http://2tap.com Random projects and stuff by Russ Hall in London Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:22:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have a play You can try out JSFractal here. What is it? JSFractal is a web-based tool (written entirely client side in JavaScript) to allow you to explore fractals. Currently, only the Mandelbrot set is implemented but I hope to add support for switching to Julia sets and other types in the future. You ... http://2tap.com/2008/12/18/jsfractal-javascript-fractal-explorer/ Since launching Tap Trap, there have been a steady stream of players stumbling across the game and, frankly, getting hooked. I wrote the game a couple of years ago now (mostly as an experiment with JavaScript) and didn't really plan to promote it particularly but it's great to see around 15 ... http://2tap.com/2008/12/10/tap-trap-the-year-of-procrastination/ Useful custom kernel (including working wireless drivers) available from "adamm"'s repository here: http://www.array.org/ubuntu/ At the time of writing not everything's fully worked out (issues with the headphone socket etc.) but it's a good way to get the stock Hardy 8.04 install functional and on the net. For the most basic install (to ... http://2tap.com/2008/08/12/ubuntu-on-the-asus-eeepc-90110001000h/ I'm not entirely sure why this exists, but here's a 3 minute video of a trip between Hammersmith and Piccadilly Circus in London (playing at 20x speed). It's roughly 4 miles of urban assault course carnage. Not a lot of planning went into this one (read: no planning went into this ... http://2tap.com/2007/11/03/parklife/ VMware Workstation (and presumably the other enterprise-grade products in the VMware family) come with the handy "shared folders" feature which makes sharing files between a host and a virtual appliance nice and simple. The free products (VMware Player and Server) do not, unfortunately, have this ability and so we must ... http://2tap.com/2007/04/22/sharing-files-between-a-windows-guest-and-ubuntu-host-using-vmware-and-samba/ The latest version of "Tap Trap" is now live. New features include: More high scores shown (top 30 now rather than the original top 5) 'Replay' feature - watch any game currently in the top 30 New theme "alternate" - it's ugly, but it might help people who have trouble with red/blue/green http://2tap.com/2006/10/10/tap-trap-11-new-features/ “Tap Trap” is a puzzle game written in Javascript. It was born after a lengthy battle with an addiction to the puzzle game Same GNOME. As a standard client application Same GNOME (distributed with the Gnome desktop environment) is great but I wanted a version that could be played online ... http://2tap.com/2006/10/05/tap-trap-10/ Hello, and welcome. Whilst I'm really not a fan of blogs in the traditional sense (with some notable exceptions), they do seem to be a convenient, central place to collate ideas and useful finds for future reference. Which is my plan for 2tap.com. There are two sins for which I am ... http://2tap.com/2006/10/04/my-favourite-colour-is/