Was helping my father try to fix his computer by using remote access, and didn’t know that my fiber router only supports on IP in the DMZ at a time, so when I switched my PC to “demilitarized” to drop the firewall and be able to use remote assistance, it took the TS server offline.

Things are obviously back up now.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years. Mine were quite uneventful.

Navy turned me on to this - it’s a fiction book about a zombie outbreak. Check it out…

Day by Day Armageddon

YouTube

YouTube [youtube EKEeHREK2nQ Portable Computing] video link

That’s right people, I will be featuring one of YOU each month, on the new GETTING TO KNOW YOU INTERVIEW. To quote Arnold S: “I’m gonna ask you a bunch of questions….and I wanna have dem answered immediately!” I figured since we game together, we might as well learn a little about each other, and see what kind of random information I can pull out of you. I had to link up this photo, just because it made me laugh out loud.

So yeah, it’s the new hotness. I’ll be picking it up today. If you don’t have it, maybe you should pick it up too.

Oh yeah, here’s a link to the 1.1 patch (318 MB):
http://downloads.gamezone.com/demosfiles/t32913.htm

Damned Bellsouth/Uverse billing was ALL screwed up. All corrected and on one bill now, so it should remain solid…

Heeelll yeah… F@CK Fileplanet and their subscriptions!

Something all new to check out… All you need is a free account with CharlieOscarDelta.com, which I already had.

Downloading now…

http://www.callofduty.com/beta#registration

http://files.filefront.com/CODWAW+BetaSetupexe/;12186719;/fileinfo.html

ADDED NOTE:

If you get the error “the application has failed to start because d3dx9_37.dll was not found”, you must unfortunately grab the build from March 2008 of DirectX, which I found [ HERE ]

Download it, run it, and it should put the needed .dll file on your machine, and you should be able to play.

In case anyone is a subscriber or interested. I may sign up for 1 month just to get down with this, but notice how they don’t give a specific date for the Beta release… talk about a carrot before the horse… it could be 4 months before it comes out…. LOL

Here are some tips to survive.

I need some advice from my fellow [REG]’s if this rig is a good-to-go for mainly the next year =)

Here’s a rig I set up, I should be able to order by next month:

Case: Aerocool ExtremeEngine

Hard Drive: 500 GB SG Barracuda

Power Supply: OCZ 700W

Drive: Sony Drive Should I get a Bluray Drive?

Motherboard: Asus P5N-D Motherboard, Socket 775

Processor: Intel C2 QUAD Q6600

CPU Cooler: Thermaltake V1, CPU Cooler

System: Windows Vista HP

RAM: OCZ 2×2GB=4GB, Skirms RAM

THE BEAST XFX 9800 GX2

(I chose to buy them from Tiger Direct mainly for it’s shipping and previous reliability experiences, Alaska is a tough place to live in…)

Any suggestions?

Next are what’s been goin’ on the last couple months for me

Alaska –> ze last frontier