HOWTO: Format Web Comics for PSP

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Dark Horse Comics International Gallery
Update: Dutch Comics

Dark Horse Comics International Gallery
Update: Dutch Comics 02/12/2004 06:20 PM
We've got a new update to the international section of our Dark Horse Comics Cover Gallery today, with scans of the Dutch versions of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Shadows of the Empire.

Dark Horse Comics Gallery Update: Aurra
Sing Gold Logo Comics

Dark Horse Comics Gallery Update: Aurra
Sing Gold Logo Comics 04/25/2004 06:09 PM
Today's Dark Horse Comics Cover Gallery update features the bounty hunter Aurra Sing. here are a pair of special gold foil logo editions of the final chapter in the "Outlander" story from the Star Wars monthly series and her own special one-shot issue of the Bounty Hunters series. These comics were exclusive to Dynamic Forces and features the pivotal moments in the bounty hunter's life. Thanks again to Jason Todoroff for the scans. Check out the bottom left corner image of A'sharad Hett!

Dark Horse Comics Miscellaneous Comics
Cover Gallery

Dark Horse Comics Miscellaneous Comics
Cover Gallery 12/20/2003 12:15 PM
Before I wrap up our series of Dark Horse Comics updates, let's take a look at the Miscellaneous Comics that have been published over the years in anthology titles, reprint giveaways, and one-shots.

Dark Horse Comics International Comics
Cover Gallery

Dark Horse Comics International Comics
Cover Gallery 12/21/2003 02:37 AM
Our Dark Horse Comics cover gallery is updated today with a new International Comics section featuring comics from France, Mexico and the United Kingdom. The stories and artwork remain the same, but the covers are often quite different. Look for this section to expand over time with more reader submissions.

Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format?

Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format? 12/11/2003 02:43 AM
Now that every other company is starting a music download store (even if no one is making any money off of it), people are beginning to realize that maybe it makes sense to come up with a single format that works for anyone. Of course, some might say that we've already got formats that work, but the folks over in the recording industry seem to have a mental block when it comes to the formats that everyone likes to use. So, now, Microsoft, Universal Music and others, under the title of the Content Reference Forum, are teaming up to create a new music format - but one that makes it easier for them to make you buy the music. There aren't all that many details, but it appears to be going back to some of the very original concepts behind a hypertext system: that content only needs to be available once, and any time you want to access it, you just link to it. In other words, instead of offering downloadable music, the plan is to offer links to music that is served up remotely. Of course, one of the "features" of such a system is that the content providers can know (and, potentially, charge you) every time you want to hear that certain song. It's an interesting idea, but it seems to make the music less valuable. Suddenly, it can only be listened to from an internet connected machine, you don't actually own anything, and the big content providers get to keep a big database of exactly what songs you listen to when. Doesn't sound all that appealing to me. The one thing that it does have going for it, is that it allows people to "share" - if, by share, you mean point someone to a link and let them pay for it themselves.

Howto

Howto 06/18/2004 03:18 AM

Very interesting list of Howto's [Howto]

HOWTO skin a PC to look like a Mac

HOWTO skin a PC to look like a Mac 06/10/2004 04:06 PM
Engadget has a great step-by-step HOWTO for skinning your WinXP box until its desktop is nigh-indistinguishable from a MacOS X box. Link

Cool howto

Cool howto 12/17/2003 09:32 PM
Got to love this Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradmin HOWTO...

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Xeni Jardin: Jason Gill says,

Someone has posted a script for GreaseMonkey (a Firefox extension that lets you add your own Javascript code to any website, to remove ads or add features: Link) that automatically removes any post by Xeni when viewing BoingBoing."

Link< /a>. Of course, if you're not reading my posts you're gonna miss this one. D'oh!

Update: Jesse Andrews, the fellow who wrote this de-Xeni script, would appear to be busted. :-) Chad Hurley, who identifies himself as Mr. Andrews' employer, says:

Hi Xeni,

Just a note about Mr. Andrews and his "de-Xeni" plugin - We’ve caught him looking at far worse things than your "over the top" posts. Why he has picked you to filter, one may never know, but I have an idea for a plugin. Maybe I will add it to the Grease Monkey requests. It’s really simple. When Jesse opens Firefox, it directs Jesse to a folder on my server called, "Things Jesse needs to do today before the big hand is on 12 and the little hand is on 5"! Just an idea.

Keep on keepin' on,

Chad

Paint-your-floors HOWTO

Paint-your-floors HOWTO 04/19/2004 04:23 PM
Great Apartment Therapy blog post on how to paint your floors "without screwing it up" -- the results speak for themselves. Link< /a> (via Megnut)

HOWTO bl0g anonymously

HOWTO bl0g anonymously 04/08/2005 12:54 AM
Cory Doctorow: EFF has released a guide to blogging anonymously, with "basic measures people can take to keep their blogs anonymous and explores what the law says about discussing work-related issues online. Some advice is common sense; for example, don't post a picture of yourself if you want to stay anonymous. But for bloggers who want strong guarantees of privacy, EFF suggests using technologies like Tor or Anonymizer to prevent your blog-hosting company from logging your computer's unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. Bloggers who fear they could be fired for blogging are also given an introduction to laws that prevent an employer from punishing them for speaking out online."

The bad news is that in many cases, there is no legal means of redress if you've been fired for blogging. While your right to free speech is protected by the First Amendment, this protection does not shield you from the consequences of what you say. The First Amendment protects speech from being censored by the government; it does not regulate what private parties (such as most employers) do. In states with "at will" employment laws like California, employers can fire you at any time, for any reason. And no state has laws that specifically protect bloggers from discrimination, on the job or otherwise.

One way to make sure your blog doesn't earn you a pink slip is to make sure that you write about certain protected topics. Most states have laws designed to prevent employers from firing people who talk openly about their politics outside of work, for example. Be warned that laws like this do vary widely from state to state, and many are untested when it comes to blogging.

Link< /a>

1965 Ski Mask HOWTO

1965 Ski Mask HOWTO 12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: If your grannie knits you one of these, run like hell, then call the cops. Excerpts from a "roll your own ski mask" article from a mid-'60s issue of McCall's Magazine. You know, they have fetish websites for this sort of thing nowadays. Link . The horror. The HORROR. (thanks, Cameron)

A Motherboard Upgrade HOWTO

A Motherboard Upgrade HOWTO 04/01/2005 07:08 AM
Tips and directions for replacing your computer's motherboard--from deciding whether it's worth the hassle to tweaking the BIOS.

WebGUI / Postgres HOWTO

WebGUI / Postgres HOWTO 12/16/2002 10:11 AM
Submission by Fred Maco PostgreSQL Not everybody is a MySQL fan. I myself prefer Postgres. Luckily, the folks over at Plain Black have made it easy to run my favorite CMS on my favorite database. Here's how:

HALO PC - flood, howto

HALO PC - flood, howto 02/10/2004 02:41 PM
AMDMB Feb 10 2004 6:29PM GMT

HOWTO sobre BBS en GNU/LiNUX

HOWTO sobre BBS en GNU/LiNUX 11/01/2003 03:07 PM

HOWTO distribute a project

HOWTO distribute a project 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
.tar.gz seems to be the only way to distribute a project

HOWTO set up a VSAT in Iraq

HOWTO set up a VSAT in Iraq 04/19/2005 03:38 AM
Xeni Jardin: Jake in Iraq wrote a detailed post about setting up VSAT internet connectivity near Sulimaniya. One of the purposes this connection will serve: getting a voting office online. Jake's a pretty serious geek. He says he's been asked not to share exactly why he's there, or what exactly he's doing for whom, but this is sure an interesting post.

This is how I spent my day today. It took around 6 hours round trip to drive to Sulimaniya, Iraq. This in Kurdistan where we did the install. I learned some stuff, it's mostly simple labor but it raised some interesting questions in my mind about interception.

As far as I can tell, it's entirely possible to intercept any data being sent to earth in an entirely passive way. I'm going to look into this more before I make any outlandish claims, if you know, feel free to let me know.

(...) This [photo] is the lead engineer checking to find the 251 degree azimuth. The tool he's holding is totally awesome and old school. I think you could sail around the world with it if you were determined.

And above, an identifying label on the back of the finished product. Link< /a> (Thanks, Mark!)

HOWTO Handshadows from 1859

HOWTO Handshadows from 1859 09/26/2004 03:54 AM
Cory Doctorow: Hand Shadows To Be Thrown Upon The Wall, originally published in 1859, is a lovely little Gutenberg Project book, illustrated with these great woodcuts of what passed for fun in the era of gaslight and corsets. Link (Thanks, Asthmatic!)

Howto: White Box Linux

Howto: White Box Linux 04/12/2004 07:35 PM
Falko Timme has written a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Linux server based on White Box Linux that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).

HOWTO stop procrastinating

HOWTO stop procrastinating 09/09/2004 08:59 AM
Cory Doctorow: On Merlin Mann's 43 Folders productivity blog, he runs through a great high-level overview of the geek-cult-smash, "Getting Things Done," a comprehensive and nerdy guide to systematizing yourself out of procrastination.

Stuff is bouncing around in our heads and causing untold stress and anxiety. Evaluation meetings, bar mitzvahs, empty rolls of toilet paper, broken lawn mowers, college applications, your big gut, tooth decay, dirty underwear and imminent jury duty all compete for prime attention in our poor, addled brains. Stuff has no “home” and, consequently, no place to go, so it just keeps rattling around.

Worst off, we’re too neurotic to stop thinking about it, and we certainly don’t have time to actually do everything in one day. Jeez Louise, what the hell am I, Superman?

So you sprint from fire to fire, praying you haven’t forgotten anything, sapped of anything like creativity or even the basic human flexibility to adapt your own schedule to the needs of your friends, your family or yourself. Your “stuff” has taken over your brain like a virus now, dragging down every process it touches and rendering you spent and virtually useless. Sound familiar?

Link

HowTo RSS Feed State

HowTo RSS Feed State 09/27/2004 07:05 AM

Nice summary of RSS bandwidth-saving techniques by Randy Charles Morin.

HOWTO: Find Mt. Everest from Space

HOWTO: Find Mt. Everest from Space 01/22/2004 02:03 PM
Mt. Everest, the tallest and most famous mountain of our planet, exhales a fascination which goes up all the way to the ISS.  That's easy to believe after taking a peek at this spectacular shot. However, that doesn't mean finding Everest in an easy task. To quote NASA: Space is a good place to ponder the world's extremes and nature's variability. For example, photographing the highest point on the planet is a favorite target (and a long-standing challenge) for astronauts orbiting the Earth. Despite Everest's planetary stature, it is not an easy peak to locate while zipping over the mountains at 7 kilometers per second. Luckily for us, the nice folks at JPL have made a step-by-step tutorial on finding Mt. Everest from space. Now, where do I sign up for those tickets?

Updated And Unified Font HOWTO

Updated And Unified Font HOWTO 12/28/2004 10:53 PM
Slashdot Dec 29 2004 2:13AM GMT

HOWTO: Knit dim-sum-shaped toys for your
cat

HOWTO: Knit dim-sum-shaped toys for your
cat 01/05/2005 10:25 PM
Xeni Jardin: Catnip-filled kitty toys shaped like won tons and eggrolls are the subject of this online HOWTO, with step-by-step instructions and photos. I'm not really the knitty type of chick -- I mean, the needles I'm around generally have something to do with tattoos, piercings, travel vaccines, or the kind you drop on vinyl. But knitty.com is such a great site, I'm almost tempted to try. OK, almost.
Link to feature. (Thanks, Mara!).

joatBlog: WLAN Security Howto

joatBlog: WLAN Security Howto 01/09/2004 09:52 PM
http://users.757.org/~joat/blog/archives/001372.html NetworkWorld Fusion has a howto for securing your wireless network. Thanks Joat!

Profiting From A Vague Patent HOWTO

Profiting From A Vague Patent HOWTO 06/25/2004 10:12 AM

HOWTO turn a t-shirt into panties

HOWTO turn a t-shirt into panties 01/06/2005 04:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: If you've experienced the heartbreak of wearing out a beloved t-shirt, despair no longer. Here is a recipe for turning an old t-shirt into a pair of knickers.

Find a clean (if you care) shirt that strikes your fancy. I have used shirts with printed pictures or words, anything I thought would look good on my butt. You might not want to use your prized material possession if it's your first time. Figure out if you have enough material for underwear (see item 1 above), and cut out the two main pattern pieces. You can cut the crotch piece out of the same material, or you can use a new fresh T-shirt or whatever. (I keep a few Hanes white undershirts on hand.)

Link (via Preshrunk)

Updated: Linux Security HOWTO

Updated: Linux Security HOWTO 01/27/2004 07:32 PM

Howto: The Perfect Setup - SUSE 9.2

Howto: The Perfect Setup - SUSE 9.2 04/11/2005 07:42 PM
I have written a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a SUSE 9.2 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). In addition to that I will show how to use Debian's package manager apt on an rpm-based system because it takes care of package dependencies automagically which can save a lot of trouble.

HOWTO: Get Your Teeth Fixed in Mexico

HOWTO: Get Your Teeth Fixed in Mexico 12/20/2003 07:19 PM
In the United States, major dental work can be financially ruinous. Without belaboring the lively political topic of why this is, I am here to report that it is possible for a US resident to save 75% or more on major dental work by the simple expedient of having it done in Mexico. Inside, my story and practical details for others whose dentists may be about to give them a nasty surprise.

HOWTO: Access RSS feeds for kbAlertz.com

HOWTO: Access RSS feeds for kbAlertz.com 06/01/2004 08:51 AM
Many people know about kbAlertz web site. This site publishes all the Microsoft Knowledgebase articles as they come out. You can go there and sign up to have all the articles e-mailed to you as soon as they come out. Once there, you pick the areas of interest and enter your e-mail address.That makes the site extremely important to geeks in general, since missing an important KB article can be a disaster. This addition of RSS feeds just makes it that much more indispensible.RSS feeds are available for every Microsoft technology that is scanned by kbAlertz.com. To find the technology specific RSS feed, simply browse to the “All KB!” link on the top of the page (or the referenced link below). Once on this page, select the technology you are interested in. On the technology specific page, you’ll see an [XML] icon. This is the link to your technology specific RSS feed.

BSDHound: Chrooting Apache and PHP in
BSD Howto

BSDHound: Chrooting Apache and PHP in
BSD Howto 02/16/2004 09:29 AM
For most experienced PHP developers out there, the thought of making web page code that runs as root is a very, very scary idea. However, this new article might help to lessen some of that fear (at least for BSD users).

Soft-boiled-egg cakemod HOWTO

Soft-boiled-egg cakemod HOWTO 04/20/2004 07:25 AM
This cakemodder has devised a "soft-boiled egg cake" filled with lemon curd. Yummy! Link (Thanks, Yi!)

HOWTO: turn off html in your mailer

HOWTO: turn off html in your mailer 02/16/2004 01:14 PM
Here's a great overview of the reasons to eschew HTML for email, and an amazing, exhaustive primer on turning off html-mail-sending in dozens of mail clients. I keep my screen resolution high enough that most of the html mail I receive shows up at completely unreadable sizes -- plain text mail automativally sizes to my preferred scale, but not so html mail.

Many E-mail and Usenet News reader programs, usually the mail and news reader programs that come with browser packages, allow users to include binary attachments (MIME or other encoding) or HTML (normally found on web pages) within their E-mail messages. This makes URLs into clickable links and it means that graphic images, formatting, and even color coded text can also be included in E-mail messages. While this makes your E-mail interesting and pretty to look at, it can cause problems for other people who receive your E-mail because they may use different E-mail programs, different computer systems, and different application programs whose files are often not fully compatible with each other. Any of these can cause trouble with in-line HTML (or encoded attachments). Most of the time all they see is the actual HTML code behind the message. And if someone replies to the HTML formatted message, the quoting can render the message even more unreadable. In some cases, the message is nothing but strange looking text. For this reason, many mailing lists especially those that provide a digest version, explicitly forbid the use of HTML formatted e-mail. See examples section.

Link (via Dive Into Mark)

PPC HowTo: Moving and Copying Files

PPC HowTo: Moving and Copying Files 04/20/2004 04:51 PM

HOWTO: Make a file sharing system.

HOWTO: Make a file sharing system. 06/22/2005 01:58 AM
The RIAA and many other local facsimiles in nations outside the USA are aggressively persuing file sharers. More and more files on the file sharing services available are fakes; they do not contain what they portend to be, or contain only 5 to 7 seconds on a loop. Leechers reduce the average download speed considerably. Some manage to circumvent most of these problems but do not offer satisfactory search. In short, there are plenty of reasons why it's time to introduce Yet Another File Sharing Service. This time, let's do it right. Read on for a detailed description of how solve all the problems that current file sharing systems are struggling with.

HOWTO make a duct-tape wallet

HOWTO make a duct-tape wallet 03/19/2005 03:02 AM
Cory Doctorow: 3M Canada has published a detailed HOWTO for turning duct-tape into a wallet. Great idea -- these folks should create a comprehensive directory of duct-tape projects (tuxedos, prom-dresses, etc) for using up their stuff. Link (via Make Blog)

Howto: The Perfect Setup - Debian Sarge
(3.1)

Howto: The Perfect Setup - Debian Sarge
(3.1) 06/06/2005 12:05 AM
I have written a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Debian based server (Debian Sarge alias Debian 3.1) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/POP3s/IMAP/IMAPs, Quota, Firewall, etc.).
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