Friday, July 28, 2017
Minecraft Trollcraft working on Linux
So the kids are somewhat addicted to Minecraft. What that means for me is that from time to time I get asked to get some mod downloaded, something working that is broken, why can't I connected, etc etc. The latest was today getting Trollcraft working from the ATLauncher on our Linux Mint box. MCEF / JCEF was failing, it took a while but ended up figuring it out by poking through the source code and I found a file that looks like it tries to patch linux that gave the biggest hints.
Anyway, to fix your Trollcraft (or probably anything that uses MCEF) you can copy 3 files to your java_home/bin folder (For me that was /opt/java/64/jre_xx/bin)
Files to copy are:
icudtl.dat
natives_blob.bin
snapshot_blob.bin
and they should be available in /Instances/Trollcraft/
Hope this helps someone else get it rolling for them as well.
Monday, June 13, 2016
IRS Lawsuit scam call
Got a rokbo call from "Chicago Il" 773-658-0057 that seemed to be some sort of IRS scam lawsuit. Hoping that posting this phone number here others will be able to find it to also know it is a scam as many searches on that show:
https://www.google.com/search?q=irs+filing+lawsuit+scam&oq=irs+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j69i59j69i60l4.2951j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
7736580057
(773)658-0057
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
What?! I have a blog?
Yeah, so I always have good intentions of having interesting stuff to share and updating my blog, but here I am a long long time from my last post. So anywhere here is a hodge-podge chunk of stuff starting with what got me looking around and remembering this blog prompting this useless post:
XBox!! For Christmas my wife got me (and the kids and her) a XBox 360 S with Kinect. Something I had been wanting but kept putting off getting to where I had finally been content with not having one so it was a big surprise. We've been having a lot of fun with it. Got Halo Reach from Gamefly and the kids were instantly addicted (to me slaying them unmercifully).
I was ready for something new from Gamefly so I picked up Halo 3 used for $10 so satisfy the addiction. We busted through the rest of the Reach campaign, I played part solo and the other part with the boys rotating on co-op split screen. I will say that I think Halo 3 does seem old after playing Reach but it is very good from the little we've played it.
Last night I also finished off Mafia 2, its a whole story on its own on how I ended up getting this game but it was a lot of fun. It took me a bit to get through because it is definitely a in the play-after-the-kids-go-to-bed genre and I wasn't that dedicated. Felt like I was playing a good movie, although I guess the big knock on it is that there is no real exploration in the game. Not to give too many spoilers but I was disappointed in the ending but I was down to a few different things that I thought would happen and this was somewhat on the list.
So now I feel game-less until Gamefly sends me something new. We have plenty to play just nothing similar to Mafia 2 that I really want to play alone. Time for me to guilt some friends into Gameflying me some oldies but goodies or pick up something on the cheap.
Oh yeah, The other recent news is that I took over running GolfKentuckyLinks.com. This is a site/community that I have been using for quite a while and the owner was going to let it die. He agreed to let me take over the hosting cost and control of the site so I'm dabbling in webmaster now I guess. Not something to make money on just hated to see it die. Hoping to having some time to devote to it so update the layout and get the content to be more user driven since we have a very good group on the forums. We'll see how it goes.
Until next year ... lol.
XBox!! For Christmas my wife got me (and the kids and her) a XBox 360 S with Kinect. Something I had been wanting but kept putting off getting to where I had finally been content with not having one so it was a big surprise. We've been having a lot of fun with it. Got Halo Reach from Gamefly and the kids were instantly addicted (to me slaying them unmercifully).
I was ready for something new from Gamefly so I picked up Halo 3 used for $10 so satisfy the addiction. We busted through the rest of the Reach campaign, I played part solo and the other part with the boys rotating on co-op split screen. I will say that I think Halo 3 does seem old after playing Reach but it is very good from the little we've played it.
Last night I also finished off Mafia 2, its a whole story on its own on how I ended up getting this game but it was a lot of fun. It took me a bit to get through because it is definitely a in the play-after-the-kids-go-to-bed genre and I wasn't that dedicated. Felt like I was playing a good movie, although I guess the big knock on it is that there is no real exploration in the game. Not to give too many spoilers but I was disappointed in the ending but I was down to a few different things that I thought would happen and this was somewhat on the list.
So now I feel game-less until Gamefly sends me something new. We have plenty to play just nothing similar to Mafia 2 that I really want to play alone. Time for me to guilt some friends into Gameflying me some oldies but goodies or pick up something on the cheap.
Oh yeah, The other recent news is that I took over running GolfKentuckyLinks.com. This is a site/community that I have been using for quite a while and the owner was going to let it die. He agreed to let me take over the hosting cost and control of the site so I'm dabbling in webmaster now I guess. Not something to make money on just hated to see it die. Hoping to having some time to devote to it so update the layout and get the content to be more user driven since we have a very good group on the forums. We'll see how it goes.
Until next year ... lol.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Learning more about AFD on XP than I ever cared to
Not that I really learned anything, but I have spent the last week trying to fix my wife's computer cause she had gotten some nasty viruses at some point and I finally decided to clean it up. Being too lazy to clean up enough space on other computers to copy over all the pictures and stuff that are on there I decided not to reimage it. With the help of some great posts over at MajorGeeks.com I used my laptop to download about 10 or so different tools to scan, clean, and delete my way to an XP that I am not afraid to plug into my network and one that isn't spamming the world and having my ISP lock my connection down (it happened, no joke). Btw, Symantec, at least the version I had, never did a damn thing from what I could tell. Piece of bloated crap, IMO.
So the cleaning posts were easy enough to get through, system's clean, booting and running much faster but network doesn't look so hot. Device manager shows NIC driver corrupt or not installed properly and that's where my fun really began. After hours of searching and goofing with stuff I get the network card recognized and it seemed to have very little to do with the actually NIC drivers, thanks Device Manager messages. I can't even recall what actually got it satisfied cause I tried so many different things. But network still not working ... lovely.
AFD: You can find nearly anything you want on the internet. It's really amazing at how much information is out there, it might take a while to find it but there is normally someone, somewhere, that has posted about what you need or something similar. Not so much (that I could find) with freakin' AFD. AFD is a non-plug and play device that shows up on Device Manager when you tell it to show hidden. No wait, that's true, but it seems it's actually a XP Service. Oh wait, it is and starts that way but it's not actually on the Services list ... But pretty much every networking service has it as a dependency. DON'T uninstall the AFD device thinking there will be a way to re-install it. Also, make sure you have System Restore on :-).
So my AFD is failing to start cause something along the lines of "path not found." Google search it and find many many dead ends and a few very helpful posts. If I were a good blogger I'd have some links but guess what, I don't.
So I was stuck at a point with a machine that said the network was connected but didn't work. Ipconfig returned basically nothing. Connection details didn't really show any errors but everything was blank from the IP to the DNS. Device Manager was only complaining about AFD being corrupt or not properly installed. My System events were showing that the AFD service was failing to start and thus most network stuff was too.
Post is getting way too long so let me lessen my windedness. There is no way (once again that I could find) to reinstall AFD and basically no help or information on it from MS. I found several places that people were having similar issues but they most always ended in dead threads with no success posted. Here's what I'd recommend for anyone that might find this:
This got me to a point where I was getting an IP but no DNS or working connection:
For these commands, Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.
Make sure you have afd.sys in your C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder and msafd.dll in System32. Copy them from a good XP machine (with a thumb drive) or they might work from \i386 or Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386.
Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog
Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log
Reboot the machine.
Then I took my laptop with XP on it and searched through the registry for AFD and make the bad computer's registry match. The important keys are: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\Legacy_AFD
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AFD
Mine was complaining about a registry path not being found. Something was pointing at a GUID\0000 instead of 0001. Another idea is to download Process Monitor. Run it, turn capture off, clear list. Open a Dos prompt and type in sc start afd but don't run it yet. Click start capture on Process Monitor, the switch over and hit enter in your dos prompt. Once AFD fails stop capture. Process Monitor will track an overwhelming amount of stuff but start sifting through there to see what is failing. That is how I finally saw AFD looking for something in the registry that wasn't there.
Wow, I suck at blogging so there is a wall of text to try to help someone that might come across what I did, but I hope no one else ever does. That last paragraph could seemingly work for troubleshooting other service start failures.
So the cleaning posts were easy enough to get through, system's clean, booting and running much faster but network doesn't look so hot. Device manager shows NIC driver corrupt or not installed properly and that's where my fun really began. After hours of searching and goofing with stuff I get the network card recognized and it seemed to have very little to do with the actually NIC drivers, thanks Device Manager messages. I can't even recall what actually got it satisfied cause I tried so many different things. But network still not working ... lovely.
AFD: You can find nearly anything you want on the internet. It's really amazing at how much information is out there, it might take a while to find it but there is normally someone, somewhere, that has posted about what you need or something similar. Not so much (that I could find) with freakin' AFD. AFD is a non-plug and play device that shows up on Device Manager when you tell it to show hidden. No wait, that's true, but it seems it's actually a XP Service. Oh wait, it is and starts that way but it's not actually on the Services list ... But pretty much every networking service has it as a dependency. DON'T uninstall the AFD device thinking there will be a way to re-install it. Also, make sure you have System Restore on :-).
So my AFD is failing to start cause something along the lines of "path not found." Google search it and find many many dead ends and a few very helpful posts. If I were a good blogger I'd have some links but guess what, I don't.
So I was stuck at a point with a machine that said the network was connected but didn't work. Ipconfig returned basically nothing. Connection details didn't really show any errors but everything was blank from the IP to the DNS. Device Manager was only complaining about AFD being corrupt or not properly installed. My System events were showing that the AFD service was failing to start and thus most network stuff was too.
Post is getting way too long so let me lessen my windedness. There is no way (once again that I could find) to reinstall AFD and basically no help or information on it from MS. I found several places that people were having similar issues but they most always ended in dead threads with no success posted. Here's what I'd recommend for anyone that might find this:
This got me to a point where I was getting an IP but no DNS or working connection:
For these commands, Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.
Make sure you have afd.sys in your C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder and msafd.dll in System32. Copy them from a good XP machine (with a thumb drive) or they might work from \i386 or Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386.
Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog
Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log
Reboot the machine.
Then I took my laptop with XP on it and searched through the registry for AFD and make the bad computer's registry match. The important keys are: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\Legacy_AFD
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AFD
Mine was complaining about a registry path not being found. Something was pointing at a GUID\0000 instead of 0001. Another idea is to download Process Monitor. Run it, turn capture off, clear list. Open a Dos prompt and type in sc start afd but don't run it yet. Click start capture on Process Monitor, the switch over and hit enter in your dos prompt. Once AFD fails stop capture. Process Monitor will track an overwhelming amount of stuff but start sifting through there to see what is failing. That is how I finally saw AFD looking for something in the registry that wasn't there.
Wow, I suck at blogging so there is a wall of text to try to help someone that might come across what I did, but I hope no one else ever does. That last paragraph could seemingly work for troubleshooting other service start failures.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Weight Loss
Well Saturday morning marked the first week with Healthy Trim and I was down to 239. Was being the key word, weekend was bad and I was back up to 241 this morning. But its cool, I'll keep going and posting.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Need some investors!
Ready to open a business, should be fun. Well by "ready" I mean found something I think is interesting but I don't have any money. Man I need some filthy rich friends, wonder if I could convince a bank to loan me a few mil?
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