So as part of MAS.714 we were tasked with building a project using the Lego WeDo and Scratch. Overall the class projects were pretty great. There were alot of interesting uses of the sensors to create new controls (input devices) that were usted tell interactive stories, integrating the physical and the digital. One group built a little lego segway which was pretty cool.
Our project -- Team Awesome, Marie No & Danny Gagne, used Lego's to physically represent the game's state. I use the term game loosely as you cannot lose. In this piece of interactive fiction King Duck must defend his crown against you, the Fatman Protagonist (No relation to Hiro Protagonist). It starts off innocently enough as king duck is chilling on a rock contemplating his awesomeness and declaring his title to all who will listen. When all of a sudden, Fatman Protagonist challenges King Duck's rule and they're off to the scales to see who can rule the kingdom. Luckily, Fatman has a stash of bananas that he can weigh down King Duck,  and by clicking on the bananas the user can feed the Duck. Once Fatman wins the scale-off, he becomes the true and rightful ruler of the land.
Characters: King Duck (KD), Fatman Protaganist (FP)
KD: I am the KING!!!
FP: No, I am the king.
FP: I'm the greatest character in the game.
KD: No way!!!
KD: You're too fat to rule this kingdom!
FP: TO THE SCALES!
Scene Change -- TO THE MOON!
Interactive:
FP: <throws banana> hits KD
KD: No!!! You want to make me fat now?
FP: <throws banana> hits KD
KD: TOO DELICIOUS!!!
FP: <throws banana> hits KD
KD: YOU BASTARD!
FP: <throws banana> hits KD
KD: You haven't seen the last of me, fat man!
The following is 1/4 of an episode on the PBS Show Art21 that focuses on Mathew Barney and the Cremaster Cycle, more specifically it was filmed during the creation of Cremaster 3.
In a world with no tomorrow, the path between man and machine is revealed. Dogma 05 challenges the viewers to look within, and bare their souls to the Electric Messiah.
So on Friday, I was trying to set a static IP in Ubuntu 8, it took me forever to figure out how to do it. I ran into problems where I'd try to set it using the network configuration application, but each time I restarted the machine I would lose all the settings and it would default to dhcp.
I then tried editing /etc/network/interfaces like so
Installing Virtuoso Open Source Edition on Windows isn’t that difficult, I did have a few small issues but here is a log of the install. Might be of use to anyone else wanting to give it a try.
Here’s a link to the binary file: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=virtuoso&filename=virtuoso-opensource-win32-5.0.5.zip&use_mirror=dfn
Notes:
I felt the directions on this page were a little short, so I figured I’d make some notes
ODBC Driver Registration
I. Create Enviornment Variable
1. Righ click on My Computer > Properties
2. Select the Advanced Tab
3. Click the Environment Variables Button
4. Under the System Variables section, click NEW
5. Name the variable: VIRTUOSO_HOME
6. Set the path to the directory: \virtuoso-opensource (what should of been the results of unzipping the windows build).
7. To Test: open a command line and type: cd %VIRTUOSO_HOME%
Setup DSN
I had to skip this section since it couldn’t connect — nothing was running. When I later tried to connect after starting the demo service using the instrucitons in the section called: “Creating a Windows Service for the Demo Database” I got a bad username/password.
after getting the demo service running, i went back and used localhost:1112 and dba:dba and it worked.
Creating a Windows Service for the Demo Database
1. I manually modified the path (found in step 2) using the instructions above to create an envrionment variable. This time, instead of creating a new one I merely appended the two paths required to tthe existing Path variable. I then restarted my system.
Paste this at the end of the path: ;%VIRTUOSO_HOME%\bin;%VIRTUOSO_HOME%\lib
After this step I got the demo service running
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All of the uri’s provided in the document do not work, 404 error except
http://localhost:8890/sparql
After pinging the mailing list I got a quick response from Hugh Williams, he told me to add a few lines to the config file.
I had to edit the demo.ini
1. Changed the DirsAllowed from:
DirsAllowed = .\tmp\, .\backup\, ..\vad\, virtprof.out, ..\bin\OpenLink.Data.Virtuoso.dll, .\classlib\
to:
DirsAllowed = ..\..\..\..\share\virtuoso\vad, .\tmp\, .\backup\, ..\vad\, virtprof.out, ..\bin\OpenLink.Data.Virtuoso.dll, .\classlib\
added this to the beginning: ..\..\..\..\share\virtuoso\vad,
2. Then added this line:
VADInstallDir = ..\..\..\..\share\virtuoso\vad
3. Stopped & Started it
4. This url now worked: http://localhost:8890/conductor/
Some usful commands:
List Running Services
virtuoso-t +service list
Create Service Instance
virtuoso-t +service screate +instance “Demo” +configfile demo.ini
So I�ve launched another blog to keep track of a trip we�re planning to take sometime in the summer. It�s going to be a crazy long road trip. Anway, here is the link: C2SEA : The Alaska Road Disaster
