Game Maker 8.0 was just recently released by YoYo Games. I’m anxious to spend a day or two exploring the new features as I prepare my course materials for SGD 112, Simulation and Game Development Design I.

If you want Quicken 2010 to stop prompting you to register your software, you can do the following:

1. Press and hold the Ctrl + Shift keys on the left side of your keyboard, and select Tools, then One Step Update.
2. When the message “You will no longer be prompted for registration” appears, click OK.

Laurel and I went on a week long cruise to the Western Caribbean on the Royal Caribbean ship Independence of the Seas. It was a wonderful and relaxing way to spend Christmas.

I will be in Jasper, Indiana this Monday and Tuesday, returning Wednesday. The project is for Indiana Furniture. After this trip, I will be on vacation until the first week of January 2010.

I did a minimal installation of FreeBSD a long time ago. At the time, I did not install manual pages. To later install these man pages, I should be able to do the following:

1. Run sysinstall.
2. Select Distributions.
3. Select man.
4. Pick an FTP mirror and install.

Unfortunately, I received the following error message:

Warning: Can’t find the `7.2-RELEASE-p2′ distribution on this FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what’s available on ftp.freebsd.org (or set to “any”).

To solve this issue, I went under the options for sysinstall and set the Release Name to 7.2-RELEASE, instead of 7.2-RELEASE-p2.

The default password for the Buffalo Linkstation LS-XHL is as follows:

Username: admin
Password: password

I’m in Duncan, South Carolina on business from December 1st through December 5th, and again after the weekend from December 7th through the 14th. At least it’s within the country this time. The project is for ZF Lemforder.