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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]