Doom3 BFG edition

a few days ago, i saw over at shacknews that Doom3 BFG edition has been announced.... Updated gfx, new maps etc.... I think this is a great thing.... along with the re-mastered versions of monkey island, upcoming baulders gate 1 & 2 etc... updating solid games with new engines etc is a great thing in…

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SCEP 2012

So we've done a few production SCCM 2012 design/installs now.... and the bit im most impressed with (apart from the general speed and new management UI) is SCEP (System Centre Endpoint Protection) 2012. It is just so incredibly easy (as it should be) to deploy clients, check on status, force scans, force definition updates and…

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64-bit gaming engines – its about time

http://www.shacknews.com/article/73886/dice-64-bit-only-frostbite-games-coming-in-2013 considering its been impossible to buy a 32 bit processor for a number of years.... im also of the opinion that win8 should be 64 bit only....... as places that still have 32-bit only apps will still have the supported OS, Win7 to use for a number of years yet.... but meh - thats…

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Now thats weird

So for my home TV setup i have 1 TV aerial on the roof 1 coax cable running down to my server room a cheapy dick smith aerial splitter (1 to 3) - from my old house.... a kasier-bass network TV tuner (which as previously discussed is awesome) a PDL (Lexcom home) coax to network…

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Blogging and new clients

So - yesterday i visited my first client that has ever come us (adexis) via this blog - only a small engagement, but knocked off a major issue they had apparently been having for 3 years.... cool. Oh - and apparently i fucking swear a lot.... meh.... thats me.

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Symantec infection report for 2011

found this over at anandtech - http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=24613 which links to this PDF report - http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/b-istr_main_report_2011_21239364.en-us.pdf I dont necessarily have a lot of time for Symantec - as obviously, increasing fear drives their business, but if you take the figures in the report as accurate - its quite interesting. The title of the Anandtech article is…

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Avengers....

Yes - like many (many) others - i'll add to the general chorus of "The avengers is awesome" by stating that i thought the avengers was awesome! I already subscribed to the "Joss whedon is my master now" T-shirt i got for the wife a few years back (she is a bigger fan than me)…

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