Monthly Archives: May 2007

Morrowind Maps

The world of Morrowind is quite immense (I believe that Oblivion world is even bigger). Sometimes you get quests that require you to go to a specific location. Sometimes it is very simple to get there – for example it … Continue reading

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Lost: Continuity Errors – Intentional or Accidental

There is this notion in Lost community that the island is some sort of nexus that lies outside the normal time-space continuity. That the actions of characters on the island somehow influence both the past, present and the future of … Continue reading

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Morrowind Revisited

I dug out Morrowind (the precursor to Oblivion) and started playing it again. I bought this game back in 2005 but I never got far into it. By all counts this game is ancient, but still it is one of … Continue reading

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Site Outage

Must be this time of the month. The site was down most of the day today because of some issues at dreamhost. Sorry about that, but these kind of things are out of my hands. It seems that they resolved … Continue reading

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Suggest a robust POP Solution for 60-80 users

Big boss wants to move our POP3 in house. I have 60-80 employees who like to send crazy huge files all the time and we use standard POP3 hosted by a 3rd party. We want more control and faster response … Continue reading

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Why I Love Ubuntu: Reason #261

As you may or may not know, I had tons of problems with the mobo in my Dell Inspiron 4000. Essentially the DIMM2 port is shot – sometimes it works, sometimes it gives me memory read errors, sometimes it freezes … Continue reading

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How to solve the svchost.exe 100% CPU usage problem

User’s computer exhibited the following symptoms today: System would boot fine, and work without any problems when offline As soon as you connected it to the internet you would see a drastic spike in CPU usage, mainly caused by the … Continue reading

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My Account was deactivated! LOL!

From my email: Lukasz, Due to security reasons related to your pegasus account it has been disabled. Please contact us at csamhelp when you have a chance so we can discuss reactivation. Thanks, Oh noes! 8O Wait. I just remembered … Continue reading

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The Norris Rule

I have noticed a trend, which from now on I shall refer to as the The Norris Rule: Any poll with a write in option will include Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris wins every poll he appears in. No exceptions I … Continue reading

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My Computer is Realy Slow

The title of this post is the unquestionable #1 issue that IT departments all across the globe have to deal with on a daily basis. From my personal experience I would say that over a half of your tickets if … Continue reading

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Jade Empire: Final Thoughts

I finished the game yesterday. Once again, I highly recommend it. I have one complaint though: unskipable end credits. Here is a game design tip: do not fucking do this. The last thing you want to do is to annoy … Continue reading

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Jade Empire: Outlander (Sir Roderic) Bug Workaround

Last week when I reviewed Jade Empire: Special Edition I mentioned that I encountered a strange bug in the side Outlander side quest. When you defeat Sir Roderic in a debate, and it’s time for combat you are taken to … Continue reading

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The Winner of HD Media Format War

Here is my prediction: HD-DVD format has been broken, and will probably be broken again in the future. I predict that unless someone breaks BlueRay in a similar way really soon, the Sony media disks will fade into obscurity and … Continue reading

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Epic Win of The Month

I hereby nominate this image to be the Epic Win for the month of May: author unknown; found via ghacks.net First, if you know who made this image, please leave a comment here. I want to give the author full … Continue reading

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Bloglines Marked All Live Journal Feeds as Broken

I noticed today that all the Live Journal feeds I subscribe to via Bloglines have a red exclamation mark next to them. This essentially means that Bloglines can’t read the feed, and thus no updates will show up for it … Continue reading

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Save Often

There is one piece of advice that I can give you. I tell users a lot of things, but this is one thing that I can’t emphasize enough. If there is anything I want you to get out of my … Continue reading

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Monster Weekend (but not for me)

Here is a slightly amusing bit of trivia you may or may not know. This week is the super-long weekend time in Poland. Here is why: Tue, May 1 – Labor Day (public holiday) Wed, May 2 – Polish Flag … Continue reading

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Ultraviolet

I just saw Ultraviolet with Mila Jovovich. Ugh… Here is a review: Ultraviolet product Who the hell wrote this script? Mila Jovovich is hot. This is about the only good thing I can say about this movie. I think it … Continue reading

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