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The Navy re-upped and released the funding for Bussard to complete his WB-7!

Maybe soon we can bury these accursed Tokamak designs into the annals of history where they belong, and get on with fusion already. =^.^=

...trying to figure out an effective way to tunnel City of Heroes/Villains, I keep running into a simple obstacle: The game uses UDP heavilly, and the firewall I'm trying to poke holes in blocks most UDP in an effort to block the majority of games. (But they specifically allow WoW, Half-Life 2, etc, etc.)

Found out the official port-list CoX uses: 2104, 2106, 6994, and 7000-7100, a wide mix of TCP and UDP on both.

TCP tunneling is trivial: PuTTY does it nicely. I use it for my Torrents a lot, in fact, to shuffle my data-connections around when I'm behind a firewall for example.

But I just can't find any kind of UDP-over-TCP program for Windows. :-/

OpenVPN works, but you need a machine 'outside' the firewall that you have full access to, to be able to put in the low-level TUN/TAP driver for Windows/Linux. So it's a pain to set up, generally.

Any ideas out there, folks?

My 2007 silver Yaris!

Next step: Debadging!

Then: Gryphons!

My contact information page (yes, there are sub-sites, but the main page is just contact information) loads correctly on my Nokia phone, AND I have the current version of the cell-phone-theme-in-progress posted there as well. The MIME type is even set right so anyone else using my phone can just go there, click the link, and wait for the theme to drop right into their phone. Should work on any Nokia with a 128x160 screen, and it's still vaguely a WIP.

The main background is based on Butterfly by Neonja with the various icons from the bajillions of freely-usable ones made by Paul Davey.

Just thought I'd share. =^.^=

Found a way to connect to City of Heroes even through the freakin' firewall they have.

Your Freedom awaits. =^.^=

It'd be approximately $5.50/month if you play more than 18 hours a week or 6 hours in a single day. I'm still researching how to get it to connect through PuTTY instead though.

...and I know Okami is mostly 'old hat' for a lot of folks, but I thought of something after running across this image on DeviantArt.

What would happen if they did a 'universe hopping' game (maybe not KH3 directly, but the same idea where you change to match the world you're travelling to automagically) and landed in the realm of Okami?

They've already said they're looking at hand-helds for the next game in the KH universe. So now I have a random thrill of thinking about something vaguely Okami-like but minimal, done on the DS, even if only for a brief segment. And that's about the only system I know of that'd do Okami better than the Wii itself. =^.^=

How'd you like to never have to worry about CD-Key's, lost CD's, or anything else again, ever. Legally, to boot?

Steam now has the complete iD Software back catalog of games available with some things like a 'super package' deal for about $65, or individual series (they even have Commander Keen!) for less.

Figured I'd punt this to my friends-list, since I've more than once enjoyed the 'buy once, download anywhere' nature of Steam. I hated their stupid 'out of the gate' errors as much as anyone else (can't play single-player off-line without a network connection?!? What were they thinking?!?) but their service is quite stable and nifty at this point.

Edit: I've had a chance to download all the Doom-engine, Quake-1-engine, Wolf3D-engine games, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. All work, and all get installed in the 'steamapps/common' directory as properly unpacked game installs. Meaning the data files work perfectly well with alternate source ports, and native Linux engine binaries. So as long as you can get Steam working under Linux or whatever is your flavor-of-choice, these are perfectly cross-platform-friendly installs of the games themselves.

...but a personality I'll always remember fondly has been silenced.

19??-2007, RIP Vel.

...Vista is to Microsoft, as the PS3 is to Sony.

Microsoft admits they expect XP sales in 2008 to be at least 1 for every 4 copies of Vista sold.

Compare this to earlier this year, when Microsoft was telling OEM's that they would have to switch to Vista only by January, 2008.

Either that stance has changed, or they're admitting one month of XP sales (and remember, you can basically only buy it from OEMs right now, so with new computers!) will be equivalent to almost three months of Vista sales. Says something either way, doesn't it?