JT on August 26th, 2007

The Inquirer has an interesting story about why they’re not digging Bioshock. And from the research I’ve done, I think I’m going to follow their lead.
Sony’s latest game, BioShock is rocking the review sites with ledgendary reviews and customer feedback… but why wouldn’t I consider buying this and getting on the bandwagon? DRM. Yes, [...]

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JT on April 10th, 2007

AMD Customer Care has made their point perfectly clear. Support for Linux is poor - and you better be thankful for it.
This explains the piss poor performance on my ThinkPad’s ATI video card, but the workstation with a Nvidia 5200FX and half the cpu kicks its ass.
Queue the rocking chair squeek and old timer music…
I [...]

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JT on April 10th, 2007

I’ve been transitioning from purchased software to open source. My biggest leap is going to be making the jump from an old version of (pre-Adobe) Macromedia Fireworks to GIMP.
My life just got a tad easier with this collection of GIMP Tutorials. Now I’ve got a greater understanding of Gimp controls and features. I’ve been [...]

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JT on March 20th, 2007

I received a Dacal CD Library as a Christmas present a few years ago. I was really excited to be able to finally clear off the three spindles of CDs and DVDs that had collected on my desk. Until…
I installed the software… and experienced what had to be the worst experience I’ve had with a [...]

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JT on February 27th, 2007

The Register reports that VMWare is ramping up the bad P.R. against Microsoft’s competing product - VirtualPC. This kind of marketing is probably good at this time of the year - it gets me prepared for the next onslaught of advertising from our presidential candidates.
Microsoft realized it was getting left in VMWare’s dust so they [...]

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