Author Archives: Tsukasa

About Tsukasa

The fool's herald.

GTA IV for PC

Posted on 2008-12-07 by Tsukasa

I think I just spent more time in Windows than the last 2 years together. GTA IV is fun, easy as that. I don’t know why people keep nagging at the game, it’s great and just what I’d expect of … Continue reading →

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Public SVN access is back

Posted on 2008-11-23 by Tsukasa

Okay, I admit… it’s not quite “back” but more like “resurrected”. I re-setup the entire server and suddenly it works again. Currently there’s not much for guest users to checkout, though. The Wuala API Wrapper sourcecode can be obtained from … Continue reading →

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Wildcard Subdomains with Apache

Posted on 2008-11-16 by Tsukasa

To add a wildcard domain (i.e. *.subdomain.mydomain.domain) all you really need to do is set up a new vhost in the Apache config and use the matching ServerName and ServerAlias: ServerName subdomain.mydomain.domain ServerAlias *.subdomain.mydomain.domain That’s it, you can easily utilize … Continue reading →

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Stopping Sweetcron from breaking with too long posts

Posted on 2008-11-08 by Tsukasa

Okay, now this is really really bad, starting with MySQL 5 there is a strict mode. What does that mean? The strict mode will not silently swallow all your data and just cut off what’s left but throw an exception … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.7

Posted on 2008-11-06 by Tsukasa

Gee, there I am, not updating my installation for ages and now I’m wandering the path of nightly-builds again. WordPress 2.7 is amazing. The new interface not only looks great but also offers a lot: You can collapse your toolbar … Continue reading →

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How to deactivate (revoke) Far Cry 2

Posted on 2008-11-01 by Tsukasa

Far Cry 2 comes with a nasty copy protection. Actually, it’s more like a strict DRM variant that needs to be activated online and can only be used X times when not properly deactivating it. You can manually revoke an … Continue reading →

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Daylight Savings Time

Posted on 2008-10-25 by Tsukasa

“It’s officially autumn/winter now”, Tsukasa said and sighed. There’s a new header reflecting the change of seasons, for those who are blind or just subscribed to the feed. Personally I think it’s a warm and calming picture (and I’m not … Continue reading →

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Wrapper Release

Posted on 2008-10-25 by Tsukasa

Gee. I didn’t get around to post this but the stable wrapper v. 0.0.1.0 has been released onto Wuala. Changes include the latest adjustments to the API (doesn’t include the changes to the thumbnail method, as this came later) and … Continue reading →

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Wrapper for Wuala’s API

Posted on 2008-10-19 by Tsukasa

As many Wuala users have probably noticed, there is an official group for the upcoming Wuala API available. Yes, the documentation for the alpha API is out and I’ve been busy implementing the specs into an easy-to-use .net assembly for … Continue reading →

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Take it easy

Posted on 2008-10-09 by Tsukasa
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Lecker Links (delicious links)

Posted on 2008-10-03 by Tsukasa

You may have noticed that I don’t post that much stuff anymore – I think that’s fine as long as the posts do hold some kind of standard. Often I have something interesting but don’t find the pretext to write … Continue reading →

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Moving old data to new disks

Posted on 2008-10-03 by Tsukasa

As I wrote earlier this week one of my disks kept dying on me. The solution – of course – is to replace the faulty device with a brand-new one and move the data to the new disk. While I … Continue reading →

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I don’t like mondays

Posted on 2008-09-29 by Tsukasa

Today the Samsung hard-disk that houses large portions of my system started dying on me. Good news: It’ll only take a few days to get a replacement, bad news: Until then I’ll have to continue working with an obviously broken … Continue reading →

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Omgwtfhp

Posted on 2008-09-27 by Tsukasa

I had the unfortunate pleasure (?) to setup a HP Compaq dx2450, one of those machines that come with 3 operating system discs but no media containing the drivers (I can’t help but to wonder why?). So if you want … Continue reading →

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Adobe AIR Beta for Linux

Posted on 2008-09-16 by Tsukasa

Wowzers, finally there’s a version of AIR available that has an (almost) equal set of features to it’s Windows and Mac counterparts. Before you can install this new version you do have to uninstall your old AIR applications (as they … Continue reading →

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