Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Beta

After about 1 hour of installing the game I come across this window:

Now I ask you is this the sort of thing one would expect after giving all my computer's details to blizzard who then said "Yes we will get him to try the game"?

Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Beta

I have been accepted to beta test the new starcraft 2.  When I started the installer it told me that I did not have enough RAM to play the game and I should consider upgrading, and offered a website for suggestions.  I didn't click on the website, but I am going to try to play this game with 700MB RAM and an on-board Intel 82865G GPU.  oh and the CPU is an old Intel P4 2.4GHz.  Well good luck to me.

P.S. Is the installer supposed to slow down your computer?  Probably not, but I think it's due to the amount of RAM I'm using.

eBay and DealExtreme

I've been surfing eBay and DealExtreme.com lately and have come up with a few things.  Here they are:

1.  I like shopping
2.  I like shopping from home.
3.  I have no money for shopping
4.  Paypal doesn't like it when I move.
5.  eBay is dangerous
6.  DealExtreme.com has free shipping and cheap products.
7.  I am addicted to www.dealExtreme.com

LAN Parties

These don't always seem to work.  I haven't been playing anything for the past hour and it's getting annoying.  I can't believe that no one wants to play any LAN games with me.  Screw it I'm going to just start a game of my own and hope someone joins.

Building Chromium from source snafu

No matter how many times I try this sync there is just no scripts directory.  That means there's no way to build this thing because all the instructions tell you to run these scripts from the scripts directory.  THERE ISN'T ONE!!!!  come on what is the problem here I know you guys have them but I don't.

Building chromium UPDATE

Now I have had absolutely zero luck with getting the source code using the instructions easily found on the www.chromium.org website.  I had to use these instructions http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/UsingGit in order to get (git) the source code.  Now that I have them I will be attempting to build chromium into a .iso file using VMWare player and Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic as a virtual machine.

Build Chromium in a VMWare Ubuntu Virtual Machine

Time for an update on what I've been tinkering with.  I have gotten the latest sources for both the Chromium Browser and the Chromium OS.  I explained how in a previous post, but I'd like to adjust some of the procedure.  First of all I mounted a physical hard drive to the Ubuntu Virtual Machine and placed both source trees in seperate folders on it's root directory.  I had downloaded and extracted the bootstrap version of the browser source into "I:\chromium" using 7-zip for windows.  Then I used tortoiseSVN to download the latest sources for the browser. I started up VMWare and installed Ubuntu 9.10, and then I downloaded the depot_tools kit to my home directory and setup the .gclient file for each source tree.  I synced the chromiumOS source in the "I:\chromiumos" folder I had made in windows using ubuntu.  next step was to find the build dependencies I was lacking.  I used the shell script I found at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructionsPrerequisites to find and apt-get all the missing libraries.  I am still on this step now.