PS360 & XBOX3 Swap the Thumbsticks

The thumbsticks work better when you swap them. It's odd.

DX10 on Windows XP

If you update to the latest DirectX 9 and look around your preferable torrent site, the dx10 patch works, but make sure you get the latest build. Some of the dx10 features work in some games (Crysis & Stalker among others) where others do not without major tweaking ( Bioshock). Just to clear everything up, it works.

On another note, make sure if your video card is GDDR3 to dissable onboard memory sharing in your bios. Found a MAJOR performance boost doing this --I'm talking 10-20 fps difference. I have an Nforce 430 with a GeForce 8600 GTS OC and went from 880 mb to 256, but it was completely worth it.

Opera 9.5

So I'm in the process of trying out Opera's new web browser version 9.5 beta edition. and it's really quite nice. It's a lot faster than firefox, it has widgets, a torrent downloader, and RSS reader all built in. I'll give it 9/10. It has all the features I need built in and very easy to use design.

Kudos Opera. Now let's all just hope they don't want us to pay for it like they used to. 

Installing Windows XP inside of (K)Ubuntu

Follow a couple of easy step commands and voila!

Quake Enemy Territory Ubuntu

I recently installed ETQW on Ubuntu 8.04. The installation wasn't as straight forward as I had hoped, but after getting the full client installer off of the internet and with the help of a few cut and paste codes into terminal off the internet, I was up and running in no time. Now I can log into terminal session to get the most out of my game!


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Wow. After setting up ETQW, I'm able to max out my graphics settings and the game runs smoothly under a 720P resolution. There's no lag as opposed to Vista.

To note, I'm running:
AMD 64 X2 with two 2.3ghz processor cores
Nvidia 6100LE - nforce 430 - with MSI 8600GTSOC PCI-Express to a total of 880mb ram
2mb DDR2

ETQW autodetects that the game should run in medium-high settings; however, under Ubuntu, this system is blazing at all graphics maxed.

Quake Enemy Territory Ubuntu

I recently installed ETQW on Ubuntu 8.04. The installation wasn't as straight forward as I had hoped, but after getting the full client installer off of the internet and with the help of a few cut and paste codes into terminal off the internet, I was up and running in no time. Now I can log into terminal session to get the most out of my game!

Ubuntu 8.04 Simply Amazing

I'm always excited to try a new linux distro in search of an alternative to Monoplosoft (M$) & Crapple (Mac). I finally found that pick with Ubuntu.
Now with their latest update to version 8.04 lovably named "Hefty Hippo", I can do everything I could do in windows and so much more.

Windows games? Through a well maintained windows API called wine: yes.
Widgets? With a program called screenlets: Yes.

Better organized start menu which organizes your applications into program types.

Better maintained software through an update program that updates not only the core operating system, but every install program on your system.

Everything is a click away. If you want to do something, all you do is click Applications, Add/Remove, and select the kind of program you want.

You can make Ubuntu look anyway you want. If you like Vista, download a vista theme from gnome-look, or if you love Apple, get a OS X theme and you'll be running in your aqua beauty in no time.
I'm currently running the Ubuntu Studio theme with all the desktop effects that both Vista and OSX offer with so much more.

I would recommend Ubuntu to anyone who's looking for a fast, secure, stable, gorgeous, free, and diverse operating system.