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Unity3d

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 21:52 — poppy

I've recently come across Unity3D - a 3d games development kit that outputs to browser and is free if you're not a big company. I think for people that know scripting it would be relatively easy. The intro tutorial has a little animated alien character wandering around collecting things. It's very impressive. Easy to embed as well. You do need the plugin to see it, but it's not massive. I look forward to playing more with this. Sadly no Linux port yet for the plugin. http://unity3d.com/

Moved to Vidahost

Thu, 01/14/2010 - 22:49 — poppy

The site and gallery are no longer online via home server, they've been moved to a host - Vidahost. It seemed a bit ungreen to keep the home pc on all the time, and it passes over the headache of making sure it keeps working. So far everything seems reasonably straightforward, took a while to migrate the Drupal sites and the embedded Galleries over. Basically, used Cpanel/fantastico to install new versions, ftp'd over the files, used PhpMyAdmin to export and import the databases, then tweaked config files, settings.

Drupal progress

Sun, 02/24/2008 - 18:26 — poppy

I finally manged to get Clean URLs to work on my test Drupal site. First I had to enable mod-rewrite for Apache (a2enmod rewrite, advice from http://www.epicarena.com/c/Linux). Then check that php was installed - yes, it came with Drupal. Took me a while to work out how to get the test page to work though. Then had to change Apache2.conf to AllowOverrideAll and AccessFilename .htaccess. Finally enabled RewriteBase/Drupal in .htaccess, and it worked. The page I mainly used was http://drupal.org/node/15365.

installed Drupal

Wed, 04/04/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
I looked around a bit at various cms's. Squiz looked interesting, but more aimed at the local govt side, and also quite small still. Zope and Plone have a lot of corporate charity and business sites. I was looking for something that lent itself more to the arty. phpNuke and postNuke seem more gaming community. Mambo and its cousin Joomla! have a lot of small business users. Drupal includes The Onion and Gallery in its users, and seemed to have artists and photographers, so I thought I'd give it a go.

the windows system32 config system file is corrupted

Sun, 03/18/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
This time I was lucky. Googling the error brought up several pages of advice from Microsoft on how to recopy registry files. This seemed enormously tricky and fraught with problems, but I couldn't see any other advice, as I don't have ASR. So I started working through the guide, but files wouldn't copy. Perplexity.

too many pcs

Tue, 02/13/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
Now the 650Mhz Duron has memory installed and a hard drive, it's working fine. I've installed the suspect motherboard in the other, formerly the 400MHz Pentium2. It's proved to be a 533MHz Pentium3, and though not very speedy, not broken. I also cured my seized up hard drive with a sharp slap on the back (yes, I know it's probably going to give out very shortly, but for the moment it's stopped groaning and I've installed Win 98 on it. And Linux). So things are looking up.

Computing on a budget

Mon, 02/05/2007 - 01:00 — poppy
I downloaded 6 CDs containing the Fedora 6 installation discs using BitTorrent, and wrote them to CD. They booted the pc into the installation malarkey, and then refused to recognise Fedora core on the disks. I rewrote one at a slower speed, but no difference. I validated them on the other pc and they were fine. Humph.

Further progress down the road to PC enlightenment

Sun, 01/28/2007 - 01:00 — poppy

The whole thing started when my old pc broke when I was trying to get a wireless network card to work in it. I decided that the time had come to learn a bit more about the inner workings of PCs. I finally ended up with three pcs at the end of last week - my main one, which I got new from a computer fair, and which is reasonably up to speed, an 866 Mhz Compaq I got on Ebay for £60, and a 400Mhz PII I got on the car boot sale for £6 to mess about with.

networking my old pc

Tue, 01/09/2007 - 01:00 — poppy

The pc's about 8 years old, but the motherboard packed in after 2 years when I was a bit rough with the sound card (ie I broke it), so it now has a slightly newer motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-5AA. I know this because I found the manual when I started emailing network card makers to find out why I can't get the wireless network card to work. It has 128k ram, is 450 Mhz and has a 14gb hard disk. So it's fairly outdated, but not that bad.

Gallery2

Thu, 10/05/2006 - 01:00 — poppy

The look is cleaner and better, and there are more plugins, including a shopping cart. I've enabled the shopping cart and tried it via Paypal, and it works. It's designed for selling photographs, but will work for prints of drawings. This time I've not embedded it in Geeklog, but kept it separate, as I think I prefer a different style.

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