Jan 12 2008
Best video review ever…
This is without a doubt the best video review of a game that I’ve ever seen 😉
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Jan 10 2008
Inappropriate images…
I’ve just seen this image on the the UK Government’s Consumer Direct Trading Standards website, here.
Nov 10 2007
iCrystal iBall gazing with the iPhone
Nov 10 2007
O2 EDGE network coverage
With the iPhone being launched at 6:02pm yesterday (and having had a play with one in a shop today – it’s definitely shiny, it’s probably worth £70 on top of the iPod Touchhobblebuild the phone with.
Oct 31 2007
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard – The good and the bad
(Incidentally, how do you write that? “Mac OS X.5” is just wrong, whilst “Mac OS 10.5” isn’t as aesthetically pleasing… oh well, I guess it fits into our multiply-redundant world of “PIN numbers”, “tuna fish”, and “software programs” 🙂
Anyway, on to my initial thoughts on Leopard!
Oct 31 2007
And so the last bastions begin to fall…
The excellent Phoronix have a series of benchmarks of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars on Linux and on Vista… and, using a 512Mb ATI Radeon HD 2900XT with the latest drivers for each, the exact same machine managed a frame rate just over 19% higher on Linux than on Vista!
Oct 18 2007
Cannonball Run
Just incredible – the story of the attempt to cross the United States of America by car in less than 32 hours 7 minutes…
Read the personal account at www.wired.com.
Jan 24 2008
Preventing Mac OS from eating flash-based drives…
As described in some detail at Ars Technica, Mac OS 10.5 will log all filesystem activity on a volume to a .fseventsd directory in the root of the volume. For removable media this is at best not helpful, and at worst actively damaging.
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