Monday, May 16, 2011
SC2 facebook & YouTube
Just thought I'd give a good link, overview, glance, whatever for my SC2 facebook page and youtube channel... So here ya go.
Monday, January 31, 2011
StarCraft II Live Stream
So, I've decided to kind of try live streaming of my SCII games again. Not all the time, but sometimes when I'm in a good killing mood. :) You can find a link to the page on the right side of my blog, or with this post.
Watch live streaming video from in_use at livestream.com
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
MacWinIx
Recently, I went through the process of turning my MacBook Pro into a tri-booting system with 3 Operating Systems. I chose Mac OS X (10.6.4), Windows Vista Ultimate, and Linux (Ubuntu). It was a pain in the ass, but I finally got all 3 to at least function. I'm still working on Linux, but it is installed, and grub loads. The next thing to do, is to get past the Grub screen that comes up. I'm pretty sure I just need to tell it where the Kernel is, and which drive to use to boot, since I set up Mac OS X and Windows with Boot Camp.
The purpose of this post, is to help other users with tri-booting these Operating Systems, so long as you don't mind using a Wubi (Windows-based UBuntu Installer). I never did figure out a way to tri-boot without using Wubi and Windows to host Linux. If someone has, let me know! =]
Once the installation process has completed, you're done! Well, mostly. I'll come back and finish this tutorial once I get Grub to load the Kernel and find the Linux root file system. Shouldn't be too hard right? Just gotta find the time to get it done. I hope this little tutorial has helped anyone looking to install Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux on the same Mac machine.
The purpose of this post, is to help other users with tri-booting these Operating Systems, so long as you don't mind using a Wubi (Windows-based UBuntu Installer). I never did figure out a way to tri-boot without using Wubi and Windows to host Linux. If someone has, let me know! =]
- Start up Mac OS X.
- BACK UP ALL OF YOUR DATA! Either use Time Machine (which is a easy, fairly quick option that comes on Mac OS X standard) or some other backup software. If you are using a MacBook, it would be a good idea to get an external hard drive. I'm pretty sure you can't have more than one partition in a MacBook to start this process, as I've tried this many times. Perhaps I was just doing it wrong. Anyway...
- Run Boot Camp and print (or email yourself) the Boot Camp Installation Instructions. After printing the instructions, you can continue with the prompts in Boot Camp. Determine the partition sizes for Mac OS X and Windows, but *keep in mind* that you will be installing Linux inside Windows, so include however much space you'd like Linux to use with the space you would give Windows.
- Boot Camp will then tell you to restart your computer and insert the Windows CD/DVD that you have.
- When the Windows CD starts, after completing the first few steps, it then shows the drive partitions that are inside your Mac. One is 200MB, one is whatever you set your Mac OS X partition to, and a Partition 3 (assuming you only had one partition when you started the process). You then delete the Partition 3, and it now appears as free space that you can select and choose the "New" option (under the advanced options of the drives) and select the default amount of space (which I believe is all of the space available).
- Windows will then install, and you can let it set up normally.
- Continue to follow the Boot Camp instructions. When it says to insert the Mac OS X Installation CD/DVD, OH NO! You can't! At least on a MacBook, because of the keyboard's built-in eject button. So, you'll have to restart the computer once you get to that point, and the trick here, is to hold down the "alt/option" key. Then select the "Macintosh" hard drive image, and then click the arrow below it. This will load Mac OS X, and allow you to eject the Windows installation disc. Do not restart your computer yet! Insert the Mac OS X Installation disc back into the drive, and then restart the computer. Again, hold down the "alt/option" key, and this time choose "Windows."
- Continue to follow the Boot Camp instructions, and I'll let you read it off of those, I'm not going to write it all down... Maybe I'll upload them...
- Now, if you've followed all of the instructions correctly, you can start Mac OS X, or Windows on your shiny Mac. Congratulations! However, this is only dual-booting, not tri-booting. Even though technically what I'm going to show you is a dual-boot in another dual-boot, I consider it a tri-boot.
- Restart your computer, and choose the Windows partition. Then, log in to Windows with an Administrator account, or have an Admin nearby for administrative rights.
- Run Windows Update, and update all of your software. Then restart your computer, and again, choose the Windows partition and log in.
- Connect to the internet, and (since I used Ubuntu, which has a Wubi, that's what we'll use in this tutorial) download the Wubi installer, which you can run right off of your desktop.
- Follow the instructions on Wubi. When it asks to set the partition size, this is why you included the Linux size in the Windows size in Boot Camp.
Once the installation process has completed, you're done! Well, mostly. I'll come back and finish this tutorial once I get Grub to load the Kernel and find the Linux root file system. Shouldn't be too hard right? Just gotta find the time to get it done. I hope this little tutorial has helped anyone looking to install Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux on the same Mac machine.
Monday, October 25, 2010
First Blog
So... this is it... My first blog.
What should I write about? I've looked up how to blog, and whatnot, but everything seems like it's up to the writer. I don't have anything that I'm really knowledgable about, or anything I could sponsor or sell. The only way I've really seen a blog used is to just write about yourself and what you're doing. I'd like to use it like that, but I think that if I do, I'm going to write about something too personal or offend someone. If I keep it like an online journal, that's a little bit too much information that I'd be sharing with people. I know that I can write it however I want, but I'm just not sure. I guess for this first post, I'll just talk about myself.
I am a college student. I want to be a programmer for Blizzard Entertainment, and have ever since I was very little, and first introduced to StarCraft 64 (yes, good ol' SC64 on the N64). I have played every Blizzard PC game on the market, and really wish that I could at least try their GameBoy games. I really enjoy programming, but don't know an actual language well enough to make my own programs yet. I started using Game Maker when I was about twelve years old. I made some pretty badass games, I'd have to say, for being only twelve. I then gave that up and moved on to 3D animation, but never forgot about programming and that being my major goal.
I stuck with animation for two years or so during high school, but once I moved out, the program I bought was quite different from the program used at school. I went from Cinema 4D to Maya and 3DS Max. This was a hard transition for me, and I still haven't got used to either of them, but I would really enjoy learning how to use them.
After high school, I chose USU for a CS degree with a specialization in software development. I don't have any classes that teach me how to program, which really bugs me, but hopefully next semester I'll get into some CS stuff.
I feel like I've just been rambling about computers, and not about all of the other stuff I do.
I'm in a band, which is called A Dream Divided. We're from Tremonton, Utah, and most of us are out of high school. I play the guitar, scream, and sing. It's been pretty fun. We've been working hard on new, original material, and even have a couple of shows possibly lined up, if the places we talked to go through with it. You can find us on facebook, or at adreamdivided.com. We're working on getting our four songs down really good so that we can record our first demo CD. We've got Boxcar Bertha, This One's Number 2, and Smoke Break down really well. Now we just need to finalize A Song Without A Funny Name and we'll be ready to record. We won't be getting it done professionally; most likely, just with our PA system and my MacBook.
Next, I suppose I'll share some information about hunting and snowmobiling. These are the two "outdoorsy" things that I do. I suppose there isn't much to write about them, except that I love to do them, and enjoy the time spent with my family whilst doing them.
Well, this first post turned out to be quite a bit more than I was planning on, and took a lot more time than I thought it would. It didn't feel like it did, so it was a surprise to see that an hour has passed since I sat down and read a little about blogs, and then moved on to typing this first post. Now I've at least joined the blogging community.
Hello World.
What should I write about? I've looked up how to blog, and whatnot, but everything seems like it's up to the writer. I don't have anything that I'm really knowledgable about, or anything I could sponsor or sell. The only way I've really seen a blog used is to just write about yourself and what you're doing. I'd like to use it like that, but I think that if I do, I'm going to write about something too personal or offend someone. If I keep it like an online journal, that's a little bit too much information that I'd be sharing with people. I know that I can write it however I want, but I'm just not sure. I guess for this first post, I'll just talk about myself.
I am a college student. I want to be a programmer for Blizzard Entertainment, and have ever since I was very little, and first introduced to StarCraft 64 (yes, good ol' SC64 on the N64). I have played every Blizzard PC game on the market, and really wish that I could at least try their GameBoy games. I really enjoy programming, but don't know an actual language well enough to make my own programs yet. I started using Game Maker when I was about twelve years old. I made some pretty badass games, I'd have to say, for being only twelve. I then gave that up and moved on to 3D animation, but never forgot about programming and that being my major goal.
I stuck with animation for two years or so during high school, but once I moved out, the program I bought was quite different from the program used at school. I went from Cinema 4D to Maya and 3DS Max. This was a hard transition for me, and I still haven't got used to either of them, but I would really enjoy learning how to use them.
After high school, I chose USU for a CS degree with a specialization in software development. I don't have any classes that teach me how to program, which really bugs me, but hopefully next semester I'll get into some CS stuff.
I feel like I've just been rambling about computers, and not about all of the other stuff I do.
I'm in a band, which is called A Dream Divided. We're from Tremonton, Utah, and most of us are out of high school. I play the guitar, scream, and sing. It's been pretty fun. We've been working hard on new, original material, and even have a couple of shows possibly lined up, if the places we talked to go through with it. You can find us on facebook, or at adreamdivided.com. We're working on getting our four songs down really good so that we can record our first demo CD. We've got Boxcar Bertha, This One's Number 2, and Smoke Break down really well. Now we just need to finalize A Song Without A Funny Name and we'll be ready to record. We won't be getting it done professionally; most likely, just with our PA system and my MacBook.
Next, I suppose I'll share some information about hunting and snowmobiling. These are the two "outdoorsy" things that I do. I suppose there isn't much to write about them, except that I love to do them, and enjoy the time spent with my family whilst doing them.
Well, this first post turned out to be quite a bit more than I was planning on, and took a lot more time than I thought it would. It didn't feel like it did, so it was a surprise to see that an hour has passed since I sat down and read a little about blogs, and then moved on to typing this first post. Now I've at least joined the blogging community.
Hello World.
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