http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony Another web blog. Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:38:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are running XBMC for Linux you can use your Xbox1 (wired), Xbox360 (wired) and Xbox 360 (wireless) controller as a remote just like your original xbox controller with your original Xbox. If you want to use a wireless Xbox 360 controller with Linux you will need to purchase ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2008/09/13/using-xbmc-for-linux-with-an-xbox-360-wireless-controller-and-the-userspace-usb-driver-xboxdrv/ I recently switched from a qwerty keyboard to a dvorak keyboard. If you want to see why an idiot like me would switch to a keyboard layout that is only used by less then 1% of the population then checkout the wikipedia article. I highly recommend the dvorak layout if ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2008/02/19/switch-to-dvorak/ I recently received an Atari 2600. Naturally I decided it would make more sense to write about it from the perspective of a man who traveled back to 1981 from present day. It's sort of like a person moving to Phoenix, Arizona to work remotely for a company in Chicago, ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2007/02/15/atari-2600-reviewed-in-1981-by-a-guy-from-2007/ During a Buildbot build step you might need to have a list of files which have changed as a result of a commit to your repository. A quick way to get this information during a build step is to subclass the build step class of your choice and overload ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2007/01/19/18/ This is a quick update to my last article on Running Buildbot as a Windows XP Service. There was an interesting comment posted by jdpipe regarding the previous article . He offered a nice solution for some issues I was having with environment variables and stopping the Buildbot service. You ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2007/01/15/buildbot-as-a-windows-xp-service-part-2/ I once tried to create a game called Hunt Fish Camp. The main goal of the game was to hunt various types of wildlife. The cool thing about this game was that it revolved around an A.I. ecosystem. The idea was that you would drop a bunch of different animals ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2006/11/11/ecosystem-games/ While writing the SNTask utility I had to do some network programming. I have done a lot of network programming in the past mostly using C and Berkley sockets. It’s pretty simple to get basic communication going with that combination but anything more sophisticated requires much more design, debugging, and ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2006/09/10/twisted-is-good/ I have been working on setting up the new automated build system. We were having some hardware problems with the new server which was very unfortunate. Denrei tracked it down to the new gigabit NIC I installed. For now we are going to revert back to the 100 Mbit onboard ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2006/09/05/sntask-utility/ I proved an important theory today. Having a conversation at 150 yards can indeed be just as awkward as a conversation from 3 feet away. I often look down from my apartment building and spot people I know. I find it amusing to call them on their cell phones and ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2006/08/30/conversations-at-150-yards-can-be-awkward/ One part of our next milestone consists of extending our automated build system. We already use Buildbot to automate most of our builds and testing. Every time source code is checked into the repository it is compiled and all unit tests are run. If the compile or unit tests fail ... http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2006/08/28/automated-build-system/