Yesterday I was discussing some old computer games on Facebook and the subject turned to the Might & Magic saga. I have good memories of the Might & Magic games, spend many enjoyable hour playing those games. Without any reason I browsed the Internet a bit for Might & Magic and to my very surprise…
Category: Computers and I
Look who is back! :-)
It was 1987 when a new unique computer-game was published (the DOS version). Unique for two reasons… First of all, it played in the current time, something that was rather rare for the games of that time. The second was that main subject of the game was sex, even more rare for that time. Of…
Life is there to… have backup’s and tea!
Maybe a weird combination… backup’s and tea. Well, not for me… at least not today. Let me explain. Today two packages were delivered to my house. The first package contained two external hard disks (see how fast they gather dust, they were not for more than 5 minutes on that desk)… Backup’s of my computers…
Life is there to… play Black Ops II
About two month ago I bought the just release game “Black Ops II”, the latest release in “The Call for Duty” series. I heard great things about it, so I wanted to try it. But sadly for some reason the game didn’t run on my computer (gave all kind of weird errors). My computer is…
Life is there to… secure data
Lately I have been pondering a lot about the data on my computers. There is a lot of private and more of less confidential information on those, specially on the one that I use the most. All kind of documents with letters that I sent to people and companies… salary and tax forms… banking software……
Life is there to… play “Dishonored”
Last week I bought a new just released game called “Dishonored”. I heard very interesting rumors about the game and it was not too expensive, so I ordered it on the day it was released. The game is distributed by Steam/Valve (so it is downloadable). As I was ill last week, I had not spend…
Diablo III – Closed Beta
People may know that I love to play computer-games… specially the adventure and roleplay ones… Now it is really coincidence that the company that I work for is doing business with the well-known game-company Blizzard (of World of Warcraft). It seems that they are happy with us, because they gave us some closed beta-keys for…
Encryption….
Did you know that it takes 10 hours to encrypt a terrabyte external hard disk with a rather fast machine using TrueCrypt? I didn’t, but I found out today *grins*. Although some parts of the government will not agree with me, I think nowadays encryption becomes more and more important. We all have information that…
Tomb Raider
Of course many of us will know Tomb Raider from the well-known computer-games and from the movies that were based on the computer-games. Yummie… Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie in the movies!). My friend Patrick pointed out to me there is a new Tomb Raider game coming… I am very interested in this new game and…
Operation “GMail”
As many know I have already for ages my main mail-address with XS4All. This because I have been for many years customer with them as my Internet-provider. But when I moved from Haaksbergen to Heemskerk I changed from provider. My current provider is Ziggo and although you can hear many bad stories about them, I…