I’ve been a gamer ever since I first laid eyes on an Atari. But of all the genres that I’ve enjoyed - the Adventure Genre stands out the most. What games are included on this list? Pretty much all Lucas Arts games…Monkey Island (1-4), Loom, Day of the Tentacle, etc. Because of my age, these games (for the most part) came out before I was old enough to realize that I needed to go buy them.
While surfing the interwebs, checking the emails, etc. I came upon a program called WinAudit. It’s a FREEware app that can report a lot of things about your machine and output it in a lot of different formats. Straight from their site: “The programme has advanced features such as service tag detection, hard-drive failure diagnosis, network port to process mapping, network connection speed, system availability statistics as well as Windows® update and firewall settings.
I don’t often laugh at online videos - but this one got me. Now don’t get me wrong - I love the Mac’s interface. It’s truly a wonder. But this video is absolutely hilarious 😄
In my other life, I teach computer courses and accept assignments through an online course management system. Our school (and myself) have yet to upgrade to Office 2007, but students aren’t wasting any time. I found an official Microsoft converter for Office 2007 formats available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466
Thus far in using Ubuntu, I’ve been able to use only Linux applications. I’ll admit that some of them were just ports of their Windows or Mac OS X counterparts…but I never had to install wine (a compatibility layer for running Windows programs). Well you know that torrent app I recommended? kTorrent? It’s crashed on me several times in the last couple days…and ate up every bit of memory the system had this morning.
This isn’t the first time I’ve tried Ubuntu (or Linux for that matter). Several times in the past few years (since 2002 actually), I’d get the “Linux Bug” and repartition my hard drive to be able to try out some new distro. This would normally come about after I’d read some positive review of said distro (or from a friend). What have I tried in the past? I started out on Mandrake (now Mandriva), moved to SUSE 8 & 9, then MEPIS (great distro btw), and now Ubuntu.
I’ve been experimenting with Linux more often lately and have found several blogs out there to be very helpful. I’ve stumbled upon some pretty good information and hope to post it here when I stumble upon it from time to time.
Initially I considered paying for hosting on my own blog - just to learn the ins and outs of Wordpress or CMS Made Simple. But the truth of the matter is - I’m more interested in tinkering with the technology than coming up with sample content.
I decided that in order to tinker without disrupting the smooth operation of my workhorse PC, I ought to just build a testing box. In the event that I can actually tinker enough to stop wanting to tinker (like that’s going to happen), I also wanted the PC to serve a dual role as an eventual Media Center PC (Windows or otherwise). So I laid out some requirements:
Multiple Core - I’ve read that the latest versions of software that play High-Def video (DVD & Blu-Ray) recommend having dual core.