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I didn't understand that scene at all. Like who the hell puts stabbing a rat in the middle of a sewer crawl?

Nice to see some old members coming back for a visit. Welcome.

If your "old" xbox 360 broke. That has the harddrive attached. Simply pop that off. Use a screw driver and remove the plastic casing until your down to a little SATA drive. That will slide right into the hdd slot in the 360 slim.

Thanks for the offer and forum, but iBotModz was founded on the premise that we wouldn't require registrations to view content, as it just pisses people off and doesn't aid in the community. Its more of business motto instead of community motto. If people want to join a community they will, the forced registration is just maddening. That forum requires registration, and though I have an account I don't wish for the rest of the community to do so. I thank you for the offer, but I do not wish for iBotModz to have a dedication forum.

Just in a day, I've seen people respond to this post that I thought I'd never seen. Its great to hear that most of you are still out there, and enjoying what your doing. I added a couple more people to the list that I remembered over the day. FYI, that bulk mail I sent to spark this topic is only at 25% completed. It really is great to hear these stories of everyone. I always wondered if iBotModz influenced anyone, and I think its safe to say it did. The closer I get to my Comp Sci degree, the more I realized how similar we all are. My partner right now was a fellow modder of the dreamcast system (didn't know it was moddable ). For those still in school, its amazing how much this community and modding helps you in the real world. The knowledge you obtain being part of this community is priceless. You can't pinpoint exactly what knowledge you gained, but rest assured you'll notice your ahead of some students in school. I know my parents initially doubted the fact that I was wasting my life away on a computer doing mindless mods, but years down the road its easy to separate those with real world knowledge (us) and those with "book" knowledge (them). One thing I can never thank you guys enough for is the experiences. People sometimes try to convince me of something, and their only ground for facts is books. Those people grew up reading about things, and not doing it. Reading wasn't enough for us, we went ahead and learned with tinkering and messing around, along with reading. I learned programming thanks to you guys. For anyone else who is in college, chasing a computer science degree. I hope you can agree with me, that its easy to tell those programmers that learned from a book and those that learned from actually doing it. Its quite amusing. I wonder if I'll run into any of you guys in real life. One last thing, I want to echo what smokiest said. I, much like him, spent more time perfecting things on iBotModz then on my schoolwork. I'm sure most of you sometimes put online communities over school. Sometimes I wonder, if I spent the same time on homework instead of online, where would I be now? There's no point in thinking, I like where I am now.

Updated to 1.9pr5

Does anyone just ever look back at this site and other sites, and say "wow that was 4 years ago". Most of us were just little kids interested in some part of modding. None of us really knew what we were doing, we were just vastly interested with this "modding". The community around Halo 2 built an empire, the amount of registrations on various sites was extreme. Sites were everywhere with the common idea: work together towards a goal. TMU Mods, Se7ensins, HaloMods, Xbox-Scene, HaloTech, HaloStrike, DarcNetworks, Zeromodz, and iBotModz all shared a part in this. Of course, the big one to remember was HaloMods. HM was the first site I joined, I was banned in about a month for something I still don't know. (hint why IBM was created). iBotModz started as a free forum software. I was a little kid. I had no money, no PayPal and no knowledge. Kudos to all the "hackers" that messed us up. You hacked a kid, hope it felt good. I was into action replay modding, and looking back at those files they all had 1000+ downloads, which is what brought a great deal of the members here. Halo 2 was removed from Action Replay sometime last year. I guess they couldn't hold what was probably 50+ GB of content and the constant stream of downloads anymore. We built a community and capitalized on a period of time that will probably never come again. We will never have the caring people, free tools, cheap modding, exploitable games, and cheap consoles again. I broke at least 10 normal xbox's and could afford to get more. Anyone could buy Action Replay for $15 bucks, and assuming they had the right games could softmod their xbox. It was cheap and easy. We're in a society now where this cheap form of modding is non-existent. You have to drop 100$ + to even begin modding. Point being, the time of the past isn't coming back. It's like Halley's Comet, its a once in a life time ride and we were part of it. I joined HaloMods, because I was spawned killed during a Halo 2 match and I was determined to find out and become just like that. Modding and online communities were a big chunk of my early childhood, whether I'd like to admit or not. These communities helped me find what I wanted to do with my life. I met some people online that I've known longer than some of my real friends. I still talk with some of you daily, and it was fun knowing you and watching where we all went as we grew up. Who knew that 5 years later I'd be a couple of years from a Computer Science degree, and that TheMasterSnail would be chasing storms in South Africa. Halo 2 and these online forums drove me into my college education. I'd like to think that iBotModz influenced a couple of people on their path of life. Kudos to everyone that was a part of this forum, and thanks for some great memories (as cheesy as it sounds). Here is a shout out to anyone I remember, who helped build iBotModz or this community. blacklabelfosho - Helped a ton with hardware and really always knew things that no one else did. fattwam - holy cow. We've been managing forums for a helluva a long time. nielsss - Most might remember him as 'nox from H3 modding days, but nielsss was a great admin on the forumer site. TheMasterSnail - I remember asking you to redo the permissions in the admin at least 5 times. Thanks for doing all of that, and bringing the constant funny to the site. Xx Anarchy xX - Quite the GFX guy back then, then got into H3 (very good player) and then lost contact with him AModderGuy - Was the first moderator and staff of iBotModz. We date back to Halo 2 online modding when I was still learning. big4wheeler - Always looked at things and kept the community intact. Left to form his own site, and lost contact with him. Dark Master - Always re-writing Xbox-Scene articles for our modding section, then lost contact after move to new site. evilomen - I think you had a family. You were fixing xboxes all day. You single handily brought members to our site, just for your service. IIx SnYpZ xII - You taught me host booting. You led me into security, and botnet research. My "botting" phrase of Halo 3 was caused by you. secretdrummer123 - Consistent moderator, who helped out a lot in the GFX sections. snowmon333 - Great moderator, always cleaning up those forums while I was away laxmonster54 - I think you lived around me. I never was sure, but helped moderate from H2 -> Reach. deathgrip_17 - You were our first "Moderator Leader". You looked over the moderators and really pulled them together. Halo Modder 2000 - One of the first 5 members to join iBotModz. I was talking to him over Xbox Live when I launched the first iBotModz. SmokiestGrunl - Perfection was always your goal. If it wasn't perfect, you wouldn't post it. You taught me how to make posts be neat. Helped administrate all the way to the current iBotModz. BlAcK SpArK 271 - died, or "faked" his death on our old iBotModz. Never really knew for sure, but he was a great sig maker. Zer0 Grav1ty -helped spark iBotModz weather he liked it or not, (I took content from his site). lostmodz - brother of Zer0, remember him learning extremely quickly and soon publishing some really cool stuff. JoeyBe11 - Hacked us. Don't really know what the point was. I don't know how we pissed other people off. I think it was because we grew soo fast, and were just a bunch of kids. xX Legacy xX - Showed me Gears, and led me to another great video game series. Always making some strange topics (go to Off-Topic back in 08). Helped with moderating a ton. melo - Has been every staff member position. Always had ideas for iBotModz, and some of them I didn't implement till years later. Your ideas were great, I was just stubborn. SpAnKyX34 - Another great moderator. Never saw him after the move to the ibotmodz.co.nr site. dyinghero27 - If my memory serves me, helped moderate the Xbox/Lobby section and was always moderating for nothing in return Happy Buddah - Always critiqing sigs. Never stop lol. Pyrosquirrell - Knew in real life, never gave up on my ideas. Dan - put up with shit, but always would keep the site clean of spam. Fatal Error - Joined the moderating team post Halo 2 and helped organize the forum moderating wise Korupt Data - Joined post Halo 2 modding as well, and helped moderate. Quinn - Never gave up and still helps to this day cleaning up spam and clearing those spam bots. Dark Slipstream - You may of removed your content and left, but you brought at least 2000 members to the site and really helped make it what it was. Rogue Modder - Holy cow. I watched you on various forums become quite a master at what you do. Your layouts and UIs are just beyond innovative. yungbol - Some of your applications led me into C# and started my pathway on learning .NET. I owe you for knowing C# gabe_k - Always talked online with you in some crazy xbox live parties. EazyB - Created a petition against the staff, but otherwise helped bring truth to some matters brought up on this site. mtwomg - Just starting fights with people. no, but really helped in the dev/debug area of Xbox 360 Slidell - Most posts without being Staff. Never asked nor seem to want it. Kudos for keeping the content up to date on IBM Bigstack - You led me into server administration. Now, I manage one. I owe you. AzzidReign - We started sites around the same time. Yours is doing amazing. Congrats. neodos - You taught me so much about Halo 2. You helped a ton with the Phantom Mappack DeToX - Holy crap. You were one of the best H2 program makers I knew. xbox7887 - (creator of Yelo). We talked on aim a few times. The knowledge you had amazed me. Prey - You had some tutorials that taught me some in-depth knowledge. Your 4 programs blew me away with their UI and usage that I wanted to program as good as you. Iron_Forge - The update posts about Serenity gave me the interest to learn how to mod. I was amazed with your explanations of problems and how to solve them Tural - You taught me how to solve problems. By constantly bashing me, and showing no interest to allow anyone in your "elite" group of friends. I learned how to solve problems by myself. A key thing in life, and I thank you for that. CaptainPoopFace - Your creativity kept me modding through the slow parts of this community robert_hehn - Your a windows server guy. Did you ever get that router I sent you? lol. darkshallfall - I filmed your terminal mod. Never got a chance to know you. matty0 - Always knowing your computer stuff. Added quite a lot of posts to the computer areas. Always helping members out. itchy - You don't even speak English. We had some great talks on msn Dataanti - You broke the forum layout with a garbage post. I posted it on IPB forums and got lots of credit for finding a bug. It was you though lol. gruntmods - You had plenty of ideas to bring members back to iBotModz. I always had an open ear and was interested in them. Kornman - Never had a chance to talk to you, but I'm envious of your engineering skills Anthony - Sorry for bitching about H2Core a lot. I was a kid. Now I know how difficult that application is. grimdoomer - Your applications are amazing and advance. Too bad its a few years late. To anyone I forgot. Its nothing personal. This was all from memory. If I forgot someone, I'll edit you in here. iBotModz has always been a hobby to me, never a business. I've never profited from this site. All money I ever received here was dumped back into the site some time in the future. It will always remain a hobby, and never a business. As long as I have the money to pay for the server, iBotModz will stay up. Regardless if there is 1 post a week.

So V for Vice City?

Before I work on that, I'm working on some cache problem. It seems APC is caching more than it should. For example, I make a new post and the index doesn't reflect that new post until I manually refresh I restart apache an hour or so passes I don't know if that is the same for all users, or just my firefox caching too much, but I think I need to configure APC a bit more.

kk. I'll work on that. I wonder if I wrap the entire header with the wrapper will it work. It might be difficult.

Pissed me off that nothing in the trailer was in the movie. Its like the trailer was made a year before filming, and then they filmed. All the major scenes shown in the trailer: Bloody Mary with 2 girls Doctor head slammed on table Doctor investigating upstairs room Invisible mirror noise game Throwing water on "Toby" Kristi jumping off ledge in bedroom. The entire house burning The mom being grabbed and thrown into bed Lights bursting in house None of those in movie. That was 90% of the trailer. So the trailer effectively has nothing related to the movie (scene wise). There better be a helluva a unrated version being released soon.

Heading out to see the 3rd movie tonight. peace.

What version are you on? This only works for 1.9 Pre-Release 4.

I honestly forgot about the USB things. I guess I'll go buy a new powerful 8gb USB. All the USBs I put in now, say "Don't meet recommendations".

Whats this? I don't have extra GBs laying around my harddrive. I only have the stupid internal 4gb. If they pack a 500mb texture file onto my hdd. I'm gonna be pissed. View full story

This better not be some huge inflated text file. I'm downloading this.

kk, asking me why its the last? or peach why are you gonna change anything when you said its the last update? Well... 1) The site is dead. This site piggybacks off another site I run. As long as that other site is successful, I have no problem continuing to pay for the server. However, if the site dies. I don't wanna pay anymore for iBotModz, as it just isn't the flourishing community it once was. Nor do I make any money from it, to cover payments. 2) I'm continuing to update this release for bugs and what not. We just won't be making any updates any more. We are here to stay on the 3.2.x branch.

Any opinions would be great guys. The skin only took me a few hours, and it could use some work.

iBotModz Minecraft Server minecraft.ibotmodz.net Notes: Lava is disabled Bedrock disabled Everyone is a "trusted" player. This server restarts on every pre-release. Once Minecraft goes "gold", we will establish a real system to prevent griefing and what not.