Archive for June, 2007

Hippy Games

Monday, June 25th, 2007

After playing Blacman, here are a couple of games that will help you become more diplomatic and probably politically correct.

The first one is A Force More Powerful which is a strategy game in which you use diplomacy in order to avoid conflicts. Unfortunately, I bet this kind of thing doesn’t sell very well and it does come at about $20. Maybe after a while you’ll find it in the discount bin at your local tech store. (more…)

OpenSVN

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I was off in some corner of the world wide web when I found OpenSVN. It’s a free service provided by some students in Taiwan to host subversion repositories. It’s a good solution for people who don’t want to set up a repository locally, and they say it is supported with RAID to ensure that your files won’t get lost. (more…)

How to become a Hacker

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

This is nothing new. But I think it needs to be posted from time to time on the net to remind people the culture of being a hacker in the free software/open source sense.

The tutorial is here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

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Spamming Google Maps

Friday, June 8th, 2007

This was on slashdot a while ago:

An anonymous reader writes “Google organized a flyover of Sydney, Australia last Friday for Australia Day. The images taken on the day will be posted to Google Maps in a few weeks. A number of dotcoms spent hours making huge signs that would be visible from the air. It will be interesting to see whether Google will repeat the event in other cities. If they do, get prepared early. What sign would you make?”

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Vista Bad for the Environment?

Friday, June 8th, 2007

“There will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards, and whole computers that are perfectly capable of running Vista — except for the fact they lack the paranoid lock down mechanisms Vista forces you to use. That’s an offensive cost to the environment. Future archaeologists will be able to identify a “Vista Upgrade Layer” when they go through our landfill sites.”

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phpBB mod: Topic Reply in Email

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Download: Topic Reply in Email phpBB MOD

This is a mod I made for phpBB 2.0.22. It works for me, and I’d like to get feedback on it. I wanted a way to see what people were saying in the forum before I clicked over to respond. This mod hasn’t been tested for the ocassion when quote tags aren’t closed properly or in some other way mangled.

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