JamesGecko

So, you just had to go and (re)install Windows. But you were dual booting Ubuntu 9.10 alpha, or another Linux distro that ships with the brand new GRUB2. Now Windows has taken over the MBR and you don’t have the menu to boot into Linux anymore! None of the hundreds of tutorials for reinstalling GRUBwork with GRUB2! What are you going to do? Well, you could read the fine manual, but you’re too lazy.

Up until recently, I’ve had a tendency to categorize video game difficulty under two headings. Such a situation would be “fake difficulty.” If player falls into the lava because they didn’t know that the grappling hook controls were inverted, there wasn’t much they could have done to prevent that. It’s knowledge based, not skill based. So we try to avoid that in game design. But the our classification the runs into problems.

Perhaps you’ve heard of that exciting new filesystem called ext4. Perhaps you’re a MORON who knows the risks and runs it on your primary system anyway. Perhaps your laptop battery dies every now and than. Well, hey. Would you look at that? That folder marked lost+found? That is the only folder in the root directory of my primary hard disk. All those numbered files inside? That’s my system files, my program files, my documents, my 500+ tomboy note collection, my music, ALL my class work for the past three years, and almost every line of code I’ve ever written.

After a viral countdown-style launch, Opera has finally unveiled their secret plan to revolutionize the internet. It pretty much just involves bundling a basic, easy to use web server with their browser. It’s pretty slick, actually. It’s strictly HTML and Javascript, so no PHP or Python server side magic allowed. Instead, they’ve got an ajaxy Javascript API thing built in. You take advantage of it by programming little webapps called services.

It’s official! Windows 7 Starter is the new Windows Home Basic. The silly, arbitrary limitations (only being able to run three programs at a time) that previous versions of Starter had have been exchanged for new ones. Lets take a look at the official listof what’s missing. That leaves us with two, four, and seven. Ouch.You can’t use your netbook as a portal to the larger media collection on a desktop?