Lucca C&G 2009 Photos

Photos from Lucca Comics and Games 2009

(yes, the one in the album preview is me in a “dashing pilot” attire for the Spirit of the Century demo/announce)

 

Changing the Gnome Keyring Unlock Password in Fedora 11

Or, where the heck is the damn thing?

Today I found myself how to do this in the current version (Fedora 11):

1. Open Passwords and Encription Keys
2. Click on the last tab: Passwords
3. Here there should be a folder named “Passwords: login” that can be expanded to see the keyring.
4. Right-Click on that folder and click on Change Password.

You are presented with the classic “old password, new password, confirm password” dialog.

I just want to point out that this is NOT DISCOVERABLE AT ALL and I have reported this as a bug.

 

Ennies 09: I Voted, and you?

 

Ennie nomination for Don’t Lose Your Mind!

http://www.ennie-awards.com/nominations/nominees.asp

Don’t Lose Your Mind, from EvilHat Productions, has been nominated for the 2009 Ennie Awards, for best writing! W00t!

Congrats to Benjamin Baugh and Fred Hicks!

 

Escape or Die! at InterNosCon09 Actual Play

With horrible delay I write here a few AP notes regarding my experiences with Fred Hicks’s Escape or Die!, a game still in development, that the author was very kind to send me for an on-the-fly Italian adaptation and playtest.

The occasion was the wonderfully successful InterNosCon09 (INC09), a gathering of players much in the vein of Camp Nerdly or the Nerdly Beach Party in the US.

 

Waterboarding torture: fucking scary

If you heard about the waterboarding technique used by the american agents and thought to youself “Some water in your face? Well, how bad can that be, really?”

Bad, apparently. Really bad.

See it on John Wick’s LJ

Avete sentito della tecnica degli agenti usa chiamata waterboarding e avete pensato “beh, insomma, un po’ di acqua sulla faccia quanto puo’ far male?” allora date un’occhiata a uno che ha provato: un giornalista di playboy si sottopone alla pratica, pensando di resistere tranquillamente a 15 secondi

Seguite il link al blog di John Wick

 

Changing the Gnome Keyring unlock password

The Gnome keyring has had for some time the nice feature to unlock itself upon login. Unfortunately as soon as you change your password (which you could be forced to, due to company policy, for example) it stops, since the keyring password is now out of sync.

For some time it was simply impossible to change the unlock password (yeah, annoying).

Then the change password dialog was implemented in Seahorse ( yum install seahorse seahorse-plugins )… but this feature is not only very poorly documented (if at all), all the online pointers and fourm posts talk about an old version of Seahorse apparently.

In Fedora 10 the functionality is there, but it is a bit hidden: install seahorse, click Applications -> Accessories -> Passwords and Encription Keys

then click on Edit, Preferences, and there you are, the “login” line with the big “Change Unlock Password” button. Now you simply have to insert the old password, and update it with your current one.

Change Gnome Keyring Unlock Password

Enjoy!

 

CSI: Star Trek… altro che New York

…perche’ altrimenti non si spiega come facciano ad avere il tricorder che gli fa l’analisi dello spettrometro di massa semplicemente puntandolo verso un oggetto. A pile, tra l’altro.

:-/
meh…

 

Update: Arneson ci ha lasciati

Ora e’ ufficiale: Dave Arneson e’ salito di livello e ci ha lasciati.

Godspeed Dave.

 

Dave Arneson in ospedale, grave.

Dave Arneson hospitalized; outlook poor.

via Tabletop Roleplaying Open – RPGnet Forums.

:-/

Non ho avuto, praticamente, alcun contatto diretto con la produzione di Arneson… ma resta uno dei padri fondatori dell’hobby che mi appassiona. I Titani ci stanno lasciando…