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Retrobattle available for Gentoo

Posted 09-01-2012 at 01:19 AM by hydraMax (Bits and Pixels)
Updated 09-01-2012 at 01:25 AM by hydraMax
Tags gaming, gentoo

There is now a package in Gentoo Portage for Retrobattle. Just "emerge retrobattle". (You may have to unmask it first.)

Retrobattle is a retro-style arcade game by Daniel Remar and Andreas Remar. It's like of one of the early NES games where you move a character around a maze on a screen, shooting stuff (robots, gigantic snakes...) and collecting items (coins, super weapons...). Authentic look and feel, although somehow "smoother" than the old games I remember....
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Lisp Keyboards

Posted 08-31-2012 at 06:40 PM by hydraMax (Bits and Pixels)

http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html

I want one!
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Fun with Haskell

Posted 07-28-2012 at 04:11 PM by hydraMax (Bits and Pixels)

Lately I've been having fun getting back into Haskell. I had dropped the language a while ago in favor of more "practical" pursuits, but I see now that was a big mistake. Haskell is such a beautiful and enjoyable way to code.

Recently I made a few little designs and animations based on mathematical formulae. Photos or videos are available for each:

Spiral: Generates a 2D spiral with GnuPlot.

Spinning: Spins circle pairs around each other with...
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My Firefox Tips

Posted 07-13-2012 at 03:38 AM by hydraMax (Bits and Pixels)

I created a page listing a few of my favorite Firefox customization tips:

My Firefox Tips

Includes screen shots!
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chironfs and sshfs: "mknod failed accessing..." error

Posted 06-15-2012 at 09:26 PM by hydraMax (Bits and Pixels)
Updated 06-16-2012 at 12:04 PM by hydraMax (update)

I thought I'd post this for posterities sake:

chironfs is a nifty fuse-based file system that duplicates a file hierarchy across multiple paths. (Like a file system version of RAID 1.) However, I found that if I tried to use an sshfs mounted directory as one of the paths, chironfs disables the path with the error "mknod failed accessing <path> Permission denied".

The workaround I found was to pass in the following option to sshfs when mounting the sshfs...
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