Sailing Simulators
Posted on 29 September 2012 by rich
If you love sailing, well then why not play a simulation on your computer. It is not like most folks have $100M to run an Americas’ Cup campaign, so here’s a quick search of what is out there:
- Sailing Simulator 5. Shipped in 2010 and there is a Windows demo. First hit on google, so got to try it.
- About.com likes something called Little Sailor for the Apple IOS devices and a historical Tall Ships Age also for IOS.
A bunch of these posts look very old, but someone really likes Virtual Skipper 5 and it looks pretty cool.
Finally, SailX seems to come up a bunch too.
Apple owes me $44
Posted on 29 September 2012 by rich
Argh. Darn Apple Maps, they think the Washington Athletic Club is down on 5th vs the actual address on 6th. Wandered around looking for it and got a ticket 2 minutes before I got back. Was there for 15. Wow, the ever efficient revenue generation of Seattle!
And there is of course no way to tell Apple to correct this as it is a Yelp location and there is no correction. You are warned!
Of course it was game day in Seattle and I saw lots of tickets, so it just means you have to be careful too, but still 
Gamers PC Blu Ray Player Samsung SE-506 or use digital downloads only
Posted on 29 September 2012 by rich
OK, I thought I could get away without an optical drive, but it is pretty clear that PC games are still delivered this way, so I still need some way to read them. Not everything is on Steam or downloadable yet (when will that be???). You do have to suffer with things like EA’s Origin and there is the problem of old games that weren’t digital. The main solution would seem to be copying them as an ISO, but the problem is that many games implement copy protection so you can’t just copy them or back them up for that matter.
A quick review shows that an external USB 2.0 drive isn’t a bad option. I can move it around and while internals are cheaper at $60, when you are submerging a PC there really isn’t anywhere to put an internal drive
Looking through reviews, they are few, but PC Magazine seems to liek the Samsung SE-506 and the Newegg reviews are decent. It’s $90. It’s a burner too. I can’t think of when I’d want to blow $10 blowing a Blu-ray, but what the heck, a small premium for that. They also like the Pioneer BDR-XD04 which is super slim but at $120, it doesn’t seem worth it.
Gamer PC Drivers, drivers
Posted on 29 September 2012 by rich
Well the hard part seemed to be putting the hardware together, but it is really getting the software particularly when everything is flash. Here are the steps:
- Download the Windows USB Installer
- Put in your DVD and make it
- Goto the ASUS site and download all the many new drivers
- Goto the nVidia site and download their drivers
Slam all that stuff onto a USB key and go to the machine and start clicking. Not clear if one needs to go before the others, but I like to first do:
- Wifi drivers to get connectivity
- nVidia drivers to make sure graphics work
- Then work your way through the rest
Cyberpower AVR vs LCD
Posted on 29 September 2012 by rich
I got a Cyberpower CP1500PFCLCD which is a pure sinewave version costing $200. It is confusing as there is also a model called CP1500AVR and CP1500AVRLCD. AVR means that it isn’t an actual sine wave, but a triangular. Not so good theoretically for modern power supplies that use PFC. If you can get away with it, the AVR model is even cheaper as it doesn’t have an LCD, so the hierarchy is PFCLCD > AVRLCD > AVR
The difference between a .dmg and .cdr and .sio
Posted on 28 September 2012 by rich
The difference between a .dmg file…: Apple Support Communities explains a bunch to me. Basically, if you want to get a disk image, the Mac way is called .dmg. The PC way is called .cdr or .iso (they are the same).
The Apple Disk Utility has a conversion that lets you swap. Just double click on the .dmg or the .cdr or .iso and it mounts. Look at the left pane and click on the .cdr, .iso or .dmg. Then click on the Convert button at the top and it will do the conversion. When you convert from .dmg to .iso, you actually create a .cdr and then manually rename it to .iso.
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