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Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed May 06, 2009 1:22 pm

L-J wrote:
Installing Oblivion again tonight too.

I went through some of Oblivion again about a month ago. Such a fucking brilliant game. Did the Shivering Isles expansion which I hadn't done before.

I borrowed HAWX off a friend last night. Not brilliant, but good fun and very addictive. Also picked up Banjo-Tooie on XBLA. LOVE that game! Bought Assault on Dark Athen last week, but haven't really played much of it yet.

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Wed May 06, 2009 4:02 pm

There much free content for it?

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed May 06, 2009 4:31 pm

L-J wrote:There much free content for it?

Oblivion? Dunno, I played it on Xbox360. Got it half price on one of their deals of the week things.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:08 pm

I've just started working for the Australian Distributor for Cyber Snipa products, among other things. I'm new to the gaming side of it...besides the big guns like EB Games, JB Hi-Fi and Game Traders, who else sells this kind of gear? Do you guys buy on-line or through a shop?

I'm such a newb

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:16 pm

Sims 3 already leaked... 2 WEEKS before release! EA must be PISSED!!!!

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Sims_3_leak ... il_release

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:23 pm

yeahs its pretty fun.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:30 pm

mecka wrote:yeahs its pretty fun.

For reals?

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:30 pm

mixtress wrote:I've just started working for the Australian Distributor for Cyber Snipa products, among other things. I'm new to the gaming side of it...besides the big guns like EB Games, JB Hi-Fi and Game Traders, who else sells this kind of gear? Do you guys buy on-line or through a shop?

I'm such a newb

Target, Big W, Dick Smith etc and Video/Game Hire places also buy.

I haven't bought games off the net - but then again, I rarely buy off the net - loads of people do though.

bleck · Post by **bleck** » Wed May 20, 2009 8:51 pm

im hoping this is the right place and you folk can help me.
ive finally made my way into the digital reveloution and want to watch stuff off my laptop on the telly.

what bits and pieces do i need between the 2? ive got hdmi out on the laptop, but not an input on the telly or reciever, reciever has
s-video etc inputs, is there a cable that goes straight between them or hdmi and rca? or do i need some sort of converter box between?

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed May 20, 2009 11:23 pm

You can buy a TV tuner card with USB connection like these:

http://www.citysoftware.com.au/Browse/b ... uner%20usb

I just searched under TV Tuner USB...you should check out some other brands or resellers for a wider choice. Good luck

I don't know about receivers, I've never had one before.

Post by **huge** » Thu May 21, 2009 11:26 am

you dont need a tv tuner.

does your laptop and tv have s-video?? or do both have vga connectors?

most likely s-video.

let me know and i can help more.

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Mon May 25, 2009 12:38 pm

Bit of a dumb question here....

I want to play my laptop via my T.V. The T.V doesnt have HDMI so what other options do i have?

eN · Post by eN » Mon May 25, 2009 3:29 pm

L-J wrote:Bit of a dumb question here....

I want to play my laptop via my T.V. The T.V doesnt have HDMI so what other options do i have?

Depends on what outputs u got on the laptop, if there is a svideo out u can get a svideo to video rca cable, then u need a 3.5mm to audio rca's (Not sure that's the right name for em) for sound.

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Mon May 25, 2009 3:56 pm

I think its a VGA output on the lappy.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Mon May 25, 2009 4:05 pm

VGA to RCA Converter

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Mon May 25, 2009 4:19 pm

Nice 1.

Expensive little fuckers though

aroes · Post by **aroes** » Mon May 25, 2009 4:33 pm

i need one of those

will i have resolution issues? my computer is a notebook with a 10inch screen, pretty sure it runs a strange resolution, so would that affect the way i see it on a tv?

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Mon May 25, 2009 5:29 pm

you should be able to configure it as a second monitor, and hopefully it would detect the resolution. Haven't used one myself tho, so who knows...

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Mon May 25, 2009 5:37 pm

bleck wrote:im hoping this is the right place and you folk can help me.
ive finally made my way into the digital reveloution and want to watch stuff off my laptop on the telly.

what bits and pieces do i need between the 2? ive got hdmi out on the laptop, but not an input on the telly or reciever, reciever has
s-video etc inputs, is there a cable that goes straight between them or hdmi and rca? or do i need some sort of converter box between?

I just realised this post.

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Wed May 27, 2009 12:29 pm

Looking at webhosting cos i am sick of Sendspace to put up mixes etc. Plus other reasons.

does anybody here have any recomendations? Plus i am a spanner and might need help setting things up.

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed May 27, 2009 6:09 pm

I know there are a few of you here who are good with various types of code.

I've searched all day on the net and can't work out what I'm doing wrong.

Basically I have a tonne of large documents to print. I can't print them all in one go because the printer shit itself when it gets hot.

I want create a simple .bat file that will open word, open a document, run a macro I've made, close word.

The Macro prints 5 copies to an non-defult printer.

The idea is that I can schedule XP to run the bat file once an hour over night, should give the printer about half an hour printing, half an hour cooling and it hopefully wont fuck up.

Here is my bat file

Code: Select all

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\windword.exe" 
"F:\Threatened Species & Ecosystem\Prioritising Species\NRM Regional Workshops\Burdekin Dry Tropics\Biodiversity Action Plan\DRAFT for REVIEW\NQDT Biodiversity Action Plan_DRAFT 25 May 09 .doc" /mPrintFiveCopiesOn32 /mFileClose

my macro is named 'PrintFiveCopiesOn32'

here is the macro

Code: Select all

Sub PrintFiveCopiesOn32()
'
' PrintFiveCopies Macro
' Macro created 27/05/2009 by David Thomas Phillips
'

    ActivePrinter = "\\BNEFP02\ANN_152.32"
    
    Application.PrintOut FileName:="", Range:=wdPrintAllDocument, Item:= _
        wdPrintDocumentContent, Copies:=5, Pages:="", PageType:=wdPrintAllPages, _
        ManualDuplexPrint:=False, Collate:=True, Background:=True, PrintToFile:= _
        False, PrintZoomColumn:=0, PrintZoomRow:=0, PrintZoomPaperWidth:=0, _
        PrintZoomPaperHeight:=0

End Sub

The macro works from within word, but not from command prompt.

Word does open from command prompt, but then it just sits there macro-less.

What am I doing wrong?!

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed May 27, 2009 6:15 pm

actually I can't get regular word macros to work either, like /mFilePrintDefault etc.

Post by **huge** » Wed May 27, 2009 6:33 pm

time for a new printer tbh

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:47 pm

that's not gonna happen though.

Post by **huge** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:48 pm

hmm. ive not really mucked around with anything like that before. i can give it a crack tho. i'll get back to you!

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:57 pm

thanks Hugh, it's alright though I've sorted it!

Even went a step further and made a bat file for setting up the scheduling and another for turning off the PC when everythings done

.

Got thousands of pages to print and this is gonna make it alot easier.

bleck · Post by **bleck** » Fri May 29, 2009 12:24 pm

huge wrote:you dont need a tv tuner.

does your laptop and tv have s-video?? or do both have vga connectors?
most likely s-video.
let me know and i can help more.

lappy doesn't have an s-video out, otherwise i wouldn't be asking the question,
lappy has hdmi and vga output
tv has s video and rca inputs

can they only be connected through and expensive box?

eN · Post by eN » Fri May 29, 2009 2:17 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HDMI-HDTV-to-VGA ... otohosting

This might work, most new tv's have hdmi and vga inputs so new laptops are made to suit. Just do a goggle search for hdmi to rca or vga to rca converter/adapter

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Fri May 29, 2009 5:26 pm

Got Guitar Hero: Metallica today.

It Rocks!!!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri May 29, 2009 5:29 pm

I'm coming over tonight then

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Sat May 30, 2009 2:06 pm

Pre-E3 2009: DJ Hero Impressions

looking good

Post by **huge** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:00 am

got the Wii running games off a HDD connected via USB. mad. no more burning dvd's that work 20% of the time.

total soft mod.

FunkyJ · Post by **FunkyJ** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:21 pm

Stray wrote:Pre-E3 2009: DJ Hero Impressions

looking good

The Scratch: Ultimate DJ kit looks good too...

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/06/the-sc ... in-action/

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:33 pm

Does anyone have a spare SNES original style controller and/or power unit?

Will pay.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:01 am

Fuck Sony. Fuck them hard up their stupid fucking cuntying arses. Could they possibly make the most simple of tasks even more fucking impossible?

For fucks sake, all I want to do is purchase FF7 off their site and play it on my PSP. Easy right? FUCKING NO.

You have to download all these programs that OCCASIONALLY work, then get new updates which are a) not user friendly, and b) aren't even fucking recognized by my PSP. The instructions they offer are as usless as Anne Frank's fucking drumkit. Contact them for help you say? Did I FUCK. There is NOWHERE you can contact them for help, you just end up in an endless loop of links to FAQ pages that don't have anything to do with what I want. I tried their message boards... absolutely no reponse.

Seriously, it's the fucking future, this shit isn't meant to be hard. Fucking cunts.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:14 pm

Hardy wrote:Fuck Sony. Fuck them hard up their stupid fucking cuntying arses. Could they possibly make the most simple of tasks even more fucking impossible?

For fucks sake, all I want to do is purchase FF7 off their site and play it on my PSP. Easy right? FUCKING NO.

You have to download all these programs that OCCASIONALLY work, then get new updates which are a) not user friendly, and b) aren't even fucking recognized by my PSP. The instructions they offer are as usless as Anne Frank's fucking drumkit. Contact them for help you say? Did I FUCK. There is NOWHERE you can contact them for help, you just end up in an endless loop of links to FAQ pages that don't have anything to do with what I want. I tried their message boards... absolutely no reponse.

Seriously, it's the fucking future, this shit isn't meant to be hard. Fucking cunts.

I updated the firmware on steve's PS3 a few months ago... everything stopped working properly, the media streaming stopped working (every file have "invalid data type" on it :-/ )and now I have to use my server to transcode to a specific IP, which is OK if you know what you're doing but fugging stupid if you don't know how to do it, also chews my server ram and CPU which is cunty if other people in the house are trying to use it.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:07 pm

deviant wrote: I updated the firmware on steve's PS3 a few months ago... everything stopped working properly, the media streaming stopped working (every file have "invalid data type" on it :-/ )and now I have to use my server to transcode to a specific IP, which is OK if you know what you're doing but fugging stupid if you don't know how to do it, also chews my server ram and CPU which is cunty if other people in the house are trying to use it.

I'd blame that more on the third party media streaming software you're using rather than the ps3 firmware

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:31 am

I just don't understand why they make everything so complex. They assume that everyone knows what they're doing, and provide no instructions or support to help you. Gays.

Recently i've been playing:

Star Ocean 4 - Really good JRPG. insane amount of stuff to do, but it doesn't get tedious. Also, the game actually makes sense! downside is ridiculously long cut scenes (I clocked one at 57 minutes).

Prototype: Pretty fucking cool. Nice brainless hack n slash game with some cool ideas. Nothing to write home about, but well worth picking up. I don't really like sandbox games, but it doesn't really have too much of a sandbox feel. It's kinda like Spiderman 2 meets Ninja Gaiden.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:14 pm

Hardy wrote:I just don't understand why they make everything so complex. They assume that everyone knows what they're doing, and provide no instructions or support to help you. Gays.

cos sony is for l33ts who pwn n00bs

Hardy wrote: Prototype: Pretty fucking cool. Nice brainless hack n slash game with some cool ideas. Nothing to write home about, but well worth picking up. I don't really like sandbox games, but it doesn't really have too much of a sandbox feel. It's kinda like Spiderman 2 meets Ninja Gaiden.

Yeah i have heard lots of good things about this.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:23 pm

I also bought Fight Night Round 4 last night, but I haven't really played it yet. Control seems weird compared to the others (i'm a BIG Fight Night fan), but every review i've read says that it feels strange for the first couple of hours, but then feels great. Graphics are unfuckingbelievable. The physics engine is MINDBLOWING. Looking forward to spending some quality time with it.

Also, you can play as Manny Pacquiao which is awesome. I <3 Manny

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:19 pm

apophenian wrote:
deviant wrote: I updated the firmware on steve's PS3 a few months ago... everything stopped working properly, the media streaming stopped working (every file have "invalid data type" on it :-/ )and now I have to use my server to transcode to a specific IP, which is OK if you know what you're doing but fugging stupid if you don't know how to do it, also chews my server ram and CPU which is cunty if other people in the house are trying to use it.
I'd blame that more on the third party media streaming software you're using rather than the ps3 firmware

wrong

http://www.trustedreviews.com/video-gam ... reaming/p1

I tried it with

Upnp - fusse (on BSD)
vuze (on mac)
simple centre (pc)
Tversity (pc)

All had the same problem

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:10 pm

works fine with wmp

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:30 pm

Essentially, the reason is that sony made a change that was still within the dlna spec.

It's the other software that isn't complying to the spec, or your doing it wrong.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:36 pm

apophenian wrote:or your doing it wrong.

Spelling, you're doing it wrong.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:46 pm

grammar nazi

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:46 am

Three questions about my newly installed PC:

1) It doesn't recognise my external drive like the other one did. I have to unplug and re-plug it before it will recognise it in My Computer. How do I make it so?

2) I don't seem to have administrative rights. How do I make it so?

3) Mozilla used to give me little squiggly red lines under misspelled words, but not since I installed it on this machine. How do I make it so?

quick · Post by **quick** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:26 am

anyone played Infamous? looks sick, want to get

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:02 am

quick wrote:anyone played Infamous? looks sick, want to get

I've got prototype which is sick, and infamous is supposed to be better, so get on it.

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:14 am

Prototye the 1 with the bloke who can make his hands into blades and shit?

Looked good but seemed very repetitive.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:50 am

L-J wrote:Prototye the 1 with the bloke who can make his hands into blades and shit?

Looked good but seemed very repetitive.

It is repetetive, however there are loads of different tasks and side missions you can do which mixes it up a lot. It's by no means a masterpiece, but it's good fun.