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Comment on Intelligence² Catholic church debate: Transcript by The Catholic Church in a Nutshell » /* basquiat's lovely winter riot */

The Catholic Church in a Nutshell » /* basquiat's lovely winter riot */ — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:28:49 +0000

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Comment on Intelligence² Catholic church debate: Transcript by Jeremy Bealer

Jeremy Bealer — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:09:21 +0000

Stephen Fry is an amazing speaker and I appreciate his mind, and everything he tries to do for this world.

Comment on Problem installing Altiris SVS by Sam

Sam — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:54:11 +0000

Unfortunately its not working for me. It could be that I am running Windows 7 – but vista programs should be compatible with 7.

Comment on Support for renewables by fred

fred — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:19:24 +0000

same problem. de ash unit replaced after 4 month wait from kunzel

Comment on Ten reasons Valve’s Steam fails to live up to standards by nonymous

nonymous — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:25:00 +0000

Your right!

Comment on Ten reasons Valve’s Steam fails to live up to standards by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:50:22 +0000

>Do German soldiers in Afghanistan get a shock when Taleban soldiers actually start bleeding when shot? [↩]

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Comment on Problem installing Altiris SVS by After Thought

After Thought — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:45:01 +0000

Thank you so much, It worked flawlessly

Comment on Recent reads by Fips

Fips — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:29:03 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation! “White Teeth” was definitely one of the best first-time novels I’d read in a while. Not sure if our local library has “On Beauty” in English though, must check that out.

Comment on Recent reads by Britta

Britta — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:25:01 +0000

If you enjoyed “White Teeth”, you should read “On beauty” by Zadie Smith, too. I read it a few yeas ago and it is still one of my favourite books ever! The characters are so lively, it’s so much fun to read!

Comment on Dick Dastardly’s DSL by Fips

Fips — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:09:36 +0000

I’ll admit that’s pretty slow, though it is a test of the connection’s upload speed. That’s probably advertised as 256kbps upload, which may be about right if we add in some overheads, and the fact that from the video it appears they were copying the file over a VPN (allowing Windows to pause the transfer for quarter of an hour whilst it checks free space requirements?). It’s still slow for broadband, and particularly for a business connection, but relatively speaking not all that bad for ADSL.

Regardless, I am tempted to repeat the pigeon experiment. Just need to find some inexpensive, lightweight USB keypens!

Comment on Dick Dastardly’s DSL by ComradeP

ComradeP — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:49:52 +0000

Hm, well, the pigeon’s bandwidth (including the hour it took them to transfer 4GB via usb, somehow) comes out as 4.55Mbps; if their DSL provider had managed 4% of the data in the same time, then of course their bandwidth is 1/25th of the pigeon’s, or 186.4Kbps. Kinda crappy for “broad”band, but still easily more than 2xISDN speed…

Comment on Worms under DOSBox by Pandora Battery Fan

Pandora Battery Fan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:23:38 +0000

I have been looking everywhere for information about this, thanks alot

Comment on Problem installing Altiris SVS by Rick McCormick

Rick McCormick — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:39:19 +0000

Several times I cleared the registry entries, rebooted, and got the same error msg. I finally figured out that CCleaner was running on startup and causing the entries to be rewritten. Turned off CCleaner on startup, installed like a charm.

Comment on Reliving an old gaming experience by Sarah in Plano

Sarah in Plano — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:55:44 +0000

Nice post. I enjoyed reading your arugements of old games and new games. Technology is changing all the time. I have a friend here in Plano who has still have some old games & I have to say, I still enjoy them. There’s nothing like the original

Comment on Left 4 Dead Review by Tony

Tony — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:45:13 +0000

Thanks for reviewing Left 4 Dead, it looks like a pretty intense game, I especially like the co-op mode, it gets really crazy with all those zombies!

Comment on Problem installing Altiris SVS by David White

David White — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:58:20 +0000

Yes, it worked thanks. I’m now a happy user.

Comment on Problem installing Altiris SVS by Fips

Fips — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:35:12 +0000

Hope it worked out for you. Although I’ve stopped using Altiris SVS now, it proved very useful for testing out programmes, particularly if they tend to conflict with one another.

Comment on Windows Vista user profile issues by Marky Mark

Marky Mark — Sat, 09 May 2009 10:24:43 +0000

Hey – thank God for sites like yours it saved my life this weekend. Let’s hope Microsoft never make cars because we will all die due to faults!

Comment on Reliving an old gaming experience by Fips

Fips — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:35:54 +0000

Maybe you’re right Moritz, and I’m being overly pessimistic. But still, getting a few people together to play an old classic is one thing, playing a game which requires large numbers of players years after it has fallen out of favour is entirely another. Blizzard can keep up the support for old games because they benefit from milking the cash cow that is World of Warcraft. Not all are so fortunate. This post illustrates a good example of a company not so well positioned to maintain support for their games.

Comment on Problem installing Altiris SVS by David White

David White — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:37:51 +0000

Thanks for that. I’m about to reboot, and hopefully this has fixed my problem.

Comment on Reliving an old gaming experience by Moritz Vogel

Moritz Vogel — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:25:30 +0000

Well, old MMORPGs usually have a cult following, and even old games like Ultima Online are still played online – I’m not sure about the exact number, but a few thousand probably. The same holds true for every Blizzard title supporting the battle.net – if you log on right now, I’m sure you would find at least 10 games with dupers in Diablo 1. So I think the question is not “are enough people interested in the future?”, but rather “how many thousand will be interested in the future?”. Also, something that I had planned to look into but never got around to it (those stupid MMOs ) is multiplayer support for emulated games. If you have ever played Secret of Mana with three people, you know how much fun that was, and the possibility of doing that, over the internet, sounds fascinating to me.

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Comment on Reliving an old gaming experience by Fips

Fips — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:59:21 +0000

Ah, the old joys of struggling to get a game to run under DOS, creating a boot disc to eke every last bit out of 640kb base memory. I suppose that challenge is still with us, in the joy of getting old titles to run under emulators, but it isn’t quite the same as it used to be.

I admit that it is still possible to keep many titles alive, and thanks to the hard work put into many of the great emulators and tools out there, it can be a very simple task to achieve. But with many of today’s favourites, and MMORPGs in particular, the problem is not so much one of getting software to run on new hardware and operating systems, but rather the question of how you can possibly hope to emulate a game that relies on (mass) human participation to make it what it is?

Comment on Reliving an old gaming experience by Moritz Vogel

Moritz Vogel — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:24:27 +0000

I’m not sure I can agree with all your points – certainly, old games die out, and they do that not just because technology advances – people want to play newer games, that look better, and have improved game design. Your analogy to the movie industry holds true – better special effects, more budget means more freedom in creating the exact vision the producer / director had in mind. You make the case that you can still watch old movies, but current gaming platforms advance so quickly that old games are a pain to run on most machines – while certainly true, doesn’t the same count for the film industry? Like you said, you watched a, until-recently, lost movie – probably not even on VHS. The standards of recording, the different norms like NTSC and PAL, and of course technology with better ways to store and record movies (Blu-Ray, HD, DVD, just to name a few keywords everyone knows) has impacted the film industry as much as the rest of the digital world.

Me, I like a challenge when it comes to getting an old game to work on my computer. I am an avid fan of many an old series, and half of the fun is to get newer systems to work with old code. But that is just me, I suppose. However, I doubt that there will be a time when a program is so old, you could not run it anymore – everything is adaptable, it only takes time and perserverance.

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Comment on Worms under DOSBox by Moritz Vogel

Moritz Vogel — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:14:44 +0000

Nice guide! A few months ago I had the urge to play the old Dungeon Keeper series, and the first title had to be painstakingly installed and played through DosBOX as well. However, the program is a charm to work with, so it didn’t take me long to set it all up. The only complaint I have is that older games do not support large resolutions

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Comment on The infected German language by Moritz Vogel

Moritz Vogel — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:37:45 +0000

Well, if I had to choose between German and English as a secondary language, it would have been English all over again. Being a German native speaker has its perks – one of the more difficult languages that has international standing already ingrained in you. I found English to be rather easy to learn, but as it is with most things in life – easy to learn, hard to master. However, I do not have other languages to compare it to, since my studies in English are fascinating enough to keep me from learning other languages, but who knows, I might pursue some later. I’m only 23, so there should be time left for 1-2 other languages in the future . Anyway, thank you for argument, I hope that some of your/my articles spark more discussions, they are a breath of fresh air in what is usually a pretty dreary blogging experience so far.

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