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Astrotoy7

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Posted in: Not-so-famous Quotes & Phrases Game
  Astrotoy7
02-21-2009, 12:01 AM
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Here's one to try if you like ;) Come up with a totally fake/ridiculous quote or phrase, feel free to make up its author and source too. Or it could even be something you actually have said Reach for greatness! I'll go first: "Let he who is...  [Read More]
Posted in: Common themes in Islam and Christianity
  Astrotoy7
09-03-2008, 5:04 AM
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Its a shame that most peoples exposure to these words are in English or other Latin derivatives, which are remarkably poor at capturing the emotion and gravitas of many of the ancient persian languages. eg. reading the Kuran in anything other than ar...  [Read More]
Posted in: JVC Announces Amazing New Kit
  Astrotoy7
03-27-2008, 10:07 AM
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Following on from their success with VHS, Hard Drive Camcorders, DVDRW Dual Layer and BluRay Tri-Layer format media .... JVC has developed a unique universal remote. They apparently will be releasing "His" and "Her" variants. Th...  [Read More]
Posted in: On Your Marks! Get Set! Boot!!
  Astrotoy7
01-25-2008, 7:56 AM
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I was reading about speedy boot times enabled by SSDs in our news thread, and was wondering what the techies boot time experiences are. It will be interesting to see any per-hardware or per-OS differences. If you want to put down your time here - he...  [Read More]
Posted in: Social Experiment 1a: Linux for the blind mice
  Astrotoy7
12-01-2007, 8:41 AM
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I have a business lease pc which is due for return in march. It is currently used by the step-brats and occasionally my gf. It currently runs vista x86, with specs thus: AMD 3200+ 750MB RAM 150GB SATA HDD Geforce 6200TC I am planning to install a...  [Read More]
Posted in: Crysis Counselling Available Here
  Astrotoy7
11-06-2007, 8:44 AM
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Anyone tried the crysis sp demo ? Although not being a FPS fan, this game seems quite intriguing, especially to a techie curious to see how it crunches into graphics cards. Ive since had a go, and from what I saw - it is indeed visually stunning...s...  [Read More]
Posted in: PS3 Goes Tivo :)
  Astrotoy7
08-23-2007, 9:39 AM
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I refrained against posting this in the swamp/ahto because of the assortment of characters who can potentially turn this into an unsavoury console debate. This shouldnt be about *what is better *what nintendo or ms does *what you have that is so muc...  [Read More]
Posted in: AMD: Spider, Puma and Imageon !
  Astrotoy7
08-13-2007, 8:15 AM
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No. AMD arent releasing a new anime series :p But for those who have been wondering what theyve been up to whilst Intel has been basking in its C2D plaudits... AMD have now announced a comprehensive platform rollout plan for 2007-8. In 2007, AMD p...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Straight Story: DirectX 10.1
  Astrotoy7
08-08-2007, 11:46 AM
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OK. Any of you techeads with a passing interest in graphical processing hardware and software will have heard the rumblings about DX10.1. MS Direct3D team has recently unveiled further details at the annual SIGGGRAPH(Special Interest Group for Compu...  [Read More]
Posted in: Graphics Card: What do you have? What do you run?
  Astrotoy7
06-23-2007, 10:14 AM
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OK. Im looking to get some real life reports of what type of performance people are getting from their graphics card. Im sick of reading 3D Mark benchies and performance on FPS I never play and Oblivion(=crap RPG). I play great RPGs like KOTOR/TSL(th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Gates and Jobs at Wall Street Digital Conference
  Astrotoy7
06-02-2007, 12:44 PM
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Im sure a few of you have seen/heard of this...From a couple of days ago at the wall st digital conference. Gates and Jobs sitting next to each other relaxingly talking about the industry. It was nice to see - especially after all those annoying 'p...  [Read More]
Posted in: CPU TEMP SURVEY! Please Help ! :)
  Astrotoy7
05-31-2007, 1:28 PM
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Ok techs... Can you give me a hand !?? use the app of your choice, everest/pc wizard/fanspeed etc to get some numbers on your CPU temp and post here plz. Astro is gathering data. Can you please report in degrees Celsius... here is a easy to use con...  [Read More]
Posted in: Killer Apps, Tweaks & Important Updates!
  Astrotoy7
10-18-2006, 10:11 AM
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Sticky clutter reduction note: Killer Apps/ Tips n tricks and important updates threads merged -Astro Some of the most valued software on my pc are freeware/shareware apps. Not having 3rd party apps to 'right windows wrongs' would be sad indeed....a...  [Read More]
Posted in: FYI: Windows Home Server Public Beta
  Astrotoy7
04-18-2007, 11:50 PM
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Just in case anyone is interested, Windows Home Server is now up for public beta. Follow the linky and pop your name down to be in the running WHS is derived from server 2003 but is intended to be user friendly and manageable for home users to centr...  [Read More]
Posted in: AMD/ATI Brings x360 Tech to Handhelds
  Astrotoy7
04-01-2007, 1:47 AM
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im back...from my considerable scarceness ! anyway...on with the show Me being an AMD fanboy aside, it was extremely interesting to read about AMD/ATI 'Alchemy' chip. The chips specs have been compared to the processing power of the x360...if this...  [Read More]
Posted in: Nvidia's "Budget" 8800GTS
  Astrotoy7
02-13-2007, 8:32 PM
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Nvidia has decided to release a cheaper/lower end version of their DX10 compliant 8800 card. Although limited at 320mb, it still posesses the G80 core is touted to give a good bang for bucks DX10 functionality to those that dont want to shell out for...  [Read More]
Posted in: Windows Vista: Superfetch & Readyboost analyzed
  Astrotoy7
02-08-2007, 1:07 PM
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Those of you pondering vista may have heard of this feature. It's quite an interesting concept, and some poking around by people like Tom's Hardware have revealed suprising results. Basically, these features are designed to use a good ole USB key to...  [Read More]
Posted in: Africa : A Digital Dump ??
  Astrotoy7
12-03-2006, 5:29 AM
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http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/10/24/business/24junk.xlarge1.jpg Ever wondered what happened to your old PC from 5 years ago... I read an interesting NY Times report titled "The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa."...  [Read More]
Posted in: Help Old Uncle Astro: Intel Machine Wont Start
  Astrotoy7
12-02-2006, 12:38 AM
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Heya! Im interested to see what our fellow experts think ! A colleague had donated his intel p4 2.8. I was going to do a fresh install of xp and then pass it onto one of needy community groups via work. I installed xp fine. I installed everest/pc...  [Read More]
Posted in: Vista and Office 2007
  Astrotoy7
11-18-2006, 11:03 PM
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Poll time. Just curious who are keen on a Vista or Office 2007 upgrade. Even if not immediately, I think from a gamers point of view, the lure of DX10 is far too strong...not to mention the upcoming DX10 cards :) For some tantalising insight as to...  [Read More]
Posted in: Play Oblivion? Please help Old Man Astro :)
  Astrotoy7
11-06-2006, 8:44 AM
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OK. I moved my whole Oblivion folder to an external HDD, thinking it was still going to be playable(as I have done with NWN and COD2) It is playable but my saved games semeed to have disappeared. If it was on a different folder on my system HDD, it i...  [Read More]
Posted in: WMP 11 Final Released
  Astrotoy7
11-05-2006, 12:48 PM
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Earlier this week, Windows Media Player's final incarnation was release For those interested download HERE. (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx) I use WMP quite a bit as I have an iriver portable media center. Betw...  [Read More]
Posted in: NWN and TES3/4 - Which did you enjoy most ??
  Astrotoy7
11-04-2006, 10:09 AM
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Trying not to make this a simply 'which is better' or 'versus' thread, I'd like to hear from fellow RPG fans who have played these games which they enjoyed better and why I'll group TES 3 with Oblivion, as NWN and its exp packs and modules has encom...  [Read More]
Posted in: Your 'Killer Apps' & Fave Tech Sites ??
  Astrotoy7
10-18-2006, 10:11 AM
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Some of the most valued software on my pc are freeware/shareware apps. Not having 3rd party apps to 'right windows wrongs' would be sad indeed....although MS is trying their best, with LiveOneCare and the like... Just a few RULES for in here: *PLEAS...  [Read More]
Posted in: Vista arrives December 5 ?!!
  Astrotoy7
10-16-2006, 6:00 AM
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Not sure if anyone noticed it but word had begun filtering out that Vista is due out on Decmeber 5. This goes against the expected release projection of Jan 2007. I myself noticed it at Zdnet UK here (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39284078,00.h...  [Read More]
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