Recent content by Velk

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    Official AT Guild Wars 2 Guild Thread

    You aren't using vengeance are you ? ( downed skill 3 ) - that rallies you for 20 seconds then kills you.
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    Why is less than 100% a failure?

    The black or white, all or nothing proposition seems very american, I see it used it arguments against bothering to do things quite frequently. I would guess it has the attraction of not being definitively wrong while avoiding the hassle of things like cost/benefit analysis.
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    *Official* Heroes of Might and Magic V *Official*

    Haven's strengths are more in pure grunt than flash. For example, paladins do more damage with charge than level 7 units, and you can produce as many of them per week as you have money, an advantage that every other side lacks.
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    HTPC Woes... Video/audio Out of sync

    The obvious first step would be to check if it's hardware or software. I'd suggest grabbing the mytheatre demo and testing recording with that. If that doesn't have a problem, then check out the various options for PVR software (mytheatre, media portal, beyondtv etc ). If it does have the...
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    spoiler question about X3

    Looks legit, although Ian McKellen as a 'young magneto' makes no sense at all and the projected timeframe is awfully tight for something that has only a script and a lead actor. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/
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    A dozen Marines may face courts-martial for alleged Iraq massacre

    If a group of police shot 15-24 unarmed civilians, including children under the age of 10, in the back of the head in a random revenge spree and their superiors attempted to cover it up, I think there would be a lot of calling for government to be run out of office actually.
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    can the length of a column name affect db performance?

    DBA's hate long column names because typing them is a pain in the ass and most DBAs are allergic to GUIs so they will be typing them a lot 8) One thing to consider though is that having really long column names for short columns will really annoy people are trying to view tabular data. For...
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    HoMM5 difficulty?

    There is no 'easy' in the release version. They said they would add it for the first patch though. C1 M5, the demo mission, is actually not that hard if you know what you are doing. C2 M3 and C3 M3 are another matter altogether 8)
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    Simplest HTPC interface software?

    It depends what you are doing with it. Once fully setup, mythtv lacks a bit in the way of flexibility compared to MCE if the users were not the people who set it up. For example, if they get a new computer and display stuff from it on their HTPC it will be essentially impossible for them to do...
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    Is a WD Raptor worth $100 more?

    1 - If you have to ask, probably not. 2 - In terms of two drives, it's an either or. You can either have RAID-1, which is also called mirroring, which makes one drive a copy of the other, basically making only one of them usable, or you can have RAID-0 which merges the two disks into one big...
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    Buying card from US, live in Australia

    Auspcmarket has the powercolor one for $379 including delivery, and they are not the cheapest place around. I think it's just the site you are looking at. The main difference for retailers aus to US is tax - GST and import duties - mail order won't work as aust customs will seize it and...
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    NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder and WMP10/GB-PVR

    WMP's decision on which directshow filters to use when playing back a file of any given format appears to be directed by either astrology or voodoo. Phases of the moon and chicken entrails certainly seem to have as much effect on it as anything rational. This program gives you a bit more...
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    Need Advice on HTPC

    It's true in theory, but as an example, the thermaltake series of HTPC cases have 3 5.25 bays, 3 3.5 bays and support full size motherboards but.... If you use a full size atx board, it covers the corner of the bottom 5.25 bay so it's unusuable. If you use a full length video card, it...
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    Apple 1080p trailers, what do you need to play them?

    Oh, and you might want to try out the purevideo trial from nvidia's website, IIRC the 6600GT has hardware acceleration for H264 which the purevideo codec will enable if you have current drivers.
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    Apple 1080p trailers, what do you need to play them?

    You could also try VLC (Videolan Client). It's freeware and it used considerably less cpu when playing apple 1080p clips than quicktime did. It's other advantage is that it requires no codecs or messing about with directshow filters.