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June 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:13 AM

X64 Farcry!

If you haven't already seen/beaten it, the x64 version of FarCry was released by AMD .
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:05 AM

I have saved the earth once again.

I just beat Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil . If you liked the origional , you will like the expansion. I actually enjoyed the expansion more, because the use of the PDA is primarily limited to the reading of email, and not listening to audio logs. Highly
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:27 PM

Avalanche!

My friend John Miller in Microsoft Research just got the project he works on " Avalanche " posted on Slashdot and The Register, (The National Enquirer and the Weekly World News of the technology world respectively) Avalance is a pretty cool Peer to Peer
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:13 PM

RAW Support for Windows XP

I saw this over on Robert Burke's weblog. Microsoft has released a powertoy that allows for raw image support in Windows for the following cameras: - Canon EOS 1D - Canon EOS 1Ds - Canon EOS 1D Mark II - Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II - Canon EOS D30 - Canon EOS
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:30 PM

Orca is your Friend.

One of the games I recently purchased decided it didn’t want me to run on my spiffy new x64 install. Being the resourceful person that I am, I decided to see if I could work around this little restriction. After trying the normal compatibility workarounds
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:21 PM

Blogger Smackdown! Scoble vs Joel

It seems Scoble and Joel (of Joel on software fame) are having a tiff. An amusing read .
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Friday, June 03, 2005 10:04 PM

Headphones and x64 laptops

Here is a helpful hint for those running x64 on some laptop models If you try to use headphones and the onboard speakers don’t mute, you can turn them off by going to the audio mixer (run->sndvol32, or double clicking on the speaker) Options->Properties->Adjust
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Friday, June 03, 2005 1:25 AM

What's on your desk?

Being the hardware junkie that I am, one of the neat things about my job is the hardware I get to play with. On the Windows development side of things pretty much everyone has multiple machines. They are used for various tasks such as: Selfhosting – this
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