I think I was 8 years old when my dad came home with a Commodore 64 and various games. Hacking up those games in C64 Basic is what got me interested in programming, and now 20-something years later I landed a job at Armor Games as a Sr Web Developer. Not doing game programming, but I *am* in the industry where I’m happiest, and the web development work so far has been a nice change from the heavy lifting I’ve been doing in Perl for so long. For obvious reasons I won’t blog about specifics going on here at the office, but I may share insights into some of the things I’m learning.
CNET posted a HOWTO video on how to enable a much broader Control Panel setup by creating a folder with a specific filename.
In a nutshell, create a folder in the root level of any drive, and call it “GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}” (without the quotes).
quick and simple: edit /etc/hosts
(or on Windows machines: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
and add the following:
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com facebook.com apps.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.myspace.com myspace.com
0.0.0.0 www.digg.com digg.com
etc. Add as many sites as you want. When you want to stop being productive at work, simply comment out those lines (like during a lunch break). Just be sure to uncomment the lines when you need to be productive again…
all the best for 2010, everyone!
Happy New Year!
I’ll be moving my blog to a new server, so most of my content will be offline for a few days. I’ll get it back up and running as soon as I can. I’ll start scanning my error_log shortly to see which articles people want the most and use that as my priority list.
