The Personal Blog of Evilence

Today I have passed my first Microsoft exam (70-410). I have heard that those exams used to be quite easy, but I do not think so. At least not about new MCSA exams. To achieve MCSA certification (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, former Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator) you have to pass three exams at Prometric. In addition, two more to become MCSE (MS Solutions Expert). MCSE requires recertification every few years, so no more experts with outdated knowledge, folks.

I have not published any posts here for a long time, so It may seem like this blog was abandoned, but it is not. It just happened that I had vacation and I traveled a lot recently. Moreover, I have gone through some Microsoft training regarding MS Exchange, AD, and Windows Server technologies. The training itself passed quite fun and I learned a lot about these products. I definitely love the MDT toolkit and the ability of Windows to boot from VHD. I also laid my hands on Hyper-V to get some hands-on experience with it.

I have also purchased Core i5 windows 8 tablet with HD screen and Wacom pen input. To be honest, and to my shame, I find this tablet much more useful and practical than iPad. It is like a real magic to work with Visio using only your fingers, I feel myself like Tony Stark by doing so. The overall experience with Office 2013 and its touch-enabled controls is great, but I cannot say the same about the vast amount of legacy apps. And most of the apps in so-called windows store are complete junk, unfortunately. I hope this will change in future, but by now, I can find only few of them usable or entertaining.  

Finally and most importantly, I have lost the DV lottery. I cannot describe how discouraged I am, knowing that some of my friends actually had won the lottery! What a shame.

caesarm1 asked: есть вопрос сделал все как надо как на видео. только игра почему то не запускается. из-за чего это может быть?

Тут все просто, с тех пор как я сделал это видео, версия iccup внутри лаунчера обновилась, обновилась сама Mac OS X, обновился wine который работает под капотом. По хорошему, порт нужно переделывать и обновлять, но я забросил проект по ряду причин:

1) iccup слишком часто обновляли свой лаунчер, а поскольку единственным способом распространия для меня тогда был rutracker, перезаливать раздачу было достаточно геморрно.

2) Я писал админам playground по поводу порта их лаунчера но письмо осталось без ответа. Видимо никому особо это не нужно :)

3) Простое отсутствие личного времени.

В итоге, ту версию что сейчас лежит на трекере можно запустить лишь после некоторых, не очень очевидных для не посвященного пользователя, манипуляций. Возможно, когда-нибудь, если будет время я обновлю ее.

caesarm1 asked: ой так вы русский) помогите откуда скачать бесплатно варкрафт как у вас? просто у меня он не там не получается настроить айкап сервер а играю только на нем. стоит виртулка вм фьюжон через нее тормозит достаточно сильно. через кроссовер установил айкап и так же установлен вар1.26а и естественно айкап не видет его там нужно .ехе . Заранее спасибо

Если нужен iccup под crossover то нужна будет windows версия игры. К сожалению, бесплатно скачать warcraft я даже не знаю откуда. На территории РФ правами на распространие игры обладает 1С, а они рьяно борются с раздачами своих игр и софта. Можно посмотреть на пираткой бухте, если не смущает англ. версия.

Anonymous asked: About W3Arena for MAC : when i run the launcher, in the window browse for folder; there is nothing to select.. and i dont know what to do.. Thanks

Thank you for contacting me,

you definitely should see a folder structure like this one:

If you can see this folder structure, than everything is working properly. Just browse to /users/yourusername/folderwhereyourgameis/

If you can’t, there is probably an issue with the port. Please feel free to contact me via skype, my skype id is “evilence_shadowsong”. I’ll see what I can do to fix it.

Hello folks,

I bet many of you have heard of the game called “WarCraft 3”. Back to 2002, it was one of the most popular games of its time, and even nowadays it still lives, and not only in the hearts of it’s fans. Today you can actually find a match and compete with other players across the globe. One of the projects which still supports the game is W3Arena and I’m honored to bring you a Mac version of its game client. The original windows version of the W3Arena client is using .NET framework and available for windows. Client has bunch of very nice features such as autoupdating and auto fixing missing registry values (in case you’ve just copied the game instead of installing it) and so forth.

The client has been ported by me via Wineskin. If you are experienced mac user, you probably already know that Wineskin is a mature project for porting windows apps to OS X developed by Doh123. Today, almost every single homemade port to mac is done using Wineskin.

Below goes some technical stuff, please scroll down right to the installation guide if you are not interested. And here is the download link if you are not interested in installation guide as well.

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Few days ago I’ve finished the Walking Dead game by telltale. Being impressed by the plot and by multi-choice options in the dialogues I decided to replay some of the episodes. And I was a little bit disappointed to learn that this game offers only illusion of choice.

Don’t get me wrong, I totally loved playing the game. The script is amazing, the action is thrilling, the characters are vivid and live. It’s certainly one of the best games I’ve ever played, and on top of that, this game greatly shortened my long boring hours in the hotel.

But when in comes to decisions that we are forced to make during the gameplay, it turns out that despite of your choice those who should die would die anyway and unfortunately (WARNING: SPOILER ALERT)…

… Lee dies anyways as well. You may choose to chop off his hand, you may chose not to, but it doesn’t matter. He is doomed.
Isn’t it how our life works?

“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
Jim Butcher, White Night