Just wanted to take a quick second to thank Andrew (MIDIMan) for adding me as a “Friend” on his web site for “The MIDI Music Adventures Show!” Andrew is a very cool guy, with a very cool show, and quite a cool site to-boot. Keep up the great work, buddy!

Enjoy!
–Quinn

PS: A quick follow-up to the investigation of the StackScript issue: I can’t seem to find any problems with the script (at least, any issues that have been reported to me). If you read this, and you know what I might be referring to, please get back in touch with me to re-raise the point for further investigation!

For readers of this web site who may use (or plan to use) my FreePBX3+FreeSwitch Linode StackScript, I am currently aware of a (potential, but likely actual) issue with how it is currently installing its “major” components. I have been super-busy with other things (mostly related to school, TBRN, and “real life”) lately, but want to assure people I’m aware there is a problem looming with the script, and that I will see it gets handled when my schedule has calmed down somewhat.

Cheers!
–Quinn

Due to having much better things to do, I’ve been falling behind in posting my discussion posts/papers to my web site.  As of this posting, things are up-to-date for both of my current courses at ECPI.  Hope somebody out there enjoys ‘em!  ;-)

Cheers!
–Quinn

As of this morning (April 23 of 2010), Screenshots on “Bok” are now resumed.  Hopefully it won’t cause us problems again.  :-)

Thanks!
–Quinn

Just to prove I’m still alive, I’d like to invite you to the newly-designed-by-yours-truly web site of my good friend, Andre Louis:

http://www.andrelouis.com/

Enjoy! ;-)
–Quinn

Effective immediately, I have removed all notices of W3C compliance from my web pages. It was a nice ride and all, but, WordPress’s various editors are horrible at maintaining compliance with my site’s theme. I don’t foresee any problems with this change (except for possibly some lost compatibility with screen readers – namely JAWS, probably), but let me know if you see any problems, and I’ll try and investigate (as my time allows).

Thank You!
–Quinn

My mom got this picture today on the spur of the moment:

Karl and Missy sleeping together like this is a **VERY** new thing. :-)

Seasons Greetings! :-D
–Quinn

There’s now a new picture of Karl Haider (my Collie) on the “Doggies” page. :-)  WOOF!

Enjoy!
–Quinn

Saw this advert on the telly the other day, and couldn’t resist but to share it:

…Just FYI, this video was taken from the FLU.GOV web site, NOT ripped by me from the TV.  Sorry.  ;-)

Enjoy!
–Quinn

Finally had some chances of late to slow down just a bit, and relax a little…In-the-process, finally got my hands, albeit a good bit “late”, on a copy of “Halo 2″ for Windows Vista.  However, it seems that, for users (like me) of recent update-versions of Microsoft’s “Games for Windows LIVE” client programme, and owners (again, like me) of NVIDIA Graphics Cards with up-to-date drivers, that there is a BIG issue with the latest NVIDIA drivers causing sluggish (or “stuttery”/stuttering) performace in-the-game.  Well, I think I may have a workaround here — at least, this small set of changes (which you can make in the NVIDIA Control Panel software) seems to resolve these issues in my particular instance of this problem.

NOTE: I’m not going to tell you how to get to your NVIDIA Control Panel interface…There’s several ways to do it, nonetowhich are very complicated — If you’re really desperate, though, you can pay me to walk you through it — Contact me if you REALLY need me to hold your hand on that.  ;-)

Anyway, to get started, let’s bring up the NVIDIA Control Panel to the “Program Settings” Tab of the “Manage 3D Settings” page…See the following screenshot (you can click it to enlarge it, if you need to) if you need to know where it is…  Once you get there, I *highly* recommend you tick the “Show only programs found on this computer” checkbox so that you can much more easily find (and select) the “Halo 2 (startup.exe)” entry from the “Select a program to customize” dropdown menu.

And, in the “Specify the settings for this program” listview box, try setting your settings as-below:

Anisotropic Filtering = Off
Antialiasing - Gamma Correction = Off
Antialiasing - Mode = Override any application setting
Antialiasing - Setting = 2x
Antialiasing - Transparency = Off
Conformant Texture Clamp = Use hardware
Error Reporting = Off
Extension Limit = Off
Force Mipmaps = None
Maximum Pre-rendered Frames = 0 (Numerical Zero)
Multi-Display/Mixed-GPU Acceleration = Multiple-display Performance Mode
Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization = On
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias = Allow
Texture Filtering - Quality = High performance
Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization = On
Threaded Optimization = Auto
Triple Buffering = Off
Vertical Sync = Force off

Now, my personal experience leads me to believe that the two MOST influential settings here are the ones for “Vertical Sync” and “Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames,” but, I’ve been wrong before (and, being a human being, expect that, if I’m wrong here, it wouldn’t be the last time)…  Also, PLEASE NOTE, if one of those settings shown above doesn’t show up for your NVCPL, or if you have other settings available to you, it’s VERY likely you have a newer or older GPU (mine’s an AsusTek 8600 GT) than I do, but, my best guess, again, is with the “Vertical Sync” and “Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames” options.

Also, be sure to “Apply” settings before closing NVCPL, and, be sure to comment on this article with your praise, complaints, or other experiences with this possible workaround.  ;-)

Thank you, and, Enjoy!
–Quinn