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I have Steam and I have my games legit but I still have to use cracked copies....why? Because Steam doesn't work in offline mode!!! I run steam when offline and it says its "updating" which is basically what it says when it can't contact any steam servers. 3 minutes later it asks if you want to start in offline or retry connection. When you click offline it either says "This option is not avaliable in offline mode" and quits or says "Unable to contact the steam servers" and quits. I acquired the cracked copies at LANs and require them at LANs because there is no other way to play. It also annoys me that when I want to play I have to download the updates. Like the latest CS:S update adds the map Militia and makes it so hostages can open doors. Well I like the hostage part but I don't really want the miltia map and hostages should be taken care of serverside so where is my option "Skip update, I don't want a 30mb map" Welcome to the world of DRM. Oh, and for people that say steam helps stop piracy. When HL2 was first released all the pirates were playing it while the legit users were stuck at "Content servers too busy, unable to decrypt game cache" for several days.

meh, who cares, nobody needs to encode in DivX

All you losers with your IE shells, STAY AWAY from IE, dont goto opera, its worse than IE, goto firefox the best browser. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Find out why at: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why/

Is Avast free? Can someone list the free av's?

Its a pain finding the file you want, yet finding 2 xdcc's with the exact same file? get outta here...

Thats covered on this page: http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/xpgames.htm I don't see why you need checkers lol

Have you published that script? How does it work? Does it require fserves or does it require xdcc's? Does it support both?

I'm with this guy, but if I have to choose, i'd say AVG

Only one word for this, idiocy, pure idiocy

Peer to Peer is when you have data coming from more than one source, if all the data is coming from the same source (a la IRC) it is not true Peer to Peer.

Here is a guide on setting up your server as a DHCP server. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DHCP/index.html

DivX 5.1.1 Pro isn't good, get the free version, its down the bottom of the page. The pro version comes with a pos player and some malware.

Hey guys and gals, heres a guide to using Windows 2003 Server as a Workstation operating system. http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/index.htm Hope that this helps you out in some way

Opera is too slow, even IE is faster. IE sucks beacuse it's one of the slower browsers and has lots of security flaws. Firefox is the way of the future, everyone should be using it and if you aren't then head over to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ the newest version has a 3% speed up over the older ones. Firefox can autocomplete and launch.com displays fine for me in Firefox.

BitTorrent IRC (not really peer to peer, but hey it does the job) Bearshare Direct Connect