beer planet

Updated: November 11th, 2007

The aww factor is through the roof.

Updated: November 9th, 2007

Removes all ftprush queue items that don't download to localhost. It is useful to run if you FXP a lot of files back and forth and want to clean up the queues from time to time, but don't want to delete anything that is downloading. Feel free to make a shortcut to this script and run it any time you want.

Note that this script is only compatible with the ANSI FTPRush version. The Unicode version is not supported.

You need to have Activestate Perl installed in order to run this script. http://www.google.com/search?q=activestate+perl+download

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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# AUTHOR:   Artem Russakovskii
#
# URL:      http://beerpla.net
#
# DATE:     02/21/07
#
# ABSTRACT: Removes all ftprush queue items that don't download to localhost.
#           It is useful to run if you FXP a lot of files back and forth and want
#           to clean up the queues from time to time, but don't want to delete
#           anything that is downloading.
#           Feel free to make a shortcut to this script and run it any time you want.
#
#           Note that this script is only compatible with the ANSI FTPRush version.
#           The Unicode version is not supported.
#
#           You need to have Activestate Perl installed in order to run this script.
#           http://www.google.com/search?q=activestate+perl+download
 
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use File::Path;
use File::Find;
use Cwd;
 
my $ftprush_location = "C:\\Program Files\\FTPRush\\Queue"; # FTPRush queue location
 
sub return_file_list
{
  my @filelist;
  find(
    sub {
      if ( $File::Find::name =~ /rfq$/i )
      {
        push @filelist, $File::Find::name;
      }
    },
    $ftprush_location
  );
 
  return @filelist;
}
 
foreach(return_file_list()){
  open(FILE, $_) or die "Couldn't open $_";
  my $file = ;
  close FILE;
 
  if($file =~ /\bLocal\b/){
    print "File $_ contains localhost downloads\n";
  }
  else{
    print "Deleting $_\n";
    unlink or print "$!\n";
  }
}

Download the script here.

Updated: December 16th, 2007

The next Terminator is coming. Who's excited?

Here's the plot: After the drastic effects of Terminator 3, the story continues as John Connor and soon to be wife Kate Brewster realize they must create a resistance organization with Earth's remaining survivors against the army of robots slowly being built up by Skynet. As they are building this resistance, one survivor happens to be a traitor in disguise, and has a secret that nobody would ever come to suspect.

The good news is that the movie is now in pre-production, the script is done, and shooting should begin in 2008. Terminator 4 will come out in June 2009 if everything goes as planned.

The bad news is that Arnold will not be the terminator as he's busy being our governator. Wait, or is that good news? Do terminators live past 60 anyway? Have you ever seen one that old?

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/

Updated: October 28th, 2007

The saddest part of growing up for me is probably the realization that games don't entertain me nowadays as much as they used to. OK, maybe not the saddest, but it's up there along with having to "work", not being able to "get trashed like there's no tomorrow", and behaving like "an adult".

But where was I? Oh yeah. Even though graphics and realism improve every year, my desire to play anything goes down at the same rate. Valve seemed to know this quite well, so it promised to do everything in its power to satisfy me.

Enter the long awaited Portal. Combine the Halflife 2 engine with the power of a portal gun and brain busting riddles, add a dash a truckload of witty humor, and you end up with a game worthy of spending hours in front of a glowing screen, laughing, crying, and pointing fingers. And, of course, you have to play it until the end, in one night, with no bathroom breaks. Go buy it, it's damn worth it.

The good old Portal introduction video: