amckerns site

I wont be around very much over the next couple of weeks as my wife Ping’s sister Li Rong passed away on Sunday the 10th, and I have to look after her, Jacob, go to work, and mourn – I will return as soon as I can.

Please do not call unless it is vital (For those in the community that have my mobile number) – If you would like to leave a forum post or sticky in your community, it would be most appreciated by the both of us.

Thanks mate’s, and I hope you understand, my head and my heart are split into 6 pieces at the moment, I need to find the parts that fit the best to be able to survive until June.

Adam ‘amckern’ McKern
Programmer
Mapper
Crap Gammer

Hey,

If you have been keeping an eye on my download sub-site i have been adding some files recently (This is more or less to partner with the random folder)

I have just over 6.10GB of files in the directory, so please try and be liberal with the download hot linking, or the files WILL BE REMOVED.

I have been working on a new map for SvenCoop for a while, more or less the original base to the map was made about 8 years ago – my 2nd test map for SvenCoop, and the rest of the map combines sc_stromo, and a few feature rooms from other maps i have made for other mods such as Natural Selection, or Counter Strike

Jacob is now 3 weeks old, you can take a look at some of the photos we have taken of him at http://ammahls.com/jacob

Jacob Sleeping

Svencoop has been updated to try and iron out the connect bugs with the new sound engine, there have also been some other changes including;

- Fixed minor issue with the new donor feature spawning in walls.
- Some potential crash bugs were fixed for animation code w/ controllers, and the multisource entity’s use function.
- Minor tweak for minigun, fixed crash bug with rendering code.
- Specified shocktrooper’s eye position to a static value to fix some model issues.
- Minor tweak to Tor’s speaking function.
- Fixed Babygarg crash bug when being killed by a Gargantua’s explosion.
- Flesh Gibs now properly float.
- Minor sound engine fixes for sound output.
- Updated FMOD Ex to v4.24 for the new sound engine.
- Crash fix for world-lit particle system objects.
- Gargantuas no longer eat turrets or snarks.
- Added monster_op4loader.
- Minor client-side reloading tweak.
- Removed console command that crashed servers.
- Added opengl mode for env_fog to support Steam Half-Life.
- Added new command: cl_stopsound – Works just like the stopsound command from Half-Life, but works for the Sven Co-op sound engine.

More info and download links can be found at http://www.svencoop.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=36751

Local downloads;

http://downloads.ammahls.com/sc/svencoop405.exe
http://www.nigredostudios.com/temp/svencoop405.exe

Edit:

Soon after 4.05 was published, there was an update to 4.06 that fixed yet another bug in the sound engine – you can download this update from;

http://downloads.ammahls.com/sc/svencoop406.exe
http://www.nigredostudios.com/temp/svencoop406.exe

I have been working on a new map – finaly completed it. The map plays on the rotation at CustomFactor – 203.56.188.31:27015

Grab it here – http://downloads.ammahls.com/ns/co_customfactor.zip

Bellow are the screen shots

Adobe – came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache – It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server — thus, the name Apache

Apple Computers – favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.

C – Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it ‘New B’. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)

CISCO – its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco.

Compaq – using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

GNU – a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronuniciation and was also influenced by the children’s song ‘The Gnu Song’ which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with ‘GNU’s Not Unix’.

Google – the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders – Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’!

Hotmail – Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” – the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

HP – Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel – Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Java – Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was another language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.

The images to the right are resided images form the random archives found here at AMMAHLS – now you can use these images as an active desktop item, or repaint your desktop with a full screen active desktop image from the AMMAHLS.com archives.

All you need to do is;
1) Click start

2) Click RUN

3) type desk.cpl

4) Select the desktop tab

5) Click customize desktop

6) Click the web tab

7) Click new

Enter the URL
http://www.ammahls.com/random/rotate.php

9) Click OK

10) On the big box asking would you like to make http://www.ammahls.com/random/rotate.php and active desktop item chose OK

11) A sync will happen (might take a few minutes)

12) Click OK

13) Click apply.

To make it full screen click Cover Desktop in the menu bar as accessed from the down down menu.

Enjoy!

Hey world!

Marriage is coming in about 12 months to my wonderful girl Ping, and I (Adam).

Its all unofficial until I ask for permission from her parents, but we are preparing for it all to go to plan in January 2008.

Yay!

Adam