Notepad++
Posted on May 1st, 2012 by V
It’s one of the best (that I’ve found) lightweight text editors for windows.
Here’s a link to some information that will make editing and testing documents even faster.
Setup for run scripts in Notepad++
Tags: Programming
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Rainmeter – Making Your Desktop Useful
Posted on January 11th, 2012 by V
So I’ve stumbled upon a nice new way to make your desktop functional. (Windows Only)
Rainmeter – rainmeter.net
is a pretty cool way of making your desktop functional. For an example skin, the most popular one is Omnimo which lets you get a sort of Windows Phone interface that you can customize to launch whatever programs you like.
From what I gather, it is essentially the equivalent of HTML for your desktop. Which is to say, it’s basically only good for placement of pictures and text. However, it does come with a really nice plugin interface which is the main pull of this, allowing you not only to customize your desktop’s look, but also to give it plenty of functionality.
Gandhi is using this on his desktop and with a plugin found for managing audio devices he can switch between his headphones and speakers with an easy to see and use visual interface as opposed to needing to go into the sound devices every time.
In the near future I’m going to be seeing what I can manage to put together for both home and work usage. For work I’m thinking it’ll be good for launching particular common applications that we use commonly. And, for home, I’m planning on creating feeds to common forums that I read.
Tags: rainmeter
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IRC Chat
Posted on September 9th, 2011 by V
So, as of yet, I haven’t found a good persistent group chat that people can join and leave as they please. I hear they do exist, but I haven’t found something that’s free enough and easy to use. Because of this, I’ve decided to try out using IRC again.
If you care to join up, then here’s the info where we’re at:
irc.quakenet.org
port: 6667
Channel #dealy
A few different messaging programs sorta take IRC and bring it more up to date. Adium and Pidgin are both messaging programs that as far as I can tell, are really nice for using IRC. As of yet, it’s just two of us using it, but everyone else should feel free to join in.
If you remember mIRC from way back in the day, it turns out that it’s now free for 30 days and then no more. So I suggest using one of the alternatives. iChat for Macs should supposedly work through Jabber, but it seems non-trivial to set it up. irssi is the command line version of the good old unix variety, so there’s always that…
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True Team Player – Lee Sin
Posted on September 8th, 2011 by V
It’s somewhere on the League Forums, but I thought I’d save it here since I enjoyed it. Some are just Asian jokes, some are blind jokes, it’s all good. If you don’t play league, then just ignore this post since it won’t make sense to you.
Lee Sin, the Blind Monk, the True Team Player
Lee Sin buy ward even though he don’t see.
Team ask Lee Sin, true team player, to split push.
Lee Sin go kill tower.
Team tell Lee Sin next time, kill enemy tower, not team tower.
Lee Sin sad.
Annie asks Lee Sin if he has seen her bear Tibbers.
Lee Sin says no.
Lee Sin pushing top turret
DARKNESSSSSSS
Lee sin pushing top turret
Team asks Lee Sin, true team player, to facecheck brush.
Lee Sin goes in brush, doesn’t see anything
Lady champions love the Lee Sin because he like them for who they are, not how they look.
Lee Sin, True Team Playa
Lee Sin, true team player, always calls “all mia.”
Always.
Lee Sin blind.
But Lee Sin purposely miss attacks anyway to make Teemo not feel waste mana.
Team ask Lee Sin, true team player, to get better supplies.
So Lee Sin hide in a brush. When enemy walks by, Lee Sin, true team player, jumps out and yells, “SUPPLIES!!!”
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In Pursuit of the Dregs of Internet Gaming
Posted on August 25th, 2011 by V
So while it may not be the newest thing to most of you, I’ve been playing League of Legends for a little while now. (There also exists an unofficial Mac client for those of you interested.)
As an aside, here’s why I like the game: On the surface, it’s essentially a very simple game, where you control a single character who has a set of unique abilities in which you battle other players in an arena of sorts. Originally, I became very bored of the game and thought that there needed to be more maps or something. At this point, I see the game has a fair amount of complexity in gameplay and it’s quite fun despite the fact that there’s only (currently) two real maps. However, the real appeal of the game to me at this point, is that it is a game that I can play with friends while talking over Skype. Working as a team brings a lot to the game.
We need some contextual exposition for those of you unfamiliar with League: One of the main facets of the player versus player experience, is playing against evenly matched players. To this end, Riot Games (creators of League of Legends) has a matchmaking system that rates players using the ELO Rating System that was created for 1v1 chess rankings. One of the main criticisms of this system is that it was not designed for 3v3 or 5v5 games, giving rise to what is colloquially known as ‘ELO Hell’.
To understand the perceived (and possibly real) problem of ELO Hell we need to understand the ELO rating system. And for that, we need maths. However this is a topic in and of itself, which I’ll go into detail in another post. For our purposes right now, let’s just say that the rating system is accurate enough to accomplish our project. Namely, bad players are at low rating, and good players are at high ratings.
Now, to the new project: To find (and play with) the worst players on the internet. And to play with them in a system like this, you must become one with them. There are a few kinds of game types, but the ones we’ll be concentrating on will be Ranked and Normal games. It’s somewhat known that there exists a hidden rating system in Normal games, and so I decided the best way to find these bad players was to simply not win a single game while leveling up to 30. (It is however, of my opinion that fighting bots will not provide any rating, so I can safely get my first win of the day bonuses doing that.)
Originally, my goal was to get to level 30 on a new account, and then to tank its ranked rating. This turns out to be a huge time commitment, and so I figured that on the way to 30, I would also not win any normal games. Turns out, this is hard. One of my stipulations of playing poorly, was to not get reported for doing ‘illegal’ things. This includes feeding the enemy, and straight up afking or leaving during the game. Barring this, I endeavor to simply play poorly. And since the rules pretty much bar me from trying to lose, I will simply try to not win.
However, apparently, I’m not playing poor enough. One of the main facets of how I’m currently playing poorly, is to have bad lane control. This simply means that instead of last hitting, I’m just pushing the lane up by auto attacking everything. (Not trying to get last hits, and I certainly don’t fight anything in the jungle.) I’m also unwilling to stand there while someone hits me so I might be hanging out under a tower, however I will not go back to the base unless I’m at 10 to 20 percent health.
Attack move is apparently overpowered, since I’m apparently winning the lane while doing this.
Thus far, free Teemo week means that I can play while having an excuse to never participate in teamfights, since I’m just planting mushrooms everywhere.
… current record, is 3 wins and 2 losses. Who would have thought that losing was so hard.
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What you know about Jumping the Shark!?
Posted on July 27th, 2011 by V
For those of you who don’t remember: Street Sharks was a mid 90s kids cartoon show where sharkmen (or mansharks) would cause millions of dollars of property damage while fighting crime.
While the show only lasted for 2 years, their episode naming system was jaw-some. I didn’t even know that these were the real names when told so.
Season 1
- Sharkbait
- Sharkbite
- Sharkstorm
Season 2
- Shark Quest
- Lone Shark
- Shark ‘n’ Roll
- Fresh Water Shark
- Shark Treatment
- Road Sharks
- Sharkfight
- Skysharks
- Shark of Steel
- Shark Source
Season 3
- Jurassic Shark (1996)
- Sir Sharkalot
- Shark to the Future
- First Shark
- Rebel Sharks
- Space Sharks
- A Shark Among Us
- To Shark or Not to Shark
- Eco Sharks
- Close Encounters of the Shark Kind
- Satellite Sharks
- Cave Sharks
- Shark Wars
- Shark Father
- Shark Hunt
- Card Sharks
- Shark Jacked
- Turbo Sharks
- 20,000 Sharks Under the Sea
- Ancient Sharkonauts
- Sharkotic Reaction
- Sand Sharks
- Shark Quake
- Super Shark
- Jungle Sharks
- Trojan Sharks
- Shark-apolypse Now!
Given this naming scheme, here’s what Gandhi and Rich came up with:
Gandhi: so now I’m just going to netflix and looking up movie names where I’m replacing words with Shark
- Sharkelot
- Star Shark: The Next Generation
- Mrs. Sharkfire
- Robin Shark: Sharks in Tights
- The Iron Shark
- Robin Shark: Sharks in Sharks
- Shark Knight Rises
- Shark Man
- Shark Drive (which sounds way better than Sex Shark)
- My Shark Vinny
- Sharkfellas
- Season of the Shark
- The Last Sharkbender
- Shark Witch Project (Gandhi:oh wow, that one’s scary, this thing, is both a shark, and a witch)
- The Sharkshank Redemption
- Shark Fiction
- Get Him to the Shark
- One Flew Over the Shark’s Nest
- The Lord of the Rings: Return of the Shark
- Shark with a Shotgun
- Star Wars: The Shark Strikes Back
- Shark on Fire
- Seven Sharks
- Shark Club
- Shark Code
- Shark in Translation
- Raiders of the Lost Shark
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Shark
- The Usual Sharks
- Silence of the Sharks
- Crouching Shark, Hidden Dragon
- Sharking Shark, Sharken Shark.
- House of Flying Sharks
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Shark
- Sharkinator 2: Shark Day
- Saving Private Shark
- A Clockwork Shark
- Shark to the Future (was actually a name used)
- Shark Night
- Cop Shark
- The Shark Ultimatum
- Ninja Shark and Shark Assassin are both okay
- Mr. Shark Goes to Washington
- No Shark for Old Men
- No Country for Old Sharks
- Donni Sharko
- The Shark Knight
- There Will Be Sharks
- Shark Hangover (Gandhi: I don’t usually get to replace The with anything)
- Mr. and Mrs. Shark
- American Shark
- The Last Shark of Scotland
- Failure to Shark
- Shark of Darkness
- Shark Shark, Bang Bang
- Shark & Peace
- Shark & Punishment
- The Brothers Sharkamazov
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sharks
- The Wonderful Shark of Oz
- Tarzan of the Sharks
- The Sharkamorphosis (Pretty sure this is how we got Street Sharks. Clif: I think I have heard Street Sharks described as “Kafkaesque” Note: “I’m not familiar enough with kafka… or really street sharks honestly”)
- This Shark of Paradise
- Sharklysses
- Winnie-the-Shark
- The Adventures of Sharklock Holmes
- Brave New Shark
- Of Shark and Men
- Little Shark on the Prairie
- Nineteen Eighty-Shark
- The Shark in the Rye
- Shark-22 (Caught between a shark and a hard place)
- The Old Man and the Shark
- Stranger in a Strange Shark
- Shark’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Life, the Universe and Sharks
- The Shark at the End of the Universe
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Sharks
- Mostly Shark
- Sharkborn
- A Game of Sharks
- A Clash of Sharks
- A Storm of Sharks
- A Feast for Sharks
- A Dance with Sharks
- The Winds of Sharks
- A Dream of Sharks
(Rich:this is much better than doing work)
Here are some book titles from Clif:
Here’s the popular series: A Shark of Ice and Fire
So another note mentioned is that this list is way better when you remember the concept of sharking, so now you can go back and reread that list for value.
Various Edits: Adding other suggestions from Clif and whoever else sends me good ones.
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Welcome to the new dealy.org
Posted on July 27th, 2011 by V
So, after a long hiatus, I’ve decided to start using dealy.org again.
It’ll mainly be a blog. I guess it’ll just have random stuff here, so we’ll see how much stuff gets written.
Cheers. And ugh, gonna have to do a bunch of formatting of this text.
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