Category: legacy
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Utopian Hell: Feminism in Games
Feminism isn’t appropriate for the WoW forums. Neither are politics, gblt issues or religion. We’re there to talk about and eventually play a game, not evangelize, politicize or get up on a soap box. This is supposed to be an escape from real life, not a reflection of real life. They are two completely different…
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MSFN’s Unattended Windows : Introduction
Have you ever wanted a Windows CD that would install Windows by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? And have it merged with the latest Service Pack to save time? Followed by silently installing all your favourite applications along with DirectX 9.0c, .Net Framework 1.1 and then all the required…
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alephnul: BDSM (reposted comment from Alas)
Is BDSM better, equal-to, or worse than non-BDSM sexuality. Actually, that is a crappy way of phrasing it, and much less productive and nuanced than the way bean actually phrased it. Bean’s point was much more complex than that, but I think I can say something useful with this simplified version, so here goes. I…
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Utopian Hell: Who’s fault harassment?
Tekanji’s got a new post up today about the recent “scandal” around the armor graphics in World of Warcraft. I’m going to take exception, yet again, mainly because I think that the “angry feminist” role is really what’s been feeding a lot of hate. We need to look at things from another perspective. Utopian Hell:…
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Watch .NET development as it happens…
In our premeire episode of dnrTV, Carl Franklin interviews Miguel Castro, who demonstrates how to build a useful composite Web Control right before your eyes using Visual Basic 2005 in Visual Studio 2005. This is the first of a two-part series with Miguel on Web Controls. In next week’s show, Miguel enhances the control by…
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ASP.NET 2.0 SQL Table Profile Provider Released Today
Hao and Stefan just shipped a cool new Profile Provider download on the ASP.NET Sandbox Site. It provides two new profile provider implementations (with complete source code) that you can use. One enables you to map profile properties directly to a SQL table in a database — enabling you to perform richer queries on the…