Pidgin, a open source multi protocol IM client, usable with Google, AOL IM, Yahoo, and MSN Messenger amongst others, has bothered me long enough. It's time for an alternative.
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Time to take down the home station and pack up. Niki and I are on the move to Nordeast. Stop by our new place of 49th and Camden sometime

It's quite an amazing time in Trent's career. He as well as Radiohead have spearheaded an unheard of idea for artists of their popularity; giving their albums away for free. There's been tons of hoopla surrounding the free release of In Rainbows, Niggy Tardust, and Ghosts (Ghosts has already reported 1.6 mil in profit) What's interesting, though, is that this isn't the first time Trent's done it. Kinda...
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Teewars is a free, open source multilayer death match platformer with binaries for
Windows, OSX, and . It's one of the first OSS games I've discovered to actually have a polished graphic design, a rarity in the land of open source.
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I'm quite surprised to see two very prominent sites that use very archaic and insecure password resetting schemes. If you loose your password and request to have it sent to your email, they don't do what you'd expect from any trustworthy site. They simply send you your original password.
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I'm a fan of the 1st amendment. I'm also a fan of protecting Google from result poisoning. This is a pretty funny except of someone asking Complaint Remover to help them remove all the LOLCATS references from their search results ;D

I've just launched a new website, StyleFlip.com We're creating high quality protective decal stickers to be placed on any sort of electronic gear or otherwise. We've started out with DJ equipment and will be expanding into iPods, Laptops, and many other styles of gadgets. Please check it out and email info@styleflip.com with any comments.

Thanks,
Dave

After the latest steam client update, I'd get the following error when attempting to upgrade my Team Fortress 2 server installation:


Expr: ( close( m_pImpl->m_Socket ) ) == 0
Line: 587
File: ../Engine/Src/ContentServerBlockingConnection.cpp
Abort trap (core dumped)

I was able to resolve this problem by adding the following line to my /boot/loader.conf

debug.mpsafenet=0

I then re-mounted my linprocfs and the update proceeded as normal.

I came across a fun issue with my pop-up flash mp3 player to be used on our new Vital website (coming soon.) I've designed a 'listen' button on the main shop website for each audio file preview. When this listen button is clicked on, a pop-up window is opened (if not already) and the flash player loads the respective audio file and begins playing. If a second listen button is clicked, the new track will be added to the existing play list and that track will begin playing. I discovered this method only worked when clicking listen links on the same parent page view. If the parent page is refreshed or a new page of the site is loaded, the reference to the pop-up window is lost. What then happens is any new listen link clicked will cause the pop-up page to reload from scratch and loose the play list. Whatever audio was playing stops, whatever tracks were in the play list are gone. Following, is my solution.

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So, I needed a way to simply force a user to use an SSL connection on various parts of my website. In this case, whenever they log in: /Login.jspa or when accessing their personal information: /myvv/ I've accomplished this by using Apache's mod_rewrite functionality.

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