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Well f***.

I was walking through Frankston on the way to see Rachel for lunch, when an ambulance raced past me towards station street. I didn’t think anything of it.
Dropped into the Chemist to get a prescription, and as I walk out notice another ambulance racing down Nepean Highway.

I casually whack my ear phones in my ears as I wait for 12noon.

Suddenly my music stops and my ring tone starts playing into my ear. So I casually press the answer call button.

The call is from mum.
I was home within 40 minutes (i stayed for lunch on mums orders. Thank you so much for keeping me calm Rachel. I love you heaps).

The house two doors down had just exploded! Literally f***ing exploded!
The person who lives there is mentally disabled, the invesitgation is still ongoing (well duh, its only 40 minutes since the f***ing place stopped flaming), but I recon it was the gas left on.

The brave boys from the Bait & Tackle & service station out the back managed to bash down the door to the place next door to it (its a row of three flats, ones empty, ones now a black hole and the other isn’t much better where this guy, Ian, lives) and dragged Ian out. Both ian and these boys were lucky to not get burnt, only mild smoke inhalation.

The person who live in the flat came walking out no fewer than 30 seconds after it blew up, basically her entire body was burnt, and shes been taken to hospital.

When the fire engines came down, they spent a good two minutes looking for the water hydrant. You see, down our street we have one of those serial complainers, who bitch about everything, and don’t like anything on “their property” or “in their airspace”. Well. The fire hydrant thats on her nature strip is one of those flush with ground ones. Thats meant to have a white pole with a red tip marking it. She has obviously removed it at one stage!
Lucky they found it, and ended up spraying water all over her place. Hopefully the police fine her for endagering lives or something like that. The stupid bitch.

I’m sitting here f***ing shacking, if it was as hot and windy as it was yesterday we would have lost our place too.

Lucky no-one was killed.

I’m in a grumpy mood due to two things:
Day light savings.
Optus.

I hate the transition from normal time to day-light savings time. Its meant to be 8am right now, not 9am. I feel soo tired. I know my body will adjust, but… shesh.

And Optus.
Can’t they make a connection that actually stays on and is usable when need be?
Ok, sure I’m on 28.8k at the moment due to going over my allocated data allowence, but f*** even Nick whos on full speed is being dropped every single time I am.

Thats my rant for today, I’ll post a much happier post later on today.

In past blog posts, I’ve waffled on about mouse and mousepad selection, how you should setup your mouse, and how to aim.

I figured today, it might be best to take a look at something different thats related to how you play a FPS game.
Your controls.

Now, most games come standard with WSAD for movement, and keys 1 to 9 for weapon selection. Most of you are quite happy to play this way.
But you guessed it.
I’m gonna say strait away that its wrong.

The main reason why WSAD control was picked up initialy was because gamers were becoming limited by the basic arrow keys. Games requiring a faster reaction time, having to stretch sofar to reach any other function keys was just asking for trouble. So WSAD control was born.

Today however, games have again grown away from WSAD, and its actualy becoming limiting.
If we take a close look at the WSAD keys, we can see that the only easy to reach keys are: Q, E, R, F, V, Space, Ctrl, Shift, 1, 2, 3.
This problem can be fixed, by quite a simple shift in keys, and this key combination is slowly replacing WSAD as the standard, like WSAD did to the arrow keys.
This key combination is EDSF.
If we take a look at EDSF, we can see that ALOT more keys become reachable. Q, W, R, T, G, B, Shift, Z, Ctrl, Alt.
All these keys become avalible for special functions, and weapon binds.
Even if you are a casual player who doesn’t really care, I’d highly suggest making such a simple key move.

But what if you are limited in space? And don’t like having your mouse arm, and your keyboard arm so wide apart? Well the UHJK and IJKL key combinations have been in use just as long as WSAD, IJKL was actualy WSAD’s initial compeditor for movement key standards.

But believe it or not, there are actualy OTHER ways to control your character that you may not have even thaught of.
Mouse2 + ,./ for movement. That is: Mouse2 = forwards, ,, . = strafe, / = backwards. Take a look in odler games such as Quake1/2. Notice something interesting? This key setup was actualy the default along with the arrow keys. And variations of it are still in use today.

How about a common CSS movement setup? QAWS, thats Q for forrwards, and AW for strafe. Weird eh? But it seems to be the most common in compeditive play!

Mouse1 = Forwards.
Mouse 2 = Back
Z = Left
X = Right
Space = Jump
C = Shoot
Give it a try, it truly is a weird setup, but offers alot of flexability depending on the game you play.

This post is going to be very incoherent with no real desitination, just going to be rattling off some thoughts.

It has been something I’ve noticed, that for some people, the ideas of networks are very hard to grasp.
No, I don’t mean the whole, “these five computers can print using one printer, and all access each others files and play games.”, Thats easy. I’m talking about, those edcated, either at Uni or at Tafe, who still struggle to get around the concept of plugging in a network cable. The actual, getting stuff to work side of things.
I mean, how is it. Mike, a guy whos learned Networking and computers at Tafe COULD NOT fix his own network card at a LAN, and struggles to set a static IP address at GTL when needed.
Yet, Nick. A Buisness student, who has only learnt what he knows through me and Craig bantering at LANs, and possibly random talks between me and his Dad, managed to not only debug Mikes network issues AND fix them, but also knows how to set a Static IP in windows in his sleep.

I mean, to my self, setting a static IP address in Windows 98/2000/XP (heck, even Vista), isn’t that hard. Mike has been doing that as long as me. Yet at any LAN when we need a static IP address, Mike still struggles with it. This is from a guy who used to build and setp little 166mmx computers with BNC network cables with me in his garage, still hasn’t grasped how to use the networking GUI in Windows. Or even the CLI.
And then we have Nick. Now, I only showed this boy ONCE how to set 10.0.0.# and 255.0.0.0 as IP/SubNet, and is now able to do it easily
I was quite suprised to see how easy he picked up trouble shooting as well. This is both hardware and software we are talking. When Mike does this, its usualy hit and miss. He tries just anything. Nick works similar to me and Craig, using elimination and common sense to isolate whats wrong.

I’ve also seen this same thing with Operating Systems. Maybe its just because its something forign that you have to do your self? I mean, in FIT2018, When we had to install Linux on the computers. 99% of people in the class had installed Windows98/ME/2k/XP before. Most were also adept in using it.

Now, FedoraCore5 and 6 is fairly simple to install. If you can install Microsoft Office WHILST Windows is installed, you can install FedoraCore.
Now, the first screen came up, saying “weclome to the fedorcore installation, click next to continue.”
Now, people had trouble click the next button. It was like ‘OMG! Linux, its different, I bet the NEXT button isn’t really the next button, I better get help!!1!1′.

Ok, I relise this doesn’t have any bearing on the Networking stuff, thats still just baffling to me.

Anyway, i’ve lost the no-point I had, and am going to stop, put a Line in, and start with my life stuff now.
ok ready for the line?
good
heres your line

Ok, so recently it was Rachel’s birthday. Got her a little id braclet, and spent almost all of her birthday with her. It was also her birthday party that Saturday, which was awesome.
First fancy dress party I’ve been to .

I loved it.

Was really good fun, and snuggled up with Rachel most the night.
Love you heaps Rachel.