Category Archives: Geek Stuff

By following these instructions, I was able to frankenstein together the Loki Software Linux Railroad Tycoon 2 binaries with the data from a Windows Railroad Tycoon 2 Platinum disc. WARNING: The installation produced by this will be missing the music … Continue reading →

Updated 2015-12-21: Added a basic explanation for the concept of the tonic note, some chord dictionary links, and a link to JGuitar’s Harmonizer in the Scales section. Having an analytical mind like mine is great, because it means I can … Continue reading →

After not noticing I’d been messaged until hours later, I decided to amend the userscript I use to watch for new GOG.com forum replies so it also watches other kinds of notifications (ie. private messages, friend requests, and game library … Continue reading →

As you start collecting a lot of ScummVM-compatible games, it gets awkward to keep track of what you’re still looking for… so I wrote a little script which lets you check them off and have them fade out so you … Continue reading →

Inspired by this post for Windows on Raymond Chen’s blog, detailing how to make a best-effort attempt to open a query in the user’s default browser and search provider, I decided to write a Linux equivalent. Since Raymond used C# … Continue reading →

One of the simplest ways to make a multi-monitor system look more impressive is to set a desktop background which spans across all of the monitors. Just scale the image up to the smallest size that fills all of the … Continue reading →