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==Introduction==

Ad Astra is a board game coming from the publisher Nexus and designed by Bruno Faidutti and Serge Laget. It's a strategy game made for 3-5 players (although I've played it with just two players as well, although it's not much fun that way).

The game objective is to reach 50 scoring points. The ...

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You have ''got'' to hate if when you forget to update a file during Drupal upgrades. After the last Drupal upgrade I've forgot to redploy they old .htaccess file for the Gallery2, which resulted in Gallery being effectively inaccessible from the main site (unless the visitors ''knew'' the alternative link).

Luckily, I wanted to take ...

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Just as I was checking out the <a href="http://www.fsdaily.com/">FSDaily</a> feeds for the past two days, I've ran into disturbing news about <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a> project being <a href="http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Savannah_and_www_gnu_org_downtime">compromised</a>. For matters to be worse, what got compromised was the entire user credentials database, which means that whoever had managed to get ...

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UPDATE (TL;DR) Given somewhat recent activity in comments area, figured I might fix formatting of the post and provide a small update.

In short, Western Digital disks ship with a feature that might reduce the lifetime of your disks (original idea being to reduce power consumption). This happens because of how often the disks park ...

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Ok, I must say that my first impression weren't too great about this little thing, but the day after I've found myself sitting in front of my desktop computer, staring at the monitor.

There's no amount of words that can describe the disappointment I feel right now about this device. This device is, simply said, ...

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After quite a bit of time I've finally managed to get my hand on the AI Touch Book I ordered somewhere around this time last year. The reason why I got it this late is mostly due to fact that the delivery and credit-card charge names (in my case) were not the same. I had ...

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Some time ago, I had <a href="../../node/12">issues</a> when enabling CSS optimisation using the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/deco">Deco</a> theme (which is also used by this site as well). I've solved the issue quite some time ago, but never got around to actually presenting the solution.

The solution I found was on the Deco bugtracker (available on ...

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In the latest turn of events I ran into a problem with my <a href="http://www.ejabberd.im/">ejabberd</a> server (running for this very domain) somewhere around Friday. All of a sudden, without any change at all, I found myself unable to see the status of all external contacts in my jabber client, <a href="http://gajim.org/">Gajim</a>. ...

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Inside of our heads, numerous ideas are born every minute of our lives. We strive to implement those ideas. We strive to enhance those ideas. Those ideas lead our lives as much as we lead our lives trying to bring them forth. They are our children, our creation, our form of art.

Many do not ...

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Funny how sometimes you manage to miss some of the news which matter to you. For quite some time I've been wondering why the heck google.com keeps popping-up in my browser under NoScript. After receiving information about latest updates for my site, I decided to figure out where does it come from, and it actually ...