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I have found a solution to this issue that doesn’t seem to be listed on the official support page.  I sent them a form thingy to add it, but regardless I think I will post it here too in order to get it spidered by Google. First, check out that page and make sure you’ve […]

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I got some good games this Christmas and birthday, so I want to recommend a few:

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Well not really, I think it just was a failure to test it thoroughly on my part, but it’s still odd.  Apparently, in Firefox, a checkbox’s .value property is always “on” even if it isn’t really “on” so all the pictures were coming out with critical backgrounds.  Using “.checked” solved that problem. http://www.mzzt.net/tf2/ One of […]

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Whenever my mic stops working, I must remember to try the following diagnostics in the following order to avoid maximum frustration with the dumb thing:

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If you want to create a script that toggles a setting in a Source engine game like Left 4 Dead, you need to know the console variable name that controls it, but sometimes you don’t know.  One way to figure it out is to blindly search using the “find” command to look for a command […]

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I have a bit of a backlog of stuff so I guess I better start posting some of it.

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I have found that the latest movie has more than a passing resemblance to a classic PC game which unfortunately is a bit hard to get working on modern PCs. Somehow it magically started working again on my PC (not sure what I did) so I’ve been playing through it again. While talking on IRC […]

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I found this neat game called Guardian of Paradise. It’s obviously Zelda-influenced, although it has some very nice new ideas mixed into it. There is no main overworld though, and the idea of dungeons is a bit blurred; basically, every place you go is a new level.

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Some updates to previous posts, and some new stuff.

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I will have my Wii on Friday, when I go home for spring break! 🙂 However my TV tuner is not working satisfactory on Vista.  I will have to boot into XP and Ubuntu to see if it’s limited to there… I should probably just get a new one or some sort of Composite->VGA adapter […]

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