PatheticCockroach.com

“ I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me... Or thinks I'm a smart ass... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. „

Hacker's Manifesto (aka The Conscience of a Hacker)
The Mentor, 8 January 1986, in Phrack Inc.

Active projects

	PCR's notepad Recently re-subtitled The area in patheticcockroach.com where the EEG isn't isoelectric, this "blog", as I hate to call it, eventually became a replacement for MPAM Rebooted. Simply because it's easier to be productive on a platform like Wordpress than on a fully handcrafted site. So, that's where I keep posting informatics stuff. Icon © David Vignoni under the GNU LGPL, source.
	Gallery Just a picture gallery I quickly set up as a replacement for my Photobucket account. Turns out it's rather complementary than a replacement.

Inactive projects

Wiki4Games - The free video game wiki

Wiki4Games was created on 22 March 2008. Its scope includes everything about video games, although it primarily focuses on cheats. I also use it to experiment with MediaWiki and more particularly to use/test my MediaWiki extensions in a production environment.
As of April 2012, Wiki4Games contains over 4000 pages and serves around 20000 pages a month. I can't really say that I'm active on it so I sort it in the unactive category, but it's still maintained (I upgrade the MediaWiki software and stuff and fight "vandbots" - vandalism bots ^^). It only lacks some regular contributors.

MPAM Rebooted

This fourth version of MPAM is now as dead as the first, although not really as useless. It's still getting a bit of traffic, I'm not really sure how much (statcounter and my own Piwik installation are in huge disagreement there).

Discontinued projects/websites

My freeware/open source mirror: This used to be a place where I put some freeware or open source software that I use a lot. Useful to deploy my stuff anywhere I needed to without waiting on a terrible download server. But servers got faster, updating always the versions got boring, etc well I just lost interest in that and let it vanish when the shared hosting where it was expired.
The ZenGamers Enemy Territory server, as well as etpub_pcr_ah: I took etpub_pcr_ah's source code offline to prevent it from being leeched into a project which doesn't really have a clear open sourcing policy (sometimes it's close source, sometimes it's not). The last experimentation on that was making the 403 page, which you can still view anywhere in that folder. The Enemy Territory server is actually back online but without much activity. It's a dying game, after all.
The Battlestations: Midway unofficial fansite was a try at making a small niche site about that game: I bought the .org domain name a bit before the game release and placed some basic information about the game on the site, as well as some affiliate links (to a game guide and the game itself). The experience was interesting but not really financially profitable (still balanced, though). The interesting contents got incorporated into the Wiki4Games Battlestations: Midway page so nothing's lost this time :)