GTA IV PC delayed, with specs

The game’s new official release date is December 2 2008.

System specs are officially  :

Minimum System Requirements

  • OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / XP (Service Pack 3)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 Ghz / AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 Ghz
  • Memory: 1.5 GB RAM; 16 GB hard drive space
  • Video card: 256 MB NVIDIA 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

Recommended System Requirements

  • OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / XP (Service Pack 3)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 Ghz / AMD Phenom X3 2.1 Ghz
  • Memory: 2 GB (XP) / 2.5 GB (Vista) RAM; 18 GB hard drive space
  • Video card: 512 MB NVIDIA 8600 / 512 MB ATI 3870

Microsoft Changing it’s Social Policy yet again.

After years of chatroom service and message board communities, msn shut down their biggest advertisement revenue. Now they are closing the last door. but looks like there is something else coming from them. a partner called “Multiply” I have no idea what it is but I will research it soon. I hope it’s an msn style chat with city based rooms. It was nice metting people in my area I never met before. I made alot of great freinds that way and had some great times. but when the doors closed, we all went back to oour lifes.

Dear MSN Groups Customer,

As a valued MSN Groups or MSN Communities Web Folders customer, we want to notify you that the MSN Groups service will close on February 21, 2009 and you will have the opportunity to move your group to our new partner service, Multiply. We understand the importance of keeping your group together, so we partnered with Multiply to create a migration process that moves your group to their service to preserve your online community and its history. Read on to find out about how to kick off the automatic migration of your group to Multiply.

We realise this may be unexpected, so before presenting your options we want to briefly share why we’ve made this decision.

Why?
Because we are dedicated to providing our customers with the most current and user friendly technology available today we made the difficult decision to close the MSN Groups service. This decision is part of an overall investment to update and re-align our online services with Windows Live. In the long term we believe that closing the service is the best way to continue to offer innovative and effective services that help you stay in touch with the people you care about. We plan to launch a new Groups service in the coming weeks, but unlike MSN Groups, Windows Live Groups will focus on offering a place for small groups to collaborate. Multiply is available now, making it your best option today for continuing to share and communicate together online.

Options for moving your group to a new service
We’ve listed some options and resources below to help you decide what to do with your group.

  • Option 1: Automatically move your group and its data. We have established a partnership with Multiply, an online group and media sharing service so our users can choose to migrate their group to Multiply’s service. Choosing this option is free and easy to use: Multiply will move the Group’s content on your behalf and invite members to re-join your group in its new location. To begin the migration click here.
  • Option 2: Start again on another service. You can start from scratch and create your group on a different service but we recommend having your Group moved automatically by Multiply. This will enable your Group to transition easily and continue to enjoy the community you have created.
  • Option 3: Start again on Windows Live Groups. To further expand our mix of communications and sharing services, Windows Live will launch a new service this autumn, Windows Live Groups. We plan to launch Windows Live Groups to the public in the coming weeks as a service that helps small groups or clubs collaborate online.

Options for MSN Communities Web Folders users
If you use save files to the MSN Communities web folders (also known as “My Web Sites on MSN” or the web folder “My Groups”), these services are part of MSN Groups and will therefore will also be closed on February 21, 2009. We recommend that if you store files online using MSN Communities web folders that you back up these files locally, then upload them to another online storage service such as Windows Live SkyDrive. For more details on how to find and move files saved to your web folders, visit the MSN Groups Resource Center.

Your Next Steps
We have sent this letter to each MSN Groups user, whether member or manager. If you are:

  • A member or user of MSN Groups: Check with your group manager to determine whether they plan to migrate the group.
  • A manager: Visit the MSN Groups Resource Center to learn more about your options and consider soliciting feedback from your group members about what they would prefer to do, when and how. The Resource Center also provides a sample splash page you can use to notify your members that the group will move. If you’re ready to move the group now, click here.

What to Expect between now and the closing date
Between today and February 21, 2009 the MSN Groups service will remain the same as it is now. We will remove the option to add more storage to your group but other features will remain until the service is shut down and you can use it the same way you do today until the date of closure.

Where can I learn more?
You probably have more questions, and that’s why we created a website to address them. Please visit the MSN Groups Resource Center at any time for the most up to date answers to common questions, information about migrating your group to Multiply, contact information for our support staff, and important dates.

Our support staff are equipped to answer your questions and guide you through issues that may arise as you decide what to do with your group. They are ready to help so don’t hesitate to contact them at MSN Groups Customer Support with your questions.

We thank you for using our services and regret any inconvenience this may cause.

MSN Groups, Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft respects your privacy. To learn more, please read our online Privacy Statement.

Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052

Gtaiv Propaganda new mailing list update



There is a virus sweeping through Grand Theft Auto IV turning many unsuspecting players into Zombies. If you’ve seen the special Zombie-with-yellow-briefs player skin running around during Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer, then you may already know that the virus can be contracted in any and all multiplayer modes and is spread when an unsuspecting player kills someone who has the infection (note that the infected don’t necessarily have to be wearing the Zombie skin, some show no symptoms!). The signs of infection are: access to the zombie skin and having the Achievement “Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie”. With the all-new Viral Infection feature at the Rockstar Social Club, members can now see whether they are currently infected, the number of total global infections and the number of infections in the last 24 hours. Digging deeper, Social Club members can also browse a color-coded world map tracking the spread of the infection worldwide, including breakdown for all 50 US States. Click here for the Viral Infection feature.

Registered members of the Social Club with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV linked to their account can click here here to check it out.

The rest of you: register here now.






Special Downloadable Formats: High Definition Windows Media (WMP10+)
Regular Windows Media (WMP10+)
Quicktime iPod PSP

New GTAIV On Pc Media coming real soon

Rockstar Uk invited a few people from variouse websites to come demo the game. GTa4.net thinks it will be weeks before we see anything. I have seriouse doubts. If I undrstand Rockstar, they will release Video footage and screen shots probably the day of the “Meeting” . I am pretty sure that the very second These people enter the building, flicker accounts will be seeing images, and twitter and jaiku will get bombarded with text snippets.

Then again, not everyone plans to be usefull for everyone else around them.

Here is what I got, pay close attention there are two links in taht post.

http://www.gta4.net/news/4131/pc-previews-due-soon/

Scary Truth About Myspace Mobsters

I really love the game, it’s great time killer. Sad part is, there is a dark side to it. The underlying reality.

The only way to get people added to your mobster list, is to invite them to be your friend on myspace. Why is this bad? Well, My generation has done everything we could to protect our kids when they chat on myspace. The scary part is, everyone is trying to get as big of a mob as they can. The kids are inviting anybody and everybody to join their mob. Again their naivety is taking front stage. The qualified sense of security because of the simple thought ” well they just want more mobsters, they can’t be stalkers” convinces them to just invite like crazy.

See you go to someone’s profile on myspace mobsters and type in their message box your link to your myspace profile and say “add me”. Well they add you and now your mob is bigger by one person. I myself have spammed for an entire three hours. The thing is I have been been a little more different about it. I say “.com/truxter add me if you are an adult” . Typically they respond with a laugh ” I’m 50 does that quallify?”. Which is cool to me. I always check their profiles for age and appearance of being the age they claim. There have been about 5 or so that looked like they changed their age just to get more mobsters. One changed their age and fooled me. Then they changed their age back the very next day to be a minor. I quickly deleted them and started writing this.

Myspace needs to change the format in wich people can have friends in Myspace AND Mobsters. This could get some children pretty well hurt and it needs to be addressed.

Now the rest of the truth. The game is very boring and everything is set on a time base. Ex: it takes like 3 minutes to get stamina 3 minutes to get energy and so on. With a refresh button. This of course keeps you being fed an ample supply of advertisements. Paying myspace and the game creators. Really if you are going to think so hard on how to make money on an addictive mindlessness, you have to think of the safety of the users.

php Killls me

Sorry off topic.

I have a migraine. I think I mess with the computer waay to much.

People have told me I do. Now I am feeling it.

Time for a break.

So if you guys want to sign up and write tech news and video game news, come on and write.

I get a huge load of readers all by myself.

I have been working on 6 sites and learning php tricks and ins and outs of many things… basicly php is just html code hidden in some un identifiable program with the php extension.. when you open it in notepad, yeah it’s mostly html. mostly

starting friday, I am on break and will come back when I am ready.

My work week’s favorite podcasts

Jobacle – Helps relaxe you in your job, but helps you keep a level on head on self respect, no more working on your knees for little pay. you don’t have to take it. Jobacle can help.. oh yeah and the occassional favorite song from indies, excelent. MAKE WORK BETTER

Slashdot review – This week was a bit messed up though. The feed died out and showed the same stuff as last week.  On the spot steady fire of tech news. Usually informative enough to be plenty for you, but you can always google it and read about it when you get home. by then it will be out in the main wild. you will hear stuff here a day ahead, sometimes a month.

The linux action show – These dudes are fun to listen to. I have some of the people in the office saying  “ON THE LINUX ACTIiioON   SHOWWWWWW” just like the dudes on the podcast, as they walk past me. Funny stuff.

The tech guy – Excelent show, nothing could make it better than just leo sittingthere breaking news to the main stream tech community and helping by answering their questions or giving them a usefull link to somewhere usefull.

See every day I listen to these guys, some times I mix it up and listen to a whole other batch of rss feeds. but these guys I have at the top of my list of feeds. I have to hear them as soon as they come out. It beat sitting around listening to the same  15 songs all week on public radio. I hate when I listen to a fricken song  that I do not like, and find myself singing along like 2 months later. Feel like I’m being brained.

So I come to talk internet media  AKA “NEW Media”. This stuf is really good talent and great media..

If you have a work computer with speakers, you might want to look into rss feed media. wild how you get graduated into a higher level of apreciation.

Myspace Mobster Tricks

Level up fast.

One simple trick, is refresh the hitlist and attack as fast as you can. Get a few bounties under your belt. you will get a few losses though, because there are allot of people on there above your rank.

Have a friend hitlist you, and tell you exactly when. Before that friend lists you, have your “hospital” open and yourself healed. as soon as your buddy says you are listed, hit the heal button repeatedly. Some times it’s buggy so you have to hit refresh repeatedly and heal repeatedly. If it isn’t being buggy, you just sit there and heal yourself until you are out of money. You will lose a few fights, but you will knock out about 50 fights a minute. Much faster than picking them from the fight list. You might even level up two or three levels this way. hold out till you die. Don’t give up. you will see that you might have killed a couple people along the way.

To gain money.

Go to the fight list and fight people lower than you in friends count, attack. If they drop money hit em again.. That is if it’s enough money. If they drop no money, move on. You are not trying to level up. Leveling up is bad. (kinda). When you run out of stamina, save that persons numeric code, and make them the first person you attack when you get more stamina until they are in the hospital. This will upset a few people and they will hitlist you. Good refer back to the “have a friend” . really though it’s much harder this way. They don’t tell you when . It’s usually when you are watching tv or eating or on the pooh. So when you are done, make sure your health is either all the way down in the single digits, or full. if you are in the hospital long enough, most people just move on.

What to do when your buddies post the numeric code.

Highlight and copy that code. Drag your mouse over the number in the “parenthesis” left click and drag from one end to the other till it is highlighted. hold control button and press the letter C. Now click on the link of your buddie’s name when the new page opens, look at the web address, at the end is a numeric code. Highlight that code and press control V that will paste in the code over your buddy’s. Press enter. The new page should open. If it gives you a bad page go to the beginning of that numeric code you just pasted in, if there is a 22 at the beginning , delete the first two digits, but only if they are the numbers 22. If there is no number 22, put one there and press enter. That should fix it. dunno why some people have a 22 and others do not. who cares.

Distribute your power well.

What that title means is:

You have to focus on your head count. If you have  10 people in your mob (yeah low number but easier to play with when I am describing stuff) you have to think of what weapon defends your mob the best and buy ten of it. Next think of what weapon is best to attack with. Buy ten of that one. So now you have 20 weapons for 10 men. Sounds like over kill but really, It’s for the highest defense highest assault. When you are attacked, you will, by default defend with the highest ranking defense material you have. When you attack, the game by default will attack with the weapon of the highest attack stats. I know, you would assume  5/5  by default. WRONG That is why I keep beating you.

Become bait.

Sell all of your weapons ( preferably when your health is way to low to be attacked) and just buy only one type of weapon. Try and get a weapon that has a good defense and good attack. Buy one for each of your mobsters. This will increase your strength. This will increase your defense. You will only show one picture of a weapon in your list, so these freaks will think you have squat for weapons. There now you level up easy while at work minding your own business.

The fill in.

Once you have all of your mobsters accounted for weapon wise, you have to  distribute your power well with all the fill ins. 10 of the car with highest attack, ten of the car with the highest defense. and so on with all other fill ins.

Organize your attacks.

With the use of punches and badges, your clan can get vengeance  evenly and fairly.  If your mob buddies scream about needing help here’s what you do:

You ask your mob buddy if he has a badge. If he does .. good, don’t use yours. Have your buddy who is under attack request an all out assault on the culprit. If his group is organized enough, they will attack him till he is in the hospital. I would like to think you  put him there yourself. As soon as the guy is well rested in his gurney, you tell your buddy to “finish him now!” your mob buddy whips out the badge and punches him till he is dead.

That is a well executed assault that should make a point.

Perfectly executed clan battle.

You being the one who is under attack should be in charge of the vengeance attack.  as you get threatened and assaulted, get the numeric code that identifies (Read Earlier Paragraph) and save it in notepad. Now repeat every step in the “Organize Your Attack”, with each person from the Fight starter to every single one of his clowns that follow.  but before you  do that , do a count of your clan members who have badges and how many each of them are holding. Because face it, you will run out, and so will your friends.

If you or anyone in your clan is greedy, your clan is worthless. you have to be there for each other and work on following each others clan.  No one is constant leader, you all lead your attacks one at a time.

Good luck have fun.

.com/truxter

GTAIV For Pc Download

Grand Theft auto, the very first grand theft auto was up for trial or demo for months before and years after it’s official release date. GTA2 did the same thing. People soon figured out how to crack the demo so you could get the full game. Why did they put the whole game in the demo? end result, the game actually played smoother and faster and better, from teh cracked version over the full install.

Gtaiii did not, nor did any pc version after.

I am quite sure the searches for torrents are probably taking down the pirate bay. But rest assured , it will be better if you buy this game from Steam . That is of course if you really must download the game. In situations like you are waaaaay to far from any store that will sell it. I myself want the full package, I want the map, the case, the disc the whole nine yards.

I will fully install the game from the disc I purchase. I will also purchase the game on steam, I will play both.

I will surely have to crack the game to get it to work on linux. I will help others in making gtaiv work on their linux box.

There is a large community of us, about 2000 user from gtaforums.com who will do anything and everything to stop torrents from distributing compies of GTAIV. We will make every effort to report the people who seed illegal copies of the game, and in doing that, the people who download while the seeders get busted, will get caught also. So it is strongly advised that you wait your time like the diehard gta fans are doing. If you have to have it sooner than others, or any other reason you must download it, go to steam.

Good luck have fun, happy gaming

How To Speed Up Your Computer

Ok if you do not want to read all this, let me sum it up for you. Cool your computer. Cooling your computer is greatest strongest method of overclocking you will ever do. Now for the non A.D.D. Readers in here.

Ideal range is 80-95 °F. This will be the optimal temperature region. For a short while there, it was common for a processor to boot at 150 °F. That to me that is a scary temperature. But that does seem to be a peice of the past now.

<taken from everest>

Temperatures
Motherboard   29 °C (84 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1   12 °C (54 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2   15 °C (59 °F)
MCP   47 °C (117 °F)
Aux   11 °C (52 °F)
GPU Diode   38 °C (100 °F)
HDT722516DLAT80    31 °C  (88 °F)
MAXTOR 6L080L4    23 °C  (73 °F)

Cooling Fans
CPU    3013 RPM
Chassis    4116 RPM

The first thing you do to drop your temperature, clear passage from front. Get some zip ties and find a way to tie everything back without creasing anything. The flat cables (if you have them) Known as ribbon cables, do not fold or squish or crease them, the wires inside are pretty fragile.

Find all heatsinks remove the fans and clean out the dust from the heatsinks. Do the same with the fans.

Use canned air when you can, some times a toothpick  with a mashed end. what I mean by that is have one end kind of smooshed and frayed to be like a paint brush. you will need the pointy end and the brushy end to get into the tight spots. yes it is important to get in all grooves even the tiny spots.  that junk builds up fast if it has some already there to stick to.

air flow needs to be from one end to the other. not some out the back some in the back som in the front some out the side. You would have crazy crap and get nothing accomplished. you have to think about it like water.  water/air flow best when there is as little disruption as can be. So one fluid direction is best.

Also you do not want to disrupt the air flowing through the cpu’s heatsink. This one is most important, second most important is the Video Card. If you know how to replace heatpaste, I suggest you knock that out now also.

The sorriest myth is the video card memory heatsinks. If they are stuck on by two sided tape, peal them off and chunk them aside, they are useless. You want as  smooth of a metal to metal contact. Foam in between is just retarded and a really sorry joke they pulled on you. Faom tape glue is not a good heat inductive material… sorry.   but teh tech world has proven that copper is best. The heat paste people use is to creat a vacuum seal between the metals. Amazing how it all works.. just trust me foam tape is not going to cool anything.

This so far is teh best way hardware wise to make your computer feel like brand new if not slightly better.