Lots of stuff going on today. In the last 24 hours I found a cool little Zombie Infection Simulator on the web, a downloadable 3D version that only runs on Windows, and I ported it to OS X. You can find the story on the Zombie City page of the new C++ section.
On other fronts I go back to school Tuesday so we’ll see how high my productivity stays. I’ve taken the first stabs at making it so that when my automatic script to upload this site runs, it only updates things that have changed. I’m going to leave it so it updates EVERY page necessary or not (because that is just easier and not a big problem) but the thing that I need to fix it for is so it doesn’t replace unchanged multi-megabyte files that I may have up (which are what account for a large chunk of the uploading).
Speaking of SiteMaker, I was contacted a while ago by a nice guy named Chris Carter (no, NOT the X-Files producer) who was interested in trying my SiteMaker software. While I’ve said elsewhere on this site before (I think) that I’d like to release it to the public, it’s not ready for public distribution yet. That said, I gave him a copy to try, and if you are interested you can find his site here. If you are interested in trying SiteMaker yourself, let me know. Knowing that people want it will cause me to move on it MUCH faster than I would for myself (seeing as how it works just fine for me now despite the fact it’s incomplete).
As for Mac related things, I only have two issues. I would like to be able to control my Mac remotely, and I know of and have setup VNC to let me do that. There is only one problem (which I didn’t realize ’till this morning): I can’t connect to my Mac from other computers. Here’s the deal. After a while the thing goes to sleep (which I like). But when it goes to sleep, it disconnects from the AirPort (makes sense). This leaves it with no network connection, so there is no way to contact it. If I wake it from sleep then I can VNC in and use it, but that kinda defeats the purpose. I’ll have to think of a way to fix this.
My last Mac issue is a strange one that I would love help on. If you have an idea, please e-mail me. So here we go: whenever I open Macintosh HD on my desktop I see 6 icons. That’s just fine. I like things organized though, so I like them stuck to a grid. But no matter what I do, seemingly randomly, two of them (the top left and top center) move just a little to the left so they are no longer snapped to the grid. I have no idea what is doing this (I don’t go into Macintosh HD much), but it really annoys me. Anyone run up against something like this before?
That’s all folks.
