In discussions over the past year, I have realised more and more that discussing role-playing, in particular Dungeons & Dragons, has become a taboo subject. Not with the general populace, but with gamers. It is not pleasant to discuss the subject anymore because the groups seem to have factionalised. It is possible to break them [...]
It was an interesting weekend for me, to some degree. On the other hand, it did get a little dull after a while.
Thanksgiving itself consisted primarily of getting up early and going shopping. I went to Kmart and bought some clothes. I also bought some games to donate to Toys for Tots. That was pretty [...]
According to an article over at c|net’s News.com, it seems this hyperthreading technology on Intel’s servers is killing performance.
Apparently, the logical processors share L1 and L2 cache. This means some big problems. Haven’t heard of anything similar with the Opterons. Mmm… I sense rising AMD shares… again.
If you haven’t noticed in the past week or so, Sony/BMG got busted for putting an effective rootkit on their CDs. This comes down to the belief that they need DRM to stem the problems of music piracy. They even put a patch out there to unhide their evil files, which opened giant security holes, [...]
Ever have one of those disastrous days? I’ve had several. But today seems to be one of them.
I will have to listen carefully to my answering machine again when I get home today, but it looks like my hip is worse than I thought. Yes, hip surgery sounds bad enough to begin with. But moreover, [...]
