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10 months, 1 week ago in
Games.
Bought the gold edition of COH recently, I’ll never understand why the patches system is so disgustingly clumsy. Before I can even start a single player game, I have to go through patches after patches, wasting a lot of time in downloading the huge patches. Couldn’t Relic just allow people to use the disc to play a single player game peacefully than being forced to download patches after patches for hours (on usual ADSL) ?
The worse thing happens when you install the game, patched it and then found that you need an install in addition to the key of Opposing Fronts. Installing Opposing Fronts will net you an old version of the tree and you need to apply the patches again.
It might be my first and my last PC game from Relic. I can stand with frequent patches on open sourced software, but not commercial products, especially not for games that should be for fun.
Published
10 months, 2 weeks ago in
General.
Zone Of the Gamers is closed, as noted in a previous post in Z-O-G.ORG. Thank for your kind support all through the years. Thank you.
I’d been waiting for it to upgrade my servers (they are still running on FreeBSD 4.x). It’s here finally. Thank you very much, team FreeBSD.
FreeBSD 7.1 official announcement
Published
1 year, 2 months ago in
Life.
Too bad that I caught a cold today, hadn’t left home for a minute. Hopefully I’ll be better today after a good sleep and 2 pcs of panadol.
It has been almost 10 years since I bought my license of ACDSee V3.0 in 1999, it doesn’t support unicode until today that I received a complimentary upgrade e-mail (for my ACDSee Pro 2.0 license) to the latest ACDSee Pro 2.5.
I have been waiting for this day and it has finally come.
Published
1 year, 6 months ago in
Beer and Travel.
Had a vacation trip to Japan on 7 Aug to 13 Aug, been to Hokkaido (Sapporo, Furano, Biei, Asahikawa) and Tokyo.
Furano is a really good and pleasant place, if you plan to go there, plan your transportation carefully since the buses/trains are not very frequent.
I welcome the announcement of Nokia on open sourcing Symbian, but to attract 3rd party and amateur developers, the digital signing process must not be too restrictive as they are in S60 3rd edition and onwards.
Although I liked the idea of Open C API, I haven’t worked on it much than vanilla Symbian C++ on Nokia’s Carbide C++ IDE environment, If they can really make Open C API works like the standard API on UNIX/Linux without too much of the digital signing process, I think that will attract a lot more developers than the current digital signing model.
Let’s see how Nokia proceed with the Symbian OS, their recent phones have been quite buggy regardless of the quality of their 3rd party software.
I hope Nokia take it seriously with their actions as there are already Openmoko (an open source Linux phone stack) phones coming without too much restrictions on the developers/users like the old days of Symbian S60 2nd edition phones but without the hassle of developing on Symbian OS.
Published
1 year, 9 months ago in
General.
Finally made the move today, bought myself an RME HDSP 9632 with its BO968 AES breakout cable.
Feed the AES to my Apogee MiniDAC by an Apogee’s Wyde EYE AES cable, the difference is rather obvious comparing to my previous cards (EMU 1212m, ESI Juli@) IMHO.
Published
1 year, 9 months ago in
Beer.
Hoegaarden ! Tasty, unfiltered !
Published
1 year, 9 months ago in
Beer.
4 of my favourite beers, Chimay (Belgium), Duvel (Belgium), Maisel’s Weisse (German) and Stella Artois (Belgium)
Maisel’s Weisse is best enjoyed with a tall cup
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