Since then I’ve been exploring the growing number of dual-platform titles. most of which have demos which are not yet dual-platform. One of the very addicting (and insanely easy to grasp) titles has been a little cartoony aerial shooter called Altitude It’s available outside of steam as well. It’s kind of fun and there’s a free demo on their site. Give it a shot if you’re bored. I managed to lose a couple hours in this thing tonight when I sat down intending to play for half an hour and go to bed. >< If you decide to buy it, hit the link above so I get a little referral credit. Just unlocks some plane skin options in game for me, is all. $10 on the site, but for this weekend it’s $5 on steam. (Click the link first anyway, then go purchase it in steam, the bonus checks via IP address)

The system requirements are fairly lightweight:

OS: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
Processor: 1.0 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
Graphics: 64 MB VRAM
Hard Drive: 300 MB of free space

If you already own it, you can find me under the handle ‘bluevulpine’.

I’ve a PC to repair today (Sunday) and then while windows is reloading I hope to be able to sit down and have an hour or two to actually write.

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1. NameVirtualHosts, so that different dyndns-style hostnames would point to different virtual servers on the same box. No problem, he had NameVirtualHost working.

2. Create a second virtualhost to deliver a directory index of a specified DocumentRoot, and

3. Point that DocumentRoot at a network share mounted on a windows XP drive letter (B: -> \Server\Share)

Apache would explode. “DocumentRoot must be a directory” and refusal to start. After installing Xampp myself and fooling around for about 20 minutes I found that the DocumentRoot worked fine on a local drive, but not a network share on a drive letter.

So, since B:/ didn’t work, yet C:/ would let the server start, I threw //Server/Share/ at mine and it fired right up, gave the listing. Tada.

<3

Eeexcept it wouldn’t work for him.

After another hour of back and forth on IRC and emailing the config file back and forth (DCC wouldn’t work either but I blame my clearaccess modemrouter), I’m finally ready to declare it a ‘feature’ of windows XP. He had Xampp set up on an XP box, the files to be listed on a windows 7 box, and while he could hit \Server\Share on XP’s ‘Run’ command and have it pop right up with the share, apache would not tolerate //Server/Share and declared “must be a directory” Yet, //S/S would work fine when I tried it on Xampp running on windows 7.

Until I can roll a winxp VM and test it I can’t 100% blame XP, but I’m strongly leaning that direction. I’m assuming it’s a change in implementation in how the OS presents the share path to applications requesting it. 7 properly presents it as a directory and apache is pleased, but somehow XP doesn’t and apache is not amused.

(footnote: apache requires / while windows finds \ far more delicious)

Paradigm Shift is briefly on hold, until a bit more of TF rolls out the door. I’m assuming you don’t want to know that interesting things happen in the time between them that I’m not going to tell you just yet, and that you’d be upset if I pulled the curtain early. It’s likely everything everyone expects, anyway, but you never know.

I won’t have weekly updates for a while, like I was doing before, but I’ll get things up as I get them done. Enjoy.

Tangent…

So. Nothing new, yet again. Working on other projects, most involving chainsaws and making large pieces of wood (tree sized, perhaps) into smaller pieces (firewood sized, perhaps). It is hard to type with leather gloves on, and woodchips do not process information faster than silicon. Adding them to the laptop adds heat with no discernable increase in power. Very sad :(

There was a request to perhaps repost Creationism in the interim. I can’t do that yet, mainly since I haven’t looked at it to ensure it’ll fit into current continuity. I could toss the old one at The Burn Pile since, but I’m not certain just yet. I’d rather not wind up stalling Creationism because it makes calls on portions of PS or TF that don’t yet exist. This has happened already a couple of times between PS and TF, and I’d rather not do that again, as fun as recursion can be.

Snow is showing signs of melting. It’s only March. How am I supposed to have my annual snowball fight in May? I may have to fill the chest freezer.

When I think of Casiandra, this is what I’m envisioning. With blue eyes.