Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
I have added two freeware games to the Download Library section above, ScopaFree (an implementation of the Italian card game Scopa) and TrackWords (a Boggle-style game). The developer’s home page was hosted on Geocities and the files were hosted on Winsite, both of which have shut down. Go to the “Download Library” tab above and [...]
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
I haven’t written here in a while, been busy. Slackware is back on my machine. I remember someone years ago in a chat room saying that “Slackware eats your soul” and it does. Yet I can’t stand the “easier” ones – I always come back to Slackware. Using the 64-bit version, which gives me more [...]
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
At the suggestion of Computing Minimalists, I’ve been getting used to using the keyboard instead of the mouse in most cases. I was always a Vim person, and started using Vimperator today, and have been using MouseKeys (PDF link) and Windows XP’s shortcuts for a week or two. As you get used to using the [...]
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