*A WORD TO THE WISE – DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS* Flash cards are not designed to handle heavy loads of tiny read/writes all the time and will fail sooner rather than later.. I just had my system go into the shitty with a syslog filled with 1000′s of messages like this:  [59443.104957] Write-error on swap-device
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So today flash went from bad to worse.  It was doing some weird stuff as the video track would lag behind and then catch uip and lag and smoetimes it would just restart the video all together on youtube so I decided to unintall flash-nonfree and install gnash in an attempt and that just made
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So after going from Firefox to Chrome and then realizing that Chrome possessed the ability to melt my entire system and slow it to a crawl like some out of control plague of cpu usage I switched to Opera.  Well opera has some good qualities but Flash is not one of them so I’ve gone
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So another interesting sound issue which happens ALL the time and can be caused by about 4 million things and have 4 million solutions.  I’ve had this problem more than once and each time it’s something different and today is no exception. Yesterday I was having sound issues with Wine as I had just upgraded
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At the last OK Game Developer Cluster meet-up we discussed the need to get more people networked and involved in the local Game Developer here in Kelowna.  It is a wonderful blessing to have Disney and Club Penguin in our beautiful city as they has no doubt inspired many people to pick up the trade
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So instead of waiting for a programmer to come around for my current project I figured I would put a few intense weeks of learning in and see how much of AS3 I can pick up to try to muddle through some of these stuff and at least pump out a prototype. I wanted to
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