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Chalk, Cheese
Two sides to the same story: Linspire are releasing a freely-available, freely-distributable, community-led, Debian-based Linux distribution (sound familiar?) to be called Freespire. Linspire’s edge is that they will distribute non-free drivers, such as for nVidia or ATi graphics cards, as part of the core distribution, and not from optional repositories a la Ubuntu. Jono Bacon,…
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The Internet is Weird
I got pinged with a friends list request last night on MSN Messenger (although I use Gaim to connect to the network instead of Microsoft’s crappy ad-laden client) from someone I added years ago. I hadn’t heard from them for a while and I think I’d deleted them since Gaim reported I wasn’t on their…
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Planet OpenVAS
Planet OpenVAS is open for business!
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New Location for Clan #lugradio Maps
The Clan #lugradio Maps site has been updated with new download locations for the maps, and a shell script to assist Linux users (and Windows users running Cygwin I suppose) in keeping their clan maps up-to-date. The script defaults to downloading to ~/.etwolf/etmain, so if you’ve changed that from the default, make sure that is…
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Google Pack
At last, someone at Google has realised something that I and others have known about for ages: it takes ages to install applications on Windows because everything is disparate and has its own installer. On Ubuntu, I can fire up a simple Add Applications applet which allows me to browse a selection of apps of…
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“You Call This Archaeology?”: An Indiana Jones Drinking Game
Pending an evening of the Indiana Jones trilogy and a shitload of drinks, I humbly plagiarise and present: To Prepare You’ll need the following: The Indiana Jones trilogy, preferably on Blu Ray: A movie playback device, and a humungous TV (surround sound system recommended) Bunch of friends who aren’t surly drunks A shitload of…
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WWII Campaign Updated
WWII Campaign 1.2.0 is now the default campaign for Clan #lugradio, switching the much derided mlb_hotchkiss for that grand old standby goldrush. The new campaign pk3 will download automatically the next time you connect to the server, and it’s titchy, so shouldn’t slow your entry to the game.
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9 Map Clan #lugradio Campaign
We now have a 9-map WWII campaign consisting of: caen, breakout, fueldump, 110_factory, oasis, battery, mlb_hotchkiss, glider, temple_final and venice. There are also two more maps to grab: glider and braundorf. The campaign will download automatically the next time you connect, but please grab the two new maps now as well as the rest if…