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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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