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News that has nothing to do with gaming!
After two delays and controversy over the plutonium shipped along with the probe, New Horizons lifted off today on the first leg of its ten-year trip to Pluto, Charon (pronounced SHAHR-ON I found out this morning, not KARE-on, as I’d pronounced it), and the two smaller moons recently discovered. Nine hours from the Earth to … Read more
I finally got sick of the default skin for this blog, and after having skinned the Prophetic Fate version successfully, decided to go for a new look here. I had this vision of an illuminated (like monks used to do) title against parchment. So step one was: make a nice parchment texture. So what is … Read more
Prosthetic Feet will require Ventrilo for major raids from now on. So, my challenge is to get this working with Linux. I used to use Cedega, but that stopped working for me. It was one of the many oddities I faced with Ubuntu. It worked, then it stopped working. Nothing I did could make it … Read more
Any of you who are also in Crimson Eternity may have seen my looooong series of postings about getting Linux running on my second computer. MAN, it’s hard. There was an article today, either in Digg or Slashdot, but I can’t find it in either now, about how Linux is not meant to replace Windows… … Read more
I had some mod points to spend on Slashdot, so after reading CmdrTaco’s frustration at recent flames and stern instructions to moderators, I resolved to do my best to keep topics on-topic today. Figures that the next article to come up would be one claiming recent research into bee flight put the nail into intelligent … Read more