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Neverwinter Nights acronyms
While browsing the neverwinter nights forums I stumbled upon a huge amount of acronyms, some looked familiar, some didn't. I decided to make a list of these acronyms so it would be easy to find one I didn't remember, this list is now published here as a reference for neverwinternights newcomers.
Configuring a robots.txt
The robots.txt is a file that is read by robots called webcrawlers or spider that index your site. A proper configuration may make the spider more userfriendly to your website and your website more userfriendly indexed by the spider. In this article I explain how the robots.txt works and how I configured it for the websites hosted on this domain.
Compressing UT packages from Explorer
Unreal Tournament servers have a great options to compress custom packages and make users download them from a webserver way faster then would be possible from the game server itself. To compress the UT packages you would either have to use the ucc commandline or another tool, however it is possible to set up Explorer to compress the packages for you. I wrote a small tutorial how you can add a compress command to the packages right click menu to compress the files.
Library
Not a real article but just a list of books I own. Since most of my books are dutch most of the titles are too. I try to keep this article up-to-date without further notification.
The art of Capricorne
Capricorne is a comic by Andeas, unlike most mainstream european comic authors Andreas makes a lot more use of drawing techniques to tell his story. In this article I've tried to show some of the basic techniques he uses.
Debian 4.0 on an Acer Travelmate 212TXV
When I installed Debian 4.0 on my laptop I had a few problems with the installation as well as with the software. I've made a summary for people who are using the same laptop or who encounter likewise problems.
Trickjumping for beginners (UT)
One of the elements of Unreal Tournament that I think makes it a great game is the ammount of movability you get. There are many special movements which in a well made map will give you a lot more variety in your routes. I explained the basics of trickjumping in this article, and at the end there are some example demo's on two good trickjumping maps.
Rules for the dicegame Farkle (NL)
Farkle is a game played with 6 dice, like yahtzee you can score points by making combinations but in Farkle you can continue as long as you want untill you're busted. It's a very exiting game to play with some long streaks which really turns the score and the last player who rolls can still be the winner. (the rules are in dutch only)
JavaScript: change the contents of a select input
Occasionally I use JavaScript on a website, I once made a series of select inputs. If you set the first the contents of the second automatically were removed from impossible combinations. Here is a manual and some code about how I did it.
HOWTO: associate extentions to your perl script
A small howto from the time I did some Perl/Tk scripting, it's written for Windows ME but still migth give you a clue on how to do this. This article needs an update though.
Why beer makes you visit the toilet
Everybody who drank beer nows that after a few you have to pay a visit to the toilet, here's the probably physiological explanation why this is.
Why Google rules
A short article I wrote about Google. It contrains my view on the combination of all departments Google has acquired and how it can help them get more market share. As Google is growing all the time this aricle might be a little out of date.
HOWTO: install a medion MD 5345 scanner on Debian 3.1
The first time I had to install a scanner on Linux I had no clue on how to do it. Besides that my favorite linux distro (Debian 3.1) had some issues at the time. I hope this HOWTO can help some other people installing their scanner.
Fixed: NTPDate can't find ntpserver at boot
When I ran NTPDate in the boot proces I often had a warning that it couldn't find the ntpserver and the time wasn't set correct. Here is the reason why and a quick fix.