Blog

Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.

I don't have any commenting enabled at the moment, because no one really comments anything except spammers, but if you have any thoughts on anything, feel free to email me at niklas@uplink.fi.

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Blog Posts

The State of Linux Gaming

Tech

I remember switching to Linux full time in about 2003 when XP SP2 came out. I had been thinking about it for a while, but the update that switched on the then badly configured firewall was the one that pushed me over the edge.

Since then I have always had a Windows installation on my main home com...

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Some thoughts about Valves new stuff

Gaming

We live in interesting times when it concerns video games. If we quickly re-cap the history of the computer game industry, for now ignoring the consoles, we get the following. First video games where made by "smaller" companies. The budget per game where usually in the thousands of dollars. The game...

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