The Northern Resistance

Hot air pencil reviews

Wesley Crusher — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:41:21 GMT

Hi Gents,

Anyone do SMT soldering? Was wondering if anyone has experience with this particular unit: http://www.smtmax.com/detail.php?id=...FQtN5wod2T5cGw

Looking at getting one for myself. Ever since my brother's old workplace shutdown operations I no longer have access to a hot air pencil.

Thanks

Steam News - Tropico 3 & Absolute Power Updates Released

TNR-RSS Poster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:10:27 GMT

Updates to Tropico 3 & Absolute Power have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Tropico 3:

Fixed stuck pause mode related to road construction shortcut
Roads can no longer be placed when disabled in a mission or challenge event
Made resolution and refresh rate detection more reliable
Fixed pollution of logging camp for first work mode
Almanac backlog increased to 100 years
Resolved issues with uploading islands
Fixed an issue with the flatulence flaw
Fixed several challenge events not working properlyFixed several localized text errors

Absolute Power:

Fixed stuck pause mode related to road construction shortcut
Roads can no longer be placed when disabled in a mission or challenge event
Made resolution and refresh rate detection more reliable
Resolved UI displaying during outro cutscenes
Building icons no longer appear over privatized buildings
Fixed nationalist minor demand for immigration
Fixed outlawing faction edict with save/load game
Fixed an issue with the flatulence flaw
Fixed several challenge events not working properlyFixed several localized text errors

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Steam News - Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Updated

TNR-RSS Poster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:24:07 GMT

An update for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Voice chat volume slider (frontend and in-game), which was previously unmutable.
Voice chat microphone enable/disable option (frontend and in-game). *Note: disabled by default!* This was done so that people without microphones but wrong (default) Steam settings don't send out feedback noise from their machines. People who actually have a microphone will have to re-enable this after the upgrade.
Fixes in sound to hopefully prevent crashes on startup regarding OpenALFixes in lobby behavior to prevent players from crashing

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Steam News - Puzzle Dimension Mac Updated

TNR-RSS Poster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:22:00 GMT

An update for Puzzle Dimension Mac has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Work around for incorrect application startup parameters.Fixed input related problems when having multiple keyboards attached.

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Mark O'Neill's SUNSHINE GIRL

TNR-RSS Poster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:24:39 GMT

SUNshine Girl Mai Lynn, 23, wants to be a successful event planner. The 5-foot brown-eyed Leo likes Britney Spears and Rihanna and the Twilight series. When she’s not listening to vamps and checking out vampires, Mai Lynn enjoys a rousing game of volleyball or softball. (Mark O'Neill photo)

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Steam News - Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Sou

TNR-RSS Poster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:00:38 GMT

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2)

Disabled signature checking to determine if it's the source of some reported launch issues

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[SELLING] 3rd Gen iPod Touch, 32GB

Rolo — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:49:09 GMT

Selling my iPod Touch. 3rd gen, 32GB.

Perfect working condition. A few slight scratches on the back. You can take it jailbroken, or wiped and upgraded to the latest version of iOS (4.1).

Comes with everything in the box, and I'll throw in a black leather case. Apple's description.

Asking $230. Thanks.

Steam News - Counter-Strike: Source Update Released

TNR-RSS Poster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:00:27 GMT

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Counter-Strike: Source

Fixed a crash that could occur if a player disconnected shortly after attacking a bot

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Steam News - Steam Cloud Support Added To Puzzle Quest 2

TNR-RSS Poster — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:50:51 GMT

Being fans of all things Puzzle Quest, we've just turned on support for Steam Cloud to it and its cousins. This means you'll be able to continue your quest from any machine when launching the Steam version of the following games:

Puzzle Quest 2
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
Puzzle Kingdoms
Puzzle Chronicles

And don't forget that Puzzle Quest 2 is currently 33% off on Steam! If you already own the game, feel free to purchase multiple copies for your friends.

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Steam News - Steam Cloud Support Added To Puzzle Quest 2

TNR-RSS Poster — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:50:29 GMT

Being fans of all things Puzzle Quest, we've just turned on support for Steam Cloud to it and it's cousins. This means you'll be able to continue your quest from any machine when launching the Steam version of the following games:

Puzzle Quest 2
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
Puzzle Kingdoms
Puzzle Chronicles

And don't forget that Puzzle Quest 2 is currently 33% off on Steam! If you already own the game, feel free to purchase multiple copies for your friends.

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Steam News - Stargate Resistance Update Released

TNR-RSS Poster — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:30:03 GMT

Patch notes 1.1.14.7

Newness:
All maps have had their spawn doors tweaked for better performance.Improved quick join functionality after a match has ended.

Characters:
Jumping now requires 30% of your maximum stamina and will only occur if you have enough stamina to perform a jump.

Earth:
The event horizon's aura will now trigger claymores to explode the moment they are armed. Be warned commandos, this might hurt a bit.Interactables are now worth 2 points on Team Death Match and are worth 1 point during Conquest.

Galactic Domination:
We are excited to announce new and improved Galactic Domination bonuses!
The winning faction will now get a boost to their experience earned up to 30%.
Losing on Amarna grants your faction a damage boost up to 30%.
Losing on Earth grants your faction a defense boost up to 30%.
Losing on Piramess grants your faction a energy regen boost up to 30%.Losing on Leonops grants your faction a health boost up to 30%.

Leonops:
The ring transporters have been tweaked and can now fit as many people as you can fit inside of them. Go ahead, we dare you.

Weapons:
Splash damage radii have all been increased.
Splash damage will now deal damage to players even when airborneThe collision on the scientist beacons have been adjusted to be the same radii as the turrets they spawn.

Bug Fixes:
Spawn doors will no longer stay closed for players at match start who are trying to rush them.
Users clicking any of the logout options are now properly removed from the sever count once they logout.
Winning KotH as the System Lords will now display in the proper text colors.The Jaffa standard and Anubis armor have had LOD changes to correct a texture issue.

Amarna:
A librarian has been dispatched to hush those loud noises on Amarna-Temple.
The windows near the spawn rooms have been re-aligned.
The invisible ledges in the center room pillars should no longer exist.
Improved movement flow in a few of the locations players might get stuck or hover in.The particle effects for KotH on Amarna should now all match and be only the divided ring and superman symbol in the sky.

Console Commands:
The console command "toggleui" has been disabled. (This has also disabled the f10 hotkey)
Players can no longer utilize the "serverlistchange" command.
The "StartAltFire" command had been disabled to prevent negative effects.Some bad log messages have been removed from the console.

Earth:
The white board's gravity flux capacitor has been fixed! The panels will no longer rave about in the meeting room.

Leonops:
The forcefields should allow for multiple users to pass through simultaneously now.
Turrets should no longer be able to shoot into the spawn rooms and will most likely explode if they get too close to the forcefields.Loud noises coming from the water on Leonops have also been warned to keep it down!

Piramess:
The spawn door nearest the flags has been raised to prevent Jaffa and their big heads from getting stuck.
Blocking volumes have been added to prevent players from getting to locations not zoned for gameplay.
Jumping into the pit on Piramess will incur death no matter who, what, when, where or why.Lighting on whiteout has been adjusted to prevent blinding players near light sources.

Weapons:
Failing to place a beacon will no longer trigger a cooldown.
Rapidly firing weapons after a reload will no longer put you back into a reload state.
Killing a turret will now award 1/2 the normal kill value in team and personal score.Turrets and beacons will now die from entering kill volumes depending on who the owner of the turret is.

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Steam News - Gratuitous Space Battles Update Released

TNR-RSS Poster — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:24:06 GMT

An update for Gratuitous Space Battles has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Version 1.47

Usability: The battle sounds now work much better in cases where they overload from playing too many identical sounds at once.
Usability: Added a new tutorial hint to point out the range overlay in the battle screen.
Bug Fix: The supply limits window on the choose battle screen now sizes to show all limits correctly.
Bug Fix: When creating a custom challenge, the 'challenge' button is not correctly disabled until some ships have been deployed.
Bug Fix: Improved code to prevent 'stacking' of ships on the deployment screen (works more reliably now).
Usability: New feature, there are now short strips under each icon on the deployment screen to show the name of the ship to aid selection.
Mod Support: Added new 'num_submunitions' (limit 6) and 'flaresize' (default 16) to missile data for modders.
Mod Support: Found the bug that prevented modded ships from being larger than 256. No known limit now.
Usability: The game now checks that any challenge you are about to fight has not been removed from the database, so you are prevented from running corrupt and deleted challenges.
Usability: The buttons that filter ships by size on the deployment screen now remember their settings.
Bug Fix: Limpet launchers now record shots fired and hit like other weapons.Bug Fix: Usernames that are too long to display now get sensibly cropped in challenge list.

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R.I.P. Glenn Shadix

Sweetlou — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:27:38 GMT

he was Otho in Beetlejuice =(
Actor Glenn Shadix dies at 58

Steam News - Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Sou

TNR-RSS Poster — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:22:01 GMT

Disabled clients loading server plug-ins unless the plug-ins are signed by Steam or the client is running in insecure mode.Added a checkbox to the Options->Audio dialog to control muting the audio when the game window is in the background.

Counter-Strike: Source

Fixed crash in custom maps using the trigger_camera entity.

Team Fortress 2

Fixed another bug in the Steamworks internal stats reporting.Updated the localization files.

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Steam News - New Release - Sniper: Ghost Warrior - Map Pack

TNR-RSS Poster — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:30:27 GMT

Sniper: Ghost Warrior - Map Pack further expands multiplayer experience with 5 new maps. Battle to control ruined oil-rigs or lie in wait to capture one of mystic stone towers. This Map Pack brings new sniping spots and chance to eliminate enemies from even longer distance. Sniper: Ghost Warrior Map Pack includes new maps for deathmatch, team deathmatch and VIP modes featuring a variety of new locations!

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