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War2Observe
Introduction:
This program is meant to be a cheap immitation of the Warcraft 3′s feature for observers. It allows you, when as a watcher of the game, to see what the players are doing as well as seeing their resource statistics as your own. This is not a hack, and should not complement hacks of any kinds. Once again, credit goes out to LoThaR. for MUCH of his time and devotion in stomping out bugs.
Direction:
1) Unzip the War2Observe.exe file into your favorite directory or folder.
2) Double click to run
That is it. This program will work regardless when you run the program in relation to War2. For those who wants clarification, you can start this before war2, after war2. If for some reason you can start both processes at the same time, go for it, if it crashes…tough. If you start this during a game, it will not do anything until your next game. This means, you cannot run this and start observing in the middle of the game. This restriction is here so that if a player died and only has a farm left, he cannot pop out and run this to help his ally.
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One of the servers we’ve had for a while was running a bit slow. After a few hours of searching, I’ve found out that one of the PHP scripts was running a mailer and it was just dragging the system down. Although most of the load was through exim, our mailer, I found that apache was hogging up a bit of resources as well. Since our server load was high and we were getting a decent number of visitors hitting on our vBulletin as well as a PHP lyrics script that I partially wrote for our Vietnamese lyrics website. I went to search on how to optimize PHP scripts and I came up with eAccelerator. (more…)
php · php optimization · speed up php · speed up php and apache · web development
For the past few days, Softlayer had very good "specials" for their server deals. What’s the deal?
FREE Double Default RAM and Double Default Drive on any Seattle Server Base Priced $179.00 or Higher
Well, since we were already paying $189 for one of our servers, why not jump on this deal? Essentially, before this deal, our server specs was Opteron 170, 2GB of ram, 250GB of diskspace. Now, for just $10 more, this is the beast we’re getting: (more…)
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If you have kept up with this blog at all, you would know that I had several problems with my brand new laptop, the M1330. Since then, I’ve contacted Dell and they’ve put in a replacement laptop for me using the next business day shipping. So, DHL did a "Shipment Acknowledged" on Wednesday the 6th, but they didn’t pick up the package until Thursday the 7th. So I thought in my mind, the laptop would arrive at my place on Friday the 8th hence the "Next Business Day" shipping. Although I shouldn’t be surprised, but it is now February 11th, and I have no idea where my replacement laptop is! (more…)
Unlike the rosy picture I had painted about SUA in my previous post, I’ve ran into a lot of problems with it once I have installed it on my new version of Vista Ultimate. First off, I enabled SUA through the Control Panel, then I went to download the SDK and utilities off of Microsoft’s Website. After I installed everything (by doing default and clicking Next), it told me to restart my computer. It turned off fine, but it couldn’t turn back on!
It went to the recovery screen because it could not start Windows Vista properly. Talk about problems eh? It then asked me if I wanted to go back to previous settings, I was pissed at this point and opted no, just for the hell of it to see. It still attempted the repair process, taking about 20 minutes, could not find anything, then restarted. This time, it restarted fine…wtf? After all that installations of the SDK and utilities, I have the C shell and the K shell on my start menu, neither of which I prefer. So I went to install bash…but I don’t know how to use their pkg utilities. (more…)
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I tried and tried to work with Vista Home to find a good alternative to Vista’s SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications), and I really can’t find a good alternative. I had to shell some cash out of my own pocket to get Vista Ultimate, but I got it for cheap since I have student discount. There are a few things that I look for when looking for a *nix in windows type of environment. First off, I would like to have a fast shell and that it’s multi-tabbed. Reason being for this tabbed feature is that it increases my productivity by a lot! (more…)
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I was getting ready to test Interix/SFU/SUA under my new computer running Vista Home Premium. What I found was really disappointing. There are NO support for SUA under Home Premium. I looked at this closer and realized that there are no support in any versions of Vista Home along with Vista Business. Only Enterprise and Ultimate supports SUA. For those of you who aren’t into *nix, you may be asking yourself, "What the hell is SUA?" (more…)
If you read my post about my initial reactions to the M1330, you’ll find that I was kind of bummed out about the new plug for the M1330. The reason behind this is that I own a Dell 700m, which has a different type of plug, and I was thinking of using the extra 700m AC adapter to use on the M1330.
As you can kind of see from this image, the plug for the new Dell M1330 is octogonal, unlike that of its predecessors, which is circular. Before checking if the plug fits or not, I took a look at both adapters to see its power rating. This is what I got from looking at both:
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Finally, initial reactions to my new Dell M1330
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As I have posted in my previous post, I am a big fan of portable laptop computers. My first laptop was an HP and it was big. Not to sound like a wussy and all, but carrying that thing around campus was quite a challenge, and it was only 15.4" 
. I am not much of a gamer, so my need for a heavy-duty, 256MB video card laptop wasn’t necessary, so I opted for the Dell M1330. When I received my M1330 last week, I took a few pictures, but haven’t had the time to post anything up about it, so here it is.
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