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Games: Lemmings (Web Based)

August 17, 2003
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LemmingsI wouldn’t have believed this if I hadn’t played it with my own hands – but “crisp” has made a DHTML version of the popular Lemmings game which means you can now play Lemmings Online (ok, you need a reasonably up to date Javascript and DHTML browser – but IE5.5 and later, Mozilla 1.3 and later and most version of Opera should support it).

It’s even got in game animations, pass codes and music (although no proper sound effects – so you’ll have to make your own “Oh no!” and “Yippee!” sound effects yourself). It’s absolutely brilliant and I just hope crisp continues to develop it as it’s amazing but still a bit short on levels (he’s converting the “real Lemmings levels” to Javascript versions so it could take a while – but he’s got 9 of the “Fun” levels, and 2 of the “Tricky” levels done).

Oh – it’s also open source (under the GPL) so if you want to see how it works, you can: you can even make your own “forked” version if you so wish!

(Link courtesy of Stupid Evil Bastard)

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Snippet: New Blog Housey!

August 15, 2003
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If you are reading this, you are now accessing Richy’s Random Ramblings at it’s new server home!

Wooopie!

However: it could take up to 48 hours for all the DNS servers to work their magic, so be careful of dragons until then.

Here’s two handy commands when moving a site from one server to another:

wget -t0 --progress=dot -S -nH --cut-dirs=2 -m --passive-ftp ftp://[OLD_FTP_USERNAME]:[OLD_FTP_PASSWORD]@[OLD_HOST]:[OLD_FTP_PORT]/[OLD_PATH_TO_WEBROOT]/*#
Replace the [] information with the applicable details for your situation and run it in your public_html folder on your new machine (if your old setup didn’t have a structure similar to “/home/username/” then you may need to change the –cut-dirs=XX value to match the “depth”. For safeties sake, once it’s copied everything you’d best do a chown NEWUSERNAME:NEWUSERGROUP -R * and chmod a-w * -R to ensure the file permissions are set correctly.

mysql -u[DB_USERNAME] -p[DB_PASSWORD] -h127.0.0.1 [DB_DBNAME]
Import the contents of SQLFILE.SQL into MySQL.

Snippet: Guess That Movie Delayed

August 13, 2003
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The latest Guess That Movie image will be delayed for 24 hours (along with another “Which movie am I poll?”). Why? Well, my ADSL connection is now down for maintenance until 4am and hence I’m having to resort to just plain old 56k dialup – and for obvious reasons, I don’t want to be uploading images or staying online longer than necessary (I pay by the minute for dialup access, ADSL is just one monthly fee).

Sorry!

Search: Google Calculator II

August 13, 2003
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LOL (laugh out loud!). Being a typical geek, I tried several calculations in the Google Calculator to get a screenshot showing 42: but I should have remembered my Douglas Adams and just searched for “answer to life, the universe and everything”.

No kidding – Google returns “answer to life, the universe and everything = 42” – try it yourself!.

I now also know roughly how much I weigh in kilograms ( 13 stones to kilograms : yes, Google does conversions as well), I’m sure that “four and twenty” does actually mean twenty four blackbirds, and I know how many Newtons I need to travel back in time to a fortnight plus 17 days ago with my copy of “555.6 kilometers under the sea.

Kewl! (well, it keeps me entertained).