
Ronin Rising
Ronin Rising
Netflix
Final Netflix DVDs arrived this week…
Reflector 3 not working due to Duet being installed
Recently, I had to install Reflector 3 on a Windows Surface Pro laptop to resolve an issue presenting in a classroom. Unfortunately Reflector 3 would not work for me after installing. All I could see was a blank window.
The issue was sue to Duet being installed on the Surface Pro. Removing Duet, rebooting, then reinstalling Reflector 3 fixed things. Thanks to Squirrels support for suggesting this.
Over time I accumulate a set of resources and things-that-I-should-do,-but-don’t-have-the-time-at-the-moment. Rather than these getting lost, I am posting them here to come back to later. Maybe.
… it would properly be this one (GeekDesk Max).
I enjoyed the book (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell), and I am looking forward to seeing this…
A work colleague asked about creating chromakey / green screen images the other day. The wanted to use their Mac computer to superimpose pictures of students on notable Chicago locations.
My quick-and-dirty suggestions were:
Another colleague suggested using Photoshop. This tutorial clearly outlines the process. The above example only took a few minutes to create – I did not follow the tutorial fully to the end (hue saturation) which would have removed the green fringing.
Another option would be to use Veescope on iPad.
http://youtu.be/-WBuQjWIgvM
A doe and her three kits in the back garden. Fun to watch, and I hope they survive. Happy to give up some of the raised bed for them to make it through the spring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ2Tp9yXyM
For the first time in quite a few years I have a Windows PC (Surface Pro) at home, so I thought I would check out a few PC games. Nothing too taxing on the tablet, the Surface is not really a games machine. As luck would have it, Steam was having a sale. I now have a mini-library of older games to play:
Unfortunately Half-Life refuses to play on the Surface Pro, with this error message:
The game has detected that the previous attempt to start in OpenGL video mode failed. The game will run in software mode.
Solutions on the Web suggest changing the Set Launch Options:
-software , -OpenGL, did not work for me (the game ran, but in a unusably small window).
-w 640 -h 480 allowed me run the game in a usable window.
-w 1024 -h 768 allowed me run the game in a better window.
I believe the screen dimensions of the Surface Pro are 1920 x 1080, so I gave that a try:
-w 1920 -h 1080
However, that resulted in a window that exceeded the bounds of the display. For the moment I will stick with XGA.
Next, getting a suitable joystick/gamepad…