Monthly Archives: September 2006

Exams (mostly) over

My exams are mostly over (just one left) and I don’t have to work for my company this week so I took the chance to get back into niven development. I’ve been playing around with unicode support and I have … Continue reading

Posted in Programming | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Hardware trouble and future

A few days ago, my RAID1 started to fall apart. I’m using a ASUS A8N-SLI Premium mainboard with the nForce 4 SLI chipset. Sadly, this chipset is not worth its money. The nVidia LAN firewall is simply broken, and the … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged | 2 Comments

Transparency anti-aliasing

Finally nVidia added transparency anti-aliasing support for most (all?) GeForce cards. I tried the super-sampling AA on my 6800GT and it is really looking very very good. The MSAA has problems with thin lines (HL² fences for example) while the … Continue reading

Posted in General | Tagged | 2 Comments