Urban Terror and ALSA in Ubuntu 9.10

November 5, 2009

If you've been playing Urban Terror on Ubuntu 9.10, you may have noticed some sound problems. After a while, the game slows way down and the sound gets choppy, making it impossible to keep playing. When you try to exit the game, it will most likely freeze up on you. Here's how to fix it. [...]

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Stopping Conficker

October 7, 2009

Conficker is a notorious computer worm that has been infecting Windows computers since early November 2008. Simply put, it uses flaws in Windows to co-opt your computer and link it to a giant collection of other computers (called a "botnet") that can be remotely commanded by the worm's authors. FYI: Conficker only affects Windows computers, [...]

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Keeping Up With The Sun

August 30, 2009

I was driving across Indiana and Ohio yesterday when I asked myself a nerdy question: how fast would I have to drive to keep up with the Sun so that it was always at the same point in the sky? If you've ever been curious about this as well, keep reading; I'm about to figure [...]

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The Impotent Ones

July 22, 2009

At first, we did not know if we should come back. Our memories of you were, after all, laden with guilt. We did not want to face you, even when we knew that our neural serums had erased your every recollection of us. We considered broadcasting to Earth via your television or radio devices,  but [...]

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The Ethics Of "Whale Wars"

June 27, 2009

I recently came across a show on Animal Planet called "Whale Wars". The program follows the crew of the MV Steve Irwin as they attempt to impede Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The Japanese, however, say that their activities are legal because they only kill whales for scientific research, which is allowed [...]

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