Posted in games on Jul 29th, 2008
With a little work, I finally got the PC version of Civilization IV (Civ4) running on my iMac in Parallels. The game uses DirectX 9 and this was the source of most of my problems. Clearing up the graphic glitches was a two step process:
First, I had to enable DirectX Shaders in the Parallels Configuration [...]
Posted in blogging, linking logs on Aug 31st, 2007
Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2007-08-28 through 2007-08-31:
Fast Fix for Cracked Tile | Tile | How-to | This Old House - Having recently suffered the indignity of a cracked tile, I can tell you this page was a lifesaver.
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Simply said…How To Blog - Dumb Little [...]
Posted in blogging, linking logs on Aug 22nd, 2007
Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2007-08-21 through 2007-08-22:
PuttyTabs - Tabs for PuTTY - PuTTY is by the far the best terminal client for Windows. When I was a Windows user, I would have a dozen PuTTY windows open and hanging around. Perhaps this application could have helped me get a bit [...]
Posted in tech on Jul 7th, 2007
Quick note: I’ve got a 20″ iMac on the way. It’s got the 256 MB video option and 2 GB of RAM. It left Shanghai earlier today and has already arrived in Anchorage. I’ll post more when it arrives. In the meantime, the video below should help illustrate why I’m switching [...]