Recent content by Frank

So, today I tried it again, this time for X-com: Apocalypse. And, of course, like all the previous times, with all the other games, it failed. What do I have to do to make it work? Build a new dll? I can do that! Just give me some pointers! Or, alternative, tell me what questions to ask which...

To a CPU, the world is a simple place. It has a few boxes to store things, called registers, a large selector switch to select addresses and a pneumatic tube mail receptacle. At the start of the day, it will set the selector switch to zero and press the "receive mail" button. After a while, a...

Is it possible to tell the CCC that my monitor only supports a single resolution?

Thanks, orangpelupa! That works. Edit: Or no, it doesn't. It only fixes the aspect ratio. It still switches to a very low resolution and the picture gets clipped. And at a resolution of 640*480 it becomes impossible to have the setting stick (it will revert to a different one after a while).

I like playing old games, which run in any resolution less than my native one, which is 1920*1080, and most likely in 4:3 format. While my ATI Radeon HD 6850 now supposedly supports GPU upscaling, while keeping the expected aspect ratio, it doesn't seem to work. Ever. I know it was completely...

Does your iPhone/iPad/Android phone have a desktop? Does it works like expected? Yes, the Ubuntu desktop experiments of the last years were about as bad as Windows 8. And yes, Windows 8 does work as expected, as long as you know what to expect and where to find it. Just like iOS and Android...

Well, as it's by far the most used one, many people do seem to want it. And unless you only look at desktops, it's the most commonly used one on user devices (smartphones, tablets and desktops) as well. iOS uses a BSD kernel, and Android simply uses Linux. PS4 also uses BSD. Which is very much...

Yes, I agree. I really think Windows 8 is the wrong direction, and the subscription model is what they all want. But, if you're not running it on your desktop, it probably runs on a Linux machine (except Microsoft Azure, I expect). Your phone and tablet probably use it as well (iOS/Android)...

Mostly A, but in an abstract way. That's where C comes along. B was mostly for an introduction. And it isn't all that personal, that was just to keep it short. If you want the long version, I can do that. ;-)

Anyway, to get back to the original point: I have two laptops and a computer that run Windows, and at least 7 devices (among which one server) that run Linux. But, when I want something computed, only the processor in the computer/laptop is used. In some cases, like when running a game, also...

To explain it a bit more: Electronic devices without a processor are vanishingly rare nowadays. Simply because it's much easier and cheaper to take a microcontroller, add some I/O like resistors and FETs, and program the functions you require. But, as soon as you want to communicate with...

That depends on how you count. It's hard to get good statistics, as in some 60% of all smart phones sold are iPhones, while in others 75% are Android. But they all agree that Android grows faster. But if you count all devices that have a processor, we see that the vast majority has no...

Do I like Google? Not really. It's big, bloated, mostly unsuccessful (but the things in which they did succeed are massive) and less and less consumer friendly. So, how about Microsoft? Hell, no! They are very arrogant and have lost touch with everyone else (their customers). They only have two...

Well, in Oblivion and Skyrim, you can do just about anything just as well at level 1 as at level 50. Your loot is leveled, and the main difference between Oblivion and Skyrim is, that in Skyrim the level sticks after your first encounter. So, you can come back and PWN them. But, as homerdog...

Yes, except that I like to have an inventory and a stats window, if it is an RPG. As in: the stats determine what I can do and how I do it, instead of my twitch-reflexes. Which is interesting, because in my experience, the people who brag the most about those twitch-reflexes use consoles, and...