Ever since discovering that DOSBox has stable IPX and serial tunneling, I’ve been digging through my old files and rediscovering some classic multiplayer games of yesteryear with my brother (who still has the edge in C&C).
The issue with a lot of multiplayer games from 10 or 15 (or more) years ago is that they either [...]

I’ve been quite smitten by VMWare lately — their free products, natch — and have sunken quite a few hours into playing around with it. It’s really coming in handy for test PCs when I want to look into a feature; I now have one PC with a stack of VM images on it which [...]

After betas and release candidates, the final release of Firefox 2 is available now.

It’s fairly straightforward to use PHP to create an RSS feed from your existing database. In this example, we take a database table containing new items, retrieve the last 15 in order and then output in RSS2.0 XML format. This chiefly consists of a title description and link for the channel (your site) and the [...]

Following on from the scripts published earlier, here’s an updated version that combines the two scripts previously mentioned. It now has some minimal error checking (checks for the presence of three variables) and converts the images to JPEG (if they weren’t already).
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" = "" ] || [ "$2" = "" ] || [ [...]

Here’s a couple of small, simple Shell Scripts that I wrote to automate the resizing and adding of images to this blog.
The first takes an image prefix (or full name) as a variable, and uses the ImageMagick program convert to create a thumbnail, with a tn. prefix in front of the original filename, then scales [...]

Anime Girlies?!? On MY Desktop?!?

Xbox Live Arcade be darned, here’s the awesome PC Engine version of Galaga 90 running under Hu-Go!

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So, I bought this brand new PC. And what did I find myself running on it today?

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Finally bought myself a new PC, after years of putting it off.

Pentium D 930 (3.0GHz, Dual Core)
2 Gig DDR2 RAM
3×320GB Seagate Baracuda SATAII HDDs (7200RPM, 16MB Cache)
nVidia GeForce 7600GS with 512MB DDR RAM
Running AMD64/EM64T optimized version of Debian Sid with Linux Kernel 2.6.15-SMP
All packaged in a gorgeous Thermaltake Eureka case