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Microsoft Tinker

Posted on November 20, 2008, by Todd, under Games, Personal, Windows Vista.

This game is very addicting. It was installed a couple of weeks back as on the Vista Ultimate add-ins via Microsoft Update. Garth had pointed it out on his blog last month,  how to kill a couple of hours, no kidding. Garth’s Post on Microsoft Tinker

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Installing Games in Windows Vista Business using Scripts

Posted on September 16, 2008, by Todd, under Games, Windows Vista.

I needed a way to install Windows Vista games by script so I could further automate my MDT installations. Windows Vista business does not install games automatically, I think Home versions do though. Really you wouldn’t want them in the office, but these computers are for library patrons and some like to play solitaire. I did some searching the internet and found somewhere along the line this command line – pkgmgr.exe /iu:InboxGames /quiet

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Command and Conquer now a free download

Posted on September 3, 2007, by Todd, under Games.

image thumb Command and Conquer now a free download
I wasted a lot of time back in my first year at University playing the
orginal Command and Conquer in both the solo mission modes and against
buddies over the network. Electronic Arts has now made it available as
a free download. You can download both the NOD and GDI disks as ISO
images. I never did complete the game as NOD but did finish it as GDI.

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Pure Geometry – A Good Way for a free Drink

Posted on January 4, 2007, by Todd, under Games.

I saw this on YouTube today. There is a whole series of these on there but this trick is really slick. The long and short of this is, keep the extra items less than half the height of the beer glass and the circumference will beat the height. Might show this trick the next time OWSUG gets together at the pub.

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