Getting Continuum .40 to work under Fedora 16 without messing with your global wine installation

I have played subspace (now called continuum) on and off for decades. Its a fun little game and I've always been addicted to Trench Wars :)

If you goto the www.getcontinuum.com, you'll see that they specifically have a Linux solution available. It is clunky and to be honest, quite limiting. I've managed to get Continuum to work without issue AND without messing with my global wine installation :)

Here's how I managed to do it.

get the .40 install here. and install it using your default global wine installation. (apt-get install wine   or yum install wine  or w/e your linux method is). It should install without issue.

Using git, Now clone the wine source tree somewhere. To do this, do a  git clone http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git

Then checkout the latest stable branch (at the time of this post, was 1.4.0) by doing this,  git checkout wine-1.4

At this point you need to do either one of two things, either manually add the next specific piece by hand (its really simple and only 1 line to add) or apply a patch. I did it by hand because its literally one line and the patch 'given' at winehq doesn't work out of the box (its setup with the incorrect paths) for any version except the one it was made off of. The patch i'm referring to is located here.

The specific text to be added is

if (access & PROCESS_VM_WRITE) return NULL; 

In the dlls/kernel32/process.c file in the OpenProcess function. You can also just apply this following patch (modified from the above original source so that it will work with anything so long as it is applied while in the root wine source directory)

--- dlls/kernel32/process.c
+++ dlls/kernel32/process.c
@@ -2881,6 +2881,9 @@ HANDLE WINAPI OpenProcess( DWORD access, BOOL inherit, DWORD id )
     OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES   attr;
     CLIENT_ID           cid;
 
+    /*This fixes continuum, but seems to break nothing */
+    if (access & PROCESS_VM_WRITE) return NULL; 
+
     cid.UniqueProcess = ULongToHandle(id);
     cid.UniqueThread = 0; /* FIXME ? */ 

Now that the specific 'bug' is patched, we need to ./configure, make depends, make, make install. But I did one thing so that it wouldn't mess up my global install AS well as not need sudo functionality... I set a `--prefix=/path/to/ending/location` option with my ./configure. This will setup the makefiles to now 'overwrite' (if you had the permissions to) the global standard location for wine and build it in a location that you choose.

After your make install is finished, you will see a whole bunch of things in that /path/to/ending/location including a `bin` folder. To run Continuum, you need to start the 'wineserver' in that bin directory (kill any other ones). I started it with the `-p` option and haven't had any issues. Then using the `wine` in that directory, run Continuum.exe (like so)

./path/to/ending/location/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Continuum/Continuum.exe

Works like a charm and I still have my global wine installation setup and running smooth with my other 'wine' installs. Now its at the latest version of wine (should probably fix up the winehq page to say it still works with the current version and should work with newer versions as well...)

If people have specific questions, let me know and I'll try help :) Not that this will ever be read by anyone :P

"Failed to connect to EA Online" BFBC2 Solution Xbox360

I've been playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 (BFBC2) a lot lately (possibly .5-1 hr a night right before bed while my wife is getting her early hours in). Wednesday and Yesterday, I was unable to play due to an 'error' I was receiving while trying to play some multiplayer. Everything would be okay until I hit Quick Play. It would bring up a screen that says "Connecting" then goto a screen that said "Failed to connect to EA Online".

I searched all over the forums for both EA Online and Xbox and really came up with nothing. There were a few posts about opening ports through your router and the such, but to make sure that wasn't the issue (as I was playing forever without issues earlier) I directly hooked up my xbox to my modem and still nothing (yes... i configured my xbox properly after connecting it to the modem).

At this point (being the engineer that I am), I knew it had to be either a corrupt download or user profile. I went to my xbox file management and deleted my 'user profile' for BFBC2. Now... this will get rid of your saved games... but as I only play multi-player, I didn't care.

After deleting the user profile, BFBC2 joined in a heartbeat!

If anyone needs more specific details (like exactly click here, and the such), let me know and I'll add them, but for most this should be enough!.

Hope this helps someone else besides me :)

3d Printer?

So I'm come across an interesting site.

www.reprap.com

It is an open source community that is dedicated to building 'self-replicating machines'. Essentially, create a 3d printer with parts that can be created by that 3d printer to in effect be able to replicate itself. This will give the ordinary person a 'factory' in their own household (using thermoplastic extrusion) that they can then make another 'factory'. This can be exponentially branched out which will let more people have a factory and keep everything cost efficient.

Looking at the information, the 'hardest' part of this project is essentially the extruder part. What it does is take a spool of 'PLA' plastic (thermoplastic), heat it up and spread it layer by layer according to a design to make something. Looking at the videos on the site makes everything look amazing. Especially since a lot of their videos show them making the parts for the next 3d printer and some of those parts are complex.

I intend to create my own reprap. It will be made using wood (or even 'Cheese Plastic"), threaded metal rods, stepper motors and an arduino (for the computer interface). It will have a cmd line front end that will allow you to choose a folder of images (so even people without 3d designing software can create items).

We will have to see what happens.
It could just be another one of my 'wishes' but if things work out, could be really cool.

Things are not always what they seem...

It seems like everything is getting to the point of being 'news worthy'...

Since when are tips to remove information from a social networking website considered 'news'???

Is there really nothing else to report on?

Creating PDFS from virtually anything w/ linux

So recently I was asked (by my wife) if I would be able to join different web pages together all into 1 file for printing and storage. I thought it would take a very long time but turned out to be quite easy. Here's a lil how to:

• Print each page/image/document to file (i usually name it an autoincrementing filename aka  1,2,3,4,...)
• this stores the page as a PostScript file (even works in Windows) 
• Join all of the PS files together to form a huge PS file
• you do this using the ps-utility     psmerge
• psmerge -oOutputFileName file1 file2 file3
• you can include as many files as you want in order
• there is NO space between the -o option and the file name
• turn the PS file into a PDF file
• use the ps2pdf utility 
• ps2pdf psfile.ps pdffile.pdf

 This seems pretty straight forward but can be quite tedious if you have MANY MANY files to do at once.

Below is a python code that will make this process easier. It renames files (so they can be sorted properly) and generates the command (quite large at times) to perform the operation

 #!/usr/bin/python
import os
path='/home/paul/printer/dadsWorksheets/multiSpaceShip/psFiles/renamed/'
files = os.listdir(path)
files.sort()
##rename = True
rename = False
if rename:
    for i in files:
        name = i
        if len(name) < 3:
            name = '00%s' % name
        if len(name) > 3:
            name = name[1:]
        print name
        command = 'cp %s/%s %s/renamed/%s' % (path,i,path,name)
        os.system(command)
#print files
merge = True
##merge = False
if merge:
        com = 'psmerge -oCombined'
        #print com
        for i in files:
            com = ' %s %s' % (com,i)
        print com
        os.chdir(path)
        os.system(com)

 its simple and quite crude but it gets the job done quite nicely!!
give it a shot and you'll be storing stuff as PDFs in no time!

UFC Ultimate FIghter letdown...

I am completely disgusted... can they honestly NOT find decent competitors for this show anymore?

That first round on tonights TUF  was a fucking joke. Standing up with just punches and hands down the whole time... Anyone with ANY experience (hell even Kimbo slice...) would have ended that fight in the first 30 seconds... But no.. Dana White goes 'OMG OMG OMG' at the commercial break as if it was an amazing round... It sucked beyond comprehension!

People who know me, know that I studied martial arts for 8+ yrs.  If that round is the caliber of fighters that is available in todays market.... its a sad sad world indeed.. Even my 'out of shape' ass could have destroyed anyone of those jokers in that first round...

2nd round starting now... will it be better? i doubt it...

Friendship and its eventual let downs...

I have been pondering about friendship.

You have different friends during different times of your life. If you're lucky, you will have excellent friends during those times. These friends feel like they will always be friends no matter what happens nor how much time passes.

But, sadly, thats not how it usually happens. The people you thought were the closest to you drift away... People you would share everything with, be there for, spend some of the funnest/sadest/closest times with will slowly disappear.

If you're truly lucky and blessed, there will be the occasional few who will be there. Those are true friends. The ones where you can just pick up where you left off with minimal/no awkwardness... Keep them close to you. They're worth their weight in gold.

You will have nostalgic moments of envy for past experiences with friends. These feelings will bring emotions of joy, humor, and sadness. The only thing you can count on... just like your past close relationships, these feelings of envy shall pass.

Facebook Farmville: My Strategy for fast lvling (so far)

My schedule is pretty simple. It involves a diversified method of leveling and currently little 'niceities'...

Here is a quick image of my current farm:


in the Blue section:
Lemon Trees... As close as they can fit, this is here to take up the dead space . This will be extended on the top left 2 rows as I get more and more of them.

In the Red section:
Trees, Animals, and crops... Used to fulfil the different ribbons. Once a ribbon is complete, move on to a different type and once all of the ribbons that require space are finished, I will be using that space for tractors.

in the yellow section:
i waste one field for the pleasure of faster EVERYTHING in farmville. When you just get into farmville, you will always start in the same spot (changes only when you increase your farm size). Knowing this, I block my character with haybales. This forces him to stay in 1 spot. This eliminates the need for him to walk around to perform actions and things start as soon as they are next in queue. This eliminates a TON of time wasted and will help clear your crops, plow your land and anything else ur character needs to walk to to perform.

Thats what I do for my farm and I have gone up in lvls quite quickly. I only grow crops that I can harvest 1 time a day (fits my schedule best) and i rotate my extra $$ between 1) buying more lemon trees and 2) buying then selling  haybales for pretty cheap exp

My Powerlifting Regeme

I'm a big guy. I always have been and have dealt w/ this fact my entire life. I attribute it mainly to genetics (big frame) but also to my HS lifting days (mad stretch marks around the shoulder to prove it...)

Lately I have been driven to start lifting once again. I have been at it for about 3-4 weeks now and already feel stronger, slimmer and overall better in health. Its great.

I wanted to share w/ everyone (like anyone actually reads this anyway) my regiment for lifting. Its simple, quick and from every1 that has tried it... very effective at growing muscle and strength.

Powerlifting. It consists of 3 exercises:

• Squat
• Bench
• Deadlift

These 3 exercises work the majority of your body and will grow muscle and make you feel strong.

I work a 2 day split. 

1st Day (Monday or Tuesday):

• Bench Press
• Squat
• Pull Ups

2nd Day(Thursday or Friday):

• Deadlift
• Bent Row
• Dips

Its simple and quite fast.

My workout reps & sets look as follows:

4 sets w/ one warm-up and 3 work sets. Choose a weight where you will be exhausted and pushing failure on the last work set.

The breakdown for the sets is as follows:

1. 8 reps - Warmup set at 1/2 working set weight
2. 8 reps - First Working Set
3. 6 reps - Second Working Set
4. 4 reps (or more to failure) - Last Working Set 

The working sets add up to a total of 18 reps. If you get 16 of those 18 reps, move the weight up for next time. If not then use the same weight for next time. Simple and easy to follow. If you see a plateau in your lifting records (and record every workout so you can actually see your progress and not 'estimate' it) such as 2-3 weeks at the same weight w/o improvement, move the weight up next workout and you'll pass it.

The glory of this system is that you're always pushing for 18 reps but will be increasing weight at 16 reps. If you focus on the 18 reps, you will almost always be moving up in weight and more weight means more muscle.

I have used this system to increase my 1 rep maxes like crazy and others (including hard gainers) have used this system to build immense strength quickly as well.

Give it a shot.

As always, comments are always welcome!

Decipher: First Code

At the following link is a keyfile. Use it to decode the following encoded message. I will give $20 through paypal if someone can decipher it before Sat 9/11 0001.

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

Check it out and we'll talk.

Program : FlashCards

So here is a program that I have made lately. I don't have much time to discuss it now but it basically is a standalone flashcard program.

Pretty simple to use and have fun with. Feel free to comment. (Actually... Please comment as much as possible! I'm always trying to get better!!!)


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6U75UOOE

Been a long time and so much has happened

Well...

semi sequential prolly doesnt cut it at this point

i've been busy beyond imagination and things just seem to never get prioritized correctly...

a lot of things have happened since the last time i've posted but heres a lil of whats happened since then

in 2 days... I am finished with college!
i have a job lined up w/ NAVAIR down at pax river, MD and its gonna be exciting!!!
the plans for my wedding are going at a rate that would kill some but its working real well

so things are a little hectic!
i'm going to try to make an effort to post more often as well as bring some REAL content to the blog itself.... sssanity really has been all over the place and it will become more focused soon

until next time
Try Ikariam.com .... join alpha server and msg G19-fanatic
for all of those rts web browser fans... this will be a fun time

Recipe: Perfect Basic Rice

Making PERFECT rice can be somewhat of a daunting task to many. Me being a college student, I've attempted MANY different ways to cook rice for many reasons, but mostly because its cheap and can be healthy. What I describe below is known as the "absorption method" and it will cook the rice almost perfectly every time(with a little fiddling at first)

1. Measure out 1 cup of rice
2. Measure out 2 cups of water
3. Measure 1-2 tablespoons of oil(olive oil preferably but anything will work)
4. Bring it to a boil then lower it till a slight simmer
5. Cook for 12 mins WHILE keeping it covered (must be a tight fitting lid)
6. Remove from the heat and let it stand off of the heat between 10-20 mins
7. Fluff w/ a fork gently as to not make it into a mush.

Thats about it. There is one CARDINAL rule, DO NOT LIFT OFF the lid ANYTIME during the cooking. The rice is cooked by steaming then it absorbs the liquid while it stands. If you like your rice a little softer, add a little bit more water. If you like it a little more al dente, then add a little less water. This recipe is scalable, so you can scale up the quantity of rice depending on how much you need.

Of course you can add spices/broth/flavorings to this basic recipe to your hearts content. My personal favorite additions are garlic powder, sesame seed oil instead of olive oil, Ms. Dash Southwest Chipotle, Red Pepper flakes and soy sauce.

Enjoy :)

How To: Put HTML content into GMAIL emails

Gmail doesn't allow you to put normal html tags (img, embed, table, etc...) into its emails. This is a place where other email services excel at but Gmail is limited. This limitation can be bypassed by simply attaching the content, but not being able to put the content(image,music,video,etc...) inline in the email seriously limits creativity...

There is a VERY simple way of by passing this problem, the steps are below.

1. Upload the media online, either to tinypic.com or use the URL where the image/video/animation is stored.
2. Goto to pages.google.com and "add" the image to ANY webpage (can be a dummy one that is setup just for this purpose, you dont need to actually publish the page). MAKE sure you don't browse to the content that is stored on your computers harddrive. It MUST be stored somewhere accessible online.
   
3. When it gets added to the page in the WYSIWYG editor, right click it and "copy" the object.
4. Goto gmail and paste it into the email.

Voila you have just placed an image/video/animation/etc INLINE in the email instead of being limited to JUST attaching it. :)

ASCII Art

I happened to look through my bookmarks lately (i'm a habitual bookmarker... 250+...) and I stumbled upon the following link: http://www.chris.com/ASCII/

It is just AMAZING to me how the human mind can take something as simple as text and make amazing art with it. Below are just a FEW of the more amazing ones that I came across.

                                             
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       ,.:.::o:ooOoOoOO8O8OOo.8OOPd8O8O"  
      , ..:.::o:ooOoOOOO8OOOOo.FdO8O8"    
     , ..:.::o:ooOoOO8O888O8O,COCOO"      
    , . ..:.::o:ooOoOOOO8OOOOCOCO"        
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As you can see, they get REALLY intricate...
These are just a very MINUTE part of what is available at that site.
Go give it a look, you'll spend atleast sometime being amazed at what people can do.

Fraud... People Today >:-0

So this morning i receive a phone call at around 10am. It is some representative from PNC bank (I hold an account there which i use to receive my schools wage and some personal spending money). She calls me to confirm a few odd transactions on my account. I was stunned!!!

Apparently, $57.00 was charged to my account for some online website template company(it came through as " VISA - LNR* FTD-FLASH.COM " ). Now normally, this type of transaction wouldn't have raised any suspicions (unless it is a common fraud thingy that pops up warnings in VISA's systems..) because i make online purchases. The thing is that it overdue my account. Now that is something that should put some alarms up because I've never (for the 5 yrs ive had the account) over drawn my account.

Here's the kicker. I haven't given my information to any online company lately. Other than paypal and a few local online stores, no one has my CC information. This leads me to believe that i must have been a victim of fraud from somewhere where I have paid using my card in person. The NERVE of some people to try and STEAL things from others.

I will watch my account very closely from now on. I've had MUCH faith in the people handling my information in the past, but NOW I'm inclined to be a lot more cautious. Maybe purchasing a prepaid ELECTRON VISA debit card would solve that problem? I do not know....

How to download any mp3 right off the net

Every1 downloads music. Most people use torrents or another "sharing" service to download the highly sought after mp3's. There are other ways to do so without actually sharing a thing. The directions how to do so are below :)

• First go here and register (its free).

• Then go here and type the SONG NAME that you would like to download.

• Click on the found results.

• Login and click "Play this Playlist", but SAVE the file.

• You will right click the file and click "Open With". If Wordpad isn't on this list, click "Choose Program" and choose Wordpad.

• There will be the link to the actual mp3.
  
  
• Copy and paste the link(if there are multiple, do the one that corresponds to the song you're looking for, you'll figure it out :) ) into a browser and save the file.

Almost any mp3 you would like can be found this way.

Enjoy!!!

Gettin paid to do some minor clicking: BUX.TO

I recently (very recently) started an online PTC (paid to click) program.
Its called bux.to and you get 1 cent for every ad that you and your DIRECT referrals view.

This is quite amazing because it is the ONLY site out there that i've heard about where you earn 100% of your referrals profits.

There are quite a few things that are interesting with bux.to. First off is that you can BUY un-referred people. It IS kinda of a steep price but looking at the forum posts as well as the testimonial screen shots of paypal deposits as well as payouts make a very convincing case.

The second interesting thing is that they guarantee replacement of inactive referrals!!! This basically guarantees you that you will be making atleast SOME money from each referral.

After some mulling over it, i decided to buy 35 referrals. After a couple of weeks, if the numbers add up the way i hope they will (and i did it quite pessimistically), i will break even without doing anything at all! Then all profits will be pushed into more referrals until a make atleast $100-200 a week. That would be nice.

Here's my referral link, Give it a shot!!! You'd be surprised how quickly a cent here and there will add up for absolutely nothing outta your pocket.

Photos: First attempt at panography!

Here is my first attempt at panography. It's quite simple yet still very fun to do ESPECIALLY if you have a digital camera and photoshop.

For those who might not know what panography is, follow the next 2 links to gain some insight:
http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/panographies/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/panography/


My first attempt was of my parents house in NE Pennsylvania. As a stated... its not a masterpiece, but those will come as I have more time this upcoming semester!

Enjoy!

I encourage people to try for themselves and see what they can capture!!!

Celebration?

Is is wrong to celebrate semi-important events w/ things that you normally wouldn't do?

The obvious answer is that it really depends.... but in the end ppl will do what makes them happy... with or without proper concern for their own health/status/impressions.

Today was my first day when I did not have to stress about anything for the past 2-3 months. It was a good day. Bought breakfast, relaxed, played guitar hero 3 while having a bi-annual cigar.

All in all it was a good day.


I say to all of you college students finishing finals and heading into the holiday season, Relax. Kick up your feet. Enjoy the time off!
We've earned it!