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Call of Duty MW2 by Infinity Ward studio gave some of us very delightful experiences on PC FPS shooter and Co-op games. (Along with Call of duty 5 World At War).  It motivated many of us to upgrade graphic accelerators as well as CPU or anything that lacked of. However, its multiplayer experience has been so disappointing even though game play itself is still fun.  Infinity Ward's first and the biggest mistake, I believe, is creating a peer-to-peer multiplaying mode (without a dedicated server).  I'm sure this has some advantages, but I would rather go back to older disadvantages than having troubles we encounter. 1) Most annoying thing is player matching.  When we search for a game to play, it groups players together and place in a lobby.  This lobby gets lost so often, which means we get kicked out or get disconnected, or get errors even before the game starts. 2) Since it's peer-to-peer, individual players can hack their own computer.  I'v...

I've never tried paid NT/IIS hosting before.. only some free ASP hosting stuff.  This time, I had to refer a IIS/Window based hosting with MS SQL.  Yeah, I hate to refer anyone any hosting service because I do not use them, and I know no one will be 100% satisfied.  I used godaddy hosting service that comes free with a purchase of domain name and worked with yahoo hosting for my clients. (I'll mention those two later) Aplus.net was being used by one of my old customers, and I had an impression that they supplied quite good control panel, and I ended up referring this service to someone I knew.  I'll simply put my verdict. 1) control panel: B- Some features do not work properly and display errors.  I didn't bother with them because I didn't need them.  It's not easy to use, either.  I had to spend some time and wondering within their menu to enable ASP, IIS, .NET, and SQL.  My client could not do anything at all. 2) Speed : D It was so slow...

For last 10 years, I've been living with 2 speaker systems (or + subwooper) while I've always had 5.1 receiver.  Now that I have overwhelming number of speakers to the receiver, I'm still able to use 2 + subwooper due to my computer and receiver connection limitations. I planned to upgrade the receiver to latest 7.2 channel with HDMI, but until I sell off some stuff and gather enough money, I guess I'm still stuck with stereo setting... -_-;; I'll be posting reviews on the speakers and hopefully a new receiver soon.