Tink Initialisation

I spent a little bit of time getting my Unreal Anthology pack to work under Ubuntu 7.04. If you have the individual games then you don’t need to worry about this since they come with their own linux installer (I think). So far I’ve only got Unreal Tournament 2004, or 2k4, working. Here are the steps to get it working:

1. Install Unreal Tournament in windows. I have ntfs-3g installed on my computer and have two operating systems. This is what I did, you can install on another box and copy it over to your computer or use wine to install the game.
2. Download the linux patch for the game and extract it into your game directory. You can get a copy of the patch on the Files Page.
3. You need to copy some libraries to your UT2004/System directory.
   1. You need openal.so and libSDL-1.2.so.0.
   2. I found libSDL-1.2.so.0 in my /usr/lib dir.
   3. I had to apt-get install libopenalpp-cvs1 and then cp /usr/lib/libopenalpp.so.1.0.0 to openal.so in my UT2004/System dir.
   4. Apparently you should use libopenal.so.0 instead. But it worked for me
4. Create a file in your UT2004/System called CDKey with your anthology cd key.
5. Run UT2004/System/ut2004-bin and enjoy.

If anyone wants me to try and get the other games working let me know and I can try that.

I found how to do this from these websites:
Some forum with most of the useful info.
An Ubuntu forum which I used to find where to get openal and get that working (the openal instructions from the above link didn’t work for me).

So its been 8 months since I got my new computer and its now needed it’s first format. I’m a little annoyed because the virus that I got was a nasty bugger. It replaced my Explorer.exe with it’s own version and installed several clones of winlogin, services and lsass which means I can’t easily stop them. The reason I ended up formatting rather than cleaning is that because my XP explorer was now a virus, anything I looked at/touched could have it’s contents read/modified. It’s a pretty nasty virus. What was noticeable was that it changed a lot of files in the explorer window so I couldn’t see the file extension or get into the window options to change it.

So I’m behind on my graphics assignment because I need to get linux working on my computer. The assignment doesn’t seem to work on my MacBook so instead of stuffing around for hours and hours I’m just going to install linux on my computer, with XP and may as well put Vista on there and give it a try.

So apparently the best way to install all three is described at this page. But So far I’ve just installed Vista, I think Vista overwrote the XP boot manager. Life’s tough.

I thought I had an issue with installing Vista (big surprise). After a reboot during the installation the bold text says “Completing Installation” but it stayed there for about half an hour. I ended up removing the network cable just in case it was trying to do something over the internet (No access without logging into a web page) which would of slowed down the installer waiting for time outs and such. I had enough time after that to open my laptop and do a google and found nothing really relevant so I ended up leaving it and eventually it restarted with no troubles. I had troubles when I initially installed vista on this computer when I got it, faulty ram had me so confused for a week or two.

Because of this virus, I’m considering turning my computer in to a games only computer and get one of the new 24″ imacs for uni work and everything else. The source of the virus was probably from getright because as soon as it loaded to try and download parallels then my computer restart, this happened a few times before I uninstalled getright. Also it could of come from my usb drive which goes around the place and had a funny file on it which I clicked on for some reason. I formatted it to be sure anyway. The last place it could of come from is over the network, with over 400 personal computers on The Kensington Colleges network, and many of these international students, a nasty virus could easily be introduced at anytime.

The signs for this virus are, if you see the file extensions for some files but not others, its a possibility.  If tools or edit, can’t remember now, doesn’t have an options section then your explorer.exe has been changed. If you bring up task manager and you have winlogin, lsass or services running as your user name then thats also a sign of this virus, none of these things should happen on a virus free computer.

“I like coke“

Automatic Folding for python files: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=515

Not so easy to get working I think. Need the following in the .vimrc file:

1. autocmd FileType python so ~/.vim/ftplugin/python_fold.vim
2. filetype plugin on
3. set tabstop=4
4. set shiftwidth=4
5. set expandtab
6. set smarttab

Lines 3 to 6 should be used anyway when coding in python. Any tabs in the code needs to be replaced with spaces so that the plugin can work.

Bioshock has a release date of August 24, not to far off. But GTA 4 has a brand spanking new release date of sometime next year, EBgames has it set to the first of March next year. I didn’t get geared up for the release of GTA 4 until recently, mainly because I didn’t think that anyone would push back the release date 6 months so close to it being released. Its not fair

I need something new for my PS3 I’ve been playing spider man 3 but sometimes the frame rates turn the game into spider pig 3.

Almost all ID’s games are available for download off steam. 10% discount until August 10th. To buy all of them it will cost $62.95 (US). HAS EVERYTHING. The list is here.

I’m doing a subject at uni called, “Brave New World”. In it refers to a site which explains the vastness of our solar system. Its a good read if you have the time. I’m tempted to try it if I could only find the space. You can read it here.