It was a free space-themed action MMO, but not like those cheap web based hacks that are complete garbage.  It had PVE and plenty of PVP.  Ok, it wasn’t all that great, and I only played a little, but it was the only MMO I liked.  I can’t stand World of Warcraft or any of those types of games.  Maybe someone should coin the phrase, “mmo-lite”.  There I just did.  All I can find now is a generic description of it.  If anyone recognizes this, they should be able to tell me what the heck happened to it.

Anonymous MMO Online is an action based Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) 3D Space Shooter. In Anonymous MMO Online, players can pilot their own space fighter ships (Gears) on an imaginary planet and upgrade skills or the Gear itself.

3D Space Shooting MMO

In Anonymous MMO, gamers have full control over the Gear’s control making it very different from the traditional RPG’s mouse click control method. This is a game based on Role-Playing Game (RPG) level concepts, but the fun and action of a First Person Shooter (FPS).

Diverse Selection of Fighting Gears

There are 4 kinds of Gears available to choose from, with each Gear having it’s … Read More »

Cron is so simple yet so useful I think it’s often unappreciated! Being able to toss a command into a cron, or execute a script at specific times of the day, days of the week, etc. That’s good stuff!

You want to install a special version of openssl that’s not the latest release, but some other app requires that specific one — how do you do it?

Lets assume you don’t have the right repository installed, and you need to set that up first.  If you’re looking for some package that you know is in freshrpms or livna, then right out of the box, the default fedora installation won’t look in those repositories.  So import the GPG key and add the repo file.

rpm –import http://freshrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/8/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

The –import lets the gpg check pass, and will fail if someone tries to stick a bad package in their repo, unless they’ve gotten ahold of their key a-la the fedora fiasco a few months ago.  But don’t worry about any of that right now.  Just import the key or else yum will complain when you try to install anything.  The 2nd line “rpm -ivh”, that’s going to install a package.  The package will have the .repo file, and it will put it in /etc/yum.repos.d/  that’s what really enables you to search in freshrpms.

Here’s another one, installing livna this time (livna is great for nvidia and ati drivers.  They compile the video drivers for … Read More »

First off, don’t be afraid of insane mode.  It just means you shoot from a little further back than normal most of the time and don’t bother trying to get up close to chainsaw anyone.  So you’re left with the multiplayer and the horde.  The horde mode really is the shining star here, but it’s too bad this is where things also began to fall apart.

It will take forever to form groups on xbox live.  And when you see your group fill up and you think it’s about to start, don’t count your chickens yet.  It will probably reset and start trying to find players all over again.  When you’ve played a full round of multiplayer in public xbox live and the round is finishes, you will get kicked out to the main screen and have to start matchmaking all over again.  The only save here is that if you’re in a party with friends, at least your group will stay together, but you’ll still have to wait forever to find another group to play against!
If you join a multiplayer or horde match using public xbox live, you’ll start from wave one with no choice.  If, at any time in … Read More »

I was in Borders or Barnes and Nobles the other day and I saw a bunch of books with the number 2012 on the cover.  I’m sure there are tons of people trying to cash in on the next big end-of-the-world scenario which is sometime around the equinox on December 21st in the year 2012.  So here’s a bunch of interesting facts about the number 2012.

It’s a year in which there are five Wednesdays in February. The last time this happened was 1984 and the next would will be in 2040.

It’s a Canyon Number. The structure of the digits represents a canyon. The first and last digits are the same, but all the digits inbetween are progressively smaller as you get toward the center position.  The biggest number that matches this pattern is 9876543210123456789.  If you laid this out on a scantron, it would look like a giant V.

a(n)=1/120*n*(n^4+10*n^3+35*n^2+50*n+144). This sequence starts like this: 2, 8, 24, 60, 131, 258, 469, 800, 1296, 2012, 3014.  I’m sure somewhere to someone, this means something crazy.

Number of binary sequences of length n containing exactly one subsequence 001.  Come on now, doesn’t this sound like there should be a spooky reasoning behind this?  … Read More »

Got a process that you want to restart in a script but it doesn’t respond nicely?  Use the sleep command in your script and check its status after you start, stop, or kill it.  After incrementally backing off a few times, waiting longer and longer, I give up and exit with an error.  But you could come back later, or basically raise an exception by saving the value of “$?”. You can do this as you start a process and want to make sure it’s fully up and running before moving on because it dies sometimes unexpectedly.  There’s a ton of uses for sleep.

DAEMON=myapp
sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/$DAEMON start
sleep 1
if [ `sudo ps -ef | grep -c $DAEMON` == "1" ]; then
sleep 2
if [ `sudo ps -ef | grep -c $DAEMON` == "1" ]; then
sleep 3
if [ `sudo ps -ef | grep -c $DAEMON` == "1" ]; then
sleep 3
if [ `sudo ps -ef | grep -c $DAEMON` == "1" ]; then
echo
echo “ERROR: $DAEMON did not restart.”
echo “Quitting Early!…”
exit 1
fi
fi
fi
fi

The evil google empire has singled out my website and banned me for no apparent reason what-so-ever.  Those pricks couldn’t handle stroking the big $11 check once every few months for my super duperest blog.

The Google Team is out to get you, how to make them pay in 4 easy steps:

My Adsense account got banned.  Help!

Take a deep breath, calm down, and try to figure out why your account was banned. Know thy enemy.  You’re going to want to find evidence that there has been a mistake and to do that you’re going to need to know what the problem was in the first place.  While reading this, in your head it should sound something like, “well duh”.  Google might just tell you there were invalid clicks and that doesn’t exactly say much.  If you get slashdotted, dugg, or any variation of those with all the other social networking sites out there, you may get an influx of clicks.  If you’re under shared hosting, there’s probably a bunch of miscreants among you, physically sharing your server.  If you’ve ever had a VISA or American Express credit card, you’ve probably been hit with the hold on your account because of irregular … Read More »