Free Realms Overview - Myth Games
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Free Realms Overview
Myth Games The game has a graphical style ? and level of polish ? on a par with World of Warcraft, but instead of grinding, raiding, and PVP-ing, the game offers a much wider range of activities. In Free Realms you don't pick a specific character class when you … Sony's Free Realms takes on Runescape FT.com Blogs Free Realms is now free Gaming Age Online all 47 news articles |
Switch Review: Dlink DGS-2205
This is my basic review of the DLINK DGS-2205 8 port 1000BaseT networking switch.
I purchased three of them for my LAN Party to upgrade my really old 16-port 10/100 switch that has served me for so long.
What came in the box:
The switch
The power supply
A DVD on how to install the switch….
Construction: The switch itself is very light but seems to be constructed to be able to hold up to a few beatings. If someone attempts to rob the LAN I will not have as much confidence in bludgeoning someone to death as I would with my old 10/100 metal cased switch.
Setup/Looks: The switch is setup with ports in back and lights upfront, two lights per port. The first light indicates port speed, green for 1000, yellow for 100/10 the other blinks for activity. Pretty straight forward and I could tell with ease which port was active from across the room.
Heat: Even with a night of fragging and massive file transfers they stayed nice and cool. Around 3am when the file transfer for movies, I checked them for heat and they were warm to the touch, just over room temp I would guess. Which was a surprise as it was pretty warm in the garage for most of the LAN. This is an improvement to my old 16 port switch that would get hot to the touch when worked hard, and it had an active fan.
Speed: VERY FAST! I was pulling a 2 gig file across the network that had to transition two different switches till it hit my computer and it was moving so fast I downloaded it twice thinking it did not complete because of the speed. I would guess around 2-3 mins for a 2 gig transfer. I was busy fragging so did not do any timing of transfer speeds, but we had a file server running and everyone was pulling large files extremely fast with no slowdowns, it took approximately 10-15 mins to distribute new games (including install time) to people so we all could play.
Noise: Dead silent, no fans on the switch themselves but they stayed nice and cool, so unlike my old 10/100 switch with it’s noisy ass 40mm fan you could sleep in the same room with these switches.
Over all I think it is a solid buy for 40 bucks a pop. My only concern is the plastic case but it is pretty thick case so hopefully I can get years of fragging out of them.
I recommend them to any LAN party or person looking for a good bang for your buck switch.
World of Warcraft news and blogs - April 30, 2009
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of news and blogs that haven’t yet hit top story status by our community. Visit
World of Warcraft news and blogs for even more
news and blogs converage.
• World of Warcraft + Keith's Music = ??? –
by keithmoore1 from world-of-warcraft « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• The Queue: Mercenaries –
by Alex Ziebart from WoW Insider
• Gay gamers –
by Lizzie from world-of-warcraft « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• How Not To Address Homosexuality In Gaming –
by Mike Fahey from Kotaku: World of Warcraft
• Blizzard Authenticator –
by Kane from world-of-warcraft « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Activision shares jump after Goldman boosts rating –
from Forbes
• More on the NBA and Warcraft –
from FanHouse
• New World of Warcraft Wallpaper –
by liti4 from world-of-warcraft « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• BioWare's Old Republic policy on homosexuality reconsidered –
by Alexander Sliwinski from Joystiq
• The Nexus Reloaded –
by Wilhelm2451 from The Ancient Gaming Noob
See complete World of Warcraft news, blog, video, and photo coverage at Boxxet.
WoW Pod contains everything you need for a World-of-Warcraft-based … - DVICE
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WoW Pod contains everything you need for a World-of-Warcraft-based …
DVICE Are you a huge World of Warcraft addict? Like, to the point where you don't really want to have much to do with your real life if it interferes with the game? Well, do I have the hut for you! The WoW Pod is designed to take care of every need you may … Yes! It's the World of Warcraft house! Reg Hardware World of Warcraft Pod is everything the WoW addict needs to live Tech Digest The WoW Pod Is A Suicide Booth For Warcraft Fans [WoW] Zergwatch Escapist Magazine - PerezStart.com all 12 news articles |
How Not To Address Homosexuality In Gaming - Kotaku Australia
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How Not To Address Homosexuality In Gaming
Kotaku Australia, Australia In 2006, Blizzard scolded a player in their popular massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft for advertising her guild as gay and lesbian friendly, claiming she was violating the game's harassment policy. Following up on the issue the player … The Force Is Not With Queer People In The Star Wars Universe io9 Homosexuality "Does Not Exist" in Star Wars PC World Nothing Gay in Star Wars, Game Company Insists Towleroad all 23 news articles |
World of Warcraft on iPhone? - IGN
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World of Warcraft on iPhone?
IGN, CA by Levi Buchanan April 28, 2009 - World of Warcraft has been coming to mobile for years. Really, it has. The rumor pops up at conferences or on message boards from time to time, but the arrival of the iPhone actually makes it a real possibility. … World of Warcraft On iPhone A Reality? Escapist Magazine Rumor: World of Warcraft Coming to iPhone I4U iPhone shown running World of Warcraft Geek.com IncGamers.com - Pocket Gamer.Biz all 23 news articles |
Blizzard Releases World of Warcraft 3.1.1 Bug Fix Patch - The Mac Observer
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Blizzard Releases World of Warcraft 3.1.1 Bug Fix Patch
The Mac Observer by Bryan Chaffin on April 28th, 2009 at 4:32 PM Blizzard has patched World of Warcraft 3.1.1, a bug fix patch for the multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMO). The patch mostly addresses issues introduced with the 3.1 content patch released earlier in … World of Warcraft v3.1.1a Patch Gamers Hell World of Warcraft v3.1.1a Patch IncGamers.com Wrath of the Lich King | N?chster gro?er Patch bringt den … ingame.de all 5 news articles |
Jesse comments on “Aspiring Academics” - Part 1
The recent AAG text Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty edited by Solem, Foote and Monk (2009) offers a great deal of information in just a few pages (212 pages). Clearly as a book aimed at academics it references other academic materials on the various topics. As I read through the text on the flight back from Las Vegas I thought of several online and ‘real world’ examples and resources that might be useful to readers. This post covers section 1 of the book, chapters 1-5.
Chapter 1 Time Management
-GTD is the acronym for the philosophy that spread through tech and business sectors. David Allen’s ‘getting things done’ is an effective way to plan your activities and projects. No one does GTD more amusingly than merlin Mann of 43 folders.
Chapter 2 Career Planning
-This is a significant area of importance and due to the restrictions of the text’s topic looks at only the academic issues. But with the market as it is and the reality of changing interests through the grad school we have to look at jobs in government and the private sector as well. There several jobs that ate outside of academia that allow for research, teaching and service just like that plumb tenure track job that you could have gone after.
Chapter 3 Collegial relationships
- In most jobs if you are not a team player you are no longer a player at all, but academia allows you a certain protection from your own arrogance and self-absorption (it’s ok, it is the reason we thought we could go for a doctorite in the first place). There are several sites out there that talk about working with others, but let’s face it…just sit down and watch Dr Phil to know how to get along with others.
Chapter 4 Balancing your life
-Apparently after you graduate you are allowed to have a personal life…I will believe it when I see it! Until then I will jump back to GTD which is intended to help you effectively do the things you have to do so that you have time to do the things you want to do.
Chapter 5 Tenure and beyond
-Here I will point you to the new Quake Live or Yahoo! Games because that is the only help online. Tenure is a bizarre process, but it is the goal for many. All you can hope to do is decompress occassionally to maintain your sanity between collaborative sessions on Google Docs for that latest paper, comittee minutes, or tenure application letter.
Career planning and personal management is a significant issue in any job, but clearly academia has a few extra steps, hiccups, issues, whatever you would like to call them. Check back as I will bring more notes on chapters 6-14 in parts 2 and 3 over the next couple of weeks
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ToxicRisk - mapping Toxic Release Inventory data
Mike from MapCruzin sent us this comment based on our December 2007 post on the MapEcos project, in order to let us know about a project he’s working on called ToxicRisk. Our comment system apparently didn’t want to play nice, so I thought I’d post Mike’s comment in full below, so that you can read more about the ToxicRisk mapping project and the US Toxic Release Inventory:
“Two weeks ago we launched ToxicRisk. It is based on Google Maps, as is
MapEcos, but uses the most recent Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) 2007 data
released March 19, 2009 by EPA rather than older 2005 data. We wanted to
make the maps as easy to use and fast as possible so my son Aran did all of
the program in house. He has released some of this programming to the
public domain and you can access it at CPAN.
A little background: I began working with Toxic Release Inventory
data and GIS mapping doing environmental justice research as an
undergrad and then graduate student at the University of California. Over
those years my son, Aran Deltac who has extensive programming experience,
and I developed the first U.S. based interactive pollution maps on the
internet. It was small and simple and only covered my home county, Santa
Cruz, CA, but it caught the attention of the Environmental Defense Fund. We
were hired by EDF to do the maps for their very popular Scorecard Project.
Given EPA’s current emphasis on toxics and schools, we added schools
to the maps and calculated how many schools are within 1 mile and 5 miles
of each school. As you zoom into an area the facilities are hittable
showing the school data and a link to RTK Net for facility
report.
We are working now to do the reporting similar to what we have done for
the EPA Risk Management Plans
(RMP) and link the chemicals in our reports to Scorecard.org for
comprehensive information about the toxic a facility has released in our
neighborhoods and communities.
There are over 80,000 chemicals in use in the U.S. and the TRI data
accounts for less than 1% of these. There is little data available for most
of these, but we will add as much as we can. Over the next weeks we are
adding demographics, hazardous waste, water pollution and superfund data to
the maps. We are dedicated to bringing available toxic, environmental, and
demographic data to citizens in easily digestible formats so that they can
use this information to improve conditions where they live, work and play.
ToxicRisk is a work-in-progress and we look
forward to your comments, suggestions and critque.”
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Mike Meuser
Right-To-Know More
About Environmental Injustice
http://www.toxicrisk.com
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