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Got it with the Orange Box from Valve.
For 25 pounds you get…

* Half-Life 2
* Half-Life 2: Episode One
* Half-Life 2: Episode Two
* Portal
* Team Fortress 2

The above isn’t coming out till Oct 10th, but you get to play the team fortress 2 beta now if you purchase the Orange Box.

Team Fortress is a great game loads of fun, and great graphics I wasn’t expecting much and was quite surprised.

The graphics are cartoon like but very detailed imagine a game made by pixar and you get the idea.

There’s also lots of humor

There is a class for everyone, the heavy (Mini Gun), soldier (rocket launcher), Medic, Engineer (builds turrets but packs a punch with his shotgun), Pryo (flame thrower), Demoman (Throws Bombs), Scout (moves very fast carries a shotgun), sniper, and spy.

The Spy class is very cool, you become stealthed go behind enemy lines, then put on a disguise so you look like a member of the enemy team, go up behind people and instant kill with a backstab

The medic can heal people from a short distance so can stay out of the way of fire.

Cool game worth the money on its own.

EXPLORER [/n,] [/e,] [options] [folder]

User start..run to enter these commands or create a shortcut to explorer and them there.

/n, – Opens a new Explorer window

/e, – Opens expanded folder ie the normal two pane explorer.

/root – Selects a folder as the root of the explorer tree

For example EXPLORER /n, /e, /root, c:\ opens a two pane explorer window with C:\ as the root.

# Don’t do it during work time unless you have permission to do so. Better yet, don’t use it at work unless you think it will get you a raise. Commission sales people are less likely to get in trouble over this than someone working in the accounting department.
# Don’t post anything that you wouldn’t feel comfortable posting or discussing in the lunchroom at work. Some people got busted for posting photographs of things that went on at parties.
# Remove comments posted by others that can get you into trouble. Edit them directly or ask whoever posted them to remove them.
# Raise your privacy settings. Be mindful that these settings only prevent the average user from digging out the information. Assume there is a chance that the information can still leak out.
# Do not ever admit to anything even remotely resembling a crime. Cops and prosecutors know how to use Facebook as well as anyone. You’ll have a hard time undoing such an admission, even if done as a joke. If your boss doesn’t really like you, Facebook might become a good place to turn to find dirt that can be used to get rid of you.
# Don’t disclose personal information that you are not comfortable having out there. Birthdates are a crucial piece of information used to identify people that might be better left out of your profile.
# Monitor your information. Google your name often, set up alerts and let people know what your expectations are for personal information. Let your close friends know where you stand so there are fewer issues. This is especially important for the photo junkies who like posting potentially embarrassing photos that may have you in one or more of them.
# Be considerate of others when you are posting things. If your friend just started a new job as a Whitehouse intern, don’t start posting stuff that won’t make it past the watchdogs.
# Don’t discuss confidential stuff online. If you aren’t sure, err on the side of caution. Don’t be afraid to ask someone before going ahead and posting something.
# Be careful if you mix your personal and business online. People often make the mistake of carelessly mixing personal and business contacts. Be somewhat more conservative with your business than your personal contacts to minimize this source of potential problem

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After lots of wavering, Microsoft has finally made the due date for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) official: The update will ship in the latter half of 2007.

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While playing a game on vista, sometimes a game would drop to desktop and I would get the above message.

MS have released a patch to fix this..

get it here

This software will defag your disk the cool thing about it is it will also defrag metadata files, metadata files are vital files that hold infomation about the file system on the disk. Normally these files are not defragged.

This USB Thumb Drive has a pin code pad that allows you to lock the drive, so people with out the your code can not access it.

ive just installed it get yours here.