It’s always fun to stare a while at the Valve Hardware Survey.

tags: Games

“Episodic” seems to be quite the buzzword at the moment.
Minerva: Metastasis is the first episode of what promises to be a wordy and well-made single-player mod series for Half-Life 2. The gist of it is that you’re some type of ex-Combine operative, and you’re investigating something on a small, once-deserted island… that’s suddenly become some [...]

Sooo…
You’re cobbling together a little utility that does file uploads in your shiny new VS2005…
And you want to upload a file to a server using HTTP, HTTPS or FTP…
And you find the System.Net.Webclient class, and think “Wow! That looks perfect!”
And you find it does everything you need it to do in about four lines of [...]

Happy birthday to Gabe and Tycho, who enjoy a comically antagonistic relationship much like Shifty and I. Only funner, and better-drawn.
They’ve also completely redone the site (mumbling something about gemstones on tracks), which is going to take a little getting used to – I mean, hell, it’s been seven years with the old layout, and [...]

Looks like the cheap (sub-$AUD200) and easy option to get dual-band wireless in your home is here – here’s the Netgear site link, from which the following marketingspeak has been liberated:
The NETGEAR Double 108 Mbps Wireless Firewall Router (WGU624) delivers two simultaneous 108 Mbps networks to ensure the highest speeds and the best quality of [...]

Did a quick run-through of JB and DSE Powerhouse today. DSE are getting heavily into Bravia promotion, and had a 40″ S-series on display, which was impressive (and about $5200), but the sales guy suggested waiting for the V series (which according to their website is about $500 more expensive, but does HDMI and has [...]