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Key features:
* It dynamically updates the suggestion list with bold character recognition.
* The suggestion list can be navigated using arrow keys and mouse.
* When using arrow keys, movement takes over from mouse location.

The application JS code is easily available through viewing the source. The PHP used is just a 2-dimensional array with titles and urls. And a foreach-loop to check for form submits, along with populating the JS version of the array.

Inserted into .bashrc

export PS1=’\[\033[02;36m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;39m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]‘

Pseudo formula:

// Acronyms used to save space.
New style.left = PCW+((E.X-PCX)-(MDX-PCX))
New style.top = PCH+((E.Y-PCY)-(MDY-PCY))

// PCW/PCH = Previous Container Width/Height.
// E.X/E.Y = Event X/Y.
// PCX/PCY = Previous Container Left/Top.
// MDX/MDY = Mouse Down X/Y (where you clicked).

With this formula you will resize the layer relative to where you clicked on it. An extended version of the movement formula. In effect it will take the existing width/height and add the amount of pixel movement as a positive or negative number.

My example, just view the source to see my code.

Pseudo formula:

New style.left = MovingMouseX-(PushedMouseX-PreviousStyleLeft)
New style.top = MovingMouseY-(PushedMouseY-PreviousStyleTop)

With this formula you will move the layer relative to where you clicked on it.

My example, just view the source to see my code.

Web Galaxy currently has 10 solar systems with 30 asteroids in every system by default. Web browsers may lag when running more than 30-50 asteroids in the solar system view through the asteroid movement engine, I want to avoid that. If I were to add support for more player activity I would probably want to build more solar systems instead.

Technical
Mainly Javascript functionality. DHTML for effects, AJAX for real-time database updates, PHP and MySQL for back-end. The whole project consists of 15 images and 6 web files, 903KiB in total size. Game is wrapped in a very simple and basic user login system, just enough to keep players separated. The game should work without cookies as well.

I started making the game Feb. 9, 2010. Game was considered completed enough for testing on the Feb. 15, 2010. And that is where it is right now until I decide to put more work into it. The next step would be to create a messaging and/or chat system between players.

Gameplay illustrations:

You can try out the game yourself here.

How did I install it?
Not hard at all. Create a bootable USB, copy the files over and BAM boot it up. I used a 4gb flash drive (Windows 7 Ultimate).

Did it work?
Oh yes. The OS runs smoother than full XP Pro SP3 (non 4gb ssd, it’s the 16gb linux pc), more fluid and less SSD lag during normal use. Sure it slows down during write/read intended operations like updating and saving/copying files but that’s expected. I would even say it even feels smoother than Win2000…

It boots fast enough and runs rather comfortable once up. I have not tweaked it in any way. IE8 is a hog to run and was annoyingly buggy at the asus website, but firefox runs smooth and was much more functional.

Drivers
Right after the main windows setup I ran windows update, it takes care of the video, ethernet and wireless drivers iirc. I then downloaded the latest BIOS, Asus Update Utility and ACPI- and Chipset drivers. I ran all of it in XP SP3 compability mode and as administrator, just to be sure.

So far, so good
After install I have about 7 GiB left and most things seem to work. I have not tested the camera, but the device manager shows no errors after the chipset and acpi driver setup. Sound worked out of the box. Suspend works, have not tested hibernation, gonna test it. Eth and wifi works. Hotkeys works, all of them – with proper OSD messages.

Tomorrow I’ll test hibernation and a 16gb SDHC card to install applications on or just use as storage space.

Update
Hibernation works, and the 16gb SDHC card is surprisingly quick and functional. I had a small glitch where the battery gave me some misguided information to begin with, but seems fine now.

I’m happy with the result and I’m going to keep the system on the eee 900 for now.

IE would not recognize the session at all. IE did not block the cookies either, and I tested the SID constant thoroughly, it was not getting populated either.

The problem
In the same browser application I had open – just in another tab – I was logged into a HTTP AUTH session on another site, though under the same domain.

Of some reason IE seems to mix up the processes when opening up different tabs or windows through the same opened application. This way it doesn’t seem to properly keep track of which sessions belong to which processes.

The solution
Exit the IE application and start a new one. If I open up my session based website in the first tab, it works. It also works fine after opening the HTTP AUTH website in a second tab. But I don’t know how stable this is.

Just another IE annoyance…

The most logical place to look, is in:
wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/editor_plugin.js

Changes made there however doesn’t reflect in the administration editor. You also need to make changes in:
/wp-admin/includes/post.php

By default, spell checker uses the google gmail engine. This does not support the norwegian language in my case. So I changed over to the pspell engine. This is what I did to make that work for me:

(on the server, a debian box)
// Check first if you already have your language available.
#aspell dicts
-bash: aspell: command not found

// I did not, so I had to install it and make PHP support it as well.
#apt-get install aspell-no php5-pspell

// Reload the apache web server to reflect PHP update.
#/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

// Verify installation
#aspell dicts
nb
nn
no

... Looks good.

Next you change the engine in this file:
/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/config.php

from: $config['general.engine'] = ‘GoogleSpell’;
to: $config['general.engine'] = ‘PSpell’;

That’s it.

(Debian based example).

First, stop the daemon:

#/etc/init.d/mysqld stop

Second, start mysql without privileges:

#mysqld --skip-grant-tables &

Third, connect to the daemon and make changes:

#mysql
#UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('NewPassword') WHERE User='root';
#FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
#quit

Now stop the daemon and start it normally:

#/etc/init.d/mysql stop
#/etc/init.d/mysql start

It might be sufficient with a simple restart, but I like it the explicit way to be sure.

For more information on this subject, visit the official MySQL reference:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html#resetting-permissions-unix

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       the_hostname
x.x.x.x    subdomain.realdomain.net   the_hostname

The rest of the file might look like this:

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts