Slightly Unstable

I was going through the games section on Synaptic package manager and looking for a clone of the game Worms.
I ended up coming across this game called Hedgewars which is allot like Worms and haven't been able to quite playing it.
I'm not much of a gamer but once in a blue moon I find a game that I really really like and get addicted to playing it
for weeks on in then eventually forget about it or lose interest in it. I have a feeling this one will be different though.
:D

While surfing the intertubes in the past few days Ive found two videos that are just so AWESOME I would like to share them. The first one if some (awesome) chiptune and the second is the MegaMan 3 theme with lyrics
Videos are embeded after the break

This weekend was the best single weekend that occurred in the history of my life for three reasons.
1) 1st Laptop
2) Week Long Break
3) Dove Into Robotics
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So yeah I wrote an eariler post about the flood of spam that phpbb3 forums across the net have been getting and now I have a solution, thanks to dann from The Linux Link Tech Show and Linux Cranks, two awesome podcasts. Thanks a ton dann, you freaking rock.

Dann was nice enough to package it up so you just need to drop three files into your phpbb3 install.

So I noticed that a couple of the phpbb sites I ran all of a sudden got attacked by large amounts of spam. I found this interesting because it happened to a couple sites and we had never gotten any spam before. I went into IRC and it turns out that a lot of people have been under attack all of a sudden. I am currently looking into a way to get recaptcha working on phpbb3, and it's my hope that, that would remedy the issue.

So yeah I tried 9.04 but it really didn't turn out well. It basically crashed X and dropped me into command line. So yeah I think I will try it when the beta comes out.

So yeah apparently Aplha 3 of Ubuntu 9.04 came out so I have decided to try it out. One of two outcomes are going to going to happen. One it will fail horribly and I will cry, or two I will rock and I will rave about it.

So yeah cross your fingers.

So yeah I started a LUG for people living in Marathon County Wisconsin. If you are one of these people check it out: http://maralug.org/ If not feel free to ignore this post.

So recently Dreamhost gave me unlimited bandwidth and storage so I decided I would use bashpodder and cron to set up a podcast mirror. I am using chess's version of bashpodder so it organizes by show name. If you would like your podcast added to the mirror email me at alex@slightlyunstable.org. Check out the mirror here: http://slightlyunstable.org/podcasts/

So a lot of people really hate pulseaudio including me. I finally decided to remove pulseaudio from my system and here's a simple tutorial of what I did. I hope it works for you but no guarantees.

First we have to remove pulseaudio from the system
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

Now to remove it from xsession, we will move the xsession entry to the home folder in case we want to revert back to pulse audio
sudo mv /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio ~

Now we need to use Alsa and esound
sudo apt-get install alsa esound

Reboot. I hope this works for you, like I said no promises.