Me Walking Tall


I had someone ask me for a photo recently, and it occurred to me that I don’t have any photos of me this year. Well, I did, but they were on my laptop that got stolen. Since I was taking the photo myself, I took out my tripod, and did a bit of creative photography.

I had to crank the f-stop because I couldn’t get the focal length proper. My instant camera only allows 1, 2 and 5m levels. I was inbetween and kept coming up blurry because I couldn’t stand there and let it auto focus on my since I was behind the camera setting up the shot.

So the high f/stop (large depth of field) compensates a little bit. It’s not sharp, but I photoshoped it anyway. I Gaussianed the background :)

So the camera was down low, and I look really tall. Neat eh? ;)

Excuse the shadows, the JPEG color profile accentuated them and I couldn’t be bothered changing the photoshop default right now.

Written on April 23rd, 2008 , Serious
VMWare ESX in VMWare Server

Yes it installs!

VMWare ESX 3.02 inside VMWare Server 1.05. You have to configure the virtual server with the RAM required by ESX (~300MB). Took about 10 minutes on my Intel Core2 E6900.

It doesn’t run though. It fails on loading vmklinux.

Written on April 21st, 2008 , Serious
War3 Under Wine

I know there’s been a bunch of posts about this from people all around the world, but I thought I’d add my 2 cents. My problem arose from the fact that I use a dual monitor setup. So either I use Xinerama or the NVidia / ATI proprietory dual monitor setup (it changes when I reinstall or upgrade my GFX). No setup works properly with War3 in full screen though. Plus, it just looks screwy in the aspect ratio that dual monitors provide.

Simple solution is to use Wine ./war3.exe -window and run it in windowed mode. This will use DirectX though, and behaves strangely sometimes when resizing the window. I’ve had really good results running Wine ./war3.exe -window -opengl though. It just, works. :)

Written on April 20th, 2008 , Informative

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