Steam Bethesda Sale!
I Love Steam!
Mainly due to their awesome sales. Yet again, another great sale. As of today you can now pre-order, the next Fallout game, Fallout: New Vegas. Along with the pre-order, three Bethesda titles are on sale.
Fallout 3 & All DLCs = £14.99 (50% off)
Oblivion & All DLCs = £6.80 (66% off)
Morrowind & Both Expansions = £3.25 (75% off)
I already have Fallout and Oblivion, which are two of my favourite games, as well as being highly rated by the press. I am planning to get Morrowind (I have now purchased it, to complete my Bethesda Collection), which is the game I missed. Buy them now!
Ubuntu Improved Enough… No Desire for Windows anymore!
My love for Ubuntu has grown over the past two days, and my need for Windows is zero! Every since switching to Ubuntu Linux in 2007, there have always been a few problems, which have been in the back of my mind. Mainly hardware issues and games.
For starters, every since I have started using Ubuntu, my monitor has never been detected correctly. It would always go 'out of range' when booting up the Live CD. I got around this issue, by unplugging the monitor before boot up, plug it back in, and the correct resolution is selected. However, this has not been the case with Ubuntu 10.04. I am not able to pass the monitor issue by simply unplugging it. I have reported the issue with my monitor as a bug. It appears that the EDID is damaged, due to slow progress of the bug, I have decided to fix it myself. To my great joy, I have!
Over two years of having this bug in Ubuntu affecting my enjoyment of this distro, has been fixed by a simple command before I start the Live CD.
'video=CTR-0:800x600'
It forces Ubuntu to use that resolution, and it worked. Strangely, but even better, it actually selected to use 1024x768. I can now use a Live CD with my monitor 
My second issue with Ubuntu, which is the biggest pull towards a Windows life is Games. I am a gamer, a huge gamer, as some of you may be aware from FCM & Podcast! Windows has all the games, the ones I want to play. Though the main ones are on Steam. Sadly, Steam is a Windows only platform, until yesterday anyway. Many of you may have seen this, but it appears in the Steam Mac Beta installer there is a bit of code which checks to see which OS is being used. It checks for Mac OS X or Linux, and loads the appropriate libs. Looks like Steam is coming to Linux, which is what I need to keep me on Linux.
So as you can see I no longer need Windows! Expect for MS Access which I run in VirtualBox 
Amazing Deals on Steam!
Steam is my favourite place to get PC games, mainly down to the ease of use and the amazing weekend deals, I have in the past got Fallout 3, Company of Heroes, Portal and STALKER with 75% off.
To celebrate the Holiday season, Steam has got a huge sale on, with most of the games at a discount. Until 3rd January, THQ, Atari, 2k and Ubisoft have all their games with a 50% discount. I took advantage of this by buying Company of Heroes Tales of Valor for £5!
Also, each day there are special deals which will change. Highlights include:
- GTA 4 - £5
- Battlefield 2 + Add-ons - £3.74
- STALKER - £1.74
You have until the 3rd January, so make sure you check it out.
Me!
Ed Hewitt, 19, Studying @ Derby Uni, Blogger, Ubuntu user, Columnist & Podcaster for FCM, Gamer, Admin on Gfire.- Ubuntu was feeling slow. Problem. Spotify again. 20-30% sitting idle! Please fix this!
- Pressure, missed the deadline for FCM #41, having to quickly write up my review of Gish!
- Yet again, no need for drivers on Ubuntu, but you do on Windows :D
