Mattiesworld

I discovered this great game site: The Independent Gaming Source which is all about indie games. While those games really feel back-to-basics, they also feel back-to-roots; you know, what gaming really is about. While I admit to be colored by some nostalgia, it really makes you ponder what good games really are about.

Due to the size of big game companies and the money involved, refreshing game concepts are too risky to try out. But this doesn’t affect the indie game developer who has nothing to loose. So we actually shouldn’t be surprised to find some very entertaining game concepts in the indie camp, be it maybe somewhat less polished or technically advanced as its ‘commercial’ siblings.

I just played “You made it” (runs fine under linux/wine) and although the concept is so simple, I was surprised how addictive it was and how I loved the added difficulty induced by a non clearing backbuffer.

If you happen to be in a situation, at work for example, where MSWord 2007 is forced upon you, you might want to join your local Microsoft abuse self-help group, or just refer to this article: benchmarking MS Word from 95 to 2007.

I have these linux habits which are hard to control and recently I discovered a new one while working on my windows box at work.

You know you’re a

• linux fan when you type ‘ls’ every time you mean ‘dir’
• KDE/KWin fan when you try moving/resizing windows with the alt+mouse buttons

and now, here it comes..

• openSUSE fan when you type ‘net suse’ instead of ‘net use’

I needed 3 tries before I got it right!

By default, on a 4GB 32-bit system, windows only gives 2GB to the application. To increase the amount of total user virtual address space, edit your boot.ini and include the /3GB option. With the /USERVA you can tweak the amount between 2 and 3 gigabyte. So you can not allocate more than 3GB for applications.

Furthermore, you must relink your application with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE option to make use of this ‘4GT’ feature. You can also modify an existing binary by using editbin.

source: MSDN

Yes, finally I will be able to use the latest flash player again in Opera on linux.
For me personally, the highlights in this release are:

• Support for latest flashplayer
• Even faster
• Revamped mail backend. Might wanna reevaluate the newsfeed fetching performance. (It had become unacceptable with 50+ feeds)
• Builtin bookmark syncing
• HTML 5 support
• Dragonfly: web dev tools

Read the full changelog here.