Monthly Archives: July 2004

I’ll be a crazed killer then…

So. Here we go again. A 17 yr old boy brutally kills a 14 yr old boy and the killer’s parents blame it on the game “Manhunt”. Now they, and the victim’s parents, want to ban a whole selection of … Continue reading

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Whoo! Payday!

After a five-week month, and the joys of being completely skint for most of it, it’s payday and for today I have loads of money. Tomorrow, of course, it’ll all be gone on those pesky things called bills… But on … Continue reading

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Removing IE

Found this interesting little article which explains how to remove IE from your system entirely (including routing system calls to your alternative browser (most likely Firefox)) Not for the faint-hearted, but an interesting technical exercise given that MS swear (often … Continue reading

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Keeping the Adventure going…

A while ago I came up with the (possibly ill-advised?) idea of creating my own text adventure game. Why? Well back in the day, when I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, I loved playing text adventures and even wrote a … Continue reading

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Skype

Just thought I would put a quick mention in for Skype. Skype is a VoIP – Voice over IP – client. This is basically a piece of software that you can use to make phone calls over the internet, thus … Continue reading

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Having some fun

One of the most frequently cited reasons for not using Linux on a desktop/home machine has always been the lack of games. In fact, even now some people think that this is the case. Let me introduce you to a … Continue reading

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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst – First impressions

Got Uru on Saturday. Oh, good golly gosh, it’s good. Don’t ask me what the storyline is or what the final goal is, because I’m not really sure. Where the first three Myst games (Myst, Riven, Exile) had a point … Continue reading

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Welcome to the new-look Jedimoose

We have decided to move away from the Blosxom weblog system, and onto WordPress, which we hope will give us opportunity to expand and improve the site even further. You can find the old site, which will be retained as … Continue reading

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