I purchased Civ V for Mac the day it was released. LOVE…LOVE…LOVE Civilization. I had this issue after the 4GiB Download on 3 different machines and configurations that the music would play, but no graphics. Black nothingness taunted me for days. Aspyr was silent and worthless as usual and the forums sang with similar rage. Here is the fix for me on my Mac Mini and Air: Edit “Documents/Aspyr/Sid Meier’s Civilization 5/UserSettings.ini” ...
My twitter feed once again signals a Boeing acquisition. Cutting lots of fat internally while buying more companies doesn’t compute, but oh well. I decided to go back a few years to see just how many companies had been purchased. Newest-to-Oldest sort 2010 Summit CDM Technologies Narus Argon ST 2009 eXMeritus Alenia Vought Operations 2008 DRT Federated Software Group Tapestry Solutions Insitu ** **
Since a lot of my fellow nerds have mentioned they are looking at the stables page, I updated the computers as well as providing some insight into why each machine is important to me. Still missing a ton of systems, but most are there. http://geekyschmidt.com/the-stable
A question from a distinguished colleague of mine: Q: Some security group is claiming that locking apps down to a single cpu is more secure that multi-threaded apps. Is there any basis in fact that I don’t know of or is this as ridiculous as I think it is? – Distinguished Dude A: It is called Side Channel Attacks…thus far its only a theory that has no known in the wild exploit ...
Contents 1 Katrina 1.1 The Move 1.2 The Storm 1.3 The Evacuation 1.4 The Night before the Storm 1.5 The Morning of Truth 1.6 The Afternoon/Evening of Boredom 1.7 The Trip to Shreveport 1.8 The Aftermath 1.8.1 Share this: Katrina I haven’t written much about my time during Katrina, but I wanted to put some thoughts to paper as I don’t want to forget when I am older. I have waited 5 years to write this, I hope it was worth it. ...