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The U.S. military late Sunday announced it had killed four people in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean. [...]
Brazil will head to a presidential runoff between left-leaning incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and far-right Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro. [...]
A candidate for the presidency of Austria says he'll return an iconic museum piece known as "Moctezuma's Headdress" to Mexico if elected. [...]
The U.S. Coast Guard said it suspended its search for a medical transfer plane that went missing early Saturday between Bermuda and Boston. [...]
The Pentagon said Sunday it has withdrawn all of its bombers from Britain's RAF Fairford air base in the wake of a suspected terror plot. [...]
An engineering model of NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) descent probe passed a key test that ran from Aug. 28 to Sept. 10, [...]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, [...]
This long-duration image shows star trails above Earth and the blue lights of fishing boats and the yellow lights of Indonesian cities stretching below the International Space Station as it [...]
Ahead of launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft atop, is vertical at the launch pad of Space Launch Complex 40 at [...]
This nighttime view of the United States, dotted with city lights looking toward New York City (center), was taken at approximately 3:40 a.m. local time from the International Space Station [...]
• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies [...]
The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. [...]
A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, [...]
Author Archives: Kip
David’s Guide to Mudding Part II
In a previous post, I mentioned a fellow I know named David Strauss who’s working on getting people back into MUDs — Multi User Dungeons, as we called them in the old days; text adventures that had multiple players on … Continue reading
Free Verse 101
Life is beautiful life is grand for which brave moment we make a stand we are rich in what we have and so it shall be for the c ir cle never ends
David’s Guides to MUDding
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… There was a young man named Kip, who was away at college in Berkeley, CA, and who was obsessed with computer games and the beginnings of the Internet. It was … Continue reading
Razer Mouse Randomly Double-Clicking Quick Fix
Are you having problems with your Razer mouse double clicking when it shouldn’t? I’ve owned a Razer Mamba for years and only recently had this problem. I tried resetting it and recalibrating it; no luck. Then I read a suggestion … Continue reading
Workaround for Cydia Impactor “XCode 7.3” Error (and possibly other Cydia Impactor errors — a new way to sideload)
Okay, first, all credit where credit is due. I did not come up with this fix myself. I lost my semi-tethered Jailbreak on my iPhone (Electra) and was unable to get Electra back on there (after a while, even though … Continue reading
My Father and I Need Your Help for our GoFundMe Campaign!
Hey, guys. I’m just going to put the link for my GoFundMe page up here, and repeat the description I wrote on the GoFundMe site. Anything you can spare would be enormously appreciated by me and my father, and you … Continue reading
How to Program Your X1 Box For 30-Second Skip and 15-Second Rewind
Okay, guys, this is a pretty easy little hack, right here. I have verified this works on an XR15 remote, which I believe is the latest. Remember, you’re programming the box, not the remote. A search box will come up … Continue reading
Fix for PLEX “Unauthorized Server” Problem on Roku
Okay, so I just got a Roku Streaming Stick for my dad, and I wanted to set it up so it could use PLEX, which is what I use to stream everything from my PC. I was going nuts, because … Continue reading
Fix for Assassin’s Creed: Origins Freezing/Stuttering on Consoles
Some of you playing on consoles may notice that Assassin’s Creed: Origins is freezing up on you ever now and then (or a lot, depending on when you’re playing). The problem is the same as it was for AC: Unity — it’s the … Continue reading
How To Make Your IPhone Recognize The Word “Fuck”
If you’re at all like me, the fact that your iPhone constantly autocorrects the f-word so it reads “ducking”, you’ve probably wondered if there’s any way you can get the damned thing to ever autocorrect the word properly — fuck, fucker, fucking, etc. … Continue reading
