Texter's Trove

It feels like Christmas here in the natural state. Me and my freshly brewed snowman wish you a merry fake-christmas! Pic:

Intresting Article:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304096,00.html

Oh, I forgot to say that I've had less troubles with BYOND ever since I went through the guide again on the BYOND Linux guild, but on to other news..

I've been playing with scripts now. I'm too lazy to type wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/BYOND/bin/byond.exe when I want to start on BYOND. So after doing it a hundred times I thought: Hey what if I set it to a script on the desktop...

And so I did. I created a empty file and named it to BYOND.exe With a text editor I put in:

#! /bin/sh -f


wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/BYOND/bin/byond.exe

Saved, then I right clicked the new file, went to properties then permissions and checked the ''Allow executing as program'' check box.

Additionally: I googled the byond images for the BYOND man to use it as the icon.

Once finished I can double click BYOND.EXE and select run. :) http://members.byond.com/Texter/files/byondbomb.png

Well I managed to get BYOND to work on Ubuntu after some visits to the Ubuntu forums, some reading at the BYOND Linux Guild, and a load of helpfulness from A.T.H.K, but this feat is not without, dare a say, serious flaws.

For instance, some games on BYOND(coincidently the two I play) have icons that appear in the text area. Such as when a player talks and it shows his icon by his name. Well, when this happens dream seeker gets a wierd pop-up error message and from that point on you can't see anything else in the text area and the map freezes. I know that I'm still able to move because after hitting the keys a few times I relog to see that my posistion is diffrent. This has been a major set back.

I also have another problem. When I sign in on BYOND I get this WINE Gecko Installer Popup. When I hit install I get abunch of fixme messages on the terminal and well.. it doesn't install. I think it may only be required for the news portion of the BYOND client.

So while this bumpy trip to Linux has been difficult, I still hold hopes that I will be able to ditch Microsoft as my main OS. Perhaps down the road there will be a fix for these problems and perhaps I will learn alot when I take my Unix class. Until then, Micro$uck.

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Alright folks. Here is what dream seeker looks like for me on Linux.
That is My Life as a Spy. MLAAS is old, but it is still a great game. Check it out if you've never played. http://games.byond.com/hub/Skysaw.MyLifeasaSpy