Category: Tech
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Doom is back in 2009 – A leak from Nepal
So, the great FPS game will be back before the end of the year 2009. Either the launch campaign started early in Nepal or the bus drivers are using their vehicles as video game weapons (the latter would explain the extraordinarily high frequency of dramatic road accidents there).
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DirectX: 8, 9, 10 or 11?
The arrival of Windows 7 also annonces the arrival of a new updated DirectX to serve the PC gamers’ community. We already knew that Vista did not have the favour of the gamers (who often stayed with Windows XP) and that had (among other things) some significant impact on DirectX 10 that required Vista. Will…
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Google and ICANN reach for the non-latin world
The ICANN started to allow non-latin alphabet to be used in the domain names to support half of the word which is actually using a non-latin alphabet (Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, etc.) Google decided to celebrate with an anti-latin graphic to great their visitors.
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Best PDF reader
With the repeated announcement of (minor) incidents with the security of the original PDF reader from Adobe, I wondered what could be a good replacement. Obviously, it seems important to stay around free or low prices (Adobe Acrobat: Windows/Mac/Linux, Basic: free, Pro: $299), but is it possible to beat the Adobe product to read PDF…
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Give your Linux a Mac look
Mac4Lin v1.0 is a free download for Linux systems which will allow your machine to appear very similar to a recent Mac.
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More power for your games (free)
If you want to grab the maximum CPU power for your PC video game (or any other PC application, by the way), there is a free utility that will ensure that the PC CPU does not spend to much time on anything else: Game Booster. It may be bad for a correctly balanced performance, but…
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Compute the PSU for your next computer
It is not often easy to correctly evaluate the exact power needed for the Power Supply Unit (PSU) of your computer (if you buy primary parts and go the DIY way). Here is a calculator that will help you find the power output exactly needed for your PC configuration:
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The transparent factory of VW
This factory exists in Dresden (Germany) and the visitors can see all the steps of the building of their own car. Right before your eyes. YouTube link However, my own experience with other car factories is that -even if they are not completely different- this is really slow manufacturing.
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User manual of OpenLDAP
A good bookmark: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux and Samba Users is a user manual for OpenLDAP; But it does a lot more than merely explaining the installation of this directory on Debian Linux. It can be considered as a proper training to OpenLDAP in more ways than one. But if you…