Archive for September, 2008
Project Diary: Xtools (4)
Put up a BugTracker. I’ll be importing the ASPECT projects that I’ve been working on over the years soon, so that if any users want to report bugs for those projects, they can.
Primarily though, this BugTracker is used to track the features/projects/ideas for my Xtools project. I figured that while a diary is great, tracking [...]
PHP file uploading
My reference links:
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php
http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_file_upload.asp
Relevant to the Xtools project.
Microsoft Archive: Services
Opening the Services Microsoft Console (MMC)
SERVICES.MSC
From a CMD batch file:
mmc %systemroot%\system32\services.msc
Free online [Flash] games
I’ve checked out a few of the free online game websites that offer Flash games. I didn’t realize how advanced these games were getting, take for instance:
Gemcraft, which is a very simple “tower defense” game that has an extended play time with many maps to test your skills again. I recall first encountering Tower Defense [...]
Amazon makes IMDB video free
Over at paidcontent.org, I found an article indicating that Amazon.com had purchased IMDB a while back and promised to make video available for free online. Well, it’s happened. IMDB now hosts tons of movie and TV database information, and free video. At least where TV shows are concerned, if they host it, it’s the full [...]
Nortel Tip: Finding an IP by DN
If you need to find the IP address from a DNB, the following procedure works wonders.
>ld 20
PT0000
REQ: prt
TYPE: dnb
CUST 0
DN 4590
DATE
PAGE
DES
DN 4590
CPND
NAME User Name
XPLN 11
DISPLAY_FMT FIRST,LAST
TYPE SL1
TN 096 0 04 25 V KEY 00 H MARP DES 1140E 7 MAY 2008
(1140)
NACT
REQ: idu 96 0 4 25
1140TN: 096 0 04 25 V
TN ID CODE: 1140
ISET MAC ADR: [...]
Post 9/11
Most of my friends wouldn’t think of my as incredibly sentimental or even very affected by events that occur in the world around me, but 9/11 made a terrible impact on me like so many other people, and I was across the country in San Francisco when it happened.
I still remember vividly being called my [...]
Game Review: Spore
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-gamers-fight-back-against-lackluster-spore-gameplay-bad-drm.html
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/games/spore-review.ars/1
http://kotaku.com/5048315/spore-review-evolutionary-creationism
I bought it. I played it. I don’t want to be one of those other reviews that complains solely about the DRM, so I’m going to list a few other flaws. What I’m not going to do is talk about what Spore does right. Despite the things it does right, these few things it does [...]
TV Review: Fringe
The new series, Fringe, by J J Abrams is thought provoking and dramatic. J J Abrams was writer, producer or director of TV Series Alias and Lost and also Movies Armageddon (with Bruce Willis), Cloverfield and the upcoming Star Trek movie. My girlfriend swears by anything he does (well, except maybe Cloverfield, she’s not into horror/apocalypic [...]
We’re still here [LHC]
For any of you who might have expressed some concern at the firing of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, you can put your mind at rest for at least the next year, CERN successfully fired the LHC last night at 8:26 GMT (12:26 AM Pacific) and according to the news reports today, not only [...]
