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Mass Effect 2 and the problems of Role Playing Game design. Too much dialog and no way to fast forward through it turns this excellent game into a cheap audio book.

Internet advertising is in a pathetic state at present, with revenues declining for publishers, and angry consumers who feel that ads are too intrusive. Here are some ideas about how to solve this problem.

Why would you want to do this? Because you’re using Windows. Because file fragmentation is a problem with every version of Windows, and it inexorably slows down your computer the longer you use it. Because browser caches are some of the highest file activity regions on your disk, which means they make the disk fragment [...]

I like the start button in Windows 7, specially the search feature and the ability to pin frequently used programs to both the start menu and the task bar (just right click the icon and choose “pin” or “unpin”). In Windows XP, I had all my programs on the start menu sorted into directories, so [...]

I recently switched from Windows XP to Windows 7. This was a big switch for me, since I had avoided Vista, so I went pretty much from an 8 year old 32 bit operating system, to the newest 64 bit OS from Microsoft. As you can imagine, it has been a learning experience. My main [...]

I’m getting tired of antivirus programs using the kitchen sink approach. I’ve gone through half a dozen different antivirus/firewall software in the past few years, and none of them seem to be able to be able to offer a clean, simple, lightweight program that just does what I need and nothing more. Right now, I [...]