New Revision for 2008

After taking a couple of months off I have decided I am ready to being drafting the next revision of the Simutrans Reference Material [Reference Manual].

I will be releasing Reference Manual 3.03 sometime in January 2008

Finished Filming Laughter and Play

Earlier this week I finished editing my family Christmas Gift.

What I called Fliming Laughter and Play. Now to burn and send out for Christmas

100,000 Cobblestones Stack to Form a Wall

I have now been credited with 100,000 cobblestones for computer time contributed to BOINC Projects.

A cobblestone is the equible yardstick to compare contribution of computer calculating power to BOINC Projects.

My 100,000 Cobblestones are distributed between my BOINC Projects

Seti@Home                     45,389
Einstien@Home                  22,302
ClimatePrediction.net      32,320

My latest Einstien@Home Unit gave me my 100,000 total

Cleaned the Windows considering the Vista

Well I have finally got round to doing a clean re-install [3rd] of windows on a new larger harddrive. in fact I’ve just about made the computer ready for Vista. (side effect)

I am in fact considering moving to Vista probably when Service Pack 1 is released or maybe sooner.

I got around to writing a batch file for applying many of the updates that have obviously been released. I also found more than a few other updates and added them as well.

So everything looks nice through the window and I might admire the view

Remember to Blog

I seem to go long periods before I remember that I should blog about something.

I am currently posting almost to remind myself that I should post to the blog occasionally.

I have several things I could post about but I never seem to remember till well after it’s worth posting But I want to do a brief post about my Distributed Computing Progress shortly.

There was the series of events regarding Linux and my machine that may no longer be posted

Pause Simutrans Reference Material

I have the September Revision ready for later this month and I plan to take a break from writing any more Material on Simutrans for a few months.

I think the next revision I will release will be January 2008

Linux Video

Well I finally have video multimedia capability now on Linux.

Turns Out VLC works with my various media.

It may not have the most intuitve interface when navigating with DVD’s but it can play them and you can move through them

Simutrans Reference Material 3.x

I have finally released the Third edition for the Simutrans Reference Material both the Starter Guide (3.00) and the Reference Manual (3.01) have a 3.x version number.

After replacing the Reference Manual *.Zip file You now get Reference Manual 3.01 or Starter Guide 3.00 depending on which document you download

TUX DVD

OK I’ve Almost got DVD Playback on my Linux half. I say almost as I can play DVD chapters (big improvement) however I cannot yet navigate simply through the DVD. (select chapters or have it play sequentially through chapters

That might be because of the players [Totem and VLC]

I’ll need to look into some other DVD Players available on Linux but this is a big step forward

Captain ASCII

Well It seems Keyboards breakdown too. Perhaps much slower though just a suddenly as any other piece of computer hardware.

Suddenly in the middle of my work I lost access to the a (and also q z and 1) one advantage was that I only really needed the a.

And thank goodness for Captain ASCII he meant I could still get A (65) or an a (97) but it really slowed me down but I am glad that some other characters did not follow a’s example