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Don't let them bite you...
From the Labs
If you’ve listened to recent podcasts or seen my forum avatar then you probably haven’t failed to notice I’ve been looking forward to Valve’s latest FPS, Left 4 Dead (L4D), with some anticipation. There’s just nothing quite like pumping hordes of the undead full of lead as they come charging and screaming at you. It’s possible Valve have seen the popularity of the HL2 Gary’s mod’s zombie survival mode..
When Games Had Few Bugs
Adam Piper
I’m currently in love with Fallout 3 (to the point I want to make a non-working Bottle Cap Mine) but it has the major and massive problem of bugs, lots of bugs. This got me to thinking; remember the old PS1 and the old PC games? I never had bugs in any of them. Sure you had the occasional one that you had to do something REALLY specific to do but..
Will Steam get Left 4 Dead?
Kenneth Henry
Whilst I wasn't as hardcore as Combatus regarding Left 4 Dead and waited until last night to give it a quick play, it's hard to imagine that after pre-ordering on Steam the economy would kill the dollar-pound exchange rate and a pre-order price war would erupt with Amazon as the winner with £19.97, or £21 if you want it first class and definitely have it arrive by the weekend. Previously..
A gaming rig?
Truth?
Well... taking advice from my previous blog comments, I decided to buy a Sapphire HD 3850. But I was just wondering, would my current rig be satisfactory for gaming. I'm not one who's adament to have top notch graphics and awesomly high frame rates. As long as games work, are playable and graphics are distinguishable; I'm not fussed. This is my current rig: Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 512mb DX10 CPU: Intel Pentium..
My latest ubuntu and PVR adventures
wazhims gadget goodies blog
Hi everyone. So, I have been looking at ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop. My Laptop is for want of a better word the best of the el-cheapo. An MSI VR-610. I know, I know, it's not exactly going to set the world on fire, but I got what i could afford. Now that I'm doing work,i hope to get a better 1 some day soon. It's good enough for the..
Waiter, theres a robot in my soup..
Box o Tricks
In the last post, I had finally gotten the enclosure up on the wall and all the components installed. The cooling pump had been primed and everything was up and running. Yet again, however, I didnt really have an idea of how I was going to implement a few things before I started building. Basically, it was a matter of crossing that bridge when it came up, now I had..
Purple 'Project Violet'
Project Violet
Project Violet Introduction: Started upgrading my pc just before christmas 2008, early pressies was the excuse and from there I seemed to have got the modding bug I named my rig 'Project Violet' in May when I purchaced 6x30cm UV CCFL's and 20x3mm UV led's, it seems to have spiraled from there. Rig spec : Q9450 @ 3.47 Ghz OCZ Flex XLC 2x1GB @ 1151mhz 700W OCZ Sli PSU 74GB Raptor 2x 320GB HDD's Zotac 8800GT AMP @..
Fan-nying around
Project Bruiser
okay a quick update for you I have replaced all the stock fans with nice blue ones, added some ac-ryan fan grills, and am working on modding the molex powered fans into 3 pin ones. also i have added a lian li DVD bezel / faceplate , which required chopping up the 5.25" holder bracket! I have also bought the extreme watercooling kit from tom over at chilledpc!
BSG Worklog Part 6: Engine Pods
Battlestar Galactica
Ok, here's how I made the engine pods. Starting with insulation foam, I cut out the basic shapes for the 4 pods, and used spray adhesive to glue the two parts together. I then carved them all down to the rounded shape you see here. I made some paper templates (two large, two small) of the triangular end so they would be..