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Posted by rae in the Net
at 5:59 pm on Wednesday, 28 June 2006
at 5:59 pm on Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Check out the “download” and “screenshots” links!
Steve, Mitch and Bill at the “D4: All THings Digital” conference
Trying to de-spam my blog
I am often getting around 500 spam comments to this blog to moderate every day. I’ve done a few things in an attempt to stem the tide. I’m too lazy to go look for WordPress plugins or anything, so I am just editing the PHP code directly myself. The main thing that has helped is that I’ve editedwp-admin/moderation.php
to present a much more condensed list of spam.
Here’s the spam I’ve had in the last 5 hours:
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New camera!
Our new Sony CyberShot W100
- 8 Megapixels
- fast picture-taking
- fast picture downloading
- excellent flash shots
- 2 GB memory stick
- can use memory stick in Michael’s PSP
- records 640×480 30 frames/s movies with sound
- proprietary battery
- no support for RAW image format
- only 16:9 resolution is 1920×1080
- cable jack is not a standard USB jack
- movies seem very jerky for 30 frames/s
Quake levels
We’ve been talking about playing Quake sometime, and how various buildings would make good Quake levels, etc. So I thought I’d look into tools to build Quake levels. Specifically, the canonical tool, Radiant, which was written by Id Software and released under the GPL. It took about ½ hour, but I managed to find a Mac version of Radiant (actually, it’s GtkRadiant, running under X Windows on a Mac, so it doesn’t look quite native). Here are some links I ran across on the way to finally tracking it down:
Radiant for Windows and Linux
Tutorial for creating spiral stairs
Mac GtkRadiant forum
Manual install of GtkRadiant on a Mac
| Oh, Radiant doesn’t only edit Quake 3 levels or something. It can handle pretty much all Id games, from Quake 1 (I think) through Doom 3. Maybe some of us can get hopping now, eh? Here is a screenshot of the editor in action (somewhat reduced). Pretty ugly, eh? Actually, it reminds me of Maya a bit. |  Screenshot of GtkRadiant running |
Camera notes
I’m posting this so I don’t lose the info.
| Vartan | Sony CyberShot DSC-W7 | 7.2 Mpx | excellent flash indoors |
| Iain | Panasonic DMC-LX1 | 8 Mpx | good flash |
| Jeff | Panasonic DMC-FX01 | 6 Mpx | $400 CA @ Aiden Camera |
| Debbie | Canon PowerShot SD550 | ||
| Canon PowerShot S80 8 Mpx | |||
| Panasonic DMC-LX1K “Lumix” 8.4 Mpx | |||
| Sony CyberShot DSC-N1 8.1 Mpx | |||
| Sony CyberShot DSC-W70 7 Mpx | |||
| Panasonic DMC-FX01K “Lumix” 6 Mpx | |||
new iRiver from eBay
1 GB iRiver IFP 799
- We don’t have to worry about having enough room to record a whole Rolemaster session any more
- Rolemaster recordings will be larger