Over the last couple of months I have had a bit of … fun. My new computer started restarting randomly more and more often until it suddenly wouldn’t start up, it turned out to be a failed BIOS chip on the motherboard, so I have been going through the RMA Process. Aside from that I […]
Today 3 Minecraft VR related things happened. The first, and probably the largest one is that the official Minecraft VR version came out today, it uses Minecraft Windows 10 edition, and you need to own a copy of Minecraft Windows 10 edition to play the VR edition. As an interesting sidenote, if you have the
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From what I’ve been reading, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update has been doing some … odd things to peoples computers. First is the whole thing about switching some group policies to only work on the Enterprise or Education versions, making the ‘Pro’ version less useful for businesses as those settings can’t be centrally managed anymore
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Interestingly, Microsoft is sticking to their original plan for the Windows 10 Upgrade and ending it today, July 28th. I find it interesting that they decided to not keep it going as they seem to really want people to upgrade, but it’ll be nice to have some of my older computers stop nagging me to
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Well, someone has ported Minecraft, via the Minecrift mod to the HTC Vive headset. The motion controls look very interesting to me… Now I’m really looking forward to my Vive arriving, not sure when it’ll happen though. Thanks to the ‘Sold out’ error that appeared to many people, including myself, when the vive preorders started
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Some people are having a lot of fun today as the people who Kickstarted Oculus are receiving their Rifts, sadly I wasn’t one of the kickstarters, it had ended shortly before I found out about it. It also appears that I’m a bit farther back in the group than i thought I was, my rift
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There have been several threads on Reddit over the last few days about Windows 7, and in some instances, Windows 8.1 upgrading to Windows 10 automatically. From what people are saying, Windows will restart suddenly and the Windows 10 install will start almost immidatley. I have taken a look at my Windows 8.1 laptop and
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The Minecrift mod for Minecraft has allowed people to play the Java version of Minecraft on the Oculus Rift. Playing Minecraft on the Rift is very fun, they recently released an update which made it compatible with the Oculus SDK 0.8, after a fairly long wait. Now on top of that, they’re planning on supporting
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This has been a fairly interesting week in computer news, first of all, a number of articles about Intel stopping motherboard manufactuers from allowing overclocking on their non K series CPUs. I can certainly see why Intel would want to stop people from overclocking their cheaper lines of CPUs, They want people to buy the
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I already have applied the update to all but one of my Windows 10 machines, and I can say that this update has returned a feature that I really wanted to have back. Window border colors are back, of course you could have had them in the offical release of Windows 10 before, but it
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