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Back in Win XP days, I caught a nasty virus that installed itself in the master boot record of the hard drive. I formatted the partition, reinstalled everything, and the damn thing kept coming back. Paranoia made me switch to Linux for a while after that.
Re:Pixar in a Box on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:37PM (#11771061)
Cars 2 was pretty bad. I don't really follow reviews though so I'm pretty suprised when you say that Cars, Brave, and Monsters U did badly (I haven't seen the Good Dinosaur yet), as I loved all of them.
Re:Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:32PM (#11668437)
No kidding. The longer I took the more I felt like someone was actually going to drown. I eventually clicked the right kid after like 20 seconds, but I wasn't even positive when I clicked.
I know poverty is on a much larger scale in Flint, but honestly those streets don't look very different to the rougher areas in most towns I've been in.
Re:How will you be programming in a decade? on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:39AM (#10689297)
At my last job, we were still supporting .NET 1.1 apps using Visual Studio 2003.
Re:Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:34AM (#10663918)
There's some mods out there that try and help with fps by simplifying certain systems in the game, such as reducing the amount of material and plant types, things like that. I know Masterwork mod does this.