Category Archives: gaming

OnLive, Max, Xbox360 controller

Did you know that the OnLive OSX app has its own built in drivers that work out of the box with your wired Xbox360 controllers? I found this to be fantastic, but I had already installed the tattiebogle.net controller driver it works, but it conflicts with OnLives use of the device so I couldn’t use [...]

Linux AFP server going slow?

Recently I found that it was taking appauling amounts of time to transfer files to/from my debian file server setup with netatalks AFP. I upgraded to the latest version to no avail, but this trick helped out quite a lot — http://www.netafp.com/tn003-slow-afp-read-performance-90/ Incidentally I believe, unscientifically, that it also helped my OnLive game latency quite [...]

OnLive trolls

Man, trolls suck be they on forums, in blog comments, or, when playing video games. I just had an experience with the OnLive video game service which has me of two minds. I was playing Borderlands ( I *LOVE* This game ) single player… And a spectator started watching me. As soon as he entered [...]