Archive for June, 2008

WordPress LinkRoll Widget

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

The simple widget that runs in our sidebar presents a random selection of stored links. The script parses the <title> tags on the referred pages to name the links. To install it copy the script file to your plugin directory. Activate the widget in WordPress under Plugins, add it under Design->Widgets and ...

WordPress AdSense Widget

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

We customized Mike Smullin's AdSense to meet the current specs. Our sidebar shows what it looks like. You can find our version right here. After installation and activation you only need to specify google_ad_client (your publisher ID) and google_ad_slot (to be pasted from the code provided by Google) on the ...

Google PageRank in PHP

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

To obtain your PageRank in PHP without a 403 Forbidden error you'll have to calculate the PageRank Checksum and send it with your request. This is the way to go: http://www.hm2k.com/projects/pagerank We have added a simple demo. Get your PageRank right here.

Bypassing a cranky BIOS: boot from CDROM

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

After a major crash of our Acer Aspire 1642 the hard disk needed to be replaced. After booting from a life CD we successfully installed Ubuntu Gutsy on the new drive. Unfortunately, after reboot the BIOS appeared to be completely blind to it. A BIOS upgrade would not fix the ...

Pinnacle PCTV USB2 on Suse 10.x

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Retrieved from the old wiki: To get the Pinnacle USB2 device working you'll need the kernel module for the em28xx chipset. This module is not included in the Suse distribution, so obtain the video4linux package v4l-dvb from linuxtv.org. Note: You do not need the usbvision package. It only supports USB1. The sources of ...

Prisoner’s Dilemma applet

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Retrieved from the old wiki: The Prisoner's Dilemma source code has been released, a simple AWT based and multithreaded Java applet. /** The Prisoner's Dilemma @version 0.20 @author Serge Helfrich 03-Aug-2002 (0.01 11-Feb-1998) */ import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.applet.*; public class Pris00 extends Applet ...