In the last millennium, I developed a custom Hack & Slash gaming client for Windows ’98, because I wanted to embed both music and sound effects to enhance online play. The result was a big hit among its players. But as a Linux user, I could not get that cool feature… that is, until today. [...]
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Linux Hack & Slash client
Oct 29
Fedora 14 Animated GIF fix
Nov 30
Oh dear, it seems that F14′s cairo package is not properly implemented by GNOME and Firefox web browser — if your Gnome is giving you fits with its pull-down menus not entirely rendering and if animated GIFs are only showing their 1st frame and the rest transparent equating to an annoying “blink” effect, then this [...]
CommodoreServer
Oct 2
Talk about retro-cool technology. This web site features a new internet modem for all Commodore 8-bit computers, for easy “Load & Go” access into their online software library. And I was able to contribute to that library my very own VIC 20 collection as a floppy disk. How neat is that? This demo is fascinating [...]
Privacy Matters 1-2-3
Apr 1
Web user beware! This “outfit” has their advertisements on a lot of social networking web sites. If their “pop-up” appears on your screen, I would advise that you immediately power-off your computer. I consider myself fairly web-savvy and have done countless, secure, safe transactions on the Internet for the past 15-years. But this event totally [...]
Moving to DynDNS
Mar 20
After switching to FiOS, it was time to move my domain, hurst-ri.us, from a solid provider in dotEarth to a new location with DynDNS. The reason for the move is because I would no longer be able to co-locate with my brother’s store, rah-cocos.com, as he prepares to close his store/warehouse — along with the [...]
