The game for this weekend’s lan has been annouced - Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.  Start practicing now.

Gameplay will be in randomly chosen teams of 2.  Depending on how many people would like to play, we may have to have 2 games running concurrently.  This will be a double elimination tournament.

This will be the first time the tournament game is not an FPS.  Sorry, but UT2004 is just getting old. 

Tags: contest, games, lanparty

.Net is kind enough to pull your current Internet Explorer proxy settings by default.  But it leaves out one important option - the ‘Use Windows integrated authentication’ checkbox.  If your proxy server requires NTLM authentication, and you’re relying on this feature of IE for it, then your .Net 1.1 apps will not work.  Any web or web service requests will return a ‘Proxy authentication required’ error.

There are 2 options at this point.  You can tell your web request to completely ignore proxy settings and access the address directly:

webService.Proxy = System.Net.GlobalProxySelection.GetEmptyWebProxy

Or you can specify your own proxy server and credentials:

Dim authTest As New System.Net.NetworkCredential(”username”, “password”)
Dim proxTest As New System.Net.WebProxy(”http://192.168.0.4:3128″)
proxTest.Credentials = authTest
webService.Proxy = proxTest

I haven’t found any way (yet) with .Net 1.1 to have it use the credentials of the currently logged in user.

Edit: Nevermind, I’m an idiot.   You can use System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials for the security settings of the current user.

Tags: vb, webproxy

From the Daily Herald -

House Concurrent Resolution 3 has been introduced in the House.  It wants to seperate the internet into ‘adult’ and ‘family friendly’ zones.  What it really boils down to is allowing/disallowing porn on certain ports.  For example, Port 80 (HTTP) would be family-friendly only, and port 3284 (or some other random port) would be for porn.

The CP80 Internet Channel Initiative is playing a part in the drafting of this legislation.  Matt Yarro of CP80 had this to say about people who don’t think this will work:

“There is this assumption that you can’t control it (the Internet),” Yarro said. “It’s a toaster, we made it, we can fix it. … We can solve the Internet pornography problem tomorrow if we decided to.”

So now instead of tubes, the internet is a toaster.  Great.  Thanks Matt.

Tags: dumbass, internet, tubes

Perler beads are those plastic beads you put on a pegboard and melt with an iron to make stuff.  They lend themselves naturally to pixel-style artwork.  In particular, it is very easy to make video game sprites with them. 

 You can see some of the ones I’ve recreated already, or if you have a request for one before the LAN, let me know and I’ll try to make it.  Keep all requests at 29×29 or lower.  8- or 16-bit sprites work best.

Tags: art, projects

Continuing the train wreck that is her career as of late, Britney Spears has scrawled ‘666′ across her forehead, declared herself the anti-christ, and attempted suicide in rehab.  From News.com.au:

“The ordeal began when she terrified staff by writing the number of the beast on her head and running around the clinic screaming, “I am the anti-christ!”

“The clinic people just didn’t know what to do,” a friend claimed.”

Tags: insane