Monday, September 28, 2009

http://www.kavkiskey.com is not down

The website is actually blocked. To be able to enter the website, edit the hosts file which is located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

look for:
127.0.0.1 localhost

add this line after localhost above.
60.190.218.24 www.kavkiskey.com

*if you cant save it, remove the read-only attribute of the file properties first.
attrib -r hosts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

How to make xfire detect games manually

This instructions shows how to detect Left4Dead game in your pc if it is the non-steam version.
1. Edit the xfire_games.ini file which resides in your xfire installation folder eg. C:\Program Files\Xfire
2. Search for the game reference eg. Left4Dead under code number 5633 and edit the gamepath to point correctly as per your current installation which is the launcherpath and detectexe:

[5633]
LongName=Left 4 Dead
ShortName=l4d
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam\InstallPath
LauncherExe=left4dead.exe
DetectExe=left4dead.exe

Note: You dont need to change the launcherdirkey registry as it does nothing as far as im concern.
3. Run your xfire.
4. Go to Tools>Options>Games>Not Installed>Left4Dead
5. Select Manual Setup and browse to your correct gamepath
6. I add this extra command line parameter so that l4d loads faster:
-console -novid +sv_allow_lobby_connect_only 0 +sv_lan 1
7. Press Apply. If you get into some error, your gamepath is incorrect or you didnt do step 2 above.

You might need to edit the xfire_games.ini over and over again each time xfire updates itself.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Editing binary files with xxd

First to hexdump the binary:
xxd -c 12 binaryfile.bin test.txt

the output to the file test.txt will be something like this:
0000000: 7f45 4c46 0101 0100 0000 0000 .ELF........
000000c: 0000 0000 0200 0300 0100 0000 ............

edit the hexadecimals, then to convert the file back to binary, type:
xxd -r test.txt newbinary.bin

Friday, March 28, 2008

How to connect to temporary Narakka server

Download this file - backup.reg and save it in your warcraft folder from http://rapidshare.com/files/103058277/backup.reg.html
Double click the file and then run the w3l.exe file in your warcraft folder tu start.
Create a new user if your username does not exist.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

How to solve 3x3x3 rubik's cube

Reference:
F = Turn front side of cube clockwise
U = Turn top side of cube clockwise
R = Turn right side of cube clockwise
L = Turn left side of cube clockwise
i = Turn the side of cube anticlockwise

1. Solve the front face centres and align the cross with side centres
2. Solve the side angles to match face colors and side centre colors
3. Once front side is solved, turn the solved side downwards and try to solve the second line of the cube.
To move the centre top side to the right of second line use this algorithm: U,R,Ui,Ri,Ui,Fi,U,F
To move the centre top side to the left of second line use this algorithm: Ui,L,U,Li,U,F,Ui,Fi
4. Once second line is solved, next step is to get the top side to form a cross. Use this algorithm over and over until it form a cross:
F,R,U,Ri,Ui,F
5. Now to align the top side cross color with the second line centres, at least there will be 2 sides which top side is correctly aligned with the second line.
If the correct side are opposite to each other use this algorithm:
U,R,Ui,Li,U,R,Ui,L
If the correct sides are next to each other, hold the correct side one opposite and the other on the left hand side. Use the same algorithm as above.
6. Next step is to ensure that the top side corners are in place correctly at its place but not necessarily have the correct color on top side.
Find one corner which is correct and hold it so that it would be on the bottom right of the top face. Use this algorithm over and over to get them correct:
U,R,U,Ri,U,R,U,U,Ri
If no corners are correct use the above algorithm to get one side corrected.
7. Once the corners of the top face is at the correct place, hold the uncorrected corner on the bottom right hand corner of the top side and use this algorithm to solve the uncorrected top corners:
Ri,Di,R,D
Turn the top side of the uncorrected corner and place it on the bottom right hand corner and do the same algorithm again. DO NOT FORGET THE 'D' when you do the algorithm above.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Installing gd with full support

Installing jpeg support:
wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b/
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
make install

Installing freetype support:
wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/freetype-2.3.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf freetype-2.3.4.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.3.4
./configure
make
make install

Installing font config:
wget http://www.fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
cd fontconfig-2.4.2
./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
make
make install

Installing png support:
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
tar zxvf libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.8-config
./configure
make
make install

Installing gd:
wget http://www.libgd.org/releases/gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
tar zxvf gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
cd gd-2.0.35
./configure \
--with-png=../libpng-1.2.8-config \
--with-jpeg=../jpeg-6b \
--with-freetype=../freetype-2.3.4
make
make install

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Installing apache and php with mysql in linux

Installing apache:
wget http://apache.leakage.org/httpd/httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz
tar zxvf httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.2.6
./configure --prefix=PREFIX
make
make install

Installing php:
wget http://au3.php.net/get/php-5.2.4.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror
tar zxvf php-5.2.4.tar.gz
cd php-5.2.4
./configure --with-mysql \
--with-apxs2=/PREFIX/httpd/bin/apxs \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-fastcgi \
--enable-calendar \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
--enable-ftp \
--with-gd \
--with-freetype-dir=../freetype-2.3.4 --with-png-dir=../libpng-1.2.8-config \
--with-openssl
make
make install
cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini

edit httpd.conf and add this line:
LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

Run apache by typing:
PREFIX/bin/apachectl start

test php by making a php file eg. phpinfo.php and save in your web folder
type this code in the file:
<?phpinfo();?>