Feb 05

I’ve just finished through my first play-through of Mass Effect 2 and now I can’t wait for Mass Effect 3!
I’ve cranked up the difficulty level all the way up to Insanity, skipping the Veteran and Hard Levels for my second play-through to add more of a challenge.
Boy, did I get it!
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Feb 04
Since unruly bots have been plaguing my blogs, I decided to set up a few bot traps to log them and notify me when they pay a visit.
My blogs aren’t big and popular so I was expecting that it may take days before something shows up. But I was surprised that not long after implementation, I had already caught two!
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Feb 03

I posted a previous article about renaming .BIK movie files to stop the certain cinematic files from loading. That article primarily dealt with the BioWare/EA logo and the Mass Relay Jump sequence. But there is an additional way that involves speeding up the loading sequences
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Feb 03

It’s a coincidence that I should come across that “evil robot” article about the same time I was looking into my web logs…
I haven’t complained in a while about bad bots» but turns out that a few of them have been hammering my blogs on a regular basis, increasing server memory usage and eating up my monthly bandwidth allotment.
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Feb 02
Wordpress has the ability to save different revisions of a saved post. While this “roll-back” capability is incredibly helpful, it can lead to database bloat over time.
I’ve been using two plug-ins that I’ve found to be quite useful for keeping revision bloat at bay.
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