Just got out of the cinema... it was a good star trek movie. I have a few quibbles with the science, but they let Rule of Cool
apply in a way that doesn't hurt it. The new cast did brilliantly. There were a handful of little problems, but nothing too serious in my mind. Highly
recommended.

Huh.

Probably not going to amount to anything but... huh.

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Epsilon

Civil War II, This Time It's... Over Top Marginal Tax Rates and Gay Marriage? Not as catchy as "slavery".

Seems like it is... three different searches now, all for topics that I know exist (and can find manually by scrolling through the past posts), nada. Also, a
search on my own username failed to turn up any results either.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

From The New Scientist: The
Net could become self-aware.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Do you play Urban Dead? 'cause if not... I'm standing in St. Jude's Hospital looking at your evil twin. O_o

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

More of a teaser than anything else, and small, but I doubt anyone will complain at this point.

Now available to download from http://coalguys.com/?p=290]this link here.

Minimal story on TMZ.com.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Okay. I went to go log in to City of Heroes, downloaded the latest patch and got this after typing in my password and hitting "log in":



(Yes, that is City of Heroes, I just have a customized backdrop to it.)

Ok. I've seen that before, it USUALLY means that it's a problem on City of Heroes end. And I just have to wait. Well I checked the server status page
and it said everything is up and running. I started doing some checks.

I'm running Windows XP SP2

This setup has been running fine up until late last night.

I checked my firewalls, turned them off. Reset my router. Nothing. Same thing.

I want to stress that all this time I am able to get online normally with all my other applications - except World of Warcraft, which is doing something
similar to what City of Heroes is doing, except it gives no explanation. It just hangs at the login.

I did release and renew of IP and DNS Flush from the basic Network Repair in Network Connections. Still no go.

I checked the command line prompt. That's when I ran into something very strange looking.



Now that just does NOT look right AT ALL. Yet somehow I'm able to get on the internet.

I took the router out of the loop entirely and hooked up to the cable modem directly. This is what I got:



Did ipconfig /release



And then a renew:



I also did ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns while I was at it.

Here's something else to ponder:



That all shows as normal even though the command line is funky.

(Oh and here's what it looks like when I have the Router hooked in: )



I have gone as far as uninstalling the network driver and connections and rebooting to get the auto-reinstall of the drivers. Still no luck. I can get online
just fine with e-mail and browser, but City of Heroes and World of Warcraft? Gone. Can't play them. What the hell is going on here?

Help?

• Trick Arrow - Flash Arrow - Perception Debuff now supresses when the player is hit.
  
  
• Ninjitsu - Blinding Powder - Perception Debuff now supresses when the player is hit.
  
  
• Devices - Smoke Grenade - Perception Debuff now supresses when the player is hit.
  
  
• Fire Control - Smoke - Perception Debuff now supresses when the player is hit.
  

I'm thinking about getting a new graphics card for my computer, even though I don't play games much. I'm thinking of swapping my X700 for an
HD4670. Any suggestions?