June 11, 2015

My First Adventure in TinyKeep

TinyKeep is a game that was recommended to me based on previous purchases and what do you know, It’s on sale for a mere $2.50. I simply had no choice but to buy a copy and give it a go. The Story: You’re locked in a dungeon and your goal is to cobble together some weapons and make a daring and bold escape. All right, I’m on board. No idea what I’m in jail for, but these walls can’t contain me bitches! It appears I play the role of a penniless peasant, so I grabbed my epic cloth hood of poverty, my +1 meat cleaver of tetanus, grabbed an old board to use as a shield and made my grand escape to freedom. It did not go so well. We’ll just say that my first attempt was a mere practice run since I opened the cell door, turned the corner and was set upon by a gaggle of guards. Since […]

June 2, 2015

Adding more drives with an External PCI-e 4 Port Card

When it comes to hard drives and the ridiculous use of space, I know a thing or two. It can be said that I have a few hard drives lying around. However, just because I have a few doesn’t mean I don’t need anymore. Thus, it was my goal to add 2 more hard drives to my larger machine. A 3TB internal drive is under $90 which is a great deal, so why not expand? Doesn’t sound like a big deal, but there are a couple of hitches. The machine in question has 2 internal hard drive, 2 optical drive, an SSD and a docking port for another Sata drive. Count that up and it’s 6 drives. My motherboard has 6 Sata sockets. Where to go from here? I certainly could just add more USB drives like I’ve been doing with the other machine, but that’s not really where I’m going with this machine. I’d prefer the internal version. This […]

May 24, 2015

Windows immediately comes out of sleep mode

Out of nowhere I started having problems with my machine staying in Sleep Mode. I would select the Sleep button, the machine would power down, then immediately start right back up even though I hadn’t touched the keyboard or clicked the mouse. It hasn’t had this sort of problem before, so what the devil is wrong? I started searching and found all sorts of wild ideas to try such as turning off the Power Management for the keyboard, mouse and network card. Those, sound like reasonable ideas, but the likelihood of that being the real culprit is slim to none. One thing I did learn was a neat command called: powercfg -lastwake Once the machine goes to sleep and then wakes again, you run that command to note what device caused the machine to wake up. Alright, now we’re getting somewhere. Some solid troubleshooting not just randomly clicking power management buttons. Here’s the output of what I got: C:\Users\>powercfg -lastwake […]

May 20, 2015

How to play Blu-Ray discs with VLC Media Player

On my main machine I have a Blu-Ray player and use VLC Media Player to play the discs. It’s been working quite well and I recently purchased another Blu-Ray player for a secondary machine. Much to my surprise and gnashing of teeth, VLC would not play Blu-Ray discs. What the devil goes on here? Why isn’t this working? I thought VLC handled Blu-Ray discs? Well, yes and no. It can indeed play them, but it may have an issue with the encoding mechanism used. There is an option to play the Blu-Ray disc right in the menu, but it might not always work. My primary machine works with each disc I insert because I have AnyDVD HD on it and that handles all the decoding. Now I could just install AnyDVD HD on the other machine, but it’s used for gaming and I don’t want to load anything I don’t have to. I turned my attentions to the Internet and […]

May 14, 2015

Betrayer – A First Person Action Adventure with Ghosts, Skeletons and quite possibly, the Undead

Betrayer has been out for awhile, but it’s on sale at Steam for $3.99 and from the trailer it quickly got my interest. Just what sort of game is this? It’s the 17th century, no one is around, you’ve been abandoned and something terrible has happened. As I started playing, I found this to be one of the most unusual games in my collection. I’m not normally a survival game fan, but I kinda like this. To start with you’re at the edge of the water with several containers around and a ship leaving in the distance. I sat there for a couple of minutes waiting for a tutorial that never started. Oh I see, I have to figure this out myself. All right, challenge accepted. With few options available, I smashed the available crates and grabbed some coins and other items. Since the water was behind me, there was no where else to go but up the hillside. Without […]

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