Archive for August, 2007

New CIS Website

Just went to check the cis.strath.ac.uk website for changes to my year noticeboard and they’ve moved the site to strath.ac.uk/cis. AND they’ve changed the design. Much jazzier and modern but I’m not sure if I like it.
I wonder what kind of implications this has for our departmental accounts etc. I hope they don’t change. […]

ASUS Eee PC

Meant to write about this ages ago, I found this cool little laptop that ASUS plan to market, the ASUS Eee PC. I have no idea what the specs will be, I’d imagine they’d not be super but since it seems to be running a Linux distribution (again not sure exactly which one it is […]

Random Update

So this is just a wee random update. I’m bored of playing counter strike and I’ve been trawling around on IRC but it just doesn’t have the same appeal as it used to so I thought I’d get in a bit of a random life update.
On my todo list:

Joost wont work on linux without recompiling […]

  1. Get Joost Working on my pc
  2. Complete:
    1. BioShock
    2. Half Life 2 Episode 1
    3. Tomb Raider Anniversary
    4. The Hitman Series (All 3)
  3. Write a backup bash script
  4. Get EA’s Skate (The Game rocks!)
  5. Dance a funny dance.

Will get around to them all eventually. Hopefully before uni starts again or I’ll have no chance

I was searching on the internet for a way to install Steam, using wine (I don’t want to buy Cedega) and I found this guide. Handy post at fedorasolved.org. The site is mainly for Fedora distributions, but with a little modification it works on Ubuntu too. I’ve made it into a simple bash script you […]