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Sneak Peek/Review - Hellgate: London

19Oct07

I’m a big computer geek, as if you couldn’t tell already, and a goodly amount of my free time is tied up with video games. I’ve been taking a psuedo-break from my World of Warcraft addiction (meaning I still play WoW.. just not quite *as* much) and have been giving a couple games from Flagship Studios a try.

For know I’ll focus on their big name title, Hellgate: London. Luckily they officially lifted the NDA today, so I can get into the gory details without fear of .. my moral conscious? Keep in mind that all my comments/praises/criticisms are all based on a beta build of the game, so things can (and probably will) change when the game goes live this Halloween.

Anyways, lets get on with the good stuff. I’ll give my opinion of the game in four categories: Gameplay, Multiplayer, Graphics, & Sound, and pick an arbitrary number from 1 to 5 to rate it where 3 is a good solid average. I’ll follow that with my one sentence sum-up of the game overall.

Hellgate: London

Gameplay: Overall the interface is excellent, the controls are easy to grasp and the transition from 3rd person perspective to 1st person is flawless and really gives the game that added dimension over other dungeon crawlers where you’re stuck staring at your characters “posterior-portion” the whole time.
Rating: 4 (of 5)

Multiplayer: For the most part I have no complaints here, but I also don’t have any real praises either. There’s no real standout features; you form a party, go forth and slay the monsters, and collect the loot. Though there is a nice little feature, much like Guildwars whatever loot you see that drops is all yours, no one else can pick it up.
Rating: 3 (of 5)

Graphics: In one word, AWESOME. The graphics are brilliantly rendered, even on my lowly DX9 graphics card, and the models and tile-sets are superbly well done.
Rating: 5 (of 5)

Sound: All the sounds and audio are well done, the NPC’s London accents are hilarious to us ‘yanks’ and I love the sounds of demons and beasts in their deathly throes.
Rating: 4 (of 5)

In Short: The game utterly rocks, it just needs a few minor tweaks to really bring it up to a place where it can steal some serious marketshare away from World of Warcraft and Guildwars.

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APOD Widget 1.3

23Sep07

I’ve made a minor tweak to my APOD Widget, allowing for a time offset. All you need to do is configure your widget and enter the number of hours, positive or negative, that you would like the time to be offset to.

The widget is available here:
http://www.digitalmeandering.com/files/apod_widget.zip

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Wordpress 2.2.2!

04Sep07

Now that Wordpress 2.2 has been out for a while, I figured it was time to upgrade. The blog is now up and running using the latest and greatest of internet gadgetry (including migrating to MySQL 5), so be sure to let me know if anything blows up or looks quirky/out of place.

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MSSQL Changing owners, automagically!

13Aug07

I was recently working with a database where there were a number of tables that *gasp* didn’t belong to dbo. Now this isn’t the end of the world, but best practices tend to lean towards making dbo the owner of new tables to avoid potential ownership permission issues.

Now I wouldn’t call myself lazy, but I enjoy coming up with little solutions to annyoing problems that will likely occur again. So instead of manually executing a stored procedure for each table to change the ownership to dbo, I came up with a little SQL script that generates the code to do just that, for every table that belongs to the specified user.

Good luck, god speed, and may the force be with you:
DECLARE
@currentowner varchar(20)
,@newowner varchar(20)

SET @currentowner = ’someotherdude’
SET @newowner = ‘dbo’

SELECT
so.[name] as ‘Object Name’
, su.[name] as ‘Owner Name’
FROM
sysobjects so
INNER JOIN
sysusers su
on su.uid = so.uid
WHERE
su.name = @currentowner
AND
so.xtype = ‘U’

SELECT
‘exec dbo.sp_changeobjectowner ”’ + su.[name] + ‘.’ + so.[name] + ”” + ‘, ‘ + ”” + @newowner + ”” as ‘Generate SQL!’
FROM
sysobjects so
INNER JOIN
sysusers su
on su.uid = so.uid
WHERE
su.name = @currentowner
AND
so.xtype = ‘U’

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Gmail & Google Apps

28Jun07

The first time I used Gmail I was hooked. It was quick, clean, and simple, exactly what I wanted from a webmail client. I’d been a Yahoo! mail user for quite a while (as well as Hotmail back before MS ruined it), but I converted over to Gmail as soon as I could. When I signed up for this domain I was still so enamored with Gmail that I went the quick and dirty route and just setup my domain mail to forward to my Gmail account.

Now I can do one step better! Enter Google Apps.

When I first heard about Google Apps, it was a fledgling service that allowed a select few participants to have Google host their email and use Gmail as their webmail client. Since then they’ve opened it up to Enterprises, Small Businesses, Schools, and Families/Groups, as well as adding their other Google functionality: Calendar, Documents & Spreadsheets, Web Pages, and Chat.

The absolutely crazy thing about it all is .. wait for it .. it’s completely free!*

(*Up to 100 users, pay more to be cool and get Enterprise features)

Luckily I don’t have a need for a hundred email accounts, so I get to have my cake and eat it too! Google manages the email for my domain for free, and I get to use my favorite webmail client, Gmail.

Setting it up was pretty easy, just need to do the following:

  1. Create a Google Apps account for your domain (or buy one during the process if you don’t have one already)
  2. Add the following CNAME’s to your domain host records:
  • mail.[domain.name] –> ghs.google.com
  • docs.[domain.name] –> ghs.google.com
  • calendar.[domain.name] –> ghs.google.com
  • start.[domain.name] –> ghs.google.com
  1. Then add the following MX records: (be sure to keep the period at the end)
  • ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
  • ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
  • ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
  • ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
  • ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
  • ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
  • ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
  1. Now all that’s left is to follow the steps in Google Apps to enable all your services, which should be a cinch now that all your domain host records are already in order.

My experiences so far with Google Apps have been great, but everyone’s different, so YMMV.

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