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Its weird, on the face of it EVE a mmorpg is quite dull, but its an adictive type of dull, soothing and mesmorising.

Its kinda like a on-line Freelancer or Elite.

Its quite complex but has a good tutorial.

Its also huge I and mean bloody huge, you can spend hours travelling but you don’t have hang around while you do since theirs an auto pilot.

The ingame chat is very good lots of people will help you out.

The graphics are pretty good but could be better, apparently a update will be available soon, which will improve the graphics.

Anyway its well worth trying the free 2 week trial.

Fixed a Vista issue today. While browsing video files using vista, one was experiencing a explorer crash with the rather cryptic error message “Com Surrogate has Stopped working”.

What hell is Com anyway ? why does it need a surrogate?

One discovered out this was due to a issue with fddshow (a cool video codec), this was strange since I wasn’t executing the files only browsing them.

Also I wasnt using thumbnails, anyway way once I upgraded to a new version the problem seized to be .

Im waiting with excitement that is almost sexual in its intensity for the next issue

Im back on Vista, the main reason why i gave up vista was, The Nvida driver for the 8800 GTX stank worse than a tramps arsehole, compared to XP, also no software based over clocking tool worked. However these issues have now been fixed with Version: 158.18.

Vista now performs just as well as XP in 3d games. I know this since I used 3dmark 03 to test both os’s.

Before the new driver vista was thousands of points behind xp.

Check out these

Foxmarks firefox addon, syncs your bookmarks between multiple machines over the net.

http://www.foxmarks.com/

FEBE Backsup everything in firefox. ie passwords, cookies etc.

http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/febe/febe.html

Excellent rename util
http://www.1-4a.com/rename/rename-examples.htm

Just had a major upgrade bought a intel core 2 duo e6600, and a 8800 gtx, to replace my AMD X2 and nvida 7900b g

The 7900 was fucked, i thought I would have mess about trying to get a replacement from Evga but then rememberd it was still under warrenty, so I got my money back he he from the dealer.

Anyway the 8800 rocks FEAR full settings at 1200×1600 60 fps nice !!!!

Guys and girls think twice before buying a LCD with 1200×1600 native resolution, since its still quite hard to run at that res with full AA and FSAA.