About Me:
At Capcom Entertainment, I'm both Corporate Officer and Vice-president of Strategic Planning & Business Development
Music:
I listen to a lot of techno (Digweed, Oakenfold, Tiesto, Propellerheads, Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, etc.).
Books:
In my youth I was a big sci-fi, fantasy guy (Brooks, Eddings, Pratchett, Anthony, Asprin being among my favorites). I'll still pick up the occasional title by these authors (Terry Pratchett and Terry Brooks usually). I'm also a Harry Potter fan but I put that in a category all of its own. Lately I read a lot of business books that apply to our world. Some recent ones I'd recommend are: Wikinomics, The Long Tail, The World is Flat, The Pirate's Dilemma, The Big Switch, etc.
When you're in my line of work, you do tend to travel a fair bit but this month is exceptional, even for me.
This week I'm in Osaka all week. I get back in on Friday, then Sunday I depart for LA all week. I'll get home that Friday night... then the following Tuesday I'm off to Tokyo all week.
I've had it in my head for a while that I wanted to check into the state of Linux today, having not messed with anything Unix-like in literally like 15+ years (yes, I'm that old).
I saw that Ubuntu has a new Live disc out, so I DLed it, burned it. Googled a few things like this handy dandy guide from LifeHacker about running Ubuntu nicely along side Windows 7. Seemed easy enough so I figured I'd give it a go tonight now that the wife and kid are asleep.
Now, for the more experienced IT folks out there, back in college, I was a bit of a computer wiz. I even served some time early in my career doing desktop support and was one of my undergrad university's first web masters. I was also webmaster (and co-editor) for for one of the sites that was the pre-cursor to what is now IGN. So I'm not exactly an idiot when it comes to tech. But time marches on and naturally, because it's not my job any more, I'm not nearly as up to speed as I was back in the day (and I was never a Linux guru exactly). Computers are a fun hobby for me.
So to cut to the chase, I was screwing around with setting up Ubuntu on my home gaming rig which is a Core i7 960, 12GB of RAM, dual 1TB HDDs in a Raid 0 array - which is run by an on-board raid controller. Not really important for this but on the GPU side I'm using a Geforce 295 in this rig, which I'll probably upgrade to the next spin of whatever follows the GF 480.
Now, don't ask why I picked my gaming machine to do this. I should have set it up on one of my home servers that had been properly backed up. I have 2 media servers (one of which is largely idle and could have been scrubbed for this experiment), and a backup server also in my house.
To make a long story short, I screwed up my hardware based harddrive partitions by playing with software partitions as instructed in the guide. All data go boom.
It's not a huge deal as there's no work files, documents or media on my gaming rig. It's purely a gaming rig. I did manage to salvage some of the game saves and such mounting the drive in Ubuntu and throwing it across to one of my servers. I keep Chrome synced to keep all of my bookmarks and stuff consistent everywhere. I'm just reinstalling windows 7 as we speak. Once I fire up Steam and set a ton of stuff to reinstall, I'll call it a night.
Note to self, you aren't smart enough to do that... next time, no raid 0 for joo on an Ubuntu dual boot install. That's like real admin stuff that I'm too out of the loop to do any more.
Big Resident Evil fan here. I personally don't mind the newer heavy-action approach. But, believe it or not, I do miss the need to make every shot count. Capcom knows this and they responded with "Lost in Nightmares".
Any word on a PC DLC release? Lot of people speculate it's going to happen in September, or not at all. Do you agree?
and please tell us something! we're waiting for your answer about this..tell us know something..even if the answer is "no"! just see and do something..
Hallo Mr Sven? hey sorry that you screwed up with your hardware oh and about steam. heh.
anyway sven. i just would like to knock at your door here to tell you that it is very shame.and sad that you or any capcom member cant just go and check what your loyal fans wants" your/capcom" loyal people. who loves you/loves capcom/loves resident evil the game you guys made.
at least just give them a hint or any answer. just to cool them down. maybe not everyone will understand..but im sure that you do understand how they feel and how badly they wants RE5 Gold EDition for pc.
if you cant say anything.due company policy then a hint maybe ?
well you know that it is not fair that everyone is enjoying your games on other consoles.but others and many of people NOT. not fair
they still waiting your answer someday sven to make them happy.
Hey Sven how's it going? You back at the office finally? Or are you about to go on another trip?
Regulas12:18 AM CST