After nearly three years after the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the second chapter of StarCraft II, Heart of the Swarm, is finally here! While the single-player campaign of Wings of Liberty focused on Jim Raynor and the Terrans, the campaign for Heart of the Swarm is all
The Launch of SimCity… One of the Worst Game Launches Ever.
A checklist for a terrible game launch experience: • Disallow pre-loading of game files before release. <CHECK!> • Game unlock codes can’t be validated even after the game has been released. <CHECK!> • Delay unlocking game downloads well after the game has been released. <CHECK!> • Unreasonably long connection times.
AOKP Releases JB-MR1 Build 5
The infamous AOKP team has released their latest Jellybean 4.2.2 ROM build for Android phones, JB-MR1 Build 5! Build 5 adds the following new features: Traditional toggles instead of Tiles (optional) New Navigation Ring configuration menu S Pen support for Note IIs Quiet Hours toggle Build 5 also introduces official support
Two Crucial M4 512 GB SSDs in RAID 0
Recently, I was able to acquire a second Crucial M4 512 GB SSD for a great price. As I already had a Crucial M4 512 GB SSD running in my main PC at home, I decided that it would be a good opportunity to see exactly how fast two Crucial
Overclocking the Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5400 on a Slow Monday
I’m back! Hope everyone had a great holiday season! I apologize for the hiatus, it’s been a crazy past few months, with a lot of time committed to both work and personal life. With things finally settling down, I plan on posting my thoughts about tech related subjects more frequently.
Thanksgiving Maintenance
Hope everyone in the U.S. had an excellent Thanksgiving holiday weekend! While most of us here in the U.S. had several days off, it appears that some hackers in Russia had a field day with the Y-Corner forums, as the forums were compromised by spam bots. The spam botters took
64 GB UHS-1 Micro SDXC Not Compatible with the Galaxy Tab Plus/7.7… and a Possible Method of Fixing Corrupted 64 GB Cards
I recently acquired a 7″ Galaxy Tab Plus 16 GB, to replace my slow, aging Nook Color, as I wanted a faster eReader/tablet device that can multitask better, as well as being able to handle Jelly Bean without major issues. I also decided to acquire a Team 64 GB Micro
Design Changes for Y-Corner This Season
Recently inspired from this past weekend’s Twin Cities Code Camp 13 event, I will be making several adjustments to this blog site over the course of this season to implement several of the web development concepts that I picked up from Josh Broton‘s two sessions ( & ). The result
Twin Cities Code Camp #13
I went to the Twin Cities Code Camp #13 event today. As usual, the lectures offered by the speakers at the code camp were excellent and very informative. Unlike the previous TCCC events, TCCC #13 is only a one day event, rather than two days. Much of the topics covered
Server 2003 Domain Issues and DNS Address Interference
Recently, I had to perform some repair work on a Windows Server 2003-based domain network, managing around 25 Windows 7 and 3 Vista computers. The client reported that they were having some intermittent issues with the domain, as they were having troubles with mapped network drives being inaccessible and that