. Funny how I never seen a slowdown or a blank screen once while going to the site. More commonly they shut it down to avoid copyright issues.

EbaumsWorld

Why did I go to it?
This one was simple. I had a need to see funny video’s and they housed them all. EbaumsWorld had video’s, images, soundboards, you name something funny, it had it.

Why I dont anymore?
Nothing original was worth a damn from that site. Ebaum started ripping his headline funnies from other peoples sites instead of relying on his submissions. This drove out traffic from other sites that had the original content. It frustrated me how he used such shady tactics to drive traffic. Ripping off website originals for his own site is pretty lame.

Candystand

Why did I go to it?
Back in highschool candystand was the best. You go spend a few hours in the library playing a shockwave version of mini golf and not do anything productive.

Why I dont anymore?
I have a real computer, with real games. Candystand doesnt appeal to me anymore because if I am bored, I simply play something real. Now that I am not in highschool anymore I dont have to pretend to be productive.

Gamespy Arcade

Why did I go to it?
Before videogames had ingame browsers, it was up to us to find the ip’s of people hosting game servers. Gamespy arcade was perfect for this. They even had a nice application that let you use voicechat and play in chatrooms. Eventually they even started making there own minigames for the less hardcore gamer.

Why I dont anymore?
Simple. All games that have multiplayer have their own ingame browser. Granted most still use gamespy technology, they dont require a website or seperate software to launch a game. My new gamespy equivalent would have to be steam. With its many features and stable titles, I dont think I will be moving away from it any time soon.

Albino Black Sheep

Why did I go to it?
The source for funny flash animations and games. Everyone who created flash games went to this site.

Why I dont anymore?
I could care less. The site is rarely updated anymore, and most of the stuff is complete junk.

Newgrounds

Why did I go to it?
More funny flash things. Thankfully flash was new, easy, and allowed common people to create some completely hilarious stuff.

Why I dont anymore?
When things get popular, often the quality suffers.

YTMND

Why did I go to it?
YOU THE MAN NOW DOG was hilarious. It sported a feater that allowed anyone to upload a single image as well as a single song. This created some hilarious internet mimes.

Why I dont anymore?
Once again, it got popular and everyone, including the unfunny started uploading things. You can go on the site right now and try and find something funny, instead you will find the daily and weekly favorites completely unfunny.

Ask Jeeves

Why did I go to it?
The best search site at the time.

Why I dont anymore?
Google? Need I say more?

I am sure there are plenty more, but I just cant think of them.

As alot of you may have realized about a month ago, 1and1.com updated a few things. Well for us with a wordpress plugin named WPG2, it completely destroyed it. You try and visit the site containing your gallery and you would get a nice 500 error instead of your nicely created gallery.

Well finally the folks over at the gallery site found a solution.

Simply FTP into your website, find the .htaccess file, and add the following lines (you can open this file in wordpad for formatting):

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

Reupload and like magic, your gallery will work again.

It must have something to do with 1and1 using php4 as the default now instead of php5. Reguardless, it works again and I am happy.

You can find the forum discussion here: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/75506

Now go check out my gallery!

Many of us who still prefere myspace social networking over facebook for customization reasons may find this valuable.

 In order to remove almost all bots from ever talking to you all you have to do is visit a simple area in your account settings.

 If you migrate over to the Account Settings button at the top left of the page and click the spam section, you will find all sorts of ways to keep bots away from you.

Some of the best settings include:

• Require CAPTCHA [?] for non-friends to send me messages
• Require CAPTCHA [?] for friend requests

These two options alone will stop bots for the most part from Sending you messages and being added. This should in no way change anything for your current friends either! Hope it helps!

So I’ve always thought that people automatically knew what I thought was common sense regarding viruses, spy-ware and other nasties that lurk on the internets. Not so long ago a group of my friends online all contracted the same virus because they all fell for the exact same thing. I thought at that time it would be wise to place a little informational post on their forums about what not to do when computing and some safer practices that would be good.

First off I want to take the time to get some definitions out their for everyone who is completely oblivious. I am not going to take the time to wikipedia these things, you can do that yourself. I am going to give you my interpretation of each.

Virus: Anything you may install can contain a virus.. a virus would have to be something you install that changes something on your computer without your permission or does something you don’t want it to, or may not even know it is doing it.

Key-logger: This one is rare now, but it records everything you type and saves and sends to someone who infected your computer. This can get even more deadly because key-loggers also might come with back-doors.

Backdoor: Allows a individual to gain access to your computer through a insecurity in your computer. This can range from simply looking at your files to something as complex as being able to see your entire screen and controlling your computer.

Trojan: Similar to the Trojan horse, it may appear to be something else until you least expect it. Sometimes software can contain a virus inside and those two items together would create a Trojan.

Spy-ware: Annoying pop-up ads, software that collects data about what you do online, things that pop up on your screen reminding you to buy their product, anything that’s generally annoying and trying to sell you something.

Malware: Free software often contains malware. In order for the guy who made the neat flip-booking software you wanted to make money, he contracts a company like yahoo (sorry yahoo I’m picking on you). Yahoo then pays him for every person who installs his software in exchange for having his installer also include the yahoo toolbar onto your computer. How many of you have an ask.com toolbar or a yahoo.com toolbar? That stuff is annoying.

“Hacker”: Technically a hacker is someone who works for a company to find back-doors and vulnerabilities.. but since the mainstream got a hold of this word, it has become something all together negative. A hacker (cracker) is someone who is wanting to get into your computer to harvest information or steal your vital information. This can be email logins, other website logins, cookies that contain personal information, etc.

Spam: You should all know what this is.. its in your email account all the time. Annoying ads can be considered spam as well.

Phishing: This is when a website is hosted online that looks like another website. I see tons of people fall for this one. They go to their Myspace, get a message saying they can “track who visits their profile” and they go to the link. The link looks exactly like Myspace, but requires them to login again. The user puts in their myspace information because, hey, it looks like myspace doesnt it? A few days later, their myspace account is sending comments to everyone on their buddy list to go to that same website and fall for the exact same trick. This then multiplies just like a virus and everyone’s doing it.

So now the question is, how do I prevent this stuff from happening to me?!

Well I recently reformatted windows (not related), and had to start doing the exact same things over again to proect myself from the evils of the Internet.

First step after installing the operating system and drivers was to get myself an anti-virus. Yes this is an important one. I am cheap, and im sure many of you are as well and I used a free antivirus. If you are in the same boat, I would have to recommend avg free edition, which can be found at http://free.grisoft.com. This anti-virus checks everything that you are doing, and has a shedualer for daily full scans. You may have to set the scheduled time a bit differently because your computer may not be on, or you may be on it and may not want it using your computers resources.

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