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So I bought some music recently (hey, it IS my birthday!), in high quality Vorbis format, of course.The files had the appropriate metadata, of course. Rhythmbox displayed a lot of nice information, of course. Windows Media Player 10 didn’t. Of course. I’m used to MS stuff being a bit backward sometimes, but this had me on the verge of mild irritation.Read More »Tag / Comment Support For Ogg Vorbis Files in WMP!
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Plan9 had a bit of coverage on Slashdot, so I thought I’d share with you how to give it a test drive in Windows.Read More »Plan9 from… Bell Labs
Yup, those crazy Wikipedians have finally done it – they have surpassed the 1M articles mark. And they do mean one million
Okay, I know how much you all loved my post about having my first /. post modded up to +5, so I thought I’d let… Read More »Submitted… accepted? Whoa!
Well well. EA decided to release patch 1.2 to the world yesterday, February 14th. I played a few rounds on a couple servers to see how the patch had affected things. My thoughts: some things have changed, but not all for the better…Read More »BF2 Patch 1.20: Initial Reactions
Just a small announcement (that probably didn’t need an exclamation mark) to the effect that this blog has been moved from http://bertieb.dyndns.org:50000/bertieb/ — which was… Read More »URI Change!
Now, before you all start thinking this is turning into a BF2 blog, I have to say that the next patch is rumoured to have a release date as early as Febuary 1st (or at least sometime soon), so the news for it has been coming thick and fast. Anyway, to the topic at hand…
Contrary to the slightly misleading title, I’m not selling my BF2 account. For one, I’d never part with the nom de guerre BertieBaggio without a fight, unless I had a reason never to play again. Secondly, I’ve put around 200 hours of my life into it which I’m never going to get back, so I reckon I should at least hang onto the product. However, other people have different principles…
Read More »For Sale: One BF2 Account, Slightly Used, One Previous pwnz0r
Information for the masses is what Google provides. Or at least a way of searching through it. Now we have them to thank for sharing this info with us: tank exploits 🙁 The video shows enough for a BF2 player to recognize an exploiter, so hopefully this will clue up some clueless admins and give people a chance to get some evidence to report those taking advantage of the bug.
Well, it seems we have more proof that the changes to Battlefield 2 in the 1.2 are for real, and that UAVs can (unfortunately) be shot down. Videos released from PlanetBattlefield and BF2.se show the UAV (and other features) in action.
Edit: Kenny found us some video footage of the new unlocks in action
Edit #2: Alpha Test summary from BF2.se
Read More »2 videos released for Battlefield 1.2 patch