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Asus; the cheapest brand money can buy

Posted in Uncategorized by reeddouglas on the March 23, 2009
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Ahh, how I HATE asus. I am on my second motherboard from them, the second being the replacement of the first that went out after a month. The second one I can’t even get to boot once; it is DOA.

The post on AT&T’s U-Verse link

Posted in Uncategorized by reeddouglas on the March 15, 2009

I forgot to post the link the last thing, about the mac and the dns and crap.  you know.

 

http://utalk.att.com/utalk/board/message?board.id=HSIA&thread.id=8919&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

AT&T Subscribers, Do you have a Mac?

Posted in Issues, Technology by reeddouglas on the March 15, 2009

It turns out that here in Southern California if you have had AT&T installed or changed subscriptions within the last year or two, then you should have this problem. It turns out that you need to go in through your Mac’s system preferences and changed the DNS settings. This can be found in System Pref> Network> DNS (tab at the top) and then you just add two DNS servers to the list. Here they are:

68.94.156.1
68.94.157.1

This has easily doubled the speed that I get on my mac connected to AT&T U-Verse.

My Review: Fable 2

Posted in Games, Technology by reeddouglas on the March 14, 2009
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I have been playing fable 2 for a couple of weeks now, and have to say that it is probably one of the most intuitive and created games I have ever played.  The scenes are beautiful, pre- or on-the-spot rendered, the controls, though could allow for some more freedom and advanced moves, are easy to pick up and only complicated to master.  The story line is the best I have ever seen.  It is like reading a great novel, something that I would consider on the lines of Lord of the Rings. (Not that the stories are really that similar.) But, they both have the same depth story but the game has even one more plus: changeability.

The game has the ability to change almost completely depending on minute choices that you make.  The two biggest “paths” that you can take, good or evil, give the game an immense level of replay value.  But, creating an even more complex map of how to achieve that good, evil, or something in between, means that the game would be nearly, if not completely, impossible to repeat step for step exactly the same.

Overall, I would play Fable 2, or even Fable 1, more if they would come out with a version on my mac.  Oh well.

It has been a while

Posted in random by reeddouglas on the March 14, 2009

Over the last month or… six that I haven’t kept up on this blog has been dedicated to my anger with computer.  I have gone through several different issues and problems with my computerS.  I think I am officially a mac guy.