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SteamID: nogoodreason
Member since: May 24, 2008
Steam Rating: 10
Playing time: 46.5 hrs past 2 weeks

Mass Effect 2 43.2 hrs

Sid Meier's Civilization V 3.3 hrs

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Must-Have For OS Geeks

If you run more than one operating system on your machine, you’re no doubt aware of the dull default bootloaders that rape your eyesockets every time your machine powers up.

I’ve just discovered BURG (it’s GRUB backwards, and rather loosely stands for “Brand new Unified loadeR from GRUB” — they might as well just [...]

June 30th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Nerd | One comment

Project: Awegasm (For Sale)

Internet: meet Awegasm.  My current behemoth of a P.C.  ((Click here to go straight to the eBay auction))

* Intel i7 920 @ 4.2GHz * ASUS Rampage II Extreme motherboard * Tri-channel 6GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 @ 9-9-9-24, 1600MHz * Creative X-Fi Titanium soundcard * BFG H20 NVIDIA GTX 295 * 2x Intel [...]

January 16th, 2011 | Category: Nerd | 3 comments

Virus Warning: Softwarear (“Powerfull” PC Protection)

Merry Christmas/Happy Hannukah/Hail Krampus/Praise Mithras/[insert other two-word-capitalised-Seasonal Greeting]

What does your family do at Christmas time?  The general tradition in our family is for everyone to get together, eat a lot of turkey, and then go: “Hey Dan, how are you?  Say, I’ve been having some trouble with my PC…” (cue me spending the next [...]

December 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Nerd | 6 comments

(I can’t be arsed with eBay)

I have a netbook that I’m not using.  Anyone interested?

It’s a “Dan Improved” version of the Samsung NC20 (which is still selling for £400).

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/laptops-portable-pcs/laptops-and-netbooks/samsung-nc20-599510/review?artc_pg=1

“Dan Improved” means:

* Replaced the 1GB of fairly ‘meh’ RAM with 2GB of high-speed Crucial RAM * Replaced Windows XP Home with Windows 7 Professional (although kept the [...]

September 22nd, 2010 | Category: Nerd | One comment