The Lord of the Rings Online

Nov 26
2007
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I started playing The Lord of the Rings Online over the last month or so. And so far I really really enjoy it! the thing I find most appealing is that it has all the stuff World of Warcraft didn’t have for me, and it doesn’t have the things that made me mad playing WoW…ganking, class balance, and my favorite the “l337 hacxzors” don’t seem as prevalent making for a more mature palyer base that can form a sentence using the English language (or french for our Quebec brothers & sisters). Best of all the game is beautiful! I’m running it on my Vista machine using DX10 graphics…and well take a look at this!!

That’s it! game is cool! try it out…

Written by froosh in: Entertainment, Video Games, Vista |

Windows Vista and Legacy Games

Oct 01
2007
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Much to my surprise (okay, not really) when I tried to play Battlefield:1942 on my new Vista PC at home I found many of the environment sound effects were missing! Not all the effects just little things like the sound a tank turret makes when it turns or the click of a clip being loaded into a gun. I might not even miss the sounds if I didn’t expect them…but it drives me nuts!

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Written by froosh in: Computer Audio, Entertainment, Video Games, Vista |

Installing a VAMP server (Vista Apache MySQL PHP)

Sep 13
2007
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There are some minor challenges to install Apache/PHP/MySQL on Vista (shoulda’ bought another Mac, I know, I know, I need a windows machine too). I just used the installers I didn’t want to mess with compiling from source.

I don’t know why I always install the 3 applications in this order but it seems to go well for me.

Apache Download:

  1. Load the Apache download page in your browser.
  2. Under the heading: Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6 is the best available version click the link Other files
  3. Browse to: /binaries/win32/ in the directory structure, and download the version you require

PHP download:

  1. Browse to the PHP download page and download the latest and greatest Windows installer.

MySQL download:

  1. Browse to the MySQL download page and choose the flavour that’s right for you (probably Windows ZIP/Setup.EXE (x86))

Rinse and Repeat

Follow the steps below for each installer and all will work out well for you. If you have any problems during install go back and follow the steps again but click ‘repair’

  1. Because of the M$ ‘security features’ you have to run the installer as an Administrator (see post coming soon on this little gem :-| )
    1. Open the start menu and right click the Command Prompt icon, click “Run as Administrator”
    2. Change directories to the location of the installer, type the installer file name (hint: start typing then hit tab), hit enter.
    3. Follow the installation instructions as normal
  2. Repeat for next installer!

Hopefully after this you will have a working copy of each application. as far as setup…that’s a different beast, and there are lots of posts and books on that elsewhere, and I tire of typing.:) One hint though you will have to edit the httpd.conf file though the “Administrator” command window or open your favorite editor as administrator to edit the file.

Written by froosh in: Vista, Web Development, Web Servers |