Archive for May 3rd, 2007

UK Local Elections

Published by gareth May 3rd, 2007 in Life. 0 Comments

Tonight is the night for the Local UK Elections, and whilst I am working writing pseudo code to prompt me in the morning, I thought I’d wish a Liberal Democrat friend of mine (he knows who he is) some well earned good luck in election. He is currently standing in a well known area of Leicester and he assures me that things are going well.

As it stands at the moment, polling has closed but the count set to start tomorrow. I’ll post further details, and let you know how his plight for victory went, although you will have to wait until Saturday to hear about it, as I am planning on spending all day in the pub on Friday, not because of the elections, but because it’s my Birthday and i’ll be another year older. Gotta drown my sorrows.

Enjoy this link, to get you in election mood.

Night night

I wanna play larry!

Published by gareth May 3rd, 2007 in Linux, Windows, Tech and Life. 0 Comments

All I want to do, right now especially is play a good ‘ol game of Leisure Suit Larry! I am not a gamer by any stretch of the imagination, but I have always been addicted to Larry, Larry Laffer.

My desktop machine is a very nice (read sexy) Sun Microsystems Ultra 20 Workstation. 2.5Gb RAM and twin 19″ Monitors running on top of a Quadro NVS 285 Graphics Card. All of this horsepower - of which there is plenty, is running Debian Testing (because I am hardcore ;) ). I run Debian Testing on my Laptop too, an IBM R51e with currently 1Gb RAM.

I’m set, I hear you say. Well to all intents and purposes I am, except to Play Leisure Suit Larry (Magna Cum Laude). For this extravagance, I need Windows (2000/XP/ I assume Vista?). So I purchased Windows XP Professional, and installed in under VMWare Server on my desktop only to find out that the graphics drivers presented in VMWare don’t support the correct Lighting API.

My only option is to install the game on a Windows XP partition and be done with it. Don’t get me wrong, VMWare is bloody brilliant, and it works like the clappers (for you non British folk, read “its quick”) but it doesn’t fix my problem directly.

So, out comes Leisure Suit Larry 7, Love for Sail. That shall be enjoyed whilst I think about my future actions regarding Magna Cum Laude.

As a foot note, I would like to point out that I am aware of the new Larry character “Larry Lovage” and his role in Magna Cum Laude, and I don’t care! If you follow the game and end up in Loftys Bar, there is for the world to see, a fully 3D rendered model of Larry Laffer!.

As another footnote, I am also aware of the circumstances regarding the game and Al Lowe - well at least what he has written on his site.

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