Category Archives: Ordinateurs

Computers and that

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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Another slight of Postgres

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Arthur

Back almost 10 years ago, as mentioned probably a-many times, I exclusively used Debian to deploy Postgres database servers. That was mainly, because (officially) there were no Windows versions out yet, well, except for an older 7.2 version. My main … Continue reading →

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A slight return to Postgres

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Arthur

Years ago, I used to set up postgres on Debian servers. For a couple of test, I had to install Postgres somewhere: Installing on Windows is generally a breeze, but not needing the third-party tools, I decided to go back … Continue reading →

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Mount and Blade: with Fire and Sword

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Arthur

Earlier this year I decided to give Mount and Blade a try, only because Wikipedia describes the game as a “medieval, single-player nonlinear action role-playing video game”. For the first time, before buying the game, I decided to watch the … Continue reading →

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Surface

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Arthur

Last week-ish, I was going to write something about Microsoft Windows 8. By now you must have heard and read about how the company is chopping up their OS to fit (well, it’s officially called “optimized for”) touch-enabled devices, which … Continue reading →

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Android

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Arthur

I have been using my Android-based tablet (review of the Iconia Tab, other Android-related topical postings) now for over a year and I thought this was the perfect opportunity to do a recap and go over that device again. First … Continue reading →

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Eye of the Beholder/Grimrock

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Arthur

This is not going to be a review of sorts: However, I bought ‘Legend of Grimrock’ (producer) the other day, which is an old-style hack-and-slash dungeon crawler a la “Dungeon Master”, or, rather, more to my experience, “Eye of the … Continue reading →

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Arthur

While I’m at it: I haven’t had time to put any thoughts on games. Not that I spend my hours on playing games all the time: however, 2 or 3 months ago, I managed to finish ‘Skyrim’ (product page, wikipedia … Continue reading →

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Convendro, Soliendro

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Arthur

So, the last couple of weeks, I’ve finally decided to push for a 1.0 release of Convendro (Google Code downloads, Github code): the reason being that I thought it was getting obnoxious that it was still in ‘beta-ish’ mode. After … Continue reading →

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X3 and Elite

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Arthur

It probably doesn’t surprise anybody that I’ve added “X3: Albion Prelude” (Egosoft) to my collection of playable games. This is supposed to be an expansion to “X3:Terran Conflict” (earlier on xsamplex), but to be honest, it doesn’t feel like that: … Continue reading →

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