No, your computer will not take damage from it unless it overheats.

The game itself might not run very well though, and you might get some crashes if memory runs out or similar.

Hamachi is pretty nice as far as simple VPN goes. But maybe you are looking for something more advanced?

No idea about the webcam.

While on the topic of efficiency, what is a good distribution for use on a laptop in terms of power consumption?
I have been running Ubuntu for almost a year and have found it to be pretty bad at limiting power consumption, at least compared to Windows XP (Vista is pretty much equal). While my battery has lost a lot of it's former glory (3-4 hours when purchased, down to 1-2 hours after 1year 2months), it's kind of a pity to see up to half an hour or more time lost because I'm running Linux.

I study a program for a Master in Information Technology, or alternatively a Swedish Civilingenjör degree (slightly shorter than the master).
My schedule is highly irregular since this fall is filled with a project.
I'll be working in a group with five fellow students and one economy student as project manager. We are employed as a consulting firm by a fictional company to develop a robotic storage system. The whole structure of the course is supposed to imitate how a real development project in a company would work, which is pretty awesome! I am really looking forward to it and hope it'll be the best part of my program so far

The whole fall is 30 ECTS points, divided in 15 project points and 15 individual course points. The individual courses are:
Numerical Algorithms
Ethics
Work Group Psychology
Business Administration
System Usability Issues
Computer Hardware and Architecture
Communication Studies

The courses are integrated into the project, but we also have individual exams on each course (thus the division in 15/15 between project and individual courses).
In the project, we have divided the work so each group member has a primary responsibility. I will be working with the Numerical Algorithms and Communication Studies, which is pretty good because apparently the exam in Num Alg is really hard. The course consists of a lot of Matlab labs and work, which fits me well because I like Matlab
Hopefully we will be writing all our documentation in LaTeX which makes the Com Studies part much more entertaining.

Overall I will be having a pretty packed schedule once the project starts rolling, since we will be planning out work hours and such to make sure things get done on time.

So it's a pneumatic car, at least under 35 mph. It's no zero pollution car, since it has to use a secondary fuel to heat the hair for higher range and speed. Additionally, compressing the air uses energy obviously.

But pretty damn awesome! Especially if it's cheap. Imagine if cars like this could be sold in China and India and similar countries that will be needing LOTS of transport in the future.

Yeah those are cool, but heres a question for yah any mods that make the NPC's actually attack eachother (excluding Gaurds versus creatures/bandits/assasins). Like Bandits and Wolves not getting along kinda thing, heack even Bandits out right attacking eachother? I mean the whole wolrd is against you thing with all the NPC's never sat well with me.

This is a problem for both games actually, infact alot of RPGs seems to suffer from this concept of everything is against you but are buddies with eachother. This is most notable with MMOs.

Bandits and marauders (I think?) fight each other in Oblivion. For example, the fort just west of Imperial City has both of the factions. I'm not sure how common it is though...

That creature that washed ashore looks like a gorge from the HL mod Natural Selection.

viral for ns2???

I only tried the demo and laughed at the Dark Eldar's megaweapon thing with the throne and the bikini girls.

I absolutely loved DoW and the first two expansions. The original game is kind of odd to play after playing Dark Crusade a lot though...what with almost unlimited vehicles and so forth.

Awesome!
Congrats. You should give him a shoe-phone plushy.

The interface of KDE looks too bulky for me. I prefer something more along the lines of gnome or stuff like Lassekongo puts together. Most of ubuntu's default interfaces don't bug me.

I can see what you mean, at least with KDE 3. The GNOME interface really is more streamlined...but I've come to like the whole "package" that KDE is. It feels a bit like a Mac in a sense, with all included apps being part of the system itself. KDE feels more polished than GNOME.
Of course I haven't used it for very long (and not for school work or anything serious) and I mostly switched because my GNOME setup is breaking apart (too many unclean dist upgrades). My windows install is acting up too so I might as well clean out the whole thing.

to  keep in line with the topic a bit more; here's my laptop's specs:

HP Compaq TC4400 Tablet PC
CPU:  Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz
RAM:  1 GB
HDD:  ~70 GB, initially 60 GB but had a hidden partition that I intelligently repartitioned...
GPU:  Intel 950GMA
Display:  12.1" 1024x768, digitizer screen with glass surface (matte!)
Input devices:  Keyboard, Touchpad, Trackpoint (or whatever that little joystick is called) and Wacom pen
Other stuff:   WLAN, Bluetooth, SD card reader, IR, mono speaker, fingerprint reader, light sensor, mic

Lovely thing it is. A bit on the heavy side (2 kg) but the quality and function makes up for that. It is exceptionally well built, easily as well as a ThinkPad. Very sturdy. The glass screen makes it easy to clean and also means it is almost impossible to damage it by poking at it or the like. The viewing angle is VERY good too, and the screen swivels (still sturdy after over a year of everyday use).
Battery is showing signs of aging sadly, might need to get a replacement.
All in all A++ would buy again (no I wouldn't, I would want a ThinkPad x61 tablet instead)

I installed KDE 4.1 RC yesterday. I like it, although there's a lack of GTK compatibility. I don't really use any GTK apps though, except Firefox (and I guess that is getting remedied sooner or later). Love plasma anyway!
Obviously it is kind of buggy (RC after all).

That's not true they've had:
Lost Vikings 1
Lost Vikings 2
Rock and Roll Racing
Blackthorne
Death and Return of Superman
Justice League Task Force

What interest they had in consoles in the early 90s doesn't appear to exist today, however.

And developing for a platform is not the same as developing the platform!


but I have a hard time seeing any company besides the ones already in it starting to make consoles, anyway

Some sort of standardizing of PC gaming or perhaps a Mac gaming software platform (which wouldn't need to fight the system already in place like on PC (of course on PC it's more LACK of system)) would be pretty cool. Microsoft tried something with Live in Vista but stupidly tried to charge for it (impossible)...

I can see Blizzard with a console.

How? They make PC games, pretty much exclusively. What interest could they possibly have in making their own console? Besides, they have no experience at all with hardware! And they are a pretty small company!

I don't see why software companies like EA or Google would start making hardware. Some kind of joint project with Philips or something is much more probable. Or Apple (lol iGame lololol).


(MS being software developer when they made the Xbox doesn't affect this argument, since they make OS' (and directx))

From now on, all trailers have to be done like this trailer.

it would be AMAZING

Yeah I'd rather not have pips. There's enough stuff floating around peoples' names, member titles and avatars as it is.

there's always the option for people who want to be pipiriffic to put the pips as title anyway

This sounds rather unpleasant ​  But good thing it is turning out all right!

I have no hospital experiences. The last time I was in was when I lay in one of those incubators as a newborn. That's it.

Get some plants. Ones with dark green or thick leaves usually don't need much water and can even take periods of drought (I left mine without water for two months and they are still alright!), so you won't have to worry about watering them wrong.

Get some nice furniture for the garden.

Also that's a really tiny house. It's like my apartment except it's a single building, huh. Pretty cool! Are there windows on all sides?

I live in Linköping, Sweden.

In 1600 there were some executions on the main square which is somewhat ridiculously called a blood bath.
SAAB produces the SAAB Gripen fighter jet here.
The computer club at Linköping University, Lysator, put up the first web server in Sweden in February 1993, among the first 10–15 in the world.
The university's principal is named Mille Millnert.
The roundabout dog originates from Linköping.
There is an IT and computer museum here. I also has an exhibition about gaming.
Linköping is one of few cities in Sweden that has a mayor.

yeah that's about it  ​

This ALDI place sounds just like Netto, or Willy's. Actually Willy's isn't that bad, but they mostly carry MEGAPACKS of everything, which really only makes them viable for large families. Netto just piles all their stuff up in the store, and carry different things every week.
When I shop at ICA I use a personal scanner. It's really neat to just pack the stuff while you are shopping, then unloading the scanner and paying. also it is kind of cool

I hope I can live to see a bagboy one day!

At DreamHack Summer 2008 there was apparently a 23 minutes long showing of Far Cry 2, in front of 7 500 geeks sweaty with anticipation (and equipped with signal horns apparently). The video shows two missions, six or so weapons and lots of action. Here it is:
This looks kind of cool, although the setting doesn't exactly entice me. The large, open, seamless world seems pretty awesome, like you can see at the end with the glider. The graphics stuff looks pretty much like Crysis (or, well, obviously the cryengine2 tech demos) so nothing very new there.
I wonder how much of an open world this is. They say there are 9 playable characters, and the ones that you don't choose will still be part of the story, which sounds like there should be lots of room for the player to choose where it goes. The guy says the world is very large but the tiny bit of road he has to cover to get to the pipeline base kind of counteracts that point. I hope there isn't so much stuff crammed in everywhere, it feels a bit odd how he got the mission to blow the place up from a guy a few hundred meters away :P

So yeah, this looks like a cool game. Especially once he leaves the jungle area and gets to the savanna. The grass is pretty cool, and the fire!


Also it's nice how it crashes during the presentation, and also when he shoots a rocket at an apparently indestructible tower (?)