Tink Initialisation

I updated wordpress to 2.5 and now its broke. Damn

There is a WLAN Optimizer for Vista to fix the lag that windows creates every 60 seconds which is when windows checks the nearby wireless stations. This stuffs up games something shocking! This program is only for Vista and it works.

http://www.martin-majowski.de/wlanoptimizer/

I like this, reposted from the cad-comic website.

I have experienced a few problems with firefox, satellite internet connection and webpage time outs. To fix this problem you need to goto the url bar in firefox and goto about:config page. A special config menu for firefox will show up and a search for timeout will display a dozen or so options. network.http.keep-alive.timeout is the entry that needs it’s value increased. I changed it from the default 300 to 1500 and the problem went away.

My neighbour at home got a new projector that boasts “HD READY” and component plugs. However on inspection there is no component plugs, indeed no plugs that can support any sort of HD. But this is incorrect, apparently the VGA port on the projector is the Component port but a separate cable is needed to convert Component to VGA. Specifically RCAx3 to D15HD. This plug doubles as a computer VGA plug and a Component plug but this took over 4 hours to figure out as its not explicitly stated anywhere even on similar projectors. I will update this post when I get the plug and see what the results are.

I’ve published my Xcode Project of what I have done so far, its in the Game Programming Page. Thanks to the tutorials from the SDL website on initialising SDL. Thanks to nehe.gamedev.net for the tutorial on displaying text using letters in a tga file.

The game isn’t much but its further than I’ve gotten before. I’ll probably put it to rest for a while so I can go back to uni work/GTA4.

I’ve abandoned OS stuff for now and gone back to game programming.
My generic front end engine is going alright. I’ve got the basics from some SDL tutorials and a NeHe tutorial to be able to write stuff on the screen.

I’ve updated the Games programming page with a couple of extra links.

I’m fighting c++ with some objects and its really annoying. I’m also having problems laying out my game state, ie how to transition from game menu to game play and so on.

I’ve added a page to the side with the same title as this post. This contains stuff that I need to remember about operating system stuff.

So I’ve had heaps of trouble getting my Mac to do linking stuff. Mac’s ld isn’t the same as ld on linux (and I shouldn’t really expect it to be). So I tried dual booting Ubuntu and that sort of worked, not great but enough. Ubuntu though isn’t really what I want since I find linux isn’t a really good desktop operating system, OS X is. So I looked at VMWare and Parallels and didn’t really want to pay for it. So I looked for alternatives and I am currently trying Sun’s VirtualBox which seems to be going all right. All I want is a terminal to do programming in, I don’t need X or anything like that.

Sun seems to have a decent product (as far as I can tell). VitualBox can be downloaded here.

I also edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and removed the old linux entries and made sure linux-kernel-generic was the first entry.

I’ve found a problem, virutal box doesn’t like the linux kernel within the Ubuntu server install. I had to boot off the cd (after install) into rescue mode and get to the shell. I did apt-get install linux-kernel-generic and then restarted. I have to load the right option from the grub menu after that.

Also there is a page at My Debian about setting up Virtual box so you can ssh into that machine.

Last night I pulled apart my Macbook Pro to upgrade the hard drive. It only took me an hour or so and I cut myself a few times. (I don’t have the right tools but my pocket knife seemed to do the trick).

Today I installed Ubuntu following this GUIDE. However Ubuntu doesn’t work so well. It takes a long time to configure everything and I can’t get my isight to work. Also resuming from suspend doesn’t work.