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Jump List Support

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:41:41 +0000

BYOND needs to step up support for the new Windows with new taskbar support.

I'd like to see 'tasks' that open Dream Maker and Dream Daemon, so I can access everything from whichever BYOND app is pinned to my taskbar. The BYOND.exe could have additional tasks for setting visibility as well.

Windows also allows you to customize the 'recent items' lists. DreamMaker.exe may show recent projects, Daemon showing recently hosted worlds, and Seeker showing recently joined worlds. I'd imagine the pager one would either be the same as Seeker, or a combination the three. The taskbar has built-in support for pinning these items, so we Win7 users may not even need to use the pager's Bookmark menu anymore.

On Noes!!

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:43:52 +0000

Well this is just great. Less than 1.5 hours remaining on my membership, and I can't purchase the extension.

Paypal sez NO!
"We were unable to verify this credit card through our card validation process. To proceed with checkout, please verify the information you entered is correct or try a different card."

This is an all-access Visa gift card that I received for graduation. And no, it hasn't expired. (Or at least, shouldn't have.)

This will be the first time I've been without a membership since the half-year free trial. I don't think I'm going to make it in time for Lummox's contest, (though I didn't have much confidence in winning anyway) and my standings aren't so hot in Blobble, and I only have 78 BYONDimes remaining. (I still believe I submitted that library to BYONDscape before the policy change. Meh) I'll think of something. >_>

*teh blogz r nao on highatus* (Meaning you probably won't notice any difference.)

Yota: I'll miss you, pager!

Pager: I will miss your money. Now go away.

The Vii!

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:12:50 +0000

Oh my god, have any of you seen this yet? There is no way it can be real, but I think it is. It's a Chinese remake of the Wii.

The Vii Commercial
Stop watching immediately if you begin to feel faint, nauseous, or imminent diarrhea.

A Close-Up Look

Something Else

Wow. This thing looks cheap, flimsy, and dangerous. Those edges are lethal!

More Bandwidth Fun

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:05:20 +0000

Well. I found the internet crawling again when I took my break to check on SSBB, so I took a speed test. (Using the recommended server again.)

Test 1: 512ms ping. After the ping phase, it just sat at the download phase doing nothing. Eventually I refreshed.

Test 2: Wouldn't even load the server list. Refresh.

Test 3: Got the servers, but couldn't get past the ping step.

Test 4: >600ms ping. No download again.

Test 5 or so: Can't ping!

Test n: ~550ms ping. The download phase finally began. It took a while, so I wasn't there when I first started. Once I noticed it was running, I saw it at 1kbps with a flickering 2. It was at 2%. I left again, came back a few minutes later. It was steady at 1kbps, and at 7%. After sitting for another minute or so, it dropped to 0kbps, and remained so until I had to give up. It eventually got better again later in the day, but this lasted a while. Someone better fix this soon. My boss very rarely allows us to take the rest of the day off in these situations.

Oh, and I'm still on mandatory overtime. Been four to five months of 58 hours per week now, and I can see how my personality is heading south.

Ran a Speed Test at Work

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:18:27 +0000

I work at a telecommunications company. Bask in all its...

...shame. (No, I do not work at Time Warner. [I h8 u A0l!] That's just the ISP... which probably explains the following.)

OK, this I'm not being all so fair. We've been having some network trouble in the past month. Right now the internet speed is slowing to dialup rates, but it is better than the complete loss of connection to the internal network we were experiencing before. Hope things clear up soon. I can't even listen to my lovely internet radio. (Which I'm probably not supposed to be doing... shhhhhhhh)

In defense, we usually get half a megabit of internet on weekdays. With around eight on the weekend. Not sure what the weekend will be like with these network issues.

Oh No He Didn't!

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:41:10 +0000

Tiberath wrote:

PHP is E A S Y. C#, now that's a dirty troll humping language.

News, News, News..... and a Post!

Sat, 05 May 2007 04:25:55 +0000

Well, well, well. It's a post! My first one in a while. OK, let's get it over with...

So then, life is going fine. For those many of you who don't know, I recently began my first job. Started two Fridays ago, actually. Getting a pretty paycheck is indeed a very nice thing, however it really sucks when you don't have time to use whatever you buy with it. Bah.

In the Nintendo world, I got Super Paper Mario (just because I'm a fan of the series) a few weeks ago. And finally, I got a Nintendo DS yesterday. (Obviously, I'm screwing the whole "chronological order" thing.) This is my first handheld, and it's about dang time too! My brother's Gameboy doesn't count. So far, I only have two games though. New Super Mario Bros, and Pokémon Diamond. Though it has only been a couple days, I am still enjoying both! (It's a good sign.) I'd like to get Brain Age for my mom, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Would Big Brain Academy be just as good, or better?

As for games elsewhere, it looks like Ijji has finally opened their poker game (closed beta). Limit and no-limit Texas Hold'em. There is no real money involved, however you can spend the cash you make on auctions that they post. It is pretty cool, actually. There is even a 42' television! Someone apparently bid $330,000 for it however... so I don't think anyone else will be making good for it. I've just sucked 3-4,000 before I started this post, and it looks like I just got kicked out of my room for sitting out for 10 minutes. Crap. Ah well, guess I'll get back to bluffing like a compile-time error.

Pager Logging

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:45:53 +0000

I accidentally left my pager open over the weekend while I was away, and came back to find the computer off. (The light was off, so I'm thinking there was a power outage.) I'm sure SOMEONE must have paged me during that time, and I have no way of finding out.

Could we please have the option to enable pager logging like Dream Seeker? From appearances, doesn't seem like copying the function over would be too large of a chore. In my opinion, the pager deserves it more than DS.

Add Internet Protocol Support

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:06:46 +0000

I haven't done much in the area of socketing and blah, but I don't imagine this too be all too difficult really. I would like to see DS and DD support internet protocols (like HTTP) for all hosted games. It would only require attempting to recognize a different type of header when something tries to connect to the program. (Right?)

When such a connection is made, call a world proc like Topic(), or more preferably, a new proc. (WebRequest()?) If it returns a string, that would be the body. If a list, then the add the headers that are in the list, with "CONTENT" for the body.

This could really add some nice browser-based features to a game. High scores viewable from a web side, administrative control from a remote computer (idea by Polatrite), AJAX for communication with popups. (Not sure what protocol that uses really, if it even matters.)

Paramiters I'd like in the procedure:

The full GET data.
GET data in list form. (Optional)
The same for POST data. (Optional, but could be really nice.)
The IP of the client.
A /client, if the IP matches that of a client.
Whatever header data that could be used.

Good Progress with War

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:03:52 +0000

As a lot of you have noticed, I ran the new Faces of War for the first time publicly today. Sorry I didn't give notice ahead of time, was kinda short notice. Found and fixed many glitches. (Many still remain.)

It is still a shell of what it will (hopefully) be, once everything is complete. Hope I've satisfied all who have gotten to play, for a good while.

Not much to say. My host is still down, so I'll go ahead and move the changelog to my BYOND file space. (Why didn't I think of that before?) ~~Don't expect it right after this post however, I have to add a few things still.~~

Here it is.