Portal (through Wine)

Just got Portal to work on my main computer which runs Ubuntu 7.10 x64. The trick was to download Portal.FIX-Unleashed and replace SteamEmu.ini! The Wine version (0.9.46) in the official repository worked great, even though it's a bit outdated. The steps I had to take was:

• Install msttcorefonts package
• Start it this way: wine hl2.exe -game portal -windowed -w 1024 -h 768 -dxlevel 80 -novid

The game is pretty mind blowing and great fun. The developers have a good sense of humor and the crazy computer that guides you, or do not guide you makes you laugh a lot of times. This is a must play game for everyone, and it should not be a problem to get through either since it is quite short. I used 2-3 hours.

Weekend recap

• Got home from CUGtech, where I learned a lot and had great fun. Thanks to sponsors, speakers and participants.
• Attended my friend Kim's birthday party, where an old friend decided to show up. Nice to see you again Tor-André!
• Ate the first Christmas dinner this year at my GF's mothers place. Good food!
• Installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my Playstation 3. Installation went a lot smoother than my attempt at 7.04. It works great for OpenOffice and Firefox even though it only has 256MB memory and swaps a little to the disk. Swap partition on a fast memory card would probably help a bit. Two tips to others who want to try: Install using the Alternative install disc. And set higher resolution as a kernel boot flag (like video=ps3fb:mode:8), changing it while running with ps3videomode would only garble my display.

On my way to CUGtech Autumn 2007

Me and Christoffer, a colleague are going to CUGtech Autumn this year. The bus to pick us up never showed up, but the organizers managed to hire a new one. So now we are on our way, one and a half hour late. Posting this from the bus, luckily there will be a stop midway for some food. Me so hungry

New Apple Keyboard

I got the new Apple keyboard delivered this friday, and have been using it a lot during this weekend. My conclusion: Greatest keyboard ever made! It is thin, but heavy so it doesn't slide all over my desk, and it is also minimal in size. Two days and I'm typing just as fast as on my DiNuvo keyboard.

Yesterday

Made a Vista VMWare image with Nero MediaHome to get video from my Ubuntu fileserver to my PS3. Due to lack of good DNLA/PNP servers for GNU/Linux / Ubuntu. Didn't get to test it though, as ZWT creates Windows(!) keygens to go with it's Linux releases. The release I'm talking about is: VMware.Workstation.v6.0.0.45731.Linux.x64.Incl.Keymaker-ZWT , well - I'll try to get WINE to run it for me today. Also flashed Eirik's PSP from FW 2.71 to 3.40 OE-A. I'm sure he wants to thank Dark_AleX and the others over at pspupdates.qj.net