How to set up Jogre for the web

Set up jdk, apache tomcat, and hsqldb
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apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
apt-get install tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-wepapps tomcat5.5-admin
apt-get install hsqldb-server

Set up jogre
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wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jogre/jogre_beta_0.3_bin.zip
cd /opt
unzip ~/jogre_beta_0.3.bin.zip
adduser jogre
chown -R jogre:jogre jogre
su jogre
cd
echo "export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/usr/share/java/hsqldb.jar:." >> .profile
source .profile
java org.hsqldb.Server &
cd /opt/jogre/server
chmod a+x *.sh


Configuration
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./server.sh &

#I prefer the gui; it's easier to just change the db settings with this tool
./administrator.sh &
#Login with admin, admin
#Change the database from xml to hsqldb
#The path to the db is jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/jogre_hsqldb

#restart the jogre server
killall server.sh
./server.sh &


#With apache tomcat admin (http://localhost:8180/admin), add jogreweb.war

SVN commands

Creating a new repository for SVN

svnadmin create /path/to/svn/newrepository


Importing

svn --username user import http://svnsite.com/path/to/svn/newrepository -m "initial import"

#note about importing
#create a local folder called newrepository and put whatever code you want to import into newrepository
#run svn from newrepository


Permission denied when importing

# Do this on the server's svn directory

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data svn

Flash tricks - global vars, functions, timers

Creating global var-
_global.myvar

Creating a timer-
var starttime = getTimer();
var atime=0;

while (atime < _global.timestop+starttime){

atime = getTimer();

if (_global.conn_state == true){
break;
}
}

Creating a function-
function populateJoin(){

gamelist.data = _global.currentmsg.split(_global.SEP);
gamelist.labels = _global.currentmsg.split(_global.SEP);


}

Photoshop Tricks - alpha channels and actions

Creating an alpha channel (ps cs2)-
magic lasso outside of the object
inverse select
go to channels
click save selection as channel
Now you can save with the alpha channel


Creating an action (ps cs2)-
Click the actions tab
Click new actions and click record
Do what you want to record and press stop

Automatically start action (ps cs2)-
go to file ->scripts
click scripts events manager
check the enable events to run scripts/actions
associate your action with an event

Java Me Notes

Links

Main site

http://java.sun.com/javame/index.jsp

Download

http://java.sun.com/products/sjwtoolkit/download.html

Eclipse plugin

http://download.eclipse.org/dsdp/mtj/updates/0.9/stable/

Need to use eclipse to export jad and jar for the project (which is in deploy)


Conventions

startApp() --> like main

import javax.microedition.lcdui.*; //required to use display

Display // interface with phone screen

Form //set up the screen then attach it to display

myform.append("some text"); //a label

See list of mac file servers on network

This is quick way to get a list of appletalk machines on your network when you only have access to the terminal.

atlookup

Force a live update from command line

This will perform a silent live update of Symantec Antivirus 10.2

"c:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\VPDN_LU.exe" /fUpdate /s

Adding a printer with vbscript from a network share

rem Add the connection
cscript prnmngr.vbs -ac -p \\server\printer_share


rem Set it as a default
cscript prnmngr.vbs -t -p "\\server\printer name"

rem If you don't know the name
cscript prnmngr.vbs -l

Adding an extension to a bunch of files

#I made a bunch of text files for Windows, but XP cannot open them without an extension
#This was a quick fix

find . -type f -exec mv {} {}.txt \;

Debian package manager

#useful Debian/Ubuntu package commands

apt-get install package
apt-get remove package
apt-get update #good for updating your database after editing sources.list
apt-cache search search_string

dpkg --list
dpkg --install program.deb
dpkg --remove program




#Sometimes you have to add this to /etc/apt/sources.list
# etch is a version of Debian, replace with your version

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main

#these are good for install outside packages like java

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free

Power configuration from command line with xp

powercfg /setactive "always on"

powercfg /query

net time commands

net time (time from domain server)

net time /querysntp

net time /set \\another_pc

net time /setsntp:time.apple.com