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Re: Moving from Windows Live Admin Center to Google Apps

cyberfiche — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:39:07 -0000

I setup a Gmail account years ago because I really liked the interface. I configured the mail accounts on my hosting server to forward all mail to the Gmail account and I setup Gmail to use my hosting server as the SMTP server. I recently transfered all hosting to Google Apps. Since I didin't want two Google logins and since Apps lacks the ability to create a profile (needed for the fun stuff), I simply configured Gmail to act the same way it always has for me - as an interface for my mail server. My Google login is still the same it has been for years. But if I need to configure the mail server, work on the site, etc., I simply login to Google with my actual email account as the username.

Re: FRAPS and Dxtory – What’s best for me?

that'sit — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:12:29 -0000

i tell you the best record soft is bandicam

Re: FRAPS and Dxtory – What’s best for me?

Austin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:51:01 -0000

I would suggest using a different video codec with Dxtory.

Re: Meteor’s Hidden Money Drain?

TheChrisD — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:48:55 -0000

Sure, person classing themselves as a "random anonymous" person, coming from IP address 212.129.64.244, that is related to foo.meteor.ie, I am SOOOOOOO going to believe that you are some random person just curious in my comments box, and totally not a Meteor representative trolling in the comments of a blog post that badmouths your company...

Re: FUCKING EMOLGAS

Arashi — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:20:36 -0000

After some horrible defeats by that vermin they call emolga who kept using volt switch I read the comment about dwebble and stealth rock. Great one, it works well. Only needed to use a just lv24 dwebble and bulked out the rest with a lv32 stoutland I taught the Rock Tomb tm to. It walled perfectly. The zebstrika, just as in the tries before, proved an easy kill really.

Yes, the lack of a viable counter is the most horrible thing about the gym here. Your possibilities are all mostly limited in usefullness one way or another. Either not resisting electric/flying moves, not having a decent countering move, or just plainly being bad at walling the normally quite weak and frail electric types.

Re: Meteor’s Hidden Money Drain?

random anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:11:10 -0000

How much do the other operators charge as a connection fee?

Re: FUCKING EMOLGAS

Roxanna — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:24:30 -0000

This gym was a royal pain, but I did find some effective tricks to beating it...

Dwebble learns Stealth Rock at level 24, and this was extremely useful against Volt Switch. Emolga hit Dwebble hard, but couldn't one-shot it (Sturdy ability). Every time they got off a Volt Switch, the swap would take a fair amount of damage (~20% of it's health). From here on, it was simply a matter of outlasting them with lemonades as they swap-killed themselves.

I managed to burn one with a Yamask's Will O' Wisp, which helped. When the two Emolgas got down to half health or so, I swapped in Sandile to throw up Embargo. Aerial Ace is not quite as powerful as Volt Switch, so I was able to simply wear the first one down with the burn with Embargo blocking the hyper potions and Sandile's ground type preventing Volt Switch. When the first one died, I swapped in Audino to eat some damage while I distributed lemonade, then swapped a fully healed Dwebble back in to unleash Smack Down on the second.

With those two irritants out of the way, I managed Zebstrika with Torment and Embargo from Sandile, and a couple of sacrificial pokemon thrown in to buy me time to heal. I got Yamask healed back up and burned it, then swapped between Drillbur and Yamask every other turn until it died - it would use Quick Attack as I swapped to Yamask (Ghost), and then Spark as I switched to Drillbur (Ground), and couldn't heal due to Embargo.

Three dead pokemon and a dozen lemonades later, I had my badge and my TM. It took an unusually high amount of switching, healing, and strategic planning for being only the fourth gym, but this was the first time I felt like I had to work hard for a badge since I played a hacked "hard mode" version of FireRed (Brock had an Aerodactyl - yeah, that was fun).

The good news is that you can snag Emolga on Route 5 and you get the Volt Switch TM from the leader.

TL;DR

Stealth Rock, Torment, and Embargo. Control the opponent's switches and items. Also, if an Emolga starts stacking Double Team, let it Volt Switch out and lose its benefits.

Re: FUCKING EMOLGAS

Jermaine — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:52:47 -0000

I literally typed in "FUCK EMOLGA" to find a blog like this. Defeating that gym leader was really not about the game at all but trying to prevent myself from getting a hernia. I think it'd wouldn't be so irritating if the pokemon didn't look like such a hyper active little shit.

Plus I forgot that rock is not immune to electric attacks and nearly shat my pants when my Geodude knockoff was taken out by one volt charge.

Re: Portal 2 – First Impressions

Donncha — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:41:27 -0000

I bought the PS3 version, to get the Steam version but PSN went down before Amazon delivered it so I only played it for about an hour. Got PSN and Steam synced last night, downloaded the 10GBs of data and spent a happy few hours at the game using a mouse and keyboard :)

TF2 some time? I'm a total noob at it but have enjoyed the couple of games I've played so far!

Re: Racing Log

TheChrisD — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:58:29 -0000

Oooh, that sounds pretty juicy! Right now I'm between Hungary and Spa, and currently have Lotus wanting to re-sign me (but as Driver #1 though, which is a fair kicker I must say), HRT have put out an offer, and even BMW Sauber have offered a ride, but only as Driver 2.

Force India, Toro Rosso and Virgin are all still listed as interested right now. Will have to see what happens between now and Abu Dhabi!

Re: Racing Log

George — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:42:25 -0000

A wee tip, don't sign for any new team or turn down any offers until just before the last race of the season. This is how I managed to jump from Virgin racing to McLaren in the first season, Would have preferred Red Bull but they seem reluctant to offer me a contract even with back to back championships in the bag :-/

Re: FUCKING EMOLGAS

Nick — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:05:10 -0000

Haha, I searched emolga in the hope i'd find a post exactly like this, I hate this fucking Pokémon so much. At the 4th gym i figured 'Electricity, no problem i'll teach everyone dig, what with the new infinite TM system' only to find out this bastard can fly as well -_-
Although it probably sounds horrible, I was glad to see someone else feeling the same pain as me so that it wasn't due to me failing some way.

Re: Busy…

TheChrisD — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:53:16 -0000

Oh yea, it can be very cut-throat over there just trying to get noticed. And yet all it really takes to open the floodgates is even a passing mention from someone popular. Or at least that's how it seems.

Re: Busy…

Butterscotch — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:51:45 -0000

Gee it is such a competitive world isn't it. :p I should check out your youtube channel.

Re: RARLTNGRSVT – Justin.tv Ads

justin tv sports — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:52:18 -0000

yest, those ads are annoying on slower computers like my dad have

Re: Will Civ V be the same post-patch?

Alan Brierton — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:12:00 -0000

Might finally get back to playing the game if it's patched correctly

Re: Are YouTube removing the video upload limits…?

Jon (homestar92 on Youtube) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:29:53 -0000

I got the feature too. If you can edit posts, here is a video I posted over 20 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Re: Just a small request…

Jack Jones — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:46:19 -0000

This would make it a perfect world :)

Re: Just a small request…

Seán — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:25:25 -0000

Kat beat me to it.

If there's no program out there that does exactly what you want, make your own one.

Re: Just a small request…

Tal Tallon — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:39:00 -0000

Why don't you learn some code and build your own programme

Re: Just a small request…

kat — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:01:22 -0000

write your own! :D

Re: Random Game Crashes

Chris Daly — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:24:00 -0000

I would be very surprised if they are. Had no issues with the vast majority of other games, the only ones with issues have been Source engine games, Fallout 3 (but then again everyone has issues with that) and Civ V (again, everyone has those issues).Also, it's not like I'm running anything legacy or old-school, when I bought the components they were relatively mid-to-high market.Then again it may also be a 64-bit thing.

Re: Random Game Crashes

Chris Daly — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:19:00 -0000

Well, this TF2 error has been persistent since even before I got my new monitor and started running a dual-screen setup.

Re: Random Game Crashes

Stuart Mc Hale — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:00:00 -0000

Yeah I get what you mean, I just thought it might have been something worth looking into really.But I've never really heard of Source games having problems running in 64 bit mode... Could just be due to my not knowing enough people who run 64 bit :P

Re: Random Game Crashes

Stuart Mc Hale — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:00:00 -0000

Are you sure the components of your rig aren't the reason for the error though?