• 25Sep 07

  Moranar: San Andreas

  I finished GTA: San Andreas late last night, after a few months of playing. Great story throughout, and a climactic ending. I'm also happy about the fact that, should I decide to play again, there's still 15% of the game to complete: several racing challenges, the quarry, unique jumps and a couple of girlfriends are the things I remember to have missed. There must be more. Plus of course, I can just drive, swim, and fly.
  
  Seriously, if you have the opportunity to play it, do so. Don't let this great game pass you by.
  • Posted Sep 25, 2007 6:31 am GMT
  • Category: Games
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• 15Sep 07

  A computer to work and play with

  My rig is not a particularly modern one. Suffice it to say that it strains a bit when running Far Cry on high settings, and that the mean release date of my games is two or three years old. I use my computer to work and play, and since I have the disk space, I set it up in a novel way -at least for me.
  
  I have two XP installs on it, and Ubuntu Linux. Plus, other partitions are there for my music collection, or if I need to test other operating systems, such as Vista, Open Solaris, *BSD or the like. I study, in case you wondered, Software Engineering.
  
  The setup is a bit inefficient to update (I download some patches twice), but it allows me to keep separated games and work. One setup has Visual Studio, Eclipse, and many other tools I program with; the other is loaded with games. The main other advantages are that the Windows registries get less cluttered, and that defragmentation is faster. And also, that, should I ever decide to erase my games partition and reinstall, the work one would be unaffected. I think the extra work is acceptable.
  • Posted Sep 15, 2007 2:07 am GMT
  • Category: Computers
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• 15Sep 07

  "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu lies sleeping"

  The one good thing about Vista is that it introduced me to use the Sleep function. This was on my aunt's computer. When I got back to my own little rig, which has Ubuntu Linux and XP on it, I tried it, and it works perfectly. Yay!
  
  I had been aware of this innovation before, but the state on Linux was a bit doubtful, I'd heard, and since this isn't a notebook, the need for sleep wasn't great. I'm glad to report that it worked perfectly.
  
  I realise that this little post leads nicely into my computer's setup. This will be the subject of my next post.
  • Posted Sep 15, 2007 1:40 am GMT
  • Category: Technology
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