a bunch of the guys got together on friday night and we tried out the latest command and conquer expansion pack. that’s right…a LAN party. there i’ve said it. it’s true. our first LAN party was probably over 15 years ago and it seems that things haven’t changed much. actually, [...]
after installing a fresh copy of windows vista on my laptop, i was met with great shock and chagrin that a clean vista install takes up 15 GB. that can’t possibly be right, i thought to myself, so i started to look at what was going on.
the windows OS looks like it’s about 7GB. [...]
after the ridiculous fiasco with the wii version of guitar hero 3 and then the even more ridiculous fiasco with the disc replacement process where you have to mail in your game and be gameless for weeks, it seems that activision and red octane are trying to make things right.
without any notice or any real [...]
the guitar hero 3 disc came in the mail yesterday. all told, i think it was about a three week turnaround for me to receive the replaced disc. surround sound does work properly now, but the sounds that come from the game when you mess up are different. i’m not sure if [...]
i’ve been tinkering with the home network trying to figure out why i’ve been having issues with the media server. everything seemed to be working decently for a while, but recently, i’ve been getting stuttering or pausing video.
so i sent in my guitar hero 3 disc to activision so that they can replace the disc with a fixed stereo version of the game. this won’t really affect people who don’t have their wiis connected to a stereo system of some sort, but for me, it was a huge issue.
it took about [...]
it’s been pretty stressful here at work lately. there’s been a lot of stuff going on which has directly led to the decline of my quality of life. i have been working pretty hard at things that don’t have any documentation or even worse are documented wrong.
all of yesterday was spent being pissed [...]
since apple has transitioned to intel cpus, this has opened a world of possibilities for people who are motivated enough to try and run OS X on non-apple hardware. this, of course, sounds like a ridiculously fun project to me. there are forums that help people set up their computers with the operating [...]
we got guitar hero for the wii when it came out. it turns out that the wii version of guitar hero has a pretty serious bug in that the dolby pro logic II audio only outputs mono sound. worse yet, the surround speakers will start to output sound intermittently!
activision’s official fix for this [...]
last night geoff and i met up in palo alto at taxi’s. i’ve never been there before and their burgers and curly fries were pretty good. i can’t remember when the last time i ate a burger. it was good catching up with geoff. it’s been a while since we last [...]