Amazon AWS & Perforce: Part 1: Windows Servers
Rather than buying a bunch of hardware and going through all the necessary steps to have an externally accessible server in my house; I opted to learn how to use Amazon’s AWS Cloud services to set up my Perforce server on Windows.
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Tags: Amazon, AWS, Cloud, EBS, EC2, Perforce, S3, server, Windows
Conception II Demo Impressions
I downloaded the Conception II Demo on both 3DS and Vita. I’ve enjoyed other games that Atlus has brought over to the US, such as Persona 3 FES (and P3P) and Person 4 (and Golden), so I thought I’d check out if I wanted to pre-order Conception II. This piece was live-written while playing, so I’ll pre-apologize for a little bit of it’s stilted nature. Read more
Tags: 3ds, atlus, conception 2, game, impression, jrpg, rpg, video game, vita
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Tags: bandfuse, C, postmortem, realta
C++ new with and without parentheses
So I ran into some code in C++ that in one occasion used new with parentheses and in another a few lines below used it without. I thought that surely this must behave in two different ways, where as my coworkers just thought the parentheses were optional. Turns out that behavior is different not only between these two lines due to syntax, but also due to context, as well as compiler.
Some notes from stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com/q/620137/150794
Find Open Port(s) on Address(es)
So, I was trying to find out which PC on a network (which I was VPN’d into) had VNC running on it. NetBIOS wasn’t working, so I couldn’t access the PC by name. All the tools that I found just didn’t work properly for doing a port scan on a range of addresses over VPN. So, I threw together a portscanner in Python (v2.6.6) really fast.
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Tags: intartubes, python
Windows Media Center, OGM and MKV
So, I’m setting up a HTPC (Home Theater PC), and a lot of my video files are in OGM or MKV because they tend to be of higher quality than most AVI. By default, of course, Windows Media Center (and Windows Media Player) will not play these types of files. In order to remedy that, I installed K-Lite Codec Pack Mega followed by K-Lite Codec Pack x64. Read more
Tags: media center, mkv, ogm, windows media center
User Deletion, iPhone Friendly, Facebook Updates
A number of changes today. I deleted all the users that appeared to be spam users (which was all of them). I added a plugin that enabled a special skin to be used for smartphones (particularly the iPhone). I also added a plugin that will post to facebook when I’ve made a new post here.
Automatically Run and Minimize iTunes
So, more people now are having servers at home, which they’re using to run iTunes and stream to various speakers plugged into Airport Express routers. Myself included. Read more
Lunarpages Name Server Spoof
So it looks like sometime yesterday morning, the Lunarpages name servers in Vegas were spoofed and many of the websites hosted by Lunarpages were being redirected all over the place. It seems to be mostly fixed now, but there appears to be some propagation issues still, at least with the Comcast “domain helper” DNS servers. Hopefully it’ll stabilize soon.
WordPress Blog Hijackings
I’ve noticed that mine and other WordPress based blogs have been hijacked by someone injecting some script into the header.php of the template. It forces the blog to redirect to other websites after a few seconds. I think I’ve temporarily fixed it for now, and am in the process of plugging up the security hole.