Jedi Academy
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is an easy win for longest game title of the year. Fortunately it’s also the best first or third person shooter so far this year. This time around is the most immersive game in the Star…
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Counter Strike 1.6
This article originally appeared in the March 2003 issue of L.A.I.D. Magazine. Published online February 28th 2003, edited September 15th 2003. Counter-strike is one of the true game success stories of the last decade. Two guys wanted to modify Sierra’s…
TightVNC
Like most computer-obsessed users I have a home server running at home. It handles my internet connection, stores my files and hosts my web, FTP, email, Certificate and VPN servers. No matter where I am I like access to my…
Select “No To All” in Windows
You’re copying data over and don’t want to delete any existing: of course the dialog box doesn’t have a “no to all” button, so you click no about a thousand times. Or follow this trick: hold down SHIFT and click…
Living with Vista x64
I’ve just finished six months of dual booting my PC with Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Ultimate x64 (the 64 bit version of Windows). Please peruse my initial installation here if you haven’t already before continuing. Let me start…
Get real control of shares in XP
I’m from an admin background and love the granular control of shares and security that come with Windows Server products and Windows 2000 Professional. In Windows XP Microsoft wanted to simplify the process with Simple File Sharing. To turn this…
Microsoft Windows Home Server
I signed up for the Microsoft Windows Home Server beta program early in the year and have been impressed and completely satisfied with the product. The final release came out a while ago, but my Microsoft PR contact never came…
Medal Of Honor Airborne
It’s been a while since I loaded up a first person shooter: I’m a big fan of real time strategy games and haven’t felt the need to rapid hand and eye coordination. Saw a few screenshots of Medal Of Honor…
64 Bit Vista
With even a passing interest in computing you would be hard pressed to have not only heard and shown interest in Microsoft Vista but also the deluge of bad press it’s received. Slower than Windows XP! User Account Control a…