upon receiving a 160gig 7200rpm portable harddrive at school, i was instantly consumed with "what can i do with it?". after about a month of having it i've learned alot. macs can only read NTFS file systems, they can only read and write on fat32. important factor when my classes split between both machines quiet often, the downside, fat32 cant handle files larger than 4gigs.
so in this time period i've managed to completely become independant from any pc with a huge selection of portable apps. no installers, when you format everythings already done, simple, no bullshit. no matter where i am, school, my apartment, someones house fixing their pc, its all ready to rock n roll....i like this feeling and it saves alot of time and easier formating. the best part is theres several application launchers available which is shown in the pic and called 8start., or you can simply make a copy of the rocketdock folder and make a seperate launch just for the portable apps. most important thing is file management linking, ie: using ../ for the target paths.
aside from all those aspects, over time i found even more usefull utilities along the way. for instance, i found an app that grabs my systems current set of drivers, rips them out, and makes an installer, noodge. then i started the win sauce project, which is the sidetab on the left some of you may have noticed. win sauce is going to be a collective source of windows enhancements, functionality, and interaction.... mainly.... a dump of links and info i've gathered over the years fucking with this shit OS. in time i hope to add nice descriptions and some videos to each item.
if you want these use google, that was the easiest way in the end, just search for portable versions of the apps you already like. otherwise, portableapps.com & portablefreeware.com should help get you started. and f.y.i. my pc runs fast as hell because of the utilities and tweaks that ive come across for the win sauce website. ive even managed to build my own OS with nLite, which takes your OS disc, rips it apart the way you want and puts it back together.
enough for now, current list of shit... total size: 1.09 gigs, which includes warsow and open office....which can fit on pretty much any flash drive. small size for just about everything you would want on your pc aside from major installers and games :)
this isnt exactly a gymkhana video, but the newest from this crew as a gag, there 'real' original video can be found here, and the 'real' gymkhana 2 video can be found here.
as for everything else theres nothing really new except for maybe fontcapture.com which allows you to download a .pdf, fill out all the characters, then upload it and it spits out your own personal and destributable font.
then theres webs.com that allows you to basically have your own website for free with a control panel, which is nice. im still not sure which is better out of the three. ( wordpress & google's blogger )
and who doesnt like a little flash? tokyo flash that is.
Ive created a seperate blog to document my work from start to finish as a two year student in multimedia technologies. the reason for using an external blog was to make things simple to create which is alot less time consuming for me being I do everything in editpad pro. Plus I think things will get a bit messy with all kinds of non related objects on a site that has a different purpose, and doesnt have half the stuff finished that I want to put on it. -really should add all the things I want to add to this damn page, maybe I'll have time or motivation from all the work I'll be doing.
all the info on classes and such are on the blog including everything they gave me on my first day, which is nice. one funny thing is that they required me to submit a portfolio before they could accept me, to goto school for design, then make a portfolio before you leave the school... i love it. another factor is age, im 28, in a school with 90 and 91rs, but to my suprise theres a decent number of adults which made me feel pretty comfortable. Infact, the day before i started i was in the lobby sitting next to a guy in his 40's discussing the classes he wants to take. so i thought, "if this silver-streaked guy is going, age shouldnt even play apart in any of my stress, now back to work."
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just thought id let everyone know that an updated version of trackmania nations has been released today for free just as the old version was. and i will be releasing a mod and custom skins for it.
id also like to brag and add that i was the #1 USA driver and qualified 1st in the USA to goto paris in ESWC 06 untill game services and GGL "couldnt come to a compromise" and were not able to send the american competitors that year and everyone was stuck with the bill of over $2,000 USD to achive in about 3 weeks before the event. from the start every nation was setup and was agreed every top player had a payed attendance and lodging, the only thing you needed was a passport technically.
so come join the (most likely up in the 500,000+) players and have some decent fun at a pretty damn decent game, great graphics, large server slots, and sporty but consistant car physics (yes theres drifting pattened by myself back in the day)enjoy peoples, come try to beat my ass :D
i found this awesome little winamp skin called dynamic by sinan. i also found a better plugin like the jammix enhancer, its called enhancer 017 and builds into winamp like a normal window unlike the jammix where it sits in the system tray. as of right now the presets in jammix are better than in enhancer but the capabilities are there to duplicate the same experience.
i also found an ubuntu human theme for windows xp systems. for those of you that do not know, theres an application that unlocks the ability to use custom themes in windows xp. basically, win xp comes with "skins" exactly like winamp or instant messengers have except windows doesnt allow you to use them without some entries. so you can download any skins under the heading of visual styles or .msstyles and you extract the folder or .msstyles file to /windows/resources/themes.
google sky is pretty decent as of current. looks pretty weird if you zoom all the way out then turn on infrared.
Thanks to TiDaN in #uscpmpickup on Quakenet for catching it.
[TiDaN] Yup, I kind of really hate you now.[TiDaN] :)
theres also a bunch of changes throughout the site, made this mIRC echbot !add script, the volume and gamma arrow key scripts now use con_echo for the superhud, moved stuff around, some new links, new cpma hud, theres board style flags i started working on to the right
ubuntu is truly an amazing operating system for a number of reasons, mainly how much all things linux have been refined over the years. i first heard about it about a year and a half ago and tried it. then about 6 months ago i switched and went back to it after watching the video. NOW, google has taken it upon themselves to take ubuntu and create Goobuntu, which i cannot wait for because of googles entire work ethic and id trust google over microsoft on any product. heres a pic of my current ubuntu desktop.
what am i playing? im playing conquer online. the stupidest possible 2d mmorpg on the planet that it just incredibly in-depth that it puts most games to utter shame. theres so many things you can do. upgrade your gears with more sockets, put different gems that each do something different in the sockets, upgrade the quality, enchant hp, compose them with other gear. you can also reborn your character into a whole other class after you reach 120+. either a water taoist,fire tao, trojan, or warrior. each time you reborn and depending on the classes you were you get special skills. and lvling is REALLY fast as well as hunting, every monster drops money and items which you can use or sell in the market. theres also guild wars, adventure zones, tons of quests, team exp, power lvling, warehouses shitloads of NPC's to buy high quality items. theres also all kinds of garments you can wear ontop of your gear. you can pk whenever you want, if you kill to much you go red or blackname(if you get caught as a blackname you goto jail till your names red), and if you die you drop 1 or 2 of your good gear. theres also training grounds you can level your character/skills in overnight. plus theres places where you can fight people for fun without an risk such as guild war, jail,pk arena where theres tournaments. all in all its awesome and if im playing it, yknow its worth a shot.
also this dawn girl is pretty interesting.
so is TECHNOVIKIING
human traffic is a really good movie that ive watched about 10 times this passed month on this flickpeek.com thing.
also R.I.P best CSS server on earth, i loved and sculpted you into something quiet amazing and i will forever miss you
Also started coding my warsow mod. It changes a bunch of graphics, physics, defaults etc....
The hud icons use the OLD ones but the simple items will stay wsw .3(not in the pic)
My promode hud was redone and given some fixes Over Here
is needed in the US
also, if anyone wants an EXTREMELY good winamp plugin that makes everything sound alot more rich and full....
SOMEONE asked me if i knew the track in this vid, which is amazing for old school electronic.....well i found it
i joined a server with a specific map to take some screenshots, turns out i got the end of the round map change upon joining only to see 2 bots join before the map changed.....
most of you who know me should lol right away. for the rest... my gaming name is "Runningman" and since I'm new to CS:S I've used the name "monkey, killin monkey" which is a verse in the song Right In Two by tool.
Been doin the Need For Speed Underground 2 thing. Download the 100% complete savegame if you wanna check everything out.
I also worked on a new skin which I havent released called Xaero - Ninja Monk, the pic turned out nice though its not finished.
Now relax and watch some talent. This is mew from Finland who has pretty much mastered b0-beta6. Mew will hopefully be writting an indepth article for us about Logitech's New G3 Mouse and comparing it to the old mx300, if it ever gets there...
Plenty of changes for anyone who HATES the "clay fighter" picmip 20 look. Weapon dynamic lights are all changed, same for quad and flag carrier. Matched the red and yellow armor to the CPMA green style made by: lun. Added hemosticks explosions which we all love and my player shadow from q3plus. The full list of changes arqon & the cpma team has made can be found at promode.org
My hud has been updated to the new additions of the 1.34 superhud. It also shows off more abilities of what you can do with the SuperHud. Heres a pic..
I've currently been working with arqon and the CPMA team in various areas and helping to bring things "up to date" with the newest of standards. So hopefully everyone should enjoy some of the ideas and changes we've gone through.
Name: mikemartin1200.com - texas/pm
IP: 72.232.194.178:27960
Location: Yeehaw
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I've also started working on the new "SuperHud" feature in this release. Basically you can set your HUD in a quake3 config to look and at like anything you want it to. And the best part is that its setup like a Cascading Stylesheet or "css".
You can find my pretty extensively changed 1.33 HUD in the quake3 config/scripts section. Mind you it is a FULL hud, a minimalistic version will be released in time. You cand find the CPMA forum thread with everyone elses HUDS Here.
Valve has released a HD video showing off they're new single player game called Episode2: Portal. Amazing gaphics, multiple axis gameplay, highly creative and should open everyones minds up just a little bit. Read the thread here
Team Elevation.....wtf is team elevation?
THEY are a new Defrag team tricking team in quake 3. Pretty good guys, im calling them Baby Team Event Horizon.
They're server IP: 70.84.176.163:2796
ALSO, Who can resist The Juggernaut Bitch Soundboard ?
It seems that im going to Paris for Trackmania Nations ESWC! Thanks to everyone for the support! Accompanying me in TMN will be Steve Churchill of the USA.
Heres some links to official lists & affiliates, I'll just keep adding links when i find them.
teameventhorizon.com (q3 defrag team)
ESWC's cancellation of the US qualifier
