Davis

I know you hate these kind of threads, but it's time for some honage to the Viking himself.

An AIM away message and quick check of your profile here shows that his birthday is in fact today.

Thanks for the scoldings, Linux help, and sexual abuse. May your birthday be a great one!

Edit: Haha, silly Pacific based forums! I posted this hours before the little bar at the bottom did...

I know a lot of people here use FireFox (hell, the NIC is what convinced me to use firefox) and I found this awesome tweak.

I bet the guys using it for a while have probably already seen this, but I found it amazing how much faster my browser now works.

If you guys use Firefox or mozilla for your internet browser then you can tweak it to go faster by following the directions.

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit
return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web
page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will
make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number
like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to
"0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before
it acts on information it recieves.
Now shut down your browser.. reopen.. You shouldnt notice much of a diffrence right awey.. But get browsing some of your usual sites and you should notice alot of a faster connection to the site! For me it speeded me up about 5x faster then normal for connectiing to sites.....

Now if you don't have Mozilla Firefox, you should get it. Its a great way to brows the web! It stops pop ups, has many functions, and downloads twice the speed anything would usually download! ITS GREAT, PLUS with this tweak websites can load much faster and files will download EVEN FASTER!!!

www.getfirefox.com

Enjoy!

DaViS

I was bored, so I wanted a writing challenge. I took a short story that I had written in about 5 minutes as a sort of resume to get introduced to the Fan Fiction community for Blizzard games (Starcraft, Warcraft, etc).

I took the file and edited the story to fit Nerf. It was actually quite fun. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that it sounds rediculous, but maybe you'll think otherwise.

Keep in mind, this was originally written about WarCraft, a game about Orcs and crap, so it sounds awkward. I might be able to find the original, despite have saving over it, if anyone needs it.

         Darkness. The pounding of water upon plastic and flesh. And that fatal darkness.
     
     The men lowered their eyes from the heavens which had opened upon them. Their eyes
drifted down to their crude plastic weaponry they held defiantly, giving them a reason in this 
world. Now every set of eyes of the thousands of men rose in unison to their foes across the bubbling stream.
     
     Noone knows which side made it occur, but both factions suddenly were rushing across
the flowing stream, the water bouncing against their ankles. One man stood out, or rather didn't
stand out, against this huge group. Neither tall nor strong, this man swaggered with defiance,
holding his shiny, almost heavenly-appearing Nitefinder in his hands.
     
     The experienced veterans of the other team froze for a moment as they saw the fire in the man's eyes,
quickly returned to their scowling, raised their guns triumphantly, and laughed at the sight. The
man ignored all of this, even as his comrades slowed down, seeing the surprised expression that
would eternally stay on the man he shot first.
     
     He went on a bloody rampage, shooting and reloading instrinctively at all he saw as he ran straight
through the men. Before he knew it, his darts were shooting into the distance, and he turned around to find he
had passed all of them. His gap in the group quickly filled in, and soon all of the glances of the
small army was upon him. He beamed a crazy little smile, delighted with his heroism, but
oblivious to his foolishness.
     
     All of a sudden there was a burning at his leg, and he grabbed it and winced, glancing upon the dart near his feet, the weight of 3 BBs, and a huge glob of glue that was his demise. He gulped, seeing the Stefan a second before it nailed him right between the eyes.
     
     And then there was darkness. That fatal darkness.

Oh my god. Oh my god.
I'm drooling. Want to know why? Because after seeing the water gun conversion thread, I remembered I had this:

An automatic, no pumping, battery-powered water gun. If I was to convert this into a Nerf gun, imagine the possibilities!

Since I don't do much Nerf related any more, anyone have any ideas how to go about doing this?

DaViS

So, Lefty's Uzi got me interested in recasing my AT2k.
The problem:
Getting the trigger to release air flow to the gun.
The case:

The original trigger didn't slide, instead up and down on a joint.
So this idea occured to me:

PLUS

EQUALS

?

Might work. It just occured to me that ribbon attached to the air release (what I was messing with the pump before casing) attached to the old trigger can do it. If that works, I might go with that. If not, this is my current idea. Think it'll work?

DaViS