My Computers

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Steam claiming it is being run in compatibility mode on Vista and Windows 7

Posted by wolrah
July 12, 2009

Today I had Steam start throw­ing an error that it is being run in com­pat­i­bil­ity mode when I had never set such a thing, nor were either the short­cut or EXE itself flagged for com­pat­i­bil­ity mode. Thanks to a lit­tle googling, I found this thread on the Steam forums which finally had a solu­tion.
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Goodbye ICQ, it’s been a good run

Posted by wolrah
March 9, 2009

Just a few sec­onds ago I finally cleared the check­box in Adium for my ICQ account. It was my longest-lasting instant mes­sage ser­vice account, hav­ing been active since 1998 or so, and I started using multi-service IM clients like Miranda, Tril­lian, and Adium entirely because I wanted to keep using ICQ even though most […]

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MacBook, Part I

Posted by wolrah
September 17, 2006

A week ago, I finally filled the gap I’ve had since giv­ing up my Power­book G4 back in May and I bought a base model MacBook.

1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo
512MB (2x256MB) DDR2-667
60GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Disk
Slot Load DVD/CD-RW
Air­port Extreme
Blue­tooth 2.0+EDR
Mac OS X 10.4

All that and a 2GB iPod for $1049 using the stu­dent pur­chase pro­gram. I financed […]