* Posts by Chris B

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Top Ten Arcade Classics

Chris B

Some obvious omissions

What's with the jump from 1990 to 1996? That's a pretty piss poor compilation imo. Notable omissions include Golden Axe, R-Type (pretty much defining the whole genre of shoot em ups), Afterburner (shit game but a stand out in technology - remember its moving cabinet?), Operation Wolf, Gauntlet (man, those sound effects, or was that gauntlet 2?). Street Fighter 1 is notable in your inclusion, however its impact was fairly limited and it wasn't till Street Fighter 2 hit the arcades that the game really took off.

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Kung Fu Master

Just remembered this classic from the posts above. What a game, and I can still vividly remember the music! Also an arcade game that converted well to pretty much every home computer of the time.

Microsoft woos web devs with (semi-)free stuff

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Microsoft actually make some pretty decent products you know.

Yes thats right, we use SQL Server, Windows Server, Exchange, Visual Studio amongst many other programs, all of which work great for us. We're no Microsoft fan-boys, we're just guys who've used Microsoft software in the past, liked it, and still use it now.

We also use MySQL & PHP, Chrome & Firefox as well, as these are also good products, and deserve a place in our company.

Having been in this game for over 10 years now, we've had plenty of time to make our choices over what software to use, and strangely enough we've decided that we actually like the stuff Microsoft makes and are happy to pay for it. If Microsoft want to give us some free software, then great!

We could probably quite easily decide to go anti-Microsoft if we wanted to, and use all the alternatives instead, but we actually dont want to. It works for us, we find it cost effective, theres lots of free support out there on the internet, and its actually pretty stable stuff.

Most of the larger companies out there already have set-ups which are primarily Microsoft based, and with us being a company who are targetting these businesses for work, it would pretty silly of us to ignore Microsoft's products.

Chris.

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Fantastic deal

Signed up this morning 3 hours ago, and within 1 hour our membership had been confirmed and I was given a link to the MSDN download section.

Great stuff from Microsoft. Should save my company a bomb.

MS bundles Vista SP1 and Server 2008 out the door

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HP Printers

HP drivers under Vista are notoriously buggy. I have a Photosmart C7180 and the drivers have uninstalled themselves a couple of times now. Not to mention that you get "printer driver HPZ12 has performed an illegal operation" a dozen times whenever you print, and at random intervals every so often.

I've had to uninstall the HP drivers and use the basic vista ones to get a stable print life. And theres no word of an update from HP themselves.