Posts Tagged ‘aircraft’

Saitek Yoke & USB adventure :)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

I bought a Saitek Yoke with trottle quadrant for myself as a christmas present :)

I really like it, and it makes flying (civilian) aircrafts very fun =)

It’s a bit large and bulky to place on the desktop, but it works very well and has a nice authentic feeling.

Let there be USB

As my computer is located in another room, 5 meters away from my desktop, I had to do some changes to the setup when I got this joystick.

I managed to replace 5 five meter long cables going from my computer to my desktop with 2 five meter USB cables (with repeaters). Before I had 2 audio cables (for microphone + headset) and 1 audio cable for the speakers, 2 PS/2 cables for mouse/keyboard, I also removed a s-video cable I was no longer using.

New sound card
Now I have a Creative SB X-FI go! USB sound card on my desk. This is much better than the integrated sound on my motherboard, and I can actually use my microphone to scream out stuff when I play Left 4 dead. I also bought a new headset to replace my old busted one. I got the Creative Fatal1ty gamer headset, which is awesome.

New mouse
I also bought a new USB mouse, as I was SICK of my wireless mouse and it’s appetite for batteries, and often I forgot to charge my spare batteries, so I had to steal the wii-controller batteries from Stacy which always pissed her off. I bought a pretty simple mouse, a Logitech MX518. Which I used before at work. It’s nice to have some extra buttons to bind as “push to talk” button for Ventrilo.

With USB on my desktop, I can now use my bamboo drawing tablet on my main pc, and not just the laptop.

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Programming in Austria

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

I’ve had this post as a Draft ever since I came back from Austria (which is a weird-ass country by the way), mainly due to the fact that I managed to change ssh port on my server without changing the firewall :)

So I finally connected a keyboard and screen and set everything up the way they was, which meant I could commit the changes I did to the Trekwar game to the server, and get them on this computer and grab some screen shots.

Friday
It is now possible to move your fleets around the map, Client allows you to press the tile the fleet should move to and then tells the server to move the ships.

Saturyday

Fixed a bug where the local copy of the move orders where not updated properly, implemented the starsystem controll window:
Trekwar System View

Sunday
Implemented build orders, now possible to build structures on planets. Queue not implemented yet.

Airplane
On the airplane back home I implemented the asteroid belts (high-altitude programming is fun).
Notice the beautiful asteroids drawn in mspaint on my laptop’s touch pad :)

Trekwar galaxy map with asteroid belts and fleet movements

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Sailing in Asker

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Last weekend I was in Asker, and got my Sailing Certificate, during a 4 day sailing trip around the Oslo fjord.
Asker kart seiling

Thursday
I took the airplane to Oslo today, 12:00 so I did not have to get up so goddamn early. After taking the airport train all the way to asker, I had to wait there for 4-5 hours until the course actually started.

Once started they went over basic navigation, and when dusk hit we started sailing from Asker down to Soon, navigating by lighthouses. We arrived in Son around 02:00-03:00  and went straight to sleep.

Friday
We woke ut at 08:00 And  had some more theory, following sailing from Son downwards to Engelsvik. Not much wind today, so several time we had to use the engine.
Seiling Asker 2

Saturday
Very favorable wind today, 10-12 m/s.. We sailed out to the exit of the Oslo fjord, then turned and sailed downwind past Tønsberg, and a bit up the Drammen fjord to Holmsbu where we stayed the night.

Top speed was at around 8.2 knots
Seiling Asker 3

Sunday
We sailed back to Asker today, pretty good wind conditions, and we arrived on schedule. Took the plane back to Trondheim and arrived back home at around 00:30
Seiling Asker 1

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Sailing in bergen

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

I was in bergen two weeks ago, doing part 1 of getting my sailing certificate.

Friday 06:00
For a man who woke up at 04:15, I feel remarkably… like myself :)
The buss from the city to the airport took around an hour, I’m now at gate 41, and got like 10-20 minutes
before boarding starts.
bah time for boarding.. I barely had time to start up eclipse…

Friday 09:00
The flight only took an hour, and the buss in to the city took 30 minutes.. then 15 minutes to find the hotel.
Would only have been 4 minutes If I had brought a compass :)

Friday 13:00
The hotel is pretty nice (P-hotels.no), and I just slept for a couple of hours (which I sorely needed), and woke up
at 12:00 by the pizza being delivered to my room.
The sailing doesn’t start until 17:30, the only thing I have to do by then is to buy some shoes I can sail in
I only brought my flipflops, and thankfully the weather report seems to be accurate, and the whole weekend
should have sunny weather.
The hotel only has unsecured wireless network, so I’m currently ssh’ing to my server and using bitlbee + irssi
to be on msn. Thank thor gmail is availible trough https :)

Friday 22:00
Just got back from the sailing, it was just a quick run outside bergen where we got to know the boat and
did some basic stuff like setting sail, and such..

Sailboat 2

Now I can stay in bed and watch an episode of Six feet under at the same time as stacy watches the same episode
back home :)

Saturday 20:00
I got to the sailing at 10:00, and we practiced parking the boat by the dock a few times, then we
headed out and did some sailing outside Bergen..

Sailboat

Sunday

Today we got some wind and where probably sailing at around 5-6 knots at the top.

sailboat 3
When I got back to the hotel I had some pizza for dinner, I bought it from an Italian place just next to the
hotel, and it was 10 times better than the pizza I had last night (and 1/4 of the price). Dolly dimples sucks
like a neutron star.

Pizza

I hit the sack pretty early, as again I had to be up at around 05:00 for the flight back to Trondheim.

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