echo1

This.

What make is the PSU? If it's some cheapo brand one, I wouldn't bother.

He's also an evil Jew who molests children. Or something...

Yep, right in the middle of a recession, huge national debt and overstretched troops fighting on two fronts, what the US needs is a cowboy president to bomb another country and piss more people off. Oh, and unlike the Iraqis and Afghans, these ones have armies that won't keel over and die in an hour...

How good is the rest of your system.

Point taken. I was being deliberately hyperbolic, and I was taking the piss out of the mentality of the games as opposed to Muslims or Vietnamese, if anyone interpreted what I was saying as such. Well, I didn't quite mean it like that, but you have a point. Myself, and countless others from what I gather, are bored sick of the market churning out gazillions of generic WW2, Vietnam and Desert Storm/GWOT games. Now, obviously there are great games in these categories (the Hidden & Dangerous games, for all their bugs, were absolutely legendary), but you really need to go out of your way to make a good game set in one of these periods due to how clichéd they have become. Please tell me you're taking the piss. What current affairs? You mean like "FUCK YEAH AMERICA LETS CONQUER SOME OILFIELDS AND FUCK SOME BITCHES!!!11111(lololol)". If you think that video game plots are in any way remotely connected to reality, you're doing it horribly horribly wrong. Again, you're putting words in my mouth. Thanks for your efforts, but I can speak for myself, and judging by your post, I'd like to keep things that way.

Oh boy! Another game where we shoot at people in deserts who wear tea-towels on their heads. Almost as mind-destroyingly boring and clichéd as those games where you shoot at people in rice paddies who wear lamp shades on their heads...

Does anyone know if they are going to remake the single player campaign on Goldeneye Source? I can't imagine it would be too difficult given that they have most of the maps anyway, and there's no spoken dialog or particularly dramatic cutscenes in the original game itself.

It would be nice if it was ported elsewhere, but I don't suppose that's going to happen. The problem with reduxes is that there is an extraordinarily fine tightrope walk between taking a gigantic dump on a classic, and just remaking the old game with new graphics. Not that the latter is necessarily a bad thing, it's just that if you want to spice it up a bit, it's very difficult.

Rockstar making a Max Payne game? Such a thought is inconceivable! Wait, zoom in and enhance on the bottom right of that picture...

The AI in the older games was ridiculous (although I was probably playing on the easier difficulties in fairness). In MTW, I once defeated a pretty sizable and well equipped army with two 3/4 strength units of spearmen, by luring them towards a forest-covered, hill, and then charging down said hill at their General. Once the general was dead, I was able to cause the rest to panic, and killed quite a few as they retreated.

Ubuntu is a good starter Linux, but for serious stuff, it's pretty dire compared with the likes of Arch, or even Debian. I know a lot of people who've been using Linux for longer than I have, and wouldn't touch Ubuntu with a ten-foot stick.

Except, presumably, for the Minimi gunners and marksmen?

Must be a very different Ubuntu to the one I'm thinking of...

I recently read that a lot of video cards only support two simultaneous outputs. It could be the case that the only way to do what you want is to get a second video card, or use the integrated graphics (if your mobo has them)

I pay nothing per day for protection and still never get infected. Is there something that everyone else does that I don't that causes all this virus risk?

I'd assume that this is a Webkit issue, and not just something with Chrome?

I'm just not looking forward to the inevitable Vietnam: Total War...

They did have an Alexander expansion pack for RTW. Most ancient Greek conquests were fought in Greece and in the immediate surrounding areas, it wouldn't make for a particularly long game if you wanted to be in any way (even very loosely like RTW was) historically accurate.

This is truly the stuff of famous last words. Again, your point is basically "the French use it, so you must be wrong". So I guess in the absence of any proper argument I can fight fire with fire with two words - "Maginot line" I'm sure if I shoot an Abrams with a 9mm in just the right place I can disable it... I think DM's point is that there's a difference between something that can do something on paper or in certain lucky circumstances, and something that can do something consistently and reliably.

Fixed. Seriously, no AV is a substitute for having some cop on. A good free AV like MSE is sufficient for piece of mind, but I have ran computers without any AV protection for years and can count on the fingers of one hand the problems I've had, and most of those were due to me being silly (particularly with keygens...)

NTFS is quite good at not losing stuff. If shit has really hit the fan, it will attempt to run chkdsk as the PC boots up (there will be a big message telling you that there are errors on the disk and that it will check for them) In reality, if there were any issues, you would have known about them by now.

From experience, MSE is far better at detecting viruses than AVG, Avira, McAfee, Norton and some others. The fact that it's free and non-intrusive is a definite bonus too. Really though, Common Sense Anti Virus is the best one of them all =P

I've seen this happen independently of what OS is running on the machine, so it seems to be some problem that affects certain optical drives, possibly at the firmware level.

I've seen this happen with more than one CD/DVD drive... Optical drives tend to be one of the most failure prone pieces of hardware around, and given how relatively cheap they are to replace, I'd just toss the one you have and get another one.