Arturus Magi

Arturus Magi

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Actually, none of the modern consoles are immune to DRM. The XBox 360 was designed with DRM in mind to begin with. It's less severe because the idea of a game being playable on more than one machine was always part of console gaming, but it's around nonetheless.

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No, you're not. Next time AVG detects it, Go to the Virus Vault, Select the Aveyond program files (AVG detects two of them as infected, last I checked), and select the "Send to analysis" option. This is AVG's method of reporting false positives. (Sending an email to support as well probably isn't a bad idea, but technically is not a supported method of reporting false positives.)

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More or less. There are differences between a college and a university (we have both over here, and they are generally considered equivalent education), but the differences are only relevant for those who seek higher education instead of the bare minimum for good employment.

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[quote]Also, a request for GalCiv3 from a moder - even if it's not used for the ingame tech trees, can we have the ability to have a tech 1) be able to require two or more prerequisite techs (IE: Killer Beam Laser requires Plasma IV and Killer-Chicken Studies), [/quote] This is already possible, although the tech tree often doesn't display correctly in that situation. I only know of one mod that actually uses it off-hand. The limit appears to be eight prerequisit

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So far, the only discontinued program that is not available on one of the two download clients for people who had access to it in the past is SmartIP. I would expect this to continue to be the state of affairs.

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I tend to name mine after my nicknames and/or online persona. The one I'm on now is currently dubbed Cyndaquil (and the user account when booted into LINUX is Typhlosion). The one in my bedroom is currently Sailorleo, although it will probably be renamed once I get my old computer running again, as it has prior claim to that name. Most likely it'll end up as either Eefui/Espeon or Blacky/Burakkii/Umbreon. Network currently is using the default name, but that will probably c

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A couple other problems got in the way of getting back to this.... A reinstallation did not help any. The color is corrputed and the center panel is in the wrong position (to be exact, it's off to the left by about a quarter inch, with the portion that goes off the edge of the panel area displayed on the far right, just before the right center position for the user entry area) on any theme I use. Top and bottom strips are in their proper position and color, as is the user entry area.

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Welcome Screen is already enabled (otherwise it wouldn't be changing back to it when LogonStudio is disabled). It does seem to work with the base logins, but at least one of them appears to be corrupted on the actual Welcome Screen (welcome1, to be specific)...

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Just recently, LogonStudio issued an error dialog during system shutdown that was closed too quickly to read . Since then, Windows has been using the Classic Logon dialog instead of the Welcome Screen. The restore orginal logon button gets the normal Windows XP Welcome screen back on reboot or with Fast User Switching, but any time I reenable LogonStudio, it goes back to the Classic Logon or Workstation Locked dialogs, depending on whether I reboot or logout. System is XPSP2,

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GalCiv1 and GalCiv2 are very different games. I don't play GC1 often simply because GC2 games simply take too long to get the chance for much playtime in other games. I've still got a few mods I was trying to make in GC1 that I want to finish, actually (and I'll probably try to get it setup for GC2 sooner or later).

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When using the next race button on the Minor Race screen, it is possible to conduct diplomacy with the Pirates! race, even though they don't have an icon on the minor races list.

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Might be related to that time I saw a minor who's own home planet wasn't providing range for its colony ships, but something else was I can tell you what it is, in that specific instance: minor races, in the Beta5 version currently up, base their range off of another 'random' AI's planets. (Mos

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Probably at least one huge majhong game ( sorry had to say it ) Moraff would be the first place to look for a mah jongg type game. Which reminds me... I need to contact them to see if they still sell registered copies of some of their older games. They've spent the last seven or eight years trying to distance themselves from the Moraffware days. *stares at shareware copies of Dungeons of the Unforgiven and Moraff's World ¬.¬ *

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Everything that reaches release status before your subscription expires is yours (the qualifier is necessary because Stardock's own games do their beta releases over TotalGaming.net too). The expiration of your subscription doe not affect the ability to play any games that you've installed. In the case of the Stardock games, you don't get access to post-release updates that postdate the end of your subscription. Third party games probably wo

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"Many different types of standards need to be set. The one that annoys me most is directory structure and file placement in that structure. I would like to be able to find the executable for a given program or check and see it a library is present on my system. Currently this is impossible for me most of the time. With Windows there has been a defined directory structure since Windows 95. If I want to find a programs executable file I simply find its folder in the Program Files directory and 99%

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(Rab) "Good article. Similarly I get hacked off by DVDs that won't let me fast-forward through the copyright and company logos. I'm thinking of building my own DVD player (modded case, Linux etc) as my next project. Sigh, why do I feel it won't be that easy? See http://www.theregister.co.uk for various articles on the RIAA for a third take" No, it won't. Among other things, you'll have to break the law to do this: there is no legal DVD decoder for Linux. The wonders of the DMCA ne

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I enjoy the control over the compression. AOL users have a similar compression built in as well, but they have to deal with this often annoying feature since it really can mess up the quality of the images. Just to clarify your comparison, AOL lets you control the 'built-in' compression as well. Only the images for the AOL client software's inherent features are forced to use the ART compression scheme, and they're specifically designed to be minimally impacted by the data los

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