Musing's from teh M^onk^K . : . who knows what a programmer thinks? . : .

I just stumbled across this story on Slashdot announcing Epic’s release of a free version of it’s Unreal Engine for non-commercial uses [Epic Press Release: http://epicgames.com/press_releases/udk.html].

Since I always forget how to do this I thought I’d just post it here :-)

This information is taken from http://www.athabascau.ca/html/depts/compserv/webunit/HOWTO/find.htm#EX03 and is certainly more detailed then what I will post. So without further ado, :

Scenario 1: You want to find all files that contain the string “primary” in the current directory:

Here's the scenario: you are a programmer in both hobby and career, but you've got other hobbies, like video games. But first and foremost, you are a programmer... So not only do you have a number of video games sucking up precious hard drive space, you have a full blown installation of Visual Studio, Sql Server Express, IIS, all running on your local machine. Come game time, you've got all these services sitting around waiting to be used in some development, meanwhile you're trying to get max frames-per-second with Crysis...

So I'm minding my own business, restarting my Steam client to check for any game updates and what do I see but this (click the image for the full sized version):

So, I recently blew up my Drupal installation and was caught with my pants down and no DB backup...

Well, as you can tell, I've re-installed and configured it again. Now I needed to back it up. Well I need to create an automated backup strategy, but that starts with a single backup. The concept it straightforward, and certainly the path is well laid out. Step 1: Export the MySql database using the MySql PHPAdmin site my host provides. Step 2: Zip up the site files while I'm at it. Easy peezy lemon squeezy!

Well, everything was going very well with my Drupal installation. I've got TinyMCE working as my WYSIWYG editor, and added a bunch of other modules to do this, that, and the other. And all was well, I had encoutered a module or two that didn't work correctly and it was simple enough to remove them so I was pretty pleased. And apparently lulled into a false sense of security.

A couple of days ago I stumbled across the reporting on the announcement of the White House switching over to an OpenSource content management system, Drupal.

Well, here is an interesting little story that was passed on to me from a friend with a jail-broken iPhone. Complete with screen-shots (nice touch)

So it seems, in the Settings application, the item for “Mail, Contacts, and Calendars” was missing. And upon closer examination, so was the Push settings, and likely anything new with the 3.0 OS update. Here is a screenshot of the Settings app in it’s “confused” state (it does look a little off doesn’t it ;-) ) :

While playing Team Fortress 2, I’ve found that some servers are set up for higher bandwidth usage allowing for a smoother game. To really take advantage of that, typically a few client side cvars need to be changed. However, many servers also run the default settings on their server and you’ll need to set the cvars back.

This little tutorial will cover making custom TF2 sprays. How to make a static spray, a transparent spray, and animated sprays.

First, to give credit where credit is due. I found the information on making sprays from a few blogs/sites. Unfortunately, there was no comprehensive information for dealing with transparency and animation so this article you are reading now attempts to bring it all together in one place. Here are the direct links to the articles I used as a base: