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Re: Vista Upgrades |
Mar 18, 2008, 23:12 |
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No problems so far, Office 2007 and Outlook work fine too.
I haven't bought any new games in a while, but Sauerbraten is fine (including in-world editing) and the Hellgate: London demo runs at least as smoothly as before installing SP1.
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Vista Upgrades |
Mar 18, 2008, 21:47 |
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I downloaded and upgraded my Vista Home Premium 32-bit Windows with SP1 this morning (Aus' time).
Although I was only missing about 68MB of the possible 448 MB download, it took over 2 hours to install it all!
Still, all seems well, no endless re-boot loops as some had with the Beta.
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Microchip-sized 'fan' |
Mar 18, 2008, 21:37 |
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With side-effects somewhere between an air-ioniser that makes you feel good, and an ozone source worse than a laser printer that definitely won't.
(As I said when this story was posted in Morning Tech Bits)
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Open standards gaming PC |
Mar 18, 2008, 14:48 |
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Acer misses the point of the PC completely.
It is a CONTINUOUSLY evolving platform that provides the market and funding for ongoing development of the CPU, GPU and to a lesser extent, the rest of a PCs components.
A machine with a fixed spec is a console that has to have a stable period of years and won't fund development of next gen hardware until the next release, when the intervening development costs will be expected to be borne all at once by the purchasers.
And that plan just won't fly.
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Researchers provide a chill... |
Mar 18, 2008, 14:37 |
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With side-effects somewhere between an air-ioniser that makes you feel good, and an ozone source worse than a laser printer that definitely won't.
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| News Comments > Monday Metaverse |
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Googles' concerns |
Mar 17, 2008, 23:28 |
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"We would hope that anything they did would be consistent with the openness of the Internet, but I doubt it would be."
What? Open like Google in China you mean? (pot/kettle)
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| News Comments > Metaverse |
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'Ghosts' success |
Mar 13, 2008, 22:38 |
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It just strikes me as a little ironic that just as Tim Sweeney is dissing the PC and concentrating on consoles, Trent Reznor rediscovers the shareware model that built Epic and Id all those years ago.
I somehow doubt that the console network owners will be turning over similar percentages of earnings to the artists, if they ever DO achieve their stated goals of being the centre of home entertainment, let alone provide DRM-free downloadable music.
Just another reason why the PC will ultimately prevail over the console.
This comment was edited on Mar 14, 00:17. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Speak of the Devil! |
Mar 13, 2008, 22:05 |
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Just a few line up from here...
Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam.
'Better be careful what you post! ;-)
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| News Comments > Tim Sweeney Q&A - Epic's Console Engine |
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Don't take any notice |
Mar 13, 2008, 21:03 |
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Tim is just wrong!
Do you seriously think that the hardware manufacturers are going to work hard on the next generation console CPUs and Graphics, selling nothing to the PC gaming market in the meantime, and then have a selling-price fight with console makers who have to pay the whole development costs of the intervening 5 years or so?
Bollocks!
The hardware guys NEED the PC market, they don't have any option, consequently the software guys had better get their heads out of their arses and help keep the PC well supplied with cutting-edge games that drive and fund the hardware development, or the next-gen consoles will be pieces of shit with no significant improvements over this gen'.
Then no-one will buy them and Epic etc' can sit and look at the stack of unsold boxes of games for consoles no-one wants.
Edited for Typo's
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Intel SSD |
Mar 11, 2008, 16:15 |
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I wouldn't touch an SSD with a barge-pole unless it came with at LEAST a 3 year warranty, including diminished capacity from over-used sectors being locked out.
I don't think Flash has enough write-cycles for serious PC use, even with a wear-levelling filing system.
And I have been using such things in embedded systems for over 5 years, starting with JFFS (Journaling Flash Filing System) on eCos on a PowerPC card, so I DO have a clue.
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| News Comments > Sweeney: PCs Good for Anything... But Games |
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The game is changing |
Mar 11, 2008, 04:38 |
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The new AMD 780G chipset manages rather decent integrated graphics performance, check out Anandtech or Toms Hardware reviews for the last week.
Best of all it can use separate video RAM on the motherboard, avoiding the ugly bastard, never successful, cheap-arse, crappy, unified memory solutions.
(You can tell I don't rate unified memory solutions, right?)
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| News Comments > Evening Safety Dance |
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Security skills of IT workforce lacking |
Feb 29, 2008, 18:34 |
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What a stupid story by a complete moron.
Given the vast spectrum of skills encompassed in the IT workforce, that is like complaining "Plumbing skills of Building workforce lacking".
There is actually 100% skills present in the sector of the IT workforce dealing with security!
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