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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Netham45 on May 17, 2007, 02:35:00 am

Title: The product of my boredom
Post by: Netham45 on May 17, 2007, 02:35:00 am

Ok, I got bored a couple of days ago, and I had a copy of Half-Life, a computer, and a USB drive.

Did anyone know you can run Half-Life off of a USB stick??? Now all I need is a no-cd patch. :)

Of course, I have to use a program called Ceedo ( http://www.ceedo.com ) to emulate a portable registry on the drive to run it, but hey, as long as it runs Im happy. :)

Title: The product of my boredom
Post by: graywolf on May 17, 2007, 02:41:00 am

I didn't know Half-Life could do that, but I already used it for Halo (trial on my USB) and complete with simply inserting CD.

It's very useful for me because my parents won't let me install games :( .

Title: The product of my boredom
Post by: Spellshaper on May 17, 2007, 05:05:00 am

nice finding that out ^^
Uhm... don't the loading times increase drastically when playing from a USB stick?

@graywolf: With me it's the other way around: I won't let my mum install anything. ^^
You could get something like Truecrypt and create a virtual encrypted partition, password protected.

Title: The product of my boredom
Post by: Halifax on May 17, 2007, 08:43:00 am

Yeah that's right Spellshaper I do the same thing because my mom is so computer inept that she would probaly see 'Download Trojan Virus Now" and she would click Install haha. I was actually being serious.

Title: The product of my boredom
Post by: spengo on May 17, 2007, 12:30:00 pm

There was a /. article on that subject...

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/15/2216235
XD

Title: The product of my boredom
Post by: Spellshaper on May 17, 2007, 11:41:00 pm

Oh my... I guess there are really people that click on anything that looks clickable and has an exclamation mark tacked to it.

Title: The product of my boredom
Post by: Netham45 on May 22, 2007, 02:07:00 am

I clicked on it... :(

now my computer does the macarena whenever I turn it on... It's side panels morph into arms. Guess I had a compatable mobo for this... XD


*Netham45