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Optimus Prime come to life?

6. December 2006

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I stumbled across this thread just now and was blown away by the contents of the Link to a Hi-Res (70MB) Movie, Here’s a still: From the author (3DBlasphemy): Here is my last little project. It is about one of my favourite robots: Optimus Prime from the Transformers Gen 1. I have tried to make this robot as [...]

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Flush the qmail queue

4. December 2006

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My secondary mail server (that runs qmail) had a load of email queued up today that I needed to flush. Googling comes back with people saying run qmail with daemontools then you can use on of the nice qmailctl scripts to do a ‘doqueue’. Needless to say I’m not running with daemontools (my primary is), [...]

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Display PNGs with Alpha Transparency in IE6

1. December 2006

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I’ve been working on a site that’ll be launching in the new year that contains its share of contemporary web technologies (look, roll your eyes if you want but I managed to avoid the W2 word); it also has its fair share of subtle drop shadows which have to work over a stripy background. Initially I [...]

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