Off-Topic Thread

UPS drive me up the wall with their VAT Handling Fee, what a scam. Always had positive dealings with An Post and DPD. Nightline have been hit and miss though they own Parcel Motel which is amazing.

I've been wanting to set up something like that from my parents for a while, but I haven't yet. AFAIK, XBMC will check video files as watched, as long as the file has been watched to completion.

I use RDP to work on a box on my LAN, just started throwing a warning about its Cert being dud(bad authority). What would cause that to start?

Have to say, thought his was pretty cool.

Some preliminary info on 8-series chipset boards (Haswell):

http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-s-own-8-series-lynx-point-desktop-boards-publicly-sighted-b85-h87-q87-z87-/19891.html

Wossack wrote: »

blah..

have it in from of me now, so just to expand on this slightly

yep, Quartz skin is what I use - find it nice and clean, and not too fussy. Nicely configurable, without being over the top. Can hide weather, pictures, addons, and sub categories very easily etc

you can set the start screen to something other then 'home' but not 'movies' unfortunately. Probably best keeping at home though, as you can hold back/backspace to go back to home, and that sorta acts as 'root' of the system. Starting them at 'videos' and then hitting back accidentally, might get them confused (perhaps)
Settings > appearance > Startup window

attached a screenshot of my movies page. I have it sorted by 'date added', and you can see the little blue dot actually indicates if something is new rather then watched - but thats pretty skin dependant. I couldnt find where this setting was set, so could now be on and always on (or at least is the case for Quartz)
No coverflow option with Quartz sadly, though my htpc might struggle with it - so no biggy

gis a shout if theres any questions, or issues with it. I found the official forums pretty terrible, and the nature of xbmc (free, loadsa versions, installs on loadsa platforms, constantly updated/forked etc) makes searching up stuff very difficult..

Thank ye postman.



That's the one from the BA a couple of days back. Apparently I managed to snag it before it got reduced to only including two free games. That said, I only got two games with it. (FC3 and Sleeping Dogs, oddly) but I've emailed Aria, and they're apparently going to send me codes for Bioshock and Tomb Raider, so all in all, win.

Who wants a grands worth of limited edition aluminium case:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-153-TT

You're not; I've never liked that case at all.

Burgo wrote: »

Yeah, especially when they cost so damn much. Hell if you want something expensive you can pick up a murderbox for that much.

I think you could get custom made "Iron maiden" case for that sort of money, which would be an AWESOME case.

OMG THEY UPDATED WINDOWS INDEX EXPERIENCE FUUUUUUUUU

brb

kevovek wrote: »

Did anyone else who bought a never settle reloaded bundle just get an email saying that they are sending you a free code for far cry 3 blood dragon? I got tomb raider and bioshock infinite with mine but this is a nice added bonus!

Yea it was apart of the bundle

Headshot wrote: »

ugh im half thinking of getting crysis 3 just to see how the new monitor will perform but the last one was ****ing awful

It's a toughie. I paid 55 *cking euro for it (on Origin, FFS). Absolutely gorgeous game. But sh*t. Utter sh*t. I played through the campaign once, got worse and worse as it progressed. Multiplayer is very meh.

I can get it for 25 euro on g2play but that is a tad high for me because of what crysis 2 was