March 21st, 2010

BitDefender Screwed Big Time

The supposedly peaceful weekend of the 12th week of 2010 turned to a hellish experience for many users of Bitdefender around the world. The famous once (more like notorious now) antivirus solution played a bad joke to all of its users, that had 64bit OS. In the late afternoon on 20th of March the AV [...]

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October 29th, 2009

SQL Server 2008 – Database Diagram Support

I was pretty frustrated when my diagram was not present when I restord a database of mine in MS SQL Server 2008 Express. The error shown was: “Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog [...]

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October 25th, 2009

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Express) on Windows 7

As I am working on my senior project in CS for a while now, I had to install MS SQL Server as my DBMS. I have selected it as it allows me to work iwht LINQ and avoid the stored procedures and stuff. Still, when I began installing the server I did not know that [...]

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July 12th, 2009

Spore – Fix for the Bad_DATA problem

A few days ago I installed the new expansion for Spore, called Galactic Adventure. It is really cool and combined with the Creapy and Cute expansion pack it makes the original even more interactive. The problem with the new EP1 is that it introduces a rather annoying problem that displays all planets and galaxies in [...]

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July 8th, 2009

Gears of War 3 – RPG to the max

Yesterday IGN published an interesting piece of information. The creators of Gears of Wars plan to include RPG elements in the third game, following the model of Bioshock and Deus Ex. I hope that they will integrate it in a good way, and not just because they see the benefit of some more interaction with [...]

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July 8th, 2009

Starcraft 2 to be released without LAN-play option

For some days already this rather disturbing news circulates the Internet. And it is confirmed now. In a Starcraft interview for Joystiq, Blizzard’s PR Bob Colayco said that this measure ensures better gameplay for the users, as BattleNet is the perfect place and most probably will stop the piracy. Moreover, he mentioned that this radical [...]

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June 6th, 2009

Fallout 2 Save Games converter (1.01 or 1.0 to 1.02d)

There is a common problem with freshly patched Fallout 2 versions. I had it too – when you have played and decide to update the game to 1.02d – the save games won’t be compatible. Of course, there are tons of converters that pretend to do the job and bring your old saved games in [...]

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May 21st, 2009

Quake Live

I suppose many of you liked Quake. This is one of the symbolic game that we all grew wit (some of us, actually). Now we have it online in beta stage:) Yep, it’s a browser-like game for real and looks exactly as some improved version of the original game. You can check it out:) Visit [...]

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May 19th, 2009

Bioshock 2

Video Games | BioShock 2 | Hunting the Big Sister Demo HD XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii I really adored the first one and it seems I will like this one. The whole idea of being big daddy that can do the same as a person is a bit strange….but I like [...]

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May 5th, 2009

Java Class Paths and other troubles

This article was intended to be posted a long time ago, but unfortunately I had a lot of other things to do. Today my exam in Computer Networks took place. Well, to be honest, this was the first really tough Computer Science course that I took. I was really concerned at one time, but then [...]

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