Archive for March, 2008

Contact (the game)

Posted in Fun Stuff, Games on March 27th, 2008 by Anders K. Madsen – 2 Comments

I’ve been playing Contact (from Atlus, for the DS) a lot lately. It’s downright fucking awesome — nothing less! Now, if anybody should happen to play the game, then add me as a friend (and/or send me your friend key). Mine is 2320-5766-4698. I’m really eager to check out WiFisland.

In case you own a DS and is NOT playing Contact (which would be wrong — wrong, I tells ya!), check it out! I picked up a pre-owned copy for $30. It’s jam-packed with weird geeky references (like “I wish a base like this belonged to us.” and “It’s Rizo Island. Riiiiiizo Island!!!“) and on top of that it’s a great RPG with a perfect mix of retro-elements and completely new stuff. Go, go, go!

iconv — change text encoding of a file

Posted in Computers on March 24th, 2008 by Steffen – 1 Comment

I just saw this on the DK-TUG mail list. I seam to be the tool I’ve been wanting for years but been to slack to find. “Slack” since i couldn’t imagine that such tool should not exist. It’s ‘iconv‘ [0] and works like this:

% iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 old-utf8-file.txt > new-iso88591-file.txt

[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv.1.html

#FF0090, R.I.P.

Posted in Rant, The World on March 19th, 2008 by Anders K. Madsen – 1 Comment

What the fuck is wrong with the patent laws in this world? Why is anybody even considering letting Deutsche Telekom sue Compello over the use of the color magenta? They’re not even in the same business and they have way different logos! Seriously… What is wrong with people?!?