I configured PHP with font support so that I can finally stop those pesky robots junking my phpBB forums. The standard VC is next to useless as it is very easy to circumvent.
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Samurai Sudoku in The Times
We had our very first Samurai Sudoku published in The Times this Saturday. It will be the first of many of our Sudoku related puzzles that appear in The Times and Sunday Times.
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A rock to the domain thieves
Just posted a rock from Brighton beach to the “Domain Registry Of America” who send out false invoices to steal people’s domain names for a high price.
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New UK server
I got a new web server in the UK to replace the previous one that had a bad kernel and one of the drives in the RAID array failed. This one is a HP P4 3.2GHz 64Bit CPU with 2GB RAM, 250Gb SATA RAID 1 and unlimited data-transfer on a 10Mbps connection. Some of my clients have contacted me about the noticeable improvement in speed.
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nVidia graphics on SuSE 10.1
As I want to move some of the more CPU intensive scripts away from live web servers, I have installed SuSE 10.1 on my own computer. Unfortunately, the graphics card didn’t have the Linux drivers available on the installation disk, making 1600×1200 resolutions unavailable. One thing that I must have on my 20.1" LCD screen is the native resolution for an OS – otherwise it annoys the hell out of me.
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Futurama lives!
Fantastic news: Futurama is going to live again! Apparently, Fox and Comedy Central are going to get together to make another series and see what happens from there… Read more at GotFuturama.com.
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2Shame going up
I have added a creative commons copyright message to my friend’s new website: 2Shame.com.
This news site will allow investigative journalists the chance to publish their findings to a worldwide audience about their dealings with corrupt people, organisations and governments.
It starts with the estate agents… what have they got to hide?
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Sudoku variants
I spotted some pretty cool Sudoku variants today including consecutive Sudoku (consecutive numbers are highlighted between cells) and greater than/less than Sudoku (numbers are compared between cells and using < and >).
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Lemonade stand
I received a copy of the photos taken during the Kemptown Festival. Lydia and I sold freshly squeezed lemonade and lemon&lime-ade directly outside the house.
The weather was scorching, so it went pretty well for our first attempt. Lydia was frequently rushing to replenish our supplies of lemons, limes, water, ice and sugar.
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Our Sudoku in a national newspaper
Good news! After 6 months of waiting, we have finally secured a Sudoku and Samurai Sudoku deal with one of the big UK national newspapers. Our Sudoku puzzles will now be played by millions of people in UK throughout the week. More details will be posted here closer to the publishing date.
For now, if you want to try out your own 5-grid Samurai Sudoku puzzles, go to Sudoku Generator and get a full account there.
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