Fixing 441 invalid header error in Pine on OS X

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I finally figured out how to fix Pine on my Leopard box! For, well, ever, it hasn’t let me post any news messages to my local leafnode server. Every time I tried, I’d get an error stating my post was rejected due to error 441, which is an invalid error. I eventually tracked down that the actual invalid header was the message-id header, which was being generated as something like: Message-ID: Pine.OSX.4.64.098263998623986.75543@myimac Which is wrong. The bit after the @ …

How to play import Wii games

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Thanks to the mysterious (and sexy) The Goat Keeper, I’m now the not-so-proud owner of a US version of the Wii stinker “Heatseeker”. Of course, I knew it was going to be rubbish, but that wasn’t the point. No – I needed something to test if my UK Wii could play imports. And, of course, it can: I show that the disc isn’t recognised by the Wii, then fire up the Homebrew Channel and from there load Gecko OS. One …

Changing your name tag on Acrobat

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I’ve recently started using Acrobat (yeah, about 14 years late) to annotate PDF files, and it has been irritating me that whenever I highlight something, Acrobat decides to add my Windows logon name as the “author” of the highlight. Since this logon name has no resemblance to my actual name, it’s effectively useless. Helpfully, Adobe don’t make it easy for you to change it to read something else. After much playing about, however, I figured it out: Firstly, you need …

Lego Batman (360)

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Yesterday morning, I turned on my 360 and bought some Microsoft Points so I had enough to buy the GTA IV expansion “The Lost and Damned”. I then bought the expansion. Then set about downloading the 1.8GB it takes up. At about 70% through the download, I had to go out to the shops. While I was out, I saw Lego Batman cheap in the shop and bought it. And that’s all I played all weekend. Lost and Damned be …

Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People – Episode 3 (Wii): COMPLETED!

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Hurrah! I’m winner! This episode was, in general, easier than the previous two. I don’t know why, unless I’m just more closely tuned now to the way the logic in the game works or something. Anyway, second best episode so far. With the order being 1 > 3 > 2. But they’re all ace.

Lots of Homebrew Wii Stuff (Wii)

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I checked the Homebrew Downloader today for the first time in ages, and found all sorts of new stuff on there. WiiLander was great – it’s an old game, sure, but with the Wii’s controls (tilt left and right to steer, rotate remote to provide more or less thrust) it plays very differently. Giddy 3 is a Dizzy clone, and although it looks nice the only item I could find to pick up was a tub of lard, and I …

Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode 3 (Wii)

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I’ve actually had this installed on my Wii since before Christmas, but hadn’t played it as I was goingt o use it as a baby-in-one-hand, controller-in-the-other last resort sort of thing, since it only requires one hand to play. I started it on Friday, and it’s nice to play Strong Bad again. It’s funny, like before, and each episode so far has been vastly different, so although all the characters and locations recur, it’s not a rehash of the same …

Imprisoned for a crime I didn’t commit

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I found myself imprisoned at work today. It’s the holidays, so very few people are in anyway. A guy from BT was coming in to do some work on our internet connection, so I had to go and meet him at the front door as none of the receptionists were in. Fairly recently, they installed a security door behind the main door, so there’s a sort of porchway now. I opened the security door (there’s a push button release on …

Amazing Miner Dig Deep spoiler video

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Miner Dig Deep is a great Xbox Live Community game – 200 points (about ¬¨¬£1.50) for addictive OCD digging gameplay. Over on the Xbox Live forums, there’s a guy called Chad Bling who would appear to be just slightly in love with the game. And he’s just slightly unhinged. As you can see in this video where he spoils the ending of the game for everyone: It’s only a game, Chad!

Miner Dig Deep (360): COMPLETED!

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What a great Community Game. It really was a lot lie Diggers, but easier to control and with less resource management. I won’t spoil the end, but basically all you have to do to win is dig to a certain depth and find… something. It ws quite addictive, and the must-collect-everything gameplay was OCD heaven. And for what was what – £1.50? – an absolute bargain.

Miner Dig Deep (360)

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My first purchased Community Game! Some guy on rllmuk was going on about it, and he made it sound like Diggers, a game I used to play on the Acorn. Having played the trial of it for a while, I realised that it was, in fact, quite a lot like Diggers. You don’t control diggers like Lemmings, instead having direct control over a single miner. However, most of the other bits of the game are there – mine for ore, …

Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage (360): COMPLETED!

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It would appear that the entire Anchorage simulation within Fallout 3 is only about 4 hours long in total. That’s not really a bad thing as such, it’s just I was hoping it might be a little bit longer. Having said that, I enjoyed it despite it not really feeling like Fallout 3 much. It was very linear, heavy on the shooting, and completely different in terms of ammo and health management. Looking forward to the other two planned extra …