Tech Tips and Reviews
I am starting something new on my area.
It’s about gamers for gamers
What I will do is on occasions (hoping for at least once a week, ) post a picture from game
and see if anyone can guess the game.
More of the game here with prizes.
Oh yeah.. In the battle cry of the humble
hfgl
It’s new , it needs you.
I just built a tech support and rumors forum with a video game and console section.
I hope you people like it.
I will be adding moderators as I see the users with morals sticking around.
I will be banning all clowns as fast as I can and as often as I can. who knows maybe I will redirect them to forums I hate 
The goal is to get information and news about tech to the world. and what the hell, to hang out and talk to others like myself.
I don’t see any out there with the same stuff as what I have envisioned so I am making it myself. yes there will be a fight room. Because hey, we all do need to get it out of our systems.
But no fighting in main rooms.
There is avatar and all other options we all have been missing through the past few years as these places seem to get invisible these days.
Yes you can upload your own images to my server, I can handle a fricken lot .
bbcode welcome, html code welcome (for now)
Start a thread and break ground with me.
If you need cheat codes for GTA IV, here you go.
CHEAT NAME |
CHEAT CODE |
| Health Restore Niko’s health. |
4825550100 |
| Armour Give Niko armour. |
3625550100 |
| Weapons #1 Baseball Bat, Handgun, Shotgun, MP-10, M4, Sniper Rifle, RPG, Grenades. |
4865550100 |
| Weapons #2 Knife, Molotovs, Handgun, Shotgun, Uzi, AK47, Sniper Rifle, RPG |
4865550150 |
| Remove Wanted Level Remove Niko’s wanted level. Blocks achievement “Walked free”. |
2675550100 |
| Raise Wanted Level Add one star to Niko’s wanted level. |
2675550150 |
| Change Weather/Brightness Alters the weather/brightness of the game. |
4685550100 |
| Spawn Annihilator Spawn an Annihilator in front of Niko. |
3595550100 |
| Spawn Jetmax Spawn a Jetmax in front of Niko. |
9385550100 |
| Spawn NRG-900 Spawn an NRG-900 in front of Niko. |
6255550100 |
| Spawn Sanchez Spawn a Sanchez in front of Niko. |
6255550150 |
| Spawn FIB Buffalo Spawn an FIB Buffalo in front of Niko. |
2275550100 |
| Spawn Comet Spawn a Comet in front of Niko. |
2275550175 |
| Spawn Turismo Spawn a Turismo in front of Niko. |
2275550147 |
| Spawn Cognoscenti Spawn a Cognoscenti in front of Niko. |
2275550142 |
| Spawn SuperGT Spawn a SuperGT in front of Niko. |
2275550168 |
Be aware that entering cheats may prevent you from getting achievements or from getting 100% completion. DO NOT SAVE YOUR GAME after using these cheats.
From GTAPLANET these guys are always right on it
There is a little more on IGN
Working for a company that requires me to use autodesk all the time I some times run into stuff I do not yet know. So i have done tons of searches for helpful stuff to make my Job/career of work on a computer, a little more stable and simple. So i have collected a bunch of links, I should share with you.
Heck if anything this will surely be aback up of my cad autodesk help links.
aid pdf is good for converting pdfs to cad. Gotta buy a key after like 30 uses or 60 days or something though.. Works better than most pdf-dxf converters… but make sure to clean the pdf before converting it.
I was watching a YouTube video about how some guy stumbled upon a GTA IV offer on
Take Two Interactive’s Web site here. It’s fake and I could explain how simple and the 500 ways you can fake it, but hey if you are dumb enough to believe it (after what I have to show you), then hey, you will not understand me.
OK. While watching the address to the links he was clicking, and since it was blurry and all I had to go through and click all of the same links to bring me to page that did not exist. it led me to the lawsuit it received for the last game it put out for PC.
It seems Rockstar and Take Two will not be participating in the whole (edit my stuff) game anymore.
the page is addressed in his bar.
That will take you to a page that has one link in it and it mentions GTA.
You might want to read what it says.
Class action suit
There have been two games that have not made pc. it has been four years since we got to w.a.s.d. up down left right space bar shift ctrl 0 e-q and of course “R” to change to the closest lazlow show.
left click right click and spin the scroll wheel to find our favorite gun, or just hit the hot key we assigned.
The only way I could any hope or faith, is if there was an announcement of the cities being released for pc while we wait for a better graphix and bugs fixed version of IV to be ported but that won’t happen.
Did a search and found one for free.
Not that bad. I mean the videos only come out as good as they go in. Meaning if the flash video is junky, the video will be junky.
here is the disclaimer and links located in the read me within the zip file that the converter is in
Name: Pazera Free FLV to AVI Converter
Version: 1.1
License: Freeware (for commercial and non-commercial use)
Date: January 5, 2008
Author: Jacek Pazera
E-mail: jacekpazera@wp.pl
Web page PL: http://www.flvtoavi.glt.pl
Web page EN: http://www.flvtoavien.glt.pl
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
There is another File within the zip , turns out to be a codec pack.
Zip is
“Pazera Free FLV to AVI Converter 1.1”. Took all of about 10 minutes to confert a 45 minute flash video.
Taking a break from designs and such. Taking a time out to play some multi-player grand theft auto.
For ever the guys at MTAVC.com have been my hook up. But now I see that the guys at Sa-mp are ahead in their game.
So now I am sitting around playing Grand Theft Auto San Andreas with my son. It seems nice to go back to ol` san andreas and sanfiero and play some , well I have no idea what to call this. First person shooter action racing?
Anarchy?
200 people and it’s every man for himself?
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/eLloM7Z16KU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
Off the bat, I have to tell you, I do not have the fastest or the best machine in the world.
I have a machine that is at the max processor and ram for the motherboard’s capability.
Here are the specs for the machine I am using.
Sis 755 A-2 Motherboard
Sempron 3400+ 64 bit Processor
Nvidia 7600GS 512 mb
2 Gigs kingston 3200 ddr Memory
Sony cd/dvd burner
500 watt power supply
Ok for the past 7 or 8 years, The way I have benchmarked computers and operating systems Would be by playing Grand Theft auto III.
Of course I have since then added vice city and San Andreas to the mix. But GTAIII Is the benchmark for me. If you do not like the game sorry
But please hang with me on this.
For a long time I fought trying to make my computers strong and sturdy enough to handle the demands this game calls out. Computers these days are actually strong enough to handle these demands.
After the install of just straight vista drivers I went to pcpitsop and did my first benchmark of my machine. The score was pathetic. I kind of knew what would happen after I installed gtaIII, But I go ahead and start the game. Before the load screen I get a notice saying that there is some sort of dll missing (sorry all, I did not write it down) . I then hear the game start up but minimized in the task bar. I click the notification and the game takes over the screen. I see this look that took me back to the days of 256 megs ram and nvidia 440 on a 800 meg processor. This game looked wretched. But what do you expect with o/s drivers and not vendor drivers? Well since it’s a newer o/s than XP, I would expect better results than xp, not similar to win 98 on a crap machine. Very pixilated simi laggy but not as laggy as you would think with the way it looked.
After the drivers had been installed I start GTAIII again. Again it gave me the notice of missing dll. When the unnamed player in gtaIII walked out of his hide out I noticed artifacts. The garage was covered with imaging from the walls adjacent to the Entry to the garage. The player had openings so you could see through him in many places. I moved on and walked into the garage and drove the banshee down the ocean blvd to check how the game (typically) lags (with bad bad drivers or bad hardware) as you drive under objects, like the over head train, and trees and bridge. The game was very jaggedly laggy and objects where not being displayed properly.
After the gtaIII test I tried the other two Grand Theft Auto games and got the same mess. I swear the game looks better and plays better on linux with just the linux basic drivers, but the lag is way worse on Linux.
So I did searches for help forums and the like. I found that allot of people with the 7000 series nvidia video cards had similar issues. I never found a solution that worked. No, using older drivers did not help. Until sis/ecs releases more than one gart driver I am pretty much stuck in the same spot.
I did notice that the fonts on websites looked a bit bigger than when on xp.
As much as I enjoyed the looks of Aero (makes me think of Ubuntu) I decided to try turning it off. I used Black Viper’s tips from his tweak site .
The game did not change. and my bench score on pcpitstop only went up 10 points from the first test with base drivers.
Vista test was done 3/29/08. So please wait a few months before you tell me they fixed the operating system. I did try all online update and nothing got better that I could witness myself.
I am now back on xp and my machine runs three times a fast. using the same direct version as I used on vista.. 9.0c
Ok So I was sent to office depot 5 minutes before lunch started. I decided to swing by the burger place and get some lunch before I go in, and just waste an hour and 15 minutes for lunch instead of my regular hour lunch. I went in to Office depot and gathered all the things I needed into a buggy (office supply junk, paper pens toner ink) and walk in circles for a few minutes. While walking in circles and getting followed around by the depot snipers ( not sure they thought I was shop lifting, so i picked up stuff and would misplace it like crazy) I stumbled on the $9 software bin. While rooting around I saw a “buy one get one free” sign. So I decided to dig around and make sure I find something. Well I found a web page design thingy disk. I pretty much knew it would be crap because it’s price and the fact that the makers say nothing about it’s form or style. Like css,html javascript. Nothing just says something about templates.
The product is made by a company named Cosmi, the product name is “WEB PAGE CREATOR”. there is a circle stamp on the front with a symbol that says “#1” and some stuff in tiny freaking print though I can make out the work “productivity” . Well I scanned it with asquared,virscan.org, norton anti vir and found no reason to freak out.
So today I finally install the software. The actual software they are selling is all of about 10 megs of software, the rest, well, the rest is a 2002 version of open office.
The software they created (I think they created or just downloaded from some poor joke’s website) is just a shell script hand full of short cut links to open office items but named differently in the program. Don’t worry, when the open office items open up they do show their names at the top of the program’s window.
Well My True honest opinion, as far as web design goes, you can do everything this software bundle can do, Simply by using netscape navigator 7.2 suite edition. ns 7.2 suite comes with a program called “composer” and well, you can do the whole “what you see is what you get” web design part of using a program just like you can with cosmi’s erm, uh, java sun system’s? open office program.
plus netscape 7.2 s does not come with netzero crapware like this program does..
My call?
Walk past this thing, sure waste of ten bucks.
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Ok I got junk mail from a scammer, So I decided to share
this with you. I advise that you do not respond to this
trash in any way shape or form. I surely will not. I hope
you see that I am posting this so you can see a type of
phishing scam that comes up all the time. Never ever do
what they ask, this is total crap. If you have ever
fallen for this scam or one of it's kind Please post here.
I really want to know that you exist.
"Hello Dear Friend, Your name and e-mail address came up in a random draw conducted by our law firm, (Adetokunbo & Co. Law Chambers.) in Lagos , Nigeria . I am Barrister Adetokunbo Kayode (Esq), the legal adviser and counsel to a deceased expatriate contractor,who used to work with Chevron/Texaco Nigeria Limited here in Nigeria thereafter shall be referred as my late client. On the 27th of January 2002, my client, his wife and their three children were involved in Ikeja bomb blast here in my country. Hence I contacted you. Please view these websites below to confirm what I am telling you. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable where these huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, where my client deposited US$3.7Million Dollars. I was issued a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within two weeks. All I require is your honest co- operations to enable us see this deal through. You should send to my private email address adetokunbo44@gmail.com Your full names: - Your private phone number/ fax (if any): - Your age: - Your occupation: - Your home address: - I am particularly interested in securing this money from the bank, because they have issued a notice instructing us to produce the beneficiary of this will within two weeks or else the money will be credited to the government treasury as per law here. It is my utmost desire to execute the will of our late client in your favor and therefore, you are required to contact me immediately to start the process of sending this money to any or your designated official account, I urge you to contact me immediately for further details bearing in mind that the bank has given us a date limit. Regards, Adetounko Kayode (Esq)."
Oh, I did report this as phishing to my email carrier.