Since these days there’s a lot of people that would like to use google less but figure that they’re trapped into it because it’s the default search engine set up in their browsers. For Firefox at least, it’s actually pretty easy to fix and only takes a few minutes to do. Start with a fresh […]
I was in one of *those* moods this morning so just for the heck of it I tried something in orbiter that I’d never heard of anyone doing before. (I’m sure it’s been done, I’ve just never seen anything about such events.) I decided to try a gravity assist slingshot maneuver. The object I chose […]
The would-be Mrs. Helpful had only left a few minutes earlier when my cell phone rang. I answered it to find that it was her. The first thing I wondered was just how did she get that number? I don’t hand that number to ANYBODY except for immediate family and none of them would have […]
Having recently announced the release of build 5110, the first new build of Freenet Classic Opennet (FCon) in well over two years it has occurred to me that it would be a good idea to put together a brief walkthrough of the installation process. Because I’m a windows user and have never installed it on […]
[Edit June 8, 2012: The Freenet 0.5 network is effectively dead (see this post for details). While you are welcome to try to make this software work and revitalize it, I know of no currently operating nodes. If you DO get a useable network up and running, DO let me know.] A long overdue new […]