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Archive for January, 2006

SSCC Omega Fire :: A progress against quick-winning

( SS News )

I’ve created a plugin and added it into the Omega Fire bot core. It will detect whether or not you’re sitting in safe with flags. After 5 continuous seconds of doing that you will be specced and the flags will be neuted.
It also reports the cheater to the staff so they will be aware of [...]

Russia to mine moon by 2020

( Other and Rant )

Okay, I don’t think this is a bright idea…
RUSSIA is planning to mine a rare fuel on the moon by 2020 with a permanent base and a heavy-cargo transport link, a Russian space official says.
“We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale [...]

NASA remembers the fallen…

( Other )

On January 27th, 28th and February 1st, NASA will remember the fallen astronauts who’ve lost their lives while reaching for the stars.

Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives on January 27th 1967 when a fire broke in the command module.

Space Shuttle Challenger exploded mid-launch on the morning of January [...]

TrayIt! - a MUST have!

A while ago Mine GO BOOM had suggested an application called TrayIt! to us who run Subspace servers. This small, nifty application gives you the ability to take an item on your taskbar and have it sit as a small icon in the system tray. As a result, you gain more room on your taskbar!
Description [...]

Spammers, be gone!

( Rant )

Okay, what the heck is up with e-mail spammers sending junk e-mails that compose of the subject “Re:” and “Fwd” which contain nothing but 2 words in their bodies. Not only have I’ve seen it on two or three of my e-mail accounts, I’ve gotten word that my fellow friends get it as well.
Now, I [...]

Google soga follow-up

( Other )

I noticed that I’ve been referenced on a post in the Peter T Davis’ Small Business Blog. Thanks!
As there might be some I just want to take a moment to post some follow-up comments.
EDIT: A friend suggested that I could be arguing for those involved with child pornography. This is not my intent, [...]

Rock-on Google

( Other )

As many of us heard, the Department of Justice had sent a subpoena to Google, now being sued, for the collection of random data from the search engine giant. Google refused stating they would fight it “vigorously” (source). This is awesome.
The DOJ’s position is, “The production of those materials would be of significant assistance to [...]

Omega Fire :: Updates

( SS News )

The new spree plugin didn’t work out as planned, it kept crashing over time. sigh.
Anyways, we chose a new-older Omega Fire Map, again trying out some different variations of settings and map ratios.
NEW! Whenever a flag game is won, King of the Hill will be activated for about 5 minutes. We will be tweaking [...]

Business American Style

( Other and Rant )

I usually hate e-mail forwards but I found this one to be… shared. Enjoy.
Business American Style
Japanese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River.
Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.
On the big day the Japanese won by a mile.
Afterward, the American [...]

My 3-tips of PHP

I quickly wrote 3 tips that I’d give to people who are, or soon will, be using PHP. Typically, I suggest you visit sites such as www.php.net or www.phpfreaks.com as they provide better tutorials and articles. They focus on making PHP run faster.
Tip #1: PHP is executed in PHP blocks denoted with < ?php … [...]