Monday, December 22nd, 2008
My desktop machine suffered from a failure, most likely the video card overheating. I take the machine in to the local authorised service centre and leave it to be diagnosed and fixed. When I call to get a report I am told that the problem was reproduced on ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
If only a melted video card were an EVE Online salvaged component, I would be happy to find one and sell it on the market for half-a-million ISK. Sadly, the melted video card is sitting in my computer.
I experienced a game freeze in World of Warcraft when running Gnomesblight ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
When I bought my new notebook last month I was fairly certain that Apple were going to update the product line soon afterwards. Nevertheless, I also knew that the notebook had much more capability than I needed, and so was suitable for any task I had planned for it, ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I've been thinking about buying a new notebook computer for a while, even toying with the idea of getting an Eee a few months back. The main impetus for getting a notebook is to let me write more comfortably by sitting on the sofa rather than at the computer ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I made the choice on what to spend my small bonus. I decided that even though I would be able to use the Eee PC easily enough I didn't really want to make a move away from Mac OS because it is precisely the OS that makes me enjoy ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
It looks like City of Heroes/City of Villains has a good chance of running on my Mac under Crossover Games.
It may well be worth giving it a try myself soon, particularly as solo World of Warcraft is boring me silly.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I heard a rumour that because Weyland-Yutani has been profitable in the last year we employees are due to receive a bonus this month. The bonus is nothing particularly extravagant but it's something, and after so many years of no bonuses at all this new culture, and I hope ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
My Google Reader subscription has now picked up the feed for this blog. It didn't before today, and that may have been because I was using a release candidate of Wordpress, whereas now I am using the full release, although I would have thought that the RSS link would ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
This is mildly interesting: if I include the OpenDNS servers in my internet configuration I can connect to my MSN Messenger account in Adium, but then I get DNS problems connecting to this subdomain, which means I can't view my own blog some of the time. If I remove ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
I tried to get Portal up and running in Crossover Games last night, after failing to do so the other day. It was peculiar because I managed to get it working in Crossover Mac before, so I saw no reason why it would stop working in the newer version ...
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