Rob

Since Kenny did a good review of 2142, I thought I would add my thoughts to the mix.Read More »Battlefield 2142 Review Deux

Okay, now for a non-tech post. Those things were giving me techwriter’s block anyway. I warn you though from the outset of this post, I’ve been reading V for Vendetta [thanks Michael!], watching the film of the same, and had 1984 on my mind. So I may be a bit paranoid. Maybe.

Even still, I couldnt help but be disturbed on the way home yesterday.Read More »One Step Closer

So I recently purchased a 1Gb USB drive to replace my somewhat neanderthalic (but still useful) 64Mb drive (which in turn had replaced a by-now-prehistoric 16Mb drive). Up until recently when using computers that were not my own, I had been using whatever browser was on the machine, and downloading and using puTTY each time. Not too bad, but a bit tedious. Not to mention I’m not a great fan of IE. Thus I decided to grab the portable versions of Firefox and PuTTY and put them on my USB drive.

Man is it useful having them avaliable on a flash drive or what?Read More »Two Handy Portable Apps

A few days ago, I was planning on posting that I had migrated my laptop to Ubuntu 6.06 [Dapper Drake], away from Debian Etch (testing/unstable) which had been the primary OS. A copy of XP still resides on there for certain things, but it rarely gets used. I had been very happy with Debian’s performance as a desktop distro – my laptop had happily run icewm, and everything was peachy. Everyone knows that I like Debian.

Ubuntu is even better.Read More »You're Looking Very Dapper

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 articles. Stubs, redirects and so forth are not counted, otherwise there would be several million. Now, you may ask why I even care about such an event. Well, it turns out the subject matter of the article in question is one close to my heart…Read More »Wikipedia Reaches 1,000,000 Articles

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!