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Ah i remember the old days of windows 95 and such

kruxor — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:06:40 +0000

33.6 modems connecting at 28.8, downloads at 6k a second would have been fast in those days. I remember getting a 33.6 modem for my 16th birthday, doesn’t really seem like that long ago now. Almost the only form of communication on the net that was in real time was mIRC and ICQ. Tombraider was the best game out on any system, one of the breakthrough games. Everytime you re-installed windows you had to spend about a day finding all the drivers for every single piece of hardware you had to get it all working again. I think I was even maxing out my resoloution on my 14 inch crt monitor at that time.

a poem on life

kruxor — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:06 +0000

Thought this was cool, although kinda bleak:

This is how it works
You’re young until you’re not
You love until you don’t
You try until you can’t
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath…

Imagine playing bejeweled for 91 days solid

kruxor — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:52:50 +0000

Anyone heard about that guy that played bejeweled 2 for 2200 hours scoring 2,147,482,575 points, just a few things about this one. Umm, i know that wow players have some crazy play times and such, but wouldn’t you go a bit insane playing that much bejeweled? Anyway as the story goes. No one will be bothered beating his time will they? that is approx 91 days (the equivalent of playing for 8 hours a day, five days a week, for an entire year) of playing bejeweled… crazy much. Can you imagine staring at this for 91 days solid?

So there trying to censor the net even more eh

kruxor — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:28:16 +0000

Looks like the internet “censorship issue is coming along well… once again” how many times can people say you cant boil the ocean without someone listening.

From Computer World:

It is the latest in a series of leaks from the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) talks that have been going on for the past two years. Other leaks over the past three months have consisted of confidential internal memos about the negotiations between European lawmakers.

The Boneyard plane cemetery discovered an awesome collection of old warplanes

kruxor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:13:48 +0000

How cool is this! i dont know why they just keep all the planes there though, seems like a bit of a waste.

Spread across the huge 2,600 acre site, equivalent in size to 1,430 football pitches, is a collection of over 4,000 retired aircraft including nearly every plane the US armed forces have flown since World War II.

According to Torrent Freak Piracy Isn’t Killing The Movie Industry, Greed Is

kruxor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:43:31 +0000

At the box-office the major movie studios are raking in record profits, but their continuing refusal to widely adopt online business opportunities are hindering progress. According to the head of the Blockbuster video chain, the movie industry’s greed is to blame for holding back innovation.

First off, we have to make it clear that the major movie studios are doing great at the box-office, despite movie piracy riding at an all-time high. Other parts of the movie industry, such as video rental outlets, do seem to struggle and they have the studios to thank for this, not piracy.

Some random guy wins $1.2million from gluing lucky coin to step

kruxor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:18:26 +0000

Now i don’t know about you, but i think this has more to do with buying some lottery / raffle tickets than gluing a coin to a step… Slow News Day?