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    OCR TF2: New Server forthcoming - new server IPs and other stuff

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    I do wish, however, that heavies were even more susceptible to dying while eating the sandvich. Every shot on them should be an instant critical while they eat. I feel that a heavy getting caught munching should practically die instantly as punishment for not finding a good enough hiding spot.

    What do you mean "more susceptible" when they're eating sandviches? They're not moving. If you can't kill them quickly enough, that's your own problem.

    Free Anti-Virus Program for 7 Year Old Computer?

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    My parents' computer is running Windows XP on a 2001 eMachines computer with low specs (less than a GHz processor, the RAM's no more than 512 MB (I think it's actually 256), etc.) Anyone have any recommendations for a good, free anti-virus program that isn't nagware? For the past few years they've had AVG Free, but version 8.0 sucks, and now the current version keeps nagging them to update (claiming that it's "mandatory"), so it's time to switch.

    Good Sight Reading Training/Ear Training for Piano?

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    I've recently begun playing the piano on a daily basis. Part of my daily routine consists of both a 10 minute sight reading exercise and a 10 minute interval ear training exercise. These two exercises, however, are quickly becoming dull, as I can usually blow through the ten minutes barely getting any incorrect responses. Are there any sight/ear training exercises anyone knows about that they recommend?

    Are video-game controllers too complicated?

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    I think they have gradually gotten more complicated, but it was mostly out of necessity. You can't navigate a 3D environment with an NES controller very well (think of playing Mario 64). As for simplification, I feel the Wii's controller was indeed a simplified version: A, B, control pad, 1 & 2 (nunchuk adds c, z, and an analog stick).

    Boss Fight

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    To be honest, I never intended on converting this to anything else.

    Now that you made the proposition, however, I just might do it. I want to start other composing first, though (not to mention a MIDI sequence I have going from the video game realm to submit to VGMusic eventually).

    Hard Drive Partitioning for Vista Install

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    I have two identical drives in my system and I constantly back up to the second one manually. I don't trust software simply because I've heard horror stories about them not working.

    I also get new drives in my system yearly. The warranty on a drive is usually about 3-5 years, this is also about a hard drives life expectancy, etc etc i'm going to preach some more about backing up

    Lets put it this way. Would you pay $50 to have your data back? Pictures, WIPs, stuff that can't be recreated? Good, then pay $50 for a new drive and prevent that from being necessary.

    i MEAN it guys

    While I couldn't afford to annually replace my drives, getting a plump external hard drive does not sound like a bad idea. Any recommendations (I like shopping for this kind of stuff at Newegg).

    EDIT: After a quick search I found a few possibilities. Suggestions? (1 2 3)

    As for GPartEd, I don't have a single clue what you're talking about when it comes to Live CDs or whatever. Is there a good freeware alternative for Windows by any chance? If not, then I'll struggle to go the Ubuntu route.

    Hard Drive Partitioning for Vista Install

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    Find a friend with an external. I lent out my 200GB external to a friend installing Windows Media Edition or whatever.

    Well, my roommate has an external, but it's on the fritz at the moment. I'll check around.

    This would actually be a non-issue if you already had Vista installed. You'd just convert your drive from basic to dynamic and then resize the volumes as necessary. Can't do that within XP though.

    That's great that they actually put something like this in Windows finally.

    GPartEd works. I've used it before, with NTFS, no problems from what I could tell, it doesn't actually commit the changes until you're satisfied with your choices.

    How exactly would I go about using this program on a Windows machine?

    Hard Drive Partitioning for Vista Install

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    You'll have to use a tool such as Partition Magic to resize the existing partition and create a new one - but I strongly recommend against doing this WITHOUT backing up first. If it crashes in the middle, you're screwed.

    I was hoping to not have to spend money on this venture. I do agree on the backing up point, however. How would you recommend backing up 63 GB of data?

    Hard Drive Partitioning for Vista Install

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    I currently have two hard drives. As of right now, they are both fully partitioned and in use. I am currently running Windows XP Media Center Edition. I just downloaded Windows Vista (Business Edition) via the MSDN AA and wish to install it. However, I want to keep all of my WinXP settings and all of my other files. I currently have over 200 GB of free space on a hard drive, and want to partition a portion of that drive to install Windows Vista on. This drive has 63 GB of files on that won't fit on the other drive and I don't have DVD/CD-Rs to make backups to.

    How do I partition the drive while maintaining the files that already exist on it? Assuming that I actually do get through that step, how much space would you recommend for Vista?

    Do games make you feel old sometimes?

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    It is kinda weird--how on earth can you be a high schooler or a freshman in college and feel old? That's just bizarre.

    It's probably due to the fact that game consoles, computers, etc. evolve at a very fast rate, and when we see the technology we have now compared to what we grew up with, it is a bit of a shock.

    I know I'm not old in the traditional sense. I don't think anyone here's trying to claim that or anything. It just makes us feel older when stuff like this happens.

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