I tried some freeware Video editing software tools. I wanted to edit some videos I made ( One gaming video for example ).

And one of those programs contained this adware “tool”. ( For example changeing Default search site )

I tried two tools to remove it one was: XdelBox

URL: http://www.xdelbox.com/

But it is in Beta and doesn’t worked for me… But maybe time will change it, when it is out of Beta

Then I found Malwarebytes antimalware ( Which also free ). And this little tool worked for me.
After a system scan it found MANY entries of this virus/ Adware and deleted them. You just need
to restart your PC because, zwunzi is in use and it must be delted after a restart.
A new scan showed nothing and the task manager is now freed up from Zwunzi.exe

URL: http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Good luck

BTW: If anyone know a free video editing tool, which allows me to “crop” parts of a video, and export them as a new Video. Please let me know.
I want to cut out a specific part of a video for example only the character/ hero.

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Hello,

here is the tutorial I promised, it lacks graphics or formulas. Iam not a math or nor a graphic pro

What you will “learn”:

Normaly, in a 3D game, for example in a 3D MMORPG. You use some variables to set and set positions of heroes. And in which direction they look. This could like this:

Y13,X12, Z16

This is the postion, but cause it is 3D you need to know, in which direction the hero is looking into ( at). Normally this also a 3D position, lets say:

Y12, X13, Z15

With the system I will try to explain. You could set position and direction in which the hero looks at with only three variables. Two are for postion. And one is for the direction looking into.

This could look like: 130A, 13B, 200C ( Lets call it a,b, c)

Lets start with a globe ( Or a ball ) in middle we set a point. ( In xyz i could be something like: oY, 0X ) This point is where verything starts. From this point we draw “endless” lines to the end of the globe/ ball. Every line gets a number.

The Number “1″, is the out “Ball” position. While the Number two is the “Line” number. So the upper line cold be called 1,1. But we dont need the line number. We just need the “outer” Number. Now we just need the position: Lets say from middle top end of globe is 1000 pixel. The middle would be: 500px. Now we could set a postion in a 3D world with two numbers:

This could look something like this:

Here we have: Line number, 1 and postion 400. We would get: 1A, 400B. Now lets say the heroe looks at bottom to line nuber 2. We would get: 1A, 400B, 2C

With this system you can even further reduce the variables needed: Just send “moving” information of the object: Example: 1A, 400B, 2C moves to 4C, 400 px per sec. I would suggest something like: 1A, 400B, 2C, then two times moving information: 5C, 400pxs, 6C, 350pxs, then position: 15A, 330B, 3C and so on…

DRAWBACKS: Many calculations on client side: Well a joy for fast and multi core CPUs. The bigger the globe and closer to middle. We will get Many line numbers which would be “true”. But I think here we can use quantum mechanic laws? Maybe?

The rest is up to you, if you have questions feel free to post them. If you devlop the formula for this. Do whatever you want to do with it  -_- ( Good would be if you share this information, but well…. )

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On 01.01.2010 I will publish an interesting article. Which could be useful for 3D programmers. Iam not quite sure how “practical” this is. Or something like this exist. (As far as I know, it dont  )

It will explain, how you could send the information about an player: Where he is ( In X,Y,Z ) And in which direction he looks. Normally also ( X,Y,Z ). With just three numbers

This system could be used on 3D models, to reduce the information. ( Size )

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Here I want to write about some common mistakes in web-development. Those things aren´t programming related. More “good” practice things.

If someone make the wesite design. And someone else have to code the “html/css” you should:

Name the elements by site/page and position

For example, if you designed a news background header. Which is seen when a news is shown, you should call it: news_show_header_background.jpg
Or another example, some things need/ have a border. On top, left, right and bottom. For listing news.
you could call it: news_list_border_top.jpg

If you have to show a table. You should determine if the data is scanned vertical or horizontal. Or even both.

Here is an example

As you see, the vertical line are thicker as the horizontal lines. Which make it easier for the eyes to read the vertical data. The numbers are right aligned. Which makes it easier to compare them. You could even alter the colors, of each row. But use only “slight” different colors. So just a little bit brighter/ darker.

You have to remove both lines, if Data should be read vertical AND horizontal. But try to avoid things like this. Better make two tables.
Well the last case should be easy to know. Make horizontal lines thicker and the vertical lines thiner.

Try to do queries at the end of script ( or other external things like soap/ xml ) So the user see something when it may”stop”

This is  more “ui” related, try to build with as less points as possible. And everything reachable with two clicks

The points thing. An example:

Bad:

[table]
[tr]
[td]THING ONE[/td]
[td]THING TWO[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]THING THREE[/td]
[td]EMPTY FIELD ( NOT SEEN)[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

Better like this:
[table]
[tr]
[td]FIELD ONE[/td]
[td]FIELD TWO[/td]
[td]FIELD THREE[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

So the eyes have to move “less”

• The so called F navigation system is the most excepted “site style”
  Top navigation, left sub navigation, and in the middle the content.
• Use everywhere the same header and bottom design. So the user knows where  the content starts and ends.
• The most start position for a mouse on a website is top left.
• The eyes move from: Dark to bright, from big objects to small objects.

movement binds the user to look at. so try to create movements which “aid” the eyes. Simplest example are arrow. AND stop the movement after 2 secs or less. ( OR if there is no way to stop it, or it must move) add a stop button or make it “slow”.

So don´t use big “rectangles” where you just place “eye candy”

Some people know how colors “create” reactions on people. But most of them don´t know that different countries, have different color “feelings”. It is no problem if you write in German for example, or in Chinese language. Those sites are “targeted”. But if you write in English, people could come from everywhere. If you don´t want to “annoy” Chinese people ( Just an example ) Try to use very bright or dark colors. Or avoid colors at all . Cause very bright colors, or dark colors don´t “trigger” the color emotions. If you take a look at mc donalds, amazon or ebay. They use bright colors. And have much “white” background.

With this way, they don´t create emotions, which they don´t want to create.

Another thing is: Try to avoid faces. Or forms which could look like a face ( If you write in English ). Faces create different emotions, from different persons. The only exceptions are womens. ( Sorry, but sex sells ) Or if you are a model agency, or sell clothes. Or it is your “personal” blog. Faces make things like this more “personal”. Or a small firm.

I hope, I could help some people with this, if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

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Man,

the horror story no one wants. My mysql server stopped working. And I got a warning message from my “server watch” service.
First I thought, ok lets see whats up.  And browsed to my site. To see:

The mysqli error was: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2).

Man, and then I tried to fix this problem, but something must gone wild. Cant reinstall mysql, no way to purge it. Or remove it.
Every time I tried to reinstall a new problem went up. Nothing worked. The problem stays. Try to link it, recreate it, reinstalled, purged,
copied and so on. No chance…. I have no clue whats wrong. Even the “almighty” google wasnt a help. All solutions doesnt worked. so I have
to reinstall my vserver

And I still dont know why my mysql.sock vanished. I dont touched the server in the time where it could happened….

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Our “system” of global economics, and the “expansion” of the humankind is lied out to expand. We must grow to evolve.  We must produce more products. We must push more money in to the ecosystem. We must use more space on our planet. This expanding is based on three “base” factors:

• Humans
• Production
• Science

But on the third value we run into trouble. The problem here is that weired patent rules, prevents the “future” development of new products and the scientific development. Especially the so called “trivial” patents. Those patents are used by firms to prevent development of other firms.

Why is this a problem?

Cause the whole system is based on expansion and increasing. Those patents “stops” or slows down the scientific tree of development. Under this pressure of slowing down the scientific development, the two other trees suffer unnaturally slow downs. Those slow downs prevent the whole system to evolve. Now we all feel what will happen when one of the trees doesn’t evolve or is slowed down. We cant produce more as it should be, so less people get jobs. Our medicine is not at a point where such masses of people could be supported as it should be. We see this now with the “swine flue”. We are totally unprepared for such a situation. We have no “real” medicine, or a serum against it. We start developing it, as the problem arised.

But we are in luck ( For now ) The swine flue is not a big problem. Very few people die. Now more and more states want to vaccinate there citizens. But the development of the serum started to late. Which leads to two problems: Its to late the swine flue is over before we get a serum. And it will mutate before we get it. And cause it is produced  under pressure. No one realy know if it will have negative side effects. ( Oh, for sure it will have some, but how big they will be? ) It will not be well tested before it will be used. Normally creating a serum takes 10 years or even more. Now the thing will be developed and produced in months?!?

We wouldn’t have those problems, if patents wouldn’t be so restrictive and used to block other firms in development.

We started to walk the path of expansion, and now we couldn’t stop walking this way. We must reduce the rights of patent holders, and there restrictions to expand in scientific development. But it could be too late. Our “tree of science” has been slowed down for years. Now, we could only solve this problem, by fast reacting states. And the will of the humankind to leap over the point where we should be, without useless patents, to stop other firms.

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Hello,

I added some new widgets to wordpress. And changed the theme. Something which surprised me,
was that all widgets integrated nicely into the design. Ok the lijit search looks odd. But its ok for now.
Maybe I will change it ( Can I change it? )

I think the best thing is the disqus widget/ plugin. It allows easy entering of comments, and allows
twitter and facebook login. Very nice

Hope you like the new theme ( I will change the header if I find some time for it ) And the new plugins
Btw: You could rate posts. If you dont like the new plugins and themes. Just give this post a low rating

Or some other things you want to mention? Just use the comments!

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If you get a error message like this one:

The installed version of PHP GD does not support image rotations. It was probably compiled using the official GD libraries from http://www.libgd.org instead of the GD library bundled with PHP. You should recompile PHP –with-gd using the bundled GD library. See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/image.setup.php. An implementation of imagerotate in PHP will used in the interim.

And you run a debian Linux server and you have access to it. And you don´t want to recompile (it) . Here is the solution for it:

You could use the dotdeb repository. It has everything you need. Just set this sources:

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

In your:  /etc/apt/sources.list file

Run apt-get or aptitude, and your done

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Well, tried hard to get the fine module to work. But I cant… Problems I run into:

After adding a node returned to wrong domain ( main domain ) fixed by ucommenting out the $base_url variable
in settings.php

Content not shown on right site ( all sites ), every time all “pages” are shown on all sites.
Or they where only shown on one site, even when all sites are selected.
This could be fixed by using “views”. But this would mean much work.
Cause you have to create MANY views…

well, I will use the normal, multi site setup of Drupal

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Today I tried to install a multi site setup of drupal. And tried the “domains access” module. So far everything runs fine. But I cant
get the “domain” sharing of “nodes” activated. So that news from the main site are everywhere, and from the subsites are only
there available.

At this moment every node is everywhere available. Not really what I want…

But enough for today. Have to take some sleep

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