I’ve written quite a bit on x-plane lately. That was before I discovered a few good quality scenery packages. One of these packages is a 400 MB version of Paris, the capital of France. Wow. You can download it here, for free!
Here’s some screenshots (all running beautifully smooth). This is by far the most realistic [...]
NL X-Plane : a dutch scenery for X-Plane
Just what I wanted. Nice scenery for x-plane. Despite weighing in at 60 GB, the world scenery coming with x-plane is a bit boring in some parts of the world. This is the fix for a small part of the world. The provided scenery for North Holland (region [...]
Luckily my parents laptop came with a windows xp pro cd and a valid product key. So, after backing up important files using ubuntu, I proceeded to install windows. I had forgotten how annoying installing windows can be.
After having seen ubuntu the experience is, well, extremely user unfriendly and extremely likely to end in disaster [...]
Last weekend (Easter holiday, long weekend) was a good opportunity to visit my parents in the Netherlands. Apart from beloved son, I’m also their system administrator. Last time I made a mistake, I left them behind with a partially secured windows machine. The thing was behind a router and they were using firefox (saw to [...]
Tagged reviews, Software in General, ubuntuFinally a nice, free way to generate pdf documents: PDFCreator. For quite some time now I’ve been doing essentially the same as this plugin does using a combination of tools (redmon and ghostscript) and printerdrivers (anything that outputs postscript). This tool is much easier to set up than that set of tools. The results should [...]
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