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by Smooth Beaver
Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:53 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Crying
Replies: 62
Views: 11186

crying is good for you. to hell with the bs tough guy image. crying and manhood are not mutually exclusive traits
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:14 pm
Forum: General Software
Topic: Must Have Programs!
Replies: 184
Views: 201937

try µtorrent. It's better. :D Azereus has a lot of plugins for extended functionality. There are cool things like automatic loading from RSS and stuff like that. But I prefer utorrent as well. It's great if you are manually controlling torrents anyways. That and bitcomet are all C++, so they don't ...
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:30 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Buying a shotgun
Replies: 52
Views: 10297

Re: It's Dinner Time!

Humm lotta wankers here...some of their answers could get you eaten! I'd suggest you ask this question in a gun forum but since you haven't I'll add my 2bits worth. 1) I'm Canadian 2) I've hunted black bear with a shotgun. 3) Smoothbeaver's replies here are the best of anyones. Canada’s laws are ha...
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:05 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Buying a shotgun
Replies: 52
Views: 10297

I'd like to set the record straight on pumps vs. autos with reliability in mind. Of course pumps have traditionally been more reliable, but modern recoil autos (ahem, the Benelli) are at least as reliable and in my experience shooting modern pumps like the mossberg 500, winchester model 12 and remin...
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:35 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Buying a shotgun
Replies: 52
Views: 10297

His wife has military training and is competant with a firearm in hand. If this other student can handle a gun, that's great, but if he doesn't know what he's doing, him having a gun can do more harm than good. I agree that a total novice would be more dangerous with a gun than without, but In this...
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:19 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Buying a shotgun
Replies: 52
Views: 10297

though I wouldn't want to face several hundred pounds of polar bear with one. We had a 1200-1400 pound male approach the study center. Let me tell you, they can get HUGE! up to almost 2000 pounds! We scared him off with bear bangers and blank shells, they can also move incredibly quick on very roug...
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:01 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Buying a shotgun
Replies: 52
Views: 10297

I imagine a mag load (or the .50 I posted earlier for sure!) would break through the skull no problem, but that doesn't matter in your wife's case, I suppose. If she's a good enough for a semi get her an assult rifle :) landing half a dozen shots with good enough accuracy will stop most anything. n...
by Smooth Beaver
Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:49 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Buying a shotgun
Replies: 52
Views: 10297

That is quite rude, I do not have children and I DO have a legitimate use. My wife is a scientist, she will be spending the next 3 summers in Canada in the arctic. She will need a gun for polar bears, as the area she is working in will be heavily populated at certain times by females with cubs. I d...
by Smooth Beaver
Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:46 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Buying a shotgun
Replies: 52
Views: 10297

Re: Buying a shotgun

I am buying a shotgun and I need some opinions, I will set out my criteria: 1) I want an autoloader that can fire 12 ga 3.5" magnum shells. 2) I need it to be friendly and reliable enough for my wife to shoot it. 3) Slug friendly, but also capable of buckshot and birdshot. 4) Price isn't really a b...
by Smooth Beaver
Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:32 pm
Forum: General Software
Topic: Must Have Programs!
Replies: 184
Views: 201937

newbie_of_jan0502 wrote:
Well I just got Azureus. WOW!!

Best I've seen so far.


try µtorrent. It's better. :D
by Smooth Beaver
Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:39 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: King Kong
Replies: 32
Views: 7235

Krogoth255 wrote:
More like:

Unicron> Krogoth > Godzilla > King Kong :P


Unicron is the supreme ass kicker
by Smooth Beaver
Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:19 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: GUNS!!!!
Replies: 53
Views: 8589

My ex-brother-in-law met a guy at a NRA annual convention who had been a sniper in Vietnam and had written a book about it. It seem they would modify a .50 cal BMG for single shot and add massive optics. IIRC, his longest confirmed kill was 2,500 yards. Those 750 grain .50 cal bullets are impressiv...
by Smooth Beaver
Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:55 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Why is the US filled with bad drivers.
Replies: 51
Views: 5015

my credo: WHEN IN DOUBT, GAS IT!
by Smooth Beaver
Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:53 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: I live amongst danger!
Replies: 24
Views: 2194

Re: I live amongst danger!

PRIME1 wrote:
Time to buy a gun?


yes-maybe a shotgun-alot more power up close and usually cheaper than a handgun
by Smooth Beaver
Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:27 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Are you a Southerner or a Yankee?
Replies: 42
Views: 5396

48% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Sacramento California Native
by Smooth Beaver
Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:36 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: What kind of monitor do you use?
Replies: 69
Views: 11461

Hyundai L90D+.

I've had it for about 8 months now and it works great
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:43 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: If Only There Was A Videocard Boycott...
Replies: 18
Views: 3056

I just hope the advent of these ultra top end cards will force down prices of the other 7800 cards
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:41 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Call of Duty 2: better than the original.
Replies: 21
Views: 3369

I've only played MP and really if you are looking for something new over COD1 don't buy it. Save for a few trinkets like the shotgun, it is EXACTLY the same as it's predecessor
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:41 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 785310

OsakaJ wrote:
Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album.
"... We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year..."


I love Pink Floyd and that whole album is badass. Matter of fact I've been trying to get that riff down with my guitar
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:37 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 785310

AC/DC - Have A Drink On Me
by Smooth Beaver
Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:19 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Who's your favorite character from literature?
Replies: 29
Views: 6510

LFK wrote:
Roland of Gilead, the gunslinger from Stephen King's Dark Tower series.


Ya Roland is a badass

Siddhartha is also a great character
by Smooth Beaver
Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:47 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Odd names for Children
Replies: 63
Views: 14868

Pettytheft wrote:
My girfriend works in a hospital in Oakland. Some of the parents have extremely creative names.

Courvisie
Alize
Crystall - Not crystal but pronounced like the champagne.


Alize? haha- i think I'll name my kid mad dog just out of spite
by Smooth Beaver
Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:44 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Memoirs of A Geisha HD-Trailer
Replies: 5
Views: 1635

BigMadDrongo wrote:
Grr, have to upgrade Quicktime to play it. (Off-topic rant - why do I have to download iTunes in order to upgrade my video codec?)


if you search around the QT site you'll find the standalone installer
by Smooth Beaver
Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:11 pm
Forum: General Software
Topic: Free Audio CD ripping recommendations?
Replies: 13
Views: 2281

A great site on setting up EAC with lame is http://www.ubernet.org/
by Smooth Beaver
Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:56 am
Forum: General Software
Topic: Free Audio CD ripping recommendations?
Replies: 13
Views: 2281

ya EAC with LAME at alt preset standard (APS) is great stuff
by Smooth Beaver
Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:15 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Monolith > Raven
Replies: 29
Views: 3693

FubbHead wrote:
I actually thought HL2 single player was pretty damn awesome. Galaxies ahead of Doom 3 anyway.


HL2 SP absolutely smokes any other singleplayer made to date
by Smooth Beaver
Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:01 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: The Excellence that is 'F.E.A.R'
Replies: 46
Views: 8205

F.E.A.R.=wildly overrated It is a good game, but it's nothing exceptional. It has raised the bar in some cases for PC graphics but it does have a few odd quirks (namely the strange high quality shadow setting). What exactly is so exceptional about it? You come across as hopelessly un-informed. Did ...
by Smooth Beaver
Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:07 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: The Excellence that is 'F.E.A.R'
Replies: 46
Views: 8205

F.E.A.R.=wildly overrated

It is a good game, but it's nothing exceptional. It has raised the bar in some cases for PC graphics but it does have a few odd quirks (namely the strange high quality shadow setting).

What exactly is so exceptional about it?
by Smooth Beaver
Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:03 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: 2 gig for BF2 recmmend is false.
Replies: 30
Views: 7587

I graduated to 2 gigs when i suffered intermittent slowdowns playing at 1280x1024 on high settings with 6x AA on 1 gig. Also all the menus and everything else in BF2 ran much faster and smoother with more memory. After i upgraded lots of other stuff ran alot cleaner also. BTW my low latency 2 gig co...
by Smooth Beaver
Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:11 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: which of this ram do you recommend?
Replies: 15
Views: 2777

check out this review
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2560

BTW-the titanium pc3200 is way overpriced for that performance level-they are mainly for workstation solutions. You might as well save $40 and get the plat ed. in that case
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