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By Eric Peacock | Published: October 8, 2011
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Fallout New Vegas, Week 2 Impressions

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 29, 2010

I’ve played a little bit of Fallout New Vegas almost every day in short spurts since it launched about two weeks ago. My takeaway is that New Vegas is much truer to Fallout 1 and 2, in a very good way. The writing, environment and myriad of not-so-black-and-white factions and alliances feels like playing the [...]

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HTML 5 Now

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 12, 2010

The big difference with HTML 5 compared to HTML 3 or 4 is that it’s still in draft form yet already supported in many browsers. Then you have to consider that HTML5 gets mentioned in mainstream tech news, partly thanks to Flash issues with mobile devices or more specifically the Adobe vs Apple spat. I [...]

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iPad Irony

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 18, 2010

As seen within the masthead on Boing Boing.

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UDP Port 4310

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 24, 2010

Who would’ve thought that I’d have to open up UDP port 4310 on a Sonicwall firewall to get IMAP working on a new Windows Server 2008r2? All was fine with the same server software on an old Windows 2000 Server behind the same firewall. We’re talking about moving a DNS record and a few gigabytes [...]

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Gift Cards Are Evil

By Eric Peacock | Published: February 13, 2010

Since my wedding in 2007, I’ve decided that gift cash cards are evil. I’m not talking about product-specific gift certificates like iTunes cards, Home Depot, Amazon Gift Cards, etc. I’m talking about generic Visa/MasterCard cash cards like the Vanilla Visa or others. Why the hate? These cards have limited use and are frustrating to spend. [...]

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The iPad Versus Flash

By Eric Peacock | Published: February 4, 2010

The iPad is revealed. And there is a wave of whining, excitement, confusion and PR spin like you’ve never seen. Like it’s older and smaller brothers, the iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPad doesn’t allow the Flash plug-in to run within the included Mobile Safari browser. This was a hot topic with the iPhone, but [...]

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The State of Video Playback for Mac OSX Users

By Eric Peacock | Published: December 17, 2009

This is a quick little post inspired mostly by the comments to this news item regarding the open source VLC project. I’m sure I’ll want to refine and update it later, but right now I felt the need to jot this down. I won’t get into ripping, transcoding or conversion, this is all about playback. [...]

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