Archive for October, 2006

How NOT To Steal A Design

Posted on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

This is a really funny: Some people copied and pasted a whole website, and they left in the original content (just commented out) and the Google tracking code. Hoave a look in the source of the copy; it’s pretty funny.

“If you are ever so lazy as to steal the CSS and HTML from another site for use in yours, please remember: try NOT to take also the javascript code that tracks the site stats, unless you want to be caught red-handed.”

If the “Read More” link does not work, try the Duggmirror cache. It doesn’t look any good, or have the whole article, but you can get the idea.

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Great Javascript Colour Picker

Posted on Monday, October 30th, 2006

I found this great Javascript colour picker today. It’s only 23kb, and looks great. You can check out a demo and download it at http://www.acko.net/dev/farbtastic.

-Stephen

Frozen Bubble 2.0.0 Is Out

Posted on Saturday, October 28th, 2006

One of the most addictive Linux games, Frozen Bubble, just got updated to version 2.0.0. The new version brings you a new single player game mode (multi player training), network (LAN, Internet) game mode (up to 5 players), fully revamped graphics, full joystick support, recording and playback of all games with non-predefined levels and more.

This was one of the first games I played on Linux (On a Knoppix live CD), and I still love it!

-Stephen

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SUSE Linux 10.1 “Remastered” available

Posted on Monday, October 16th, 2006

A “remastered” edition of SuSE Linux has been recently released.

“This release combines the 10.1 GM and all online updates that we have released for 10.1 so far, including libzypp, which should make the installing and working experience much smoother for everyone.”

Sounds good! I’ll probably install this if I build myself a new computer.

-Stephen

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Small Turbojet engines

Posted on Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

I have been reading a lot about building homemade turbojet engines at this site. I would really like to make one, and it’s quite simple if you use a turbocharger for the main turbine. The main problems that I would have making one of these is that I don’t have any metalworking equipment (Welder, angle grinder, dremel etc), and it would be hard to find a good location to test such an engine. The problem is that they make a lot of noise, and if one of the blades in the turbocharger breaks (spinning at 100, 000 RPM+), then they are shot out of the back of the engine faster than a bullet.

Sounds likem fun, doesn’t it!

By the way, I didn’t notice that Dan Saunders had posted a comment on my blog, because now I have to approve them… I just noticed that i had five unmoderated comments earlier tonight! (I guess I should add that three of them were spam, but anyway…)

-Stephen

Wireless network card working!

Posted on Sunday, October 1st, 2006

I just configured my wireless LAN card today with NDISwrapper. This means that I no longer have to run a cable up the stairs to my computer! I have not been able to get this card to work with the Beta Linux drivers, so I have instead had to use a windows driver and NDISwrapper instead. This is working perfectly, and I am using it right now to make this post.

Now I just have to get Samba working so I can print to our downstairs printer…

-Stephen