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If you get the error saying “Regedit has been disabled by the system administrator” when trying to use the Windows XP registry editor, fear not. There is an easy way to re-enable regedit. Click Start -> Run… and enter this command (all on one line) : REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 […]

In some FPS games the players view will move slightly from side to side (or up and down) when walking or running. This is known as “camera shake” or “headbob”, a so-called “feature” that is supposed to add realism to the game. The most extreme example that I’ve seen is in S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Shadow of […]

I checked my blog this evening and discovered that every page redirected to some stupid malware site (offline now, was http://scanner.antivir64.com/?aff=1050). It was immediately obvious that I had been hacked. Fuck, that’s a first. Emergency Measures It took me about 30 minutes to get the site back to normal and start investigating. WP 2.6.1 has […]

I’m busy with an AJAX+PHP+Google Trends experiment this week and I can’t bring myself to write a complete post, so here’s a random assortment of interesting links instead 🙂 High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity Lucid thouhts on online anonymity and why TOR is not a panacea. […]

I don’t have a consistent stance on copyright and intellectual property – I suspect most people don’t. We just make do with shaky beliefs and half-assed ideals. So I decided to finally think it through and come up with some sort of philosophical basis on this issue. Below is the the resulting epic rant. If […]