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Soft Cock Software

Soft Rock Softmars

Uh... sounds like this guy is doing this deliberately. Nobody can make these sorts of mistakes unless they meant to, or were extremely incompetent. "Soft Cock" sounds very provocative to me.

Posted by Jason Togneri (filecore) in The Playpen
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Free iyonix welcome guide

Pick up from winchester or pay the postage, it's going in the recycling next weekend otherwise. Email only to johnduffell@yahoo.co.uk and postage will be a fiver by paypal.

I also have a copy of photodesk on CD with no manuals, offers?

Thanks, John

Posted by John Duffell (john) in General
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What are the legal implications...

Vincey, you need to start being a bit more bloody minded. Take the time to check over what people give you, and don't worry about holding them up.

Yes.

I also need to tell this particular scumbag to stick his accounts - and most especially his VAT problems - up his arse.

As we know, he owes me money - but in detail, half of it is overdue (on three invoices), and the other half is not quite due (on one invoice). The unsigned cheque was for the first two of the three overdue invoices.

I received a cheque last week for half the balance - logically, that would be the three overdue invoices, replacing the unsigned cheque and adding the third invoice. However, this company is more likely to sign the cheque and issue another for the balance - so I queried it.

They claimed I had been paid in full, which clearly isn't the case. I was having an argument with the scumbag there by phone on Thursday, during which it was said that other cheques had been sent - before the one I'd received (why did they not say that sooner?). So, the question is where had they gone?

One was the unsigned one, now signed and returned, and the other was for the third invoice. The cheque I'd received was for the fourth invoice - the one amounting to half the balance.

It's slightly concerning that two cheques might have gone astray, so I asked (twice) if they were definitely sent separately, and was told they were. He said he'd cancel them, and hand delivery a replacement Friday. In amongst this, he also suggested that perhaps someone in my house was tearing up my post (!)

He never showed up Friday with a replacement.

This morning, the two missing cheques turned up - in a single envelope. I know they're the missing ones, and not replacements, because one of them is the unsigned cheque. Also, the envelope is postmarked 10th July (a week before the argument on the phone).

I can see why they took so long to arrive, given that the envelope is addressed to "Soft Cock Software" - I should imagine the post office had to consider whether to let it through the system.

But in addition to that, the 'new' cheque is made payable to Soft Rock Softmars.

Obviously, I can't bank these - they're supposed to be cancelled now, and the misnamed one will probably have bounced anyway.

[Edited by VincceH at 13:03, 19/7/2008]

[Edited by VincceH at 13:05, 19/7/2008]

Posted by VinceH (VincceH) in The Playpen
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The random lyrics thread... [now with pics and... stuff]

Must have been walking,
don't know this place.
Somebody stopped talking,
is it written in my face?

Thought I'd never leave you,
thought I'd never dare.
But I watched you going under,
it's a thought I could not bare.

Posted by Adrian Lees (adrianl) in The Playpen
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The random lyrics thread... [now with pics and... stuff]

We were driving,
To the city,
With a thousand stars and a thousand places to see,

We were passing,
Miles of desert,
With a train so long and the rocks as far as you see,

I'll take the window down so I can breathe,
I'll take the window down so I can breathe,

It don't matter,
When we get there,
The fun just started at the side of the road.

It don'e tamatter
When we get there,
The fun just started at the side of the road.

Can you believe that the lyrics to this song are (almost) not referenced at all on the internet?

Posted by Jeffrey Lee (Phlamethrower) in The Playpen
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This is not the man on fire you are looking for

* The Running Man - Arnie? Really? It was fun at the time, but I think it'd look a bit dated.

I'm trying to remember whether I have seen this film already or not. But I don't think I have, and thus it remains on the list.

I have now watched this, and conclude that it is good.

Posted by Jeffrey Lee (Phlamethrower) in The Playpen
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GeForce 6200 on Iyonix

Forget about the 6200; you can now get a GeForce 8600 in PCI form.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080711PR206.html

Unless those images are artistic, then those cards use 5V signalling, which the Iyonix (and PCI 2.2) doesn't support. That said, I'd be astounded if anyone was producing non-universal PCI cards these days.

Posted by JMB (jmb) in General
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GeForce 6200 on Iyonix

It'd be nice to have Geminus getting the most out of the existing card.

Posted by Andrew (andrew) in General
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TIB's NintendoDS Community Meeting Place Thing Doodah

http://kotaku.com/5025403/gta-coming-to-the-ds-with-china-town-wars

Woo!

Although predictably http://www.rockstargames.com/chinatownwars isn't working yet, so there's no way of knowing if this is top-down, 3D, or something completely different.

[edit]

Aah, they've got a simple splash screen now. So no new information. BUT: A Nintendo Wi-Fi logo. Woo!

[Edited by Phlamethrower at 19:31, 15/7/2008]

Posted by Jeffrey Lee (Phlamethrower) in Games
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GeForce 6200 on Iyonix

Forget about the 6200; you can now get a GeForce 8600 in PCI form.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080711PR206.html

Posted by Jeffrey Lee (Phlamethrower) in General
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