Are you tired of paying for TV, DVR, PVR, on-demand, TiVo, etc.? So am I! One of my resolutions this year is to find ways to reduce spending. I mean, we are all complaining that the government is spending too much. I should do my part too. So I have been looking for ways to cut costs. While doing my research, I found a way that I can get rid of the TV (in terms of broadcasting expenses) and substitute it with something else. So what is it?
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In the world of web development, there are plenty of organizations and individuals alike who just don’t understand. They always want something for nothing. This video highlights the struggle we developers go through frequently when trying to negotiate work. For anyone who has ever been in this situation, I know you will get a kick out of this.
John Williams is the the man! If you haven’t heard of this, now is your chance to hear a tribute to start wars using multiple movie themes. He uses… well, it’s better if you just watch it.
Ok. So a lot has happened in the past few weeks. The cabinet is coming along nicely. I had an old AMD PC I gutted and mounted inside the cabinet. I stripped the outer red formica off of the sides and painted it black. I replaced the rubber molding on the cabinet. I stripped down an old 19″ CRT I had laying around and I am using that for the monitor. I connected a J-PAC card to the existing jamma harness that came with the cabinet. I wired the built in speakers to the J-PAC card and ran it through the sound card on the motherboard. I replaced all of the joysticks and buttons. I replaced the locks on the back access door and the coin doors.
In order to get the games up and running, I loaded the hard drive with Ubuntu 8. It works nicely. The most difficult part has been finding and easy to configure front end that prevents the desktop windows from showing (to keep it looking as close to arcade quality as possible). Currently, I am running gxmame as the front end. It’s not very pretty, but it works.
To get it up and running, I ran the following commands:
wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gxmame/gxmame_0.35beta2-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i gxmame_0.35beta2-1_i386.deb
sudo chmod 0777 /usr/share/games/xmame/roms/
- put any/all ROMs in the above location
Problem with changing to different workspace in middle of game play:
sudo vi /usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_
sudo vi /usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_metacity-common
/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 1
- Then I had to change the minimize all windows (CTRL+ALT+D) Since when player 2 pushes left on the joystick and player one pushes both button 1 and button 2 all at the same time, that equates to CTRL+ALT+D
- This can be edited in “SYSTEM->PREFERENCES->WINDOW SHORTCUTS”. I just changed it to the Windows key.
I have a colleague that has written about what he terms Piñata Development. It is mainly due to his frustration at trying to figure out how to accomplish what he doesn’t understand. He indicates he is trying desparately to hit a moving target and makes reference to a common childhood cheat – peaking under the mask.
What he fails to realize is that if you pay attention to the documentation, learn to communicate clearly so as to understand requirements, and stop expecting everyone else to do your work for you, the target is highly visible and easy to find. Clearly he is mistaking his rear-end as a mask.
While sitting in the Chiropractors office waiting to get cracked, I thumbed through a magazine. I stumbled across an article about the new show on NBC called ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.’ I was immediately intreagued as I fell in love with the show from the very first episode and I began to read. The author began by talking about how the script was pitched to all the major networks and the author just sat back waiting for the highest offer. Can you guess what NBC pays per episode?
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