Now here’s a guide I might find useful! I bought the original Gameboy Advanced but have hardly played it in years. It’s a killer on my hands and eyes, but this mod adds a joystick port to the GBA and a tv port!
(hack a day)
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Crows
Crows fighting for bread in my garden.
WPMU Snapshot
New WPMU snapshot:
Changes:
I removed several options not required in a multi-blog environment and introduced a bug that blanked the siteurl when any of the general options was changed. Fixed.
Lots of changes to WP Core too.
The WPMU admin manager should be considered very experimental – don’t run on a production server or very bad things will happen!
More: Change log
Sunlit Country
Taken from the opposite side of the Iniscarra Resevoir that most people would be familiar with.
Linux AMD64 Cool n Quiet support
According to this thread on kerneltrap, the Cool n Quiet features of AMD64 CPUs is supported by Linux! I’ll have to investigate. This machine is louder than anything else in the house!
Clouds
WPMU Snapshot
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s snapshot comes another:
Lots of fixes, and WPMU runs in PHP safe mode now, and with Smarty security enabled.
Things may break with php su exec and other unusual things so please report them in the forum!
As usual, the change log has more details.
The mod scene, dead?
Long before mp3 files were causing such a headache for the music industry, original music in the mod scene was inspiring artists and listeners alike all over the world! I’m glad to say that the mod scene is still very much alive.
This search provided me with a wealth of links to explore, and I even found some old favourites and one I remember a friend obsessed about 10 years ago.
The The Mod Archive looks like the place to go for mod stuff these days!
I’ll have to search a little more to find my favourites from the Hornet Archive. Woo! I found the Freedom CD compilation that Hornet released in 1995. Listen to the first track, Kingdom Skies by Jase, or the second track, The Crossing by Necros for a taster of really excellent free music.
You’ll probably want modplug to play your new MOD files. On Debian a simple apt-get install xmms-modplug does the job and you can use the familiar Xmms interface to play them.
Great! The Maniacs of Noise have a download page of their stuff! They have some strange Javascript download mechanism but if you view source you should be able to figure out the simple URLs.
Going further back there’s the brilliantly exploited SID chip of the C64, collected in the High Voltage SID Collection. Ah, nostalgia.
Resources For Web Design
Optimising MYSQL
Optimising MYSQL – several good points here. I more than doubled the queries per second after reading this and doing further research on the topics covered.