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How to resize objects in the Arma Reforger World Editor.

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The World Editor in Arma Reforger allows a user to scale placed objects easily. This could be very useful for a deathmatch mission. You could scale up a building and then have the whole deathmatch take place inside the scaled building. This would be a lot of fun. In the screenshot below, I have placed … Read more

The top 7 startups from Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1

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top-7-yc-demo-day In-flight VR entertainment and security guard drones were amongst our favorites from the 44 startups that launched at Y Combinator’s Summer 2016 Demo Day 1. After querying investors and our writers, here are TechCrunch’s picks for the 7 most promising companies from the first half of the batch, plus an honorable mention. Check back later for all the startups and our picks from… Read More

Misc MATE tweaks. Switching on the battery icon and using Compiz for window management.

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Power management settings. How to enable the battery icon on the Linux Mint 13 MATE desktop. This is found under the Screensaver->Power management settings. I enabled the Compiz featureset by installing the compizconfig-settings-manager package and typing compiz –replace &exit in a terminal window to replace the existing window manager in MATE with the Compiz decorator. … Read more

Play video with mplayer and scale the output.

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To playback video in mplayer in different sizes, just use this command: 4.4 Fri Oct 05 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mplayer -vf scale=960:720 Listening\ to\ the\ radio\ in\ Syria.\ This\ guy\ is\ very\ chill.-ncMhr.mp44.4 Fri Oct 05 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mplayer -vf scale=960:720 Listening\ to\ the\ radio\ in\ Syria.\ This\ guy\ is\ very\ chill.-ncMhr.mp4 This is … Read more