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Comment Re:The Sims, SimCity... and Utopia is menioned whe (Score 2, Interesting) 159

by ShadowBlasko (#28199197) Attached to: Vintage Games
Why did it post that anon? Sorry, maybe I am getting a bit long in the tooth. I can still dust off the intellivision console and really enjoy a game of sea battle or utopia and walk away feeling like I really enjoyed it.

No Need to save, or worry about if I am playing enough for to keep my stats fresh. Just play the game, kill some time, and have some fun.

I miss gaming like that. I know it still exists, but it seems few and few between titles.

Comment Re:Paaaleeese (Score 5, Informative) 410

by ShadowBlasko (#27941323) Attached to: Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital
There are quite a few molds and other items that can cause serious respiratory distress for those of us allergic to them. Fast acting too. When I got off the plane in Australia and was exposed to new pollens I my body had never experienced, I was horizontal on a gurney getting anti-histamine treatments within 30 minutes!

Comment Re:What the fuck? (Score 2, Informative) 361

by ShadowBlasko (#27919929) Attached to: Adult Website Use At Work Leads To Hacker Conviction
Well, our 2nd most publicized "Sexting" case finished yesterday here in Cincinnati.
In a stunning case of "The guy must be the bad influence" the girl who took the pics was given probation and ordered to write a paper, her friend who sent the pics was not charged, and the guy who RECEIVED the pics was put under house arrest.
All minors, and yes... you read that right.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090511/NEWS0107/305110014/Mason+teens+sentenced+for++sexting+ Here is the link.

(Sorry for the lack of HTML, stuck at work)

Comment Re:They're coming ! (Score 3, Funny) 156

by ShadowBlasko (#27226769) Attached to: UV-Resistant Micro-Organisms Discovered In the Stratosphere

Interesting information to be sure... But how do these micro organisms interact with Human cells ? Can they survive down here ? Are the body snatchers on their way ??!! Surely, we should welcome our new microscopic overlords before they take over our minds and......**gurgle**

Have they made any cough or sneeze yet?

You know, just to err on the side of caution, I better shut down my seaport. You can never be too sure.

Sincerely,
President Madagascar

Comment Re:Jet lag (Score 2, Interesting) 605

by ShadowBlasko (#27182001) Attached to: My longest stretch without sleep (catnaps count) ...

Generally when you have a sleep disorder you can't "love sleep far too much". It's not that you don't want to sleep. It's that you can't sleep.

The worst thing is when you're awake for a few days, and then you finally get to sleep, and the alarm goes off a couple hours later 'cause it's time for work.

Not to mention the hours spent "trying" to sleep. Staring at the ceiling, mind racing, thinking that if you just close your eyes eventually sleep will come... feeling the minutes tick by, and finally reaching that point where you know that even if you do sleep, it will do no good, so you drag yourself out of bed, turn off the alarm clock, and start the next day... again.

Comment According to CNN... (Well, some of it) (Score 2, Funny) 325

by ShadowBlasko (#26968961) Attached to: NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails
The satellite will now be re-purposed to study carbon and methane emissions that need to be observed to determine the current threat level regarding activity in R'lyeh.

"Initial indications are the vehicle did not have enough [force] to reach orbit and landed just short of Antarctica in the ocean."

I'm sure the ancient ones are happy to have some new tech to plunder.

All hail the new tentacle observer!

Comment Re:This is GREAT for bittorrent (Score 1) 294

by ShadowBlasko (#26844779) Attached to: Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown
Yep, we had that problems for ever at big E. I used to patrol the ratio reports manually every night (back when we had a mere 10,000 or so active users) and watch for massive ratio spikes. I got most of them with the banhammer, but it was labor intensive. I am certain I could have scripted it, or Saz could have done it as well, but I actually enjoyed dropping the hammer of justice on leechers. /Vamp on Big E

Comment Re:As the owner of 4 of the 1 TB drives... (Score 1) 559

by ShadowBlasko (#26544965) Attached to: Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas
And then what?

Buy more of the same? That still have the same problem?

I really don't want to bail on Seagate as I have many of their drives, and I have never had one fail (As opposed to a bad batch of WD's that cost me greatly two years ago)

As I said, I don't want to bail on the brand, I want them to fix the problem. I am just starting to worry that they really can't do it.

Comment As the owner of 4 of the 1 TB drives... (Score 3, Interesting) 559

by ShadowBlasko (#26542207) Attached to: Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas
I would like to know where the hell the firmware update IS? I have opened a ticket with Seagate for each drive. Followed the directions (which were linked to here last week) in detail, and I have heard back NOTHING.

Not even an acknowledgment that they have looked at my tickets. I got a "your ticket was created" email, and that is it.

Seagate is getting very close to losing a lot of customers.

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