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MS surface and D&D updated

Submitted by griffon on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 12:25am
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Crunchgear has some vidoe of a updated version of D&D tools runing on the MS surface device. Looks like it has come a long way since the last demo.

SurfaceScapes Gameplay Session from Surfacescapes on Vimeo.

IE 8

Submitted by szaijan on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 2:07pm
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I just updated to IE 8, and it seems once again much improved from the previous version. There is now a Favorites Bar, just like the Bookmarks Toolbar in FF, which puts links right at the top of the browser. The menus are at the RHS of the same bar that holds the window tabs, so the browser is compact. Still no way I know of to modify the light blue background, but I've just started working with it.

Performance-wise, it's about as fast as FF (maybe slightly slower), compatible with MS only sites, and FINALLY displays most HTML correctly, including this site.

Oh, and most importantly, XMarks (used to be Foxmarks) now works with IE, so that's one less hurdle.

Revamped Desktop

Submitted by szaijan on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 10:09am
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For various reasons this will be my last system refresh for a while and my son was more badly in need of one than I was, so I embarked to update my PC and move the components from my system into his. As usual, Newegg.com had an undeatable combo of availability, pricing, and convenience, so I ordered my components from them on Monday and they were on my doorstep Tuesday.

Windows 7 Beta

Submitted by szaijan on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 3:56pm
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I downloaded and installed the Windows 7 Beta. It took about 2 hours to install, but my input was only needed for less than 5 minutes at the beginning of the process. It rebooted and continued on its own 5 times or so. Drivers downloaded automatically for all of my hardware. Against my better judgment I did an upgrade install, mostly because of a bug whereby the install wouldn't recognize my SATA drives, only my SATA RAID bootable drive. It turned out later that the installer had turned all 4 channels of my SATA controller onto RAID mode in the BIOS, most likely to fix the problem where RAID drives weren't detected in Vista. Channels 3 and 4 held non-RAID SATA drives, so they weren't detected properly. Eventually I got that fixed. It was my only problem with the beta.

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