Ok, I know I’ve already posted a bunch of other videos, but they just keep appearing!
Does he do condoms too? :O
Got to properly celebrate April Fools after all
Today I celebrated pulling a prank on my co-workers by bringing in a USB key with DOSBox running Windows 3.11 running in fullscreen mode, in an attempt to freak out some of my younger co-workers. 😛 I left it plugged in since I do have to head back in tomorrow, but damn… I wish I could be there to see the looks on their faces when they try to find the start menu. 😛
Those of us who did use the older Windows actually had a good laugh at the old After Dark screensavers I had running. Every time we were near the system we’d change it from one to another. Flying Toasters, DOS Shell, Bad Dog, and Rat Race were favorites. Especially Rat Race, we set the rats to be as stupid as possible to make the race last a super long time. Here’s a short video that has all kinds of After Dark screensavers. Quite a few I never even saw before!
I hear you can get 4.0 to run on Windows 7 with a little bit of hacking… might have to look into that.
For those who use Linux for gaming
Gaming On Linux is having a Linux Gamer survey. If you use Linux for any gaming you should consider taking it. No need to login or anything. 😀
Bowling Ball and Feathers in a vacuum chamber
Time for a little science. I thought it was cool enough to share. 😀
Linux reaches a two thousand game milestone
Over at Gaming On Linux they have determined that there are over 2,000 games that run natively on Linux! Things have come so far since the Steam beta, really great to see.
People (who use Windows exclusively) say that Linux isn’t great as a gaming platform, or it isn’t ready. Granted it does have a ways to go, but they forget that Windows had to grow too. In the realm of PC Gaming Linux is getting more attention, and Microsoft is just starting to come back to pretend that they always loved their PC Gamer base… right.
Soda companies discover that people like sugar in their soda
Late last year, Pepsi prepared to introduce a new beverage, the old-timey and upscale 1893, or as its trademark application called it, “1893 From the Makers of Pepsi-Cola.” It’s just one of many products taking advantage of a strange trend in soft drinks right now: making products with real sugar is a selling point, something that the industry might not have expected just a few years ago.
Wow… What a shock. The only words I can think of are:
Why yes! We do like drinking something that isn’t made of throat burning corn plastic. You know, like most of the rest of the world? They’re really onto something… or at least on something.
Found these when I woke up this morning
My mom went out of town for a day and returned with some snacks. Haven’t torn into them yet, thought they’d be nice to have with afternoon tea. 😀
Running Ubuntu on Windows 10 will be a thing
I thought it was already a thing if you bothered with VM’s and were curious to see what Ubuntu was like, but apparently Canonical and Microsoft are partnering together to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, no VM required.
With this new addition, Ubuntu users will be able to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows. This will not be in a virtual machine, but as an integrated part of Windows 10.
Ok, so why exactly are they doing this?
Canonical and Microsoft are doing this because Ubuntu on Windows’ target audience is developers, not desktop users. In particular, as Microsoft and Canonical continue to work more closely together on cloud projects, I expect to find tools that will make it easy for programmers to use Ubuntu to write programs for Ubuntu on the Azure cloud.
So is this MS-Linux? No. Is it a major step forward in the integration of Windows and Linux on the developer desktop? Yes, yes it is.
BS. People have been saying for years that Ubuntu is the Windows of Linux, this just confirms it. 😛
It also seems unlikely that Ubuntu will be bringing its Unity interface with it. Instead the focus will be on Bash and other CLI tools, such as make, gawk and grep.
lol yes. Unity and Microsoft’s new definition of the desktop would go hand in hand actually In the sense that I hated Unity with a passion, and despise Microsoft’s hardon for tiles. ffs they still exist in Windows 10’s start menu. I think I know why they’re saying this will be the last Windows, they’re going to call their next OS Microsoft Tiles, and Ubuntu will be there to help make it shittier with Unity.
Serious Secrets
One of the things I like about the Serious Sam games is all the ridiculous secrets you can find in any given level. I came across a secret area that I’ve never found in Serious Sam that had nothing but a bunch of posters with weird stuff written on them.
You can find more of my strange Serious Sam 3 screenshots on Steam here.
I’m definitely looking forward to Serious Sam 4. 😀 In the meantime all the other Sam’s still have some Serious replay value.