Category Archives: Ordinateurs

Computers and that

Oh noes

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Arthur

Earlier this week, Friday to be exact, Kerebos Productions released their much anticipated sequel to “Sword of the Stars”, “Sword of the Stars II”. The game was originally distributed on Steam: however, this ended up being a (so it was … Continue reading →

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Gnome 3 and Oneiric Ocelot

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Arthur

To my surprise, I saw that Ubuntu’s “Oneiric Ocelot” was released, which I decided to let go through via Ubuntu’s Update manager. I ended up double surprised when I found out that, from version 11.10 and on, only the Unity … Continue reading →

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Out and In

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Arthur

A glorious moment: Today I’m finally retiring my 2004/2005 Centrino laptop: it was initially my work laptop in a previous work life and was eventually passed on to me with the permission of management of said employer. It has served … Continue reading →

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Review: Acer Iconia Tablet A500

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Arthur

I read an article that discussed the latest statistics on wordwide tablet use. Its conclusion was that the Apple IPad is still reigning supreme: that is, even after this season’s release storm of Android-based tablets (Acer, Asus, Motorola) and others … Continue reading →

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Crysis

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Arthur

I‘ve always been hesitant of trying Crysis (2007) mainly because of the fear my current hardware wouldn’t support the notorious system requirements and other related video graphic cards tweaks that are needed to get this to run nice and smooth. … Continue reading →

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You asked: Kubuntu or Ubuntu

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Arthur

Just yesterday, Canonical released one of the most important Ubuntu versions of its history: “Natty Narwhal”. The most famous Linux based desktop officially did away with the Gnome shell and replaced it with the Gnome based Unity shell (wikipedia to … Continue reading →

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DD-WRT

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Arthur

I had a WRT54G (version 8) left over and thought of using it as either a repeater or a client: however, I believe that since V7, Cisco has stopped supporting client/bridge modes in their (consumer routers). I’ve been wanting to … Continue reading →

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Mass Effect 2

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Arthur

I was going to write a rant about the current state of video games, but I just happened to finish off ‘Mass Effect 2’ (wikipedia) after 25 hours of (clocked) gameplay. That should tell enough. Back in the early 90s … Continue reading →

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Mice, a mouse.

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Arthur

How many mice (computer mice that is) does one go through in one’s life? I’ve never thought of that but I think I’ve had more than 10 the last what, 18 years. My very first mouse was the one that … Continue reading →

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Just Cause 2

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Arthur

So yeah, I finished the main storyline of “Just Cause 2” the other day and generally the game left a good impression: after you finish up the main line, “Just Cause 2” goes into “mercenary mode”, a free-as-you-will mode to … Continue reading →

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The devil is in the SerialPort

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Arthur

I‘m surprised how many people look here for help on the .Net 2.0 SerialPort component (reference, which leads to this posting). I have plenty of example code, but I haven’t had time to re-test the project or even try com0com … Continue reading →

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Broken French

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Arthur

Hier, j’ai mis à jour à WordPress 3.0 et remarqué que, malgré les avertissements sur le Web, mon fidèle AHCommentCentral travaillait encore sur OK. Je n’ai pas fait quelque chose pour les sources depuis, peut-être il ya 4 ans. J’ai … Continue reading →

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X3: Terran Conflict

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Arthur

I‘ve been a long-time fan of Egosoft’s X3 series: A while ago, I used to play ‘X3: Reunion’, but I have slowly moved to the game’s successor ‘X3: Terran Conflict’ (company info, Wikipedia info and Metacritic reviews). Following in the … Continue reading →

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