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    [Recommendations] FPS Singleplayer

    Looking for an FPS with a decent singleplayer. What's Halo's singleplayer like? Don't really care about style/setting, just looking for a great SP. Please advise me on what I should play :sunny:
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    Usenet Release Speed/nzb Searchers

    It seems that (some) private tracker torrent sites are getting stuff up before it's available on usenet - anyone else noticed this? For example - the new ep of Lost (in standard and hr) is now out at tb.net (private tracker), however newzbin is not showing anything yet when I look at the "raw"...
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    [Movies]Recomendations please

    looking for stuff that's out on DVD - basically any genre (not so much horror) I want to see all time favourite lists, as I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing. Sci-fi/futuristic is a plus, as are films such as memento/fight club etc hit me (please :sunny:)
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    [Uni Choice UK]Imperial vs Oxford

    This is for a Master in Computer Science (4 year). I've applied to both unis, I have a place at Imperial and there is a chance I'll get one at Oxford as well. Both require AAA at A-level (I'm not sure what this in gpa terms - but it's basically the highest any uni will ask for, so im guessing...
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    [advice]looking to a buy a 19" widescreen TFT

    currently got a 17" TFT and want a little something extra. First up, I'll be dual screening, anything to expect when running different sized monitors? Here are the monitors that I'm looking at currently, I've just spent £1000+ on my PC so I'm not going to get a £400 dell widescreen or anything...
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    [tech help]VERY WEIRD audio buzz symptoms

    The standard headphone/speaker socket on my computer gives out this very annoying faint buzzing sound. It never used to do this, and only started when I changed my case, and added a maxtor harddrive.I have not noticed any other problems. However, if I run a CPU-intensive program (such as a...
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    [Tech Help]Maxtor SATA weirdness

    Just installed a new Maxtor SATA2 160gb drive (Diamondmax 10, can get the link of needed). I've done the whole drive manager - quick format etc. I was just copying over some files when the drive seemed to stop working... shortly after XP crashed as well - so i rebooted and everything seemed to...
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    [Newsgroups]Which sites to use?

    I think I'm gonna jump into newsgroups. Unfortunatly I am with Orange (Wanadoo/Freeserve) and their newsgroups are shitty for my needs. So I accept that I will have to pay some cash each month for access. Wondered what people would suggest, so far I've found these "providers"...
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    [KOTOR]Buggy? Black Textures?

    System: 7900GTX, A64 X2 3800+, 2gb PC6400 etc This game is being VERY buggy for me. Some textures aren't being loaded, meaning they are black ingame. Although this doesn't bother me, the game also "spazzes" out sometimes - my character can't move, but if I click on a footlocker or something it...
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    [PC Games]Looking for a Single Player game

    Playing Oblivion at the moment, but the random crashes are getting annoying, and I've done most of the game already. Looking for a new single player game, doesn't have to be that new, but I would like a game that looks nice on my new system (7900GTX etc). I liked KOTOR2 (haven't played #1), T:V...
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    New Computer System - advice/critique

    im planning on getting a new computer, but before I commit myself to anything I thought i should ask the fountain of knowledge that is TW. 1) How much will Windows Vista "mess up" existing hardware, same with DX10. If I splash out and spend £800 (~$1500) on just the actual PC will my graphics...
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    [tech help]AGP on mobo died?

    Recently my fx5900 fan as been making some bad noises, and last night I got some (heat) artifacts. This morning when I booted up the monitor didn't come out of sleep/no signal input, whilst the rest of the system booted up fine. Guessing the card had copped it, which I don't mind too much, I...
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    [network help->routers] HTTP dying, but not other ports

    I have 4 computers connected to a D-Link DSL-G604T, every so often websites stop working with a "could not be found" error, it displays this immediately (doesn't sit there waiting for the page to load, just straight away displays the error page/popup) - however, even when this happens, all other...
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    TW Mining Division

    Right now we quite a few people with extensive mining abilites, and to increase productivity I/we think we should have larger mining gatherings (and it's more fun :)) To make this easier, we need to make some decisions. First, who would be happy to move "base" to another system/region in order...
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    ATTN ADMINS: Rules on posting porn site passwords?

    what is this whole "level 10 Zima" thing?
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    Suggest "joystick" Games

    just bought this http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009OY9U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg and apparently it dies rather quickly, so can people hurry up and suggest air-oh-plain games please... is IL-2 any good? what about lock-on?
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    funny pictures - and a request

    ok, ive been saving up some funny pictures for a while, but im in need of the "for the horde" original baby one heres what i got atm: http://www.kyfora.com/incoming.jpg http://www.paulduncan.org/files/watch_for_ice.jpg http://home.pacbell.net/trog/babyface.jpg...
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    [Visual Basic] Quick Question

    I've got some custom functions, and I would like to know how to create non-mandatory/optional "things" for example, here is the declaration of the function (might not be called that) Function GridBox(picTest As PictureBox, intWhatever As Integer) how can i make the intwhatever non mandatory...
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    [PPU] new physics "card"

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21648 anyone know anything about these? seems like a good idea... even if it will cost more money, it should allow for much much better physics (or use of physics on more things, ie grass)
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