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Cavtroop is a Senior Editor for Arsgeek.com He works for a fairly large software company that you've all heard of, managing networks, systems, and seemingly lots of cranky people. His role at Arsgeek is to be an advocate for change, a catalyst for socioeconomic...nah, too lofty. He's more interesting in chipping in with (not so) relevant news and insights into things that interest him - role playing games, computers, technology, etc.

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Reminder – Free RPG day, June 30th, 2007, and your LGS!

Monday, June 4, 2007

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Thats Local Game Store, fyi, fwiw, imnsho, etc. Here is more info, right from the horses mouth: Free RPG Day – June 23, 2007 “Impressions Advertising & Marketing will be working with hobby game retailers and RPG publishers to bring NEW RPG Quickstart Rules and Adventure Modules into the hands of gamers. Consumers will get [...]

Greasemonkey woes? Can’t install any scripts?

Friday, May 25, 2007

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I use greasemonkey a fair amount. Ran into a problem today, where I’d get a cryptic error containing ‘NS_ERROR_FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS’. After much searching, gnashing of teeth, and some swearing, the fix is pretty simple. Greasemonkey stores the scripts in your (mozilla profile directory)\gm_scripts directory – simply go in there, delete all of the scripts (I left [...]

Network printing in Vista, UAC, and you

Friday, May 25, 2007

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Having trouble printing to a networked printer (say, on your workgroups Windows Server 2003?) in Vista? Have UAC (User Access Control) disabled? There is your problem! Vista won’t install the print drivers remotely from a networked printer, without UAC enabled. The only solution is to enable UAC, and then add the printers. Oh yeah, you [...]

93 Games Studio releases info on Twilight:2013

Sunday, May 20, 2007

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My favorite Role Playing Game of all time, Twilight:2000, is receiving an update from 93 Games Studio, called (appropriately) Twilight:2013. Gamingreport.com has released some news about Twilight:2013 today, including some fiction, and a sneak peek at the new ruleset. Hopefully they do this game justice – I can’t wait to get my grubby little hands [...]

Another great time waster…

Friday, May 18, 2007

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Bored.com has ‘boomshine‘, a very addictive little game where you have to blow up little dots in a chain reaction. yet another time waster whilst at work!

Tabletop RPG resource for GMs

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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I stumbled across Treasure Tables recently, and as time goes on, I find myself going back to the site again and again. I’m a budding GM, having just started my own Palladium Fantasy RPG, and the tips and insight on that site are proving valuable. Great job by the site owner, Martin Ralya!

First No Starch Press contest winner!

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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Congratulations go to Aaron, for submitting the following: “This is a cool site that does video reviews of games. Nice when you want a really in depth review with pictures.” Perusing the site, its a video review of off-the-shelf boardgames. Aaron wins for submitting the most unique link that fits within the Arsgeek theme! Congratulations [...]

Think CFL bulbs are a good idea?

Monday, April 30, 2007

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Canada.com has a very interesting article, The CFL mercury nightmare, about the dangers of the new CFL lightbulbs that Canada is now mandating. In short: “The specialist found mercury levels in the bedroom in excess of six times the state’s “safe” level for mercury contamination of 300 billionths of a gram per cubic meter. The [...]

WotC to end another license – Dragonlance

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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Gamingreport.com reports that Margaret Weis Productions, ltd. has announced that the Dragonlance license from WotC will not be renewed, and is expiring at the end of the year. As many of you know, Margaret Wies, along with Tracy Hickman, wrote the original (and lots more) Dragonlance books, dating back quite a few years. This is [...]

Paizo to cease publication of DRAGON and DUNGEON magazines

Thursday, April 19, 2007

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Straight from the horses mouth: “Paizo Publishing and Wizards of the Coast today announced the conclusion of Paizoâ€™s license to produce DRAGON and DUNGEON magazines effective September 2007. Publication of DRAGON and DUNGEON will cease with issues number 359 and 150, respectively.” It’s sad to see an institution of gaming go the way of the [...]

DM of the Rings

Thursday, April 19, 2007

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Some of you (heck, alot of you) have probably already heard of this webcomic, but I just found it, and boy is it funny! Twenty Sided Â» DM of the Rings As I just started GM’ing a game (Palladium Fantasy if you are wondering – the really old 1st edition), I find this GM humor [...]

Computerworld’s Top 10 Vista Hacks

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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Top 10 Vista Hacks is an article up on the Computerworld website. Some of the hacks, such as turning off the very annoying UAC, are useful. Others, notsomuch (who really cares about making the lines thicker in a screensaver? Really?).

(application/x-mplayer2) in Firefox on Vista not working? Try this!

Monday, April 16, 2007

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Ebyblog has the fix for you. Download the two files, and place them in your plugins directory of Firefox (mine is c:\program files\mozilla firefox\plugins). Works like a charm!

Google to buy Doubleclick for more money than I can imagine….

Monday, April 16, 2007

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Google to buy DoubleClick in $3.1B deal “Google Inc. has agreed to buy DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google’s status as an online advertising powerhouse.” Wow. Must be nice to have $3.1B just sitting around. I think if I looked, I could find $.39 in my couch…

Free RPG day at a retail location near you!

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

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Brought to you by www.freerpgday.com (who else?!?) And I quote: “Consumers will get their hands on brand new material for a variety of RPGs – no overstock, retail-priced or dead product here. The goal is to get gamers inspired to play a new RPG, which will in turn, create sales through local game stores.” Sounds [...]