Arcade Stick: Layout Chosen

Finally decided on what layout to pick for the arcade stick. Going to go with one of my original ideas and include pretty much everything that I need on it to play 90% of all arcade games released on the market.

Sure, it jumps the cost up a bit but it will give me the practice I need for when I put pretty much the same pieces on my control panel for my MAME cabinet when I build it at a later date.

New Years Woes

Sat down to do my finances and realized it really isn't a good idea to go out on Saturday for a night out drinking with friends. If I want to be able to afford bills and the first pieces to my arcade stick for my computer that is.

I can always plan a night out later on, bills and my project come first.

Unity Is In Another Castle

I wrote awhile back why I was finished with Unity, and I even gave it another shot with the release of Ubuntu 11.10. I ended up going back to KDE very quickly.

Casino Lucky Streak

Hit a bit of a lucky streak this weekend, but it dropped off on Sunday so I had to call it quits. Started with $11 on Saturday night to enjoy myself a bit at Downstream Casino, walked out with $13.

Kongregate

Been spending a lot of time on Kongregate recently. Forgot how much fun some of the flash games are, and several of them are updated by the developers on a fairly regular basis. Check it out if you want a good site to waste some time on, look for me in the Ant Hill chatroom where I hang out most of the time.

Kongregate

Moving Time

Finally time to pack things up and ship them out. Also means I'm gonna have a lot of profiles to update with a new address

Bored Today

Think I may sit down and start randomly joining Minecraft servers.

It's either that or work on getting Linux Mint set up on this laptop. Hopefully a pain free process, should be if it is based off of Ubuntu. Last distro I tried that wasn't Ubuntu was Arch and I never could get it to install properly. Probably a configuration error somewhere.

Time to load up Virtualbox and do a test run on the install process before I dive in. Oh, and I better not forget to bring my towel.

Android Quick Tip

For those of you with a rooted Android phone, you should look into getting yourself set with custom MTD partitions. I just finished editing my system and cache partitions to double the amount of space I have available for storing apps and their settings.

Take a look here for the downloads and information.

To prevent yourself from dealing with the headache of the Market not downloading apps, set your cache partition to 18 and make sure you download at least version 1.5.8 of Firerat's tool.

Unity 3D (Why I Am Jumping Ship)

Ubuntu has been my distro of choice for Linux for many years now, but I may be jumping ship with the prevelence of Unity that has replaced GNOME. Unity 3D creates dead zones on my screen where I can't click in that area, and Unity 2D isn't all that appealing.

For the moment I am just using the "Classic Desktop" login which loads up GNOME, but how many more releases will have this option? I am hoping that a new variant of Ubuntu pops up that ships with GNOME as the default again like Kubuntu ships with KDE or Xubuntu ships with XFCE.

Another viable option is to look at another distro based off of Ubuntu, Linux Mint. Been wanting to try it out anyway and this gives me enough reason to make the jump.

Phone Audio Solved

This is a problem I had been having with my HTC Hero for some time now. Cyanogenmod 7 introduced a new little glitch that effectively made it impossible to listen to any sort of audio through a headset. Plug one in and the volume gets all distorted and crackly. Even at low volume the audio has annoying clicking noises.

The solution is actually really simple: delete the system app DSP Manager. Seriously. Do that and reboot the phone. Bam, clear audio through the headset jack at full volume again. Thanks XDA Forums for the solution.

HTC Hero Android Phone (Sprint)