Mega-ZBlog

21st century ftw!

In other news, my remote desktop is dead.

I will have my Wii on Friday, when I go home for spring break!

However my TV tuner is not working satisfactory on Vista.  I will have to boot into XP and Ubuntu to see if it’s limited to there… I should probably just get a new one or some sort of Composite->VGA adapter or something.

Also the Wiimote isn’t working in Vista… GlovePIE won’t run without crashing (weird, I swear it was working before), and BlueSoleil won’t install properly.

Interestingly, MS’ Bluetooth drivers can detect the Wiimote and even go as far as to add it to Game Controllers.  But it detects no axis or buttons  so that’s fairly useless.  I recall when I had GlovePIE working that it wasn’t able to make use of the MS drivers either.

I’ve been looking for a sudo for Vista for a long time now.  I was so excited when I found it, I neglected to notice my ice cream was melting into my lap.  Stupid dorm heating.

The only problem with this Start++ is that it the installers runs it to add its hooks or whatever, but it fails to, so it doesn’t initially work:

C:\>sudo cmd
’sudo’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Once I ran the configuration utility it worked fine:

C:\>sudo cmd
Start++ executing command

Its only differences from sudo seem to be it branches into another process instead of remaining in the same thread, and it can’t run internal commands, only programs.

C:\>sudo echo !
Start++ executing command

The system cannot find the file specified.

I found this interesting blogging add-on for Firefox, called Performancing.  It seems to focus mostly focus on uninteresting extra features; the WordPress interface is more sophisticated than this plugin’s. [Read more →]

I’m working on my latest product… a game launcher which has the capability to support any game through plugins.

[Edit: Updated screenshot.]

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I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.1. In related news, my webhost has “upgraded” AWAY from Wordpress. Pfft. Just when I get all “hip” and “200X” with my new blog software, something else becomes “hip” and “200X”. Oh well.

I was browsing Joystiq and found a neat WordPress plugin suite to add themes which automatically get used if you browse a blog from a Wii, DS, or PSP. The themes are ugly, but they will probably work better for the small resolutions than the full-blown theme I’m using here.

To test them, you’ll need to change your User Agent string. Firefox users can get an extension for it, Opera users have it built in, Internet Explorer users can try something like IE7pro (it’s not for IE6 of course).

To test the Nintendo Wii one, put “Nintendo Wii” somewhere in your user agent string. For PSP, put “PSP”. For Nintendo DS guess… WRONG. You put “Nitro”. The full user agent strings are buried in this list.

I also found something else cool. It’s hard though… plan on abusing save states. I haven’t gotten the sword yet, although I saw where they put it.

He IMs me from his class, I post a full-blown blog entry from my Intro to Robotics lab! Top THAT! HA!

So I got a Bluetooth dongle for my birthday, among other things. I was able to get my Wiimote working with Windows. [Read more →]

I added a nifty little chat box to the lower right corner here… doesn’t work in IE, and I don’t know or care why. Oh well.

[Edit: Probably because IE is missing the flash plugin. :S  Anyways, the little meebo widget will probably show me as offline mostly... as I only use meebo when I'm on vacation.  Meh.]