I recently started to play Far Cry 2. Unfortunately, my computer was not up to the task of running it very well. It ran OK with severely reduced graphics options, but part of the charm of the game is the immersive, photorealistic graphics. Since I also had some framerate issues with other games I enjoy [...]
This is a description of the steps I use to prepare recorded HDTV (using mythTV and HDHomeRun) for viewing.
I have written a small python script to selectively backup critical work files to a network drive. To reduce disk speed and backup times, I exclude many superfluous files based on their extension, including .svn directories. Recently, I discovered that the excellent 7-zip program now only reads UTF-8 text as an input list file. This [...]