Space Invaders Arcade Restoration
One Saturday morning I was just minding my own business, when my father called. I could hear the excitement in his voice when he told me “Craig! I found an old Space Invaders, it doesn’t work, $100. Want it?” Of course I didn’t hesitate, and said yes. I had no clue what condition it was in, or…
Install Bungie’s Aleph One Engine (Marathon Trilogy) on Ubuntu/Linux Mint
Open terminal. Add the repo: sudo apt-add-repository ‘deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu oneiric-getdeb games’ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add – sudo apt-get update Install Games: This will install them all: sudo apt-get install marathon* Or individually: sudo apt-get install marathon sudo apt-get install marathon2 sudo apt-get install marathon infinity Congratulations, you have now installed the…
Increasing Asus RT-N16/RT-N66U Wifi Range, performance, and functionality
TL;DR – For those of you who just want the facts, here is a list summing up the article: Step 1: Install Tomato USB (Guide for RT-N16 and Guide for RT-N66U) Place in central location (placement is key) Install high gain antennas (These will work on both the RT-N16 and RT-N66U) Optional overkill: Install heatsinks…
Power Point: Create slides from a folder of images automatically
The other day I was given the daunting task of creating a few power point presentations at work. Using power point is something I haven’t done since 2007 and it really took me a while to get going. The particular presentation I was creating was very image intensive. In-fact, every slide aside from the title…
WordPress running slow? Check your post tags!
Over the past few years I have become very versed in optimizing WordPress for speed. Most generally I can get just about any WordPress site to load in under one second. Recently I was working for a client that had a site that was just dragging. We tried everything, disabling plugins, caching, I optimized all…