I have been taking a little break for about a week or so and should be wrapping it up after my trip to Tulsa, OK next week. I’ll be slowly getting back in to the geeky swing of things.

Here are some updates on a few of my projects:

ARKon & A2F

ARKon has been postponed until 2011. A new day has not yet been chosen. We feel by postponing the event, we can make a better convention experience for next year.

Since ARKon has been postponed, several of us are going to Arkansas Anime Festival in Fayetteville, AR on Nov 19-21. Usually the Fall event is bigger than the Spring con. We’re going to start planning this weekend for it.

Arkansas Geek Central (AGC)

Arkansas Geek Central will be making a comeback. I will be reworking it to make it flow a bit better. It will still be using WordPress, but, the Forums will not be coming back. There are plans for a better set of calendars. One for Arkansas based events, and another for surrounding states.

Kwadkades

The Kwadkades will be staying at Conway Gaming Center. The 3 standard cabinets (Mark I, II & IV) will be running regular arcade machines. Street Fighter II, Neo-Geo & Robocop will be the games/systems in those cabinets. Possibly this week Street Fighter II will be pay-to-play with some days set to free-play. The other 2 will be following when the coin-mechs get ordered and come in. I haven’t decided on what to do with the Mark III. This is mostly due to the monitor needing to be larger. Depending on my budget after my trip to Tulsa, I may see about getting a ~23″ LCD monitor for it.

I plan on building a small portable arcade machine running on Linux on a Beagleboard. I have not yet narrowed the game list yet. The games will either have to be Open Source or pre-compiled for the ARM processor.

The Stepmania and Vanguard Princess will be eventually making a comeback along with possibly another fighting game. I’m hoping to build some custom cabinets for these or using the Mark III.

This is why I build the KwadKades:

Seeing the cabinets being full reminds me why I do this.

I’m also working on a website for another blog. Yes another one. Still using WordPress. WordPress makes it so easy to set up a blog. I can have one setup in a few minutes. Tweaking a theme takes the longest time. Anyway, this is another Arcade themed blog. I’ll have more details in the near future.

Just got done with a week of RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Certified Engineer classes & exam today. This was alot tougher than I remember the RHEL4 RHCE class & Exam. Should hopefully know the results sometime tonight. I’ll update this post with the results. Hope I get at-least my RHCT, preferably my RHCE.

Edit: I PASSED. I’m now a RHCE for RHEL5.

I’ve upgraded the website to WordPress 3.0. It was amazingly easy. Just click the link to upgrade and it was done. I’m liking this software more & more.

Yesterday, I downloaded linux-gamers.net live Linux LiveDVD. It’s pretty slick. It has UrbanTerror, Nexuiz, Warsow, Tremulous and a bunch of other games on it.I tried it out on the PCs at Conway Gaming Center. It worked out-of-the-box. I plan on getting a 8GB USB drive today to install it on to speed it up a little. This makes me want to get the Linux LANs going again as well as getting the Flash LANs meeting up.

I apparently forgot to move over one of my subdomains over to the new server. The website hasn’t been updated in ages, so I loaded my new favorite website software, WordPress on it.

The website is for a project that I’ve been trying to get off the ground called the Quake 3 Total Conversion Revitalization Project, or Q3TCRP for short. You can visit it at http://q3tcrp.kwadrix.com. It’s for bringing back some of the Total Conversions for Quake III Arena. I’ve got QBall (a FPS paintball TC) mostly working. Hopefully after A-Kon I can get back to working on it. I’ve played with compiling it for Linux and got it running, but, there’s a font texture missing. I think it has been missing for a while.

Maybe after getting a release ready I’ll buy a domain name for it.

I’ve been converting several of my websites to WordPress here lately. It’s making maintaining my sites much easier. The plugin system is really nice.
My next task is to learn how to make themes. I usually use templates from OpenDesigns.org, which covert easily to Doop/KwadCMS, but, are going to take some work for WordPress.

The next site to be converted will be Arkansas Geek Central. It will take the most plugins to get working, but, will make things easier to add and have users submit links.

I’ve moved the website to WordPress. I’m moving the blog away from blogspot as well.

I’m all about automation and simplification, my plans are to post once and have all the social networks and other sites update from the original post.