Archive for September, 2008

Apple’s Excellent Customer Service

Lately, I’ve grown extremely irritant towards anybody who does not show a gesture of “kindness”. Clients at work who do not say “Goodbye” before they hang up, drivers who do not bother stopping at the zebra crossing, random people on the street who are just rude in general. It ticks me off just by thinking [...]

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Tutorial: xorg Metamodes – Running Fullscreen Games on 1 monitor in a dual display

A problem I’ve encountered since setting up dual display using Nvidia Twinview inside linux is that when playing full screen games I run into the problem where:
a) The game tries to run across the two displays but cuts off in the middle, so you only get the game on one monitor whilst your other monitor [...]

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Tutorial: Hamachi (with GUI) in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Hamachi is a freeware application that initiates a virtual private network (VPN) between peers. This is extremely useful for initiating applications such as games over the Local Area Network (LAN).
For more information click here
This Tutorial is for setting up Hamachi with a gui based interface (optional) in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

Download Hamachi
Extract it somewhere
Open up [...]

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Geek VS Geek

There’s one thing common amongst geeks, the need to be right…amongst other geeks.
You put a geek in an unfamiliar circle and they will twiddle their thumbs, and possibly do nothing else but think about how much better they are. They’ll try and make it seem like they know something, and desperately try and put together [...]

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Room 101 is now…shut.

It is with great sadness that I will be shutting the door to Room 101. No more rants…no more ambiguous blogs. No more hidden messges…

at least…

not here.

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Hello World!

Welcome to my new blog!
You will find…rants, thoughts, tutorials, advice, humour, sarcasm and hopefully it’ll entertain you long enough before you jump to another webpage of greater interest.
Take your time, read my blog, if you feel generous, post a comment!
You will notice new things being added/edited/removed frequently as I am still settling down. If you [...]

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