Quality Christmas gift ideas for the tech guru in your family.
Some very nice Christmas gift ideas for the tech guru in your family.
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All Bohemia website pages and servers are down. What a shame.
Bohemia Interactive website and servers are down. This is very embarrassing.
Read MoreWindows 11 takes a bit of getting used to.
Windows 11 takes a bit of time to get used to. I am running this now instead of Windows 8.1 and this is quite strange. The context menu used for working with files has icons on the top for copy paste and other basic functions. This is very strange, but…
Read MoreBest PC monitor gift ideas for the holiday season. LG 27 inch display screen.
LG 27GP83B QHD 165Hz FreeSync HDR Nano IPS 27in Monitor This would be an ideal gift idea for any gamer, this is a nice 27 inch PC monitor display. This has a 2560 x 1440 pixels resolution and a very fast refresh rate. 165 HZ will be an ideal refresh…
Read MoreUbuntu 20.04 the best version of Ubuntu yet.
Ubuntu 20.04 is the best version of Ubuntu yet, with a lot of improvements over the older LTS versions. This has a very nice Gnome desktop with a lovely dark theme for night time use. I tried updating my 18.04 to 20.04 but I got an error with the package…
Read MoreA quantum CPU could be a revolutionary solution to the need for more CPU power.
A quantum CPU could be a good way to get way more power out of a modern PC. Games and applications are becoming more and more demanding, as well as websites that run bitcoin miners in the background like Piratebay. But operating systems and applications would need to be completely…
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Customise a high end gaming PC and buy today!
This Maingear Rush X99 gaming PC is a very high end machine indeed. With the option of AMD Radeon or Nvidia graphics cards and SLI for more performance, it is well worth the cost. Shipping anywhere in the United States, this would have the power to handle games such as…
Read MoreNostalgic thoughts about computers and computer gaming in the old days compared to today.
I have been thinking about the future of computer gaming. Considering the size of the map in Far Cry 3 compared to the computer games of old. There are two massive islands connected by a very deep and blue ocean. That is a massive play area. I love piloting a…
Read MoreE3 Xbox One demo powered by Intel gaming PCs with Geforce GTX graphics cards. Fail.
E3 Xbox One demo powered by Intel gaming PCs with Geforce GTX graphics cards. Fail.
Read MoreHalf Life 2 now available for Linux. Gaming on Linux just got even better.
This is game-play footage of Half Life 2 running on Ubuntu 13.04. There are native binaries of Half Life 2 for Linux; this means that gamers all over the world can play this game without using Windows or WINE. A good win for open source software; the Ubuntu distribution is…
Read MoreNew Alienware desktop released with the Ubuntu distribution installed. This will be one powerful beast.
The new Alienware X51 with Ubuntu preinstalled will be a good choice for anyone who wants a superfast gaming machine that is also very portable and relatively light. The fact that Steam is now available for Linux makes this perfect time to adopt the Linux platform for your gaming needs. Linux…
Read MoreSteam client on Linux Mint 14 working perfectly well and the future of gaming on Linux.
The Steam client on Linux is working very well now; there are not that many games available yet but the ones that are available are great examples of gaming. The upcoming Doom4 game that ID Software are working on will be available on Steam as well as other top rated…
Read MorePurchasing a new desktop computer in 2012. The technology has come so far.
The desktop computing platform has gone through a massive change in 20 years, with the climb in power between the 8088 and the Intel 286 computers of old with processor clock speeds less than 10 Megahertz to the multi-core i7 beasts that we have now; with more RAM than a…
Read MoreValve planning to release the Steam service on Linux. A good thing for *NIX gamers or not?
Valve are planning to release a Linux version of the online Steam service allowing users of the many disparate Linux distributions to play the many games available on the Steam service. Older games such as Doom are available for Linux, but the actual IWADs that allow you to play the…
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