If you are not owner of Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise then you might noticed that there is no official language pack support for your Windows edition. That is truly a problem but no reason to bury your … Continue reading How to change the interface language in a Windows 7 Edition that does not support official language packs
Today I came across this TechCrunch article in which the author reports that Amazon is testing so-called Octocopters which are autonomous flying drones. It seems that Amazon is testing if they could be used for delivery of small packets. Amazon calls the tested vehicle and service “Amazon Prime Air” and here is a short presentation how it looks like… Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos came up with this surprise in a tv show with Charlie Rose and nobody knew before that Jeff Bezos would unveil something like this. They walked in a room of the Amazon offices and Jeff Bezos said … Continue reading Amazon is Experimenting with Delivery Drones
Paradox Interactive announced Conquest of Paradise which is the first expansion for Europa Universalis IV, the award-winning empire building and grand strategy game for Windows, Mac and Linux. Europa Universalis IV is a game where the player has the chance to lead one of many countries through the history. Players can change the history in the game with their actions and this means it is a game that allows the player to set their own goals. Do they want to shock the world with wars or do they want to create a huge trading empire? Nothing is set in stone … Continue reading First Europa Universalis IV Expansion Announced.
Lead Systems Designer Greg Street known as “Ghostcrawler” in the World of Warcraft forums, leaves Blizzard Entertainment. He posted his goodbye on the official World of Warcraft forums. He wrote “An opportunity has come my way, and I have made the very tough decision to move on from Blizzard.” and thanks the World of Warcraft community with his following words “I wanted to thank all of you for being a part of this grand quest. I have said a hundred times that having passionate gamers, including the angry ones, is a far better place to be than having a community … Continue reading Greg Street “Ghostcrawler” leaves Blizzard Entertainment
DICE has just announced that the next Battlefield 4 update for PC will be released on December 2. The update will allegedly fix some problems with Battefield 4. December 2 Battlefield 4 PC Patch Notes: -Removed the blur effect on soldiers that appeared when Commanders were using EMP attacks -Fixed the audio bug where audio sometimes randomly dropped out while playing on certain multiplayer maps (typically Golmud Railway and Hainan Resort) -Fixed the “one-hit kill bug” where occasionally damage from a single bullet was applied multiple times – Fixed a common crash that would occur when exiting from the Single … Continue reading Upcoming Battlefield 4 PC Patch in December 2
While Akismet does work already pretty good as a blog spam comment filter, it is sometimes necessary to drop some spam comments manually into the wordpress spam folder, so that Akismet can learn about new spam to filter out spam comment even better in the future. I´d say that Akismet can already filter out 95% of the junk comments but there are always some comments coming through, which I would call the 5% of the new blog spammers who are not in the list of Akismet´s database yet. It is not much work to teach Akismet that it is a … Continue reading Spam comments and how you can avoid to let them come through
Diary of Dennis 