Category: video games
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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Review
There have already been two downloadable add-ons for the original Alan Wake. In Alan Wake’s American Nightmare you’ve got a standalone story mode and a half-dozen or so survival mode levels added to the mix as well. I wasn’t really sure what was in American Nightmare until coverage for the game started picking up prior…
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Don’t spill your guts on Will Wright’s loafers
…and other great tips for games journalists from Colin Campbell.
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Vostro 200 PCI-E bug
My PC at work died the other day and while scrounging together hardware to keep me running until we order new i5 based PCs for the techs I had the joy of fighting the elusive heisenbug of the Vostro 200. Long story short: if you have issues with a PCI-E card like video cutting out…
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MD3000i Write Cache Suspended
I seem to run into this more often than I would like. The Dell MD3000i (a rebadged IBM which is also available as a generic LSI product) is a horrible SAN. The worst part is that you can have terrible performance with no way to know why unless you run these cli commands to figure…
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MySQL-Proxy Alternative
Today was a hellish day. Late in the afternoon when we’re supposed to be winding down and heading out one of our shared webhosting servers started freaking out. No changes to any software or settings — nothing to suspect — but mysql-proxy kept crashing. We need this utility because we have a lot of old…