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Yea, this one has always confused me, but I suspect the guy who designed that level would be laughing right now. Wolfie's right - the only way to disable those force fields is by the panels you shot.

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Have you looked at CmosPwd?

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Not to turn this into an ideological war, but IMHO if you want a weird and awkward UI, you really don't have to look much further than Devil. Simply moving the camera there was a mission... That's funny ... I think the same of DMB / DLE-XP. :P But whatever, DFW is right. Speaking of DEVIL, is Lars ...

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Meh, I've never taken to DMB's interface, to be honest.

It's mostly the odd view manipulation and the fact that I can't just click things to select. *hint hint*

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Michigan can't decide if it wants to rain or snow, so we're stuck with freezing rain up here.

I really can't want until the weather gets in the mood for real snow ... I can't ski too well on ice.

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If it comes to it, you can send me your level and I'll fix the name in DEVIL.

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Nice one.

If you ever look around rooms in real-life and figure out how you could build them with cubes.

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It's an IE-only effect, but you can make it work for Firefox. In your JavaScript, where you have: if(document.all) Add an else statement that'll set b.style.opacity to (a / 100) As for the overlap problems, just move your <img src=\"quake2.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\&q...

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I'm having trouble thinking of anything I actually want. :P If only we had Starcraft 2 this year, or a Descent 4. My entire list so far is comprised of 3 items.. - 4GB flash drive - \"All Points Bulletin\" by Dispatch (audio CD / concert DVD) - Pearls Before Swine calendar (best comic stri...

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Adaptors are your friend.... The hard drive is fine. He doesn't need an adapter to move the file, unless I understand you wrong. Have you tried booting off another CD? Try downloading a small boot disc like Puppy Linux ( direct download ) and burning it to a CD. If you can't boot the laptop off the...

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Have you tried booting off another CD? Try downloading a small boot disc like Puppy Linux ( direct download ) and burning it to a CD. If you can't boot the laptop off the Puppy Linux CD, then the drive is shot. (If you're not familiar with ISO files, you need a program like Nero or Roxio that can bu...

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They do - the game \"Rage\", plus a brand new and beautiful rendering engine.

Like you said, no reason to expect it, but I guess we can say the same of Interplay.

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I haven't seen the movie, but from what I've heard, there's nothing specifically wrong with it. I think the concern is more with the books, and the fact that people will see the movies and then buy the books for their kids. I've read the trilogy - yes, I really enjoyed it, but yes, it's downright an...

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I'd like to see id do it. It would be a nice way for them to explore a different aspect of the FPS genre, and an id Software Descent 4 could not go wrong.

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My favorite's always been Encounter At Farpoint 2 (Ellusion). I don't usually like custom textures, but this mission was one solid piece of quality.

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Would love to test. Sending e-mail.

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Confirming that I'll be doing 5 levels. I've already started on my first.

Also, DFW, could I see the tube level you mentioned? Your description of it gave me an idea, but I want to make sure I'm not thinking of the same thing you're already doing.

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Astronomy websites are dangerous.

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Ooh, this is an awesome idea. Time allowing (or time making, heh) I will definitely be contributing. How long that takes is the only real question here. I'll attempt 5 levels, but who knows, I might get carried away and do more. My preferred editor is DEVIL - will that mess up your plans to convert ...

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D1.. levels 7 and 12.
D2 MIDI - level 4 if I had to pick one. Haunted was by far my fav on the Redbook, though.

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If you're not a Walmart-hater...

You'll find decent rates at their online store, though not all tracks are available in MP3 yet.

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I have a Lenovo X60 and it's sweet as heck. No lag whatsoever in GIMP ((what program are you using, by the way?) and when you're not using it in tablet mode, it's got a nice TrackPoint to move the cursor in place of the fingerpad.

I don't know where you could try one, though.

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Well , I personally think we could... not tap the internet and phone lines of all americans and just suspected terrorists or threats?

Everything I've read seems to indicate that that's how it's done already. Could be wrong, though.

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I think that's just the code name, IIRC... I can't imagine Microsoft doing an OS well enough to get away with just giving it a relatively insignificant number.

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Do you have a piano or keyboard? You can hit a random note, guess it, and then check to see if you were right. No program needed. Actually, though, you don't really need to learn every note. Learn the low E note, and then use harmonics to tune the other strings. My friend who is experienced with a v...

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The PDF export was much needed, although I'm surprised they managed to do that without gaining Adobe's eternal enmity - after all, who's going to buy Acrobat for Office file conversions now? As for the ODF convertor, the one I was thinking of was to be written by Microsoft, but Open Source is better...

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If you have Linux, there's Cinelerra. It works with both audio and video, although I haven't personally used it, so I can't review it.

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Doc incompatibility with other programs is a good reason not to use Microsoft Word and doc format for your documents, since nobody can figure out how to read docs except Microsoft Office, and even that doesn't get it right every time across all versions and platforms. Doc isn't supposed to be inter...

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Two old ones I dug up:

Pity it didn't happen.

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Microsoft Office is actually a nice product, I'll give them that, but free and good tops $300 and good anyday.

Long live OpenOffice.

Two features of OpenOffice I particularly like are the native PDF export across the entire suite and Impress's (a.k.a. Powerpoint) Flash export.

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The monitor was an LCD screen. A flat panel display is totally immune to any problems that resolution could cause That was my impression; I'm glad to know that for certain, though. And man, would running D3 at 640x480 suck... that's what I'm doing in my room on my own computer, though. It's the only...

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Alright, here's my tale of woe. I was playing Descent 3 last week. On my computer, the game has an irritating tendency to switch resolutions at least twice any time a level loads or ends. Now this time, after the stats screen disappeared, the screen went black as usual while it switched resolutions ...

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I'll be starting my first year of college next week. I'm pretty excited about it, which I suppose is a good thing.

Unforunately I don't expect much time for Descent 3...

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Ha ha... that's awesome. A real masterpiece of 3D art, too.

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This may not be precisely what you're looking for, but I have two suggestions just for usability. First off, the drop-down menus aren't cross-browser compatible - they're offset to the right by a hundred pixels or so on IE7. Also, the user shouldn't have to scroll sideways to view parts of the page....

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Maybe you somehow got my old computer ...

Those fonts are handy for making Descent wallpapers and the like. I'm pretty sure I actually did use one of them as a Windows font at one point or another.

If you want the full set of three, you can find them here:
http://www.descent2.com/goodies/fonts/

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Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner on this. After updating to 1.9.265, I now get blocky white polygon trails (like a pyramid sticking off the back of each missile). Switching to particle smoke eliminates those, but gives no further results. I'd update my video card drivers, but ATI tried pretty h...

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Very nice picture of the dog, and the bird photography back there is also well done. I've had plenty of experience evaluating bird photos - my dad is a big-time birdwatcher and photographer, so I've looked through a few hundred of his.

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The only thing I can think of here is the whole no root thing, but that's trivially overcome. Heh heh, yes: su root :twisted: For anyone (like me) who doesn't have long experience with Linux, the no root environment restriction is really a boon. It's much harder to screw things up those times when ...

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- You refer to your boss as \"Dravis\" and scornfully tell him \"It's about time\" when you receive your paycheck

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