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.

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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.

Grand Theft Auto The Movie

The first movie of grand theft auto was done  with Ron Howard as the star actor. It was done in 1977 writen and acted  and directed by Ron Howard. Here is the Imdb link to the movie.

With that said let’s get to what you are looking for. Someone at a website titled ” Cinematical” Wrote a story that leads to a hopefull movie starring Eminem, the singer (?) Rapper (?) > I myself am not sure how that would work out. He isn’t much of an actor. I guesse he could play the role of the guy from GTAIII. No talking no speech. I could better see Christian slater playing the role of Tommy Vercetti. I could see YOUNG MAYLAY (the guy that did the CJ voice in San Andreas) Playing carl Johnson in The part three of The movie GTA . Yes I would assume it would have to be called  GTA Because of copy rights and stuff with Ron Howard’s movie. I totally respect that. Heck I could see Ron Howard Playing Donald Love. Lazlow would surely have to play Lazlow.

See I ran across those links trying to find a place on the internet with best story behind the whole GTA games to tie it all together. I would love to print it out and set it on the back of my father’s toilet. He would have no choice but to read it, and then he could join in the conversations between my son and I around him.

Of course I came up with no find so I started searching to see if anyone has taken the time to put all the cutscenes together and some how put the whole story together, even if it means a brief description of the ingame between. again no find. So here I am giving you guys a couple links I found with the same hope I have to see a movie or a book come up.

Additional Entertainment Videos

From CharmingCharlie at GTAFORUMS.COM

I got some more stuff, in his words

Gamespot did a “video history” of GTA shortly after GTA SA came out so it is “almost” complete and is just missing GTA 4, you can find that here :-


http://uk.gamespot.com/ps2/action/gta4/video/6112034/history-of-grand-theft-auto

Then there is the IGN article that did a pretty comprehensive write up of the history of GTA and the some of the back story to people like David Jones, Sam and Dan Houser, here is the link :-


http://uk.retro.ign.com/articles/863/863037p1.html

Returning to videos, this is a f*cking cool video history here :-


http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/76710.html

I love the music in it and I also love the starting credit “In October of 1997, Grand Theft Auto was born, first on the PC ….” I love that bit.

Mac and Windows Dual Desktop

From Life Hacker:

First off, i have to say, the screen shots are remarkable.

Reader Dylan Boom shows how to mix operating systems environments with style in his Mac Meets Windows Dual-Desktop. Dylan is running OS X with XP in a virtual machine, and each system is completely customized to form a beautiful transition between Mac and Windows. Frankly, neither system puts the other to shame. Here’s a rundown of all the hardware, apps, and tweaks Dylan made to both operating systems to pull off this pleasant coexistence:

Check back with Life Hacker:

for full specs.

Sorry for the lack of creativity, i am currently at work right now and don’t have a bunch of time. But I do like the article. I don’t like mac, but i love seeing mac people want to use another operating system. Kinda proves how useless a mac is.

Scam sites close after owner name posted

Info from ARS TECHNICA

Brothers Caught scamming people into buying stuff that was easily free and available on the internet. Some of the stuff they were caught selling was movies that you could get at any illegal download site, same quality, but not free. This leaves the purchaser comfortable in the assurance they are not breaking the law.

The brothers have been running site scams for a while according to fileclub.info .

From What is said at ARS Technica the websites they ran where taken down shortly after having thier information posted on the internet.

Here are people claiming to have been scammed by websites that are allegedly owned by the brothers.

Amas Veritas