Quake Live will be released as a free version of Quake III: Gold (Quake III and its expansion pack, Team Arena) available only through a web browser. Live will be backed financially by in-game advertising from IGA Worldwide. Skill-based matchmaking will be powered by a “metagame engine” developed by GaimTheory.
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My experience
Friday the 20th. i “discovered” a bug in id’s beta system, and got the opportunity to create an account on the closed beta and play Quake Live… Wow it was awesome! Saturday they fixed this error, and i signed up for the beta program. Today, Sunday, i got a mail from id’ with a CD-key, so i could now sign up for the closed beta legit.

I have now played all the new maps, and all i can say is; “Bring back the pain!”. Quake 3 Arena really rocked as the best first person shooter  ever - in my opinion. After id released Quake 4, Quake died slowly, and we didn’t get a replacing shooter game. Now with the remaking of Quake 3, to a browser based FPS, the action and good old gameplay is back.

How it works
First of all, Quake Live is an “online only” based game. You log onto quakelive.com and create an character you are gonna play. You’ll only be able to play on id’s servers. The site stores your stats - time played, wins, losses, frags, deaths, hits, shots, accuracy, rewards, ranking, etc., so that you always can see how good you are compared to your friends or the best players in the world. That’s really sweet. :-)

After creating an account you download a plugin at the size of 3mb for your webbrowser, and can now play. It sounds a bit weird, and we are not used to that type of games, but making it this way, they really make Quake portable and playable on all platforms. You can play in a minimized window as showed in the screen shots further down, or you can play it full screen, just like in Quake 3 Arena.

Overall
The graphic has got a big boost since Quake 3 Arena, and runs very smooth even on old computers. They have made several new maps which really rocks. You are able to play CTF, CA, TDM, FFA, Duel and Instagib, either with bots or online players. The bots are now even smarter, and gets better as you gain experience and skills, so that they’ll always match your skills.

Quake is back! Really looking forward to play Quake Live. :-)

Open for the public on 24th of February

Screenshots

Basicly it means after restart of Windosws, it will take 30min for MySQL to work again!

Environment:
Windows 2003 with Service Pack 1
MySQL 4x / 5.x (same error on both versions) - Slacky SUN!

Workaround:
I found out that if you set the MySQL service to start as Administrator, or make a independent account for it (with read/write rights), instead of starting as SERVICE (default), it will start instantly!

How to:
Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
Choose MySQL > right click > Properties > Log on > This account

and write in your account login data. I’ll use the Administrator account for now…

Keywords:
Error establishing a database connection
MySQL hangs Windows 2003
MySQL hangs on startup
MySQL slow startup

TCPClient.java PASTEBIN
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class TCPClient{
 public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception{
  int port = 6789; //default
  if (argv.length > 0) port = Integer.parseInt(argv[0]);
  BufferedReader inFromUser = new BufferedReader(
  new InputStreamReader(System.in));
  // To server on local host
  Socket clientSocket = new Socket(”127.0.0.1″, port);
  // To server on other host with IP-address = 83.92.58.109
  //Socket clientSocket = new Socket(”83.92.58.109″, port);
  PrintStream outToServer = new PrintStream(
  clientSocket.getOutputStream());
  BufferedReader inFromServer = new BufferedReader(
  new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
  String sentence = inFromUser.readLine();
  outToServer.println(sentence);
  String modifiedSentence = inFromServer.readLine();
  System.out.println(”FROM SERVER: ” + modifiedSentence);
  clientSocket.close();
  }
}


TCPServer.java PASTEBIN
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
class TCPServer{
  public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception{
  ServerSocket welcomeSocket = new ServerSocket(6789);
  while (true){
  Socket connectionSocket = welcomeSocket.accept();
  BufferedReader inFromClient = new BufferedReader(
  new InputStreamReader(connectionSocket.getInputStream()));
  PrintStream outToClient = new PrintStream(
  connectionSocket.getOutputStream());
  String clientSentence = inFromClient.readLine();
  System.out.println(”FROM CLIENT: ” + clientSentence);
  String capitalizedSentence = clientSentence.toUpperCase();
  outToClient.println(capitalizedSentence);
  }
  }
}

Modificeret TCPClient.java der spammer serveren 100 gange.

TCPClient.java PASTEBIN
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class TCPClient{
 public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception{int port = 6789; //default
  if (argv.length > 0) port = Integer.parseInt(argv[0]);
  BufferedReader inFromUser = new BufferedReader(
  new InputStreamReader(System.in));
  // To server on local host
  Socket clientSocket = new Socket(”10.12.5.252″, port);
  // To server on other host with IP-address = 83.92.58.109
  //Socket clientSocket = new Socket(”83.92.58.109″, port);
  //System.out.println(”Say: “);
  PrintStream outToServer = new PrintStream(
  clientSocket.getOutputStream());
  BufferedReader inFromServer = new BufferedReader(
  new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
  String sentence = inFromUser.readLine();//Løkke til at spamme server 100 gange
  for(int i=0; i < 100; i++){
  outToServer.println(sentence + i);
  String modifiedSentence = inFromServer.readLine();
  }
  clientSocket.close();
  }
}

I made a movie out of it, duration: 19:24 min.

Watch the movie online in bad quality on Google videos: Executus Rampage on Google videos

Download the movie i better quality to your harddrive:

The movie is split up in 3 files, archived in RAR - you need to download all 3 parts, and extract “Executus_Rampage-by_Eleet.part1.rar”, which will automaticlly extract the movie from all 3 parts.

If you need an applicationt for extraction, download WinRAR

Please choose from following mirrors…

Mirror 1 - Rapidshare
Executus_Rampage_1/3-Rapidshare
Executus_Rampage_2/3-Rapidshare
Executus_Rampage_3/3-Rapidshare

Mirror 2 - Megaupload
Executus_Rampage_1/3-Megaupload
Executus_Rampage_2/3-Megaupload
Executus_Rampage_3/3-Megaupload

Mirror 3 - Depositfiles
Executus_Rampage_1/3-Depositfiles
Executus_Rampage_2/3-Depositfiles
Executus_Rampage_3/3-Depositfiles

Mirror 4 - FileFactory
Executus_Rampage_1/3-FileFactory (Waiting for mirror)
Executus_Rampage_2/3-FileFactory
Executus_Rampage_3/3-FileFactory

Here goes my list… Du er velkommen til at komme med tilføjelser.

Notepad++
Nice source code editor med support af mange programmeringssprog

NetBeans
Virkelig avanceret Java editor, som også kan bruges til mange andre sprog

Thunderbird
Bedste mail-klient. Glem alt om OE og OE Express

Firefox
Take back the web ;-)

IrfanView
Rename, resize og convert mange billeder af gangen

RkLauncher
OS X look a like taskbar til Windows

AVG Antivirus
Godt antivirusprogram

SpyBot
Spyware remover

ImgBurn
Bedst program til at brænde og lave imagefiler

VoIP Buster
Ring gratis fra computeren til rigtige telefoner

VLC media player
Medieafspiller der kan afspille næsten alle formater

Joost
Se TV gratis online

Zattoo
Se TV gratis online

uTorrent
Bedste torrent klient out there :)

RapGet
Downloadprogram til at hente filer fra Rapidshare

nLite
Med nLite har du mulighed for at lave din egen Windows-installtion. Tweak, fjern, tilføj funktioner mm.

VirtualBox
Virtuel server til at installerer fx. Linux, OS X, BSD, mf. på Windows, eller den anden vej rundt.

Daemon Tools
Program til at oprette virtuelle drev ud fra imagefiler

puTTY
Dejlig simpel SSH klient

SSH Secure Shell
SSH og SSH file transfor klient

WAMP
Pakke der selv installerer Apache, MySQL, PHP og PHPMyAdmin på Windows

Jeg har lavet en encoder / decoder class samt en test class.

Leet.class

public class Leet {public void Leet(){
}

//Encoder
public void encodeLeet(String tekst){

tekst=tekst.toUpperCase();
tekst=tekst.replace(”A”, “4″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”B”, “8″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”C”, “(”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”D”, “|)”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”E”, “3″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”F”, “|=”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”G”, “6″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”H”, “|-|”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”I”, “1″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”J”, “_|”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”K”, “|<”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”L”, “1″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”M”, “|V|”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”N”, “|/|”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”O”, “0″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”P”, “9″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”Q”, “&”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”R”, “|2″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”S”, “5″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”T”, “7″);
tekst=tekst.replace(”U”, “|_|”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”V”, “√”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”W”, “VV”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”X”, “><”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”Y”, “`/”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”Z”, “2″);
System.out.println(tekst);
}

//Decoder
public void decodeLeet(String tekst){
tekst=tekst.toUpperCase();
tekst=tekst.replace(”4″, “A”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”8″, “B”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”(”, “C”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”|)”, “D”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”3″, “E”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”|=”, “F”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”6″, “G”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”|-|”, “H”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”1″, “L”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”_|”, “J”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”|<”, “K”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”1″, “L”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”|V|”, “M”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”|/|”, “N”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”0″, “O”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”9″, “P”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”&”, “Q”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”|2″, “R”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”5″, “S”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”7″, “T”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”|_|”, “U”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”√”, “V”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”VV”, “W”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”><”, “X”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”`/”, “Y”);
tekst=tekst.replace(”2″, “Z”);
System.out.println(tekst);
}
}

LeetTest.class

public class LeetTest {public void LeetTest(){
}

public static void main (String[] args){
Leet leet=new Leet();

//Encode text
leet.encodeLeet(”Eleet”);

//Decode text
leet.decodeLeet(”31337″);
}
}

Windows XP Pro
Start > Run > GPEDIT.MSC [ENTER]

Gå ned i User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Desktop

På højre side dobbeltklik på “Remove Recycle Bin icon from desktop” og vælg ENABLE

Windows XP Home
Start > Run > Regedit

Find eller opret

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

REG_DWORD
0×00000001

Hvad skal man være opmærksom på når man koder en rekursiv metode?
- At der er en stop-betingelse + hver rekursivt kald nærmer sig stop-betingelsen.

Nedenfor har jeg lavet et eksempel på en rekursion, et script der læser om et ord er en palindom, hvilket er et ord der staves ens fra begge sider. Resultatet vil enten blive true eller false da jeg bruger boolean. I dette tilfælde vil resultatet bliver true, da jeg har indsat “regninger”.

public class Palindrom {

}
}

Info om String fra Java Doc: JavaDoc http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html

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