May 14
As reported at play, GTA IV was tested as 100% compatible with the current model of PS3 but not with older versions which retained PS2 compatibility via hardware custom chips.
Apr 30
Some of the guys at work have been reporting for several days that they haven’t been able to send email when working off-site and connecting to the internet by their Vodafone 3G dongles.
Specifically, Thunderbird was saying that it received an invalid server response of “421 too many connections”.
Apr 29
After spending an hour or so today trying to work out why scponly logins to upload files to one of our servers were no longer working, I found the answer:
scponly no longer supports scp.
Read that again. I kid ye not.
Mar 15
Feb 11
With the rumoured (hopefully) imminent launch of new MacBook Pro models, I thought I’m commit to blog a collection of thoughts I have about how Apple could improve it, how much I’d like to see them make the suggested change, and how likely I think it is that they’ll do so…
Feb 01
There are several things which annoy me about Nintendo right now… amongst them the shameless price-gouging for Virtual Console games, the DRM which prevents you from backing up your saved games from your console to your SD card (what was the thinking behind this one??), the hopelessly slow SD write-speed when you do actually find something that you can copy, the inability to run copied data from the SD card, the lack of any form of online mass-storage support - I could go on.
However, right now, it is Nintendo Europe who are in my cross-hairs - and I’m left wondering exactly what they think they’re playing at.
Jan 24
As described in some detail at Ars Technica, Mac OS 10.5 will log all filesystem activity on a volume to a .fseventsd directory in the root of the volume. For removable media this is at best not helpful, and at worst actively damaging.
Jan 12
This is without a doubt the best video review of a game that I’ve ever seen 