My laptop has an Intel Mobile 965 onboard graphics card. It's part of the Santa Rosa generation of Centrino systems. Since June everyone with a 965 in their computer, desktop or laptop, has had intermittent freezes and blank screens (sometimes need a reboot) with games like The Sims 2, SimCity 5, Battlefield 2142, World of Warcraft, and other highly graphics-intensive games.

Recently, Intel released a new set of drivers for this chipset.

No more freezes.

Since then, I've been playing WoW, and a lot of other games with no issues whatsoever. And they say non-dedicated onboard graphics cards suck.

A huge pain.

I'm writing a line-by-line C cross-compiler from any x86 OS to MikeOS. Check out mikeos.berlios.de to find out more about MikeOS. So far a simple puts(); function has been implemented along with good ol' return 0;. 0.0.2 will have some kind of char statement or something like that, along with 16-bit integers. I'm planning for getchar(); by 0.0.3. And getchar(); needs char. Obviously.

If anyone likes MikeOS or does OS development or something that helps dev OSes, drop me a line, I'm working on a (plain text) magazine about OS dev-ing.

I found something once on a cleaner, better windows UI, and I thought, "Why not try to implement something like it?" So I started work on a Windows shell replacement that can be launched as a normal .exe. You can exit by hitting escape. Here's a link.

I'm taking a crack at writing an RPG like Dungeons and Dragons, but it's going to be a little more WoW-like. It's called Torneth Reborn, and I'm whipping up an edition as I post this. You start with around 50 HP and higher level characters can get to around 2000 HP. It's going to be pretty kewl. I hope.