May2010

Support indie developers Wolfire Games – Get the Humble Bundle

How can you go wrong here?! Go grab your copy of these games today. Support indie developers with your wallet. Take that $15 that big corporate demands you to pay for map packs and mini expansions to games you’ve already paid $50 for and give it directly to developers and/or charity instead.

Ubuntu – Fix arrow keys in vi

Do letters show up when you hit the arrow keys in edit mode? If you like to use the arrow keys in vim/vi, you will quickly notice that Ubuntu appears broken. Welcome to vim compatibility mode. It’s just a setting that Ubuntu defaults to…

High-frequency Stock Trading coupled with Flash Trading

This practice gives select traders advance notice of changing market conditions. Flash orders are available to anyone for a fee, but can only be capitalized upon with the use of extremely high performance supercomputers. While an order is in a flash window, it is completely unavailable to the public. This practice essentially gives an elite few an unfair advantage over all other traders.

Top 10 YTMNDs of all time

All the pseudo-memes, meta-memes, and trolling has gotten out of control. Now that YTMND is on its last leg, here’s a look back at the best YMTNDs of all time.

How to install sun java packages on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

These packages are not available in the out-of-the-box configuration when you install Ubuntu 10.04. To get sun java packages such as sun-java6-jre or sun-java6-doc, you need to give yourself access to additional repositories… Now try searching for or installing one of those packages you were missing.

Amazing Live Action Tilt Shift or Tilt Focus

Tilt-shift photography is pretty amazing, but have you ever wondered what a video would look like where every frame renders this same effect? Well then, check this out…

Build Chromium OS from behind a Proxy

The problem is staring you right in the face! If you’re trying to build Chromium OS from behind an Internet proxy, you’re going to struggle with make_chroot.sh. You need to set them up within the chroot, and that means setting them in the user’s profile script that gets sourced.