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Windows Explorer Rant
2009-11-07 15:25:52
I hate Windows Explorer.
So, I had to copy files from my girlfriend's sister's laptop hard drive because she had screwed up a Windows Vista update by turning off the computer in the middle of the update. There were no recovery DVDs or recovery partition either.
So instead, I had to do the brutal method - copying all her files in the user folder and reinstall Windows Vista. I copied them by connecting her hard drive with a SATA to USB cable to my girlfriend's laptop. In total the files were appr. 50 GB.
First, I tried copying the whole user folder in one sweep; not a good idea. In the middle of the copying, I got an error saying that one of the files couldn't be copied. I pressed OK and the copying stopped! Instead of ignoring the file and letting me continuing the copying, it cancelled it, leaving everything half finished.
Now I just can't seem to understand why anyone would want a file handler to behave like this. I don't know anyone who wouldn't find this extremely annoying.
This meant that I had to go through a bunch of subdirectories, comparing the file sizes of the original and copied versions, just to find what stuff had been copied.
Some of the directories had been left half finished, meaning that I had to select all the files in the original directory and copy them over to the half finished one. This of course meant that I also had to press No in all the "Replace file?" dialogs because Explorer doesn't have a "No to all" button, only a "Yes to all" one. That's another quirk that annoys the hell out of me.
*End of rant without ending because I just can't care to make one at the moment*
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AresDB Splash Website2009-10-26 22:11:14
My latest project is the AresDB website. AresDB is a open source World of Warcraft private server database project now lead by my dear friend Bandit and some other guy called Jenkins, I believe.
Bandit asked me to make a so-called (according to him) "splash page."
I made my first template out of a bunch of grunge brushes. Unfortunately it didn't turn out very well in the end so I started over again from scratch, this time using using vector brushes.
I'm pretty satisfied with the result, being the first splash page I've done (actually the second). I'd actually like to make more in the future.
The final result can be found at the AresDB website.
Images coming soon
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Designer Chateau: Web Designing Blog2009-10-26 19:45:05
I've decided that I'll be using this website as a blog for my design projects. Mostly they'll be web designs, problems, workarounds - but probably also some music projects. Everything on this website has been designed by me (unless stated otherwise).
I'll most likely never get any readers, but I don't really care. :P
Expect a new post very soon.
Update: I've imported some of the updated article code. It's a little glitchy but I've commented out most of it, since it isn't necessary for me at the moment anyway.
Update: Everything should be work now. :) I found out what was causing all the problems.
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A World of Warcraft Private Server2009-09-22 19:28:41
Me and Bandit are working on creating a World of Warcraft private server on the old PowerMac that I talked about in an earlier article.
The private server will have support for both The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions. We'll be using the popular Arcemu with the NCDB database and extract map files from one of our WoW installations.
We're hoping that the server will be up and working and fully function within the next few weeks or so.
Stay tuned!
Side note: We're not sure if it's gonna be a fun server or Blizz-like, or we might just make one of each.
Update: Unfortunately we can't run the World of Warcraft server on the Bluebox machine (PowerMac) since Arcemu won't compile under PowerPC. So we're doing it on the main server (Chateau) instead.
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An Additional Server2009-09-16 21:21:07
I found a 10 year old PowerMac G3 that nobody's been using for ages (obviously). I've crammed it with a bunch of RAM which totals to 640 MB RAM (overkill 10 years ago.)
I'm having a few problems installing Ubuntu SE (9.04) on it but I've asked my good ol' friend Bandit to help me solve them.
I'm also still not sure what to put on it, but I'll come up with something.
Update: I finally decided to try installing Ubuntu 8 (which is what this server is running) and everything worked! It was probably a stupid Ubuntu 9 bug....
Update: So I had unplugged the computer to move it to a better place. But when I had plugged it back in, it didn't boot. I finally came to the conclusion that it was the main power button that was kind of broken. Good thing I found a tiny backup power button on the motherboard!
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