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Category Archives: Computing
Classic multiplayer gaming via DOSBox – Serial and IPX tunneling
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 … Continue reading
Just Virtualizin’
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 … Continue reading
Firefox 2 Released
After betas and release candidates, the final release of Firefox 2 is available now.
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Creating an RSS Feed with PHP
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 … Continue reading
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Automating with Simple Shell Scripts – Part 2
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 … Continue reading
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Automating with Simple Shell Scripts
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 … Continue reading
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Galaga for the Win!
Xbox Live Arcade be darned, here’s the awesome PC Engine version of Galaga 90 running under Hu-Go! [ blog.jamesmason.id.au/images/galaga90.jpeg ]
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River Raid
So, I bought this brand new PC. And what did I find myself running on it today?
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New PC
Finally bought myself a new PC, after years of putting it off. Pentium D 930 (3.0GHz, Dual Core) 2 Gig DDR2 RAM 3x320GB Seagate Baracuda SATAII HDDs (7200RPM, 16MB Cache) nVidia GeForce 7600GS with 512MB DDR RAM Running AMD64/EM64T optimized … Continue reading
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