While I'm greatful for examples like this J2Me GameCanvas example I'm not so happy about this bit of it:
/** Starts the canvas by
firing up a thread
*/
public void start() {
Thread myThread = new Thread(this);
// Make sure we know …
The Wine project has been going since 1993, and has got to the point where a large percentage of windows programs run well in linux.
A perennial question is when 1.0 will be released, excitingly it looks like this will be sooner than we thought - as seen from their …
I’ve recently been learning python and decided to note down the *very basics* that took longer to find out than I would've liked.
Without furtherado, heres my 5-minute-python.
It can be useful to test sounds in your current engine (esp for testing MOD support), so I've made a tiny sound player for pygame. The code is just this:
import sys, pygame
from pygame.locals import *
import pygame.mixer
if __name__=="__main__":
pygame.display.set_mode((120, 120), DOUBLEBUF | HWSURFACE …The good news is, my laptop can run the Blender game engine at a decent framerate.
The bad news is I found out that is the Vista taskbar that more than halves it. I run without Aero, as Aero completely borks OpenGL (quite apart from the fact that Vista limits …
My dad found this old advert for the Osbourne I... at only £1250 + Vat (and with a free 12 Inch amber for a limited time), this is The One To pickup... or not as they were never popular. Weighing in at "below 24lb" (10 Kilos!) this was a proper computer …
As our washing machine broke, I was in the Laundrette where I saw this on the wall -
The writing on the bottom says
£1000 Reward!
Will be given to any person who can prove that this soap manufactured
by Lever Bros.
Port Sunlight on Mersey
Contains any form of adulteration …
While trying to find some good freeware to use the flash on my phone as a torch, I stumbled across a couple of nice apps
Obex Commander for sending files to your phone over bluetooth.
YBrowser a Series 60 file manager (you can do useful things like send multiple files …
This is very cool - lock and unlock your computer depending on your phone being in bluetooth range.
Next time I'm in linux I'll definately have to play with it. Something I've been wanting to do is automatically rotate the songs on the memory card of the phone …
While browsing on the train today, I hit my data limit of 2gb, so now I can't check my email or browse until the 24th!
Maybe it's time to check in the internet addiction for a couple of hours a day read some books?