A relatively short list of things that I’ve found in Civilization IV that tick me off.
Archive for October, 2007
With my new computer one of the things I wanted to try was to see exactly how much functionality I could achieve on Windows using only freely available software. Having gotten most things like multimedia playback, word processing and other essentials out of the way I found I needed a decent replacement for Nero. After using ImgBurn for a while, which is workable but better suited for burning and ripping discs rather than building them, I stumbled upon InfraRecorder (IR) on Sourceforge. The software is apparently intended to be an open source replacement for Nero so it seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. Here are my thoughts on it.
A Melbourne University PhD student has developed technology to make broadband internet up to 200 times faster without having to install expensive fibre optic cables. 250Mb/s ADSL would be nice.
Now I would like to start by saying that I’m a big fan of both comics and, for the most part I don’t mind the rivalry between the two comics and the similarities between them. Occasionally though I come across a comic that is just way too close for comfort.
Using Linux? Take part in Phoronix’s 2007 Linux Graphics Survey.
Recently Australia has started to see a kind of evolution of the way we are presented with television. By this I mean networks putting more effort (and money) into allowing us to see programs soon after they are aired in the US. Of course the marketing speak like “streamed direct from the US” sometimes makes you wonder how they can consider a week later to be “direct” but this is easy to forgive.