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Dating site results for an I.T. Minded person

Posted onAuthorTech Review Man

Reality of Dating Sites

Was on a dating site and searching through women on it. Talked to a few and got a few good responses that ended up going nowhere. Met a few and paid a minimum of $45 a meal only to have the women laugh as they were getting out of the car and saying “Good luck in your search for a woman the site works”… Really? why is she still single?
but I found a pretty lady who in her profile says she is an “I.T. recruiter”. I’m boggled by this title so I strike up what I figure was a polite conversation.
She flips out.
Oh the site was called “plenty of Fish” So “looking for a date” is called “fishing” there.

GuyLooking
9/25/2012 6:10:41 PM
What the heck is an i.t. recruiter? I work i.t. and simply got hired.
My ex says sheis an i.t. recruiter, but comes to me for the simplest tasks. I personally don’t want to know anything about her, so i don’t ask. But seriously wtf is an i.t. recruiter?
Not bashing. Just expressing serious interest and reason.

Singlefemalewithtruck
9/25/2012 6:45:59 PM
Information technology you moron

GuyLooking
9/25/2012 6:49:07 PM
Now, why the name calling?
Was a valid question.
Well. I wish you good luck at fishing.

Singlefemalewithtruck
9/25/2012 6:51:32 PM
It’s actually not a valid question seeing as it’s 2012 & every company known to man has some sort of IT Dept

GuyLooking
9/25/2012 6:57:42 PM
Look. Im really not wanting to argue, at all.
I understand what i.t stands for. Have no clue what an “i.t. recuiter” is.
As I said, I work i.t. and was not “recruited”.
I’ll just assume phone solicitor to sell some sort cloud back up crap.

Happy fishing.

Singlefemalewithtruck
9/25/2012 7:00:43 PM
Oh my…that’s just sad. Recruiters…of any kind…work with clients to help fill their open positions. You should never assume…it just makes an ass out of you. Please don’t send me another message.

GuyLooking
9/25/2012 7:09:21 PM
My last message. Honest.
I really was trying to get a conversation going with you. I wish I would have caught you at a better time .

I’m not here for “a hook up” . And so far, your the best package deal I have seen on this damn place yet. Your not looking for someone to buy you stuff.
Or give you computer.
You’re not writing me in slang.

I think you will find mrRight. When you are a little happier.

So.. block me.. ill block you in a little while when i know you’ve had time to read this.

Singlefemalewithtruck
9/25/2012 7:16:14 PM
I won’t be blocking you bc it’s not that big of a deal. You didn’t catch me at a bad time. Not knowing what an IT Recruiter is in 2012 is what did you in. And you used ‘your’ twice above when it should have been ‘you’re’.

GuyLooking
9/25/2012 7:24:39 PM
Cell phone, with poorly calibrated touch pad, and the slowest processor available. Haven’t overclocked this one yet. So, waiting for text to catch up is not an option that I have patience for. My mistake.
I still have no clue what you do

Good thing that I don’t need to.
Because I then would have to explain what I do, and typically, sales people never understand half of it.

Well I think I am done with this method of dating. Seemed like it would be a perfect way to meet a woman. Since in the real world, the women you meet get kind of turned off by the fact that I can sometimes get lost for hours or days on end in code.

there needs to be a different way. Or a way to weed out the women from dating sites who put in their profile “I don’t like computers” or “I spend all of my time outside enjoying life and living happily” those women usually frown upon guys that sit at their computer. Reality says “woman go out there and find those guys, leaves us i.t. guy in our world”.
but no. We still get the bar flies out looking for one more guy to pay her tab.

Reality of Dating Sites

Free Online Virus Scan

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Bit Defender. Supposed to be the fastest scanner. I have no idea how accurate this can be. and I think this one only works in internet explorer.

EmsiSoft’s Asquared online Virus scanner.


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This will remove all known trojans and malware from your computer even suspicious cookies.
I am happy to have EmsiSoft’s Asquared on my website.

Starcraft II Review

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Starcraft II Review

Ten or so years ago, Blizzard put put out Starcraft. The game was so well designed so well built, that some countries actually held tournaments playing as the Zerg, Terran and Protoss  species/races. The game in some Asian countries was more popular than the Olympics.

After ten years of dormancy, it has come back to challenge us again.

Here is my first day with Starcraft II (I wrap it up with a full review)

Bought My Startcraft II today.
Got my starcraft II today on Twitpic
Install took a while but nothing major. Just felt like forever. but what the heck is 5-10 minutes when I have been waiting ten years.
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After install was a download of a patch.
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Then came the video we all saw in the teaser. Seemed there wasn’t a lady talking in the teaser. so… listen closely you might hear something you haven’t heard.
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Oh, video card crashed at the end. It’s okay I have another :-)
On first Install of the game, the cenematics, Really good. This is what I have been waiting for. The cigar is back ( the thing that seemed to have the best detail in SCI).
The Blizzard people really know how to do CGI.
Reynor here on Twitpic
That little ps2/ record player thing with the Hologram . Cool effect.
Starcraft II hologram on Twitpic
Difficulty selection for Starcraft II
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Casual Normal Hard Brutal
I selected Casual. Come on. I’m learning.

Huge selection for hotkeys.
Starcraft II hotkeys on Twitpic
I can’t imagine I memorized that many keys with the first Starcraft.
Menu Selection for Starcraft II
Starcraft II options. on Twitpic
Video Resolution didn’t go as high as I wanted. Seemed to be a bit of an anti-aliasing issue going on. Kind of wavy. No lag or nothing just an occasional wave in the video and some broken lines.
After finishing the first mission you go back to bar.
Starcraft II sitting in bar between missions. on Twitpic
They put plenty of items for you to click on and get curious about. I looked at everything. because I want to know all of it.
End of third mission in the game.
starcraft II end mission 3 on Twitpic
it took me 20 minutes to do that. and I had it set on the lowest difficulty.
On board a battle cruiser.
Onboard a battle cruiser starcraft II on Twitpic
Your bar from the first is now a Battle cruiser. Back Starcraft I, we just called them “BC” gotta type fast mid game.
You can click a lot of stuff there also. You learn a few things that way. It’s not like the first diablo where people just babbled random useless stuff and then the same stuff all the time. They actually change their phrases after each mission.
if you click around enough, you learn tricks about the game, study abilities that you can’t have unless you learn them by clicking stuff and buy better weapons.
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That guy sounds just like Chris Pirillo. He has plenty of videos on youtube. Just type his name. you will see. Kinda looks like him also.

FYI His Name is “Steadman”

Now all of the media is presented. Sorry I didn’t want to install fraps… I’m on strike. So my pics are via cam on my cell.

Time for the Review

Game play

At first I was upset because the buildings didn’t lay out in straight lines like they did before in the first Starcraft. I kept getting my SCV stuck between buildings. That is of course until I found the button that allows me to sink the supply depot underground. After seven missions i haven’t seen if that prevents attacks on them. I am sure a Zerg can attack it… Right ? All of the old buildings look the same, just you get a better look at them now. They seem to do all of the same stuff and the costs and upgrades are still the same. There are a few additions to equipment and to units. I don’t want to ruin to much. Just there is something that looks like a flying vulcher. That thing has some awesome artillery. Turret Lasers :-D !!!! Fire bats are bigger, but still have low range ground attack weapons only. but they can be upgraded pretty good.

You know, I don’t think I want to ruin it for you . So I will not go into it. Kinda hard to talk about Starcraft ii and not same the names of the units. They are all listed on Blizzard’s site with Starcraft unit name next to it. But you just don’t know what it all means till you play. So I don’t want to ruin the surprise for when you buy your copy of Starcraft II.
This game is a 100% must buy for any person who enjoyed Starcraft or Starcraft Brood Wars. They reference so much. The familiarity is there.
If you are a console gamer who has never played a PC game, a game that was created for pc and played on pc only, you will not get the fun in watching the videos. The videos are all very important. This is not a RUSH-RUSH-RUSH-RUSH-complete the game kind of game. This game is not for the console kiddies.
Online play, I think they scrapped the idea of the chatroom. How can you talk smack and get your butt handed to you after? There is a forum option and a community option, but the community option just sends you to Starcraft II website.

I didn’t dig much into the online play at all. I just want to finish teh game first and get the hotkeys memorized before I do all that.

Ladder matches are back.
Everyone is huge Muscular except the women and the scientists.
Jim looks different and voice sounds different. Many return roles. Different voices but similar. could be the same people, it has been ten years and all.

Also they removed the community. I find it hard to make a challenge when you can’t talk crap. So here is the community of Starcraft II Clans.

Scoring for Starcraft II

Scoring is on a 1-10 scale. 10 being best and 1 is sucky.

Resolution 9

Cinematic 10

Game play 10

Audio 10

If you want to understand a pc gamer and how we are a breed apart.

Online Gambling Legal United States?

Posted onAuthorTips Of Tech

I am not a legal adviser or legal aid or an attorney so take this with a grain of salt. do not base your legal or financial judgments on what I state here. This pretty much is a place for me to post links to the information I need to take to work and say “I TOLD YOU JERKS!”.

Many ask, some think not to ask, and some are just plain stubborn stupid and deep in denial on the subject. (we can call them addicts)
If you want the short answer. No it is not legal. From Maryland to southern California it is not legal to transfer funds to make a payment for gambling Safe Port Act. That is one simple law. Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA)
There are many laws that support the ones who online gambling to stop.
In the state of Texas it is illegal to gamble.
It is illegal to obtain money from gambling
it is illegal to obtain money without reporting it to the IRS.
It is illegal to obtain money and falsely report it’s origin to the IRS.

It is illegal to wire money through phone line or internet. Safe Port Act

Those are the simple laws we know since we left the fifth grade. I see a Jeff Foxworthy joke coming in a minute.

See the other day I was eating lunch with my boss and his son. They brought up online gambling. I decided to keep my opinion to myself about the whole subject.

(at one time I signed up to 15 online casinos, all 15 of them had me download and install some extra safety and security software. All fifteen had at least one virus. I was going to do a report on them but realized…. these freaks could be mafia. so I never finished the report and will not post names of the online casinos)

So I sat with my mouth shut. You know it’s my boss and well. He is a bit addicted to that crap. Then they asked  the whole table ” Is online gambling legal in the u.s. ?” Everyone spoke their brown nosed opinion and I chimed in, I couldn’t hold it said “NO”. The whole table looked at me. The boss and his son decided to make fun of the fact that I said no.. . They where in some mockery event they decided to pull in my honor.

I ask ” Have you ever seen any online casinos advertised on tv?” Of course our office leeching mooch with his  nose so deep in the bosses wrinkle stink chimed in “I have” so I called him on it “BullSH&t” . It is illegal to advertise Gambling in the united states has been illegal since 2003. back in 2002 Yahoo and Google pulled the ads out of their system to prevent issues. Web designers and owners know this. The Sporting News (TSN) got nailed 7.2 Million Dollars for waiting three years to pull down the online Gambling ads. (the casinos paid lots of money so the 7.2 was squat).

I know what the law states about it. as I said I was doing a bit of a write up back in the day when I thought you actually had to be super thorough about everything. Thank god those days are over. Now I can just copy and past and link you to it. Lot less work that way. Us laws against online Gambling. So now I am the negative guy who does not want to agree with anyone. Of course i have to post a link from some gambling focused website that  dances some foolish way of making you think you can catch 22 the system.

Really it takes a fool to partake in that event. It is an electronic card. it is not a real piece of paper card that you would hold in your hand. just like you don’t gamble in a real life casino. They have cameras everywhere. The dealers have ear buds. You figure out what I am suggesting.  just like you can’t beat the Texas Lottery. FYI the Texas Lottery is not owned by the state of Texas. It is an independent company that gets taxed by the state of Texas.  Review and explanation of Texas lottery located on truxtertech.com.

If you know someone with a gambling problem or might have a problem take a moment to study the signs.

Check your state to see if you can gamble.

if you would like me to sacrifice my computer and do a virus scan of the first 15 online casinos I find in google or bing or yahoo. Please respond and I will just download and scan and post results. I will not post my opinions =-\.    Kinda scary stuff there.

Or if you have any requests or comments or disagreements please respond below.

Free Online Games That Don’t Suck

Posted onAuthorTruXter1 Comment

I have to say , ” My hat is off to ijji.com”  These people took some game engines from I have no idea where and made new games. Or they made their own games from complete scrap. But what ever the deal is, they made them good, they made them free. They even have done extensive measures to reduce the cheaters.

IJJI.COM Has a huge set of games. I’m not fond of the racing one. It seems kinda like an old 80s arcade game, always eating and wanting more quarters. all of their games you can add money to your accounts and get more stuff, kinda like the games on myspace. It’s great to not pay for anything and be able to slaughter the people who spent tons on the extra equipment. On another note, to have the ability to slaughter them people without buying, but go ahead and buy anyway because you just have to see what it does, must be natural because I really want to try everything. I know, you might not have an idea what i am rambling about, no worries.. You will soon. Very soon.

My favorite IJJI game is

Soldier front Fast paced Capture the flag type games in a small area so the battles can go nuts and be loud almost seem chaotic at first. Once you settle into the game, it is so addictive you get 8 hours consumed and not ever notice.

Another game like soldier front is called

A.V.A. Extreme graphics on a free game

Man you can crank the graphics up really well on this one, be sure and check the “manual” check dot. If you do not have at least 2 g processor and an nvidia 9 card with  2 gigs mem, I would not suggest you  crank anything up. By all gaming means these days, those are low low low specifications.   from what I see, the better settings they have are at 720p. it may go higher but I didn’t push a whole  lot of my Rig.

AVA screenshot

AVA screenshot

The fire looks crappy, will remind you of grand theft auto III, with a crappy gif looking flame in the middle of it.

Now a good game that will remind you of doom and quake

Gunz just not enough people on it.  looks a bit like  anime . If you have a network of computers at your house and a bunch of friends over to play a game, this one is perfect for that. because it is a great game, but not enough players for anything fun to happen of it. Not to be played alone.

Ok for the nvidia

Warmonger These guys need to take a tip from ijji and clean and lean up the game a tad bit. a bit to taxing for a freebee.

Then there is Huxley.

This game is the game to make halo look like pacman, to make grand theft auto play like doom1.

The in game looks like cutscenes from starcraft II. if you know anything about stracraft cinema , you know there is major extreme detail in their characters and images. The  terrain looks amazing.The skin has pores, the hairs are all single images and dimensions, instead of one blob with  hair drawn in. IJJI has out done everything there is to play. and the fricken game is free.

Kills me that while I was in my game testing phase, the game was still in beta. and I  only have videos to go by. The smoke looks like smoke, the explosions are  unruly real explosions.

These have to be the best of the best free first person video games. The internet needs more of these.

If you know any video games that are totally free and legal to download, please leave some information here in a response

Is Ebay Gone Yet ?

Posted onAuthorTech News

Did you ever get a PayPal account ? Buy much of anything on Ebay ? Got charged for doing the express pay and the guy collecting at the other end got charged to receive the  payment, Meanwhile the person selling the item had to pay for holding the auction. In one year, It was 04 or 05 when I last cared to hold an auction on eBay, but in that one year I got 3 notices of price raises and a free three days to hold an auction. See the issue is, they make plenty of money buy us paying for the auction, and the  7 percent (if it’s still that low, I doubt it) to sell out items using their bandwidth) to make plenty of money buy just maintaining the servers, but no, they keep trying to come up with ways to collect more money  from what they already offer.

What two months ago Ebay blamed social networks on their downfall. Really?  a social site?? The only way a social site can cause an issue with a a company is the freedom of speech. What I mean by that is, telling everyone how you got done wrong. Well dang the ability to speak your mind. Others blame it on a weakening economy. Yes it’s the fact that we do not want to give up our physical possessions that we earned and once put our hands on in trade for 7% or more fees to sell on a network full of people who have mastered the system of gaming that site.

If it was not for the over price auction and every fee they can tax to the system, it would be because the 50/50 chance of getting hit by a scammer. you auction off your item and some guy wins at a nice hefty price you ship the item, eBay contacts you and says “wait payment is not complete and has been reversed due to A STOLEN ACCOUNT” …. ehh crap. Meanwhile the scammer sends out hundreds of emails from fake email accounts like  emailer1.ebay@yahoo.com   and the emails look like legit eBay emails saying ” Item paid for you must ship item now” . Go to your PayPal account and see the money was reversed and you never received, then you get fake PayPal emails Confirming the item was paid for.

How the person won the auction was to bid $40000000 over the actual value of the item assuring no one will win but him/her. Basically killed your chance to get money for what you earned, then  to complete the screwing, tries to steal the item from you.

If you get scammed and fall for anything from an eBay scammer you are at a 80% chance of eBay saying ” there is nothing we can do about this at this time but we are looking into it” .. Great.

See for a place that actually has very little to offer, no 100% assurance, they sure do keep raising their prices a whole lot.

Oh for a heads up.

Never ever buy a car remote from eBay.   You get the remote, you set your car to match it, he just mailed it to you so he has your home address and the matching remote.. 20 bucks and a car for  $45 worth of gas.. Nice.

New WINDOWS LIVE Breaks GTAIV even worse

Posted onAuthorTech News16 Comments

Today April 21st, Microsoft released a new update to WINDOWS LIVE . The forums at GTAFORUMS.Com goes crazy.
Looks like Microsoft bundled some lines of code that totally trashed what few users and players of Grand Theft Auto IV, that Rockstar Games had left. The game seems to work fine in Multi- Player , but has traumatic effect on Single player mode. You can no longer tweak and adjust your game. The game stutters so bad and hangs up, that no one can get even four minutes of play time to test out said tweaks. It kind of looks intentional.
Picture this:
Rockstar games might have actually put the screws to Microsoft, for allowing cheats in thier online community, and well, looks like they might have barked up the wrong tree. Sad part is, they are contracted to them, so they can’t just drop the windows live program.

This of course is where the modders and tweakers need to come together. MTA-IV and Iv-mp need to band together and make something quick to save Rockstar in this.

Now this is pretty much speculation, but man it would be scary if it was true.
Xliveless is the way to go, but patches are hard to get and use once you do that.

If you feel that Microsoft needs to Address this, Sign below with a response.
Let our Text be read, we need to prove there are more than just a hand full of out there.

Call it a petition. Call it a group effort. I just consider it a gathering of upset customers.
We are customers of Microsoft, we are displeased.

Even if you do not agree with my opinion, let your’s be read and lets let Microsoft hear from us.
Just reply to this with your opinion on the matter.
Digg it for me

Best Online Video Outlets of 08

Posted onAuthorTruXter2 Comments

I can not say that Youtube is the best, just the greatest used. When they get the whole “hd” version and time span thing worked out. In due time, we all know google has a big plan somewhere up their sleave. lol.

Ok on to my favorites:

3.VEOH Nothing major ground breaking but a great gathering of videos on other people’s sites.

2.Joost The first of the best High quality, Could be best but had a face lift  mid year that changed everything and started them back at point zero, to follow hulu. I would like to locate their media player again.

1. HULU very high quallity high resolution videos.  Bad thing is, fox focused, and all the really good shows, are on fox’s website not Hulu’s. I still after 5 tries can not get the fox media player to work at all. I tried  Xp,Xp64,Vista,Xandros Linux.  but other than that, what shows they do host, are very high quality with tiny short advertisements