(Updated 30 Oct) Quake 4… the game I wanted to hate.
I hated the trailer
I didn’t go into detail in the First Impressions post, but the video trailer of Quake 4 that was shown at E3 left me seriously unimpressed.
Why? The plot seemed utterly predictable… and it pretty much is. The interaction with other characters seemed [...]

Where I run around the stores at Macquarie with my pants down taking pictures and noting prices and first impressions. Only without my pants down.

Installing VSS 2005 didn’t enable it in Visual Studio for me. Perhaps I did it wrong – I never saw Client Tools as an option. Anyway, once installed:
In Visual Studio, Tools, Options, Source Control… Pick the plugin.
If no plugins are listed, REGSVR32 ssscc.dll and RemoteVssScc.dll (in the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe directory), then they should be.
And [...]

I just read a great post over on Mr R’s blog about what makes for a good support technician. Couldn’t agree more.
I found him through our referrer logs. He seems to think that this is SpongBo’s blog, I guess I will have to post more.
mr r, pinkjoint, tech support, troubleshooting, shifty

tags: Software

One of the new features for OEMs only that was released at the same time as MCE 2005 Update Rollup 2 is support for a new mode, called Away Mode.
How to describe it… It’s more ON than Suspend/Standby/S3, but less ON than ON. Not really a power saving mode as such. Needs a BIOS that [...]

Shifty solves two problems and makes a DotNetNuke site even better.