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Win7PE_SE

Here I am again, this is more for me attempting to keep track of my thoughts.

So for the past week or so I've been trying to find a BartPE replacement for PE3.0 the latest PE environment from windows. We've been trying to push a new imaging system to finally replace Ghost 8. So of course the people here are used to using pretty GUI things, and cmd line freaks them out. So I've been attempting to write a GUI app for it , at first I found make_pe3 but it was very confusing today I've found WIN7PE_SE it seems be more streamlined

It can be found here http://reboot.pro/12427/, my impressions as I work with it and keep things straight in my head.

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Alright playing games on my ipad is fun! Getting me interested in dev work

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Back to this thing! Huzzah!

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Django Intergration with Eclipse

Writing this down here so I don't forget and rewriting from another blog. So just rehash for my feeble mind. Anyway this is for the Galileo version of Eclipse which is what I'm currently using.

Install Eclipse

Install PyDev

Install Django

Open Terminal

Use python django-admin.py startproject awesomethingiehere

This creates a directory with all your basic Django needs

Open Eclipse and created a new PyDev Project uncheck create src folder

Make a src folder in the Project directory and move all the Django files into that.

Add your newly created SRC folder to the PYTHONPATH right click on the Project select Properties->PyDev - PYTHONPATH While the above will enable you to edit django files in eclipse you will want to launch it from inside the IDE Select manage.py hit F9 this will add it as a run configuration under Run->Run Configurations. Open up the Run Configuration for the file and go to arguments and add runserver --noreload runserver makes the server launch and --noreload will give you debug information. Also make sure under Eclipse->Preferences->Run/Debug->Launching That Launch Operations is set to Launch last perviously launch application. For easy F11/cmd f11 launching! Anyway this it for me.

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I lacked Magnets so I need to make some, I decide my first attempt would be the MAGNETS OF LIGHT!

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Pokemon: Heart Gold: Breeders Dreams - Part 3 - Popping my dueling cherry!

I was about halfway back when I received a phone call on my Pokegear from Professor Elm, he seemed frantic and frightened and I knew I had to hurry back and help him if I could. I rushed back to New Bark Town, upon entering the outskirts of the town, I could see the wind turbines on the horizon, when I ran into a sketchy young named Soul and he challenged me to a dual. He had a Chikorita, it looked oddly like the one Professor Elm had offered me earlier. I thought great a grass type it'll make quick work of my water type, though apparently I had underestimated by training prowess. Bane destroyed the uppity Soul's Pokemon in no time at all. After the dual, Soul ran off saying I was a joke of a trainer of some such, I payed him no mind and ran back to New Bark Town. I found Professor Elm and his assistants in disarray and panicing, apparently someone had broken in and stolen his Chikorita, now it all made sense. I explained the strange encounter with Soul and turned over the egg from Mr. Pokemon for further study. I left the lab with him saying he'd contact me if anything came up, I went to see my "mother" and she asked if I wanted her to kept some of my money for safe keeping. I agreed and promised I would send home money every now and again so she could watch it and make a lovely nest egg for me. After a good night's rest in my bed, I awoke and went downstairs and bide my mother farewell for today was the day I was finally free of the busy work and felt ready to set out on my life long goal of becoming the greatest Pokemon Breeder ever! Though that would entail defeating all 8 of the Gym leaders here in the Johto Region, to collect the badges so the Pokemon would obey me no matter what level they were and not rise up against me and smite me like one would a incompetent tyrant!(I am anything but incompetent!) I opened the door, in poured the pleasant spring air I left knowing that I would be become something great and amazing.

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Pokemon: Heart Gold: Breeders Dreams - Part 2- Over the bridge and through the woods to Mr. Pokemon's House

Bane and I set out from our hometown into the wilderness. This where I my lineage became apparently clear apparently my mother had coupled with a Torkoal to create me or had broken my legs as a child so I wouldn't leave her like my absent father did. I spent what seemed like forever traveling along Route 29 to Cherrygrove City. Upon arriving I met a nice old man that gave me a tour, and somehow was running, I started to wonder if he was in fact really and old man or some punk kid making fun my walking. After the tour he gave me what he said were a pair of his old running shoes, but then recanted and said they were a brand new pair, though the smell would have me believe otherwise. At least now I could run, I sought out the closest Pokemon Center and PokeMart. I was shocked to find that the PokeMart was out of PokeBalls one the staples of an up and coming Pokemon trainer. I told the clerk I wished to file a complaint with her supervisor but was simply brushed off by having her and her associate just tell me the same thing over and over again. Enraged but mostly saddened I made my way to the Pokemon Center and met a very nice nurse named I believe Joy. She restored my Totodile and saw me on my merry way. I tried to recall what Professor Elm had said about finding Mr. Pokemon's house, and travelled north battling my way through the high grass to reach a house I believed to belong to Mr Pokemon. As it turned out it was not his house, but the nice chap inside gave me Apricorn Box to collect apricorns in. Apricorns grow on special trees and come in assorted colors which are White, Red, Blue, Black, Pink, Green and Yellow. I learned later that before the wonderful invention of Pokeballs people would hollow out apricorns and use these to capture Pokemon. I thanked him for the gift and got directions to Mr. Pokemon's house. I got off the main road and moved further North walking through the tall grass. Bane performed exceptionally well, she was proud of her victories against her wild Pokemon sisters and brothers. We finally reached a house, which I hoped belonged to the fabled Mr. Pokemon. Upon entering I was ecstatic to find out it was the correct house, and see good old Professor Oak. After some pleasantries and getting the Pokemon Egg from Mr. Pokemon, I was again surprised and overwhelmed by having Professor Oak turn to me and ask if I would help him by cataloging Pokemon with his brand new and improved Pokedex! I accepted quickly and thanked him for the privilege, and then turned and left the house to return to Professor Elm.

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Pokemon: Heart Gold: Breeders Dreams - Part 1 - First steps into a Brave newish World

It had been a very long time since we had seen each other, because he had forgotten me in my absence from this world of Pokemon. He started by asking me my name. I pretended not be hurt, and mustered up a brave face to reintroduced myself to my old new friend. As the convesration rolled on I started to realize that the Professor might not have a complete Pokedex if you get what I mean. The question he started off with was "Are you a boy or a girl?" and they steadily got more odder and weirder. I rushed to answer all the questions this eccentric old man poised so I could be unleashed upon the world. We concluded the introduction and he showed me me see my home in New Bark Town. After he showed me to my home, he just sort of disappeared I started to wonder if it was me and not him that didn't have a full Pokedex or if a Psyduck was wandering by my window. I wandered down stairs to be greeted by a strange woman who called herself "Mother" I nodded, smiled and played along as I did not know if this woman would come at me with a knife or something worse. She informed me that a Professor Elm would like to see me. I left the house and was relieved to find that the good Professor Elm lived right next down. I met with Professor Elm and he told me to pick a Pokemon from the three had had available, he had Totodile, a water type; a Chikorita, a grass type; and a Cyndaquil a fire type. After close inspection of all three I went about achieving my first goal! What goal was that you ask? Well getting a female starter Pokemon, since I have long wanted to become a grandmaster Pokemon Breeder! Mating and breeding Pokemon babies for all the wee tykes of the world and the fact that the Pokemon Professors of the world have a monopoly on the three starter types! Thus having studied and done coupious amounts of research into the matter, it became clear that in Pokemon breeding the species type of the offspring is determined by what the mother is. After a game of on and off ten times I finally got a female Totodile! I named my new pride and joy Bane! A name that has always been near and dear to my heart. I was then charged by the Professor venture forth from New Bark Town and retrieve a super special rare Pokemon egg from some fellow named Mr. Pokemon. I was shocked to hear this since I figured the Professor had given me this living creature out of the kindness of his heart upon hearing most likely from "Mother" of my dream. I suppose nothing is free in this Pokeworld.

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Pokemon: Heart Gold: The Breeder Dream - Part 0 - Introduction

So I picked up Pokemon Heart Hold this week, as a birthday present to myself and well because I needed a portable game to grind EXP in. (Is it so wrong to want to EXP grind in an RPG?) Plus the Poke-Meter was a nice touch to seal the deal in my decision to make the purchase due to it's Pocket Pikachu origins, since the one I had is most likely in the bottom of my locker back in 9th grade. After a quick trip to the local Best Buy, and an interesting chat with the clerk asking if I had seen the huge the DS XL was, I ventured out to the nearest place a young Pokemon trainer could find a seat that being the lovely park that surrounds the Christian Science Center, I then went about tearing the box open to retrieve my treasures. First examining the Poke-Walker it was exactly as I thought it would be, well not exactly since the default backplate didn't have a clip on it. Instead you get to find a screwdriver and unscrew the clip-less backplate and swap it with the one. Interesting, but then I found the grand-prize, the DS cartridge box that contained my soon be to latest Pokemon Adventure. I had never played the Gold or Silver games the first time around for whatever reason, I played Red to death and still have my original cart. I booted up my lovely DS and was transported to the realm of Pokemon, where I was reintroduced to a very old friend Professor Oak. What follows is the my what started out as a comical quasi review of the first few errands of the game, but somehow became a weird sort of fanfic for the first few errands. I have no idea how it happened but hey enjoy, hate, mock, wtf what I've entitled The Breeder Dream. (Just renamed it again was called Breeders Dreams) I have not edited them throughly. Just so you know you've been warned! What follows is a madmen's cobbled together fiction. It's sort of like going through the looking glass of a 5th grade author.

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Alright lets try this

Starting posting, I promise at least one post that may or not make sense a day. As a form of therapy for myself and a great laugh for you people out there that find this and read it. This is an attempt to log my life, thoughts, and moods and if it reaches people great if not oh well.

Currently playing Darkfall Online and I have to say as a veteran of the amazing Ultima Online, well amazing a long ass time ago. It really does capture the old vibe of it, crafting mining, that sense of fear that you'll get killed by some random fuck while out there. It's great! Have to wait and see if that feeling of awesome wears off.

Anyway enough for now.

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So very true