Sep
07
Spent the last few days converting Last Night on Earth to a vassal engine game so that I can play it online. I’d actually started to write a .Net application to let me play online and that would let me put in some basic AI for the Zombies so that a friend and I …
Jul
01
I just wanted to give a thumbs up to Crutchfield Electronics. I own a 12 year old Saturn and the radio leaves a little to be desired when it comes to getting input from something other than the OTA or cassettes. So a friend recommended Crutchfield. I checked them out and while they don’t have …
Jun
30
As I browse tech forums I see this a lot, “I applied the cover and there’s only one small dust speck! Go me!” or “My cover is filled with bubbles. “. Here’s a simple trick that will let you apply the typical screen protector on anything, phone, tablet, laptop etc within reason. 1) Turn on …
Jun
26
Since there was a bit of bad information out there about recovering Barnes and Nobles Simple Touch eReader I thought I’d share. I rooted mine and wanted to recover it back to stock. You can wipe the \data partition by doing 8 interupted starts. To do that you power it off and then on (hold …
May
21
I was looking for a multi-touch driver to use in Windows and it took some looking obviously enough to get one that worked the way it should be. One that emulated the touch ability of a typical Windows 7 tablet. This is for my Multi-Touch Gaming Table experiment. Speaking of which I do have an update, …
Apr
29
Just thought this was rather interesting and wanted to share. This is a screenshot of just Askimet’s ability to catch spam which is a long way from 99%. Installing AVH First Defense Against Spam and setting it up to compare commenter IP’s versus known spammers was the only way I could get the spam back …
Apr
13
More progress was made. You can see pictures of the stages on the DGT page but to sum up, sanded, routed, puttied, sanded, stained, acrylic cut, access hole cut, ventilation holes cut. I’m going to be using magnets, rare earth magnets to be exact and steel bolts to keep the access door closed rather than …
Apr
12
Got some more work done, added the fourth wall missing from yesterday, added trim work to the base, created the capper, sanded everything with some rough grit to get it semi-smooth. You’d think I’d of gotten more done today oddly enough after thinking about it. There are a couple of new images on the …
Apr
09
My gaming table is going to get a digital option. If you’ve been a regular visitor over the yeass you’ve watched it go through a few upgrades, the original, the new table top and then the double decker topper. Now I’ve decided to move to the digital age. I’m going to remove the double decker …
Jan
28
If you’re into rooting your Nook Color and want the 1.1.0 update you can get a rooted copy of it over on the xda forums. You will need to have a working root already and have Clockword Mod installed. If you’re already on 1.0.1 stock then you’ll need to get downgraded and rooted and then …
Jan
19
Had to return my Nook Color last night as it was one of the ones exhibiting the sound issue. The issue is that sound doesn’t work after the device goes to sleep and you wake it back up. You have to power it off/reboot it to get sound back. As a feature that’s just …
Jan
17
After a lot of consideration I picked up a Nook Color this weekend. I had it rooted roughly 30 minutes after actually using it for the first time, and 20 of that was to check out the stock OS on the device. A stock Nook Color is funcitonal if you want it to read books …
Jan
10
As you can see if you’ve ever been here before, I’ve shifted the site theme a bit. I felt it was time for aun update, I’ve been using the previous theme for maybe 3 years but the fact of the matter is I simply liked it and don’t like most other themes and am way …
Dec
31
Just wanted to post this as it took me a bit to find. If you happen to have a Jailbroken Iphone 3GS (other models may also be affected but it seems to be the 3GS) and its only 3.1.2 or higher or you used limerain or greenpoison (I forget the l33t spelling for those and …
May
28
Firefox may not be winning the war for the world but I’m happy to see that it’s winning the war among my visitors, at least among those that were able to be deciphered. From a security standpoint it’s mo’ betta’. And if you want even more security IMO you’ll switch to Google Chrome. There’s just …
Feb
19
I upgraded to WordPress 2.9.2 this morning or tried to, so if you see any issues with things not working please drop me a note. It’s not easy to upgrade to 2.9.2 on 1and1.com. They’re using MySQL 4.0.x and 2.9.2 requires 4.1.2 and better. But they do give you access to MySQL 5.0.x you just …
Feb
06
Just wanted to pass along some information I gleaned while trying to build a hackintosh with a Dell C521 with an NVidia card. It took a long time and a lot of rebuilds to get a fully functional device and most of it was trial and error so I thought I’d share. I ended up …
Feb
08
I’ve implemented a Widget Cacher to the site here, that along with WP-Cache significantly reduced the page creation size. It’s typically sub 1 second to create the page now and there’s only around 20′ish SQL queries per page hit which is pretty good. What does this mean? Nothing much, it’s a geek thing but for …
Dec
18
If you’re using Word Press and are having problems with HTTP or Internal Server Error 500 errors when you upload an image then try putting the below in your .htaccess file in the root of your WordPress install folder. AddType x-mapp-php5 .php AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
May
30
Can you imagine having one of these? Imagine having mini’s with bar coded bases that automatically show line of sight? Being able to drop a ‘fireball’ where the sorcerer casts it and see who it affects? Mapping with your fingers? It’s not quite ‘star wars holographic chess’ but holy crap it’s more than halfway there.
