If you’re looking for a profiler on linux, you ought to take a look at the recently updated Zoom project.
Zoom profiles are system-wide, precise down to the instruction level, and capture backtraces. This lets you see exactly where time was spent, what code was running, and how that code was called. Zoom allows you to drill down into critical code to get detailed performance answers. Zoom analyzes and annotates code with specific tuning advice for most compilers and processors. Zoom saves profiles as a single, self-contained session file that can be emailed or attached to bug reports. This lets you share what you find with colleagues or archive it for later review. Zoom also supports remote network profiling and scripting making it ideal for embedded or server systems and automated workflows.
Head over to the RotateRight website for the rest of the details.
valtrain Uncategorized Development
The word is out! This is what we’ve been working on..
Red Dead Redemption is the story of former outlaw John Marston and will take place at the turn of the 20th century when the “lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age.”
“Along the way, players will experience the heat of gunfights and battles, meet a host of unique characters, struggle against the harshness of one of the world’s last remaining wildernesses, and ultimately pick their own precarious path through an epic story about the death of the Wild West and the gunslingers that inhabited it.”
“The team at San Diego have massively exceeded our expectations with the sheer depth of experiences in Red Dead Redemption,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “The seamless combination of breathtaking beauty and intense action, all woven together with strong plotlines in a massive vibrant, rural environment is mind-blowing. We think this game helps to push the limits of what an open-world gaming experience can be.”
The game will use Rockstar’s proprietary RAGE game engine, which was used in Table Tennis, Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angles.
The game will feature an open-world environment which will include frontier towns, wildlife-packed prairies and mountain passes.
valtrain Uncategorized Games, Playstation 3, Rockstar
Just in case you missed it, Battlestar Galactica is back for the second half of season 4 now!
If you’ve somehow been living under a rock all this time and haven’t seen this show, get it from Netflix and start watching. This show rocks!
valtrain Uncategorized TV Shows
GTA4 is now released for the PC! From the press release spam:
Developed by series creator Rockstar North and set in Liberty City, the latest installment in the enormously successful Grand Theft Auto series features a painstakingly detailed and life-like city for players to explore; a rich, immersive narrative experience; an original soundtrack highlighting the cultural eclecticism of Liberty City; and newly expanded multiplayer just for the PC.
One of the cool new things on the PC version is the video editor, which lets you record footage in the game (both singleplayer are multiplayer), make real-time edits, change audio, add other effects, etc and then automatically post it to the Rockstar Social Club to brag about it.
valtrain Games Games, GTA4, Rockstar
An interesting article on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac disaster and other looming troubles - Click here
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A GIANT inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a window before it landed again.
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valtrain Switzerland, Uncategorized Europe, Humor, Switzerland
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
After living all over Europe, including a few months of partying my way through eastern europe (Czech, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Austria), I’m headed back to California to work on PS3 games again.
valtrain Games, Life Games, Life, Rockstar
The cops led us over to the side of the street where they had a van waiting and asked to see our identification. Our Romanian pals handed over their IDs and Bedlam and I gave them our passports. My first thought was “Are these guys legit?” I had heard stories of scams where people pretended to be cops and ask foreigners for passports in order to steal them but these police had pretty convincing kevlar and guns, plus if this was a common scam then our Romanian friends would have known something was up.
My second thought was “Am I in Romania legally?”. Truth be told I had no idea - I know you’re allowed to be inside the Schengen zone for up 90 days per 180 days, and I think I’m pretty close to the 90 day limit if I’m not over it yet. However, according to the internet Romania isn’t a party to the Schengen agreement even though they’re in the EU and Romania allows Americans to stay up to 30 days as a tourist with no visa.
I kept my fingers crossed as the cops asked Liviu questions in Romanian and he relayed them to me in English, then translated my answers back for the police. “How long are you here?”.. “A few weeks, we’re just visiting”… “How long in Bucharest?”.. “We’ll probably leave at the end of the weekend”. He scowled as he looked over our papers, then went over to the van and began writing down all our information.
Naturally, I did what any enterprising American would do when faced with the prospect of arrest by suspicious police who didn’t speak my language in a country where I might not belong: I pulled out the iPhone and pretended to be checking messages while covertly taking pictures of the cops that were detaining us. Why? Who knows, it’d be nice to leave an evidence trail in case I got disappeared, but also for a bit of entertainment value. “Man, this one time when I was in Romania…” It’s how all the good stories start.
At long last he finally came back and said we were free to go. I suppose this either means I am in fact here legally, or it might mean he was too lazy to call it in. Thankfully I neglected to register with anyone, so if they do come looking it’ll be a little hard to locate me. This probably also means that I’m in a database somewhere now, so I’m looking forward to the grilling I get when I try to leave the country.
valtrain Romania, Travel Eastern Europe, Europe, Romania, Travel
