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Wiki. UNIX. F5. How To Beat Carnival Games - Blifaloo. Tips to win a knock-off stuffed animal or dusty 2LiveCrew vanity mirror next time you're counting mullets at the fair. Rope Ladder The trick to climbing carnival rope ladders is to completely ignore the "rungs" and only use the outside ropes to climb on. While applying equal pressure with your right foot and left arm, move your left foot and right arm uat the same time. Then do the same thing with the opposite limbs -- shimmying yourself up the ladder.

Do not move both hands or both feet at the same time - you will lose your balance. Ring Toss Game: Snap your wrist as you throw the ring to achieve the most spin possible, this will stabilize the ring making it easier to land cleanly on your target. Balloon Dart Throw The balloons are under-inflated, and the dart tips are dull. Shoot out the Star: In this skill game you need to completely remove the red star using a BB gun. Very hard to beat, even for a good marksman. Also note that the barrels are often bent, and their marks not accurate. 1. 2. RPM-for-Unix HOW-TO: Using RPM. NextPreviousContents 5. Using RPM See also RPM-HOWTO document. 5.1 Basic RPM Commands In its simplest form, RPM can be used to install, erase or upgrade packages: bash# rpm -i foobar-1.0-1.i386.rpm ... 5.2 RPM Build Commands To build rpm packages bash# rpm -i foobar*.src.rpm bash# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS bash# rpm -ba foobar-1.0-1.spec To build in incremental steps, do: bash# rpm -bp foobar-1.0-1.spec ...( to do prep stage) bash# rpm --short-circuit -bc foobar-1.0-1.spec ...( to do build stage) bash# rpm --short-circuit -bi foobar-1.0-1.spec ...( to do install stage) bash# rpm -ba foobar-1.0-1.spec ... 5.3 RPM Query Commands You can query the rpm database with these powerful commands: bash$ rpm -qpl foobar-1.0-1.i386.rpm .... 5.4 RPM Verify Commands Verifying a package compares information about files installed from a package with the same information from the original package.

The command rpm -V verifies a package. Bash$ rpm -Vf /bin/vi ... Copyright © 2005 LinuxSelfhelp.com. Amadán's In Nomine Page. Last updated June 4, 2005 Archangel Dominic has noted websurfers disturbing the Symphony. In Nomine, by Steve Jackson Games, is a roleplaying game featuring the War between Heaven and Hell. I am a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in most In Nomine supplements. I also once ran an In Nomine game on CompuServe's Roleplaying Games Forum, called "666: The Number of the Beast". Later, however, it was set in San Francisco and Los Angeles, so you will also find some material about In Nomine San Francisco.

I now play in an online game on Dreamlyrics called God Bless Texas (GBT), set in Austin. But there are a lot more In Nomine materials here! Comments? "In Nomine" and the "d666" and "flaming feather" logos are © 1997, Steve Jackson Games, Inc. Purple Pawn - Game News Across the Board. How to Build a Laser Death Ray: Material Response to Average Intensity. Amagi Games: The Setting Session. Star Saga. Star Saga is a series of floppy-based video games which combine a computerized game arbiter with hefty sections of printed text.

Released in an era before the availability of the CD-ROM format, the titles make up for the limited storage available at the time by using print to attempt to tell a rich story. In essence, the designers endeavored to blend aspects of paper gamebooks with the complexity of a role-playing video game. Versions of the games were released for MS-DOS and for the Apple II series of computers.

Games[edit] Star Saga: One - Beyond The Boundary, released in 1988, was the first in a short-lived series of science fiction adventure/role-playing games by Masterplay Publishing. Loosely based on the Rekon pen & paper role-playing system,[1] the game series was designed by Andrew C. Greenberg (co-creator of Wizardry), Rick Dutton, Walter Freitag, and Michael Massimilla.[2] In this first title, players leave their homeworlds setting out to explore the vast unknowns of space.

5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online. Since May 2007, we've been bringing you resources and tools to be more productive on the web. Due to popular demand, we've brought all these lists together into one gigantic meta-list: 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online. Enjoy! And don't forget to subscribe to Mashable for the latest web news and resources. 6 Key Ways to Measure Your Blog’s Success - Six essential tools for measuring how your blog is performing. 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins - AJAX provides a way to have pages auto-update to reflect new data without page reloads. These are 30+ tools written for your WordPress blog with this in mind. 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic - It's difficult to grow your blog or website without having some data on how people are finding you and using your site. 120+ Resources for Bloggers - From design to hosting, there's something here for every level of blogging experience. 12 Twitter Apps for Your Phone - Do your mini-blogging while on the go.

Catalog your books online. GURPS Bibliographies. Freqently Asked Questions. Suggestica: Suggestions from Trusted Authorities. Game Circle - Articles - Advice - Getting a Game Group and Keeping It. The Domesday Book Online - Home. The War Between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats. The War Between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats By Josh Quittner It wasn't Trashcan Man's idea to raid rec.pets.cats, though I'm sure he wished it had been. Inciting a riotous Usenet flame war, like the war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats, isn't a common notion of a good time. Then again, neither is starting fires in trashcans, blowing up one's hand with a firecracker or crashing a university computer system - all things that Trashcan Man has done, and done proudly. If you're a reader of alt.tasteless, as I am, you've probably heard of Trashcan Man. His real name is Constantino Tobio Jr., and he's a 21-year-old history major at Columbia University, in Manhattan.

Trashcan Man's two favorite possessions are a coin purse made from a kangaroo scrotum and a tin of Vegemite. You can buy it in health food stores. Trashcan Man has yet to sample his: "I fear it, man, I fear it," he says, wistfully. Which is an intriguing thought: Trashcan Man fearing something. WELCOME TO ALT.TASTELESS 1. The Nobilis Role Playing Game. This page is primarily for people interested in the Nobilis role playing game. Included here is a summary of the system, house rules that I have developed, and assorted other tidbits. The official unofficial page is at www.chancel.org if you are interested. There is also a mailing list archive at Nocturne . Note that my rules and take on the setting differ in several regards. (Which is why players are welcome to read through the campaigns and information on these sites - they may or may not be true in my campaign.) Nobilis is a diceless role playing game set in the modern times. Players role play incarnations of reality, called Nobles or Powers.

A more complete summary of the system as described in the book is provided by my friend Ry in the following synopsis. As stated before, the setting (at least in the Earthly realm) is the modern world. I have included some topics of consideration for those thinking of playing. This page is maintained by Charles Schmidt. Nobilis Resources. Diceless Roleplaying Game Rules - links. Historically "diceless" in roleplaying games has really meant free of "artificial" randomizers not simply dice, and such is the case of most of these games.

"Non-artificial" randomizers are acceptable, these are generally balanced / non-transitive game choices which often map to real world choices. Free Diceless Games Active Exploits - Allocate Effort (actually a fatigue based limit but integrates ability value nicely) and Luck/Revelation - Core Mechanics Free - local copy - also listed under commercial games below.

Ancient Arenas - a Lost Worlds Roleplaying Game - a card based extension to transform this gladiatorial picture book game. The core game is an elaborate combat resolution matrix wrapped in booklets. Argument Diceless Roleplaying - think of the title like a fencing term rather than an evocation of belligerance. The argument site is not always too reliable so a backup may be in order... Attack of the Mutant Rules System! Soul Engine just starting out.. S.A.G.E. Persona Epiphany. Star Trek Roleplaying Game: Worlds. The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) An Encyclopedia of Role-Playing Games. Good Experience Games. The Declaration of Independence. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

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