Monthly Archives: May 2002

grandia 2 on the pc

Posted on 2002-05-13 [Monday] by [maven]

does anyone else have the problem that the game hangs (not crashes) when fighting “the claws of valmar” after it casts zap!???

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got my maiko kazano dvds

Posted on 2002-05-13 [Monday] by [maven]

“pure heart” and “slight fever”. i must say that they are different from western soft-pr0n (which i expected, e.g. hello naked light-bulb hanging into the frame – but hey, we need light!). maiko-chan is very, very cute. i think i … Continue reading →

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watched blade 2

Posted on 2002-05-13 [Monday] by [maven]

good. i like it just as much as the first film, but this one is more of a “horror-flick”. excellent f/x, good fighting (but don’t sit too close to the screen).

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Fix by throwing Money

Posted on 2002-05-10 [Friday] by [maven]

fixed my flickering with a (used) compaq tft 8030. nifty. not great for playing fast-paced games, but good for my eyes…

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Squeaky clean

Posted on 2002-05-10 [Friday] by [maven]

after a (cleansing) night in the bathtub, the cherry-keyboard still worked just fine (respect!). so i returned the ms natural keyboard pro (because i just couldn’t get used to the UK keylayout and the split typing surface at the same … Continue reading →

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xtra sw33t

Posted on 2002-05-08 [Wednesday] by [maven]

spilled (a whole) cup of cappuccino over my keyboard. now, i’ve got a natural keyboard pro w/ 3 years insurance against accidental damage…

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interference

Posted on 2002-05-06 [Monday] by [maven]

it’s a problem between the tyan board and geforce3 cards and upwards (seemingly not gf4 mx).solution: close this bridge:problem: where is that on an asus geforce4 ti400?argh^2!

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grounding?

Posted on 2002-05-05 [Sunday] by [maven]

my computer still does the funny stripes. put the gf4 into another computer -> no stripes. put a gf2mx into my computer -> no stripes. argh! so it’s either the power supply or something else entirely…

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images & vision

Posted on 2002-05-03 [Friday] by [maven]

finished my mock exam for “images & vision”. last piece of work to be handed in for my degree (ignoring exams…).

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XP Themes vs. Delphi

Posted on 2002-05-03 [Friday] by [maven]

uhhhh… i’ve had a long fight with delphi’s TListView in report mode, no icons and headers (i.e. vStrip input-list) and the winXP styling engine… and i’ve lost (well… went to bed at 2:45am). if you have similar problems, take a … Continue reading →

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style xp

Posted on 2002-05-02 [Thursday] by [maven]

also, style xp is very useful. nicht wahr, alex?

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perforce version managment

Posted on 2002-05-02 [Thursday] by [maven]

installed the evaluation version of the perforce version control system after advice from avery and it seems very nice so far. visual studio integration, etc… looks like a winner to me, especially the “free” license for a single server with … Continue reading →

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