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May 19, 2006
So I finally broke down and slept for a couple of hours. Amazingly, I actually woke up before my alarm and feel completely fine, even after only 5 hours of sleep. My body is in a really weird operational mode right now.
I snoozed not so much from exhaustion but from boredom; last night I had the pos…
I snoozed not so much from exhaustion but from boredom; last night I had the pos…
May 18, 2006
Well, this has been a fun week. As I mentioned earlier, I'm doing a sort of self-imposed crunch mode to try and nail a deadline. At this point, it's working - as measured by the fact that I can no longer coherently remember when I have slept over the past 2-3 days. Thanks to the miracle of caffiene…
May 17, 2006
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May 17, 2006
So I bought myself a really nice new laptop and a nice new case to go with it. I did something fairly unprecedented in my internet-buying career and paid for fast shipping on both, since I leave Monday for two weeks and want to be able to take my nice new toys with me.
So, after having to deal with …
So, after having to deal with …
May 17, 2006
The remainder of this week is going to be interesting.
I've self-imposed a minicrunch for this week in order to ensure I hit a project milestone that involves this cutscene stuff I've been working on. The week out for E3 set things back a bit further than I would have liked, and I'm going to have to…
I've self-imposed a minicrunch for this week in order to ensure I hit a project milestone that involves this cutscene stuff I've been working on. The week out for E3 set things back a bit further than I would have liked, and I'm going to have to…
May 16, 2006
Oh dear God, I am so very, very weak.
I just bought a W2JB. For the first time in (I think) my entire career of buying stuff on the Internet, I also paid for expedited shipping, in the hopes that I'll have the box to take with me to Germany next week when I go visit Ye Olde Company Headquarters.
I am…
I just bought a W2JB. For the first time in (I think) my entire career of buying stuff on the Internet, I also paid for expedited shipping, in the hopes that I'll have the box to take with me to Germany next week when I go visit Ye Olde Company Headquarters.
I am…
May 15, 2006
May 15, 2006
Games I Demoed At E3
This is just a quick opinion dump that quickly covers the games that I either watched demos for or actively played at E3 2006. Not hard and fast reviews, just off-the-cuff reactions.
Yakuza
Type: combo-based beat-em-up
Platform: PS2
Experience: Played Live Demo
Thoughts: Beating the …
This is just a quick opinion dump that quickly covers the games that I either watched demos for or actively played at E3 2006. Not hard and fast reviews, just off-the-cuff reactions.
Yakuza
Type: combo-based beat-em-up
Platform: PS2
Experience: Played Live Demo
Thoughts: Beating the …
May 15, 2006
E3 2006 Recap
Alright, here we go. I was planning on doing running entries all through the show, but I quickly realized two important things: that my laptop's battery life sucks and I couldn't use it to take notes during the conference sessions and write journal updates at the same time, and that I …
Alright, here we go. I was planning on doing running entries all through the show, but I quickly realized two important things: that my laptop's battery life sucks and I couldn't use it to take notes during the conference sessions and write journal updates at the same time, and that I …
May 09, 2006
Medieval Times was a good run... made lots of ruckus and generally enjoyed ourselves. The crowd was fairly into the show (which is always good) so we had to make a point of out-yelling and out-fake-medieval-insulting everyone else. Great stuff.
We basically decided that none of the first-session wor…
We basically decided that none of the first-session wor…
May 07, 2006
Everything is packed, except stuff like my toothbrush which I'll still want access to between now and tomorrow morning. Got my laptop all hardened and ready for exposure to public wifi hotspots (I'm posting from it now, as a matter of fact).
This year, I have a strategy: I'm packing only jeans and a…
This year, I have a strategy: I'm packing only jeans and a…
May 06, 2006
E3 2006 Checklist
- Do laundry so as to have sufficient clothing (check)
- Cram significant portion of said laundry into small luggage space
- Gather up various necessities of life and fit them in between articles of clothing in said luggage
- Make sure laptop is ready to go (i.e. is safe for use on public wif…
May 05, 2006
Well, last night didn't run so good. I ended up passed out under my desk at about 1:30AM. (I was under the desk so that I could keep my headphones on and thus avoid having to reach up and stop Winamp. It made sense at the time.) So naturally I woke back up around 3, sore as all-get-out, and moved o…
May 04, 2006
Here's the situation: I woke up about 10AM yesterday (May 3) and promptly pulled an all-nighter. Around 7AM this morning, I napped for about two hours.
It is presently 11:52PM on May 4. I am, for some unholy reason, strongly considering staying up all night again. I think this might have something t…
It is presently 11:52PM on May 4. I am, for some unholy reason, strongly considering staying up all night again. I think this might have something t…
May 04, 2006
Well, I found the cause of the port-forwarding issue: one of the routing hops on my LAN had accidentally been switched to firewall mode, so it was silently dropping the reply packets from the server to the Internet. The net result was that a lot of SYN packets were showing up; the server would ACK,…
May 04, 2006
I was bored and wired on caffiene, so I went ahead and got Webmin and Apache running on Milton. Entirely uneventful. I then proceeded to waste a few minutes hacking up a little intro page for the "default" server - since Milton will be virtual-server hosting several parallel sites, I need a sort of…
May 03, 2006
They were skeptical.
They've always been skeptical.
Deep down inside, some part of me is unable to blame them. After all, they made a compelling case.
But now I have proven them wrong.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
They are all wrong.
Spending hours learning how to reverse engineer Win32 software w…
They've always been skeptical.
Deep down inside, some part of me is unable to blame them. After all, they made a compelling case.
But now I have proven them wrong.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
They are all wrong.
Spending hours learning how to reverse engineer Win32 software w…
May 02, 2006
I've sort of been posting a fair bit in here lately, so I figure it'll be easier to keep posting regularly than to go back to posting rarely but with massive entries. At least, that's what this guy Newton keeps telling me - insists it's some kind of law, even. Dunno. I'm not sure I really believe h…
May 01, 2006
The E3 materials arrived via postal delivery service today. We get a nifty little red token thingy that we use to claim our swaggenbag upon arrival at the convention center.
The badge design is nifty this year - a lot nicer-looking than last year's. Still doesn't have a sexy RFID thingy in it, but I…
The badge design is nifty this year - a lot nicer-looking than last year's. Still doesn't have a sexy RFID thingy in it, but I…
May 01, 2006
Woohoo! Everything is finally working. I just crushed a couple of final glitches with some USB support modules, and now it's all golden - 100% error free boot on 2.6.16.11.
I was going to post this from Milton, but then I realized that I don't have a working X-Windows install, and even if I did, the…
I was going to post this from Milton, but then I realized that I don't have a working X-Windows install, and even if I did, the…
May 01, 2006
I cannot believe how stupid I am.
All this time, I've been trying to solve the oh-so-difficult problem of how to get updated tools and drivers onto my 2.6 install when the CDROM and NIC drivers are both barfing profusely.
Well, duh... I still have a working 2.4 install, and both are booting on the sa…
All this time, I've been trying to solve the oh-so-difficult problem of how to get updated tools and drivers onto my 2.6 install when the CDROM and NIC drivers are both barfing profusely.
Well, duh... I still have a working 2.4 install, and both are booting on the sa…
May 01, 2006
Ahhh, now I remember the problem I had before.
The problem, to put it briefly, is that there's a really important package of programs called module-init-tools. This package was updated between kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6, except nobody bothered to include the updated version in the kernel package it…
The problem, to put it briefly, is that there's a really important package of programs called module-init-tools. This package was updated between kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6, except nobody bothered to include the updated version in the kernel package it…
May 01, 2006
Well, I've finally got a working 2.6.16.11 kernel. Now comes the really icky bit: solving all the little glitches.
The first main glitch is with my NIC; for some reason it's giving me bogus errors about eth1 not having a valid wireless ESSID, which is really bizarre, seeing as I have no eth1 device,…
The first main glitch is with my NIC; for some reason it's giving me bogus errors about eth1 not having a valid wireless ESSID, which is really bizarre, seeing as I have no eth1 device,…
May 01, 2006
Ha! Ha! I'm compiling the Linux!
You'd think I'd never done this before. In fact, I made this exact mistake last time, too. I forgot to compile ext3 support into the kernel, which leaves me with an unbootable system.
Thankfully, I've long since learned something with Linux kernel hackery: never, ever…
You'd think I'd never done this before. In fact, I made this exact mistake last time, too. I forgot to compile ext3 support into the kernel, which leaves me with an unbootable system.
Thankfully, I've long since learned something with Linux kernel hackery: never, ever…
April 30, 2006
After a rather long interlude for Real Life, I'm back on the task.
Being the forgetful and generally less-than-competent moron that I am, I forgot to do a modules build when I did the kernel compile. So naturally, my first attempt at booting 2.6.16.11 didn't go real far, since I had it configured to…
Being the forgetful and generally less-than-competent moron that I am, I forgot to do a modules build when I did the kernel compile. So naturally, my first attempt at booting 2.6.16.11 didn't go real far, since I had it configured to…
April 30, 2006
Kernel compile begins: 7:06PM EST.
I now leave to do something not mind-dumbingly dull - namely, watch Requiem for a Dream.
I now leave to do something not mind-dumbingly dull - namely, watch Requiem for a Dream.
April 30, 2006
OK, maybe my rant was premature.
As of right now, I'm successfully downloading the 2.6.16.11 kernel (make that done downloading). So either the most-recent nForce drivers are less sucky than the last time I did this, or the real pain is that they don't work properly on 2.6 kernels. I'm re-downloadin…
As of right now, I'm successfully downloading the 2.6.16.11 kernel (make that done downloading). So either the most-recent nForce drivers are less sucky than the last time I did this, or the real pain is that they don't work properly on 2.6 kernels. I'm re-downloadin…
April 30, 2006
... and this is why I've never really, truly loved Linux.
Yeah, I like it fine as a Unix. The philosophy is a little shaky, and as far as Unixes go, I actually kind of prefer BSD, in a little secret corner of my heart. But Linux is what I'm directly familiar with, and I already have a perfectly good…
Yeah, I like it fine as a Unix. The philosophy is a little shaky, and as far as Unixes go, I actually kind of prefer BSD, in a little secret corner of my heart. But Linux is what I'm directly familiar with, and I already have a perfectly good…
April 30, 2006
I've finally gotten off my lazy butt and started rebuilding Milton. Milton was the server for my Tiny KeyCounter project, before one of the hard drives decided it was going to die.
One of the drives was the OS and actual site/database, and the other was basically nothing but a nightly backup image o…
One of the drives was the OS and actual site/database, and the other was basically nothing but a nightly backup image o…
April 28, 2006
I hereby issue myself a challenge.
It is shortly after 9 AM on Friday, April 28th, 2006. I have a list of mini-milestones that I wanted to have done this week in order to get the cutscene engine mostly implemented. I have thus far not done such a great job of keeping up with things, mostly due to ha…
It is shortly after 9 AM on Friday, April 28th, 2006. I have a list of mini-milestones that I wanted to have done this week in order to get the cutscene engine mostly implemented. I have thus far not done such a great job of keeping up with things, mostly due to ha…
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