Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API, meaning that it enables you to run a wide variety of Windows applications on Linux. I have known of Wine for quite some time but as normally have had a Windows computer around I have not gone to the trouble of installing it. I guess …
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DRM Ruining the PC Gaming Industry
DRM (Digital Rights Management) is about to ruin the PC gaming industry. I am not the first to state this and probably not the last either. The discussion about DRM and PC games has reached new heights with EA’s release of Spore. Ben and Rob over at Tom’s Games discuss this here and here in …
Most anticipated games for 2008
Inspired by the Rawgameblog and Second Take’s Fall Games Preview I decided to make a list of my most anticipated games for the rest of 2008. These are the games which I consider getting my hands on unless they utterly fail and get really poor critics. There are plenty of other games which look very …
A PhD on Open Source on Open Source Part 5 – Images, Figures and Graphs
An image says more than thousand words and a PhD thesis can sometimes become quite long. It is therefore nice to replace some words with an image from time to time. To include images in a LaTeX document is it very nice to have resizable figures which look good. To be able to resize an …
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Digital distribution will prevail
It is no secret that I like digital distribution over the Internet. I do not have any need to gather hundreds of CD, DVD and game covers which only occupy space and gather dust. To get rid of this problem I have started to digitalize my music and movie collection. I will probably write more …