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by valryte
July 29, 2009, 6:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fk I'm getting old!
Replies: 30
Views: 4731

Re: Fk I'm getting old!

I wrestled at 103 lbs my senior year in high school. I just weighed in at 190lbs. It's not bad, since I used to be really underweight. My best weight is around 165-170. Being 20-25lbs overweight isn't the end of the world for me since I still look so goddamn good, but I certianly don't want to keep...
by valryte
July 29, 2009, 1:29 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fk I'm getting old!
Replies: 30
Views: 4731

Re: Fk I'm getting old!

I've been skinny my entire life and I wasn't about to be a skinny fat kid. In high school I weighed about 118 until I decided to join track. I graduated high school at 112 lbs. So trust me I know all about being skinny. After that I got into weight lifting and got up to about 185 over the course of...
by valryte
July 28, 2009, 3:10 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: XBMC discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 2747

Re: XBMC discussion

Hold on, let me get the violin out for you... You know, if you spent even a fraction of the time you do bitching and moaning posting on the XBMC forum, maybe one of those developers who works on XBMC for free might actually listen to you and add it in one of the updates...hell who knows, maybe I mig...
by valryte
July 27, 2009, 12:50 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: XBMC discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 2747

Re: XBMC discussion

Remotes suck. Mouse ftw. Retarded that a computer app doesn't at least fully support the mouse.
Oh don't you start on that shit too bitch! It does work (I use it all the time) Winnow is just retarded :)
by valryte
July 27, 2009, 12:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fk I'm getting old!
Replies: 30
Views: 4731

Re: Fk I'm getting old!

The absolute worst thing you can do is to start relying on painkillers/muscle relaxers and wasting your time with chiropractors and specialists who will treat your symptoms and prescribe you lots of pills but probably won't do anything to address the actual cause of the problem. Well the painkiller...
by valryte
July 27, 2009, 6:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fk I'm getting old!
Replies: 30
Views: 4731

Re: Fk I'm getting old!

Well I WAS getting better then all of a sudden it hit me really hard. I ended up sleeping on the floor hoping it would be better the next day. Well it wasn't and I simply could not get up. The pain was horrendous. I ended up having to call 911 to take me to the hospital on a stretcher where I was we...
by valryte
July 27, 2009, 5:26 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Don't try to break into your own home...
Replies: 83
Views: 12071

Re: Don't try to break into your own home...

Obama has a much further way to go to even get close to taking that title from G W Bush. The only way that will happen is if he accidentally nukes Phoenix or something. Um, wouldn't nuking Phoenix actually make Obama the best president ever? Well obviously the cop would have been in the green to sh...
by valryte
July 27, 2009, 4:47 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Teamviewer takes over web server
Replies: 3
Views: 1250

Re: Teamviewer takes over web server

That's pretty fucked. "more than 15 million users" lol yeah right. I don't know anyone who uses TeamViewer really. Everyone I know or have talked to use GoToMyPC or LogMeIn when it comes to managing user desktops. As far as servers its pretty much RDP and VNC. I use RDP and VNC where neede...
by valryte
July 27, 2009, 4:34 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: XBMC discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 2747

Re: XBMC discussion

They look fine to me! LOL, I should have SS it so you could see it. It was like 5 black images with Appulous logo on it! Next, you may as well us an iPhone to control XBMC and save buying a gay remote. Hey, my remote takes much offense to that statement, it's not gay it just knows how to look good!...
by valryte
July 27, 2009, 12:55 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: XBMC discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 2747

Re: XBMC discussion

Preview is your friend :) all 5 images look the same. But I assume these are the images that you wanted to link. http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53824 What exactly is the point of a iPhone app for XBMC? Kinds of just stupid and pointless. Who isn't going to either have a remote or a wirel...
by valryte
July 20, 2009, 10:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fk I'm getting old!
Replies: 30
Views: 4731

Fk I'm getting old!

Man, a couple days ago I sprained my lower back muscles. It started to hurt a little bit the next day, then more the following day until like the 3rd day when I went to get out of bed and fell like a rock to the floor. My gawd is that painful. I feel like a fkn old man :( Doctors gave me some muscle...
by valryte
July 20, 2009, 10:33 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: XBMC discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 2747

Re: XBMC discussion

It's really much faster just to place your movies and TV shows in well named folders and use directory opus to access them. You get much faster access and a hell of a lot better video player app than the one built into XBMC. I just want to see you do that sitting on your couch with a remote control...
by valryte
July 20, 2009, 3:00 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: XBMC discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 2747

Re: XBMC discussion

Same here. My priorities for using it are for playing my Movies and TV Shows and I really don't care much for any of the plugins especially since because of what they are they are always at the mercy of the websites they are scraping content from. So to me they are just a waste of time and unreliabl...
by valryte
July 20, 2009, 2:11 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: SSD Drive P128 Corsair
Replies: 31
Views: 5444

Re: SSD Drive P128 Corsair

Are any of these plug ins working for you?

TV Shack
Veoh
Animeseed
http://www.veeshanvault.org/forums/view ... 25&t=24307
by valryte
July 20, 2009, 2:02 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: XBMC discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 2747

XBMC discussion

Lets stop derailing threads :) OK, I tested the plugins you mentioned and they seem to be broken as far as getting installed through the SVN installer. I tracked some down from the authors site, but same thing. The issue with plugins is that they are basically scaping content off websites. So when t...
by valryte
July 19, 2009, 3:45 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: SSD Drive P128 Corsair
Replies: 31
Views: 5444

Re: SSD Drive P128 Corsair

Are you serious? You discover XBMC years after someone else on this board and all the sudden you're calling people newbs? I can set up XBMC just fine. I'm pointing out that it's a buggy and has serious issues beneath its glossy UI. Yeah I just discovered it years after someone else on this board. T...
by valryte
July 19, 2009, 1:55 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
Replies: 111
Views: 18702

Re: Joss Whedon's Dollhouse

I saw the pilot today. It sort of has unaired material as well as bits and pieces of various episodes of the regular series, some are even variations of what they actually used in the regular season. For anyone who has not watched this show yet, do NOT watch the pilot first. Watch the regular season...
by valryte
July 19, 2009, 1:47 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: SSD Drive P128 Corsair
Replies: 31
Views: 5444

Re: SSD Drive P128 Corsair

Although still much easier to configure than XBMC for the PC and once configured, doesn't screw up if rescanned Nah, I just think XBMC is way to complicated for you. I have 3 friends here hooked up with it and none of the have the kind of problems that you have. I'm seriously starting to question y...
by valryte
July 18, 2009, 6:34 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: SSD Drive P128 Corsair
Replies: 31
Views: 5444

Re: SSD Drive P128 Corsair

I don't know, there's just something wrong about a piece of hardware with so many caveats that just screams stay away. These SSD issues are like, giving a kid a lollipop and telling him ok, you can hold it and look at it, but don't lick it cause if you lick it too many times it will be gone.
by valryte
July 17, 2009, 3:31 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: 49.95/month for 15Mbps/2Mbps
Replies: 152
Views: 72098

Re: 49.95/month for 15Mbps/2Mbps

I pay 69 for 16Mbit/2Mbit (the highest they have here in S.Fla) service, but actually get about 4Mbit up. I'm supposed to get a node split next month as well and a possible speed jump, but I won't hold my breath. I was paying like 47 for 6Mbit/384kbps before with AT&T DSL, Uverse hasn't gotten a...
by valryte
July 16, 2009, 7:51 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: SSD Drive P128 Corsair
Replies: 31
Views: 5444

Re: SSD Drive P128 Corsair

Things to remember:

-SSDs dont need to be defragged, turn it off
-Turn off indexing for the SSD.
-move or delete (if you have enough memory) pagefile
Also read something about never doing a long format on them either. Always quick.
by valryte
July 16, 2009, 6:09 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Leverage - Season 2
Replies: 4
Views: 1114

Re: Leverage - Season 2

Saw the first episode of season one, definitely mindless fun, I like it.
by valryte
July 16, 2009, 1:41 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Boxee
Replies: 16
Views: 6345

Re: Boxee

I'm going to go off on you a bit, but keep reading, I'll actually provide some help further down :) I don't get how an app that's specifically designed for HTPC is such crap when it comes to dual monitors. You have to get a third party app, UltraMon to get XBMC to open to your secondary monitor. How...
by valryte
July 16, 2009, 12:24 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: SSD Drive P128 Corsair
Replies: 31
Views: 5444

Re: SSD Drive P128 Corsair

Write lifetime = how many times you can write to each memory location and is a finite number, unrelated to MTBF. Plus, anything that looks this good "100+ Year Life Expectancy (MTBF)" falls under the too good to be true area when it comes to the problems of SSDs. The day someone overcomes...
by valryte
July 16, 2009, 12:01 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: SSD Drive P128 Corsair
Replies: 31
Views: 5444

Re: SSD Drive P128 Corsair

Well just about anything is faster than a Raptor nowadays.

If you want to see a cool SSD video, you probably should check this one out if you haven't already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

Been wanting to get one, but have been looking for a guinea pig...I guess that will be you :)
by valryte
July 13, 2009, 1:41 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: True Blood
Replies: 83
Views: 16574

Re: True Blood

Godric has to be Eric's maker, right? I can't think of any other explanation for why he's so intent on finding him. You fall asleep at the end or something? hehe I think he was pretty clear when he answered that question in the show. Godric is twice as old as Eric (ie. he's much more powerful). He'...
by valryte
July 13, 2009, 3:07 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: 49.95/month for 15Mbps/2Mbps
Replies: 152
Views: 72098

Re: 49.95/month for 15Mbps/2Mbps

I would take a reduction in speed if I could DL more than 250G a month.
Comcast. Business account. Nuff said.
by valryte
July 13, 2009, 3:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Niagara Falls?
Replies: 21
Views: 3011

Re: Niagara Falls?

My wife and I are wanting to do a 3-4 day trip there some day. Let me know how it goes. I had a trip all planned out this year, but the week we wanted to go got demolished with other obligations. hehe, my wife still hates that I went there without her when I was up in Toronto. Has anyone been there...
by valryte
July 13, 2009, 2:59 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Going to Japan
Replies: 22
Views: 3520

Re: Going to Japan

Just be prepared for major culture shock :) Took the wife there like 7 years ago, was a cool trip, but really got hit over the heard with how little English people speak there. We were there for a little over 2 weeks. I did have a subway app on my PDA at the time that made taking the subways/trains ...
by valryte
June 28, 2009, 2:05 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Boxee
Replies: 16
Views: 6345

Re: Boxee

Um, I get that it was the original XBMC peeps that designed these features. I used XBMC for years before the 360 came out. Why not do a search and find my comments about it from 4 years ago? Because you've obviously haven't looked at XBMC since 4 years ago. You keep talking about Boxee's movie scan...
by valryte
June 28, 2009, 4:25 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: HTPC Network
Replies: 10
Views: 2673

Re: HTPC Network

I modified the post slightly to include some screenshots of XBMC so that it sticks out a bit in the post since from the sounds of the Boxee post, XBMC seems to be completely unknown even though I put this huge post up. I didn't put a post just on XBMC because frankly as software by itself it's not r...
by valryte
June 28, 2009, 4:06 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Boxee
Replies: 16
Views: 6345

Re: Boxee

XBMC rocked on the original XBOX And it still rocks in Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.... OK, I'm liking this Boxee already. It's going through all of my random newsgroup movie downloads and importing the covers for them. Nice! I haven't even looked to see how some of this stuff is named. Again, this is ...
by valryte
June 28, 2009, 4:00 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: RichCopy
Replies: 4
Views: 1130

Re: RichCopy

Winnow, this isn't for backups. This is just for copying/moving large amounts of files which has nothing to do with backups.
by valryte
June 28, 2009, 3:54 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Michael Jackson dead?
Replies: 33
Views: 4046

Re: Michael Jackson dead?

Laneela wrote:That's not Michael! It's Janet. Miss Jackson if you're nasty.
hehe, nice to see that someone caught that :)
by valryte
June 25, 2009, 9:53 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Boxee
Replies: 16
Views: 6345

Re: Boxee

Hmm, smells a bit like XBMC, but with more web integration. The video and music features are pretty much the same. From: XBMC Project Manager XBMC will still continue as its own project, some things might be shared with projects that fork XBMC (like Boxee or Plex) while other things will not. Team-X...
by valryte
June 25, 2009, 8:14 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Michael Jackson dead?
Replies: 33
Views: 4046

Re: Michael Jackson dead?

So every life is precious and all that, but... Seriously, could there be a less consequential possible celebrity death? Has Michael Jackson made a relevant song in 15 years? Has he performed a relevant concert in 15 years? Has he made any relevant public appearances in 15 years that weren't just ta...
by valryte
June 21, 2009, 2:25 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Anyone "jailbreak" their iPhone yet?
Replies: 66
Views: 15799

Re: Anyone "jailbreak" their iPhone yet?

What do I use if mine was already jail broken? But I never upgraded to 2.2.1, I'm running 2.2.0.
by valryte
June 21, 2009, 11:27 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: The Happening
Replies: 50
Views: 7882

Re: The Happening

The good thing about this movie is that you pretty much know it's going to suck in the first 5 minutes. That first scene with Mark Whalberg in the classroom was just horrible. I've seen him in other movies, but omg, the acting in that one was just plain suck.
by valryte
June 21, 2009, 11:24 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Privacy Screens
Replies: 4
Views: 889

Re: Privacy Screens

Yeah I got a suggestion...do your fucking work!
by valryte
June 16, 2009, 5:54 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: NetIQ Monitoring, Reporting and Security Audit Solution
Replies: 1
Views: 614

Re: NetIQ Monitoring, Reporting and Security Audit Solution

I've used other stuff (What'sUp, IPMonitor, OpsManager, Nagios, Quest) and have written my own as well. Never used NetIQ though. Good luck though! and let me know how it works out for you.
by valryte
June 11, 2009, 6:43 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: HTPC Network
Replies: 10
Views: 2673

Re: HTPC Network

1.) Does the Motherboard you use send audio through the HDMI, or do you need to use an optical/coax cable for audio? Yes, the motherboard I'm using is sending audio and video via HDMI, but also has optical which may be needed in some cases by XBMC, though I haven't done much testing with this. I'll...
by valryte
June 8, 2009, 10:28 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: HTPC Network
Replies: 10
Views: 2673

Re: HTPC Network

The beauty of using unRAID is that you can use spare hardware that you have lying around. It doesn't take a whole lot as long as it meets the minimum requirements, which is mostly being able to boot from a USB flash drive and the Sata controller chipset. unRAID Server Server Case $59.99 http://www.n...
by valryte
June 8, 2009, 10:28 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: HTPC Network
Replies: 10
Views: 2673

HTPC Network

For about a 2 years now I've been wanting to set up some sort of file server that would store various media (movies, television shows, home videos, etc...) that I could them stream to any television in my house, specifically my home theater. Everything I investigated always had some major flaw or sh...
by valryte
May 31, 2009, 9:22 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: hepl - Windows Live Messenger a pain in my ass
Replies: 17
Views: 2479

Re: hepl - Windows Live Messenger a pain in my ass

This behaviour is the same with most software which is the reason a lot of systems tend to bog down on boot after a while. I personally hate applications that front-load a helper app to make it start faster once the system is booted. Are you serious? It's a freaking messenger app. How the hell do y...
by valryte
May 30, 2009, 3:04 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: hepl - Windows Live Messenger a pain in my ass
Replies: 17
Views: 2479

Re: hepl - Windows Live Messenger a pain in my ass

Options -> Security -> Uncheck "Open Windows Live Messenger when I click on a link on a webpage that tries to interact with Windows Live Messenger"
by valryte
May 26, 2009, 7:51 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: iPhone App Discussion
Replies: 142
Views: 42805

Re: iPhone App Discussion

yeah, I found it. I'm going to just wait for 3.0 which is supposed to come out sometime next month.
by valryte
May 24, 2009, 11:23 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: iPhone App Discussion
Replies: 142
Views: 42805

Re: iPhone App Discussion

How do you upgrade to 2.2.1 if your phone is already jail broken? Every search I find is based on not having a jail broken phone.
by valryte
May 23, 2009, 1:21 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Giganews Usage
Replies: 108
Views: 50938

Re: Giganews Usage

Of course not, but I figured some of the newsgroup junkies would get a kick at seeing those crazy numbers. Btw the max I ever saw was about 7-8MB/sec.
by valryte
May 22, 2009, 8:11 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Giganews Usage
Replies: 108
Views: 50938

Re: Giganews Usage

Ok, rotation ends tomorrow, don't think I'll be squeezing much more before then.