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With the release of ventrilo 3.0 yesterday, many people find themselves stuck in a virtual corner for whatever reason and ultimately unhappy with the new release. When it comes to the ventrilo 2.0 servers, you may just be out of luck unless someone hasn’t updated their ventrilo server yet.

If you’re anything like me, in a dorm situation using the Cisco URT Client, the new release of ventrilo is dead in the water and will not connect to any servers. Don’t have a solution. Sorry. But If you want to do something about it, make it known that you’re having this problem over at the Ventrilo Forums at THIS POST.

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Only 4 days ago I won an Ipod from a stacker in a local arcade, I managed to win Stacker yet again. Making that 3 major prize wins this year. Two of these wins in the same week.

A couple of days after the Ipod win, they throw in an Xbox 360. That had to stir up alot of intrest in that machine because only 2 days after that, I won it. Didn’t take long to hit that quota. If you’re wondering what I’m going to do with this 360, it’s probably going to get sold and added to my Wii purchase fund.

Win Chart:
1. Xbox 360 - March 15, 2007 - $4
2. Ipod 30GB Video - July 26, 2007 - $7 *NEW*
3. Xbox 360 - July 30, 2007 - $4 *NEW*

So with that said, I also have another tip regarding the quota in stacker. If you’ve read the first set of Stacker Tips, this will make a little more sense: Stacker is designed to only allow a person to win after so many people have played it and in this sense, it is rigged to a point. By requiring so many people to play the game until a certain number of plays has been accumulated the arcade makes money and *hopefully* you will be able to recognize when it is ready to give you a prize or not. That’s all covered in my previous article, but here is the new tip. Read the rest of this entry »

Background
Not so long ago, a friend an I visited the mall in Douglasville, GA to pick up a tux for his wedding. Right across the way was an arcade with a new game I had never played before called stacker. It took several minutes to figure out how the game worked and at $2 per play I was in no rush to send in my wallet in to the stacker shredder, that was until I watched some other play and give me the general idea. It’s very simple, stack the boxes to the top, and win a prize.

So after watching two others toss nearly $20 in plays into the machine, I decided to try my hand at it. First time, I managed to get to the minor prize and then accidentally hit the accept minor prize button. Well I wasn’t going to settle with that… So I tried again, got to the top, and won myself an XBOX 360 (Two $2 tries). Not a bad return.

So, I moved to Montgomery, AL and visited the mall yesterday and won a 30 GB Ipod Video after seven $1 tries (over 3 days). It was then that I realized that there are some Stacker tips you should notice next time you run into an arcade and are about to spend your entire allowance on a Stacker. I can’t guaruntee that it will get you that prize, but it will certainly help if you want to learn how to win the Stacker Arcade Game. Read the rest of this entry »

I started watching this Auction some time ago when it first was put up on ebay. Seeing it as an interesting auction, I posted it up on ebay,but unfortunately it received a ‘few’ immature bidders and at one point hit up to $241k before the auction was completely taken down to start anew.

I didn’t take long for the seller to put it back up on the ebay marketplace, the seller took it down and decided to put it back up without the digg publicity. Even though the large amount of fanfare still followed the auction (When the auction finished up, there were still 17k pageviews on the auction.) And we finally know how much the ‘entire’ NES collection is worth on the auction house: $6202

Cheers.

Alright, so I tried to login to steam a few days ago so I wanted to go ahead and post my fix to the problem because I went through hell (primarily overlooking the answer) to find the simple fix for something so arbitrary. This should help you with your average Steam connection problem.

Steam - Error
Could not connect to Steam network.
This could be due to a problem with your internet connection, or with the Steam network. Please visit www.steampowered.com for more info.

If you get this error and it seems like your the only one with the error (IE. Everyone you know except you can login), then you can do two things.

First, Check your firewall settings, 90% of the time the reason steam cannot connect is because there are firewall issues that prevent steam from connecting. So be sure to check any services that could be interfering or denying your service alltogether.

The second (and this was what fixed my connection problem), is to disable the DMZ (Demilitarized zone) on your router. I know, first thought was, “Wouldn’t that actually fix the problem?” Nope, in fact, that’s what randomly (and I do mean randomly) created the problem. I do not know why, but that was what fixed my problem. If you need help, feel free to drop an email over at matt@blur101.com. I’ll respond within the day.