Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

The Pidgin developers apparently haven’t thought things through very well when it comes to TLS/SSL support because, if you want to connect to a network which uses a self-signed cert, they’ll present you with a permission dialog every time you … Continue reading →

TL;DR: Disable 3D acceleration for the guest export CPU_MHZ=2000 find ~/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/ -iname ‘*libstdc++.so*’ -execdir mv {} {}.bak \; Since GOG has introduced GOG Connect, I decided I might as well try to turn some worse-than-worthless unredeemed Steam keys into actual … Continue reading →

I have a family member who has grown used to pausing Audacious Media Player with a quick press on their XF86AudioPlay key, but half of what they listen to is video files, so I wrote a quick shell script to … Continue reading →

I just discovered that Stoic Studios has decided to be a language lawyer (See their comment (screenshot) on backer-only update #62) and claim that, since they never explicitly said I’d get DRM-free copies of The Banner Saga, episodes 2 and … Continue reading →

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 →