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The RIAA is probably going to hang me for posting this.

This is too cool! I was addicted to Dune 2 when I was a kid, and I just ran across the music files

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (retitled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and for the Mega Drive/Genesis port) is a computer game released in 1992 by Westwood Studios. It is based upon David Lynch's 1984 movie Dune, an adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of the same name.

While not the first real-time strategy (RTS) game (The Ancient Art of War, Stonkers, and Herzog Zwei all preceded it), Dune II established a format that would be followed for years to come, and was the first to use the mouse to move units, allowing players to fluidly interact with their troops. As such, Dune II was the first modern real-time strategy game. Striking a balance between complexity and innovation, it was a huge success and laid the foundation for the coming Command & Conquer, the Warcraft series, and many other RTS games.

My company has a small fleet of dodge ram 3500's for use in towing / hauling equipment. As the reader may know, these models sound a chime every 4 seconds while in motion if your seatbelt isn't connected. This probably sounded like a good idea when they were designing the truck, because after all, seat belts save lives. I can dig that. But! What if you're backing a trailer, or hitching up? You're probably going all of 0.4 miles per hour, and it's unlikely you will be in a fatal accident while doing so.

I posted a few days ago about having trouble getting adsense ads to display with drupal 6.1. That solution worked, but looked like shit. Here's a better way:

login as user 1 (the administrator) and navigate to administer >> site configuration >> input formats. Add an input format, and name it whatever unique name you want. Drupal graciously allows for the assignment of roles for input formats. You can keep your users from displaying porn ads in your forums, and still retain the ability to post active content.

Activist groups have begun to pressure the Bush administration to boycott the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing. They feel it would send a message to China about its pattern of human rights abuses.

This seems absurd to me. The United States, frankly, doesn't have a leg to stand on when it comes to human rights. Our beloved country is tainted by a pattern of brutal oppression that dates back to before its very beginning. Vulnerable populations have felt the wraith of the U.S.A both internally and externally for centuries, and this trend continues.

After running update.php, I mistakenly logged out while still in offline mode. For some reason, /user was still displaying the placeholder page for maintenance mode, and I was thus unable to login.

I tried /?q=user instead and it worked. Back in business!

Hopefully this was helpful.

Drupal released an update for 6.1 recently, and since this will be my first time updating, I thought I would document the process.

The first step is changing a line in /sites/default/settings.php

The line in question is

$update_free_access = FALSE;

And we need to change that "FALSE" to "TRUE."

However, in my case it was necessary to first chmod settings.php from 444 (read only) to 644 (owner has read/write permissions).

Store your updated settings.php, and take the site offline. (administer > site configuration > site maintenance)

I recently installed drupal 6.1 and noticed that the code block google provides for adsense will not display properly. I got around this in an admittedly inelegant way, using PHP code to store the html as a string. I created a new block called "ad" that is displayed in the right sidebar, and enabled the php filter module. I then took the code snippet generated by google, replaced the quotes with apostrophes, stored it as a string, and outputted via echo.

This article is written assuming the reader has no experience with car audio. I did this because i have no experience with car audio. If the article is too dumbed down, i apologize, but it should be adequately comprehensive as a result.

The first step is choosing replacement speakers.