Monthly Archives: November 2005

Restaurant Review: Alexander’s Gourmet Market & Pizza Kitchen, Mt. Dora

11/25/2005 – 8:41 pm

While cruising down the streets of downtown Mt. Dora, my girlfriend and I happened upon Alexander’s Gourmet Market & Pizza Kitchen (no URL), on the second floor of the Renaissance building on 411 N. Donnelly Street. Walking up the stairs, Alexander’s is on the left and when you walk inside, it really is just [...]

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Restaurant Review: Kapp’s Pizza Bar & Grill

11/18/2005 – 11:29 pm

Last Friday I found myself at Kapp’s Pizza Bar and Grill, located convenient in downtown Mountain View, California, just down the street from Hotel Avante where I was staying with my dad while in town for my interview at Google. Now, of late I have grown weary of pizza places that mention anything [...]

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Restaurant Review: Nero’s Pasta and Pizza

11/5/2005 – 12:49 am

The other Tuesday I thought I’d check out Nero’s Pasta and Pizza in Gainesville. It’s located conveniently right off 34th street, although fairly far north of the University. Parking was easy, with the parking lot nearly empty, with nothing else open at 8:30 p.m. on a Tuesday.
Upon entering the building, in front and [...]

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Civ 4, how nice

11/4/2005 – 4:27 pm

[14:52] [JasonBox] wow
[14:52] [JasonBox] Civ 4 pwns
[15:05] [SerajewelKS] JasonBox winds the “most random comment of the day” award
[15:05] [SerajewelKS] wins too
[15:08] [cheal] daily only?
[15:08] [cheal] I would go for the yearly version
[15:12] [SerajewelKS] yeah true

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StarForce Tripe for SimHQ Questions

11/2/2005 – 7:36 pm

StarForce’s response to SimHQ readers’ questions and some general comments I have. Having spent the day researching various copy prevention schemes, I found this piece too difficult to pass up for commentary.

Q: Does StarForce have a higher track record of games not being cracked than the copy protection competition such as SecuRom or Safedisc?
We [...]

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Linux and that Silly Time Zone Thing

11/1/2005 – 4:18 pm

I hate the biannual time change.
Okay, I had to get that out of the way. Anyway.
The magic that controls what your local wallclock time (assuming your system clock is on UTC) resides in a compiled ruleset which is described by /etc/localtime. On a Debian system this a symlink to the actual timezone file, [...]

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