a little fresh blood Nevahr! I am the SABDFL ! Slightly Anal, Benevolent Dictator For Life? Shocked Admin and Benevolent ...? Software Aenvelopment (A bastardized version of envelopment, which would be the opposite of development) BDFL? Yeah, yeah, self-appointed. But are you sure Mike didn't appoi...

Wow, this seems really complicated. As a Norwegian, I have a ¨ button on my keyboard which, in a combination with o, creates ö. Lucky me ^^ Combining diacritic marks as part of the keybóard's kèys fõr tëh wîn. Of course we're missing the caron, so we can't write Slavic languages, and we're missing ...

You might want to look at FreeType, which supports rendering of unicode fonts, it dynamically generates glyph bitmaps as needed, like osuf oboys suggestion. So only the glyphs that are actually used are ever put into memory, not sure what it does if a huge number of characters is used. Anyway, you m...

DMGs are archives, which usually contains another archive .app files. The .app files aren't just an application, but an archive containing the application, and required files. I believe there is some way, or at least used to be, to be able to turn on seeing .apps as directories, but I never really c...

You might want to change the phpBB captcha for one of the plug-in captchas. There are a couple of question-based captcha mods: http://phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php?i=misc&mode=display&contrib_id=1699 or http://phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php?i=misc&mode=display&contrib_id=1751 And there's ...

I wouldn't recommend making save files easily readable. There might be some kind of serialization in Lua, which might be less readable, but I can't say for sure. How to make save games depend a bit on the game, but I would recommend, if possible, to have a simple fixed format: X bytes of this data, ...

Uhm, there are multiple files on Macs too, they're just not located in the Applications folder after you run the installer. It's similar to the Start menu folder on Windows.

@osgeld: Yeah, if you can tell me how. Using /subsystem:console in Visual Studio has the effect that you want, but it also causes the console to appear when running games by double-clicking, which is very undesirable. Shouldn't stdout work just fine? Not sure what happens to the output if it's not ...

How about an art magazine? For instance ImagineFX, Computer Arts, Computer Arts Projects, 3DWorld or similar? Only problem is that the magazines at http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk are back issues if you want to order a single mag. This is the publisher's web shop, and the back issues are usual...

You could also install a spam filter. Which will filter posts and flag suspicious posts as spam which will have to be controlled by admins. I use a filter known as Akismet, there should be a plug-in for PhpBB that uses it. www.akismet.com It's free for personal use as long as you don't earn more tha...