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Since the beginning of time I’ve used a CRT monitor, and for the last few years it’s been a 21” Sony trinitron CRT. It does a great res (2048×1536, or 1600×1200 as its optimal res) so I’m used to a fairly high res and get a little antsy when I don’t have heaps of screen real estate.

Well, the 21” CRT is to put it nicely past it’s best so I’m on the market for a new monitor. I’m well aware of the advantages of CRTs for gaming, but not many of them are made these days and I don’t think I’d trust buying one off ebay that was probably made as long ago as mine.

So it will be an LCD, but hopefully one that’s suited to gaming. I’d love to hear what everyones using for a monitor on their gaming PC’s and how they find it. Any advantages / disadvantages of one brand over another. Anything specific you would say to get or not to get. Pretty much anything to do with LCD’s, gaming and general usage, I’d be interested in hearing.

You decide..

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/images/press/12210.html

Shadow of camera/scoop arm thingo,

or

A Strogg Trooper on stilts?

A mini-review of the demo of the game hereby refered to as OTRSPOD.

OTRSPOD, a game developed by “Hothead Games“http://www.hotheadgames.com/ has as http://www.hotheadgames.com/it’s main drawcard the artwork, writing and characters from the folks at “Penny Arcade“http://penny-arcade.com. Also it is one of the lametably few games that run natively on Linux and Mac (hence my interest).

Howdy gang, im looking for some advice, ideas, experiance and am thanking in advance!

am at my inlaws at the moment (Their PC) and have brought my laptop like always, not connected to the net like always, i play some of the very few single player games which i have on my machine.

im playing Age of Empires 3, everything is hunky dory when, blue screen of death. trying to remember the error in the WTF haze im sure it was somthing like.
critical hardware error, partial memory, system shutting down. then the computer restarted.
OMG.. worst thing that can happen on a laptop… lines accross the screen that wont go away appeared!
then as normal windows loads, but when its supposed to go into the regular windows screen, the screen turns black and NOTHING… not even the OMG lines anymore (i know windows has loaded cause i hear all the nomal sounds like skype, macafee, trillian and other programs starting etc. I just cant see anything)

Some of you would have heard me in the IRC awhile ago counting down the metres until the Phoenix lander touched down on Mars…

Phoenix is the first successful lander that we have sent to the northern polar region on Mars, the last one was shot down by the Martians along with its Orbiter =p

Its no IPX Eagle..

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/

We know from the data that the orbiters that we have sent around Mars, thanks to their ground penetrating dradis..i mean, radar, that there is a layer of “perma-frost” (don’t quote me on this), i think, just under the surface of the soil, at least around the area where Phoenix has landed.