Vacation

Hey there everybody, I will be on vacation for the next week. I will begin posting again on January 10th. Happy New Years everyone!

**Been changed to January 11th**

Will I use AffinityClick?

I recently decided to find an alternative to Adsense for their lack of understanding. Anyway I've been looking around for a bit and ended up finding AffinityClick. I looked into it and I am very pleased. I will look into some reviews tomorrow about it and see where I end up after that. Let me know if you think AffinityClick is a good PPC or if there is a better alternative.

Hiya!

Hey,

You know when Tristan is always talking about that player that he plays games with? Well, that's me. When I took an interest in blogging, he told me, "Why not use mine?". Being an extremely lazy person, and not wanting to set up my own, I accepted. What I'll mostly be doing here is something I love: Talking about video games. I LOVE Video games, and I'm here to write reviews for them (For the foreseeable future). Got a favourite game that you absolutely LOOOVE? Post it in the comments, and I'll see what I can do. For now, though, I'll be doing games that I already have, such as R.U.S.E., Age Of Empires Online, Crysis 2, H.A.W.X. 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, etc. So, that's all for now, folks!

~As written by

~Jake

My Approach Into Affiliate Marketing

Last night I decided I was going to try affiliate marketing. I am currently in the search for a good one to work with. I hope to place banners etc on this blog. I like how you can earn more with affiliate then just plain ads. I've looked into some and I could be earning a lot. I will just need to continue trying to get more traffic so this will be worth its while.

Patterns and Crazy Eights

The title may make you a little confused but don't worry. This post is just about the patterns in a card game called crazy eights. Basically when you play a card with a jack or a four the player after you skips a turn. For some reason I felt like figuring out the pattern if there were infinite jacks and fours. What I did was assume there were three people playing the game and each played a four of spades. This will simply make the next player miss their turn and move onto the next player. Each player is defined with a letter, A, B, and C. As we start with A, B will miss it's turn and it will be C's turn. Then A will miss it's turn and it will be B's turn. Now I noticed a pattern here shown as the following.

A/C
C/B
B/A
A/C
C/B
B/A

The pattern simply skips the next letter and moves onto the next letter. For some reason I felt the need to find this pattern. Anyway thanks for reading this random post! xD

My Chrome Extensions

Just felt like sharing my Chrome extensions I use on my dev PC.

• Browser Compatibility Detector 
• Measurelt!
• PHP Console
• PHP documentation - PHP.net
• Resolution Test
• Web Technology Notifier 

I find these extensions useful, if you know some that I could add to my collection leave a comment! I'll be glad to add some more.

My Conky Setup

Check out my Conky setup I use on my Linux box:


     alignment top_left
    background yes
    use_xft yes
    xftfont HandelGotD:size=7
    xftalpha 0.5
    update_interval 4.0
    total_run_times 0
    own_window no
    own_window_type normal
    own_window_transparent yes
    own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
    double_buffer yes
    minimum_size 250 5
    maximum_width 250
    draw_shades no
    draw_outline no
    draw_borders no
    draw_graph_borders yes
   
    default_color green
    default_shade_color red
    default_outline_color grey
    alignment top_right
    gap_x 12
    gap_y 48
    no_buffers yes
    uppercase no
    cpu_avg_samples 2
    override_utf8_locale yes


    TEXT
    Date & Time ${hr 2}
    ${font Arial Black:size:36}${alignc} ${time %H:%M}${font}
    ${alignc}${Time %a %b %d %Y}
    System ${hr 2}
    Distro ${alignr}#! CrunchBang 8.10.01
    Kernel ${alignr}$sysname $kernel on $machine
    Hostname $alignr $nodename
    Uptime $alignr $uptime
    
    Athlon64 +3800 @ ${freq}MHz Max:2.4Ghz
    CPU $alignr ${cpu cpu0}%
    ${cpugraph cpu0 ffcc00 ff0000}


    MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
    ${color 48a0d2}${membar}${color}
    
    File System ${hr 2}
    Swap $alignc $swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc%
    ${color f17f17}${swapbar}${color}


    Root $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /}%
    ${color ff0000}${fs_bar /}${color}
    
    Processes ${hr 2}
    $processes processes ($running_processes running)
    Load Average${alignr}$loadavg
    NAME $alignr PID   CPU   MEM
    ${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
    ${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
    ${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
    ${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
    ${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
    
    NETWORK ${hr 2}
    ${alignc}  eth0 ${addr eth0}
    Inbound $alignr ${downspeed eth0} kb/s
    ${downspeedgraph eth0 33ffcc 000099}
    Outbound $alignr ${upspeed eth0} kb/s
    ${upspeedgraph eth0 ffcc00 ff0000}
    Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth0}
    Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth0}




What you see:

Mysql/PHP Idea

Just felt like posting a little idea I thought of to make databases smaller.

As in my notes:

To optimize databases use a single column per item.

Username | Password | sword_durability...etc

Use php code to decide the column state.

if (sword_durability == 1)
    // set sword durability as 1 (full)

elseif (sword durability == 0.9)
    // set sword durability as 0.9 (damaged a bit)

etc


Now this was just a simple idea i randomly came up with so it isn't very in depth. Thanks for reading this little idea. Feel free to share it.

Basic sim game idea and the real thing at work

Basic Sim game idea:

- player gets 3 building types
- residential, commercial, industrial
- player earns 100 money every hour
- costs 1000 money to buy a building
- industrial buildings effect how much money you earn every hour
- 1 industrial building = 100 money
- industrial only takes effect if you have 1 happiness and 1 residential
- 1 commercial = 2 happiness
- 1 residential = 1 industrial worker

Now I have started to code this basic game out already, I will post the link to the finished version once I finish it. If I get enough requests i`ll post the code here.

A spare computer.

Well I now have a spare computer and currently don't know what to do with it. It only has like 512mb RAM and some processor with 1.6Ghz. Not much but I don't want it to go unused. Now I could just let it sit all pretty or just keep it for parts. So many options and it really doesn't matter to me if I don't have to get rid of it.

Anyway I've been reading more on Linux and am really interested in it. You can do much more with it compared to Windows which focuses on the user. But I do have a lot more to learn with all the codes etc.

BTW I found a really funny website that just made me laugh from the articles it had, read one of the articles here.

Linux

Recently got a computer for a pretty cheap price at a local store, the specs are:

Processor: Pentium Dual-Core E5400 2.7Ghz
Memory: 2G RAM
HDD: 1TB

I got this computer for $375 Canadian, not a bad deal for what I got. Plus I could increase the processor speed up to about 3.0Ghz if I wanted too(not like I would really need too). Anyway so I put a Linux distro called CrunchBang. So far I have enjoyed it a lot. Now I am learning how to use Linux and all of what it offers. Until I read more I can`t really say much else about it.

The new blog

Well I have made this new blog to post things relating to technology and other things I find that I feel like blogging about. Hope you enjoy the blog.