Monthly Archives: May 2010

Simplified Craps

Simplified Craps is a dice game. This is a simplified version of craps that is often played on the street of New York. What you need to play 2 dice How to play the game The thrower is paid by the house if he rolls two dice and gets any of the following combination; 2, [...]

What are mysql-bin.000001, mysql-bin.000002…

By default whenever you make a change to a MySQL database it creates a log of the query and stores it in a file simlare to ‘mysql-bin.000001′ . The MySQL database does this so that you can recover or replicate a database. Most applications this is a good things to have enabled just like doing regular backups. If you want to disable [...]

links for 2010-05-27

Pale Blue Dot – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the [...]

links for 2010-05-26

Bargain-Price Book Scanner From A Cardboard Box. Who doesn't want access to their books, notebooks, magazines, class notes, and other stuff everywhere, all the time? The thing is that often these things are a pain to scan. I have a really good solution for that, but it's expensive and can take a whole weekend to [...]

links for 2010-05-25

Google Gravity Google fall down (tags: experiment gravity humour html5 humor funny google js javascript interactive) Radioisotope thermoelectric generator – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia RTGs can be considered as a type of battery and have been used as power sources in satellites, space probes and unmanned remote facilities, such as a series of lighthouses built [...]

Shut the Box

Shut the Box is a dice game. Shut the Box is a form of a patience game that can be played with two or more players in a competition. For more than two hundred years it has been a favorite game among the sailors of Normandy and some other parts of the French coast. They [...]

Ship

Ship is a Battleship dice game. I have only played this game once, and it’s pretty simple compound game that is easy to learn and play. We played it for shots with and old timer in a Leagion.  I have never seen it played anywhere else. This game is also known as Battleship, Mariner, Destroyer, [...]

links for 2010-05-12

OneSocialWeb – Creating a free, open, and decentralized social networking platform. The purpose of onesocialweb is to enable free, open, and decentralized social applications on the web. Its protocol can be used to turn any XMPP server into a full fledged social network, participating in the onesocialweb federation. The suite of extensions covers all the [...]

Instructions on how to fix your computer, install windows applications on your mac, Hack someones Facebook, and make a million dollars from a World of warcraft clone.

Instructions on how to fix your computer, install windows applications on your mac, Hack someones Facebook, and make a million dollars from a World of warcraft clone. Step 1. Get a fork… it should be about 4-6″ long made of metal and not too sharp. Step 2. Place in right hand with point end facing up. Ensure that you got [...]

links for 2010-05-10

About SimpleID | SimpleID OpenID is a way to provide for a single digital identity across the Internet. To get an OpenID you need to sign up to an OpenID provider, who acts as the "custodian" of your digital identity. Every time you want to log into an OpenID-enabled web site, you will be redirected [...]

Sevens Out

Sevens Out is a dice game. What You Need to Play 2 dice A score sheet Object of the Game Be the first to get to a pre-arranged score. For example 100 to 500. How to Play the Game Each player takes a turn rolling both dice until they roll a seven.  Tally the previous [...]

links for 2010-05-05

Clonezilla You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. [...]

links for 2010-05-04

Processing.js Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing data, [...]

Sevens

Sevens is a dice game. In most games sevens are good and lucky, but in this game sevens are bad. What you need to play 6 dice The Object of the Game The object is to score the highest possible total by adding together the numbers of the remaining dice. How to Play the Game [...]