Removing Accounts in the Free-to-Play Model
In todays time of massive hard disk space I don’t get how as a Free to Play publisher you set an inactivity limit to accounts and delete them upon hitting it. id Software does that in Quake Live. After...
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Samsung SCM files and Support
Another adventure in corporate support … Bad web forms, and the secret SCM export format and editing utility. The E-Mail form on Samsungs support website is a hassle. I have to select my product in...
View ArticleOnLive Privacy Policy Issues
I wanted to take another look at OnLive today – just launching up the client for now. It prompted me to accept new usage and privacy policies. Reading the privacy policy I decided to definitely not use...
View ArticleCorrectly configuring secure HTTPS/SSL/TLS in nginx
In the past I described how to manage an nginx configuration in a manageable way, through inclusion files. Today, I’m talking a bit about setting up HTTPS/SSL/TLS in nginx – in a good configuration...
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Phabricator – A rare labeling of “best software”
At work I elaborated code review tools, and one of the tools I checked was Phabricator. I was astonished. I have labeled it the best software I have ever seen. After installation it already welcomed me...
View ArticleLogitech Setpoint makes laggy cursor – support non-existant
Bah, I hate bad support forms. When I have the Logitech Setpoint software running but smooth scrolling disabled, when scrolling several scroll commands seem to be dropped. I scroll and nothing happens....
View ArticleDebugging ET:Legacy and SDL for an access violation
Most of my day today went to debugging an ET:Legacy crash issue, which I found to be happening within the SDL library. ET:Legacy, a community continuation of the development of the Wolfenstein: Enemy...
View ArticleSparring Mind
Sparring Mind is a series of essays on productivity. I’ve been following it for a bit now. Very good reads.
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Setting up a well organized Enemy Territory: Legacy Server
Managing servers with a lot of files or addons, and functionality can get confusing, when you have a ton of files mixed together in one folder. Various files in the server folder, ordered...
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Deciding on a new GPU/graphics card
Since my graphics card is very dated I ordered a new graphics card this week. As deciding on a graphics card product is always an adventure of getting to know the model and generation numbers, and then...
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Importing Music Ratings into Clementine
I have been pretty happy using AIMP as my music player of choice for quite some time now. Seeing how many likes Clementine now has on alternativeto, I decided to give it a go (again). It actually looks...
View ArticleEx Machinima movie looks great
:O Looks so great Movie trailer of Ex Machinima, exploring the idea of “full” AI and its implications.
View ArticleEnabling simultaneous HTTP and HTTPS access for Joomla (Nginx)
When enabling HTTPS access to your Joomla website, you may run into problems of invalid URLs, mixed content, or infinite redirects. Joomla uses the $_SERVER['HTTPS'] variable to construct an adequate...
View ArticleRunning around GTA:V with a physical running device, for charity
Yesterday, a research team from an Australian university did a 24 hour stream on twitch showing off their running device, running around GTA:V, and doing so for a charity. The charity is beyondblue,...
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Telegram – The best (mobile) messenger out there
WhatsApp landed a hit, appearing at the right time. Alternatives followed, like Threema and Telegram. In this post I will briefly talk about the first two, and then point out the additional benefits of...
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Finding a new Smartphone
I’m barely using my mobile phone, which is an old Motorola Defy, so I’m pretty much fine with its features. It’s a nice and small outdoor mobile phone. My main issue with it has always been its...
View ArticleGravity Ghost – A truly beautiful videogame
I enjoyed Gravity Ghost so much, I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a game like this – maybe Braid as the first real memorable indie game. I did get some watery eyes as well. I wrote a very...
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Samsung TV Twitch App
After my Samsung TV finally manages to connect to my WIFI and then actually stay connected, I installed an open source Twitch App on the TV, which actually works great. I was not very optimistic...
View ArticleThe WPF/Windows App Development experience – Part 1: Choice of Technology
We are developing a tablet application as a tool for record data, where a smaller Windows embedded device was used (in German: Ablesung von Messgeräten, Zählern, und Ergebnisse von...
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The WPF/Windows App Development experience – Part 2: WPF Touch
After a description of the problems of Microsoft libraries / choice of (MS) technology in part 1, this post is about using WPF for a touch applications. When you create WPF application, you will be...
View ArticleCombining downloaded YouTube video formats with ffmpeg for full HD videos
youtube-dl makes downloading YouTube videos very easy. From a command prompt, simply run youtube-dl <video-url> However, by default, this will download the best video file with video and audio;...
View Articlenginx configuration management and secure SSL
After having cleaned up my nginx configuration for Let’s Encrypt SSL, an A-grade on SSL-Labs test, HTTPS-only, and IPv6, I published a useful reference configuration as a git repository nginx-config on...
View ArticleDownloading Music from YouTube
Beware of the YouTube video licensing, the terms you agreed to, and licensing laws where you live. Programs used: youtube-dl A command line tool to download a YouTube video in (one of) its various...
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The Great War video series
It’s crazy how long the series has been running, 50 years after World War 1, visiting events as they happened in a weekly format – shifted 50 years. I’ve been subscribed to it for a long time, and...
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