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  1. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    I'll wait until the release candidate later. The original beta version of Vista, when I was testing it, sucked to no end, but the release candidate (builds 5600 and 5728) were much better and more reliable.


    I'll skip it too, it needs double the RAM of Vista (1 GB) and Vista is already a system hog.


  2. What? It needs 2GB? Surely not - it's pretty much built from the Vista code. Maybe if Microsoft went about getting rid of old legacy crap that 98% of the population bothers with anymore and introducing newer features we might have a faster operating system on our hands.

    Whatever happened to 640K RAM?















    By the way, that fish picture looks horrible and bland, no matter the resolution.
  3. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    What? It needs 2GB? Surely not - it's pretty much built from the Vista code. Maybe if Microsoft went about getting rid of old legacy crap that 98% of the population bothers with anymore and introducing newer features we might have a faster operating system on our hands.

    Vista is a system hog, but if you're clever you can minimise that hogging of resources: turn sidebar off, turn off a few unnecessary system services and generally stopping crap starting up when Vista boots, is the best way to optimise it.

    I currently run a 3GHz Intel Celeron (!), 1GB RAM and 7300GT video card and it runs nicely enough on most stuff.


    No, I mean the MSR for RAM is up from 512 MB to 1GB.
  4. Aha. The more crap you stuff in, the higher SR you're gonna need. The whole Vista campaign from the 'Wow' to the Ultimate Extras to the confusion over what version has what, overpriced software, initial driver, hardware and software incompatibility, the Capable and Premium tags and everything else associated with it has been nothing short of a shambles.

    I really hope Windows 7 works out. If it doesn't, people are gonna look at Microsoft as talking it up, but not delivering what they set out to.
  5. Lights In The Sky HD Footage Downloads!


    Your gift...

    The internet is full of surprises these days.
    I was contacted by a mysterious, shadowy group of subversives who SOMEHOW managed to film a substantial amount (over 400 GB!) of raw, unedited HD footage from three separate complete shows of our Lights in the Sky tour. Security must have been lacking at these shows because the quality of the footage is excellent.

    If any of you could find a LINK to that footage I'll bet some enterprising fans could assemble something pretty cool.

    Oh yeah, you didn't hear this from me.


    There is about 405gb! of HD footage available. It was recorded with multiple consumer HDV cameras during three shows: Victoria 12.05.08, Portland 12.07.08, and Sacramento 12.12.08.

    This is raw, unedited, un-color-corrected HD footage. It will be primarily of interest to advanced users, who may wish to attempt to edit it together into something. It could be really interesting to see what creative users can put together using this and other fan-recorded footage. These guys are off to a great start already.

    Novice users might not want to download this just yet. If you don't have a fast computer for playing back high definition video, or hundreds of gigabytes of storage available to save it to, this download will probably cause you nothing but problems. If you just want to see some live footage, you might be better off waiting until more advanced users get the footage and turn it into something more digestible for the masses. I'm sure a lot of this stuff will be turning up on YouTube as soon as people get it downloaded.

    The footage is available as a free download via bitTorrent. If you don't know what bitTorrent is, please go to this link and read every word of it before you ask anyone on the forums what to do with the torrent files.

    As the files are tremendously large, don't expect any instant gratification - the download may take days, even weeks. There are a handful of seeders to start things off. Until we get a large number of seeders, please only download these files right now if you intend to help seed them for a while after you're done. Certain downloaders will get much faster download rates than others, depending on your IP address. This is due to peering relationships our hosting provider has which we're utilizing to get some initial seeds out as fast as possible. If your download is going incredibly slow or not going at all, don't worry, it'll pick up within the next couple days.

    The included README files have some further notes about the footage, which has been conveniently formatted for easy editing and even includes Final Cut Pro sequences with the footage pre-organized for editing.



    So if anyone wants to try their hand editing a few NIN concert videos with the blessing of Trent Reznor, here's your chance to do it and have the man himself see it; if you want to. They range from 112GB to 180GB+, but each torrent is seperated for you in 7-15GB blocks to try out plus Final Cut Pro files to mess with.

    Or you might just have a good few gigabytes left to waste on something worthwhile. Regardless, it's the biggest torrent I've seen in a good while.

    Have fun.
  6. ^^ Jesus, that is freaking big


    Anyway, I should be getting a 2nd generation iPod Touch in a few weeks...... I have a 1st gen now. I personally like the Apple headphones, but lately, I've been finding that they aren't loud enough anymore. I've been looking around the stores, but I figured that before I buy anything, I should come here first! I;m not looking for anything too fancy or anything, just a bit louder than the Apple ones. I've had my eyes on these Altec headphones for a few days. What do you guys use?

    Thank you!
  7. Senheiser CX300's. Can't go wrong Nick


  8. These are exactly what I'm looking for. And, only $23 on Amazon, sweet. They look a lot better than the Altecs that I mentioned in my last post too.

    Very much appreciated Gerard!
  10. Originally posted by U2Nick:[..]

    These are exactly what I'm looking for. And, only $23 on Amazon, sweet. They look a lot better than the Altecs that I mentioned in my last post too.

    Very much appreciated Gerard!


    When you get them do try all three sizes of rubber cap. Once you get the right fit you'l be blocking out 99% of unwanted noise and getting some excellent bass. Great headphone.

    Inline volume control would be a nice addition though
  11. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    When you get them do try all three sizes of rubber cap. Once you get the right fit you'l be blocking out 99% of unwanted noise and getting some excellent bass. Great headphone.

    Inline volume control would be a nice addition though


    Perhaps in some later versions. I believe the CX400 is out too, dunno about a possible inline volume control on that one.
  12. Originally posted by MWSAH:[..]

    Perhaps in some later versions. I believe the CX400 is out too, dunno about a possible inline volume control on that one.


    I have the CX500's and they have online volume control but I do prefer the sound of the 300's
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