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Saturday, 26 December 2009

HOWTO: Devil's Tuning Fork under Wine

Posted on 12:40 by Unknown
I've been in a gaming mood of the late and I much prefer to be able to run my games under Linux as opposed to having to reboot into Windows. That being said a game I've really enjoyed playing is Devil's Tuning Fork. It is a very unique first person indie game in which your character "sees" with their ears. It is being developed by a team of students at DePaul University in Chicago and it is a free download from the game's homepage.Getting DTF working...
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Thursday, 24 December 2009

HOWTO: Setup Steam Version of Crysis on Ubuntu

Posted on 08:39 by Unknown
In one of my previous posts I mentioned I had the game Crysis running successfully under Cedega with a few native dll over rides. Today I am going to detail the few hoops you will need to jump through if you wish to get Crysis running on Linux.We are going to need a few things before we get started and I feel it is easiest to round up all the files before we get started. Go download the following files:vcredist_x86.exeodbcbcp.dllpdh.dllIn addition...
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 9.10 - 3D Benchmarks

Posted on 21:16 by Unknown
In the past I've done benchmarks regarding Wine software, today I am going to do something a bit different. Unigine is a cross-platform real-time 3D engine, I stumbled across awhile back on some message boards I am a part of. Since it runs natively cross-platform I have been curious to see exactly how drastic the performance difference of the engine is between the Windows and Linux platforms. Since I recently installed Windows 7 I decided to sit down and put the software through its paces.The Tests: Unigine offers two free benchmarks - Tropics...
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Biting Into an Apple

Posted on 16:03 by Unknown
I typically stick to the software end of technology, but every once in awhile I dig out my set of electronics tools and tear into a piece of hardware. A few months back a friend of mine had given me an old busted up Macbook in exchange for recovering her data off the hard drive. The data recovery went easy enough (once I realized I needed to read the drive as super user in order to see all its files under Linux) and I was shortly in possession of my first ever Apple product.The laptop was in pretty bad shape when I received it. The half of the...
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Friday, 18 December 2009

Has Transgaming Abandoned Cedega

Posted on 07:19 by Unknown
Pretty much anyone who has used Linux for at least a short while is aware of Wine technology and what it does. For many Linux users, largely Linux gamers, having properly working Wine technology is essential to their everyday computer user. The topic of commercial Wine software has been known to cause many heated discussions over the years on various Linux message boards. It appears at long last that perhaps this seemingly eternal argument may finally be coming to an end. Transgaming, the company behind Cedega, appears to be finally putting down...
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Posted in cedega, linux, software, wine | No comments

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Top Ten Things I Miss in Windows

Posted on 13:18 by Unknown
There is an old saying that goes "you can't miss what you never had" meaning that for those who have never had something of these things they will have no idea what they are missing out on. Typically I use Ubuntu or some Linux flavor as my operating system for every day tasks, however as most techs know using Windows is unavoidable at times. (Whether it be because I am fixing someone else's machine, at work/school, or queuing up some Netflix watch instantly on my home system) That being said the following are the top ten features/programs I find...
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Posted in linux, operating systems, software, ubuntu, windows | No comments

Monday, 14 December 2009

Why GNU/Linux is ready for the Average User

Posted on 18:20 by Unknown
I spend a fair amount of time on UbuntuForums.org and while poking around there this afternoon I came across this thread. It is no where near the first thread I've seen like it (and sadly I doubt it will be the last). To quickly sum up the thread the original poster is detailing why he believes Ubuntu is not ready for the "average user" because of a recent poor experience he had attempting to get Karmic (latest Ubuntu release) installed on a friend's laptop. Ubuntu's motto is "Linux for human-beings" - no where does this imply it is going to be...
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Posted in apple, linux, open source, operating systems, software, windows | No comments

Friday, 11 December 2009

Hands on with Windows 7 - An Ubuntu User's Perspective

Posted on 21:32 by Unknown
Microsoft released Windows 7 out into the wild for all of the personal computing world to experience some two months ago and now it is nigh impossible to walk into a computer store (excluding the Apple store obviously) with out being bombarded by ads for it. (There are also the rather strange Windows 7 ads, such as the "Windows 7 Whopper" in Japan or the recently reviled Family Guy Windows 7 Ads that got axed before being released). At any rate there...
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Saturday, 5 December 2009

Cricket Wireless - 3g Modem Review

Posted on 12:33 by Unknown
The internet is something that has become throughly ingrained in many of our lives today. It is how we stay connected with those around us and it is an extremely useful way of obtaining information. Most people have laptops or smart phones which they use to stay connected to the world wide web. Our laptops need a connection of some sort to access the information superhighway and while public wireless hot-spots are becoming more and more common, more often than not it always seems when you really need to get online to check on that important piece...
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Friday, 4 December 2009

HOWTO: Install Multiple Wine Versions on One System

Posted on 19:43 by Unknown
Wine Technology advances at a rapid rate, in the last month we have seen two updates to Wine (1.1.33 & 1.1.34). Many of us like to stay using the latest and greatest Wine software - with good reason each new version typically fixes issues and improves performance - however on occasion a new Wine release will suffer from some regressions that cause some applications to stop working properly. The solution to this? Quite simple: revert your Wine...
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