Author Archives: Brin

Aug '10 02

Bad Company 2 Weapons

TIP: For Assult and Engi, Improved Explosives is a must! Assult AN-94 (with x4) or M16A2 or M416 (dot) M1911, 40mm GL, 4x Opt, Explmk2, V Alt W or V Armor Engineer XM8c (best gun) or AKS-74U (med range) or Saiga (Short Range) … Continue reading

Jun '10 29

PyconAu 2010

Went to the first PyconAu 2010 conference on the weekend, there was some interesting stuff there that i’ll list below import future – threading with worker limits iPad game called Halogen Infinate 8bit plat-former – source at bzr repository Cocos2d – … Continue reading

Jun '10 03

Virtual Mail server with SSL

There is a good Ubuntu guide on settings up a Virtual mail server with a MySQL backend. I  have ordered a SSL certificate from ServerTastic cheap at $12 p/y, has some good instructions. UPDATE: I’ve installed my Certificate and its … Continue reading

May '10 15

New WD green drives and 4k (4096) block sizes

Rossco pointed out to me that the new 4k blocks on WD green drives can cause performance issues. I also found reference to it in Ubuntu 10.04 release notes ( search for Partition alignment ), and refer to this bug. … Continue reading

May '10 05

Sketch Board

Found this nice Java app that you can draw a sketch with then import it into blender

Apr '10 23

Bad Company 2

I’ve been Getting into Bad Company 2 playing Multiplayer with the Guys from Work, so i thought i’d jot down some notes here on the weapons, as i’m always forgetting the different weapons. Assult 1911 Pistol M416 / Xm8 Extra Grenades … Continue reading

Apr '10 15

SSH and port forwarding

I seem to forget every time i use ssh for port forwarding which side goes where in the syntax, so to make it easy here it is. Forward a local port to a remote port at the far end, ie: … Continue reading

Mar '10 23

iptables (updated)

Been working on iptables again, found a good guide to some recent changes. Also need to look at trying out Ulogd2 which supports the NFLOG interface, and a nice front-end NuLog Also of a worthy note is NuFW