Doom 3

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Aug 102004
 

If you’re into gaming, then go get Doom3. If you’ve never played Doom before, you’ll be thrilled by the awesome graphics, the neat effects and every bit of detail in the game. If you are like me, playing FPS games since Doom, then you’ll be happy to find that the chainsaw made it to this version of Doom. “Now find some meat”.

Be sure to get the latest drivers for you videocards: I was one version behind and had some nasty hangups, but after upgrading things runs smooth. Albeit that my P4-2.6GHz with 1GB RAM and a ATI Radeon 9600Pro only allows me to play on 1024×768 High Detail. Higher resolutions or switching to Ultra High Detail makes the game choppy. And we don’t want motion-sickness, now do we?

Get the latest ATI drivers: here
Get the latest NVIDIA drivers: here
Get DirectX 9.0c: here or here

And while you’re at it: pre-order one of these!

 Posted by at 09:08

Oracle ISV kit

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Aug 092004
 

Last Friday I received my Oracle ISV kit, as described in this post. Its contents are two boxes: one with the Windows CD’s and one with the Linux CD’s.

The strange thing about the delivery is in the DHL part. Oracle sent me the kit via DHL, and earlier last week they TRIED to deliver the package at my address. But I was at work, nobody was home, so they left a message that I should call them for another appointment. When you call them, you will learn that DHL in The Netherlands does NOT deliver outside office hours. That’s a service level from the stone age! What normal household has people in the house during office hours? I arranged something with my girlfriend, but otherwise I would have to collect the package at their headquarters in Apeldoorn. That’s a 40-minutes-trip by car. That sucks! In other words: DHL (at least the Dutch one) sucks!

 Posted by at 15:37

Dia as Visio replacement/alternative

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Aug 092004
 

If you draw diagrams on a regular basis, chances are that you already own a softwareprogram that helps you with that. But if you have to draw diagrams only on a very irregulare basis, Microsoft’s Visio might be a bit expensive. Consider using Dia, a gtk+ based diagrammers tool. It’s free, and there is a Windows version as well.

 Posted by at 14:56

UPX

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Aug 062004
 

If your executables are growing too big, consider using UPX. Free and it really shrinks your executables!

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