Month: April 2009

MacHomeworld

MacHomeworld. A site that is dedicated to playing the Homeworld series of games on the Macintosh.  The site includes the Mac port of the original Homeworld, as well as the Raider Retreat supplement.  Details on Cataclysm, and links to the HomeWorld 2 commercial port. By the way, HW2 was extremely good…  A tad bit difficult […]

Beyond the Red Line: BSG space Combat

The Beyond the Red Line demo is a stand-alone conversion of Freespace 2. A test run; an experimental release; you know, just a demo. Is this all free and stuff? Yes, and it\’s a two-part ordeal. Once upon a time, the Beyond the Red Line development team had a demo phase that established many things. Those established things evolved, and […]

Online .htaccess Editor

An Online, .htaccess editor, that will walk you through Q&A style, to create the .htaccess file that you need for your web server… It includes Basic Authentication, Error Pages, Default Pages, WWW configuration, Redirects, and standard Access restrictions… Click to start on your .htaccess File.

The CAPTCHA GOTCHA Dilemma

A recent wave of admiration for new 3D-flavoured CAPTCHAs got me thinking about CAPTCHAs. The whole model just doesn\’t hold up to technological or economic scrutiny. CAPTCHAs are doomed, because of three important \”CAPTCHA gotchas\”. The CAPTCHA idea sounds simple: prevent bots from massively abusing a website (e.g. to get many email or social network […]

Imagining the Tenth Dimension by Rob Bryanton

‘Imagining the Tenth Dimension’ is a book by Rob Bryanton where he explores the possibilities of going beyond 4 dimensions. He created an animated video for chapter one of the book illustrating his concepts behind moving from one to ten dimensions. Imagining the Tenth Dimension by Rob Bryanton:

How to identify a remote device…

A relatively easy way to get a Mac address… On an unknown device without having physical access to the computer or device.  The only caveat is that the device must be on the local network, if it is not on the same subnet, you will not be able to get the MAC address of the […]

The Necessity of Defragmentation with Mac OS X?

Do you really need to defragment your hard drive with modern versions of Mac OS X (eg. 10.4 / 10.5)? The answer really, in most cases, is no.  A simple reboot or logout / login may solve the problem with very little effort.  Apple has even written a tech note, specifically on this topic, see […]