Fall - blogspot

[music] Hard n sleazy

2011-03-16T21:47:00.003+01:00

Babylon Bombs

CRASHDÏET

2 words to some people

2011-03-12T08:35:00.006+01:00

Most people spend their entire life listening to people tell them how much they owe them.

The truth is you don’t owe the vast majority of people shit.

Growing up we are taught to listen to the end what people say and to respect their time-wasting twaddle, but in fact you shouldn't give a fuck at all. It's not ignorance - it's a common sense.

Spread my philosophy or not - I don't give a fuck :]

[bike] shining example of infrastructure

2011-03-11T15:55:00.003+01:00

link - another nice vid about a place where every day = Critical Mass.
time to learn dutch? :)

[life] My disgust of war & army

2011-01-09T14:43:00.001+01:00

From the day they were born these brothers
had sworn to be unified
Through the thick and thin no matter
lose or win together till they die
Out to conquer the world, destiny unfurled
before their very eyes
Forever living the dream or so it seemed
beneath the hidden lies

Look to the left and right
The enemy in sight (The end of me inside)

They will earn your trust
They will call you brother
They will be your friend
Then turn and trade you for another

In the days of the sun they were killing
as one solid death machine
No one stood in their way, but the price
to be paid yet remained unseen
Then along came the rain bringing
with it the pain and disarray
The colors started to fade turning into
a grey shadow of yesterday

Look to the left and right
Attack by day or night

They will earn your trust
They will call you brother
They will be your friend
Then turn and trade you for another

Lies - Corruption - Self-Indulgence
Greed - Deceit - Wolves in the sheep
(...)

lyrics from :
Death Angel - Opponents At Sides

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

- Albert Einstein

These 2 quotes reflect my opinion about all this shit perfectly, in 100%.

Peace.

[gym] Shut up and squat

2011-01-03T02:08:00.004+01:00

Benefits

> fastens metabolism = extreme fat burning

> fastens building whole body, even arms (thanks to stimulated production of anabolic hormones)

> trains not only legs, also: ab & back-legs coordination (thanks to stabilization)

> gives a base to other leg-involving exercises + also: death lift, rowing

2010

2010-12-31T18:46:00.002+01:00

2010 was probably the most fucked up year in my entire life.

However, there were 2 months that I can undoubtedly admit that were one of the best.

Summertime memories ^_^

If you weren't there you wouldn't understand.

Now it all seem to go as it should.
Same places - new memories, different people, more fun & freedom, new me and my new love. and new city soon *.*

There's a lot to do in 2011.

[food] Homemade muesli ist krieg!

2010-12-31T17:57:00.007+01:00

[soak before eating]
milk
oatmeal
wheat/oat bran

seeds: pumpkin, sunflower, flax
walnuts

fruits: apple, bananas, mandarins
dried fruits: raisins, apricots, cranberries

+ also if u're a bourgeois badass:
almonds, honey, tahini

Nutrition meaning

> milk *is* healthy. lactose undigestibility myth refers mostly to non-caucasian ethnic groups

> wheat bran vs oat bran
is like
more fibre vs lowered cholesterol (if anyone gives a damn)

> Why oatmeal and not cornflakes or barleyflakes?
Oatmeal has lower IG than cornflakes which are also more chemically manufactured. Barleyflakes has even lower IG, but they fall within fermentation in digestive system and it is not adviced to eat them more than 3x/week.

> oatmeal good for hair - thanks to cystine. people produce not enough of this amino acid
> oatmeal - carbohydrates with low IG = more energy for a longer period. proved on myself - in days I eat muesli I don't feel sleepy

> there are whole lists about walnuts' properties. walnuts are pro

Of course there are much more health benefits of eating muesli but I'm too lazy to type them down and I'm not feeling an expert in this area.

[music] Pearls of modern metal 2

2010-12-21T19:27:00.010+01:00

[music] Pearls of modern metal

2010-12-12T13:24:00.007+01:00

First - some videos of lately discovered awesome underground bands you've probably never heard of before:
Psycho Choke, Canobliss, Drone, Across the Sun

and maybe not so very modern and undeground, yet still awesome :
Volbeat, Hypocrisy

later - Fall's yammer about music in general:

The sad thing is that the more artists I know (according to my last.fm profile: 3+ years of searching and listening to 1000+ bands), the less new pearls I'm discovering. And yes, I can't listen to same old ones - I'm addicted to diversity and new experience.

I think everyone finds in music something different (talking about listening, not creating).
For someone it might be just fun, relax, catchy melody while for others it can be even a way of life.

For me music = energy.

Personally, I chill best at silence so I don't need calm music and it's a fair cop: 10-min tracks of experimental progressive avangarde and virtuosity simply bore me.
Tough, mindless slaughtering too, that's why I'm tired by some kinds of extreme metal, grindcore, etc.
I pay attention to lyrics, but they aren't most important for me.

What counts is the pounding beat of rock 'n' roll :] power (not to be mistaken for power metal, bleh), speed, finesse, emotions, some kind of dramatism.

Probably my taste is explainable by my life style - I wear headphones mostly while pumping the iron or riding a bike.

New header

2010-12-09T01:10:00.005+01:00

I was thinking some time before about creating an image that would symbolize stuff related to me and my interests, but just today I decided to set is as a header. Just a shallow draft of most things that define me. Mutable and incomplete, but may stand as a little outline of what to expect on this blog. Not hard to guess what particular image means, I hope.

If you don't like it - gtfo. My skills at graphics are equal almost 0 so I'm proud of it anyway.

Why 0 blogging for so long time? Was just busy spending time on having fun doing other things and I'm sure that's all you need to know.

[PHP] Cheat sheet, part 1 - basics

2010-11-19T02:04:00.047+01:00

I know there are dozens of similar stuff on net, but none would be as good for me as one made by myself. Created while reading (mainly) a brick called PHP and MySQL Web Development: Vademecum.

Putting PHP into HTML

<?php
echo "Text bla bla bla";
?>

<?php echo 'Text bla bla bla'; ?>

Comments

/*
long
comments
*/

echo 'Text bla bla bla.'; // short comment
echo 'Text bla bla bla.'; # short comment

. – bonds 2 strings

Date

<?php
echo '' . date('H:i. jS F Y') . '' ;
?>

result: 14:32. 19th June 2010

date formatting
H – 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
i – minutes
j – day (without zero)
S – +th
F – month (verbal)
Y – year
more here

variables – access, displaying, types

access to the content of $tyresamount

$_POST[‘tyresamount’]

displaying

echo $tyresamount.' tyres ' ;
echo "$tyresamount tyres " ;

interpolation – inside a string, replacing a variable by its content, works with "

types
• Integer - integers; -2, 3
• Float (called also Double) - real number; 2.4, 0.3
• String - text; boobphysicist
• Boolean - 0 or 1
• Array - used to store many variables
• Object - used to store objects

logical operators

$a and $b	TRUE if both $a and $b are TRUE.
$a or $b	TRUE if either $a or $b is TRUE.
$a xor $b	TRUE if either $a or $b is TRUE, but not both.
! $a	TRUE if $a is not TRUE.
$a && $b	TRUE if both $a and $b are TRUE.
$a \|\| $b	TRUE if either $a or $b is TRUE.

formatting variables

$amount = 0;
$value = (float)$amount;

formats 0 to real number

assignment operators – shortened operations

$a += $b	$a = $a + $b
$a -= $b	$a = $a - $b
$a *= $b	$a = $a * $b
$a /= $b	$a = $a / $b
$a %= $b	$a = $a % $b
$a .= $b	$a = $a $b

reference operator – „combining” variables

$a = 5;
$b = &$a;
$a = 7; // both $a and $b has value 7

unset($a) ; - undos it

comparison operators
== - is equal? (= is an assignment operator!)
=== - is identical?
!= - isn’t equal?
!== - isn’t identical?
<> - inequality
< >
<= >=

dividing 1 variable into 2

( $mark > 2 ? . ‘positive' : 'negative' );

Divides students’ marks into ‘positive’ and ‘negative’.

ignoring errors
$a = @(57/0);

listing folders

<?php
$out = `dir c:` ;
echo "<pre>".$out."</pre>";
?>

Checking and setting the type of a variable
$a = 56;

echo gettype($a).’’; // tells that $a is an integer number
settype($a, ‘double’); // turns it into real number, $a = 56.0
echo gettype($a).’’; // tells that $a is a real number

checks if the variable is a...
is_array()
is_double(), is_float(), is_real() – real number
is_long(), is_int(), is_integer – integer number
is_string()
is_bool()
is_object()
is_resource()
is_null()
is_scalar()
is_numeric() – has a numeric value
is_callable() – is a name of an existing function

useful while checking if the user filled specific places correctly

echo 'isset( $ema):'. isset($ema). '': // returns true if the variable exists
echo 'empty($tyresamount):'. empty($tyresamount). '': // true, if doesn’t exist or is empty

Control structures

if($amount==0)
echo 'No order placed on the previous site!' ;

To be continued.
btw. haven't I mentioned before that blogger's text formatting sucks badly?
price for being too lazy to build an own site, I guess >.>

[book] "Flow" by M.Cikszentmihalyi part.1

2010-10-31T11:54:00.022+01:00

Generally, I'm bored with books about happiness, success, improving your life, etc. However, believe me or not, I find 'Flow' unique and even better than the famous 'Secret' by Rhonda Byrne. Difference starts with the authors. Rhonda is a television writer and producer, Mihalyi is a psychologist who sacrificed 20 years of his life for learning about emotional state known as Flow.

Next thing what differs this book from other of its type is that it's filled with results of scientific investigations, so there are more nitty-gritties instead of motivating babbling.

While being in Flow we feel the greatest happiness. Signs of it may seem quite obvious:
- we are immersed in one activity and we want to continue it
- we feel strong and that we have a control of the situation
- we are free from doubts, complexes and emotional problems
- we make the most of our possibilities and skills
- we completely forget about time flowing away
- we feel great, interesting fact is that especially even if the situation may seem critical, like a storm on the sea

Book carries a bunch of interesting, sometimes philosophical, thoughts and gives us useful hints of how to control state Flow instead of relying on coincidence.

Already at the beginning, in the introduction, first hint of how to achieve this state is given:
by setting goals - tackling challenges which are adequate to our skills (look: photo)

Later we discover few things about mind, conscience, psychical energy.

To be continued.

[psychology] Make your goals S.M.A.R.T.E.R.

2010-09-29T23:23:00.016+02:00

How many times you've set your goals you later never really achieved? I bet everyone did experience that. There is no doubt that planning increases people effectiveness in various life fields, but only a smart plan can keep you on the track when your initial enthusiasm declines.

There is a simple and catchy rules set called S.M.A.R.T.E.R. which can help turn your day-dreams and fancies into attainable goals.

It tells you your goal should be:
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Time-bound
Exciting
Recorded

Specific - defined in a simple way, eg:
~~I want to be rich~~
I want to have 1 million dollars

Measurable - eg:
I want to be more fit, therefore I will measure my progress in my body weight, running scores, etc.

Attainable - easy enough to be possible, yet difficult enough to stand as a challenge

Relevant - is your goal important for you? stop here to make sure if your goal is something more than just a transitional fancy.

Time-bound - deadlines prevent you from endless postponing your efforts

Exciting - similar to rules Attainable and Relevant, but not exactly. your goal might be difficult and challenging, but is it an exciting challenge to you?

Recorded - it is proved that committing to paper your thoughts lengthens their life-time

additional hints

It is also important how you formulate your goals.
They should be personal, in 1st person, in present tense, with a positive sound. eg:
~~Stop eating junk food~~
I eat healthy food

2 crucial questions to ask yourself:
why I want this? - think of as many reasons as possible, then write them down, keep them and read in 'hard times'
how exactly I'm going to achieve it? - make a specific plan for your goal

Consult your goals with a few people if it may help you. Later, their feedback would be valuable.

Check your progress regularly (that's why Measurable rule is so important).

Divide your 1 big goal into smaller milestones.

[NeverWinter Nights] Mini-review

2010-09-02T16:34:00.010+02:00

Played few hours with a gnomish sorcerer (was thinking about a monk too but I wanted to discover spell effects). Bad impression of NWN from the past was forgotten a bit, but the more I played, the more they were waking up.

Positives:
+ 3rd D&D
+ stylish interface
...and that's all of I could think I'm afraid.

Now down to the negatives:

- engine and graphics look quite...artificial to me. I don't have a feeling that I'm *in* the game, as I do in Gothic for example. Probably it's the case of regular ongoing elements, closed areas and lack of interaction with the environment (no swimming, jumping, etc.). That's why I prefer games in 2d with good graphics (eg. Baldur's Gate) than 3d with cheap graphics - 2d with lesser effort can look prettier and realistic with being more complex simultaneously.

Am I the only one to see that it looks *horrible*?

- from Wikipedia: "The game was based on the concept of building an internet-like model for a massively multiplayer game, allowing the end users to host the server" and thus, it looks like a poor MMORPG for singles

My first serious battle in NWN. Finally won after many attempts and this was one (of not many) times I actually really enjoyed the game.

- linear and boring plot, limited freedom of wandering (still BG1 and Gothic are masters here, some could say that Morrowind, but Morrowind's dull world's a fail)

- for some reason water in NWN wasn't displayed correctly on my system >.>

- don't know why but I couldn't identify items despite using 'identification' spell in every possible way

up: Prologue

below: SoU add-on

Déjà vu?

[Gothic 3] Resisted 40 min.

2010-08-30T21:59:00.012+02:00

Getting straight to the point: Gothic 3 is a fail. Constantly I've had a feeling that it's rather a product, than a game (in a meaning of art). Product that should attract with the mark and his sparkly packet - the graphics. By the way, 3rd's graphics doesn't even look 'gothic', reminds me of kinda WoW or other shitty mainstream RPGs - they're too damn shiny. But still, it isn't worst about it. These graphics (probably not only them, but mainly them) turn the gameplay to a turtle pace. Gothic 3 was released in 2006, I've got my PC 3 years later - and it still doesn't handles the game smoothly (!). And why I'm having this feeling that is intentional somehow? Look on the nVidia advertisements at the beginning of the installation and you'll get what I mean. We know that games propel graphic cards industry but what they are doing here is a real insolence.

I believe I can fly...

Deeper into the game, firstly I've noticed the controls have changed a bit. Some have other keys (for whose sake?) and there are few new like quick save&load (in 2 setting them was available only in .ini file). It's a good thing, but look at the potion keys. Haven't they wrote in 2's .ini file they believe that potion keys suck? Hypocrisy?

No, unfortunetely, it isn't Morrowind

The game is silting just from the beginning and the next thing you comment "wtf?" are the new orcs you are fighting with (they are in intro too actually). In 2 I used to really have a fear of orcs - in 3 they look like grotesque humanoid wimps. They also speak like people >.> for me: complete old climate destruction. Even their weapons have changed, looking similar to those wielded by lizard men. At least, I have a good motivation to get rid of them fast. However, it wasn't that easy. No-named brandished his Orc Slayer like a phlegmatic (what was intensified by the slowing game) and got knocked down several times. Boy, wasn't this battle annoying.

Are there are any 'unwilded' boars in Myrtana?

Later, I've talked to some fellow about Xardas - the main hero spoke completely without emotions o.o I've talked to my old buddies - not even they didn't sound like them, they didn't even looked like them (hopefully, there's a mod for it). I've passed through the battlefield collecting the loot to the accompaniment of completely unsuitable pastoral soundtrack. In one orc's body I've found 185 gold pieces - I don't really like when gold in the game goes to such high numbers, it's an another thing spoiling the climate. I've wandered negligently through the world a while (sprint = new good feature), annoyed by slowing gameplay and poisonous bloodflies - I found it funny to challenge them after beating 6 dragons in 2. Have our hero forgot how to fight, or is it evolution to blame? I've decided to change the graphics from high to average (heh, before launching the game I believed I could play on very high) and I've learned I need to restart the game for that. No. That was enough for me.

[film] T is for Twilight and trivial

2010-08-30T19:01:00.006+02:00

I am supposed to say that it's amazing how such a trivial crap like Twilight Saga can achieve such a popularity. But I won't. Why? It's actually quite easy to see and understand why Twilight is so adored by people *and especially* by teenage girls. Probably you'd automatically think 'Edward' as a response at first. Yeah, but I'd get to him later. First, look at the main character - Bella. She is a true symbol of nowadays teenage girls, the target of the Twilight products. Beginning from the appearance. They couldn't choose a prettier actress for her role because not every girl could equate to her then.
Also, she's feeling (as she personally claims) lost and that her life is going nowhere (emo promoting action?). But then (!) she founds her romantic dark prince, reserved, mysterious, powerful and caring, with a look of a dog's dick, as we used to describe such fellows in high school :d
Thus, what girl wouldn't like to experience this? And be treated trough the whole story as an emo princess?

Another fail is Jacob(s). I couldn't believe the creators were so dumb (or target-greedy) to make him so needy and naive (unfortunetely, not only him). My ears were hurt while listening to his dialogs. At least, he didn't look like a dog's dick.

Apart from that, the plot is damn predictable. While watching, I've used to catch myself on guessing what is going to happen in next few minutes.

But the greatest Twilight's sin I can't forgive is boredome, complete lack of action. Even the main battle turned out to be a poor show, despite my expectations.

So, to me
Underworld 1000% > Twilight

[life] Play D&D and end as a pick-up artist

2010-08-28T23:09:00.008+02:00

PUA? NLP? AFC? Sarge? Neg? Peackock? Sounds familiar? Not?

Mystery (founder of pick-up artists community) claims that he was a "late bloomer" and spent the early years of his life playing Dungeons and Dragons, and that his limited success with women until his early twenties led him to go to nightclubs every night and try different ways to attract women. He states that years of observation and trial and error led to the system he teaches for meeting women.

Together with Neil Strauss he founded Project Hollywood, where they lived and taught armies of unsuccessful men how to pick up women (in a big shortening). You can read all about it in Neil's book The Game, which is rather an autobiography, but is probably a most popular position connected with PUA, including their whole specific terminology and advices.

Most of them are based on being:
> self-confident, dominating (but not rude)
> organized
> unavailable
> unpredictable
> not being nice to women, instead:
a bit arrogant + with a dose of mocking humour

They believed that these traits make men significantly more attractive to women (without need of being specially handsome) and... hell, they did. However, The Game tells also about the darkside of PUA, the threat of getting too attached to these rules and PUA community which turned some men to social robots. Or... even worse as you may discover in the book on your own.

[psychology] builder, negiotator, explorer, director - who are you?

2010-08-28T19:57:00.008+02:00

I've just finished Why Him, Why Her by Helen Fisher.

> born 1945
> anthropology professor, human behavior researcher at Rutgers University, studied romantic interpersonal attraction for over 30 years
> currently the most referenced scholar in the love research community

More than with parts about love, my attention was attracted with her view of personality types division.

Fisher distinguishes between four personality types each of which she associates with a body chemical :
> explorer (artistic, Artisan temperament) - dopamine (associated with curiosity and spontaneity)
> negotiator (intuitive, Idealist) - estrogen (intuition and creativity)
> director (reasoning, Rational) - testosterone (independence and rational thinking)
> builder (sensible, Guardian) - serotonin (sociability and feelings of calm)

Without taking a test I can undoubtedly admit that I am an almost 100% director (I was thinking a while about explorer too, but this is probably because I am jealous of explorers' traits ;).

More here.

[blogs] (un)originality that kills

2010-08-28T13:43:00.008+02:00

Once I've had a mood to look for interesting blogs of people from my region. So I've fled by tens pages of them and the ones which took my attention I could count on the fingers of my hand. Why is that? No, I'm not a nerd. Sometimes I like to read texts completely unconnected with my interests, provided it's written in a interesting way. So what's the point?

Most of bloggers kill their blogs by introducing themselves* to the world in a way:
"hey, I'm an another person from the crowd, but yeah, I like [put here stuff that like 99% of the population: music, films, literature, photography, sports, dance, parties, psychology, animals (horses are leaders here), eating out] and umm...I dunno what to write about?"
* - yes, I like to believe it's the case of introducement, not the fact that people are *really* boring.

Mind I'm not saying that there's something wrong with music or literature. But do they create music/literature/etc? Or at least write reviews of them? 1/10 people does, the rest writes about their dull, consumptive lives. Who gives a damn what you ate yesterday or that you dream every night about that guy/gal, but he/she doesn't want to even look at you? Geez!

Ok, writing a journal is a productive activity and I agree that Internet is for everyone and it musn't be censored, but then I say: if you write only for yourself and have nothing to say to the world move to a conventional diary and keep it deep in a drawer.

[food] Recipe: protein cocktail

2010-08-28T11:56:00.006+02:00

Found somewhere on sfd.pl, translated and modified a bit.

We take
0,5 l of milk
0,5 glass of yogurt
2 whole raw eggs, including yolk
1 whole egg whites (raw)
10 dkg of sliced fruits [recommended: bananas]

[optional]
cacao / juice
ice
nuts [almonds, cashews]

Blend all the ingredients and drink cocktail 40 min. after training.

[investing] Something new

2010-08-25T22:56:00.011+02:00

:-). Yes, Folmi's enthusiasm is back because he has just discovered his new playground - market investing. Few weeks ago one psycho test proved that my personality suits this activity, so I asked myself why don't give a try. Computer games bored my lately anyway and in addition I've put an interest in investing and generally in passive income time before so it seemed to be a good turning point for starting to do something fo' real.

How-to-get-started sites lead me to Plus500 - free World's Trading Machine, where I could play for a test with virtual money. So I would learn how it all works. Suddenly reading about market becomes very interesting once you've earn your first $ ;) I'm at the very beginning, but what I've learned so far:

> generally, when $ is decreasing, value of materials like gold and silver rises - now, in 2010 we have such a situation. no wonder my first $ was from investing in gold ;D
> American market is correlated almost in 100% with european market, so value of $ affects most stocks
> CFD=Contract For Difference, allows you to buy up to even 100x greater stocks that your actual account is worth. you only need to have a definite minimum provided deposit. so, you can for example buy 150 000 USD having only 45 000 PLN. of course they doesn't become your $, you can pay them out just after reaching those 150 000 USD. nevertheless, it allows to earn greater sums (provided such a great rise would come ;)
> daytrading is risky and even riskier when you're a newbie, fast income is a myth - patience pays off more.

When you read more about it why all this stuff works like it works, it becomes logical and quite obvious - and that's why I like it so much.

[Gothic 2] The beast is slayed

2010-08-23T14:19:00.020+02:00

Days played: 20
Hours: about 50

It definitely wasn't a speedrun, I was slowly enjoying the game - what my character screen proves anyway. I've played Gothic 2 more than 10 times and even this time I've discovered few new things: small quests, events or dialogs, like:

- rogue leader in chapter 3
- quest with Morgahart (only for mercenaries)
- 1 lone sheep outside the castle
- ambush after opening one chest in cave in Old World (orc + goblins)
- orc shaman in chapter 4 in a hidden cave (I knew about the cave before)
- Vatras getting sulky in chapter 5 if you killed citizens (even if you aren't accused of it)
- Nadja saying Lucia's a real bitch ;-)

..and perhaps more which I don't remember at the moment.

More screens :

[games] CRPG ASSAULT

2010-08-06T00:16:00.014+02:00

Discovered 30 new titles of so called 'medieval fantasy role-playing games' from MobyGames browser and add them on the list + preparing to play "all-those-games-I-couldn't-play-before-due-to-weak-PC-and-lack-of-time", which are:

Gothic 2 + NR - playing atm, checking the english version + Winter Mod (whole Khorinis in snow! :D ...too bad I can't play more than 1 mod at the same time :() + developing as a marksman which I've never really tried in G2

Gothic 3 - people say it's a crap but I must check it on my own

Risen - same as above

The Witcher - used to play a year ago, but still haven't ended it

Planescape: Torment - for many it's best cRPG ever made, but when I played I've got bored fast after first location. still, gonna give this game another chance

Arcanum

Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption

Neverwinter Nights - used to play on old PC on worst settings and...hate this game for its graphics. gonna try this time again

Neverwinter Nights 2

Jade Empire - seems to be consolized (what probably means crappy), but again: I want to play it on my own

Dragon Age - how it went? "spiritual successor of Baldur's Gate"? good joke. anyway, I'm going to check it too

Oblivion - didn't quite like Morrowind so let's see how I'm going to like Oblivion

Two Worlds

Fable

Mount & Blade

The Bard's Tale

Beowulf

The Guild 2

I've also had some plans for ending whole Fallout saga (still have some saves from february), ending again Icewind Dale saga (because I've never end 1 add-on in 1st part and still haven't end 2nd with my munchkin), try all those Baldur's Gate mods (still I haven't even played few of those I've translated!) and finally end Heroes of Might&Magic 3 campaigns + every map (have even a list for it), but... if I do so I won't have much time left for playing all those new games for the first time, which seems to be more entertaining. Case of priority.

And while talking about priority... I think I'm terribly neglecting my education lately ;o I mean, inspiration and fun is good, but playing games doesn't make me a game developer. Need a motivation, vein, something...but I always end bored and tired of enforcing myself :-/

[PHP] quick start

2010-07-31T14:13:00.040+02:00

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document - but it doesn't mean you can't view .php sites offline.

In order to test PHP on your own PC you need to install:

Apache HTTP Server [for Windows: here]
PHP [for Windows: here]

During installation you will be able to choose your custom server directory, like:
C:\server\apache

When apache installation is over, extract PHP .zip file into C:\server\PHP.

Copy php5ts.dll and ntwdblib.dll to C:\Windows\system32\.

Change file name php.ini-recommended to php.ini.

Now, let's stop for a moment to configure php.ini
> display_errors = Off
you might need to know when and what something is wrong so turn it on

> ;error_log = filename
same as above, delete ; and replace filename with the path to a file, where you want PHP to write errors
eg: C:/server/errors.php.log

> extension_dir = “./”
if your PHP directory is C:/server/PHP replace “./” with C:/server/PHP/ext/

> ;extension=php_mbstring.dll…
These entries define which extensions are turned on. Default, all are off. There is no need to turn them all on, because they are loaded during the start of the system. Delete ; to turn on just a few of them you'll need:
php_mbstring, php_bz2, php_gd2, php_imap, php_mysql

Save changes and copy php5apache2_2.dll from PHP folder to apache\bin.

Last step - configure Apache

Open apache/conf/httpd.conf in notepad and add at the end of the file:
LoadModule php5_module "bin/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

also you might want to change the line
DocumentRoot “C:/server/apache/htdocs”
it's a place where you put your .php sites you want to view.

DirectoryIndex index.html
add here also index.htm default.html default.htm index.php

Save changes, put your site in an appropriate folder and view them in your browser by hitting
http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/

I believe that installing PHP isn't too easy for beginners. I've been through many useless tutorials until I have found a one written by EriZ, which I've translated and shortened to make it all even more quick and clear.

EASIER WAY >.>

Back to blogging...and to life?

2010-07-09T21:14:00.012+02:00

Looks like a quite long break from blogging, huh? In some part it's my laziness to blame, but the fact is I was quite busy lately because of struggling to end a PHP book (850 pages), breaking up with girlfriend, faling to commit a suicide (ok, not serious ;)), striving to start a new life, leaving everything and going to Posen, working there as a bricklayer (very nerve-healing!) and coming back to gf.

Uff.

Well, that's how my last month looked like more or less.

What I've learnt about life:
> love is a rather a decision, than an emotion. decision to spend the rest of your life with someone whether or no
> healthy relationship = sincere relationship. sulks and games lead nowhere
> carefull with words: never, always, for sure
> it's worth to forgive
> appreciate everything you have, but don't get too attached or fanatic
> plastering isn't as easy as it may seem, respect the grunts
> vademecum-style programming books suck badly :P

I try to keep my plans for summer as simple as possible.
> learn more about love and life with a help of my sweetheart
> write a game in PHP and C++
> earn enough $ to buy a bike, so I can save more $ on tickets, travel more and train legs
> learn swimming (yeah, never had time and motivation for it)
> come back to gym and running

...simply have fun.