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[Feedback Req] Game images and text.

zeonos — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:12:42 GMT

I was thinking about setting up a site with a collection of game images and text for most games.

The main idea is to have a large collection, with all the games coming out, and already out. to use within smartlaunch.
It would include difference sizes of images to display on the game page, and on websites. It would also include descriptions and links to websites, and maybe even a collection of screenshots.
If it gets large enough, we might be able to get smartlaunch to integrated it with the suggested layout, which by the way is not working right now :)

The main idea would be to have users be able to submit content, in different languages. And maybe find one or two guys there would do most of them English.

I think this could safe a lot of work down the road, and i would be happy to help other café owners around the world.

ATTENTION ALL CONSOLE LAN CENTERS!

Electronic Gaming Lounge — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:33:59 GMT

Hope you have less than 3 consoles otherwise...

Sony to limit licenses for games to 2; allowing remote online deactivation.
[url=http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/11/04/upcoming-change-to-playstation-3-and-psp-game-content-on-playstation-network/]http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/11/04/upcoming-change-to-playstation-3-and-psp-game-content-on-playstation-network/[/url]

high resolution artwork for large posters

foaad — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:57:28 GMT

hey guys
we've managed to get everything up and running but the single largest source of headache for us is getting high res artwork to print on our plain walls :)
we signed up with valve cafe but they stood us up saying they no longer provide high res digital artwork and are only sending us physical printed posters..
we cannot join igames as our country is not listed
and the only company that provided artwork is HoN which they actually have a very good fan kit with lots of images
we are pleading to the smartlaunch community to help us obtain very high resolution images to enhance the look and feel of our venue

Is this a dead forum?

Mty — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:17:07 GMT

Just realized ive been reading posts from 2009, how active is this forum? :blink:

CyberCriter going out of business

cybercriter — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:47:48 GMT

Next Wednesday we will be closing our doors at midnight... for good.
We would like to offer to the Smartlaunch community our 20 Smartlaunch licenses as well as various licenses for the following games:
Qty - Game Name
3 - Command & Conquer 3
3 - Battlefield 2 / Special forces
1 - Command & Conquer Generals / Zero Hour
2 - Crysis
1 - F.E.A.R.
9 - Warcraft III / Frozen Throne
3 - Starcraft / Broadwars

If interested in purchasing these, please send me a PM or an email to liquidation[at]cybercriter.com

Selling 15 Licenses

Treasure I-LAN — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:55:25 GMT

We recently closed down our shop (I got a reeeeal good job offer) and I now have 15 SL licenses available. If you bought them direct they'd cost you $593, we're looking for $400 (or best offer). Just email smartlaunch@treasurei-lan.com and we can agree on a price. You'll get the entire login as we have no use for them, and then you can use that or merge it with your current licenses. Paypal will be the accepted method of payment. Any questions just email. Thanks!

Call of Duty Black Ops $45 Pre Order

HeX — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:21:04 GMT

Hey guys,

Black Ops it's just 45 bucks preorder in Direct2Drive using the promo code "bigsavings". It last until monday 10AM.

I'm from Chile and I can't buy it because it needs a call me to verify the purchase. My country is listed but ends up giving me an error and telling me to contact support wich is down aaparently.

Good thing is that you will get a cd key on tuesday when the game is released and you can add it to Steam without problems and forget about Direct2Drive.

Guys if you like this tip and can do me a favour I need to buy three copies, of course, I can pay you before you purchase it through PayPal. Well, you don't loose anything asking :)

GL, everyone!

Caffeene Cafe Listings

Caffeene — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:13:03 GMT

Hey all, just want to tell you about Caffeene.com. Check out my sig for the details.

rates in your country

amigo — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:12:36 GMT

I was wondering how much are your customers paying for an hour of internet or online games.

In the Philippines:

mall internet cafes = 35 to 50 Pesos (47pesos = 1USD) an hour

residential areas = 15 to 20 pesos an hour

Please post your rates too.

Kids

Qwiegybow — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 04:10:26 GMT

I have no idea why but our cafe has a lot of kid clients. Id say over half our customers are kids. Which i see as 13 and under. And its really starting to drive me nuts and aggrevating the hell out of me. Some not knowing how to play some not knowing what to do. I show them and tell them the best I can but they just get annoying cause they change games every 5 min after i just described how to play a game. So i m just waisting my breath. Does anybody else get this many kids in your cafe? Or am i the only one. My lease for my building has a little less than 2 years left and when its up at this point i will not continue my cafe. I find dealing with the majority of customers as kids, simply pointless.

I have seen and visited other cafes around my area and I dont see any kids in their place. I want to know if its just me or does everybody have this? Please let me know.

Marketing to boost customers

XCape — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:26:27 GMT

Hi All

Just wondering, what kind of marketing avenues have you tired that can really boost customers and sales.

I have tried letterbox drops, newspaper advertising but they are not very effective and cost quite a bit. My shop is near a major University and schools.

What have you found to be the best marketing you have done?

Cheers

XCape

FREELANCE PROGRAMMER WANTED! Money up for grasp

Nethouse2000.gl — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:48:10 GMT

I currently use AutoIT3 (beta ofcourse) to fix SL and a ton of other shortcomings in my cyber café.

I am getting tired of this, and therefore I want to hire a programmer that can solve ALL of these problems for me:

License management for ALL my games
Automated game install
Automated game patching (1 download=all stations patched)
Possibly implementing Fusion stats
Fix my GSS 2.5 setup. I keep getting "failed to virtual partition" and tried all sorts of things.
Create a module to install at client homecomputer to play online with smartlaunch account (if you don´t have steam licenses, they can use ours from home). Usage will deduct hours from client account (has to have hours to play)
integrate smartlaunch at our homepage (see who is gaming, account remaining hrs etc)
create a homepage with SL user stats from select games (fusion if that is the preferred)
improve costumer service (printer setup, use USB memory stick, without beeing able to download to it, we have insane download/traffic pricing up here)
create a system to sell memory sticks with latest Steam updates from our games, WOW or whatever we like to download and offer. Preferably in use with the client to use from home. Make a robocopy or whatever process to automatically update the memory stick content at select stations. Preferably on all machines. Only the sticks we sell that can be updated (or at least make it difficult to use own sticks for this) :-)
Caching feature for steam. Tired of downloading same maps over and over, when 1 map is downloaded = distributed to all other stations/users. Game updates as well
possible for users to use addons for WOW, and other games
easier hotspot setup
content filtering (block all streaming media for users)
Proxy/cache setup
POS and SL setup, see if able to complement each other better (we don´t use SL for POS, only LM and hrs)
Well I guess I could keep writing stuff, but I don´t now if I can afford more right now ;-)
Oh yeah, help implement SL5 with all of the above when it comes :-)

Of course everything has to be documented, and all the solutions above will be my property, with right to sell it or share it for free at my own will.

Interested? :-)

Ah, forgot. Also need to take care of my 3 online centos servers, and implement same stats system as in the café :-) With easy start/stop og games...

Internet usage

Nethouse2000.gl — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:12:56 GMT

...Does it cost you a month to have ADSL, DSL or whatever internet connection you have?

And what is the offered bandwith?

In Greenland we only have Tele Greenland as ISP, and we have 2 different connection types.

MPLS with own 5 IP address, 512kbit up/512kbit down, allowed download a month=1GB
Anything above 1GB download=0,82 danish krone pr MB. (40GB free upload).
The price for this? Well, around 3500dkr a month in subscription, and the traffic besides this.

The we have ADSL... best is Premium subscription. 4mbit down/700kbit up, 995dkr a month with 6GB free download.
Anything above 6GB download = 0,42 danish krone pr MB up/download.
Only hickup using this used to be that ADSL only was for personal use, think that is gone now but not sure.

And last but not least, what do I pay pr month for subscriptions and internet usage?

Well to be honest, we run Websense webfilter, with all download, video and audio blocked. So we don´t run a "normal" internet café compared to the rest of the world :-) But nevertheless, we did allow the kids to play BF2142, CSS, WOW and Left4Dead online, so our internet bill is around.....:

60.000,00Dkr

Yes you read correct, that is around 12,000USD a month, JUST for internet.

So if anybody is up for it, I´d like to hear what everybody else is paying/getting so I can make a nice little letter to our ISP and complain (as the rest of the country) yet again... :-)

Savage 2

Ultimatewolf — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:06:03 GMT

When i launch s2 it wont actually launch, another window pops up called K2 Exception, asking me if i would like to save crash report. i click no and they both close, i click yes and it says it saved crash report in my documents, and it still closes. any1 know whats wrong?

Go BOOOM!!!

Daniel [SL] — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:50:29 GMT

Gah... one of the computers at work just bought the ticket (mine that is)...The computer hangs when it loads the BIOS so i'm guessing it is the Motherboard that gone to the never ending silicone heaven...

So im going out to buy a new motherboard tomorrow so for a day or two one i'm missing from Development and support. This might be a good chance to install Vista 64 bit also, running with 3+ Visual Studios takes it toll.

Anyway... I'm glad it wasn't my Hard drive... sheees...

Editing login to admin

kaas17 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:56:10 GMT

Another Question...

Is there a way I can config the keys to logging in admin from client computers?

Some kids found out the keys to accessing the login windows..

for instance..

window key + esc activates the admin login window..

can I change the this to some other key?

Anyone who has similar experience, would you be able to share with me

ways to prevent this kinda problems??

ps change

kaas17 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:07:14 GMT

Just wondering if theres a way to change my admin password.

Does anyone know?

Need help with few things

whiteday5 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:52:37 GMT

Hi

I've just established an internet cafe and started using SL
This is the first time so I have just several questions.
Hope anyone who has experience can answer it! :D

- How can I make a report of how much I earned today.
e.g. the amount that clients payed on that date.

- I want to have an option on the application menu for Mouse Controls
I know at the start it already is on the menu but I've deleted it, now I want it back..

- Where can I get free posters? largest possible...
We've managed to print out A0 sizes but its very costly here,,,

Games pointing system

yiannisezn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:14:41 GMT

Hi, I saw a website of a net cafe, which had a nice feaure to make the customers come back again. They had a table with the best players of of each game.

Does any have any idea how I can achieve this. i.e. how can I get the score of someones game.
The issue here is with the RPG games or FPS in multiplayer mode.

Thanks

Problems a day

Qwiegybow — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:38:22 GMT

How many problems do does the average cafe go through a day? Like, where you have to restart from SL or even have to restart from the computer. I seem to have about 5 or 6 on a regular day and 10 or more on a busy day. I regularly check and maintain my computers also. I would so most of the time its user error. They either open a million windows, press ctrl,alt, delete a million times and they go hey its not working. I say it didnt work the first time what made you think it was going to work the 100th time. But, sometimes the computer just plain farts out and i have to manually restart at the computer not SL. Im just curious if you all have problems too or am I the only one?

Return on investment

Dezzy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:14:23 GMT

Like other folks looking to start a gaming center...I'm putting my business plan together and need some financial data. What I'm asking is how long did it take you (or how much time do you expect) to recover your total investment into the gaming center, before taxes? In other words, from the time you opened, how long did it take (or will it take) for you to break even, before taxes?

I know this is a sensitive area so feel free to send a private message if you do not want to post.

Thanks

Dezzy

Employee Game Time..

D3viousMensa — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:53:19 GMT

Gang,

I'm trying to get a bead on how other manage this monster, with smartlaunch our just policy. I have a couple of questions

1. Do most set up seperate acccounts for employees and require them to use that account to track thier game time only. and a seperate account to work under for shop activities, demo's etc.

2. How much game time do you allow before charging a employee for the time?

3. Has anyone went with the policy "No Gamming aloud during work hrs", and allow the employee to play in thier off hrs, and break/launch time?

Any suggestions/thoughts appreciated.

Thx,

For those looking for a new free information resource for gco's

FalGra — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:07:28 GMT

Hope this is ok to post here.

It's not a business, it's 100% free, there are NO banner ads even. The site will be run by the game center owners, partners, and managers community.

We have setup a web site designed as a FREE repository for information @ www.gamecenternetwork.com

It's brand new, so please understand we have to start somewhere.

We are looking for volunteers who can help administrator or even simply moderate topics.

Please sign up and send NetStrike a pm on the board expressing your interest in helping build the community as well as what game center experience you have.

The forum is open to everyone either people researching starting a center, or those already with years of experience under their belt.

Most of the current volunteers myself included have years of experience.

I am part of 2 game centers, with the main location being open for 7 years now so I have lots of input to offer others and will be contributing quite a bit to the topics on our site.

Thanks for your time, and we definitely do look forward to seeing you there.

Help us grow our industry!

AlienWare ?

CafeKnisH — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:52:12 GMT

Hello

I currently have a gamingcafe but thinking about relocating and getting new computers

I hvad been looking alot on alienware computers, they are very nice, but do you think they will be worth the price ?
All gamers have heard about them and it will for sure bring alot more players to my cafe

Currently looking at these
Area-51® 7500
Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 8MB Cache 1066MHz FSB
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 x 1024MB
500GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 16MB Cache
Dual 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GT - SLI Enabled
22'' Samsung 1680 x 1050 (2ms) SyncMaster Widescreen Flat Panel

for the price of 3200$

New to this... give me some luv!

Elvenelf — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:17:31 GMT

Ok, heres the breakdown...

My wife and I want to set up a cyber café... she will take up the deli/café part and I will be in charge of the game center...

im thinking that 8 computers is a good start... and possibly add 8 more during the next year if space requirements are met and all that... I got word that smartlaunch is all i need to manage the system... however i still have some questions in mind... for instance, if I use Smartlaunch's POS can I use it to sell anything else... ?? like... a sandwich? coffee cup? tea? floppy disks? etc. etc. etc.

I was also wondering about the 8 pc's number... is 8 computers good enough if I am planning to go with shooter games like half-life, counterstrike or Fear?

I have seen many many things online, from pictures and more stuff like that... and I am very pumped up about this. I know my wife and I will take off with this business and that it will be amazing, but I can't shake the thing i got for asking a lot and wanting to be reeeeeaaaallllllly suuure about anything i do.

I live in Puerto Rico and over here this is a relatively new concept. While i know there is a vast gaming base out there, we could have a bit of an issue getting to them. So i plan to have an aggressive marketing scheme to achieve that and let everyone know I'm there.

But first I would like for those of you who already have a running and successful business, to tell me about it and share any comments or advice you may have regarding the stuff to keep in mind... for things like the headphone discussion, that was enlightening! Now i really know I might make a custom way to make sure those headphones are glued to the jacks and don't come out for any reason! :D Maybe allowing gamers or users to consume drinks or food at the consoles... (i know it is a bad idea... >_<) things like that!

I want to thank everyone who posts in this post, and for sharing some light with a preposterous n00bl3t!
Thanks!!
:w00t:

After 3 VERY long years, Bumpys is closing. And we have 45 licenses up for sale.

Qwiegybow — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:36:20 GMT

Don't want to read the story, alright. You can respond for the licenses by either replaying or sending a email to Qwiegybow04@yahoo.com. With SL licenses as the subject. I don't know what used licenses go far so just make me an offer. We also have a 72 manage port switch up for sale as well. It fits nicely in a rack mount space. And we also have a rack mount lcd screen and keyboard and mouse 1U slide out as well. With a KVM switch. Interested in any of those drop me a line.

We opened up with 40 computers and dreams and hopes that we would attract high schoolers , college students and above all else, gamers. What unfolded was the very opposite end of that spectrum. Original we had 40 computers. After a few months, and lots of asking, we got xboxs. This was before 360 mind you. Upon closing we had 35 computers and 2 xbox 360s.

Let me start off by saying that Smartlaunch was a wonderful tool. Although not perfect, it was certainly better than any other cyber cafe software I had looked at. Its too bad they are just now coming out with the electrical cut off switch thingys. Could have used those on the xbox. And 4.1 was a drastic, and welcomed, change over 3.6. I always found this forum and the people on it very very helpful and understanding. I never maximized it to its full potential but if i had to restart, I would. The only problem I really have is, that its not stupid proof on the client computers. I couldn't tell you how many times people would double click the internet button and it would freeze the computer or internet browser. Also right click close locked up our computers ever time as well. And people still clicked start game twice even though a loading game screen would come up. Sometimes the game took longer and when it disappeared, then they would click start game again loading another version of the game. UGGGGGH!

On to the woes... For anybody thinking about starting up a gaming center or cafe you might want to read this.

First, if your thinking about doing this for just internet access, STOP, STOP RIGHT NOW. Unless you live somewhere where internet is a premium, their is way too many places now offering free access. Almost all colleges, even communities have a free computer lap, even some high schools have computer laps. Public libraries and even restaurants now offer free internet and/or free wifi. Theres just no way you can compete with free. You will lose every time. Yeah you may get the occasional person that needs it right now and has no other choice, but for the most part they will find a way to get a computer or internet for free.

Second, and this will depend on where you open, the clients, for the most part, was ALL kids. I'm talking 8 - 15. Yes, I got a few college and high schoolers but for the most party they were little kids, which I hated. And when I would get older people that wanted to stay for the lock-ins they would take one look, see all the kids and immediately leave or cancel their reservation. I couldn't put an age restriction because then i wouldn't have anybody. So unless you absolutely like kids, and or put your place right next to a high school you are probably gonna have lots of kids. And most hardcore games, have their own rig anyway...

Third, Moore's Law. The computer industry and changing faster than ever and getting cheaper each year. More and more people are buying their on computers. So your brand spankin new 1200 dollar computer is outdated and outperformed usually in 6 months to a year. When we bought all of our computers back in 2004 we got the latest and the greatest and it was about 1200 a computer.
Specs: AMD 64 3200+ (64bit chips JUST came out when we bought them) 1GB of ddr[b]1[u][/u][/b] Ram 120GB IDE HDD. Radeon 9800 256mb AGP (yes AGP).
Compare that to today's specs... yeah I know.
Couldn't tell you how many times some kid would come in after we haven't seen them in a while and say oh i don't come often because we bought a brand new top of the line computer and its better than yalls.
I must say even to the end our computers could run the latest games, just not at max specs or on high.
Playing the catch up game or lets upgrade our hardware is IMPOSSIBLE. Or you will go broke trying. At least, on a scale of 35 computers to upgrade. Now if you have 5 thats much more doable.... you get my point. Theirs no way to win. You have to budget for upgrades over periods of time or suffer to Moore's law.

Fourth, Games. I would say most of all the money we spent went into buying games. Oh, dear lord. Just do 50 X 35... yeah. And licensing is a pain in the *** with most companies. A few have them clearly posted ie. Steam and Blizzard. Others do not. Ubisoft is supposed to have one but they NEVER responded to my e-mails. Others I just couldn't find. Steam wanted 10 bucks a month per computer.... uhh no. I ll be honest right now. I never paid it. I bought a game per computer and had 35 steam accounts. Worked just fine. No way was i going to pay 350 a month. Blizzards is just down right ridiculous. For the ammount of computers and games we wanted to install they wanted 1k a month. Umm thats not a no. Thats a FU$# NO!
Even worse yet the kids only played 3 games the whole time we opened to close the top 3 in order of played time. CS:S, World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2. Somebody would occasionally play one besides that for like 10 mins and then go back to one of those 3. If I would have know this I would have only opened up with maybe 4 games instead of 20. Yeah I tried giving people options but instead I wasted a lot of money. And I got tired of buying each no game that people wanted. So for Id say the greater part of a year I didn't buy any games.. at all. Every time somebody said you should get this i said ok, with no intentions of ever getting it. I would just be wasting my money on that new game. I started buying maybe 3 copies of a game installing the game on ever computer and setup SL to let 3 people online and the rest would have to play locally. Just got waaaaay too expensive. My advice. Pick maybe the top 5 games and go with that, then look into other games only if they are very very popular.

Fifth and last, i know its long. Internet. The price for business internet is also ridiculous. When I wasn't buying new games this was the biggest utility bill I had. Ive posted this before but how some of you get away with T1 which is 1.5 down divided by like 30 computes is beyond something I will every understand. Just do the math, I don't see how you got away with a T1. I know that not EVERYBODY will be on the internet at the same time. But I tell you, at just about every lockend we had id say their was always about 70% either playing a online game or on the internet. I ended up getting 2 lines of business class roadrunner each with 4mb down. I put them both through a special router that would manage both lines so that the 35 computers were using both lines equally. Technically splitting 8MB down into 40 possible locations. This worked out pretty well most times even with everybody on the internet at the same time. Yet it cost us a arm and a leg at about 800 bucks a month for internet.

So their it is folks. Our lease was up August 31st and I had no intentions of renewing it. If you think you can still overcome all these issues, by all means go for it. I really do wish you the best of luck, its not easy to turn a profit, thats for sure. Otherwise I would think hard twice before going forth. If I knew this is what I was getting into I'm pretty sure I would have stopped long before I opened up. I'm not saying their were never good times. Sure, I had some fun times and a blast lots of times. I had my friends working for me and we would always just dick around to pass the time. But overall it was a great learning experience with a huge wallet buster. Thanks for taking the time to read. Hope some of you can relate and know exactly what I'm talking about.

Signing off,
Jeff (Bumpys)

FOR SALE: PVC Banner Sign Internet Access

JUZZA — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:53:45 GMT

This item was purchased and never used. At the end of this year we are closing our business so we are selling most of our assests.

[b]Banner Sign Internet Access[/b]
[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=320175385350[/url]

We will also be selling our 30 SmartLaunch licences and these will be available after the 16th December 2007. If anyone is interested in these please contact me on me@juzzaweb.co.uk

We are located near Manchester, England and there will be other items for sale but due the their sizes it will be pickup only. We have a 42U Server Rack and Flavia S350 Coffee machine. Again, if interested, please contact me on the above email address.

Those wacky foam balls on the end of my microphones

Chef_Salad — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:41:24 GMT

:):D:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t:

With that out of the way, is it just my cafe or do people really like stealing the foam balls off microphones? Within a day of putting out all new microphone headsets, half were gone. And then everyone else complains about the balls being missing. People are hillarious.

Backup methods

switchon — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:26:51 GMT

im using a 200 Gb tape drive to backup our server but their must be a better way. just wondering how different people backup their systems.

How to set up a Lan PARTY???

Totisgr — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:43:14 GMT

Hi everyone. WE need to arange a Call Of Duty 2 tournament. Since we are new to the bussiness i have to ask were to start. How do we set up the teams? how many persons per team? (we have 20 pc's) and dont mind closing a day for everyone else just to have the tournament. Is it better to have it as Team deathmatch or just deathmatch? (the only problem with teams is the prizes that i can think of) And how much should one charge for entering the tournament? (our current price is 2.50 per hour)

We would apreciate any help. Thanks in Advance.

I'm back!

Orcadious — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:27:47 GMT

Just wanted to say that I'm back.
My honeymoon is over.

Supreme Being

Zaigon — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 05:20:25 GMT

Well I looked at my name yesterday, and I noticed that I had become a Supreme Being without noticing, lol. I seems I post a bit when I'm trying to find something to do, and I may becoming somewhat of the forum troll :P. Anyone else think that browsing these forums is second to breathing?

We made a great run, but now the parties --- continuing?

tnwebwise — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:52:09 GMT

Apparently, we're going to be ok.

Thanks for all the prayers.

- Neil

Google - Infomation on search

Clint.Davis — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:52:22 GMT

Hi

Just wondering, on google how do you get this to come up?

I would like to have this when i search for my cafe on google.
I have pay per click ads, and have used some of the webmaster tools but have not been able to find this function.

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Where can I get posters?

StevenSchoo — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:50:04 GMT

We have 10 posters on our walls 4 of them sent from Steam and the other 6 we made at kinkos, the quality is so-so but they cost a ton to make where can we buy posters offline, games like bf2, wow, everquest, call of duty...

Posters on your walls

Alomax — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:34:28 GMT

So, what posters does everyone currently have hanging up? :)

I'm ashamed to report we only have 5, I really do need to get more. I'm also curious if anyone has wall murals, or painted ceiling droptiles.

Currently, we have :
CS:S poster, signed
Nvidia poster (one of the current ones from iGames)
Diablo II
HL2 (pic of gordon)
Warcraft III:Frozen Throne

As an interesting note, we have some random cardboard standups in the back for games that we've never even had, the owner just picked them up from the local GameCrazy for free a few years back.

I.T. Agony Bingo

xept — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:40:50 GMT

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I've hade two "AAAAAAAAAAARGHHH#¤%#" today, and you?

U.are.U 4000 Finger Print Scanners for Sale w/USB Hasp

JimP — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 05:19:04 GMT

I have 7 Digital Persona U.are.U 4000 finger printer scanners, 6 of them are new in the box one without box. These scanners can be used by themselves or with Smartlaunch 3.X and 4.0. I also have the USB Hasp that is needed to use the scanners with SL. I am asking $70ea. for the scanners and $75 for the hasp. shipping will be what it costs me. I would guess around $10 in the lower 48 states ups ground. If you are interested in purchasing the whole package I will let it go for $550.00 including shipping to anywhere in the continental US. I accept MC/VISA and Paypal. e-mail me at the address below if interested.

sales@digitalarenas.net

Nobody reads

Qwiegybow — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:00:06 GMT

What have we become? Society, today, has become the instant gratification age. Ever customer I get wants what they want now and not later. Espically kids. People need to learn that computers don't work on the now census. It sometimes take a few seconds for a game or something to load.

The point of my story is that customers don't take the time to read the little notes you can put for each game. For some odd reason Quake 4 multiplayer doesn't work on our computers. Ive tried everything but you ll just hang there if you get in a internet room, anyways thats besides the point. So in the notes section I made it clear that I didn't know why it didnt work but that it wouldnt if they tried. So i said this game only works in singleplayer mode. Yet at least 3 times a week somebody gets on it and goes hey whats wrong with the multiplayer. I have to apologize that it doesn't work and then i tell them that before they click start game theres a section where theres usually some important notes. And he just goes oh ok but then never reads them.

And at least once a day i ll get somebody to try and get on WoW and they dont have an account. Then they wonder why its not working. I tell them they have to have their own account and its explained in detail in the description area right before they click start game.

There are various other problems that arise from this but those are the main ones. I think the problem is the font is too small. Its hard to just pick up on if your browing through the games. Maybe the SL team can increas the size or have a little flashing or spinning sign next to description. Just something to point to it so everybody just doesn't jump right in and then wonder why they can't play or don't know what they are playing.

Alienware Case

Qwiegybow — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:19:46 GMT

Ok, I know some people that own a cyber cafe have bought all alienware computers to use in their cafe. So if you didnt buy alienware computers or don't know somebody that did you can stop reading now or you can keep reading if you are just curious.

I was wonder if somebody that bought all alienware computers if they wouldn't mind selling me one and or trading. Im talking about the new predator case not the old one. I just love their case and it sucks that you can't buy it sepratly. I would have bought a computer from them but I love building my own computer. If someone has a spare one lying around or wants to take a computer out and put it in my case as a trade thats cool too. I m willing to also pay you for the case as well. $50 60 maybe maybe a 100 bucks for it but probably nothing over than that. Please only do this if you are willing to sell me one and or trade. You don't have to do this if you dont want to. I just really love their case and this probably the only means i could get one. I have tried ebay but they run for $300 + and theres very very few ever up there. I dont care what color it is.

Here is the case i currently have willing up for trade.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811146013

If you want to pm me you can do that too. Thanks in advance.