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A collection of notes on various topics, such as version control, programming, food and email/newsgroup usage.
SubVersion
Vim
C and C++
FreeBSD
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Image Gallery

Image Gallery
Photos
Screenshots
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RMITCS

RMITCS Fluxbox Menu Generator
C Helpdesk Resources
Customising Your CS Account [outdated]
A brief FAQ/HOWTO on Customising X, tcsh and vim at RMITCS.

Software

Codepile
Assorted little scripts and apps.
dumps.pl - FreeBSD Backup script
dice.pl - Perl Dice roller, supports Silhouette, Shadowrun and Alternity
rastodo.py - Python Console todo/reminder
timetable.c - Console timetable/reminder
more...
Lost Emulators
Mirrors of some abandoned emulators (Generator-cbiere and DGen-SDL).
NumLock
An abandoned client-server numbers game.

Videogame Mods

LethalMod
A Max Payne 2 mod that changes the gameplay to make combat more realistic and deadly.
terroristgear
[1.4 KB .zip] A little Rogue Spear: Urban Operations mod that lets you use terrorist and multiplayer equipment (such as C4) in single player games.

Roleplaying Games

Shadowrun (4th ed)
My house firearms rules, notes on armour concealability and simplified matrix rules.
Heavy Gear (2nd ed)
A new and improved character sheet, notes on tool kits and links.
GURPS
A quad NPC sheet, firearms malfunctions and links.
GameMastering
Assorted tips for gamemasters (not specific to any particular game).

Miscellaneous

Taglines
Quotes and stuff.
crazy
Images as preformatted text, with PHP source.
Trombone slide position chart
PDF, 14KB, one a4 page.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +1100

Early, but this is my insightful post of the year (by 'Causality'):

   ... people are often rather eager to excuse and defend
   incompetent users out of some misguided sympathy for them. Real
   compassion for them would mean teaching, explaining, and
   providing good references for their edification. It would not
   mean excusing their failures or sugarcoating their incompetence.

   Any literate adult can achieve competency with a computer, and
   most problems that make the network a worse place for everyone
   directly involve users who lack knowledge, so why the "get off
   your high horse" spite towards those who expect better?

   If anything, I think the "high horse" is the belief that
   users will always be ignorant, will always be victims of these
   security issues, and can never overcome them. It is not the
   belief that they can and should overcome them.

      http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1575094&cid=31402934

Hognoxious's followup provides an important clarification:

   Not knowing isn't stupid. It's ignorant, and that can be cured. Refusing
   to know, even when you've been (repeatedly) told - now that's stupid.

Another from Baxxter:

   A driver should be aware of their fuel economy, but it's more
   likely the job of a specialist to determine why the fuel economy
   has changed. Knowing if the difference is due to the air
   filter/oil filter/radiator/spark plug/exhaust/fuel filter, or
   any of the other parts which could cause this problem is
   generally left to someone knowledgeable. The end-user should
   only be expected to notice the issue and request help...



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