Posted 10/18/2008 at 07:53:04am

Valve never uses other companies' DRM for their games, they have their own Steam stuff.  No need to worry!  I've already thrown my money at them because I'm a massive Valve fanboy.

Posted 10/05/2008 at 04:24:56am

Most soundcards will only put out a 2 channel PCM signal over a co-ax/optical connection, or pass-through an already encoded stream.  There are a few that can do on-the-fly encoding with Dolby Digital Live or DTS Live.  The ASUS Xonar D2 can, the current top shelf X-Fi can, and AuzenTech cards can.

I specifically went for a card with this capability because I use a 5.1 home theater in a box system with only one analog input and an optical input so getting 5.1 over optical was important.

Posted 10/05/2008 at 03:23:02am

Phenom would have been a good name if it was a better performer than Penryn.

Posted 08/07/2008 at 08:53:20am

I used to in the past pirate some games, mostly because I couldn't really afford them.  I definitely don't do that anymore, and I've actually gone back and bought some of the games I pirated mostly because I felt bad about doing it.  I know game development these days is a fairly cashflow intensive business, and most people agree piracy hurts developers to at least some degree and I decided I didn't want to contribute to that, especially the ones that deserve to be paid for making good games.

Posted 06/29/2008 at 01:56:10pm

Reed = Chunky

Benson = Peanut

It's too bad butters is gone or something.

Posted 10/08/2007 at 12:54:21am

I've been using Hamachi for a while and I love it. About the centralized server and encryption business, the only thing that Hamachi uses a central server for is to set up the connections between the 2 PCs. None of your data ever goes to Hamachi's servers. Also, it does use 256-bit AES encryption.