Angelo

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Hi, I am the curator of this website. I have been playing Classic Dungeons & Dragons since introduced to the game by Jeff in 1991. Before that I enjoyed playing the Ultima series, and the Pools of Radiance series.

Articles by Angelo

Speeding is Not Dangerous (as dangerous as you think)

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

I’ve been wanting to write about the self-righteous attitude that some people have about speeding for years. I’ve never had the motivation to spend time on it before. But now we have speed cameras handing out citations, and the rallying cry to support this is that speeding is dangerous. Here are some [...]

Opt-out of Boxbe Spam

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

First, let me give you the link to opt-out of unsolicited emails from Boxbe:
https://www.boxbe.com/unsubscribe
Please Note: even after several months from using the above link, I still receive messages from Boxbe to join.
I’ve been hit by Boxbe spam. This company promises to reduce the spam its users receive, and in return spam every one of their [...]

For Windows Users Who Want to Try Linux

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Using computers is not intuitive.  We may feel it is intuitive because we have used computers for a long time, or have become familiar with them.  However, computers are not intuitive—especially their interfaces.  Someone who is used to Windows may find the MacOS GUI frustrating.
Most people are familiar with Windows.  The Windows GUI environment has [...]

WordPress: the World of GPL Violations

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

It seems that the world WordPress themes is chock full of questionable use of GPL code.  I really wonder if there is someone I can report this to.  Let me give an example.  There is a site that sells a “membership” to download their themes.  Great, always happy to see someone getting paid for their [...]

Fix for Freshy2 (2.0.6) on WordPress 2.7

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I have been having a problem with the Freshy2 theme for WordPress 2.7.  So with a little bit of hacking, I tracked it down to two problems.  You just have to edit two lines of code in the functions.php file in your freshy2/ directory:

I’m Not a Blogger, Really – The Secret About Blogs

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I’m not a blogger really–if you didn’t already guess by my posting infrequency.  But I do own and use a lot of what people call blogs.  I just don’t like to see them that way.
You see, I’ve been making web pages since 1995, and had a personal home page (remember those?) since 1996.  My first [...]

CD/DVD Filesystem Snapshot

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

This will work with other filesystems, not just ext2, so you may want to choose a filesystem that is similar to what you currently run (if you care). The idea is that instead of creating an ISO image that is very flexible (can be read by Windows), you create a filesystem image and burn [...]

Making a Bootable Linux CD

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

This is an example of customizing Mandriva 2008.0
First copy the contents of the CD to a directory
auto-boot/
|– VERSION
`– isolinux
|– alt0
| |– all.rdz
| `– vmlinuz
|– boot.cat
|– custom.msg
|– isolinux.bin
|– isolinux.cfg
|– memtest
`– target.msg
To change default auto configuration file, edit:
isolinux/isolinux.cfg

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