Author Archives: Arthur

Mass Effect 3

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Arthur

Mass Effect 3, then. Shepard and EDI, at it[/caption] So yeah: by now you may have already read my review of Mass Effect 2. If you didn’t, go read that first. Mass Effect 3 was released this year (wikipedia), with … Continue reading →

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Horrors and other news stories

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Arthur

Back when I was a youngling studying civil engineering in the Netherlands, the question of a direct railway connection between the cities Zwolle and Lelystad (“Hanzelijn”) was a popular discussion subject. If you’re not familiar with the topography of the … Continue reading →

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Civilization V

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Arthur

I‘ve been playing Civilization 5 (wikipedia link) now for a while and I’m still mixed about it. If you played and loved Civ4 (Earlier here): it’s nothing like it. The game designers drastically changed several game features: First of all, … Continue reading →

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Ostensibly, a president

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Arthur

So, it looks like Obama indeed won the presidency, much to the world’s delight or fright, depending on your political views. As posted earlier, I only slightly followed the elections. At ‘Election Night’, I turned off the TV the moment … Continue reading →

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Sandy

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Arthur

Earlier, I was under the impression that this year’s hurricane season would end up fairly, unremarkable. Luckily, I’m far from being a meteorologist: Just last week, Oct 29th, hurricane Sandy made landfall in NJ, USA, causing major outages and damage … Continue reading →

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Treeview and storage

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Arthur

I‘ve not written a while about programming, let alone anything about that mailing program, RoundAbout. Today’s subject is the Windows TreeView control and its data section, the TreeNodes. As you probably know, a TreeView shows data in an hierarchical way, … Continue reading →

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Seagate open thyself

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Arthur

A year ago or so, I bought a 500 gig Seagate GoFlex portable harddrive. Unfortunately, I dropped it and started to have troubles with it. Initially, I thought the drive was just failing on me but upon thorough investigation I … Continue reading →

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Dragons and Laptops

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Arthur

What is funnier than ‘America’s Funniest Home Video Show’? Why, items that are wrongly priced on on-line shopping sites! I mean, a 10,000 dollar laptop that features a second generation i3 processor, a tame Radeon processor and yes, 6 GB … Continue reading →

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Arthur

I have never played the original XCOM game (nee UFO: Enemy Unknown), back in the mid 90s. The famous turn-based-squad Microprose game obviously took the gaming world by surprise and people have been talking now for ages to recreate the … Continue reading →

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Unity dialogs wars

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Arthur

Something that reminded me of the issues regarding Unity new ‘touch-based devices desktop paradigm’ that I noticed earlier, which I was going to mention in the previous posting: When you copy (cut/move) a large set of files, Nautilus will show … Continue reading →

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Madness du Systeme Linuxi

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Arthur

The previous posting was actually supposed to be detailing the conversion of my DV-5 to Linux, a process that I have done so many times that I can do this with my eyes closed. Sort of. It took a bit … Continue reading →

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Activities in Linux

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Arthur

Now that I’ve finally moved on to bigger hardware, I can officially retire my 2008 DV-5 1157-CA (this link doesn’t exist anymore). It has served me well, while costing me two harddrives, because, well, it obviously lost one fan at … Continue reading →

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A beach runs here

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Arthur

Summer’s been over now 10 or so days and looking outside, it feels like Fall (or Autumn) snapped in here before we could even think of typical Fall things, like seeing the leafs colour and/or raking them up. I believe … Continue reading →

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