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Making MacPorts work again after upgrading to Mavericks

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Although pretty much everything “just works” after upgrading from Lion/Mountain Lion to Mavericks, one thing that doesn’t is MacPorts. Well, it still works, or at least it did for me, but you’re unable to upgrade it or install more ports, as they all fail with various error messages (including “Error: org.macports.extract for port gperf returned: command execution failed”), and the usual sudo port selfupdate just gives the message MacPorts base version 2.2.1 downloaded. —> Updating the ports tree —> MacPorts base …

Who’s looking at my SQL server?

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Putting this here mainly for my own benefit, but it may help others. If you want to find out which NT users are connected to your MS SQL (2005 or 2008) server, and which computer they’re using – simply use this query (which you could run in SQL Server Management Studio): select hostname,nt_username from sys.sysprocesses For added excitement, if you do use Management Studio, you can display the result as text or a grid to take into Excel and filter …

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance (Demo) (3DS)

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I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game. I recently bought the DS Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (worst title ever) game, but haven’t played it. After the DDD demo, I don’t think I’ll bother. It was terrible. The voice acting, the controls, the stupid Jet Set Radio style rail grinding, the camera which insists on pointing in exactly the wrong way at all times, and the seemingly complex fighting system (that appeared to be a bit like that in Eternal …

How not to apply for a job working for me

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I’ve been sifting through job applications for new IT technician this week. If you’re thinking of applying for a job in an IT technician role (or any role, in fact), please don’t follow some of my applicants by example by following these handy hints: Learn how to spell “Microsoft”. Don’t say you’re “an avid gamer” in your list of personal qualities, especially if it takes up half of your list. When you print out your application form, don’t include all …

Gameking – Unleash the Games!

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<< Previous (The Gameking) Gameking Games Readers without short-term memory problems will recall that I bought 13 games to go with my Gameking. Each and every one is special in its own special way. Special as in “special needs”, naturally. Firstly, a few points about Gameking games. The cartridges are strikingly familiar to anyone who has ever played on a Game Boy, since they’re exactly the same as Game Boy cartridges. Almost, anyway – instead of “Game Boy” they say …

Gameking II – Even Bester Handheld Evaar

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Unbelievably, even though the Gameking was quite clearly 100% perfect in every single way, Time Top felt they could improve it further! And so, there came into being the astounding Gameking II! What could they possibly improve? Well, it needed a more modern styling, apparently. With the Gameking taking design cues from the Game Boy Advance, the Gameking II obviously went further – and now it’s a PSP-alike! Aside from this obvious improvement, the Gameking II has a second major …

Gameking – Best Handheld Evaar

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On the 10th November 2004, I ordered a Gameking handheld, and 13 games, from www.gbax.com. A couple of days later, the whole lot arrived. And what a truly fantastic bit of kit it is. As you can see from the picture, the Gameking is very similar to a standard Game Boy Advance. Very similar. In fact, aside from the words and start/select button locations, almost identical. Don’t be fooled, however, as there are some quite major differences. Firstly, there’s a …

Finally! A working Adobe CS3 install script!

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After what seems like a year of aborted attempts, this week I’ve made a concerted effort to deploy Adobe CS3 Design Premium on our XP network. This morning, I was successful! There were several problems to overcome, including lack of MSIs, inability to “roll your own” MSI due to the Adobe Licencing Service throwing a wobbly if you do, inserting the serial number, forcing it to install on machines with under a gig of RAM, coping with the sheer size …

Little King’s Story (Wii)

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Still working through this, a bit each day (well, most days), and I’m now just over 24 hours in. I’ve defeated the three kings in and around Skull Plains, and now have to make my assault on the New Island, which is full of really, really difficult baddies. I also made the mistake earlier of walking into a zombie trap. They closed the way out behind me, I couldn’t warp back to the castle, and you can’t kill them all …

Little King’s Story (Wii)

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After a bit of a break from this due to all the retro stuff I was playing over the pat few weeks, I’ve got back into it recently. I trained my first few gourmet cooks up, defeated the pinball boss bloke, found two parts for the spacecraft, and explored the Skull Plains. I’ve had an easy time of it for the last few hours play, but at around 17 hours in, I’ve hit another wall – the areas I’m exploring …

Little King’s Story (Wii)

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Got this for my birthday just over a month ago, and started playing it after Burnout last Saturday. I wasn’t all that sure what to expect from it, apart from some sort of cute RTS game, so was surprised to find that it was very much a Pikmin clone. Well, nearly. The plot and setting is completely different, but the way the game plays is surprisingly similar, just on a different scale. You don’t have 100 Pikmin to command for …

Wolfram Alpha: talking nonsense since some time this morning

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Today, the new search engine come encyclopaedia come scientific calculator Wolfram Alpha became available to the public. Sadly, virtually everything I’ve asked it so far has come up with “Wolfram Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input”. In one case, though, it managed a nice diagram: The question I asked was “Who is the richest?”. I don’t know what to make of the answer. You can try it for yourself here.