Years ago (and I do mean years ago now) I used to make maps and mods for Elite Force, then Jedi Academy. My main thing was Stargate, bringing Stargate to the FPS world in a way that I enjoyed playing. Things like a dialing Stargate and so on in an engine that people had not seen that level of “tech” before.
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They finally did it yesterday, Square Enix have officially stated the long awaited next MMORPG from Square Enix will be released on September 30th with a collectors edition for us lucky European folk out on the 22nd of September.
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Recently I decided to finally upgrade from my AMD Athlon X2 6000+ to a shiny new AMD Phenom II X6 965. Being AMD, that meant I didn’t have to change my motherboard, nor did I have to change my memory. Their Phenom II range is designed for AM3 but works in AM2+ motherboards; that means it will work with DD2 and DDR3 memory and also shares the same socket design – thank you AMD!
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If you’ve not seen Kylie’s new video for “All the Lovers”, I’d certainly recommend watching it, it’s just so….well different; not in a “we expect different, it’s GaGa” way, in a “that’s not usually done in popular music”
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Very smarty guy this, turned his tiny living space in a Honk Kong apartment into 24 unique rooms using sliding and folding walls. Makes maximum use of space for a batchelor!
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The VPS provider this site runs on, and that we use rather extensively in the office, is currently running a neat little promotion which is very simple. Send them a postcard and you’ll get $10 off your next bill plus you’ll be entered into a competition to win an iPad! I’d love to win an iPad so I can flog it for a few hundred
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Not sure who to credit this one to, but it certainly is a good one:

Just had a need to reset the mysql root login password for a server, did a bit of Googling and found out this is how you do it (I work on Ubuntu so you may have to tinker with the lines slightly depending on your distribution):
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Starting on April 6th, an upgrade will be pushed out for the xbox360 enabling the use of storage devicesĀ between 1 and 16 gigabytes. So provided you store your save games and profile on there, if you were to get the dreaded RROD, you’d not loose a thing and could continue to play on another xbox!
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Yes, it’s finally happened, The Telegraph website made the typo when referring to the LHC:
