Calamari

Mekuru for Blackberry – Test Download Site

calamari — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:26:28 +0000

While its far too early to expect complete (or even existant) functionality in the app, I have set up a test page for my new Blackberry app. This page can be visited on any Blackberry and then simply click the link at the bottom to install the app. For the time being, consider this page (and the app itself) highly volatile, in the sense that things can and WILL change regularly. Don’t get all angry if the feature you want isn’t done yet (hell, I’ve not even finished the menu screen yet), or if it breaks.
At the moment, I can only test the app on my own Blackberry (a Bold 9000), so for the time being, this will be the only model that I officially support. If any users out there would like to see it on their Blackberry, then by all means, try it out and then please let me know if there’s any bugs and I’ll do my best to sort them out.

http://freeside.co.uk/~calamari/mekuru/

Posted in Mekuru for Blackberry

Empathy

calamari — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:30:33 +0000

The empathy IM client on linux has long baffled me. It didn’t look as nice as pidgin, and would NEVER sign into my msn. When the ubuntu team made it the new default client, I couldn’t understand it. Until now…

Finally empathy has won me over. It actually signs into everything, and uses lots of adium themes so it looks fantastic now. AND its more stable, so I can say goodbye to the days of pidgin randomly dissapearing. Huzzah!

Posted in Linux, Random, Ubuntu

Fixing a broken Wubi Grub

calamari — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:45:21 +0000

Its happened so many times; I make a fresh wubi install and update it, and then on reboot I find myself dropped to a grub shell. I could never figure out why it broke, or how to fix it. Luckily, I don’t have to! Someone else has finally found a solution!

Turns out, its dead simple. To boot back into ubuntu just takes three lines on the grub shell:

sh:grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz-(Your version of the kernel) root=/dev/(Your Windows partition) loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro

sh:grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img-(Your version of the kernel)

sh:grub> boot

Then once you’re back in, simply reinstall the package “grub-pc”. No more reinstalls and losing whole configurations! I much prefer being able to fix a problem than simple admit defeat with a reinstall, and my hope in wubi was fading. Maybe this bug will be fixed properly soon, but in the meantime, at least i can work around it when it happens.

Posted in Linux, Ubuntu

British Steam Installer

calamari — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:17:12 +0000

I can’t be the only person who’s bugged by the fact that when you install Steam (which is an awesome service), and select “English” in the installer – it displays a picture of the american flag. The language is not american, its english – this is silly. It’s bugged me time and time again, and so today, I decided to do something about it. I’ll spare people the technical details, but I’ve produced my own modified version of the steam installer. The ONLY difference between the official version, and my version, is that my version displays the correct flag next to “English”… it displays the Union Flag! Here’s how it looks:

The installer can be downloaded from my skydrive here. I hope in time, Valve will see their mistake and make this change in their official version.

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Source SDK Modding

calamari — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:24:42 +0000

After a couple of days battling with many errors, I finally have a source mod compiling and running through steam. Just a few tips: don’t use Visual Studio 2008 (use 2005), and don’t assume that the code generated by the SDK wizard is correct -> because it isnt. Turns out, if you get an error talking about CBaseGrenade, then just comment out the method (which as it turns out, isnt being used anyway).
Anywho, it’s most likely that my 3rd year project is going to be done using the Source SDK, so I now have to spend the next few days playing around with the code to see if this is feasible.
Fun stuff

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