Computer used: 2009 Mac Pro with 8 GB memory, a 1 GB Apple graphics card, and OS X 10.9 Mavericks Purchase Skyrim on Steam. (By waiting for the right sale, I got it for $5.) Download ThePortingTeam’s Wine wrapper for Skyrim. Follow the installation instructions under “Installation”. Run Skyrim at least once. At this point Skyrim worked excellently except for … Continue reading →
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Some of my fellow geeks seem surprised when they learn I’m happy that Android phones are doing so well. But even though I’m using an iPhone now, I’d prefer that it be a difficult choice; I may like Apple products, but I want there to always be someone out there that keeps them innovating, refining, and generally working hard to … Continue reading →
Steve Jobs has little use for computer games. Inconveniently, his customers are quite interested, and that’s been a problem since 1984. I can’t source most of this, so you’ll have to assume that my memory isn’t too fuzzy, and I wouldn’t lie to you. But while plenty of Apple engineers have been happy to help out game developers here and … Continue reading →
Seems that I have two VHS copies of the “Gentleman’s Agreement” Shadowrun movie. I found the better of the two, but I still played with the brightness settings a bit in iMovie to make Jerry’s Toaster work show up better. The initial team meetup scene remains dark as heck, though. This is Part One… … Continue reading →
Actual conversation from work yesterday: Coworker: Hey, the vendor put the wrong video card in this box. Me: Could be worse, they could have just put a ham sandwich in there. CW: Yeah, could lead to hardware incompatibilities. Me: Well, maybe if it had a PCI-X interface… CW: The good news is that Mac OS X and Windows 7 already … Continue reading →
I bought Starr an iPod nano for Christmas 2007, in the hopes that she could use it to listen to her music library and crochet podcasts on her work commute (nearly as long as mine). As well, she received a device that played her iPod through her car stereo. This caused a problem: the device plugged into her cigarette lighter, … Continue reading →
I’m really losing patience with Facebook apps that lie to me in order to get themselves installed in my profile. I may never install another unless a user I know messages me directly to tell me how awesome an app is. I’m refurbishing an iMac 400 DV to give to Jesse Braxton. It’s just gathering dust, and is only worth … Continue reading →
EDIT: Short version of the rant that was in this spot: Many commenters on Slashdot are fools. Now I will go and try to write something else that’s actually interesting. … Continue reading →
Due to the red tape of services transfer, I will not have Internet at the house tonight or tomorrow. Not the end of the world, but nevertheless an annoyance. Also in the FAIL department: instead of the nap I’d intended, I spent 30 minutes finding the old TeeFive character sheet, another 60 locating and installing the legacy software on an … Continue reading →