Urban Ninja

Just to laught a little bit, watch this funny video called "Urban Ninja"

Imagen if you are one of the people in the video, how do you react ? [:-)

Have you been flowing into the zone latelty ?

Dr Steven Pace from QLD University has researched on one of the most addictive hobbies of the 21 Century, COMPUTER GAMES

The following SMH article explains more in details his thoughts and results, however there is a comment from a gamer that says:

Another reported losing all sense of time when he sat at the computer after dinner. "The next thing it's 3am and everyone has gone to sleep. I didn't even remember saying goodnight to my wife and kids"

I feel so identify with that comment. The thing is when you are not a Gamers you can't understand what happen when for example, you sit for a quick session of BF2 and suddenly you realize that you are having one of those days where every 2 bullets that you fire, you get a kill……or the feeling when a chopper full of soldiers[+5] is locked in your Anti-Aircraft turret, you fire and the left side of your screen says

You killed...

You killed...

You killed...

You killed...

You killed...

In those cases is when you say to yourself "Ok, is late, one more map and then going to bed" but 3 hours later, you continue killing noobs and getting Flags in some part of the middle east or China.

Quote of the Year

Chris Rock's "Quote of the Year"

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy,
thebest golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the
Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance
Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in
America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon. Need I say more?"

BRAVO!

Do Remember Commodore computer style?

I remember the days where my computer was a Commodore 64 andall the power was "underneath" my keyboard. Today 20 years later....the design is back!!

An American company call Cybernet has created a computer that fits under a keyboard.

This computers are not gaming or High-end computers, but if you add an external
TV tuner, you have a very slim and easy to hide Windows Media Center PC.

Excellent idea guys!!!!

Win XP SP2 no good for Multiproc PCs

I've playing with my new pc for a couple of weeks now, however the performance of it is not what I expected.
So I opened my Firefox (no comments) and started navigating several AMD forums. I changed some setting, but one post was mentioned something completely new and unexpected:

Computers that are running Windows XP Service Pack 2 and that are equipped with multiple processors that support processor power management features may experience decreased performance

Apparently Windows XP Professional SP2 has issues with multiproc (Hyperthreading seems to be not affected). The KB article mention a hotfix and a registry change. But Microsoft only gives this hotfix after you ring up your "LOCAL" MS Customer Support Centre (local this days means India,China, etc :-) )
I wasn't ready to spend time on the phone to get the file, so then I found the solution http://www.thehotfix.net/
This site contains majority of the hotfix from MS which are not available for Download on Microsoft website. NICE!!!!

Installed, Reg Modified, PC restarted..... BANG!!! Performance improved!!!!!!!

Try it, you will see the difference

Best Firefox Extension ever

I'm a recently new Firefox 1.5 user, however I love to get extensions that help me to work smarter

For example Gmail Manager in within Mozilla is awsome! but this new tool to post new entries in your blog has been awarded with the Best Extension ever price.

Performancing for Firefox is a " blog editor" who also have a list of your blogs (MSN Spaces, Blogger, custom, etc) allowing you to publish on any of them at any time! It also support Drag and Drop of files into the editor, save content after publish and formated text.

Have to say, very nice idea and with this kind of tools , updating a blog is much easier and faster and less time comsuming.

Hardware Upgrade and BF2

Last week a serious heat problem, apparently, killed my P4 motherboard. Several attempts were made to resurect it, but.... it was long gone.
So I bought new parts to get my pc up and running soon, however I went that extra mile:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
GA-K8N-SLI
XFX GeForce 7800 GTX
ThermalTake Xaser 8000+ WinGo Ed
(Running Windows x32)

I installed FEAR again to test the new videocard and cpu ........I'm still shocked! Everything is set to MAX or Ultra, however the PC seems to be doing a very easy job.... no lag no nothing!!!!! Just AMAIZING :-)

In the other hand, we have our friend Battlefield 2. This SOB doesnt work on X2 CPUs, you have to create affinity with one processor only. Otherwise you will experience lag or crashes during the game. (more info visit this thread in EA Forums)

My new settings are:

1280x1024 @72 MHz
All Settings = Ultra (Setting only available when you change manually the Video.con file)
AA 2x
AF 16X (Controlled by Nvidia Driver)

The only problem that I got is a 30 sec lag at the begging of MAP (first matach only) and loading the map takes forever.
My PC has 1Gb DDR 400 RAM, but when you check the memory in use during a game it is ~1.250GB (papaun!)
This is known issue and to run the game in max resolution 2GB is required. (next buy... RAM)

During my invetigation I found a website called TweakGuides.com
This site contains tweak hints for any game and also for video drivers as well. I was interested on these 2 very cool guides: Battlefield 2 and Nvidia
Forceware tweaks . For example one of the cool tips was how to avoid the videos when you launch the game. (BTW thos EA, DICE and Intro Videos are ~250MB in total, this means all in memory before connecting to a server.)

Hope that next BF2 patch will contain some improvements for AMD X2 CPUs and take advantage of new technologies!

Tired of download "garbage" while you download torrents?

...well, read this post and you will find a possible solution!

Doing my daily reading across several forums and blogs, I found a FREE tool which blokes connections from spammers, spyware sites, ads sites, private corporations, etc. It's name is PeerGuardian 2.

I've installed it on my computer and amount of connections blocked is incredible, plus the speed of the downloads has increased dramatically

It's free, the code is available to download in case you are afraid of what this tools does on your system....Why not!

Enjoy