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Flickr: My old Room

So a very long time ago I started my workspace adventure. My main computer was a Gateway with a 3.0ghz P4 and 2 gb of ram. My laptop was a gateway c120x tablet. I had two phones a cingular 8525 and a samsung u740. I was using very old small form factor hp pc as a server and a low resolution projector I salvaged from my schools trash. I was still working for the geeksquad when I did this, in fact I started only months before this.

I know that this pegboard was featured on lifehacker at least once and also on hackaday.

This was my setup in I believe june 2008.

Awesome stuff from flickr

Like many people I put pictures on flickr, however unlike most these pictures are not of vacations, family or friends. They are mostly of technology, my technology. Now I believe that almost all of it is cool and that people should frequent my page. But I'm a nice person so I will be posting stuff here.

So there will be lots of posts describing my stuff, I will start with the oldest first.

Game Development Diaries - 003: Yay for freetype issues!

Well, not really freetype's fault. Just my lazy/incomplete coding that doesn't have full support for font metrics yet. Still, it's pretty nifty considering all a developer using my engine would need to do is the following:

font = new CSFont(&WSImage::loadImage);

font->load("monaco.ttf");

...

font->drawString(T("Hello World!\n This is a multiline text."),42,42);

Also, I haven't posted info yet but the last iteration of the WynterStorm engine was thrown away in favor of a new one. I've started once again at designing the engine, though this time with a few key ideas in mind that are not related specifically to WynterStorm.

I'll discuss the current design of the WynterStorm engine at a later time.

iPaint ideas...

I'm gonna admit it. I too, just like Colbert below me, want an iTablet. It's not even officially announced yet, and I want it. I want it for ideas. I want to be able to write on it. To draw. To paint. iPaint.

At least, when I (or some other developer) decides to develop the app.

So in preparation, and because I had about 30 mins of boredom time today, I started outlining my specific requirements for a decent painting program. This is just a rough document, but it makes some of the ideas clear.

You can find this sketch and more information here: http://zerotri.net/wiki/doku.php?id=ipaint

Stupid internets look what you did.

UN Network Maintainer Released

Today is the first release of our first Useless Tool, the Useless Ninjas' Network Maintainer. It is a .NET application that monitors a specific network adapter, and upon detection of that adapter losing internet, switches a backup adapter on until the primary adapter receives internet again. The GUI is a bit basic, and likely won't change much as simplicity is one of the key goals of our Useless Tools set of software applications. The application is very unobtrusive, fitting in at under 300K on your hard disk, and hides itself in the system tray while maintaining your network adapters to ensure that it does not get in the way of your work.

You can pick up the application here: UNNetworkMaintainer.zip

Feel free to comment here regarding questions, concerns, and any bugs you encounter during the execution of this application.