Category Archives: Technoramble
Thunderbird 3.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 64 bit
About a month ago Mozilla released Thunderbird 3.1. The problem is that Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) ships with Thunderbird 3.0.x. Normally this isn’t an issue because the newest version of something as big as a Mozilla project is usually in … Continue reading
Everything you can do I can do better: Charting in OpenOffice.org Calc vs. MS Excel
For the most part OpenOffice.org does what an office suite needs to do and thus far it has served me well. Recently however, I came across two features that affected me as an average user of spreadsheet applications. Firstly, I … Continue reading
Far Cry 2 – Preview
Sequels can be such a messy business. Crytek, the studio that brought us the original Far Cry and the more recent Crysis, isn’t developing Far Cry 2. The game won’t be built on CryEngine 2 (the engine behind Crysis) but … Continue reading
Call of Duty 4 Review
How many First Person Shooters can be praised for its compelling single-player storytelling? How many of those boast a multiplayer component potentially capable of displacing the most entrenched shooter in competitive gaming? The single player game seizes your attention from … Continue reading
The First rule of Hellgate: London Alpha is…
A lesser author would feel guilty at such blatant plagiarism. But Steve Jobs, quoting Picasso, says, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” That said, I still extend my heartfelt apologies to Chuck Palahniuk. By the measure of Picasso (and Jobs) … Continue reading