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Call of Duty 4 does not meet minimum requirements and does not start

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Call of Duty 2, Calvin, Geek

If Call of Duty 4 appears to start with the intro screen and then disappears, it probably means your computer doesn’t meet minimum requirements. What an unfriendly and unclear way to handle this problem.
Here is the computer:

AMD Athlon XP 3200+
nVidia 5900 FX graphics adapter
1GB RAM

700GB disk free
So because it is an Athlon XP and not [...]

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Anagram Solver

April 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Calvin

Calvin wants to solve anagrams. There are lots of great programs out there, but not much source. Gtoal.com has a good list of source code that is out there, but its hard to find a simple program.
Gtanag.mai is perhaps the simplest program that is a C program. I’m sure you could use it in [...]

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Junior HIgh Nationals

April 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Calvin

Well, living at the Dallas Airport was certainly a different experience, but four days of eating at Bone Daddy’s, Salt Water Willy’s Seafood, living at the Hyatt Regency DFW, and most importantly playing chess at the Jr. High School Nationals is pretty remarkable. You can actually see the results in real time on the [...]

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Anagram Games

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Calvin

Found lots of anagram exercises on the web from Stanford and Duke in particular, but found one that is a simple game that is pretty easy to understand:

Devdaily. This one is a little complicated, but basically it shows you a scrambled word and you have to figure out how to unscramble and turn it into [...]

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ASUS M3p

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · ASUS M3p, Calvin

Dad gave me an old laptop to use. It is from 2004! So it needs lots of updating. First up is to get:

Java. So that I can write programs
Dr. Java. Which is a simple editor and program
Intel 2200 BG. I couldn’t connect to Apple’s latest Time Capsule and my drivers haven’t been in updated in [...]

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Puzzles and Computers

March 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Calvin

Calvin wanted to work with someone to combine a love of puzzles and a love of computers. Here are some ways to do that:
Cryptogram.java are a really fun kind of puzzle. The simplest is the substitution cypher. One letter in English is translated directly into another. Writing a program to do this isn’t too hard [...]

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Cool Math Testing Website

March 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Calvin

FreeRice
Cool Site for donating rice to hungry people by answering vocabulary word questions.

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Cool State Facts

March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Calvin

50states.com – States and Capitals Did you know the state song of Washington is Washington my home? On this site you can even find out the state tools of any one of the 50 states and much more

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Scratch

February 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Calvin

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Doubly Special Relativity

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Calvin

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