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Some Items of a Technical Nature

Fun things:

• The Unbearable Lightness of Home Wiring (a detailed description of how I wired up my home)
• Expanding Your TiVo (adding disks and network cards)
• WebTV Anecdotes (ah, the good old days)
• Some pictures of unusual CDs and CD-Rs
• Jagged Alliance 2 Details (based on the game's source code)
• M.A.X. Walkthrough (for an oldie-but-goodie)
• Incubation Walkthrough (another oldie-but-goodie)

Boring things:

• Designing File Formats (especially file headers)
• Software Update for Network Devices (lessons learned)
• The Great Wall of Spam (blocking mail from China and Korea)
• PCs I Have Known (and loved)
• Early Copy Protection (on Apple II cassette tapes!)
• Hacking Data Compression (an aging 12-part course)
• Handling Unsportsmanlike Conduct Online (lessons for online game services)
• Of Games and NATs (a somewhat dated discussion of home routers and gaming)
• Fast 2D Visibility Algorithms (because them computers sure are slow)
• Trex and Concealed Deck Fastener Systems (things that go "bend" in the night)

Temporary (?):

• FFT comparison: Audacity vs. Audition (digital filters is tricky devils)