Well hello. A little while ago I was surprised when a number of people stared blankly at me when I suggested that they alter their HOSTS file. I’ve been meaning to write up a short entry on what it is and where you find it. I know this will […]
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G’day. So I’m reviewing "Mass Effect" by Bioware. This title comes from the same people who brought you the first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (a brilliant game), and the game’s design and format won’t be alien (pardon the pun) to those who have played KOTOR (or […]
Hi all. So, for those who have been searching for Madden NFL 2008 bug workarounds, boy – you’ve hit the right blog. I’ll link underneath (later) to the other previous blog posts which relate to workarounds for the Franchise mode simulation freeze issue and the other issue to do […]
According to this thread on this blog someplace, if you duplicate a virtual hard drive which has a Windows operating system on it, and then try to add both to an active directory domain you’ll get this funky error message (on the second machine registered, most likely): "The name or […]
Few games come out based on historical events. Assassin’s Creed aims to represent as realistically as possible the world during the times of the Crusades in the Holy Land. This includes references to real historical figures of the time and the developers, UbiSoft, obviously aimed to have the player living […]
This post is to address my ongoing love affair with Windows Server 2008, which is in RC1. Those of you who have been following my travesties with Windows Vista will undoubtedly know through my numerous posts to this blog, my pain and suffering under that particular operating system. Not […]
Hi Everyone. With the new year fast approaching, I thought it was time for a new post category. Introducing the Gadgets category! —————————————————————–So here’s info on my early Christmas present to myself… Background NFO: When I bought my foldout bluetooth keyboard (for my slate PC) back in April, I got a […]
Hi, well I’ve been installing Team Foundation Server 2008 and I’m still amazed that the TFS Application tier won’t run on 64 bit processors. From the official TFS help documentation: "You can install some, but not all, Team Foundation components on these 64-bit operating systems. Visual Studio Team System Team […]
Had to write about this – get in quick if you’re into Guitar Hero! Electronics Boutique (or EB Games) in Australia have a mad deal on at the moment, for a limited time. You can trade in 2 Xbox 360, Wii or PS3 games and get the Guitar Hero III […]
Hot on the heals of my previous post about the free Windows 2008 Server courses… The fine folks over at Tom’s Hardware have posted this very detailed review of the current RC0 of Windows 2008 Server. I’ve read some of the review and think it’s worth taking the time to plough […]
Ha! You thought you’d heard the last of the ongoing EA Sports Madden NFL saga, hadn’t you? Well, since my initial posts a week or so ago, I’ve had heaps of hits on the posts. This indicates the widespread and serious nature of the bugs (note: plural). So, […]
More surfing the interweb has turned up this patch from Microsoft. It’s not been included thus far with Automatic Updates, but is available as a separate download. I’m installing it today to gauge for myself whether the patch does indeed stabilize Vista because my recent experiences have been horrible. Just […]
Madden 08 – Rumoured to be bad enough for an official patch. That’s right. Electronic Arts apparently will release a patch for the PS3 and xbox 360 consoles. About time too, because my franchise has come across a new glitch: I’m unable to sim or play past a regular season […]
News today comes via news.com.au that Microsoft is redesigning Windows Live Search. Coincidentally, Bruce Mcleod was just taking aim at the variations between Google and Windows Live search on his blog. Based, in part, on Bruce’s argument I think it is clear to see why the Live search functionality needs […]
So, I’ve been considering the purchase (or salary sacrifice) of a new laptop. My two current Laptops are great, but could use improvement. The tabby (‘Lil’ Beastie) really won’t like Windows Vista and will probably be a Windows XP Tablet Edition machine for the rest of it’s life. It’s the […]