Category: video games
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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…
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The Day MAME Saved My Ass
Ask any game developer and they’ll tell you that publishers are the scum of the earth. It’s never a question of “if” the publisher screws you, it’s “when”. During my 15 years as a developer I have seen publishers pull every dirty trick imaginable, from telling the dev team of a certain AAA title to…