Author Archives: Eric Peacock

Thanks.

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 8, 2011
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Bungie’s Marathon Home Movies, Resurrected

By Eric Peacock | Published: February 5, 2011

Here is a 26 minute making of, found on the Marathon Trilogy CD-ROM*, hidden as an invisible file inside a folder containing Bungie’s first game, Gnop. Nowadays it’s harder than ever to dig into a Mac Classic OS 9 CD-ROM and watch this clip. So I’m posting this here. For posterity and because long before [...]

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The Problem With Improvisation

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 1, 2010

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument. Brian Eno, from a Pitchfork interview

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Fallout New Vegas, Week 2 Impressions

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 29, 2010

I’ve played a little bit of Fallout New Vegas almost every day in short spurts since it launched about two weeks ago. My takeaway is that New Vegas is much truer to Fallout 1 and 2, in a very good way. The writing, environment and myriad of not-so-black-and-white factions and alliances feels like playing the [...]

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HTML 5 Now

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 12, 2010

The big difference with HTML 5 compared to HTML 3 or 4 is that it’s still in draft form yet already supported in many browsers. Then you have to consider that HTML5 gets mentioned in mainstream tech news, partly thanks to Flash issues with mobile devices or more specifically the Adobe vs Apple spat. I [...]

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iPad Irony

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 18, 2010

As seen within the masthead on Boing Boing.

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my complaint about mr. eric a well “anusapple” peacock

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 30, 2010

my religion as taught me not to be afraid to call someone wrong whun he does jerkin, says somethin, cracks one off fa fingerfucking, or engages in somethin dat violates da values in which i believe. da plowin nitty-gritty of wot i’m about to write is dis: mr. eric “motherfucker” a peacock consumes, infests, and [...]

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UDP Port 4310

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 24, 2010

Who would’ve thought that I’d have to open up UDP port 4310 on a Sonicwall firewall to get IMAP working on a new Windows Server 2008r2? All was fine with the same server software on an old Windows 2000 Server behind the same firewall. We’re talking about moving a DNS record and a few gigabytes [...]

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