Here we go! After a couple weeks of effort, and some of the most dimwitted tech support I have ever experienced, I finally managed to get Fallout 3 up and running. No thanks to Bethesda tech support by the way. Now, support issues aside, the game is nice, nice, nice. I don’t just mean the graphics, which are great, but the story and character interactions, the detail of the scenery and lots more. The character creation process is quite unique. The folk that made this game did a great job, lots of detail and extras and they give you a ton of freedom as to how to play the game. All in all, my initial reaction is that it’s been worth the effort to get it going. I have thoroughly enjoyed my first couple of hours with the game. I suggest you check it out if you like first person type games. This one is more than just an FPS, it has a grand story and lots more to do than just shooting. Enjoy!
Author Archives: Laz
Spam Goodness
Well, it appears as though we got hit by a metric ton of spam bots in the last few days on our forum site. We routinely get loads of spam comments here on the main Solarum website, but Akismet does a pretty good job of filtering them out. This time the bots were targeting our forums, and even going so far as to register accounts bypassing the CAPTCHA even. I say bypassing but really I guess they are smart enough now to read the images. Sounds like some advanced scripts just to dump some porn and viagra spam. I can’t imagine they get enough benefit out of it to justify all the work that must go into making the bots in the first place. But then again, they keep making these things (bots, worms, viruses, etc) so maybe I am wrong and they are making out like bandits. Either way, I upgraded the forums and set some tighter restrictions on user registration. Hopefully that will keep the bots out. Thanks for your patience!
Update to the PERL round function
Mr. Thierry H. was kind enough to post a comment with a nice little mod to the PERL round function I posted a while back. With his addition, you can now specify how many digits to show on the right of the decimal. Pretty neat, check it out.
apt-get quick reference
For all you Debian and Ubuntu nuts out there, and especially the newbies, there is a nice little apt-get quick reference that has been added to the library. Take a look and get to apt-ing!
New Firefox Extensions
Hello all, I have circled back around and added some new extensions or addons to the “Must Have Firefox Extensions” page. The ones that I have listed there are, in my opinion, still rock solid choices. However, some new stuff has come out and I wanted to add some goodies to the list. So, head on over and take a look, you might find something you didn’t know was out there. Don’t forget that we do update our information, so come back and check on it now and then to see what’s new!
New Feature At Solarum, Short Links are here!
A new feature has been added to the site, it’s for anyone that wants to use it and it’s totally free. I call it Short Links, and basically it’s a web site redirector. We all know it’s a pain in the rear to send those really long links to friends and family because they get wrapped and all munged up in the email and then don’t work. Then you are trying to copy and paste in notepad and put it all together or explain all this over the phone when mom calls and is clicking but not working. Yeah, we’ve all been there. So, what you can do here is enter your long web site link, hit the button and get a short one back. The short one you can send to whoever you want and when they go there it will re-direct them to your long link. It makes life easier all the way around. Simply go to our Tools section and click on the Short Links item from the list and go crazy. I hope you all enjoy this new feature!