Monthly Archives: April 2006

X11 mobility with Xmove

Posted on April 29, 2006 by dre

X11 is a windowing system for *nix computers. There is one point about X11 that needs to be understood before anything that follows will make sense, so I’ve cribbed the following bit from the X11 wikipedia page to explain: X … Continue reading →

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The Journeyman’s Guilde to Quicktime Presentations

Posted on April 29, 2006 by dre

This guide will demonstrate a method for creating multi-track, multi-media, self-contained quicktime movies. A good example of this would be the presentation format where there are multiple tracks of media that need to be coordinated with specific timings. Perhaps there … Continue reading →

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Cacti in Tiger Server

Posted on April 29, 2006 by dre

Install XCode Install and configure darwinports Download the newest version from macosforge. Add the darwinports paths to your shell config file. e.g. PATH=”/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH” Update the ports collection sudo port -d selfupdate Install rrdtool from darwinports Execute the following to install … Continue reading →

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Quake4 macbook benchmarks

Posted on April 8, 2006 by dre

I recorded a short multiplayer demo (recordnetdemo demo1 / stopnetdemo) on a public server – there were 5 or 6 other players (quake4 performance falls off pretty quick as you add players). The demo was recorded on my slowest-performing machine, … Continue reading →

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hi

Posted on April 2, 2006 by dre

I’m pretty much the same, with one notable exception. Went ahead and got myself one of those newfangled macbooks, and I must say it’s rather nice. My previous laptop is a g3 ibook from 2001. Almost 5 years old = … Continue reading →

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