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25
Oct
2008
Playing Colin McRae DiRT
I’ve been playing many games recently, take a look:
30
Sep
2008
New Hardware Purchases
So I’m getting a bunch of new PC hardware. Today I get my HIS Radeon HD 4850 ICEQ4 Turbo 512MB and Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4. And sometime next week I should get my BenQ V2400W 24IN Widescreen Black LCD Monitor.
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19
Jul
2008
Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets are little peices of javascript disguised as bookmarks that you can run on any site. They let you do things like Resize forms. You can test it out by dragging it into your bookmarks toolbar and trying it out on the comments section.
Other good bookmarklets I’ve come across are:
27
May
2008
Shell script to extract isos from a folder
I had to do this repeatedly manually at work so it took me like 2 minutes to make my first script to do it for me. It was horribly messy and looked something this:
for x in $(ls -1 .); do
mount -t iso9660 -o loop $x temp/;
cp -r temp/* .;
umount temp/;
done;
Which did the job but was horribly messing on doing it more than once with tons of errors and stuff.
When I came home I decided to make it much better. I even included how long it takes to do the whole process, which was harder than the process itself.
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