I recently bought a copy of The Sims 2 but when I installed it, I found it was stuck at a resolution of 800×600, and I couldn’t get it to run any higher. My laptop has a native resolution of 1024×768, so it would be much better to run the game at that level. The … [Read More »]

Just completed 20,000 workunits on SETI – yay. Time to move a couple of machines back over to Boinc now that they seem to have fixed the worst of their hardware problems.

As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, we have been buying the Buffy and Angel DVD boxed sets and watching the series in order. When first released, each set (two sets to a season, three DVDs per set, four episodes per DVD) cost over $80. More recently, some stores have been trying to move excess stock … [Read More »]

I’ve been putting in some very long hours at work over the last few weeks – so much to do, so little time to do it in. It’s a heap of fun, but very tiring. In order to keep myself sane while working late – particularly the boring stuff like building and tesing VMware images … [Read More »]

Scot Finnie writes a newsletter about lots of different types of technology – delivered by email once a month or so. Amongst other things, he has had extensive coverage of the upcoming WindowsXP Service Pack 2 – which according to his special edition newsletter, is now available – kind of ! I suggest you read … [Read More »]