Matt's Bytes

It’s 9:30PM. I should be nodding off to sleep but I need to defrag my brain before I can do that.

I’m going to dump my thoughts about the cloud installation that some internet-based software, like Office 365, uses.

I was tasked to migrate data off a dead Windows XP machine onto a client’s WIndows 7 Point-of-sale system. The hard disks in the XP machine were intact and I was able to retrieve the data off them. However, the Windows 7 machine needed a copy of Office 365 installed, and the retail box DID NOT have a media. It was a “media-less” license - Instead, you got a lame box, with two pieces of paper that says “How to Install Office” and your license key.

What really started giving me the shits is that Office is now doing the “Click-to-run AppV (Virtual Machines for apps?)” bullshit, and not providing normal ISOs that would allow me to burn to disc and install via the optical media route.

No... I have to instead use the Office Offline Deployment Tool to first PREPARE the fucking files from the Microsoft CDN, which was hit and miss (It would download about 250MB and then say “Sorry, a file we needed wasn’t found”), so I wasted that download about 3 times and then I got lucky on the fourth attempt. Fuck XML configuration files, just give me command line switches any day.

Once I had the files, I just copied the files to a USB stick and then plugged it into the other machine, opened command prompt as admin, pointed the setup.exe to run the configuration file in “install mode” and soon enough I got the “Office is installing in the background... 26%” popup. As a good user would do, I let it hit 100% before starting Office.

I couldn’t activate it using the license that the client had because it wanted their Office login details so it’s in a 5-day trial mode, but ultimately it was like I went through hell and back just to install something so trivial.

I understand that the cloud based installs are great, but when you’re pretty much raped up the bum for internet (I’m looking at you, Telstra) and/or you’re on a metered connection, then when things go south you can kiss a good chunk of that quota goodbye. I think I would have wasted about 3 GB of the quota if I was on a metered connection.

Simply put: If you are going to do cloud installs, for goodness sake label the box so it says “MEDIALESS VERSION” in bold, readable. Guess where I found the “Medialess” text on the box? On the bloody Certificate of Authenticity.

The other thing is: If Office 365 says “Office 2013″ when it installs, isn’t that bad advertising? Seriously, the Office 365 installer installed Office 2013 Home Premium. I dunno, but it seems the product key works regardless.

I'm going to get this out of my head because I'm drowning with the amount of bullshit that is currently going around in there.

I'll try to keep it simple. This is going to be a long one. Ready up? Scroll down a page or two so you get to the bottom of it if you don't want to read the 

Dad last night brought up the question "Matt, what video game allows people to pour petrol on others and light them up?". My initial response was "Uhh... I'm not sure what you mean, where did you see this?"... his response "It was on the TV a while ago". 

I already had a argument with him on this topic before (the first argument stemmed from GamerGate and that really didn't go down well) and it always ends up with him thinking he knows what's right and I'm wrong. As much as I respect Dad, he's in the wrong on both arguments. And since I make games as a hobbyist game developer, while I have a thick skin, it sometimes stings and makes me frustrated.

He simply doesn't understand the violence in video games argument. Most AAA titles now coming out have a gore/violence filter, or even have parental controls on Xbox and PlayStation to limit what (younger) players see.

In video games, there are two things. There's scripted events, and then there's user-controlled events. For example, in Skyrim, you can use a weapon to hack and slash enemies. There is no gore, apart from blood on yourself or the enemy when you get hit. Skyrim is a M-rated ESRB and a PEGI 16 game at best (kudos to my friend corrodedsoul​ for helping me with those ratings). 

Apart from the opening scene where you do see someone's head get chopped off on the cutting block, you can't slice a bandit's head off in-game. By the way, that's vanilla Skyrim I'm talking about and yes, there are 3rd party mods out there that do bring dismemberment back in the game, they have to be installed manually and are not included with the base game. 

Grand Theft Auto 5, that game that Target Australia pulled off their shelves due to the game supposedly forcing you to shoot a hooker after having sex in the back seats of a car when it's been confirmed the game does not force you to do that as it's up to the player, allows the player to decide what they will do and what they won't do. Don't like a mission? No probs, just stop the mission and go walk around the streets of wherever you are in the game.

I do not believe that violence in video games is turning the next generation of gamers into violent people. I believe it's the extremists in the world and their sickening acts of terror that is causing the violence issue.

Hell, I was under 18 when I first picked up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. I enjoyed the game, even though it depicted a fictional war against US and Russia at the time. Call of Duty 1, 2 and 3 told a recreation of the WW1 and WW2 stories (well, okay maybe not 100% accurate but still enough to see soliders fight for their country).

Modern Warfare 2 does have two things that I didn't personally like. One mission has you as a undercover US solider acting as part of a russian crazyman's group. This crazyman goes on and shoots people in airports. "Whoa, that's showing violence against civilians", you say, but at the start of the mission, this popup appears:

WARNING: This mission contains disturbing elements. Do you wish to skip? You will not be penalized in the game completion rating. Yes, I wish to continue / No, please skip

See that? That's a bloody "Hey! This mission may offend you, what do you want to do?" prompt right there. Originally, I skipped the mission since I knew what was coming; but in a second play through I bit the bullet to see what that part of the campaign was about. And yes, if you shot anyone who were civilians, here's what you got:

Mission failed. You shot an innocent civilian.

So while MW2 actually showed you the violence, you were a witness. I don't even think the other AIs shot innocent people either, it was just the crazy man. Ultimately you got busted (somehow, I never found out what cue plays before you get stabbed and kicked out of the van) and left for the national police to attend the scene. The other part of MW2 was when that cigar guy (not Captain Price, the other bad guy, General whathisname) put fuel over Roach and set him on fire. For some reason, that triggered me to have hatred for him. Luckily, he gets owned in the face with Soap's epic slowmo kill.

The point I'm trying to get across is that while video games shows violence to minors, the child needs to learn that what they see SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED in real life, or SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. I play Call of Duty, Battlefield and other supposedly "violent" games (not really, CoD/BF is like MA15+ at best, to relax, de-stress and unwind. Does that make me run out onto the street with a gun and start firing shots? 

No, it does not. Why, you ask? Because if I fucking did, I'd be charged and likely jailed. 

There's also ISIS and all the related terrorism groups going around showing propaganda encouraging younger people to sign up to fight with them, because its "cool". It's not cool, it's fucking disgusting and who would want to do such a thing?!

So, what am I ultimately trying to say? If you're going to use "oh videogames are violent and teach kids a bad message" then please go do yourself and your kids a favor: sit down and play some Super Mario or Mario Kart with them. Spend some quality time with them. Go play Minecraft on the Xbox and build some stuff with them. But do not use that argument with me as like I've said above, I'm sick and tired of people using this fucking excuse every time someone gets shot or hurt. Give me a break. 

What I believe today is that violence in video games is only a tiny blip on the radar when all the news today is about extremists causing devastation and havoc.

I don't know if it's just me being mister grumpy pants but I won't talk about this again, at least publicly. Maybe. I don't know.

That's my brain dump, I'm done with the subject, now you know what my views are when people give me this excuse.

Dismissed.

coburn@tumblrpost~$> logoff

I had the chance to check out Advanced Warfare. As much as I was a CoD fan back in the day, the same old repetitive formula of getting watching kill cams every second second because I didn't have eyes on the back of my head wore off, but that is besides the point.

When I played the single player campaign, I immediately noticed the level of detail. I had the GFX set to High, and that caused some lag and Windows complaining I was running out of memory. It definitely looks next gen in graphics, I must say.

The story is fine by me, you play as Mitchell, a Marine and you get all sorts of upgrades for your Exo. You have to stop a corrupt person called Irons who wants to save the world with his company, Atlas. Some powerful dialogue as well, I noticed some messages in there.

Cutting to the chase, the game runs smooth but I had to turn the quality down to medium because it chugged in a few areas (even though I'm on PC masterrace... Sorry, just had to say it... ☺). I haven't had the same amount of lag until I changed the settings in Modern Warfare 2!

Audio is good, my GameCom 780 did all the 3D Sound effects and I could hear frags that exploded in my face and ones that were a few meters away. I did get stuck between two cars in the later missions but that was fixed when I reloaded the checkpoint. There were minor issues like ragdolls staying in the air but that is just visual, not game breaking. Story was a little iffy but I will say it got the Adrenaline pumping.

I am going to wait until the game goes on special as the current price is quite expensive, but I would say this is a refreshing CoD over the plop in the toilet that Ghosts was.

Is your screen not responding after you wake up or lock your desktop? This fix might work...

My Radeon HD280X seems to have a "Deep Sleep" bug related to PCIe Link State Power Management. What happens is the card nods off to sleepybyes and never wakes up when I'm not using the computer.

Windows 8 in my experience detected this and waits 30 seconds to see if it can jumpstart the card again, otherwise it'll cause a BSOD (0x9F, DRIVER_LINKSTATE_FAILURE) and reboot.

My GPU also has been exhibiting some weird behaviour, including garbage on screen and screen "bumps", where the screen for a split second will move down 25% and then jump back up, kinda like the framebuffer got nerfed and it's repainting the screen, or the GPU Kernel crashed and rebooted. After I applied the trick above in the screenshot, I don't see any random bumps yet.... but now I have said that, I bet one will greet me later today. If not, PCIe power management is to blame.

If you're working on a network game, like I am, you need to account for various things like lag spikes. In my project, we have a setup where you are the match host, and others are the clients that connect to you, sync with everyone else in the game and go from there. It's kinda like a P2P (peer to peer) based setup, but you (the game host) have the "authority" in some parts of the game (such as attacks, if clients are going to be lagging behind the server, you can't trust the client to say they hit a person when on the server instance they are 2 units away from where the client saw them).

My team mate in a conversation yesterday said that network lag compensation and other things should always be done once the base game is working. And he's right - if I try to do those 2 parts of the networking stack now, I'll most likely burn myself out due to my inexperience of network lag understanding and how to compensate it. However, I need to do lag emulation somehow, because that allows me to see how well the game copes with various connection issues, even without lag compensation implemented.

Anyway, I was looking around and found this project, cheekily called "Comcast" on github - https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast . It basically tells your OS to start dropping packets randomly, and you can specify how much bandwidth that one client can have, etc. In my case, I have 3G internet and that can drop packets like a mothertrucker at times, especially if my tablet decides it wants to update my apps at the same time I'm playing World of Tanks or Battlefield.

This is going to be effective in my setup, as since I am building for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows targets, I can bring up a Linux box quite easily, slap a build of the game on it, connect to my Unity3D workstation (which acts as the "host") and then let the packet loss happen. Not only this, but it also will allow me to determine what to do when pings get too high - does the server still allow the connection, or will it say "You're lagging, disconnect". Of course, if you get lag disconnected in the game, you'll just be greeted with a "Connection unstable, please try again later" popup.

Sadly, there's no Windows version of that said tool, but hey, at least I can test networking from Macs and Linux boxes.

Not much of an update, but I thought I'd put it into my digital online journal before it starts clouding my mind.

Our 15.5 (human) year old dog, Peppe the French Miniature Poodle is no longer with us. You may have read it in my twitter timeline. He went missing yesterday morning and we haven't seen him since.

At his age, he had a lot of problems - his bones were getting really shaky. While he has been well fed and on joint powder to give him the best possible remainder of his life, he had only one eye (he got into a fight many moons ago and the other dog "popped" his other one - sorry if it's TMI) with cataracts and to cut a long story short, he had a lot of odds stacked against him. However, he made workarounds, and they were pretty good ones too.

I won't lie. It was sad to see Peppe not the same as he was a few years ago, but it seemed that yesterday he was on death's doorstep. He must have saw the light, wondering off and then finally kicking the bucket somewhere we don't know.

I'm not writing this to grab attention. I have enough stuff going on at the moment and I just want to put it down and clear my head from thinking about it. It just feels that a piece of me just got plucked out, but I don't know why. Is it all the memories of Peppe flooding back? Or is it just the realization that his time was up?

RIP Peppe. You'll be missed. May you find peace in the afterlife.

Sadly, the installer for BitDefender 2015 is not compatible with Windows 10. It will download the installer but the installer process, installer.exe will initialize and then refuse to display any graphics, or notifications that it's installing.

When installing Debian 7 onto a AMD Sempron Thin Client with 1GB of DDR2 RAM and 1GB of Flash NAND via a 44-Pin IDE Disk On Module, I quickly ran into a snag - when installing the core packages, apt-get downloads to the target partition in /var/cache/apt/packages. This means that you use double the space before apt comes in with the cleaning routines to clear the cache. However, I ran out of disk space and shit hit the fan and splattered all over my clothes.**

To work around this, I did mount -t tmpfs none /var/cache/apt/archives on the target filesystem using Console 2 (CTRL+ALT+F2). This means that apt-get will think that path is actually persistent archive storage, but it aint. Installation goes on as normal.

I usually also chroot into the target partition and run an apt-get clean after any major package operation just to free up resources and also install localepurge, which purges unwanted locales. I don't believe I'll be using Spanish, Japanese or Chinese languages on this machine...

The only downside is that if you're installing a lot of packages using this tmpfs trick you may get a OOM kernel panic or bad things happening if the RAM gets exhausted.

First the good stuff, with game project updates:

Player Vitals work as intended. Get hit or fall too far, your character will yelp in pain. Instant Death zones work and do what it says on the tin.

Weapons do whatever weapons are meant to do, complete with reload and firing logic. Bullets, on the other hand, don't really work as intended - they raycast wrongly... or did I fix that already?

Ragdolls work pretty good, as much as the Ragdoll that Unity3D's wizard creates...

Loading screens while game loads the scene are done. Even will fade out to reveal the scene after it's done.

3rd person control setup is pretty much down pat at least for the fundamentals...

3rd person camera still needs work to stop it from clipping when you rotate around and the camera is hitting a environmental object

...other basic stuff that is not worth mentioning.

Onto the blargh:

It's been close to 2 months since the stomach pains started and I'm getting sick of this shit. I don't know what the fuck it is. I've seen the doctor quite a few times regarding it, and they don't know if it's IBS, a gut infection, or I'm losing my sanity and turning paranoid. Possibly the latter, I dunno. 

I've got a swag of different medicines that they've said I can take when needed, but I think I can say that it's gas build up. Or something I'm eating is triggering my stomach and friends to go Tsundere.

There's also the neck lump that I need to go back and get another scan on that to determine if it was a lymphoid (can't remember correct spelling) that was inflamed. The odd thing is that I have a "sensitive" spot on the top left of my head ever since I started having these stomach pains. Are the three connected? Maybe. Maybe not.

Purchased TNet, because I had enough of working with a RPC-based system that doesn't want to work and has a serious lack of documentation, nor community support. Sorry Unity Tech, but you need to get your crap together. Lack of documentation can squash the engine's reputation.

Started converting Unity Networking Layer code to TNet-based Networking Layer code. Master Lobby standalone server built and functional.

However, trying to connect the client to the Master Lobby server to get the list of channels (games) using ways shown in the TNet examples causes time out errors. Not sure if it's just Windows being windows, Unity being a derp, or my remote EC2 instance firewall being a pain in the bum. Might consider disabling the Amazon-based Security Groups firewall and just using Windows Firewall on the server for the time being.

If you want to break a ton of PHP software, disable allow_furl_open in your PHP configuration file. I, blindly, disabled that directive on my production server to increase security so that script kiddies that somehow got into my server wouldn't be able to pull down additional scripts via PHP calls but in reality, it broke my website's community (Coburn's Domain) IP.Board installation.

Well, what a ride it's been, and I'm dusting myself off from falling out of the Minecart. I've been hit with stomach pains, where I'll get a big wind pain and have to wake up and walk around to relieve myself.

I've spoken to the doctor and he gave me some meds that are supposedly meant to stop stomach aches or cramps. I also have some De~Gas tablets, which are little round ball shaped things that you pop into your mouth and swallow with some water. Those aren't drugs, but more so a natural agent that helps relieve bloating, gas and stomach pains.

It's been roughly 3 weeks since I got the pains, and they are coming and going. During the day, I'm not usually in pain, but sometimes at night. Speaking to a local client who's also a person who does blood samples (Pathology), and she said it could also be a mixture of bugs going around town (there's been a lot of flu cases lately) that have combined and wrecking havoc down there.

Or it could just be stress triggering a chain reaction. I don't know, but whatever the case, I need to recover from this 100%. I haven't been sleeping real well either due to the pains, but I'm not sure if that's just due to my computing lifestyle, the stress, or something else that's wrong with me. Work has been quite busy, so I'll take a safe gamble that is what is causing it.

Now that I got that out there, onto game development. I'm currently researching and watching tutorials on Networking for a project that I want to achieve. Usually I pick up projects and drop them, but this project is not only potentially awesome, but I'm interested in learning how to networking in Unity. I'm looking at the built-in frameworks, and then going to expand my knowledge into other areas like TNet and other network frameworks later in the future.

My first goal is to make a functional networked movement demo that features networked player updating along with Dedicated Server support, where you can take a build of the game and run it on Linux in console mode, which will do all the server stuffs. Clients connect to that headless instance and go from there.

√ Super Famicom Japanese Base Unit (NTSC Woot!) √ 2 Power Adapters in case one can't stand the awesomeness √ SD2SNES Cartridge (well, partially, it's on it's way from the US, ETA 3 to 6 weeks depending if it all goes according to plan) □ SNES Controller

Really fast. That's all I can say. I did a speed test the day I got my 4G plan sorted out at the nearby Telstra store and ported my number from Amaysim. It was above 50 Mbps for both download and upload, which blew my ADSL out of the water.

With great speeds come great responsiblities - I only have a 1GB quota, and while that's enough to last me a month with moderate Ingress usage, it's 3c per MB over the limit. So that means if I burn up more than 1GB, I'm going to get a heavy bill!

Only one thing - my phone kept saying "Unknown" for incoming calls! One phone call later to Telstra helpdesk and they had solved the issue - the order process glitched and set caller ID to "disabled". Therefore my CyanogenMod-powered HTC ONE M7 was freaking out and saying "Unknown" for each call. Nice for keeping me on my toes, but annoying - is it a client, a family member or what...

I was alerted this morning to a hoax going around claiming to be from Australia Post that says "Courier tried to deliver a package to your address on <insert date here> but they were not successful and now it's at the local post office. Click here to view the parcel info".

That person, timb (@timmmmb) was kind enough to let me loose with the message headers so I could do some digging around. One shell session later, here we go!

Diggin' the domain name that the email supposedly came from. ; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-rpz2+rl.13214.22-P2-Ubuntu-1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu1.1 <<>> aus-post.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 40315 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;aus-post.org. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: org. 876 IN SOA a0.org.afilias-nst.info. noc.afilias-nst.info. 2011119367 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 202.125.32.4#53(202.125.32.4) ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 31 11:23:00 EST 2014 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104

With that, what the heck is afilias-nst.info ? I went and looked that up:

Non-authoritative answer: *** Can't find afilias-nst.info: No answer

Right... so that's not really helpful.

nslookupin' the domain name ** server can't find aus-post.org: NXDOMAIN

Hmm... this domain must have been nerfed pretty quickly or it's been spoofed.

Looking at the DKIM signature DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=austpost.biz; s=dkim; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Date:Subject:To:From:Message-ID;

nslookupin' austpost (dot) biz

; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-rpz2+rl.13214.22-P2-Ubuntu-1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu1.1 <<>> austpost.biz ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59644 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;austpost.biz. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION: austpost.biz. 63508 IN A 194.58.46.185

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: austpost.biz. 64590 IN NS ns2.reg.ru. austpost.biz. 64590 IN NS ns1.reg.ru.

;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 202.125.32.4#53(202.125.32.4) ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 31 11:33:12 EST 2014 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 99

Russian nameservers?! Time for a whois!

whois austpost (dot) biz

Domain Name: AUSTPOST.BIZ Domain ID: D61315316-BIZ Sponsoring Registrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 303 Registrar URL (registration services): www.publicdomainregistry.com Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Variant: AUSTPOST.BIZ Registrant ID: DI_37979610 Registrant Name: alexey novoselov Registrant Organization: Private Person Registrant Address1: krasnooarmajskaya str.83 Registrant City: novosibirsk Registrant State/Province: novosibirskaya Registrant Postal Code: 630005 Registrant Country: Russian Federation Registrant Country Code: RU Registrant Phone Number: +7.9218891900 Registrant Email: [email protected] Administrative Contact ID: DI_37979611 Administrative Contact Name: alexey novoselov Administrative Contact Organization: Private Person Administrative Contact Address1: krasnooarmajskaya str.83 Administrative Contact City: novosibirsk Administrative Contact State/Province: novosibirskaya Administrative Contact Postal Code: 630005 Administrative Contact Country: Russian Federation Administrative Contact Country Code: RU Administrative Contact Phone Number: +7.9218891900 Administrative Contact Email: [email protected] Billing Contact ID: DI_37979613 Billing Contact Name: alexey novoselov Billing Contact Organization: Private Person Billing Contact Address1: krasnooarmajskaya str.83 Billing Contact City: novosibirsk Billing Contact State/Province: novosibirskaya Billing Contact Postal Code: 630005 Billing Contact Country: Russian Federation Billing Contact Country Code: RU Billing Contact Phone Number: +7.9218891900 Billing Contact Email: [email protected] Technical Contact ID: DI_37979612 Technical Contact Name: alexey novoselov Technical Contact Organization: Private Person Technical Contact Address1: krasnooarmajskaya str.83 Technical Contact City: novosibirsk Technical Contact State/Province: novosibirskaya Technical Contact Postal Code: 630005 Technical Contact Country: Russian Federation Technical Contact Country Code: RU Technical Contact Phone Number: +7.9218891900 Technical Contact Email: [email protected] Name Server: NS1.REG.RU Name Server: NS2.REG.RU Created by Registrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Last Updated by Registrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Domain Registration Date: Wed Jul 30 07:28:59 GMT 2014 Domain Expiration Date: Wed Jul 29 23:59:59 GMT 2015 Domain Last Updated Date: Wed Jul 30 07:28:59 GMT 2014 DNSSEC: false

>>>> Whois database was last updated on: Thu Jul 31 01:36:04 GMT 2014 <<<<

Spot the errors "you've got a parcel" - Missing a capital y at the start of the line. "If the parcel isn't received within 30 working days" - should be "picked up" as technically the parcel has been received; just not delivered to the recipient. "4,69" - We don't use commas to separate the currency, we use dots. Plus, no dollar sign, just AUD. There's some more, but those are the most stand-out ones I see.

Conclusion

It's a fake. Most likely it'll give you a virus, and then allow some Russian to hold your data captive for a ransom. Sadly, us technicians cannot keep users from making silly mistakes like clicking these hoax links, so if you're wary of these types of things, call Australia Post and confirm you have a parcel.

I'll give the hoax creator credit though. They went to some trouble to make a genuine-looking email, but they failed in some english departments.

I've had enough of ImgBurn and friends giving me horrible OpenCandy offers on installation, especially when I want to say "Fuck you" to all of the offers, but no. I have to click about 10 times "No", "No thanks", "Advanced Install - Don't install this shit", etc.

So, to counter that, meet my little friend, a portable zipped version of ImgBurn v2.5.8.0. I'll most likely update the ZIP every time a new release comes out and oh, I nerfed the annoying Error and Success sounds. Those things are really annoying when at work and your computer says "Oh no!" because a disc failed burning...

Grab the ZIP from my MEGA.

I don't give a damn to the "LIGHTNING UK!" author and while ImgBurn is a really good app (and still is), the OpenCandy shit really ruins the whole experience. If the author has a problem with this, i have one answer: Remove your OpenCandy installer shit. If I do get a request to take it down, I will, but I am not selling this because a) not allowed and b) it's freeware, so why should I be an arse and make money of others work?

On another note, fuck Conduit. Their toolbars are a HUGE pain in the arse to remove.

Game Dev Journal Update, 5 July 2014

Did a quick-bake of the development (not even pre-Alpha!) title screen as shown above. The cube spins to indicate that the game is running, because I was debugging a very nasty level loading loop that caused my development hardware to lock up solid - only a power cycle could revive it. That was soon fixed, turned out to be a USB BlueTooth issue... :(