March 21, 2008
Woo! Sexy new router firmware [smile]
I've been ripping a bunch of our DVDs to AVI for my dad's media center, and I copied them over to the media center last night (About 10GB of data), and I was downloading loads of WMV HD samples as well to test performance, and the router kept screwing up and not…
I've been ripping a bunch of our DVDs to AVI for my dad's media center, and I copied them over to the media center last night (About 10GB of data), and I was downloading loads of WMV HD samples as well to test performance, and the router kept screwing up and not…
March 15, 2008
F*cking Belkin. I used to think that Belkin were great; their products worked fine, and were pretty cheap. Well lately I've been finding out why they're cheap.
First, my friend's Belkin router died (Kept crashing every 10 mins or so), and then the replacement died too.
Secondly, their "Free internati…
First, my friend's Belkin router died (Kept crashing every 10 mins or so), and then the replacement died too.
Secondly, their "Free internati…
March 13, 2008
Ok, I've updated "TEH MUD!!1 Todo List" to include most of the things I need to get done "soonish". I had this idea for "genetics", which I'll go into a bit here.
Default account creation
A user can connect, create an account, and carry on as usual. This would be what most people expect when they cre…
Default account creation
A user can connect, create an account, and carry on as usual. This would be what most people expect when they cre…
March 13, 2008
Well, since [does not exist] has been screwing up a lot lately, I've decided to rty and get my MUD in a working state so the inhabitants of [does not exist] have a backup.
So I got a little done last night. I stripped out all the unicode stuff - I decided that's completely pointless and it'll just c…
So I got a little done last night. I stripped out all the unicode stuff - I decided that's completely pointless and it'll just c…
March 11, 2008
Oh the joys of excessive security.
I'm with the Royal Bank Of Scotland, and a while ago they sent me a card reader. Whenever I want to transfer money online, I have to put my card in this card reader, it generates a magic number, and I enter that number into the online form.
All well and good in theo…
I'm with the Royal Bank Of Scotland, and a while ago they sent me a card reader. Whenever I want to transfer money online, I have to put my card in this card reader, it generates a magic number, and I enter that number into the online form.
All well and good in theo…
March 09, 2008
So I'm going to be building a Media Centre PC for my dad's birthday. Currently I already have a copy of Vista Ultimate (<3 MVP dollars at the Microsoft Company Store) and the IR receiver and remote. So, who wants to suggest components?
It doesn't need to be particularly powerful, but I'd like it …
It doesn't need to be particularly powerful, but I'd like it …
March 08, 2008
Scotland 15, England 9 (At the rugby). I'll be going out tonight to get pissed then.
March 05, 2008
Long time no update... Not a lot to report really.
I've just finished getting word wrap and text alignment working in my engine. Pointless screenshot time:
(Click to enlarge)
Thing really fancy going on there, for example the text in the middle is created as so:
I've just finished getting word wrap and text alignment working in my engine. Pointless screenshot time:
(Click to enlarge)
Thing really fancy going on there, for example the text in the middle is created as so:
pText = new EText(pFont, L"Middle aligne…
February 28, 2008
I got an E-mail which I thought was nice spam.
Subject: "The person had beautiful eyes"
So I went to my inbox to delete it and found that the body didn't quite match:
Body: "Have a huge d1ck to impress the women!"
Honestly spammers, you might as well try to make the subject have the same style as the b…
Subject: "The person had beautiful eyes"
So I went to my inbox to delete it and found that the body didn't quite match:
Body: "Have a huge d1ck to impress the women!"
Honestly spammers, you might as well try to make the subject have the same style as the b…
February 21, 2008
Holy shit, Crazy Bump is freaking awesome (Thanks to SuperPig for pointing it out in his Journal).
Some images it does better at than others, it's really good at generating normal maps for photographs. I'll have to find a real use for it...
Some images it does better at than others, it's really good at generating normal maps for photographs. I'll have to find a real use for it...
February 20, 2008
February 16, 2008
Notes to self:
1) If you're at a party and someone offers to play you at Guitar Hero on the 360, don't bother.
2) If you do end up playing Guitar Hero, for fucks sake don't say "I raped you at that last song"
3) If you do fall for the above two points, leave before one of the hosts comes up to you and…
1) If you're at a party and someone offers to play you at Guitar Hero on the 360, don't bother.
2) If you do end up playing Guitar Hero, for fucks sake don't say "I raped you at that last song"
3) If you do fall for the above two points, leave before one of the hosts comes up to you and…
February 15, 2008
So we got a bunch of feedback on pre-submission from Nintendo recently. Which includes some great bugs such as: "If the player has a DS with a worn out D-pad, and they press up and down at once, the cars drive left and right."
Err, no they don't. Your "Word out D-pad" is just fucked, so you're press…
Err, no they don't. Your "Word out D-pad" is just fucked, so you're press…
February 14, 2008
Memory managers for everyone!
MemMgr.h and MemMgr.cpp
Example usage:
That'll give you debug spew at application shutdown, and write to memleaks.log, then debug break. The debug spew is the same as you get in memleaks.log, and is:
MemMgr.h and MemMgr.cpp
Example usage:
int main(int, char**)
{
int* n = new int[42];
return 0;
}
That'll give you debug spew at application shutdown, and write to memleaks.log, then debug break. The debug spew is the same as you get in memleaks.log, and is:
1 active alloc…
February 12, 2008
February 09, 2008
My Internets are screwed :(
I can get to GDNet but not Google. I can get on MSN, but I don't get any MSN adverts (Which isn't a bad thing).
Fucking Virgin Internet...
I can get to GDNet but not Google. I can get on MSN, but I don't get any MSN adverts (Which isn't a bad thing).
Fucking Virgin Internet...
February 07, 2008
So 3D audio is "working". I'm not entirely happy with it, but I noticed that my camera class is a bit wonky too. When you rotate around on the spot, it changes position. Which isn't ideal.
So I'll be looking for a new 3D camera class tonight. Anyone got any suggestions? It's D3D, so it's left handed…
So I'll be looking for a new 3D camera class tonight. Anyone got any suggestions? It's D3D, so it's left handed…
February 05, 2008
Current CodeWarrior rant:
This doesn't work:
printf("%s", somelongstring);
You have to do this if the string is over 64 chars (Might be 128):
for(int i=0; i);
Piece of shit IDE... I mean, come on. I'd like to be able to print reasonably long strings if you don't mind too much.
This doesn't work:
printf("%s", somelongstring);
You have to do this if the string is over 64 chars (Might be 128):
for(int i=0; i);
Piece of shit IDE... I mean, come on. I'd like to be able to print reasonably long strings if you don't mind too much.
February 04, 2008
Woo, billions of posts today. Well, 3.
3D audio is in but fubar. I really don't like the attenuation DirectSound does. If I have a min distance of 0 and a max distance of 1000, then the sound is almost silent at 5 units away. And I don't want the sound to be at max volume and then suddenly fade out,…
3D audio is in but fubar. I really don't like the attenuation DirectSound does. If I have a min distance of 0 and a max distance of 1000, then the sound is almost silent at 5 units away. And I don't want the sound to be at max volume and then suddenly fade out,…
February 04, 2008
Well, packet based TCP/IP is working. I hacked it in a little, by adding a couple of functions to my ENetworkConnection class to extract a packet from the buffer or to send a packet.
3D audio is next. I've changed my engine code to let you specify that you want a 3D sound when calling EAudioMgr::Loa…
3D audio is next. I've changed my engine code to let you specify that you want a 3D sound when calling EAudioMgr::Loa…
February 04, 2008
I don't really have anything much to say. I'm just killing time while CodeWarrior compiles.
Tum tee tum, tra la la, etc.
I'm going to try and get my packet-based TCP/IP connection working this lunch time, so I can cross the whole network section off my todo list and get onto 3D audio. That'd be reaso…
Tum tee tum, tra la la, etc.
I'm going to try and get my packet-based TCP/IP connection working this lunch time, so I can cross the whole network section off my todo list and get onto 3D audio. That'd be reaso…
February 01, 2008
Woo, UDP network code is working now.
I've had to re-do the code a little. There's now two engine-level server classes, one for TCP and one for UDP. The TCP one returns a connected socket and the UDP one returns packets. A UDP server can be set to only accept packets from a particular IP, or it can …
I've had to re-do the code a little. There's now two engine-level server classes, one for TCP and one for UDP. The TCP one returns a connected socket and the UDP one returns packets. A UDP server can be set to only accept packets from a particular IP, or it can …
January 31, 2008
Woo, I actually got some of my own code done this lunchtime. I ported over my TCP/IP socket stuff from my (Now pretty much abandoned) MUD project a while ago, but I never got around to adding support for connecting to remote machines. So, I've got that in, meaning I get to cross "TCP/IP socket clas…
January 30, 2008
Completely un-programming related, I've decided to make a list of all the songs I've thought were particularly awesome at some point or another. As in, ones I'll listen to several times a day for a while until I get bored of them.
So, in chronological order, from about 6 months ago:
Assemblage 23 - D…
So, in chronological order, from about 6 months ago:
January 28, 2008
Ways to upset CodeWarrior #2378936905023:
Put a CD in the drive, then take it out and try to compile.
Put a CD in the drive, then take it out and try to compile.
Quote:---------------------------
LHintAttachment: IDE.EXE - No Disk
---------------------------
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive D:.
---------------------------
Cancel Tr…
January 25, 2008
I don't have anything to say though. I haven't done any coding of my own stuff for this week because I've been too busy at work and I just want to go home and go to sleep. We have a deadline today, so it's been pretty chaotic all week, and it's likely to be crazy this afternoon too.
Erm... That's it…
Erm... That's it…
January 20, 2008
January 16, 2008
Nothing much to say really, I'm just waiting on a full rebuild (Damn SDK patches...).
I've got sky half working - it scrolls the texture as expected, but it doesn't generate a skydome like GLQuake does, so it looks obviously wrong.
I'm working on turbulent surfaces now (Water, lava, teleport surface)…
I've got sky half working - it scrolls the texture as expected, but it doesn't generate a skydome like GLQuake does, so it looks obviously wrong.
I'm working on turbulent surfaces now (Water, lava, teleport surface)…
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