http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends Tales of programming and hacking Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:30:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's my first attempt at brute-forcing a cryptarithm puzzle with no previous knowledge on how to solve them in Python. The puzzle is: HACKER + HACKER + HACKER = ENERGY The solutions are: 124536 + 124536 + 124536 = 373608 205463 + 205463 + 205463 = 616389 And here's the code :). # "Hacker" # "Hacker" # "Hacker" #+________ # ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=87 You don't have to go to bittorrent to find good free music. If you're not looking for the latest greatest biggest artist hits, you can find some nifty free stuff in plenty of places! iTunes: iTunes has a Free Single of The Week you can download. It has/usually has their FairPlay ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=86 Since Roger Robot is now a SourceForge-hosted project I wanted to migrate the SVN repository from my webhost to SourceForge's svn server. I found some instructions, ssh'ed into my webhost and ran these commands: svnadmin hotcopy svnadmin dump path to svn repository itself, not the checked out version> -r 0:HEAD ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=77 I kept getting this error after I upgraded from WP 2.3 to WP 2.5 and restored its database. I found the solution off of some guy's blog. Works well! Basically you have to know if you changed the prefix of your table names in WordPress after the migration. From the blog: In my ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=78 Today I learned a new thing about game making. Artists need inspiration! Lots of it at times. During the start of this speedgame, Jeff and I had talked about doing this together. We weren't too sure he'd get a chance to do the art, so I went all over the ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=85 After spending most of the morning getting nowhere (except finding semi-cool art on the 'net) I have finally got the basics of a game down. Much of my morning was spent either designing the level or trying to be able to pick up objects. I finally got the object picking-up stuff ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=83 Recently I've been working on narrowing the gap between Mac OS X and Kubuntu. Since Mac OS X isn't too configurable, I've modified Kubuntu to look more like its cousin. Visually I've achieved narrowed the gap with Avant Window Navigator (for the dock), KDE4 for visual effects and "Expose", but ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=82 The other day I was moving a WordPress blog off of my computer and onto DreamHost. I upgraded the database and everthing was peachy--until I found out that I didn't change the blog URL. I could got to the DreamHost url and it would redirect me right back to 127.0.0.1 ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=81 I'm typing this from Adium, a Mac instant messenger client. If wishes were horses, we'd not only be eating steak, but we'd be able to control anything from our instant messenger client. I've recently discovered IMified, a service where you add IMified's bot to your buddy list (AIM: IMified, GTalk and ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=80 I discovered tesseract when looking for an alternative Optical Character Recognition program to use in SANE. Unfortunately tesseract can't be used by SANE unless there's the possibility of setting a bunch of different .TIFF save settings. I decided to try my luck at images off the 'net that had text ... http://www.blog.cpufreak91.net/legends/?p=76