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More Supreme Commander cheats

This is an extention of the cheat I published earlier. Before you can copy & paste units and buildings, you have to be able to select them. You might have noticed that you can’t select everything - not enemy units nor unfinished units/buildings.

Winter Juggling Weekend

UPDATE 2019: With Flickr limiting the number of photos you can upload with a free account, I’ve removed these photos. This weekend I went to the Winter Juggling Weekend in Heerlen, The Netherlands.

Supreme Commander cheat

After some fiddling with Supreme Commander, I found out how to cheat in a skirmish game. Of course, you first have to start the game with “Cheats: on”. You can then copy & paste units.

Plucker-build and Ubuntu

Plucker is a PDB (Palm e-book documents) reader and creator. I use it to convert HTML files to PDB format, so that I can comfortly read them on my PDA. Plucker is part of Ubuntu’s “universe” repository, but it installs rather crippled.

BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0

I just got me a brand new HP Pavillion DV9000 series laptop. Today, all of a sudden it refused to boot. This message was shown on the console while booting:

Graduation thesis online

Finally, I’m able to publish my graduation thesis. It was a secret document at first, because we were in the process of patenting the idea. Now that that’s done though, I can finally put my thesis online!

DoS attacks on DNS servers

Since last Friday, there have been DoS attacks on the EveryDNS servers, which also host my domains. So if you have had trouble reaching this website, you at least know why.

Idefisk without fuss

Idefisk is an IAX Voice over IP client. It’s a nice little program that runs without fuss. The only thing that’s bugging me a bit is its installation procedure in Linux.

Sound card ordering in Ubuntu

UPDATE 2019: unfortinately the article I link below has been taken offline, and by now I have no idea what was in there. After I got myself a nice new motherboard, Ubuntu thought the onboard sound card should be the main sound card used by all applications.

Spam filtering with Postfix

UPDATE 2019: the link below is unfortunately dead. I’m moving from Exim to Postfix, most of all because of the simplicity of Postfix’ configuration files. Most HOWTOs about spam filtering with Postfix combine it with virus-scanning and other helper software like Amavis.