<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>lpb&#039;s bloggyblog &#187; computer</title> <atom:link href="http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/category/computer/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net</link> <description>The occasionally updated blog of Lee Barrows &#124; May Contain Content</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:36:02 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Preliminary work on Project HTPC commences</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/11/13/preliminary-work-on-project-htpc-commences/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/11/13/preliminary-work-on-project-htpc-commences/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:02:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[htpc]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=702</guid> <description><![CDATA[So yes. Project HTPC officially began this weekend, well I say that, but it&#8217;s still in the preliminary, fact finding / requirements gathering / discovery phase&#8230; however the first physical work was undertaken, so I&#8217;m taking that as the start of the project. You have no idea what I&#8217;m rambling about do you? This. HTPC stands for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/11/13/preliminary-work-on-project-htpc-commences/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Those BBC Micro tunes!</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/09/18/those-bbc-micro-tunes/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/09/18/those-bbc-micro-tunes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:39:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[acorn computers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[retro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[youtube]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=685</guid> <description><![CDATA[The good old BBC Micro wasn&#8217;t particularly known for it&#8217;s audio capabilities, it certainly wasn&#8217;t as powerful in that department compared to the Commodore 64 for example. However, that didn&#8217;t stop some games programmers back in they day, who managed to knock out some very impressive work. I&#8217;ve started a little series on YouTube, where [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/09/18/those-bbc-micro-tunes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Video game saturation, why Steam works for me!</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/08/30/video-game-saturation-why-steam-works-for-me/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/08/30/video-game-saturation-why-steam-works-for-me/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:07:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[games]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=680</guid> <description><![CDATA[I must have almost 100 games available to me that i&#8217;ve bought via Value&#8217;s Steam online game system&#8230; I can&#8217;t help myself, I keep buying them. Their marketing ploys work quite well, the almost never ending turnaround on sales, weekend deals, multigame packs&#8230; I can&#8217;t resist. I even end up buying games I already own! [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/08/30/video-game-saturation-why-steam-works-for-me/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Five years on Last.fm</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/31/five-years-on-last-fm/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/31/five-years-on-last-fm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:10:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Intaweb]]></category> <category><![CDATA[last.fm]]></category> <category><![CDATA[music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scrobbling]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=651</guid> <description><![CDATA[So, today is my fifth anniversary of using Last.fm, the radio and music scrobbling website. Although I very seldom listen to the radio part of Last.fm I am someone who scrobbles the music that they are listening to. Primarily from my mobile phone but also from my work and home computers sometimes too. I signed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/31/five-years-on-last-fm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mass Effect(ed)</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/30/mass-effected/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/30/mass-effected/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:10:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arrival]]></category> <category><![CDATA[commander shepard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dlc]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lair of the shadow broker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect 2]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect 3]]></category> <category><![CDATA[project overlord]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=614</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wow, so yeah, Mass Effect. I like it, in case you didn&#8217;t know already. Playing the latest DLC for Mass Effect 2, reminded me that I&#8217;ve been meaning to make a little blog post about my various adventures in ME2 for a while now, so no time like the present&#8230; If you didn&#8217;t already know, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/30/mass-effected/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mass Effect &#8211; Arrival</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/30/mass-effect-arrival/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/30/mass-effect-arrival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:54:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arrival]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dlc]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect 2]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect 3]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=611</guid> <description><![CDATA[So the latest (and last?) DLC pack for Mass Effect 2, &#8220;Arrival&#8221;, has arrived (see what I did there?)! And I don&#8217;t think it disappoints! It&#8217;s certainly up there along with the Overlord, Stolen Memory and Shadow Broker DLCs. It sees the erstwhile Commander Shepard dispatched to rescue an Alliance deep cover operative from Batarian space. From [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/30/mass-effect-arrival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Play game demos in your web browser!</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/09/play-game-demos-in-your-web-browser/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/09/play-game-demos-in-your-web-browser/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:59:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Intaweb]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dead space]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=576</guid> <description><![CDATA[I tweeted this earlier today, but felt it deserved a mini-blog post too&#8230; An article on PCGamer made me aware of this first, essentially there&#8217;s a fairly new service out there called Gaikai that streams game Demos to your web browser without the need to download and install them, using a combination of Flash and Java [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/03/09/play-game-demos-in-your-web-browser/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Screensaver fail</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/01/21/screensaver-fail/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/01/21/screensaver-fail/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:36:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fail]]></category> <category><![CDATA[work]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=486</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just a bit of pointless blog posting, saw this on the computer next to me at work just now&#8230;]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2011/01/21/screensaver-fail/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mass Effect</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2010/11/13/mass-effect/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2010/11/13/mass-effect/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:48:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass effect 2]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=454</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been a bit of a sucker when it comes to a good RPG game &#8211; I enjoy being immersed in fiction. So it struck me as kind of odd that i&#8217;d never gotten around to playing the Mass Effect series from Bioware (whose Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game I thoroughly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2010/11/13/mass-effect/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Further 8bit Acorn goodness</title><link>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2010/08/08/further-8bit-acorn-goodness/</link> <comments>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2010/08/08/further-8bit-acorn-goodness/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:38:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>lpb</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[acorn computers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[computer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[retro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[8bit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bbc master]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bbc micro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[retro computing]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/?p=432</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oh yes. A weekend of R&#38;R at home prompted me to continue a couple of little projects that don&#8217;t take too much energy. Namely, fitting an MMC interface to my BBC Micro, providing the little Beeb with a whopping 128MB of storage. All right, so it&#8217;s not quite that much, but it does give it [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.thefluxcapacitor.net/2010/08/08/further-8bit-acorn-goodness/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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