Archive for March, 2008


StarCraft Battle.net AirLink 101 Lower Ping

Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Elliot

Open port 6112, both TCP and UDP, using Port Forwarding on your router. The difference is night and day! Didn’t work AT ALL without port forwarding, works excellently with it. I used to wonder why hosting StarCraft games worked so much better on my old dial-up modem than with DSL/Cable. Port forwarding on the NAT [...]

Apple Pushes Safari 3.1 on Windows Users

Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Elliot

It’s a whopping 22.65 MB (or 22.70 MB, depending on where you look)! I wonder how big Firefox is.
Safari for Windows is the fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for the PC. It displays web pages faster than any other browser and is filled with innovative features — all delivered in an efficient [...]

Centered image scaling with the X1300 Catalyst Control Panel does not work: my display is still stretched, and this is crucial for games like StarCraft.
Here was a very enlightening discussion about the same issue I have:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33877543
On the Dell E228WFP monitor, “Auto Adjust,” “Positioning,” and “Image Settings” are grayed out. I think one of the options [...]

CA Anti-Virus License Key Trial

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Elliot

If you’re trying to get the trial version of CA Anti-Virus, but there’s no license key on the web page, try Internet Explorer.
Their website doesn’t work in Mozilla Firefox, but it does in IE. Very strange.

Congratulations for signing up for
CA Anti-Virus
(Print this page for your records)

Product Download
License Key
Installation Instructions

Download Instructions:
Click on the [...]