http://blogs.cip.nu/en Everything tibian and internet Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:03:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's been ages since we last saw or heard any news on Remere's online mapeditor, but I suspect it might be closer to (beta?) release than most people might think. In the latest release of RME (1.1.10) there was some cryptic phrasing used when explaining why the editor is no ... http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/rme-live-underway/ For a lot of people the internet is an endless source of fun, for others it's one humongous opportunity to be who you want to be. I'm going to talk a bit about the latter. A lot of kids show up on the internet, big news. Some of them photoshop their ... http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/the-internet-playground/ Picnik.com really lives up to their motto! It's childishly simple and it can do quite a surprising lot! Oh, and of course it's all AJAX. http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/photoediting-made-fun/ Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have no moderators on certain forums.. Here I am, having a constructive yet intensive discussion and all of a sudden there's 42 posts less in the thread! Maybe allowing users to purchase moderator-free threads would be mutually beneficial? http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/moderators/ I always suspected this day would come. I mean, there's only so many customers that will purchase your free-upgrades-for-a-lifetime product before it stops being profitable. For the uninitiated reader; Tibiabot.com has for the past few years been selling bots for Tibia for a one-time fee of $10, but recently they decided ... http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/tibiabot-goes-byebye/ IIS 7 looks nothing like IIS 6. But fear not, just because it's sexier than ever it doesn't mean that you cant set up PHP in less than a minute! Ladies and gentlemen, start your stopwatches (and webengines?)! Go to PHP.net and download the latest ZIP package for Windows.   Extract into a folder ... http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/php-on-iis-70/ I see GrizZm0 finally decided to be true to his word when he said that a webserver shouldn't use any processing power. http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/otfans-downtime/ CNN reports that Rupert Murdoch sees no future for free news on the internet, obviously he has no clue how the internet works. I mean, we all know how people love to share anything that can fit in a .rar file and on top of that there's no way in hell ... http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/cip-users-to-spread-content/ 20 minutes I don't really regret spending on a presentation. You should too! http://storyofstuff.com/ http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/the-story-of-stuff/ One of the downsides of working with people that display symptoms of Asperger Syndrome is that every once in a while you end up in an argument, and you know it's meaningless to correct your colleague because facts don't matter as long as he can keep telling himself he knows ... http://blogs.cip.nu/en/index.php/2009/waste-of-perfectly-good-time/