Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers on winning Super Bowl XLV. It was a gut-wrenching game for me. Green Bay took advantage of the three turnovers, one ranback for a touchdown.
We enjoyed the game at a neighbors house. Plenty of drinks, pepperoni rolls, buffalo chicken bites, buffalo cheese dip, and fondue dessert. The kids played nicely in the basement and watched the half time show performed by the Black Eyed Peas. We enjoyed the show and the Doritos commercials.
I guess I’ll follow hockey (Pittsburgh Penguins currently in second place one game behind the Philadelphia Flyers) till the end of the season and wait for pre-season in August.
On my Ubuntu PCs I use the Pictures Folder screensaver. It’s a nice screensaver that cycles through all your pictures. At work I run dual monitors and the screensaver displays different pictures.
What I don’t like about this screensaver, no way to configure which pictures I want to use. My Pictures folder contains a bunch of sub-folders like misc, Whos Who (which hold different avatars I use on different social media sites), Camera (pictures of the kids), funnies (stuff i find to be very funny but appropriate for work), Wallpaper, and so on. So I started searching Google and found a quick solution on page 2 of the following link:
The post wiredsoul submitted works great! Open gedit and modify file /home/.config/user-dirs.dir. I wanted just my Wallpaper folder for the screensaver. Below is the test from my file:
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you’re# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR=”$HOME/yyy”, where yyy is a shell-escaped# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR=”/yyy”, where /yyy is an# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop”
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=”$HOME/Downloads”
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=”$HOME/Templates”
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=”$HOME/Public”
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR=”$HOME/Documents”
XDG_MUSIC_DIR=”$HOME/Music”
XDG_PICTURES_DIR=”$HOME/Pictures/Wallpaper”
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=”$HOME/Videos”
The next to the last line I added Wallpaper. Now the screensaver only displays all the files and files in sub-folder of Wallpaper. Thanks wiredsoul!
Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers on winning the AFC Championship Game!! This is the sixth time the Steelers have won the AFC title at Home and this will be the eighth time the Steelers are going to the Super Bowl. I have already ordered my AFC Championship cap and will be getting ready for the big game on February 6th.
I would also like to say congratulations to the Green Bay Packers. I don’t follow the Packers too much, but I know several folks in Delaware who are loyal Packers fans and will be rooting for a packers win. I think the Steelers fans will be louder. I wonder, will be see more Terrible Towels waving or Cheeseheads.
Ben Roethlisberger's crucial first-down pass with under two minutes left secured the Steelers' eighth Super Bowl trip. Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images
Tonight I read a post on Howtogeek.com about the Apple IIe. The Apple IIe was our family’s second computer my dad purchased back in 1984 or 1985. I remember the night my brothers and I drove out to the Apple dealer on the far side of Pittsburgh, PA. If I remember correctly, it was past Green Tree Hill. The post on Howtogeek.com started reminding me of all the great times I had with that Apple IIe. Here are the specs:
CPU: 65C02 @ 1.02MHz
128k RAM
Mouse single button
Duodisk 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive
Apple Color Dot Matrix printer (unknown model)
1200 bps modem (unknown model purchased about 2 years later)
Green mono-color monitor with tilt action
So I went to Google and searched for Ultima V Warriors of Destiny, and found some pictures of the game. And I thought to myself, “Oh, so that’s what it would have looked like in color.” One of my children came over and saw the screen and asked what I was looking at. So I explained to him about the game I used to play back in 1988 and I wished I could play it again. We did find a video of Ultima III Exodus and while the video was playing he said it looked cool and he wanted to try it too. So I sent him off to bed and I started reading on how I was going to play this game again.
I knew that VMware Player was going to be the tool of choice. I just needed a few things like MSDOS 6.22 in a preferred ISO format, a way for VMware Player to see the files, oh and the game itself. Well finding the game, manuals, maps, and scanned copies of the front and back of the box, and MSDOS 6.22 was easy. So I created a VM with 1GB HDD, 16MB RAM and a single processor (all over kill but who cares, it is a VM.) I set the MSDOS 6.22 ISO as the CD-ROM and booted from it. I was able to fdisk and create a C: drive and rebooted. I formatted the C: with the /s parameter copied over all the files from the CD-ROM, and rebooted into the VM BIOS. I changed the boot order to so the HDD would boot first instead of the CD-ROM. So now I have a VM of MSDOS 6.22.
But I could not figure out how to get the seperate files from the game into the VM. Remember this is MSDOS6.22 without any network support, just a base OS. A little more research brought me to a blog on WordPress which explained to me how to create a .IMG file. The part of that post which helped was was Creating the image:. Now I have a .IMG file of Ultima V Warriors of Destiny. That IMG file can be mounted as a floppy drive in VMware Player. From within the VM, just change to drive A: and run ultima.
Here are a few screen shots of the VM with the game when it first starts.
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