New Sublemon Blog

The root site at http://sublemon.com is some PHP scripts I haven’t changed in 8 years, and the /blog site is running a stock WordPress instance installed with 1-click via cPanel X and Fantastico De Luxe. I have email forwarding to my GMail through cPanel. My hosting is through http://ultrasurge.com . I’ve had Sublemon on UltraSURGE […]

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OpenOffice Writer and Calc have always been slow, unintuitive, and buggy, and an all-together unpleasant experience for new users of Ubuntu. Thank god Gnome Office provides better alternatives: AbiWord, a slick replacement for Writer that has great compatibility with Word documents as well as more obscure formats. Gnumeric, an outstanding and easy-to-you substitute for Calc […]

As a heavy user of eTree, the go-to tracker for trade-friendly live music torrents, I often trade Dead tapes in the archaic Shorten (SHN) lossless audio format. Playing Shorten files in Windows is made easy by the understated foobar2000 music player and its handy foo_input_shorten component. Doing the same in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is […]

Last semester I built a web-based research game for my internship that involves live multi-player interaction, runs on Tomcat, and lives in an eApps VM. It also uses Comet instead of traditional polling. You can visit an in-development build of the game (v2 is not quite complete) here and see the the Java source here. […]