Monthly Archives: February 2010

Enabling mplayers multithreading for HD video.

Certain codecs support multithreaded decoding, but you have to configure it, though. You can do that by adding this to your mplayer.conf: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on February 28, 2010, at 15:02 | No comments

Exemplary web design: UPM – Forest Life

UPM is a forest company. They have a website about forest life. Check it out; it's breathtakingly beautiful, its usage of Flash second to none. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 27, 2010, at 14:02 | No comments

Creating an Unreal Tournament 99 server in Linux

(Post edited to reflect the steps required for the 451 version of the server, which has some crucial bug fixes, among which a working webadmin.) Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on February 27, 2010, at 14:02 | No comments

Default e-mail addresses for domains

Sometimes automated services or people need to contact some domain administrator for a certain domain. There are a couple of addresses that should be present by default. Google uses these addresses to notify you when they put you on their malware blocklist: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on February 22, 2010, at 20:02 | No comments

Learning PC assembly language

Over the years, I've made a few half-hearted stabs at learning assembly language. In doing so I've discovered this great PC Assembly Language textbook by Paul Carter. Last October, Halfgaar and me took this free book as a starting point to rediscover the joy of programming. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 18, 2010, at 17:02 | 4 comments

Very, very old homepage

Today, in the images-that-I-stumble-upon-somewhere category: an image of a very old homepage that I hosted at my ISP back in the day: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 15, 2010, at 17:02 | 3 comments

Blog competition

Wiebe's posting of the two-hundred-and-first post, made me think of this image of the front page I made a short while after the new design went life. The image clearly shows that we have a little competition thing going on in that we both seem to be pretty determined to have our face dominate the home-page. :-P

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 15, 2010, at 13:02 | 2 comments

Preventing syntax errors with old shell scripts

I was trying to install Unreal Tournament GOTY on one of my Linux machines. I downloaded and ran the script ut-install-436-GOTY.run but I got this error: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on February 14, 2010, at 17:02 | 4 comments

WordPress pretty pagination plugin

During the recent redesign of my blog, I decided that I wanted to have pretty pagination with numbers instead of the WordPress default Older/Newer Posts links. The plugin I decided to use was WP Page Numbers by Jens Törnell. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 13, 2010, at 22:02 | No comments

Exemplary web design: Qt

Often, I come across websites that have a beautiful design or even just interesting design elements. Instead of continuing to spread these URLs all over my $HOME and my (del.icio.us) bookmarks, I thought I'd start adding them here. Today, I want to start with an entry from ~/jot/exemplary-web-design.txt: Qt Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on February 11, 2010, at 17:02 | No comments