Creating the network - the host

• October 6, 2005
• James Skemp

While in my last post I said host-singular, really there's two major 'hosts', in a manner of speaking. Usually, this will be the case. JamesRSkemp.net, for example, was one host. So, let's look at JamesRSkemp.net when it was one host.

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Unreal Tournament and the HP Pavilion a620n

• June 12, 2005
• James Skemp

I was sceptical whether my machine, a HP Pavilion a620n, with standard specifications, could play Unreal Tournament 2004. Since I had a couple of hours to kill, late one night, I decided I would try downloading the demo, to see if it would run on my machine. I had previously downloaded the Unreal Tournament 2003 demo as well, to also see if I could get that to run, and had bought the Unreal Tournament, Game of the Year Edition, for an older computer. To make a long opening short, this guide is going to go over Unreal Tournament and the HP Pavilion a620n, with standard specifications (id est, no altercations). If you're using this computer, and would like to use one of these programs, I'm going to tell you if you can.

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Can we blame hosts for their poor HTML editors?

• April 30, 2005
• James Skemp

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Fractal Explorer: Creating Your Own Fractals

• March 6, 2005
• James Skemp

Learning a program can be quite fun and rewarding, but can also be somewhat disarming. While there were a number of guides on the Internet that discussed Fractal Explorer, I felt that none of them did any great service to this great program. So, I set out to create my own guide, in a format that did not force a user to view only a small amount of information at a time.

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Anti-Virus Software

• January 9, 2005
• James Skemp

The average computer user is not an IT (Information Technology) professional. That said, the average computer user, computer users below average (especially), and many above average computer users, will end up with some kind of computer related problem at least once while using computers. There are a great number of reasons why this will occur, but for the most part it is because there are a number of programs out there that attempt to use computers for a specific purpose, while ignoring the desires of the computer’s user.

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Apophysis 2.0: Free Fully Commented Scripts

• December 16, 2004
• James Skemp

I offer the following, fully commented, scripts for use by the Apophysis (2.0) community. Feel free to copy the following scripts into the script editor for Apophysis 2.0 or download the script files from http://strivinglife.net/. Feel free to save the scripts on your own computers, but please do not share these scripts with others; rather, direct them to this article so they can be aware of my other scripts and any enhancements I release. Comments regarding these scripts are welcomed with open arms.

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Games: Thoughts on Syberia™

• October 31, 2004
• James Skemp

As a Halloween gift to myself, I picked up a copy of Syberia™ at Best Buy yesterday afternoon. Since then, and after trying out a controller I picked up to play my PSX games on my PC, I’ve been playing it (Syberia™) with a few breaks, here and there. What follows are my thoughts on the game thus far, with around half the game complete. First off, the game is extremely aesthetically pleasing.

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Visual Basic Programming: Tic-Tac-Toe

• December 31, 2003
• James Skemp

JRSs Tic-Tac-Toe is a simple game of Tic-Tac-Toe programmed with Visual Basic 6.0. Control is via the mouse, using a very simple interface.

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Pascal Programming: JRSs Tic-Tac-Toe

• November 9, 2003
• James Skemp

JRSs Tic-Tac-Toe is a simple game of Tic-Tac-Toe programmed with Dev-Pascal. It even keeps a tally of your points (win = +1, loss = -1).

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Guide on Installing Jeskola Buzz, Version 2

• November 7, 2003
• James Skemp

Originally written in February of 2003, but revised in November of 2003. This guide was written based upon an installation with Windows XP SP1, but any Windows operating system that will run Jeskola Buzz follows these procedures.

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