Lets start:

1. First close down steam. Right click in the taskbar icon and exit.
2. Go to steamapps folder of steam folder. In most cases you will find this in
   

   C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps

   or
   

   C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps

3. In this folder you will find 4 files: left 4 dead base.ncf, left 4 dead binaries.ncf, left 4 dead client binary.ncf and left 4 dead sound.ncf. Remove these files.
4. Next, go into the common folder, there you will find a left 4 dead folder. Again. remove it.
5. Start Steam and normally left4dead will be gone in your “installed” list and will be found in the “not installed” list.

Now that wasn’t so hard, probably the reason why I didn’t found any guides about it on the net. If you want to install the game again, just use the disk or download it.

1, 2, 3 -tutorial

All you need to do is go to the source code of the page ands search (ctrl+f) for ‘v_videoUrl’ the link after that is the download link. Copy paste in your browser and done.

Another and easier way is to copy-past the permalink into the next textbox and hit “Give me the download link”.

Note about piracy: It’s really complicate, if you download, print or save something from deredactie.be you need to keep in mind that all materials are copyrighted. However, there is a grey area in the Belgium law that allows you to use it for personal use and (if I’m correct) for studying. Let me put it this way:

• May you show it to your friends? Yes
• May you place it on facebook (or other website)? No
• May you use it for a school project in class? Yes
• May you use it for a school project outside class or in front of strangers? No

Black Browser preview

Just like the previous version, you can download it from my Deviantart account. There is support for windows (Vista/XP), OS X and Linux (Gnome and KDE), hope you like them.

Here some useful links to install them:

• L!ve working example [link]
• How to create and delete a shotcurt (Windows) [link]
• Changing a windows shortcut icon (and other FAQ) [link]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Belgium License.

1. Let’s open a terminal and run: acpi_listen
   Then hit the ThinkVantage key. In my case it generated an “ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001018″ event.
2. In the “/etc/acpi/events/”-folder you will find the file: thinkpad-thinkpad.
   Open it in an editor and you will see something like:

   # ThinkVantage/ThinkPad/Blue button
   event=ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001018
   action=/etc/acpi/thinkpad-thinkpad.sh

3. See the file /etc/acpi/thinkpad-thinkpad.sh in the script? Go to the folder and open it.
   In my file I had:

   #!/bin/sh
    
   test -f /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants || exit 0
    
   . /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants
   acpi_fakekey $KEY_PROG1

   But for some reason this didn’t work and I changed $KEY_PROG1 to $KEY_MACRO, getting:

   #!/bin/sh
    
   test -f /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants || exit 0
    
   . /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants
   acpi_fakekey $KEY_MACRO

4. Save the file and restart acpid by running the following command in your terminal: sudo /etc/init.d/acpid restart
5. Now it’s time to check our success, run xev in your terminal and you will get a little window next to your terminal, ignore the terminal for now and click on the little square, then hit the ThinkVantage button and look at the terminal. You will see 2 events, something similar to:

   KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
       root 0x6a, subw 0x0, time 2000522842, (138,83), root:(781,500),
       state 0x0, keycode 120 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
       XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
       XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
       XFilterEvent returns: False
   
   KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
       root 0x6a, subw 0x0, time 2000522842, (138,83), root:(781,500),
       state 0x0, keycode 120 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
       XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
       XFilterEvent returns: False

   Really important is “keycode 120 (keysym 0×0, NoSymbol)“, write down the keycode (in my case 120) and close the window.

6. Open a new terminal or go to you home folder (in your terminal) and execute the following command: xmodmap -pke > xmodmap.conf
7. Open the file and add XF86LaunchA to your corresponding keycode (in my case 120), giving you:
   keycode 120 = XF86LaunchA

   Note: XF86LaunchA, is a keysyms so you can’t just place something here, you can look up the keysyms in /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB. I used XF86LaunchA but if you would like to use the ThinkVantage button to do something different you could assign a different keysym. Example, you want to open the default webrowser, then you are better of with XF86WWW.

8. Let’s assign this map to the keyboard with the command:xmodmap xmodmap.conf
9. Again start xev (like in step 5). This time you need to get something like: “keycode 120 (keysym 0x1008ff4a, XF86LaunchA)“
10. This means success but first we want to load xmodmap.conf when Ubuntu starts. To do this, enter the following commands in the terminal:

    sudo cp xmodmap.conf /etc/xmodmap.conf
    cd /etc/gdm/PostLogin
    sudo cp Default.sample Default
    sudo gedit Default

    Now add to the file: xmodmap /etc/xmodmap.conf
    And save.

    The first time you will start (or restart) your system, ubuntu will ask to load the file. Offcource, we want to do this so select the file and load it. If you want, you may remove the xmodmap.conf in your home folder at this point.

11. Last thing to do is to assign the key to the terminal in System >Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
    And… SUCCES

I hope this tutorial could be of some help. Please leave a comment if you have a suggestion or a problem or just want to say thank you. In the future I will try to update this version to the last release of Ubuntu as soon as I installed it. If you would use this tutorial for commercial use, like placing it in a magazine (online and offline) or book, please donate a small fee.

You can download it on my Deviantart account.
It contains a PNG (*nix), ICO (windows) and ICNS (OS X) version.
And here some useful links to install them:

• L!ve working example [link]
• How to create and delete a shotcurt (Windows) [link]
• Changing a windows shortcut icon (and other FAQ) [link]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Belgium License.

After a few weeks of designing I have finally finished a blog design for wordpress and decided to use it as my default blog engine.

Why? Well because it’s popular and while I was designing I noticed it was quite easy to extend with your own code. Next to that, it’s also stable ^_^

Together with this wordpress I decided to ‘ditch’ my old domeinname (codeforpron.com) and in a few days or weeks I will redirect them to this domein (http://stijn-dhaese.be/blog).

The disadvantage of this little operation is that I will lose all my old post from my own system, however I currently moving them to wordpress and for most of the time it’s just copy and paste (lucky me).

Greets

Part 1. Installing MinGW.

First we are going to install MinGW, the best way to do this, is using the MiniGW Auto Installer.

• Download it and execute it (I can all hear you thinking: “duh”)
• Select download and install and click next (fig.1)
• Agree to the license Agreement
• Chose the current version
• At this step you can chose the components you need, check the g++ compiler like in the screenshot (fig.2), for now this is more then enough, if you need more components in the future, you always can run the installer again and add more components.
• Use the default destination folder (C:\MinGW)
• A few more clicks on “next” and then “install”.

If all went well it will download all the packages and install them, this was the fun part :-)

• Now, go to start (the windows icon in the bottom left corner -_- ), right click on “Computer” and chose “properties”
• Under task you click “Advance system settings”, normally you will get a a window like in the screen’s (fig.3)
• Go to the “Advance”-tab and click on “Environment Variables…”
• Look in your “system variables” for “Path“, select it and hit “Edit..” (fig.4)
• In the “Variable Value” you add “;c:\mingw\;c:\mingw\bin;c:\mingw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\;”, be sure that the 3.4.5 is the same as your MinGW version.
• Hit “OK” a few times and close down all windows.
• In your explorer, go to “C:\MinGW\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2″. Copy all the files in that folder to “C:\MinGW\bin”

And that’s all for the first part, go ahead and open a Command line window and enter “g++ –version”
Note: be sure to open a NEW Command line window and when you compile, compile, be sure to place the source files under your C-drive, for some reason you can’t compile from a different partition.

2. Install Geany.

Geany isn’t necessary, but its a good and light weighted IDE that will make programming (and compiling) more a hell job ;-)
The good news is that you can use it on *nix, Mac and Windows, the bad news is that your make a few adjustments under windows to make it “perfect”.

1. Download the win32 build for geany from there website and install it.
2. After the install, run it an make a new “c++ source file”
3. Go to Build -> Set Includes and Arguments.
4. Change the compile settings from g++ -Wall -c “%f” to
   g++ -m32 “%f” -o “%e.exe”
5. Change the Build settings from g++ -Wall “%f” to g++ -m32 “%f” (fig.5)
6. And hit OK. That’s it

What does this do? If you use the default settings, geany will compile it to a *.o file and since we can’t use a *.o file under windows, we need to compile it to a windows program.

Thanks for reading this, I hope it will help some people and that there aren’t to many spellings errors ;-)
I would like to thank the people of MiniGW, Geany and Aaron Giles for all the help.
If you have any question, feel free to post them in the comments or contact me.

Problem: You have 1 hosting package but 2 websites. How do you make a nice looking redirect, so that they run nicely side by side, with .htaccess?

There are 2 common hosting situations that I will explain, the first is VirtualDocumentroot what gives you access to sub domains (example: http://image.domain.com). The other one is Documentroot what will lead all the traffic to the www folder (http://www.domain.com is the same as http://domain.com).

Here you can see a demo of virtual root (sort of).

VIRTUALDOCUMENTROOT.

When you use VirtualDocumentroot, you have a root folder where you can place sub folders who represent sub domains. In the figure “VirtualDocumentroot” you can see an example of a basic hosting package using VirtualDocumentroot. There is an www-folder who represents http://www.domain.com and you have an image folder who represents http://image.domain.com.

The first thing we are going to do, is to create a .htaccess file that will move all the traffic without a sub domain to the www-folder (http://domain.com becomes http://www.domain.com). Copy and modify the following code in a standard text-editor like notepad or gedit:

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RewriteEngine On
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^WebsiteNameA.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.WebsiteNameA.com/ [R=301,L]
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^WebsiteNameB.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.WebsiteNameB.com/ [R=301,L]

Save as .htaccess (be careful when using windows not to add an extension) and upload it to your root folder (/) This .htaccess-file still makes it possible to use sub domains like http://image.domain.com, keep in mind that in this example it doesn’t mather witch domain name you use. Both image.WebsiteNameA.com and image.WebsiteNameB.com will work for this example.

The next thing we will do is separate both domains. For this example I made 2 folders called websitea and websiteb in the www-folder. The names you use aren’t important, you could easily use ‘cake’ and ‘beer’ as long you change the names in your second .htaccess file. What brings us to .htaccess file number 2. Again, copy and modify the following code in a standard text-editor like notepad or gedit, the /websitea is the folder name of the corresponding domain:

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.WebsiteNameA.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/websitea
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /websitea/$1
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.WebsiteNameB.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/websiteb
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /websiteb/$1

And again you need to save the file as .htaccess but this time you upload the file in the www-folder! See the figure “End result VirtualDocumentroot” to get a clue.

Let me explain what this file does, whenever people visit website A or B, the server will get the files out the corresponding folder. In this case the server will get all the files for http://www.WebsiteNameA.com out folder /www/websitea and for http://www.WebsiteNameB.com out folder /www/websiteb. The cool thing about this is that the user won’t see it happen, unlike the redirect of http://WebsiteNameA.com to http://www.WebsiteNameA.com, you also don’t need to worry about complex url’s like http://www.WebsiteNameA.com/index.php?id=12&other=test or http://www.WebsiteNameA.com/image/file.jpeg. If all the corresponding files are in the right folder, it will work.

One thing though, when you use full paths in your website’s you need to keep in mind that it’s now /www/websitea (or /www/websiteb), but normally this won’t be a problem in modern cms or blog engines like wordpress.

DOCUMENTROOT.

DocumentRoot is almost the same like VirtualDocumentroot, with the exception that your root folder is your www-folder and you don’t have sub domains. The good news is that there is less work to invisible redirect website.

Lets get started, the first thing we need to do is to split or 2 website into 2 folder. All files from website A will go in folder websitea and all files of website B will go in folder websiteb (see image ‘DocumentRoot’ for an example). The names of the folders aren’t important as long you change them in the .htacces file, what brings us to the next part: the .htaccess file. Copy and modify the following code in a standard text-editor like notepad or gedit:

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.WebsiteNameA.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/websitea
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /websitea/$1
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.WebsiteNameB.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/websiteb
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /websiteb/$1

After you modified the file, save as .htacces and upload it into your root folder.

Let me explain what this file does, whenever people visit website A or B, the server will get the files out the corresponding folder. In this case the server will get all the files for http://www.WebsiteNameA.com out folder /websitea and for http://www.WebsiteNameB.com out folder /websiteb. The cool thing about this is that the user won’t see it happen, you also don’t need to worry about complex url’s like http://www.WebsiteNameA.com/index.php?id=12&other=test or http://www.WebsiteNameA.com/image/file.jpeg. If all the corresponding files are in the right folder, it will work.

Good luck and if you have any questions, feel free to ask them.