Warhammer Loses 4 Classes and 4 Capital Cities

That’s right.  If you haven’t read it by now, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is losing 4 careers (Choppa, Ironbreaker, Black Guard, and the Knights of the Blazing Sun) and 4 of the 6 Capital Cities.  I was personally planning on playing one of the two canceled classes, but releasing an unfinished game like Funcom [...]

Preparing 2000 College Computers for Next Semester

At College of Southern Nevada, I’ve often wondered if students, faculty, or college administration have ever thought just how the heck their college computers have received their updates, configure themselves, install software, etc.  I mean, someone or something has to do it, right?  Well, I am one of the three main Sungard employees [...]

Include Cygwin in your PowerShell Environment (Vista)

Want to include your Cygwin environment in your Windows PowerShell on Vista?
Step 1.

Open PowerShell. Run:
set-executionpolicy RemoteSigned

Step 2.
Create a directory in your user profile:
mkdir c:\users\(profile)\Documents\WindowsPowerShell

Step 3.
Navigate to the above created directory, and create a new file called “Microsoft.Powershell_profile.ps1″
Step 4.
Edit the file in Notepad:
$env:path=$env:path+”;C:\cygwin\bin”
Step 5.
Include any other paths if necessary, or include other scripts and add-ons [...]

Age of Conan: Is It a Bust?

I decided to try Age of Conan from Funcom. At first view, this seemed to be a very good game, but things started to die out quickly.

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