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WorldPainter: Myst Island 14 Jun 2013 | 12:56 am
Recently, I've been playing around with WorldPainter. It's a tool for creating custom maps for Minecraft, where you can just paint on your mountains, valleys, lakes, biomes, trees, and other details a...
My ISP is cheating on speed tests 5 Jun 2013 | 09:06 am
My ISP in Los Angeles is Time Warner Cable, and I'm pretty sure they're cheating on my speed tests. I pay about $39 a month for either 15 Mbps down or 20 (I don't remember which), and when I run speed...
New Server 31 May 2013 | 04:12 pm
I've migrated Kirsle.net and all my other websites and MineCraft servers to a new home. They're now on a beefier dedicated server (8GB RAM instead of the old 4GB) which is actually 50% less expensive ...
Fedora on Raspberry Pi 25 May 2013 | 08:43 am
I'm writing this blog post from Pidora 18, a build of Fedora Linux for the Raspberry Pi ARM computer. I'm going to compare it to Raspbian, which is the usual OS that people install on their Raspberry...
Installing Windows 8 on a Samsung Series 5 19 May 2013 | 10:25 am
Here's some info on installing Windows 8 Pro on a Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook, in case anybody else has one and they wanna reinstall Windows from scratch. To get the basics out of the way first: Comp...
Gnome Shell on Touchscreens 19 May 2013 | 05:14 am
For once, this is actually not going to be a rant about Gnome Shell. It actually runs decently on a touchscreen! I recently got a Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook which has a touchscreen on it. After havin...
Nvidia vs AMD in Linux 11 May 2013 | 04:16 am
Having used both brands of video card in Linux over the years, the tl;dr. is that Nvidia has much better support with their closed source drivers on Linux than AMD does. Here's my anecdotal evidence f...
Windows 8 Rant 18 Apr 2013 | 01:51 pm
So, I thought I liked Windows 8 a bit. The OS itself isn't absolutely horrible once you get used to it. I even bought the $40 upgrade to Windows 8 for my main PC, where I promptly spent 100% of my tim...
Fun with Command Blocks 10 Apr 2013 | 10:25 am
It's high time for my first Minecraft mini tutorial! I tend to prefer playing vanilla Minecraft and try to get away with it as much as I can, and as such I've been electing not to run Bukkit or any o...
Make Emoji Work in Linux 5 Apr 2013 | 05:31 am
I've discovered how to get the full range of Emoji icons to render on Linux systems. tl;dr. - Just install the Symbola font (the link on the right half of this page: Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts...
