Project Euler Problem 17
Check your spelling / letter counts. Seriously. Sixty is 5 letters long, not 6; a false friend numeral. Also, from the forums: look at the… Read More »Project Euler Problem 17
Check your spelling / letter counts. Seriously. Sixty is 5 letters long, not 6; a false friend numeral. Also, from the forums: look at the… Read More »Project Euler Problem 17
Plain Sight was on sale for the staggeringly low £1.60 / £1.20, so I decided to get a copy. It is a very fun, fast-paced… Read More »Plain Sight Dedicated Server Crash Fix
As I may have mentioned, I recently reinstalled Ubuntu (had been using Windows 7 for a few months). Since the reinstall I had changed my… Read More »Fix for “Current Password No Longer Matches Keyring”
I’ve been posting a fair number of videos to another blog for the folk I play games with (including the other MIA author of posts on this blog Kenny). It’s a good way to relive some moments and also a way for me to practice my cutting and splicing skills.
Long story short, I encoded an updated version of a video I created about three and a half years ago. The old one was small resolution and tiny bitrate. This version is full (source) resolution and a relatively insane bitrate.
FEAR – Stolen Kills (pop-out player if you have JS enabled, non pop-out version here)
Synopsis: I shoot Kenny in the back (with friendly fire on) and I’m rewarded with two kills. Obviously a sounds strategy!
Read More »An Old Video (FEAR – Stolen Kills)
As someone who still has the original floppies for Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (or IJatFoA, it’s easier that way), I thought I’d give the Steam version a whirl. I picked it up (along with The Last Crusade) probably when it was on sale as part of a bundle.
My initial thoughts are: “what have they done to the music?”, “since when did the characters have voices?” and “this is a lot simpler than what I remember playing as a 7 year old”.
Read More »Playing The Steam Version of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Problem: sshd does not appear to start on system boot, but runs fine when started from a terminal with /etc/init.d/ssh start Update Dec 2010: Thanks… Read More »[Solved] sshd Does Not Run At System Startup (Ubuntu)
(Note: I also posted this over on Slashdot on the story about the fact that APB is to use in-game advertisements) Having played the beta,… Read More »My Short APB Review
Update: Still using this 8 years later, but in the form of a quick script, which is useful if you are doing it more than… Read More »Extract A Single Image From A Video Using FFMPEG
Before I get started, some resources: Technet discussion LogBlog KSOD fix (RPCSS) Microsoft KB article on KSOD / black screen I’m looking at a friend’s… Read More »Black Screen (KSOD) Vista Solutions
This turned out to be dead easy, although it took a bit of futzing around due to my own slowness. The situation arose during an… Read More »Connect to a WPA/WPA2 Secured Network In Linux