Archive for May, 2008

GTA IV – The story: genetically different

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4 years ago
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When Grand Theft Auto IV launched last Tuesday, I was very curious.  I’ve played the series since the original, top-down PC game, and I spent a good chunk of time playing GTA 2. When the series moved to 3D with GTA III, though, I lost interest. I didn’t have a PS2 at the time, so it was old news by the time it finally rolled onto the big black monster that was the first Xbox, and I finally got to play it. The story was unengaging, the characters were unsympathetic and unrelatable (Tommy Vercetti was an asshole), and the missions were freaking hard. Not to mention the awkward controls and More >

 

How old is this modem, anyway?

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4 years ago
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I’ve already chronicled my recent cable internet problems, but some good did come out of the whole situation. I learned that Motorola SurfBoard cable modems have a diagnostic page built in that you can access by visiting http://192.168.100.1 – it even works when your computer is behind a router! If you’re experiencing problems with your cable internet, and you hate calling tech support as much as I do, you can access this page to see if you can figure out the problem by yourself. If you don’t know what any of it means (I honestly don’t, either), you can do some quick googling and probably More >

Held hostage by cable

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4 years ago
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My cable internet service went out for about half of last week, which served to remind me how important Internet access really is, and how little choice I have in my area. In the last eight years, I’ve had uninterrupted cable internet service, but thanks to mergers and market trade-offs, I’ve changed cable companies four times. The last time, it was when Comcast and Time Warner Cable divvied up a competitor and decided to trade customers in certain markets, just like that. I can’t imagine any other industry where this is possible, can you? It’d be like you had a flight booked on American More >

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