Companies in the game development industry are constantly attempting to keep up with the demands of consumers to provide more elaborate environments to inhabit. Games such as EVE Online, World of WarCraft, Planeshift and The Lord of The Rings Online are fun and enjoyable, yet have huge limitations. (more…)
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MMORPG Intelligent Load Leveling
Monday, November 5th, 2007Cisco Password recovery
Saturday, October 27th, 2007I was given a Cisco router a few weeks back, so that I could practice for the Cisco CCNA exams. The only problem is that I had now idea what the passwords on it were. After some good old hard work, and lots of searching I finally figured out how to reset the password and set the router back to the defaults. This allowed me to start from a clean slate and start the process of learning how to manage and maintain a Cisco router. (more…)
Touchscreens – The new computer interface
Friday, July 27th, 2007I am surprised by all of the technology that is coming out. It is interesting to me, that we are still living in the stone ages though. I mean, think about it… Processor speeds grow at a nearly exponential rate, memory is growing just as fast, hard drive sizes are as well. With all of these advances, do we still use the arcane method of a mouse and keyboard. Sure, the have finally started adding finger print scanners to laptops to use instead of passwords, but there is a serious lack of innovation when it comes to user input. (more…)
Fighting Spam
Thursday, July 19th, 2007I started having a lot of troubles with my mail server when it started getting spammed pretty bad. I have
Postfix using Amavis to push the email through ClamAV and SpamAssasin. My server was brought to it’s knees. It was running at 98-99% processor load and it would take hours for email to go through. So here is what I did to fix the problem: (more…)
The Model/View/Controller (MVC) Mindset
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Being a programmer that works on our clients websites, my eyes have been opened to the fact that there are some really BAD programmers out there. A current project that I have been working on is a total mess. Our customer outsourced the programming to some company in Russia. This company never finished the project and so our customer contacted my company in hopes we could complete the project. (more…)
Allowing professionals to work
Friday, June 15th, 2007
Working as a PHP developer I have quickly noticed that there are a lot of people in this world that try to do things themselves. Tinkering and playing with something has always been a very productive way to learn, grow and expand ones ability to do something. Sad as it is, there is a time to play and a time to get the job done properly.This last week, I had a very interesting experience. (more…)
