I recently had a hankering to play an older (not ancient) PC game that I used
to enjoy. Since I've moved my entire desktop over to Linux (for almost a year
ago now) that meant stealing my wife's Windows laptop and trying to install
the game on that. Two FDISKs and one Windows reinstall later the laptop's HDD
is still woefully short of a game, and I'm back at square one.
This isn't an isolated case there's a whole backlist of games that in an
occasional retro mood I've felt like having another go atSeven to the point
of attempting to get some of them working in various DOS/Windows emulators on
my Linux machine (with only limited success), because it's just as much of a
pain in the proverbial posterior to get them running on later versions of
Windows as on what the games... (more)
I don't usually buy technical books. Most of the time I manage to find what
I'm looking for after a bit of hunting on the Web, virtual elbow-grease, so
to speak. However, occasionally a tree-killing madness does come over me and
Amazon gets the chance to clear the electronic cobwebs out of my bank
account.
So I'm sure much to Amazon's complete disgust - as it was almost time to
satisfy ... (more)
A contagious disease that results in oddly colored teeth? A South Seas pirate
with a penchant for eating toxic sea food? Or perhaps a superhero with really
unhelpful superpowers?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, chances are you've had your
Java blinkers on and haven't been paying attention to the rest of the
industry. Bluetooth, despite its interesting name (Bluetooth being ... (more)
I've been hearing lately that Bluetooth is making a comeback. Considering
that it had hardly gotten started when it was written off in certain
quarters, it's amusing to see a comeback prediction so soon. In any case, I
can see that short-range wireless protocols, such as Bluetooth, will
eventually be enormously useful in the device market.
The other day I was watching someone on the Under... (more)
I've been thinking a PhD student should consider doing a thesis on the life
expectancy of a pen after it's purchased. I've come up with an approximate
calculation for mine: LE (Life Expectancy) =DWU (Date of Wanting to Use)-1;
in other words, a pen will go missing the day before you really need to use
it. There's definitely a paper there somewhere waiting to be written.
This might (or mig... (more)
As well as being a contributing editor for Java Developers Journal, Jason R Briggs is a Java programmer and Development Manager for a wireless technology company, based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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