Lua + C#

While it’s no secret that update.vectec.net will be my update implementation for my future programs. In the past I’ve used Lua as a scripting language. This worked ok in C, but now that I’m in C#, I must figure out a way to use the Lua VM from C#.

Enter this article

I should have update notifications and information in notime!

Mmmm… Halo

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I love Halo for PC, specifically Halo 1 on LAN. My friends and I play it all the time. It’s such a shame the ruined Halo 2 and released it for Vista only. Oh well, better luck next time, I’m content playing Call of Duty.

It’s Here, It’s Here!

I got my router today after work. I set it up, and it works pretty good (well except that the setup Linksys provides failed to work properly). I promptly installed DD-WRT onto it, and figure out how to control some of the LEDs. Right now, it displays the load average via a sequence of flashing LEDs. As I gaze over to the other side of the room, I see the gently flashing every second white LED, telling me I have a low load average.

I tried to set it up to DHCP forward all connecting clients. This ended up in disaster, and I had to reset the router. It was not pretty. Thanks though to kc32 to helped me through some of it.

Update Server Online

Well, for a long time I’ve been trying to get a system to track my versions via an online database. Usually I take a backend application perspective, but I just hacked together in about an hour (including brushing back up on my HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL skills). The results are at update.vectec.net. I’m also going to write an application backend so that my apps and automagically check for updates. Right now I manually enter data into PHPMyAdmin, but I can see I might have to write a web interface. However, web interfaces are a lot of work, and not usually worth my time. We’ll see.

It’s quite simple right now, hopefully I’ll have support for going back in time and looking at previous releases, and an application profile, including description, instructions, and screenshots. Once, again, we’ll see, it depends on how much ambition I have (afterall, that’s what killed Caesar).

Binary Crack

I’m pretty sure SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition is a computerized version of crack. I’m terribly addicted to it, even though it hates me (if I start doing too good, it closes the game on me.) I just can’t seem to put it down.

So I created a City called Sumo (creating city names is hard, shut up), and managed to get it to 100,000 people. By then, I was out of space to develop, and the hightech industrial sector wanted to be developed, so I started killing the dirty industry and putting down high tech industries. That went fairly well, until I killed off so much industry, that a lot of people didn’t have jobs. So what I did is I got rid of a bunch of buildings to streamline the traffic flow. That went pretty well, however, it put my income way down (I’m loosing money now). Basically I have to kill off some of my high tech industries and start getting people back in my city. With the population down, there just isn’t ehough people to support my transit/health/education network. In an attempt I created a city next to it and zone it almost all industrial with a rail connection to try and get people to move in. This largely hasn’t worked, and it really has only negatively affected my city.

Anyways, until tommorow night, I’ll have to try and figure out how to fix my problem.

Mail Server Move

Well, for the past couple years, my mail has been handled by the Yuckfou server, which forwarded it to my ISP’s e-mail. I just changed my MX records so that my mail goes to ASO, with a backup of Yuckfou. This means I can grant any user an e-mail address of their choice, or a forwarder. Anybody want one?

eBay Continued

Well, it seems that my package shipped yesterday morning, so maybe I’m finally going to get it. A mere 16 days after I ordered it.

Right now it’s in New York, so I expect to get it by the end of next week, but I’m not really sure. I’ll be finally happy to have it.

My Experience With eBay

Alrighty, so you may or may not know that I recently am in the process of buying a router off eBay. Listed as $66USD, almost $20 more than the one on NCIX ($47CND).

Anyways, by the time they charged me shipping and Ohio taxes, exchange, etc, I paid out a total of $92CND. I ordered the router on June 20th, attempted to contact the seller (who didn’t respond). On June 25th, they accepted they payment, and on July 2nd they notified USPS that they were going to be shipping. I have the tracking number, but it’s still not shipped. I don’t know how long it will take, but this is the second and last time I’m ordering something off eBay. I’m just not happy with it.

Not only that, but I also am going to have to pay duty on the router and all that Jazz. I actually was going to try and cancel my order with them. I called their sales department at 6:30PM (they said they closed at 6, but I wanted to try anyways). I just got an automated message. Later that night I got a message from eBay stating they accepted my payment. Drat!

An Evening at Home

This pretty much sums up an evening for me: