Set up and working on 6 Sep 2007 on Laptop ubuntu 7.04.  With these files;

eciadsl-usermode_0.12-1_i386.deb
pppoe_3.5-4ubuntu1_i386.deb <- Not sure if it did need this one, but its all okay

Config - sudo eciadsl-config-tk

User: pete.maynard@btbroadband.com
Password : Normal BT
VPI: 0
VCI: 38

DNS: UK..British Telecom
Modem: BT Voyager 105
Chipset: GS7470

VID1: 1690 - Defult
VID2: 1690 - Defult
PID1: 0215 - Defult
PID2: 0215 - Defult
ALT synch: 0 - Defult
ALT pppoeci: 0 - Defult

Bin file: gs7470_sybch19.bn
pppmode: VCM_RFC2364

Use DHCP: Not selected
Use Static IP: Not selected

Useful Commands

Used to start the Modem and connect it to internet:
sudo /usr/bin/eciadsl-start
sudo /usr/bin/eciadsl-doctor <- Sorta like a debug

Used to configure:

sudo eciadsl-config-tk
sudo eciadsl-config-text < Sorta like a debug

links
http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/index.php
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsbAdslModem

Download used files and notes

-Pete, to future Pete

P.S I found this note and thought “hey this could be useful for someone”

A variable is data that is stored in the computers memory. A variable can be a number (Integar, Float) or just one letter or number (Char) or it can be a string of letters or number (String) in some programming languages like Java and C/C++ you need to declare and initialize the variable, this means that you have to say what type it is and what it is called.  With some scripting languages like Python and PHP you don’t have to declare them which means that you don’t have to say what type they are you just give them an name.

How to declare and initialize in Java:

int foo;

foo = 15;

String foo1;

foo1 = “String”;

How to declare and initialize in Python: 

foo = 15

foo1 = “String”

This is a very basic introduction, hope this has helped someone.

Tracking GIR!

Finally after all this time sky[UK] will be airing the last three episode’s of Avatar: The Last Air bender.  We in the UK can finally watch the new and last Avatar!  We have waited a year since they aired book3, see post, which was great and now finally they have got around to airing the last episode’s!  Make sure that you set a reminder or even better recoded it!  I have been able to not see many spoilers but I still know some

I’m not to sure on the exact date but it’s coming I saw an advert!

MOMO!

I have a nice idea for an update on this site, I will create a nice new layout and separate the site into three or four categories e.g Anime, How Too’s/Tutorials, Random I will hopefully be drawing and colouring some of the design my self.  If there is anything that you might want on the site please comment below.

Operators rule, they can do everything … well almost ^_^

Thanks to iTunes nice play count feature I will now bring you my top ten most listened to music.

X. Title (play count) - Description

10. I’ve Been Waiting (11) - Scrubs Season 3

9. Sweet Home Alabama (11)

8. Sweet Child O’ Mine (11)

7. Woman Can Drive (11) - The Matrix Revolutions must buy

6. Bittersweet_Romance (14) - Some Midi from Steve I think its from final fantasy I’m not even sure why this is in at six but anyway on to five

5. Halo 2 Theme (Piano) (14)

4. Sweet Cherry Pie (21)

3. loituma (45) - Yep that’s right I downloaded it

2. GOD KNOWS (61) - From Suzumiya Haruhi

And in at number one is:

1.  Hare Hare Yukai (67) - Again from Suzumiya Haruhi, this song rules! now watch the dance.

I will show you how to RIP a DVD to your computer and convert it to AVI format, then you will be able to:

• 1) Edit it
• 2) Play it from your Hard drive.

There are two versions one fast and simple and one slower and in more detail.

Software you will need:
DVD Shrink [link]
Any Video Converter [link]
VLC Media Player [link]

Fast Simple

1. Re-Author using DVD Shrink - This will create .vob output, can be played with VLC Media Player

2. Use Any Video Converter  to convert to .AVI or .WMV - Can be edited with video editing tools

More Detail

Once you have DVD Shrink installed you need to use DVD Shrink to copy the DVD to your hard drive and then re-author it, what this does is it will remove the menus and other options from the DVD so that you just have the film, if that’s what you want.

Step one Open DVD Shrink and then click on open disk, select your disk.  It will then Analyse the disk and come up with the image below.

Now click on re-author and drag the main part of the film to the menu on the left and then click on back up, it will then rip the DVD to your hard drive.

Wait untill it’s finished encoding.

Once it has finished copying to your hard drive you can leave the ripped DVD in .vob and play it with VLC media player.  Or if you want to edit the video with say Windows Movie Maker then you will need to convert it into a usable format. To do this open up Any Video Converter and click on add video and then chose an your required settings using the profile (1) e.g .dvi or .wmv, then click on encode and your done, it may take a while depending on the speed of your computer and the size of the file.

Hope this has helped someone.

I have had a play around with PyGame and this is what I have been able to do. PyGame Mess One these where made by taking bits from the example code, line by line chimp and other PyGame games. erm I created them along time ago so I can’t really remember where I got the code from.

Well the next post will have something more interesting and useful that’s a promise!

I have decide to start work on a simple RTS game, it will use python and some other modules. I will start work on it once I have finished collage, next week, I hope to have it completed or at least more than half way finished by the start of the collage. The game will be open source and I will keep a log of how I created and what tutorial/information I have used to learn the python language.

There are three main goals, these are:

1. Provide other people with complete information on how to start and write an RTS game from scratch
2. Have a fully working RTS game by September 2008
3. Get some experience in writing games to go towards CodeName StarQuest

And a great video to finish off the post Clicky

Some of the points that the site should be evaluated on are:

1. How easy is it to get to a specific page?
2. Is the information clear and easy to understand?
3. At a quick glance can you tell what it’s supposed to do?

I think that if you evaluate a web site by these points you will be able to work out if it is well designed.

How easy is it to get to a specific page?

If it is easy to get to a specific page with the information that you want quickly then the it is a good site. If you cant find the specific page with out having to look through all the other pages and junk on the site then it is a bad design and you more than likely won’t use it again.

Is the information clear and easy to understand?

If the information is clear and easy to understand then you are more than likely to come back to the site and use it again for more information. But if the site is hard to understand and the information is all over the place then you will not be coming back to the site again even if you do find what you where looking for.

At a quick glance can you tell what it’s supposed to do?

If you quickly look at the site do you know what sort of information will be on there or where to find the information, if the answer is yes then you are decently more likely to come back to it and use or remember the information. But if you cant work out what the site is supposed to do or say then you are not going to come back or stay on it and look for any information.

There are more points that a site can get evaluated on but I think those are the most important. You need to make sure that the information on the site makes scene and is clear to read, you need to make sure that the user knows what the site is as soon as they look at it and most of all they need to be able to get to a page that they want quickly and easily.

Studying tip number two:

Start your work As soon as possible

All ways start your assignments when you get them, that way you will have lots of time to get them done! As well as other work that you might have to do.

I only have until Wednesday to get my internet application website and report done, I’ve only done the website well that’s got some small amount of information, which needs loads more. I’m about to start the report on how the site was created and how it should be evaluated. I’ve had from erm lets see here from 8th January to get this done, and I’ve been going “I’ve got loads of time back to Naruto: Rise of a ninja” So yeah that’s tip number 2.

Hope this has helped someone.

My base!. MY BASE!

Well there we go 6600 and something words, all finished well apart from the referencing, any help would be good, ^_^. DANCING NEJI AND SHIKAMARU!

Heres a copy CSNC Final report, now to finish the internet application.

Disk storage can be anything from a CD ROM to a floppy disk or Hard disk. The general term for any physical storage unit is volume. Disks are divided in tracks, these tracks are not a physical division as on a record and their position is fixed by the Read/Write head. The tracks are numbered, then subdivided into sectors. Sectors are normally the same size on each track and throughout the disk, sectors are numbered by inserting the sector number into the sector header. All blank disks need to be formatted this involves writing to each sector some basic housekeeping information, when formatting the number of sectors and tracks are set by the formatting program.

Data stored on disks as files is a collection of binary data that may be a program, database, ASCII text or word processing file if we assume that they are all stored in the same way then we can say that a file is a logical unit of storage and its logical organisation is determined by the program or users that created the file. The logical file structure is independent of the physical file structure. When we save a file to a disk we need to be able to access it as and when required, a typical file would spread out more than one allocation unit. In general a new file starts a new allocation unit and any space that is left is filled with null data. Most file store systems have a reserved area where we can not write data to, and then data block areas which we write to.

A good performance disk would have a short seek time, rotational delay and data transfer time. Seek time is the time for the read/write heads to get to the required track and sector. Rotational delay is the time for the required sector to more around and position its self under the read/write head, and the data transfer time is the time that is taken to transfer the data from the disk allocation unit and the system memory. To improve performance we can enable interleaving, this means that the sectors will have logical numbers and will be arranged in non-non-contiguous way. Although most modern disk do not require interleaving because of the increase in the size of the buffer, which is now able large enough to allow all sectors in a block to be read at once with out any delay between sectors.

The most logical way to store a file would be to store it contiguously, this is means that we store each file in consecutive allocation units on the disk. This will allow the system to easily read the whole file. This is fine until the file needs to be extended because by the time you have written another file to the disk there will be no free space after the original file. This way of storing data files is the best way in terms of speed of accessing the data file. The system decids where to save the data file by one of these three ways:

1. Best Fit - Find the area with the closest amount of free space required

2. First Fit – use the first available area on the disk where the file will fit

3. Worst Fit – Put the file into the biggest available space on the disk

Another way to store data is non-contiguous which allows files to be spread out over the disk rather than stored contiguously, this means that the system will be able to use allocation units on the disk in any order or location. One way of doing this is to sort it using an indexed method, because the system can use any order and location to store the data it needs a way to find the next sector this is done by recording in an index a list of the allocation units that each file has been given, this allows the file to be accessed reasonably efficiently.

Studying Tip Number One:

Always Keep your notes tidy and in order.

Make sure to keep all notes/handout that you are given by your tutor safe, secure and organized no matter what they are! Whatever they give you it will be in the exam/assignment.

I’m trying to write a report about network design and disk analysis, I can’t find anything in my notes/handouts argh lol. I have the network design more or less done, I’m about to start on the disk analysis. Here’s what I have at the moment CSNC Beta 4

And if your wondering why I haven’t written anything in a while it’s because of collage ^_^ oh and Karate.

Hope this has helped someone. If only I knew this at the start of the year ^_*

See You Space Cowboy!

I came third in One Step Kumite at the North Wales Kyu Championships 4th - 9th kyu

Here is a link to my Halo 3 Stats I thought it was a good idea they have reminds me of 2142 aw I remeber the good old days of 2142.

Okay on the 30th of (March) this month to the 6th of April PyWeek is happening. It’s a week where python game programmers are given to create a game useing pyGame, pyOpengl etc.

Would any one be interested in creating a team? I will be doing it even if no one is. You don’t need to know how to program, although it will help. You can be the Idea guy, the art guy, the testing guy, the other guy or what ever guy. If you would like to join me or do it your self go on and sign up on the PyWeek site.

If you want to be in a Team with me get in contact with me here as a comment or in the forum or however

Go on give it a go!

-Pete

www.python.org

www.hetland.org <- Python Tutorial (straight in)

www.pyweek.org

www.pygame.org

Some basic HTML Tags which are mainly used for text.

<b> </b>

That is the bold tags anything in side the two tags will be bold

e.g

<b>This is bold</a>

This is bold

<i> </i>

That is the italics tags anything inside the two tags will be in italics

e.g

<i>This is italics</i>

This is italics

<center> </center>

That is the center tags, it will center any text within them.

e.g

<center>This is in the center</center>

This is in the center

<font size=”XX” color=”XXXX”> </font>

That is the font tag it has three atributes size, color and face. Size and color are well the size and color. The face atribute is the font face e.g Verdana, Times New Roman etc. Normaly you can leave out the face atribute as the web brower will just use the defualt.

e.g

<font size=”3″ color=”red”>
This is some text!
</font>
<font size=”1″ color=”blue”>
This is some text!
</font>
<font face=”arial” color=”red”>
This is some text!
</font>

 

Size 3, colour red
Size 1, colour blue
Font face arial colour red

Note that colour is spelt the american way color.

Now lets look at some other tags.

<a href=”##”>##</a>

That is a basic hyperlink structure.

e.g

<a href=”http://www.nationpigeon.com”>Nation Pigeon</a>

Nation Pigeon

<img src=”###”>

That is the basic structure of an image tag.

e.g

<img src=”http://www.nationpigeon.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/unsleepable_v16/images/title.gif” width=”225″ height=”80″>

That example uses the source atribute (src=”xx”), the width and height. The width and hight are not required but it will make the page load up nicer. The unbers that you enter are the width and height in pixes of the source image.

<marquee bgcolor=”##”
direction=”##” width=”##”></marquee>

That is the marquee tag (scrolling text). With that you can have the text scroll up/down/left/right, by useing the ‘direction’ atribute. You can also change the width. Aswell as the background colour.

e.g

<marquee bgcolor=”#efefef” direction=”right” width=”75%”>This is going right</marquee>
This is going right

But be warned useing this alot can get annoying. If you want any more just ask.  Sorry It dosent look that good.  I’ll get it sorted soon.

If your computer running Windows is starting to slow down, or running out of hard drive space then you might be in need of a simple program called CCleaner.

I was able to save 1.77MB of space and that was just from tempary files that Windows creates for it’s self. I have save up to 4GB of space from useing CCleaner. It’s very good!

If you want to learn PHP you will need a server that has PHP support. If you don’t feel confident enoght too install a major web server and all the bits then good news. There is a software called Nanoweb, which is a free small web server that supports PHP. It works on both Linux and Windows. So for Windows download the Windows installer here

TIP: Download the version that has PHP with it if you do not already have that installed on your machine.

One you have it downlaoded double click on the installer and click on ‘Extract’

It will extract the files and then terminate the install

It will load up the read me file and once you click on close it will continue with the install and end. If you would like to read the read me at another time then you can find it at C:\nanowe.

Now that it is all installed goto your desktop and double click on ‘Start Nanoweb’ Unblock windows firewall and you should see a command prompt window saying the following.

This means that the server is all working fine. To make sure of that type in localhost into your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox Netscape etc) You should see “Welcome to nanoweb!”. That file is located at C:\nanoweb\www, the www folder is the main root directory (folder) of the server. This is where you will be saving all of your PHP script files.

That’s it! All you need to do to set up a PHP development web server. If you want other people to view your files then you may have to port forward your ip address, this will be coverd at another time.

If you liked this and are a nice person would you like to donate to my Stargate fund?

Starting from this friday, I will make sure that there is  new information on the site.  If you would like to request something then feel free to post under here or in the forum.  I will glady help you with what ever it may be.

• Java
• Javascript
• PHP
• ASP
• MySQL
• AJAX
• CSS
• Computer Hardware
• Microsoft Windows XP Troubleshooting
• Basic Linux Operations
• Any many more

Any sugesstions welcome.

Pigeonkam

hah

Here have a copy of my work It’s on the house!

Problem Solving

LOOK PDF FORMAT lol good old OO

I found this. It lets you use the google IM system (same thing thats in your gmail) on your web site. So lets se what happens.

If you want it have a look here

woooo

How do you like my new banner - The last one was created by adam Thanks adam (I’m thinking of puttinging a random image script for it)

The only thing about this new one is that it has a white line around it if anyone wants to give it ago at removing it I would be very happy

Heres the NationPigeon PSD File