http://www.altfire.com/main/index.php The alternative technical news site..... I have hacked together a useful Joomla! component using an earlier (non-commercial) version of sh404SEF, modified to add support for SEF urls with the fantastic Joomgallery component (v 1.5.5). This was done by integrating the recent sh404SEF native plugin file for Joomgallery. I'm making this available for 2 reasons... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=516 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:57:31 GMT In case you missed it, a wonderful thing happened at QuakeCon 2010. John Carmack announced the release of GPL source code for the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Return to Castle Wolfenstein engines! The ioquake3 guys immediately announced that work had already begun on iowolfet and iortcw! Oh the possibilities! For example, in-game chat, ipv6 support, full 1080p HD support etc etc... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=515 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:23:23 GMT When Nintendo debuted the Wii, it was seen as a revolutionary approach to console gaming. Fast forward a few years, and both Microsoft and Sony have revealed their own motion sensing solutions for gaming. Though Sony's Move is quite similar to the Wii in that it uses a wand controller, Microsoft took a different approach, letting gamers use their bodies as the controller. All of a sudden, the quite-modern Wii looked outdated... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=514 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:58:16 GMT Ever wanted to set the desktop resolution to different modes depending on what program you are running? Or reset it every time you login? There's a very handy program called xrandr that is most likely already installed on your system. You can use it at the command line or in scripts. For example, execute: xrandr -s 800x600 to switch to 800 x 600 (instantly) and then xrandr -s 1440x900 to switch back to 1440x900 (or whatever you normally run). I find this amazing handy eg... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=513 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:29:28 GMT Are your uses getting a blank page when they to access Facebook? Or maybe when they go to login? And are you using Squid Proxy Server 2.7 or above? Well here's the solution (took me a while this one). Change the following line: server_http11 off to this: server_http11 on Alternatively, just upgrading to Squid 3.1... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=512 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:41:46 GMT J.J. Abrams's Star Trek sequel will begin production early next year. Bruce Greenwood, who plays original Enterprise captain Christopher Pike, revealed the news to Hollywood.com, adding that he isn't certain if he will return for the follow-up. He said: "I just know that the plan is to film it in January. More than that, I don't know. I hope [to come back]. I'm hustling for it... we'll see..." The Star Trek sequel is due for release on June 29, 2012... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=511 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:57:05 GMT I spoke before about running Quake 3 engine games on a netbook using custom resolutions, and briefly mentioned Elite Force. Well yesterday I went to install it using the Linux installer and found that no matter what I did (or what installer I used), it wanted to mount the CD! No good - netbooks don't have CD drives. Solution? Just create a directory call 'Elite Force' somewhere on your hard disk and download this file to it (make executable)... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=510 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:19:05 GMT We're taking down out Alien Arena server as part of our summer server shuffling, shutdown date is 16th July. If you have any serious objections to this, let us know. The main reason is that it is a Windows box, and we simply don't trust it. If you would like to run your own Alien Arena server (on Linux of course!) try alien-arena-server, a wrapper script to run a dedicated server on Ubuntu... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=509 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:58:42 GMT Bad news - I've brought down the Open Arena server we had running (it was quite heavy on memory and wasn't getting much traffic). Good news - we now have a Star Trek Elite Force server! And not just any regular Elite Force server, it's 64 bit and based on the ioquake3 code Check it out and set phasers to FRAG...... http://www.altfire.com/main/news/index.php?news_id=508 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:03:20 GMT