Operating Systems Windows

Antivirus Protection And You

Happy New Year everyone! It’s time to give up the dreams of a prolonged vacation and get cracking. I was thinking the other day that a lot of people overestimate the importance of an anti-virus program(let’s call it AV for short). Don’t get me wrong, security is extremely important, for many reasons, no matter who …

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Games

Gifts For Gamers

If you still haven’t found the perfect Christmas gift for a gamer you care for here’s a really short and helpful list I compiled. (Order is random, disregard the numbers) God Of War Collection(PS3) – If they have one of the new slim PS3s that are not backwards compatible or have simply never played God …

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Games

Changes

It seems that in my “old age” my taste is beginning to change. Taste in games, movies and such. I remember when Modern Warfare first came out I was not even remotely interested. I am not big on war games or realistic modern combat games. I played Ghost Recon back in the day and dropped …

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Operating Systems

Disk Drive Disaster

I imagine there’s a special place in Hell for people who don’t backup their important files. If there is, I am sure they are saving a spot for me :). You probably get tortured by having to recover your drive with nothing but a Windows recovery disk and a few floppies and if you actually …

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EnLight3D

C++ Constructor Confusion

I never got a chance to finish my implementation of GLSL hardware shadow mapping two years ago when I built my EnLight engine and I’ve been struggling with the idea of starting work on it again but somehow between work and everything else in two whole years I haven’t written a single line of code …

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Games

Games, Games, Games

Today is my country’s national holiday – we celebrate the day we became an independent, united country, after the first World War so, of course, I spent some time with my dear…well…games! A good day to you!

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Site Updates

What's In A Name?

Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” It came to my attention that “Things That Matter” didn’t really make sense in the current context – the posts I have so far – so I’ve changed the name of the blog to something more …

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Games

Be The One…vs 100!

Hello. I am back with more gaming rant :D. North American people might be familiar with a game show called “1 vs 100”. Recently I became aware of an Xbox Live version of the game called “1 vs 100 Live”. Basically, in this version, your Xbox Live avatar participates in the virtual version of the …

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