April 15, 2020

Opening Virtools Files

April 15, 2020 Posted by phaicm
Recently, I was assisting on resurrecting an old game via emulation. The first thing I usually do is determining what type of engine/software system the game uses. The files from the game usually give it away. However, the game was from 2008 and the engines were not yet (apparently) standardized at...

February 16, 2018

DirectX7 and Windows 10 UAC

February 16, 2018 Posted by phaicm , , ,
This is an obscure post that I'm sure no one will ever have this problem except for me playing Ragnarok Online which uses DirectX7. There is a certain problem with programs that uses DirectX7 on a Windows 10 machine. Obviously, Window 10 was made way after, but there is bug with the User Account Control...

September 27, 2016

Pogoplug LED Control via Number of SSH Connections

September 27, 2016 Posted by phaicm , , ,
I have a pogoplug just sitting on my desk doing nothing. It is essentially a obsolete-ish cloud solution product for $10 on eBay. However, what makes the thing so neat is that you can install Debian on it using this tutorial. Now you can SSH into it and use it as a headless linux machine that you...