Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

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 →

As I mentioned on previous occasions, I don’t take too kindly to people trying to make me pay once for a game and again for its soundtrack and, as a matter of principle, I rip my soundtracks straight from the … Continue reading →

Not much to report over the last few days. I was mainly busy ripping old CDs so I could store them in the closet. cdparanoia -B and ddrescue (instructions) are essential for damaged audio tracks and CD-Rs. However, for old … Continue reading →

In the time since I last tried migrating my blog to Jekyll, it has gained an official WordPress importer. Unfortunately, that importer requires direct database access and NearlyFreeSpeech.NET doesn’t have the requisite Ruby dependencies. …so I decided to hack around … Continue reading →