Just a short little route i went on at the beginning of July on a stunning day of nothing but sunshine! From Great Yarmouth along the coast to Winterton-On-Sea then cutting inland through the little village of Martham and bumping into the Martham Carnival parade, opps! Then the long fairly boring road back to Yarmouth.
All in just over an hour, not bad for the two long breaks I took lol…
Halo Reach - Forge World
Bungie recently took the wraps off the Forge editor at Comic Con for their upcoming title Halo Reach, it is a huge improvement over the previous version included with Halo 3, which was safe to say quite clunky and restrictive. It is now a very clean, very usable editor with fine-tuned controls and a better object collision system allowing for more control over objects and the way they interact with each other.
But what people may not know is that the Halo Community itself wanted this, a long time ago and what a group of hackers achieved in 2004 was a map editor for the original Halo (xBox) – all well before Halo 3′s in-game version which shipped September 25th 2007.
Just a quick test for embeding maps into wordpress using MotionX iPhone app and XML Google Maps WordPress plugin.
Apple Option Key
Want to be able to select multiple iTunes profiles on a mac? Wondering why holding shift isn’t bring the profile selection window up? Well it’s slightly different on mac than on windows, you need to hold down the apple option key instead!
Simples!
I had this error message when trying to log onto Steam today. I left it a couple of hours but it still wouldn’t let me log on.
Cannot Connect to Steam Network – please try again later.
What you may need to do, which worked for me is to delete ‘ClientRegistry.blob’ in Steam’s installation folder (C:\Program Files\Steam) and try to restart steam. If this doesn’t do the trick try deleting ‘AppUpdateStats.blob‘.
Steam Error Message
I also had to run Steam with administrator privileges initially after this to get it to work, let me know if this works for you too.
Because of the way that ‘open_basedir’ works in restricting everything some things that you access file system wise in code, it will restrict you also in using programs such as ImageMagick , or in applications that may use it such as Coppermine Gallery or Menalto Gallery.
To fix this you need to either turn off openbase_dir or make it so that the PHP running on the target domain can access the directory where ImageMagick resides. First you need to modify your vhost.conf, you can see examples of modifying/changing/reloading this config file here.
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs:/tmp:/usr/bin/
Above you can see the line of code that needs to be added, the first two options ‘/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs’ and ‘/tmp’ are the default running settings (restricting things), so when defining the value of the open_basedir you need to re-declare these two. The third path allows our PHP to access that folder when running, and so can now access ImageMagick etc, along with a lot of other things.. Security risk perhaps, but at least it works for now.
I’ll look into a more secure method, please comment if you can suggest/add anything to this topic.
Here are some Panoramas and Screenshots I took from Bungie’s recent Halo Reach Beta. Just a few I didn’t go too crazy with these. When the full game comes out I will take plenty! MjolnirTactics has some amazing full screen Panoramas that put mine to shame, and so does HaLo2FrEeEk which you can see at the end of the post.
Panorama Elite Generator
According to a new job posting over at bungie.net, there’s a new listing for a ‘Personal Assistant/Gopher’, this may not seem like big news but there is a little tid bit in there that is very interesting.
Poised, professional and mature-minded Assistant/Gopher needed to provide personal support to Studio Head and to assist in the coordination of a major office relocation/move. Duties will include running personal errands for Bungie’s Studio Head, providing transportation services (vehicle provided) and other duties, as needed. Office relocation/move tasks may include, but are not limited to, procuring equipment, supplies and services as needed.
Now are Bungie planning on relocating from their current office in Kirkland, WA? Which was setup during Bungie’s era with Microsoft, or perhaps since their recent deal with Activision they are looking to expand with the recent cash injection to work on the ‘Next Big Title’.
Bungie needs more space and they couldn’t find that in Kirkland – Kirkland’s Economic Development Manager Ellen Miller-Wolfe.
There were talk’s of this in 2008 and Halo.Bungie.org picked up on this as well as other news sources. It was reported then that they were purportedly moving ‘to a former movie cineplex in downtown Bellevue’ – Techflash.
So the move that has been in planning for a while now looks like it is finally coming to fruition! Just like moving house there is no perfect time to move, but with Halo3/ODST firmly out the door, and Reach development winding down would now be the perfect time to move everyone? Then again the other title Bungie is working on is surely in full swing.
Interesting time’s indeed for everyone involved at Bungie Studios!
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