Ollie
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The board news & issues area is hard to use, I didn't know where to put this, I have already put it somewhere else but I'll put it here too. For some reason I can't subscribe to threads anymore, the drop down menu where you choose it from won't drop down.
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I'm on a placement right now. Have been here since last may and will be staying until September. It's not 100% related to my course. My course is Computing and IT and I am doing IT support here, but its pretty close. Loving it on placement, earning money and having something regular, no coursework and all that stuff, its great. Not looking forward to having to give it all up and head back to the student life
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I watched Howl's Moving Castle last night, and I thought it was brilliant! I have Spirited Away too and really liked that as well. I might get some of the other Studio stuff now. I have to say, watching things like that always makes me feel a bit weird, kind of, on edge, I can't really explain it, but I still love them!
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I have problems like this with my router. We can have 3 on ours before we get problems and I'm pretty sure the only thing you can do is upgrade your hardware
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I never had or never knew much about the old Saturn, I don't know why, it just never hit me as something worth getting, but I have heard loads of good things about Nights, so I'm going to get one off ebay and try it out. I had a look at wikipedia and it seems that there were 2 models in this country, one with 'oval' buttons and one with 'round' buttons. My question is, does this make a difference? Is there something I should try to avoid, or try to get?
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Is that sarcasm, or do you mean 'it's the shit'? I got a 3rd party vga cable from ebay, don't even know what brand it is, works a charm tho. You get a nice feeling connection when you plug it into the back of your xbox. I wanted to plug it into the same monitor as my pc as my pc uses the DVI connection, but it wont swap between the two. Once I plug the xbox into the vga slot it swaps to that and wont switch back with out loads of fiddling around.
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Ok, first off, what do you want to do? A basic website with some text and pictures is easy. Frames are a bit harder, and sites with database servers at the back end are usually too complicated for us little people. If you have got Frontpage in your office suite, I would recommend it for a novice, it is excellent, especially the latest version. You can just make it all in a Word type fashion and away you go. I would personally recommend HTML. The easiest way to learn is to teach yourself, but I'll give you a helping hand to get you started. First off, create a new .txt file on your desktop. (make sure you have your machine set to show file extensions) Open up the new file, and copy this code into it: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>dis is da pwornzorzz11!!</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BODY BGCOLOR="black"> <FONT FACE="Tahoma" COLOR="white"> <H2> HELLO THIS IS MY WEBSITE! </H2> </FONT> </BODY> </HTML> I'll explain the code in a minute. Now, save and close, rename the file and change the extension to .html and open the page with your browser, and huzzah, you have a website! If you look at the text, there are some things to notice. HTML uses 'tags' the tag to indicate to a browser that it is a html page opens with <HTML> and closes with </HTML>. That tells your browser that anything inside those two tags should be interpreted as HTML. Everything in html is done with plain text wrapped in html tags. You always have the basic setup of: <HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY> </BODY> </HTML> I should probably note at this point that it isn't case sensitive, but it is good practice to try and keep your code tidy. Here are some sites to give you some more help: This site is perfect to explain what I just said in a much better fashion: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/article.php/3478131 Here is a site that has all the tag's you'll need: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp If you need anything else, write back here, or PM me!
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Why can't I subscribe to threads anymore
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I haven't finished an FF game yet, got to last disc on 7, hardly played 8 (a bit pooey imo) got to last disc of 9 and last boss of 10, never played 10-2, and 11 was the biggest load of BS ever, maybe this'll be the one! Will have to buy a PS2 tho, don't have one of my own, besides I want ICO and Shadow of Collosus anyway!
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Yes, but you might want some more RAM. I'm surprised you don't have more when compared to the rest of the specs! I would wait until you get a 360, play Morrowind in the mean time, it'll run great on your box and its about a fiva in Game!
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From what I have seen, you will stuggle with those specs, I know they have released the recommended specs and that you come in the bracket, but seriously the 5200 is really old now and not capable of much at all, especially not the 128mb version. Anyone who wants to play games on their PC should always have between 1.5 and 3 gig of RAM too, 512 just doesn't cut it. (I'm not flaming, just giving some advice). As for the PC vs 360 arguement, if the xbox version of Morrowind is anything to go by, be prepared for disappointement. The PC version was smooth and quick, ran well and had tiny loading times. The xbox version however was awful. With bad draw distance, looooong loading times, random crashes, jaggies and all the rest. Anyone who would class themselves as an Elder Scrolls elitist would be daft to get this on the 360 over the PC. You will need a very high spec PC, but it would be better for sure! Anywho, I'm going to get this, on the 360 (can't afford to upgrade my PC) and I'm really looking forward to it. Was the reason I got my 360, morrowind was uber and this game is massive, 16 square miles! Yikes!
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I have my xbox 360 connected to my MCE pc, it's great, however, if you want to watch format's not support my MCE (which is just about all of them) you'll need this little 3rd party app! It basically automates this process. As long as your PC can handle it, the program will convert your files 'on the fly' to a format that MCE will play. It is CPU intensive however. I don't need to use my PC whilst i'm watching any of my AVI's which is probably a good thing as it pretty much grinds to a halt.
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Ollie replied to Smalldude76's topic in General Chit Chat
I don't know what a bishie is but that's ok, and I can't see your name, but it's not like a name is needed. Otherwise, love FF, Sephiroth pwns so good theme. Not sure if the blur is intentional or not, so overall 6.5/10. -
Shorty, I think the idea is that on occasion you will get a link to a file that when you click it, it automatically opens and plays, and the link isn't right-clickable so you can't choose 'save as'. With this you can copy the link, create the right-clickable link then you will be able to right-click and 'save-as'.....I think that's its purpose anyway.... EDIT - Just found a use for it! I got a link in a hotmail to a thread in a forum and hotmail won't let you shift-click it to open in a new tab in firefox so i whacked it into the urlmaker and then I could! hurrah!
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An idea for a Ninty reference site, opinions please?
Ollie replied to Ollie's topic in General Gaming Discussion
You're right, it is pretty good, that kind of puts a downer on it, what do you guys think? -
As great as HIM might be, I would have to disagree, they are not even remotely goth. Any self proclaimed goth listening to HIM is in denial and is in fact only a wannabe!
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An idea for a Ninty reference site, opinions please?
Ollie replied to Ollie's topic in General Gaming Discussion
Right, I have had some positive response, that's a good start I think the retro board is pretty quiet in comparisson with some of the other boards here, so tell your friends we need their feedback! In the meantime, ideas for a name (that hasn't already been used) and some feedback of what you would like to see implemented would be great! EDIT - I have made a small change to my example to give you a better idea! -
Happy birthday Dabook, have you started watching lost season 2 yet? If you haven't, doesn't matter, if you have, OMG episode 7!!!! Anyway, have a pancake for me, enjoy your day!
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What program are you using to get the side bar?
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Imagine, how much the PS3 will be if they don't meet demand. 360 off the shelf = £300 Ebay when sold out = £upto 700(ish) PS3 off the shelf = £500 Ebay when sold out = £onemillion OMGZZZ!! lol
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I have been on a Vista trainging course the last two days for work, and although I have had to sign a NDA I can tell you (i think) that the hard drive encryption is an option that can be turned off. I can't tell you how it works etc but I think I can tell you that. Also I can tell you, be very excited, it has some totally impressive stuff!! II should get my hands on a copy of a feature complete version next week so I'll let you know what its like to actually use
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Why would you tease me with such a mis-leading thread title
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Zelda: Twilight Princess Discussion (SPOILERS: BEWARE)
Ollie replied to EchoDesiato's topic in Nintendo Gaming
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PvE = Person versus Environment PvP = Person versus Person RP PvP = RolePlaying Person versus Person RP PvE = RolePlaying Person versus Environment So on a PvE server you get to lvl 60, whats next? Err...nothing! Do the same old high level instances over and over......boring! PvP, reach lvl 60, whats next? Alliance slaying!!!! w00t. IMO there is no point in PvE once you reach level cap there really isn't much to do. I found that on the RP servers everyone is really anal about actually RP'ing which I guess is fair enough as thats what they are there for. And it is actually quite good fun even if your not into that sort of thing, but they like to flame n00bs which makes it difficult to get into, just read the WoW RP forums to see what I mean! The best thing to do is create a character and hang around for a while, see how it works! Im on the Bladefist server if you want to create another alt, I have a lvl 34 Tauren Hunter and an Orc Warrior (now my main) at lvl 23. I am the guild leader of RedHearted which was a 30 man strong guild until I stopped playing for a month or so, now there is only a few of us and I don't have time to recruit whilst I'm levelling. I'm working on a website in the meantime tho.
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I have also played this game for over a year, and I even bought a 360 that I don't play because I play this alllll the time, seriously don't have time for any other games! I don't even notice the subscription anymore, especially if you buy the pre-paid cards from the shops. As far as Rogues/Hunters are concerned, Rogues are easy to play well, hunters are easy to play but difficult to play well. Especially in PVP! Oh yeah, that reminds me, PvE servers suck, once you get to lvl 60 there is nothing to do, make sure you head to a PvP server! I could talk about this game for hours, but I won't, just ask if you have anymore questions.