This article is a brief tutorial in how to make your own ascii internet TV station. I say brief, its pretty simple – that’s why its brief. The inspiration for such an article comes from having a telnet link posted in a channel to a server which was showing a World Cup game live via … Read more
Perian? Perian, the Quicktime “all-in-one” codec pack, which allows Quicktime Player (And Quicktime based applications, including Front Row) to play various extra formats, including DivX/Xvid, .mkv etc etc. The problem One problem – well, more of an annoyance than a problem.. With version v1.0, it started being released as a Preference Pane icon – I … Read more
The video: Note: the times are GMT+0 So what is it? Several months ago, Bungie (the creators of the Halo game series) created a map, showing the geographic location of people playing Halo 3 online. The map is still up and running (as of January 2nd, 2008), and you can see it at the following … Read more
Overview Currently, most websites log you in the same way: You enter a username and password, the web-server hashes the password (generally via MD5(), or SHA1()). This hash is then compared to the one stored in a database – if it matches, the user knows the original password, so it logs them in. This method … Read more
Prefixed Portage Most Linux distributions have great package managers like apt or portage. But installing programs when you don’t have root access can be a pain. You need to find, download and install all the dependencies and their dependencies, setup a prefix somewhere in your home folder and hope that everything works. Prefixed portage is perfect … Read more
