This is the author’s home page for the BG2 mod, “The Perils of Branwen”. I think I started it in 2003. Two people have made translations for which I am grateful. I have no plans to enhance or finish the mod. If anyone else wants to develop using it, then fine. (It might even be…
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This snip is about fixing the Vista/XP networking interoperability problems, and now Windows 8. I have renamed the article Windows Networking. I renamed it Windows 2009 in 2019, as I needed to reuse the then current title elsewhere. Throughout the permalink https://davelevy.info/wiki/vista-networking/ should still work, otherwise it wouldn’t be a permalink. Supporting links began to fail…
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I first talk about Mischa on my NWN Henchman page, she is published on the Bioware forums as a sticky, called Vulcano’s guide to Mischa Waymeet, the 4th henchman, and can be downloaded from her page at the Vault., or maybe here now. This page makes reference to Bioware community resources, which have since gone…
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I am sorry I tried this, its very short, and an unfinished work in progress and has been so for a number of years, I don’t think we’re getting part two. While I have not tried this with a pure play fighter class, I have never met such tough rats and Kobolds. The story is…
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This article, which was originally about how to extend snipsnap & was copied across from the snipsnap bliki on 20th June 2013, I gave up on Snipsnap later in the year, and the project has been abandoned by its authors. This content is thus pretty much superseded and the title but not the link has…
Read moreOther people’s wisdom I have amended this snip as it came across. The ‘related posts’ plugin picks up cross references and so I have deleted references to articles on this wiki. I copied a post from forgotten wars forums about managing the software build. I posted this on http://davelevy.info, but while tidying it up in…
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We visited Valencia in Sept. 2009. One of the sights we visited was the Americas Cup port and museum. The showdown between Alinghi and BMW/Oracle will now take place off the port of Valencia in February 2010. You can see my pictures in this Valencia set on flickr. The page notes the 2010 America’s cup match which Oracle won…
Read moreIntroduction This needed rebuilding. I need to re-install Windows XP. BIOS Use F12 to enter the BIOS and configure the order in which the BIOS looks for a bootable image and make sure that the DVD is before the HDD. Help google:dell inspiron 9300 windows how to reinstall
Read moreI need to do this for the various RSS feeds I create. How? Isn’t google wonderful? See Peter Freitag’s article on his blog. Peter refers to browsers displaying the RSS feed address behind a button, this went out of fashion Roller Dave Johnson writes about it at this article on his blog and Matt Montgomery…
Read moreI used Plazes for a couple of years, until they turned it off. Like everything it has a wikipedia page; one of its delights was the automatic way that once configured your laptop would record your itinerary, and publish it through a web widget. Bit spooky. Obviously built by people that ‘got’ social, and in…
Read moreThese notes were originally created in 2008/2009. I copied them across to this wiki in 2013. Many of the links referred to are no longer available. This article is about how to run BG2 on an early windows build in multiplayer mode, it is quite long. I marked this article as deprecated today. I want…
Read moreSouth of the Island Rally 2009 Lymington to Bembridge, with overnight stays at both ports. My Google Map Rail Time Table Train from Petersfield to Lymington, leave Petersfield at 11 minutes past the hour Sat 02 May Petersfield (PTR) to Havant (HAV) 12:11 -> 0:15 -> 12:26 Havant (HAV) to Southampton Central (SOU) 12:37 ->…
Read moreThey say “DOSBox is an emulator that recreates a MS-DOS compatible environment (complete with Sound, Input, Graphics and even basic networking).” Their home page is at http://www.dosbox.com/. I have now used it to run Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure 2 (aka LBA2) on my Alienware Aurora. Here’s how! Download the Installer Install DosBox Read the documentation…
Read moreXML Paper System I have a new laptop and have been configuring the additional tools and applications required to make it do a job of work. At the moment, I have no .pdf print driver yet and needed to save a web resource. I have Windows Vista 64 as my host OS and shall be…
Read moreMicroblogging makes this important. There are a bunch, but I prefer http://is.gd because its five characters long. Services Other’s I’ve found and used include http://tinyurl.com/ http://bit.ly/ A number of people publish top 10 lists, you can use google to find them. Problem definition I am interested in writing or implementing a url-shortener, for use inside…
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