Andy Andy Andy!
I just saw this and thought it was hilarious. But then I came across a few remakes by some amateurs. They butchered it! All of them are sitting in front of their computers facing their webcam. It doesn't have the same feel at all.
Andy Andy Andy!
I just saw this and thought it was hilarious. But then I came across a few remakes by some amateurs. They butchered it! All of them are sitting in front of their computers facing their webcam. It doesn't have the same feel at all.
REDLisp is online
REDLisp is now online[1] and I've created it as a new project on Freshmeat, Google Project Hosting and I am now also posting about REDLisp development in the REDLisp Dev Blog. Hopefully I can get Jared to post on the Dev Blog as well. He has some interesting thoughts about Artificial Intelligence, LISP and programming languages in general. And look at that shiny logo![2]
I'm also going to commit to finishing xParse, that C++ XML parser I was working on in February. I'm also going to convert GNUFilter to Python and PyGTK because the C++ code is just so horrible to look at. That's a problem I've had for the last few years: I pick up a software project then drop it as soon as it gets really tough or boring (usually a month or two later)...not a good way to live.
[1] I uploaded version 0.50g though I'm currently at 0.50h. This is because of the bugs I introduced when trying to re-work the load, eval and parsing functions, but it will be available on the Google SVN for the brave few.
[2] The logo was created by Tony Granberg who occasionally writes for NewsForge and other sites.
REDLisp is online
REDLisp is now online[1] and I've created it as a new project on Freshmeat, Google Project Hosting and I am now also posting about REDLisp development in the REDLisp Dev Blog. Hopefully I can get Jared to post on the Dev Blog as well. He has some interesting thoughts about Artificial Intelligence, LISP and programming languages in general. And look at that shiny logo![2]
I'm also going to commit to finishing xParse, that C++ XML parser I was working on in February. I'm also going to convert GNUFilter to Python and PyGTK because the C++ code is just so horrible to look at. That's a problem I've had for the last few years: I pick up a software project then drop it as soon as it gets really tough or boring (usually a month or two later)...not a good way to live.
[1] I uploaded version 0.50g though I'm currently at 0.50h. This is because of the bugs I introduced when trying to re-work the load, eval and parsing functions, but it will be available on the Google SVN for the brave few.
[2] The logo was created by Tony Granberg who occasionally writes for NewsForge and other sites.
Blogger beta
I love what Google has done with Blogger. The new template editor is fantastic and I wish all of those teenager-infested social networking sites had them. If they did I bet we wouldn't have to look at so many eye sores on the Internet.
Anyway, it's a nice editor with some AJAX thrown in. You can click and drag the positions of the "x Comments" "TIME" and the "Labels" stuff. You can also edit those so they say, "x People Commented on This Post". I think the best feature is the instant preview you get when editing the colours and fonts of the blog. It's great stuff.
Anyway, it's a nice editor with some AJAX thrown in. You can click and drag the positions of the "x Comments" "TIME" and the "Labels" stuff. You can also edit those so they say, "x People Commented on This Post". I think the best feature is the instant preview you get when editing the colours and fonts of the blog. It's great stuff.
Blogger beta
I love what Google has done with Blogger. The new template editor is fantastic and I wish all of those teenager-infested social networking sites had them. If they did I bet we wouldn't have to look at so many eye sores on the Internet.
Anyway, it's a nice editor with some AJAX thrown in. You can click and drag the positions of the "x Comments" "TIME" and the "Labels" stuff. You can also edit those so they say, "x People Commented on This Post". I think the best feature is the instant preview you get when editing the colours and fonts of the blog. It's great stuff.
Anyway, it's a nice editor with some AJAX thrown in. You can click and drag the positions of the "x Comments" "TIME" and the "Labels" stuff. You can also edit those so they say, "x People Commented on This Post". I think the best feature is the instant preview you get when editing the colours and fonts of the blog. It's great stuff.
Another MySpace Problem
I was reading The Register, a UK technology site, and I stumbled upon this. Apparently, MySpace refuses to pay royalties to artists and as the article says "while composers get rewarded when music is played in hotel lobbies, clothes shops and pubs, they don't get a penny from it being played, and endlessly replayed, over MySpace's network."
MySpace, with its parent company Intermix Media, were bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. which owns such media companies as FOX News, Harper Collins and the New York Post, for half a billion dollars. MySpace consumes a lot of bandwidth and has ads plastered everywhere. They can afford to pay a few of the more popular artists at the very least.
The following shows what heartless bastards work at MySpace.
They're a marketing site, just like the radio and TV are and they should be subject to the same royalty arrangements that music TV channels and radio stations have. Who cares how many people listen to your damn song if you can't make a single cent? Exactly like MySpace and YouTube...Who cares how many people visit those websites if they can't make a cent?
A short post I know, the next one will be longer.
MySpace, with its parent company Intermix Media, were bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. which owns such media companies as FOX News, Harper Collins and the New York Post, for half a billion dollars. MySpace consumes a lot of bandwidth and has ads plastered everywhere. They can afford to pay a few of the more popular artists at the very least.
The following shows what heartless bastards work at MySpace.
Asked by moderator Jim Griffin why MySpace shouldn't make some kind of contribution - she replied that bands could get on their bikes and look for other revenue sources.MySpace is supposed to be the alternate revenue stream! Why the hell would any artist use MySpace?
The great thing about MySpace, she said, was that so many bands took business back under their own initiative.
"People love to go to your show and buy your T-shirt," she said.
What if the band doesn't want to, or can't afford to perform, came back the response. The question was sidestepped.
"We provide hundreds of millions of dollars of technology investment for new artists. It takes money to build a website."Judging from the look of MySpace and all of the HTML "hacks" that users have to use to make their profiles look a little less ugly, they're failing in terms of providing a great product.
That brought splutters from the panel. Former EMI exec Ted Cohen replied that this was an argument others could make.
"You say 'We want your music for free, and here's some technology?' Microsoft could say that!"
Oh, but we don't want it for free, she replied.
They're a marketing site, just like the radio and TV are and they should be subject to the same royalty arrangements that music TV channels and radio stations have. Who cares how many people listen to your damn song if you can't make a single cent? Exactly like MySpace and YouTube...Who cares how many people visit those websites if they can't make a cent?
A short post I know, the next one will be longer.
Another MySpace Problem
I was reading The Register, a UK technology site, and I stumbled upon this. Apparently, MySpace refuses to pay royalties to artists and as the article says "while composers get rewarded when music is played in hotel lobbies, clothes shops and pubs, they don't get a penny from it being played, and endlessly replayed, over MySpace's network."
MySpace, with its parent company Intermix Media, were bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. which owns such media companies as FOX News, Harper Collins and the New York Post, for half a billion dollars. MySpace consumes a lot of bandwidth and has ads plastered everywhere. They can afford to pay a few of the more popular artists at the very least.
The following shows what heartless bastards work at MySpace.
They're a marketing site, just like the radio and TV are and they should be subject to the same royalty arrangements that music TV channels and radio stations have. Who cares how many people listen to your damn song if you can't make a single cent? Exactly like MySpace and YouTube...Who cares how many people visit those websites if they can't make a cent?
A short post I know, the next one will be longer.
MySpace, with its parent company Intermix Media, were bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. which owns such media companies as FOX News, Harper Collins and the New York Post, for half a billion dollars. MySpace consumes a lot of bandwidth and has ads plastered everywhere. They can afford to pay a few of the more popular artists at the very least.
The following shows what heartless bastards work at MySpace.
Asked by moderator Jim Griffin why MySpace shouldn't make some kind of contribution - she replied that bands could get on their bikes and look for other revenue sources.MySpace is supposed to be the alternate revenue stream! Why the hell would any artist use MySpace?
The great thing about MySpace, she said, was that so many bands took business back under their own initiative.
"People love to go to your show and buy your T-shirt," she said.
What if the band doesn't want to, or can't afford to perform, came back the response. The question was sidestepped.
"We provide hundreds of millions of dollars of technology investment for new artists. It takes money to build a website."Judging from the look of MySpace and all of the HTML "hacks" that users have to use to make their profiles look a little less ugly, they're failing in terms of providing a great product.
That brought splutters from the panel. Former EMI exec Ted Cohen replied that this was an argument others could make.
"You say 'We want your music for free, and here's some technology?' Microsoft could say that!"
Oh, but we don't want it for free, she replied.
They're a marketing site, just like the radio and TV are and they should be subject to the same royalty arrangements that music TV channels and radio stations have. Who cares how many people listen to your damn song if you can't make a single cent? Exactly like MySpace and YouTube...Who cares how many people visit those websites if they can't make a cent?
A short post I know, the next one will be longer.
A few Free Software "concerns"
On the last post, the final comment was from Jeremy Boyd and it questioned why Linux was good and it spread a bit of FUD around too.
the most of that open source software can be installed on a windowsmachine two. and while open source is good, i believe sometimes they gotoo far with allowing just anyone to add to the code, because then youget something like Open Office, where it is so bloated with un-neededcode, that the performance is shot. MSoffice on the other hand, nobloat, and not functions lost. Linux unless you get one of theself-setup distros, just blows to set up, becuase you have to read.Windows 95-2003 all you do is pop the cd in and walk away. while itstill takes a couple hours, it doesn't take a couple hours of reading.
Andhow do you figure that linux is secure? Just because there are few hackattempts on it. If it were the market leader, it would be hackedconstantly. And what is to say hidden deep inside that Open-SourcedDistrobution that you use, there isn't a trojan or something of thelike? You dont know there isn't, and because it is built in, nothingyou do can get it out
I agree that the performance of OpenOffice is garbage, but that's why we have other office suites available such as KOffice (sorry, only for KDE) and AbiWord. Both of those start in less than a few seconds. There is bloat in Microsoft Office too, especially in the case of the .doc and .ppt files. On average, OpenDocument Format (.odt) files are half the size of Word Document (.doc) files and are not tied to a single office suite because of their use of XML[1].
To address the concern about Linux being hard to install unless you have a "self-setup distro", it's hard to agree since I've installed Linux easily more than four times[2]. The reason you have to read during a Linux install is because you can actually choose the software packages you want installed. For example, you can choose to install Apache, MySQL and PHP when installing most Linux distros. Windows doesn't have this option and never will. I think it's a win when the user actually has to know a bit about their computer, especially if they're going to be using it on a daily basis, and it's a one-time install unlike with Windows where if you get a virus, you pretty much have to re-install because they're nearly impossible to remove.
Linux is secure because it has many many people using it and a lot of developers. If there is a bug, someone will find it, report it and it will be fixed very very quickly. The security of Linux isn't really an issue when you're forced to create a regular user account and you have to manually log in as root to make changes to the system. Windows differs because it will let you use the system without creating a second, lower-privileged account which is a horrible horrible mistake that leads to many problems such as Trojans, viruses, spyware, etc.
Becoming market leader would make Linux even more secure as more companies as more pressure would be applied to developers to keep their distros safe. This is already true at Novell where they've contributed to Linux by creating XGL. Don't forget that IBM, HP and Google use Linux. IBM even told their employees to switch to Firefox. If that's not an endorsement of free and open source software, I don't know what is.
Finally, and this is stupidly easy to rebut, a free or open source distro has its source code and file structure available for anyone to look at. And because it's free or open source, you could dig out the Trojan. As Eric S. Raymond once said, with enough eyes all bugs are shallow and this is why the free and open source software is good for everyone[3].
[1] I checked one of Boyd's blogs and apparently he's created Objective XMLand I have to wonder why he would rather use Microsoft Office whichstill uses the inferior .doc format over the OpenDocument XML format.
[2] My first distro was Slackware 10.1 and then my next was Arch. I've installed Arch three times, and Slackware three times, one of those being a 486 install.
[3] I've emailed back and forth with a few free/open source software developers and the response I've gotten was always helpful. I've emailed the developer(s) of apfloat, KLiveJournal and some FLTK-based file manager and it's always helped.
technorati tags:free, open source
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A few Free Software "concerns"
On the last post, the final comment was from Jeremy Boyd and it questioned why Linux was good and it spread a bit of FUD around too.
the most of that open source software can be installed on a windowsmachine two. and while open source is good, i believe sometimes they gotoo far with allowing just anyone to add to the code, because then youget something like Open Office, where it is so bloated with un-neededcode, that the performance is shot. MSoffice on the other hand, nobloat, and not functions lost. Linux unless you get one of theself-setup distros, just blows to set up, becuase you have to read.Windows 95-2003 all you do is pop the cd in and walk away. while itstill takes a couple hours, it doesn't take a couple hours of reading.
Andhow do you figure that linux is secure? Just because there are few hackattempts on it. If it were the market leader, it would be hackedconstantly. And what is to say hidden deep inside that Open-SourcedDistrobution that you use, there isn't a trojan or something of thelike? You dont know there isn't, and because it is built in, nothingyou do can get it out
I agree that the performance of OpenOffice is garbage, but that's why we have other office suites available such as KOffice (sorry, only for KDE) and AbiWord. Both of those start in less than a few seconds. There is bloat in Microsoft Office too, especially in the case of the .doc and .ppt files. On average, OpenDocument Format (.odt) files are half the size of Word Document (.doc) files and are not tied to a single office suite because of their use of XML[1].
To address the concern about Linux being hard to install unless you have a "self-setup distro", it's hard to agree since I've installed Linux easily more than four times[2]. The reason you have to read during a Linux install is because you can actually choose the software packages you want installed. For example, you can choose to install Apache, MySQL and PHP when installing most Linux distros. Windows doesn't have this option and never will. I think it's a win when the user actually has to know a bit about their computer, especially if they're going to be using it on a daily basis, and it's a one-time install unlike with Windows where if you get a virus, you pretty much have to re-install because they're nearly impossible to remove.
Linux is secure because it has many many people using it and a lot of developers. If there is a bug, someone will find it, report it and it will be fixed very very quickly. The security of Linux isn't really an issue when you're forced to create a regular user account and you have to manually log in as root to make changes to the system. Windows differs because it will let you use the system without creating a second, lower-privileged account which is a horrible horrible mistake that leads to many problems such as Trojans, viruses, spyware, etc.
Becoming market leader would make Linux even more secure as more companies as more pressure would be applied to developers to keep their distros safe. This is already true at Novell where they've contributed to Linux by creating XGL. Don't forget that IBM, HP and Google use Linux. IBM even told their employees to switch to Firefox. If that's not an endorsement of free and open source software, I don't know what is.
Finally, and this is stupidly easy to rebut, a free or open source distro has its source code and file structure available for anyone to look at. And because it's free or open source, you could dig out the Trojan. As Eric S. Raymond once said, with enough eyes all bugs are shallow and this is why the free and open source software is good for everyone[3].
[1] I checked one of Boyd's blogs and apparently he's created Objective XMLand I have to wonder why he would rather use Microsoft Office whichstill uses the inferior .doc format over the OpenDocument XML format.
[2] My first distro was Slackware 10.1 and then my next was Arch. I've installed Arch three times, and Slackware three times, one of those being a 486 install.
[3] I've emailed back and forth with a few free/open source software developers and the response I've gotten was always helpful. I've emailed the developer(s) of apfloat, KLiveJournal and some FLTK-based file manager and it's always helped.
technorati tags:free, open source
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WIndows and then XGL!
BBC NEWS | Technology | Anti-piracy tool confuses users
What's happening there is that people who have used Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage are getting screwed over and being told that their copy is pirated. I don't use Windows XP and this remind me why...
According to the article,
The tool was downloaded as part of a wave of security updates Microsoft offered to users. It it is not installed Windows XP will periodically remind people to download and run the program.
Nagging users isn't a good idea. They'll just click the window away into oblivion and never update. That's what I do all the time with Mcafee Virus Scan whenever I have the misfortune of booting into Windows 2000. My cousin does the same thing with Norton Antivirus. Which is another great reason to stop using Windows...All the cash and time you spend on spyware/viruses can be saved if you try a Linux distro like Ubuntu or Knoppix.
Oh! I booted the Kororaa Xgl Live CD and it's fantastic! I love how you can have a screensaver running right over your desktop. Having the Matrix "code" scrolling down while you're working on something is pretty sweet. And the window transparency is amazing. I think this kicks the crap out of Windows XP and whenever Windows Vista comes out, it'll kick the crap out of that too. Can Mac OS X do the transparent window thing? Apparently it can do the rotating cube thing, but that's only for "Fast User Switching" which sounds a bit stupid to me because how often do people switch users on a computer? Logging in as root hardly calls for a fast user switch and a rotate of ye olde 3d cube.
So the standings in the OS Wars are: Linux 3 - Mac 1 - Windows 0. And now to fix my resume and check out the Flock Browser Beta.
technorati tags:windows, mac, linux
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WIndows and then XGL!
BBC NEWS | Technology | Anti-piracy tool confuses users
What's happening there is that people who have used Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage are getting screwed over and being told that their copy is pirated. I don't use Windows XP and this remind me why...
According to the article,
The tool was downloaded as part of a wave of security updates Microsoft offered to users. It it is not installed Windows XP will periodically remind people to download and run the program.
Nagging users isn't a good idea. They'll just click the window away into oblivion and never update. That's what I do all the time with Mcafee Virus Scan whenever I have the misfortune of booting into Windows 2000. My cousin does the same thing with Norton Antivirus. Which is another great reason to stop using Windows...All the cash and time you spend on spyware/viruses can be saved if you try a Linux distro like Ubuntu or Knoppix.
Oh! I booted the Kororaa Xgl Live CD and it's fantastic! I love how you can have a screensaver running right over your desktop. Having the Matrix "code" scrolling down while you're working on something is pretty sweet. And the window transparency is amazing. I think this kicks the crap out of Windows XP and whenever Windows Vista comes out, it'll kick the crap out of that too. Can Mac OS X do the transparent window thing? Apparently it can do the rotating cube thing, but that's only for "Fast User Switching" which sounds a bit stupid to me because how often do people switch users on a computer? Logging in as root hardly calls for a fast user switch and a rotate of ye olde 3d cube.
So the standings in the OS Wars are: Linux 3 - Mac 1 - Windows 0. And now to fix my resume and check out the Flock Browser Beta.
technorati tags:windows, mac, linux
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SoulSeek: Give me Freedom
Someone on the SoulSeek forums asked a few questions about making their own open-source SoulSeek client.
The first reply stated that he can create one for anything but Windows. The reason being that
It clearly states in their Rules page that users are "encouraged" to use the official Windows client and clients for other platforms will be tolerated.
The programmer who asked about this, Synt4XX_3rr0R, seems like a smart guy. He listed most of the advantages of an open source client; The security, the ability to make it international, and the ability to extend the client. While there exist open source clients (written in Python for the most), they are unofficial and have been re-inventing the wheel when it comes to the protocol.
Synt4XX says that, "Personally, I know that the standart windows client is not very safe, I found several weaknesses .." and sierracat replies, "umm standard procedure in the software world is to report those bugs to the developers, either via the bugzilla or private email if it is a large security risk." That's another problem for closed source. The people using the software have to wait for the developers to fix the bugs. With open source, a developer could jump in and create a bug fix. Synt4XX himself could do it instead of saying there are problems.
Next, sierracat replies to Synt4XX's other point, "Opening the source of my client would allow to improve it more efficiently version by version ... (bug corrections, security improvements etc ...)" with one word: debatable. And I'm going to reply with: debatable my ass. Why is it that many companies are open-sourcing their software? Obviously there must be some advantage. The major databases in use, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and BerkeleyDB, are open source and this begs the question...why not SoulSeek?
I say, let's boycott these bastards who have no sense of community until they let the code and the protocol information flow freely. I mean, what kind of a client says you need to uninstall other software before using it??
The boycott of SoulSeek has begun! Users for a free Internet, UNITE!
Note: I know that a boycott may not work, but it's still worth a shot. Send soulseek an email telling them to free the source here
The first reply stated that he can create one for anything but Windows. The reason being that
"The only reason 3rd party clients are allowed at all is to let people on other operating systems use slsk. 3rd party clients in general cause problems unless they are written very well as the developers don't have access to the protocol information and they have to hack it out."The message is that Soulseek and the protocol are both closed and top secret so to speak.
who's security? certainly not mine as sys-admin who gets to watch all those bug-ridden 3rd party client cause problems on his network.That's the problem with a proprietary, closed protocol such as Soulseek. Other people who wish to create clients, or maybe create better servers, are left out to dry. They must make due with half-assed protocol documentation because the SoulSeek people want to maintain control.
It clearly states in their Rules page that users are "encouraged" to use the official Windows client and clients for other platforms will be tolerated.
Users may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the software to a human readable form. Users may not modify, adapt, translate, rent, lease, loan, resell for profit, distribute, or otherwise assign or transfer the software, or create derivitive works based upon the software or any part thereof. [From Rules page]Whatever happened to sharing? They are purposely crippling all other clients.
The programmer who asked about this, Synt4XX_3rr0R, seems like a smart guy. He listed most of the advantages of an open source client; The security, the ability to make it international, and the ability to extend the client. While there exist open source clients (written in Python for the most), they are unofficial and have been re-inventing the wheel when it comes to the protocol.
Synt4XX says that, "Personally, I know that the standart windows client is not very safe, I found several weaknesses .." and sierracat replies, "umm standard procedure in the software world is to report those bugs to the developers, either via the bugzilla or private email if it is a large security risk." That's another problem for closed source. The people using the software have to wait for the developers to fix the bugs. With open source, a developer could jump in and create a bug fix. Synt4XX himself could do it instead of saying there are problems.
Next, sierracat replies to Synt4XX's other point, "Opening the source of my client would allow to improve it more efficiently version by version ... (bug corrections, security improvements etc ...)" with one word: debatable. And I'm going to reply with: debatable my ass. Why is it that many companies are open-sourcing their software? Obviously there must be some advantage. The major databases in use, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and BerkeleyDB, are open source and this begs the question...why not SoulSeek?
I say, let's boycott these bastards who have no sense of community until they let the code and the protocol information flow freely. I mean, what kind of a client says you need to uninstall other software before using it??
The boycott of SoulSeek has begun! Users for a free Internet, UNITE!
Note: I know that a boycott may not work, but it's still worth a shot. Send soulseek an email telling them to free the source here
SoulSeek: Give me Freedom
Someone on the SoulSeek forums asked a few questions about making their own open-source SoulSeek client.
The first reply stated that he can create one for anything but Windows. The reason being that
It clearly states in their Rules page that users are "encouraged" to use the official Windows client and clients for other platforms will be tolerated.
The programmer who asked about this, Synt4XX_3rr0R, seems like a smart guy. He listed most of the advantages of an open source client; The security, the ability to make it international, and the ability to extend the client. While there exist open source clients (written in Python for the most), they are unofficial and have been re-inventing the wheel when it comes to the protocol.
Synt4XX says that, "Personally, I know that the standart windows client is not very safe, I found several weaknesses .." and sierracat replies, "umm standard procedure in the software world is to report those bugs to the developers, either via the bugzilla or private email if it is a large security risk." That's another problem for closed source. The people using the software have to wait for the developers to fix the bugs. With open source, a developer could jump in and create a bug fix. Synt4XX himself could do it instead of saying there are problems.
Next, sierracat replies to Synt4XX's other point, "Opening the source of my client would allow to improve it more efficiently version by version ... (bug corrections, security improvements etc ...)" with one word: debatable. And I'm going to reply with: debatable my ass. Why is it that many companies are open-sourcing their software? Obviously there must be some advantage. The major databases in use, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and BerkeleyDB, are open source and this begs the question...why not SoulSeek?
I say, let's boycott these bastards who have no sense of community until they let the code and the protocol information flow freely. I mean, what kind of a client says you need to uninstall other software before using it??
The boycott of SoulSeek has begun! Users for a free Internet, UNITE!
Note: I know that a boycott may not work, but it's still worth a shot. Send soulseek an email telling them to free the source here
The first reply stated that he can create one for anything but Windows. The reason being that
"The only reason 3rd party clients are allowed at all is to let people on other operating systems use slsk. 3rd party clients in general cause problems unless they are written very well as the developers don't have access to the protocol information and they have to hack it out."The message is that Soulseek and the protocol are both closed and top secret so to speak.
who's security? certainly not mine as sys-admin who gets to watch all those bug-ridden 3rd party client cause problems on his network.That's the problem with a proprietary, closed protocol such as Soulseek. Other people who wish to create clients, or maybe create better servers, are left out to dry. They must make due with half-assed protocol documentation because the SoulSeek people want to maintain control.
It clearly states in their Rules page that users are "encouraged" to use the official Windows client and clients for other platforms will be tolerated.
Users may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the software to a human readable form. Users may not modify, adapt, translate, rent, lease, loan, resell for profit, distribute, or otherwise assign or transfer the software, or create derivitive works based upon the software or any part thereof. [From Rules page]Whatever happened to sharing? They are purposely crippling all other clients.
The programmer who asked about this, Synt4XX_3rr0R, seems like a smart guy. He listed most of the advantages of an open source client; The security, the ability to make it international, and the ability to extend the client. While there exist open source clients (written in Python for the most), they are unofficial and have been re-inventing the wheel when it comes to the protocol.
Synt4XX says that, "Personally, I know that the standart windows client is not very safe, I found several weaknesses .." and sierracat replies, "umm standard procedure in the software world is to report those bugs to the developers, either via the bugzilla or private email if it is a large security risk." That's another problem for closed source. The people using the software have to wait for the developers to fix the bugs. With open source, a developer could jump in and create a bug fix. Synt4XX himself could do it instead of saying there are problems.
Next, sierracat replies to Synt4XX's other point, "Opening the source of my client would allow to improve it more efficiently version by version ... (bug corrections, security improvements etc ...)" with one word: debatable. And I'm going to reply with: debatable my ass. Why is it that many companies are open-sourcing their software? Obviously there must be some advantage. The major databases in use, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and BerkeleyDB, are open source and this begs the question...why not SoulSeek?
I say, let's boycott these bastards who have no sense of community until they let the code and the protocol information flow freely. I mean, what kind of a client says you need to uninstall other software before using it??
The boycott of SoulSeek has begun! Users for a free Internet, UNITE!
Note: I know that a boycott may not work, but it's still worth a shot. Send soulseek an email telling them to free the source here
WTF? Piracy? Apple?!
This is interesting.
Somebody has the balls to call what the French are doing piracy. As a pirate I am offended. You can't call those cheese-eating, wine-drinking surrender monkeys pirates!
"Last week, the French National Assembly approved a bill that would force online music vendors to make their music compatible with any music player." I see no problem with that! No one in their right mind would see a problem with that. If you, the consumer, are forced to use one music store (iTunes Music Store) with one audio player (iTunes) with one device (iPod), I daresay you would be pissed at the lack of choice.
I'm a Linux user so I have a different perspective than others. The iTunes player does NOT work on Linux and most likely never will. Therefore, the iTunes Music Store canNOT be used and I canNOT get any music from them. If there was a music store that worked on Linux (natively, no emulated shit) and that worked with the iPod (or any other music player) you'd be able to get geeks to buy music instead of pirating it. The problem is that of convenience.
I see Apple as the RIAA [Recording Industry of America]. Everyone's a pirate to them because they're a monopoly.
I'm going to finish with this rant by saying those surrender monkeys are doing a good deed for the consumer. I think I might stop calling them surrender monkeys just because of it...Nah.
Somebody has the balls to call what the French are doing piracy. As a pirate I am offended. You can't call those cheese-eating, wine-drinking surrender monkeys pirates!
"Last week, the French National Assembly approved a bill that would force online music vendors to make their music compatible with any music player." I see no problem with that! No one in their right mind would see a problem with that. If you, the consumer, are forced to use one music store (iTunes Music Store) with one audio player (iTunes) with one device (iPod), I daresay you would be pissed at the lack of choice.
I'm a Linux user so I have a different perspective than others. The iTunes player does NOT work on Linux and most likely never will. Therefore, the iTunes Music Store canNOT be used and I canNOT get any music from them. If there was a music store that worked on Linux (natively, no emulated shit) and that worked with the iPod (or any other music player) you'd be able to get geeks to buy music instead of pirating it. The problem is that of convenience.
I see Apple as the RIAA [Recording Industry of America]. Everyone's a pirate to them because they're a monopoly.
This [FairPlay] makes Apple's ubiquitous iPod incompatible with music downloaded from any site other than iTunes, and songs downloaded from iTunes incompatible with other players.I fucking wonder why they have 70 percent! Reason one: Idiot people fall for their genious marketing and buy the iPod because it looks cool. Reason two: You buy an iPod, you're using the iTunes Music Store and if you use the iTunes Music Store, you're using an iPod. We don't see this happen with any other music store or music player.
The result is Apple's whopping 70 percent share of the market for digital music downloads.
I'm going to finish with this rant by saying those surrender monkeys are doing a good deed for the consumer. I think I might stop calling them surrender monkeys just because of it...Nah.
WTF? Piracy? Apple?!
This is interesting.
Somebody has the balls to call what the French are doing piracy. As a pirate I am offended. You can't call those cheese-eating, wine-drinking surrender monkeys pirates!
"Last week, the French National Assembly approved a bill that would force online music vendors to make their music compatible with any music player." I see no problem with that! No one in their right mind would see a problem with that. If you, the consumer, are forced to use one music store (iTunes Music Store) with one audio player (iTunes) with one device (iPod), I daresay you would be pissed at the lack of choice.
I'm a Linux user so I have a different perspective than others. The iTunes player does NOT work on Linux and most likely never will. Therefore, the iTunes Music Store canNOT be used and I canNOT get any music from them. If there was a music store that worked on Linux (natively, no emulated shit) and that worked with the iPod (or any other music player) you'd be able to get geeks to buy music instead of pirating it. The problem is that of convenience.
I see Apple as the RIAA [Recording Industry of America]. Everyone's a pirate to them because they're a monopoly.
I'm going to finish with this rant by saying those surrender monkeys are doing a good deed for the consumer. I think I might stop calling them surrender monkeys just because of it...Nah.
Somebody has the balls to call what the French are doing piracy. As a pirate I am offended. You can't call those cheese-eating, wine-drinking surrender monkeys pirates!
"Last week, the French National Assembly approved a bill that would force online music vendors to make their music compatible with any music player." I see no problem with that! No one in their right mind would see a problem with that. If you, the consumer, are forced to use one music store (iTunes Music Store) with one audio player (iTunes) with one device (iPod), I daresay you would be pissed at the lack of choice.
I'm a Linux user so I have a different perspective than others. The iTunes player does NOT work on Linux and most likely never will. Therefore, the iTunes Music Store canNOT be used and I canNOT get any music from them. If there was a music store that worked on Linux (natively, no emulated shit) and that worked with the iPod (or any other music player) you'd be able to get geeks to buy music instead of pirating it. The problem is that of convenience.
I see Apple as the RIAA [Recording Industry of America]. Everyone's a pirate to them because they're a monopoly.
This [FairPlay] makes Apple's ubiquitous iPod incompatible with music downloaded from any site other than iTunes, and songs downloaded from iTunes incompatible with other players.I fucking wonder why they have 70 percent! Reason one: Idiot people fall for their genious marketing and buy the iPod because it looks cool. Reason two: You buy an iPod, you're using the iTunes Music Store and if you use the iTunes Music Store, you're using an iPod. We don't see this happen with any other music store or music player.
The result is Apple's whopping 70 percent share of the market for digital music downloads.
I'm going to finish with this rant by saying those surrender monkeys are doing a good deed for the consumer. I think I might stop calling them surrender monkeys just because of it...Nah.
DFA sucks.
They suck period. It's bad for a band when remixes of their stuff sound better than the original. I just watched this video and I'm fracking astounded that people can listen to them. I may get blasted for having listened to some gangster nerd rap or for listening to 8-bit, but this stuff is crap, along with 90-something-% of "indie" (read independent college rock). And in case people say I didn't check out all their stuff, bullshit. Here are a few more videos found on Google Video. Finest Canadian export my fracking ass. There is no fine Canadian export when it comes to music right now, and that's what I'm sticking to.
In other news, I've released GNUFilter (finally!) and KonSort will be up tomorrow. My xml parser will also be updated.
Battlestar Galactica is one of the greatest science fiction that I've seen in a long time.
In other news, I've released GNUFilter (finally!) and KonSort will be up tomorrow. My xml parser will also be updated.
Battlestar Galactica is one of the greatest science fiction that I've seen in a long time.
DFA sucks.
They suck period. It's bad for a band when remixes of their stuff sound better than the original. I just watched this video and I'm fracking astounded that people can listen to them. I may get blasted for having listened to some gangster nerd rap or for listening to 8-bit, but this stuff is crap, along with 90-something-% of "indie" (read independent college rock). And in case people say I didn't check out all their stuff, bullshit. Here are a few more videos found on Google Video. Finest Canadian export my fracking ass. There is no fine Canadian export when it comes to music right now, and that's what I'm sticking to.
In other news, I've released GNUFilter (finally!) and KonSort will be up tomorrow. My xml parser will also be updated.
Battlestar Galactica is one of the greatest science fiction that I've seen in a long time.
In other news, I've released GNUFilter (finally!) and KonSort will be up tomorrow. My xml parser will also be updated.
Battlestar Galactica is one of the greatest science fiction that I've seen in a long time.
my girl, the princess
I've just tried KLiveJournal and it's not too bad aside from a few minor problems, like it won't let me post and the toolbars don't show, and I have to re-define the keyboard shortcuts. Otherwise, it's not a bad program. The code could look a little tidier somehow, maybe with a few comments in key places. But I like it and the fact that the author actually responded to my email and created a fix for it is nice too.
On to my programming news. I'm still in the process of cleaning up xParse (the lightweight C++ xml parser) and the cool thing that I'm adding today is a template function. I know that won't mean anything to a lot of you, but it's pretty damned important in the scheme of xParse. It should make adding elements easier for people and thus boost the use of it. My biggest problems when parsing are; multi-line data, and multiple begin/close tags on a single line. The latter I can work around using a loop, but the former is a bit more work and requires a clean-up of the parse function.
And on to other things...Check out Legal Torrents. I know that some of them are semi-crappy (some of the music for example), but some of it is pretty good, like the 8-bit music. Over 100 tracks of sweet gameboy music. Just great music. Anyway, I'm too tired and whipped (by C++) to write anything of note to regular (l)users.
Good night, and good luck.
On to my programming news. I'm still in the process of cleaning up xParse (the lightweight C++ xml parser) and the cool thing that I'm adding today is a template function. I know that won't mean anything to a lot of you, but it's pretty damned important in the scheme of xParse. It should make adding elements easier for people and thus boost the use of it. My biggest problems when parsing are; multi-line data, and multiple begin/close tags on a single line. The latter I can work around using a loop, but the former is a bit more work and requires a clean-up of the parse function.
And on to other things...Check out Legal Torrents. I know that some of them are semi-crappy (some of the music for example), but some of it is pretty good, like the 8-bit music. Over 100 tracks of sweet gameboy music. Just great music. Anyway, I'm too tired and whipped (by C++) to write anything of note to regular (l)users.
Good night, and good luck.
my girl, the princess
I've just tried KLiveJournal and it's not too bad aside from a few minor problems, like it won't let me post and the toolbars don't show, and I have to re-define the keyboard shortcuts. Otherwise, it's not a bad program. The code could look a little tidier somehow, maybe with a few comments in key places. But I like it and the fact that the author actually responded to my email and created a fix for it is nice too.
On to my programming news. I'm still in the process of cleaning up xParse (the lightweight C++ xml parser) and the cool thing that I'm adding today is a template function. I know that won't mean anything to a lot of you, but it's pretty damned important in the scheme of xParse. It should make adding elements easier for people and thus boost the use of it. My biggest problems when parsing are; multi-line data, and multiple begin/close tags on a single line. The latter I can work around using a loop, but the former is a bit more work and requires a clean-up of the parse function.
And on to other things...Check out Legal Torrents. I know that some of them are semi-crappy (some of the music for example), but some of it is pretty good, like the 8-bit music. Over 100 tracks of sweet gameboy music. Just great music. Anyway, I'm too tired and whipped (by C++) to write anything of note to regular (l)users.
Good night, and good luck.
On to my programming news. I'm still in the process of cleaning up xParse (the lightweight C++ xml parser) and the cool thing that I'm adding today is a template function. I know that won't mean anything to a lot of you, but it's pretty damned important in the scheme of xParse. It should make adding elements easier for people and thus boost the use of it. My biggest problems when parsing are; multi-line data, and multiple begin/close tags on a single line. The latter I can work around using a loop, but the former is a bit more work and requires a clean-up of the parse function.
And on to other things...Check out Legal Torrents. I know that some of them are semi-crappy (some of the music for example), but some of it is pretty good, like the 8-bit music. Over 100 tracks of sweet gameboy music. Just great music. Anyway, I'm too tired and whipped (by C++) to write anything of note to regular (l)users.
Good night, and good luck.
VENOM!
VENOM is the name of a Python-based movie database that I've programmed with the help of Tony, my Swedish friend. It's not IMDB, and won't ever list all the details of a movie, it's just for making recommendations mostly. So, a small group of people (less than 30 for sure) recommending movies. It works pretty well so far since I got the Add Movie feature working a day or two ago. Today I'm going to add the Add Comment/Review feature (already programmed, but not in the webpage).
And I should really code the user database...
That's my programmer update for today. In case anyone is wondering, I am not using MySQL or any databases like that. A file-based system (read: a text file) works well and loads pretty quickly so far, thank you very much.
Anyway, I still haven't started my English assignment and it's due on Tuesday night. I hate the book that this assignment is based on. It's titled the Castle of Otranto and is possibly the worst piece of writing to read ever. There are no quotations so you never know where one conversation ends and another begins until you get to the "he said"/"she replied" parts of the paragraphs. And the worst thing is that the book sounds like a combination of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth. Just terrible. This is worse than highschool somehow.
On Nick & Nate I've started posting with song titles as the subjects of each post, and I think I'll start doing that next time. But, for the record, I would have titled this post: "Friday I'm In Love".
And I should really code the user database...
That's my programmer update for today. In case anyone is wondering, I am not using MySQL or any databases like that. A file-based system (read: a text file) works well and loads pretty quickly so far, thank you very much.
Anyway, I still haven't started my English assignment and it's due on Tuesday night. I hate the book that this assignment is based on. It's titled the Castle of Otranto and is possibly the worst piece of writing to read ever. There are no quotations so you never know where one conversation ends and another begins until you get to the "he said"/"she replied" parts of the paragraphs. And the worst thing is that the book sounds like a combination of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth. Just terrible. This is worse than highschool somehow.
On Nick & Nate I've started posting with song titles as the subjects of each post, and I think I'll start doing that next time. But, for the record, I would have titled this post: "Friday I'm In Love".
VENOM!
VENOM is the name of a Python-based movie database that I've programmed with the help of Tony, my Swedish friend. It's not IMDB, and won't ever list all the details of a movie, it's just for making recommendations mostly. So, a small group of people (less than 30 for sure) recommending movies. It works pretty well so far since I got the Add Movie feature working a day or two ago. Today I'm going to add the Add Comment/Review feature (already programmed, but not in the webpage).
And I should really code the user database...
That's my programmer update for today. In case anyone is wondering, I am not using MySQL or any databases like that. A file-based system (read: a text file) works well and loads pretty quickly so far, thank you very much.
Anyway, I still haven't started my English assignment and it's due on Tuesday night. I hate the book that this assignment is based on. It's titled the Castle of Otranto and is possibly the worst piece of writing to read ever. There are no quotations so you never know where one conversation ends and another begins until you get to the "he said"/"she replied" parts of the paragraphs. And the worst thing is that the book sounds like a combination of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth. Just terrible. This is worse than highschool somehow.
On Nick & Nate I've started posting with song titles as the subjects of each post, and I think I'll start doing that next time. But, for the record, I would have titled this post: "Friday I'm In Love".
And I should really code the user database...
That's my programmer update for today. In case anyone is wondering, I am not using MySQL or any databases like that. A file-based system (read: a text file) works well and loads pretty quickly so far, thank you very much.
Anyway, I still haven't started my English assignment and it's due on Tuesday night. I hate the book that this assignment is based on. It's titled the Castle of Otranto and is possibly the worst piece of writing to read ever. There are no quotations so you never know where one conversation ends and another begins until you get to the "he said"/"she replied" parts of the paragraphs. And the worst thing is that the book sounds like a combination of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth. Just terrible. This is worse than highschool somehow.
On Nick & Nate I've started posting with song titles as the subjects of each post, and I think I'll start doing that next time. But, for the record, I would have titled this post: "Friday I'm In Love".
Another search query answered
Someone searched for: web page authorizing using openoffice
Ok, let's get something straight, you do not, you absolutely do not use an office suite to design a webpage. If you wouldn't use Word for this, you wouldn't use AbiWord, KWord, or OpenOffice's Writer.
Here are some good alternatives:
Ok, let's get something straight, you do not, you absolutely do not use an office suite to design a webpage. If you wouldn't use Word for this, you wouldn't use AbiWord, KWord, or OpenOffice's Writer.
Here are some good alternatives:
- NVU - Linux, Mac, Windows
"Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver." - Quanta - Linux (KDE)
Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. - Notepad, KWrite, Emacs, VI, etc. - a text editor
Come on! Be leet!
Another search query answered
Someone searched for: web page authorizing using openoffice
Ok, let's get something straight, you do not, you absolutely do not use an office suite to design a webpage. If you wouldn't use Word for this, you wouldn't use AbiWord, KWord, or OpenOffice's Writer.
Here are some good alternatives:
Ok, let's get something straight, you do not, you absolutely do not use an office suite to design a webpage. If you wouldn't use Word for this, you wouldn't use AbiWord, KWord, or OpenOffice's Writer.
Here are some good alternatives:
- NVU - Linux, Mac, Windows
"Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver." - Quanta - Linux (KDE)
Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. - Notepad, KWrite, Emacs, VI, etc. - a text editor
Come on! Be leet!
Searching and searching...MySpace Extended Network
It seems a lot of people stumble upon my blog while searching for answers among other things. I shouldn't be surprised but I am, and I'll take a moment to answer/talk-about a few.
First, someone asked Ask.com: what is the myspace extended network?
Answer: Good question internet person! The MySpace Extended Network tells you if someone can be connected to you following a path of friends. And in almost every single case, every single person on MySpace is in your Extended Network thanks to the fact that you're friends with Tom. In conclusion, the MySpace Extended Network is a waste of time and tells you nothing. Please stop asking...
Second, a lot of people seem to be interested in MySpace vs. LiveJournal/TagWorld/etc. Let's put it this way, just because a lot of people use your site/software, it does not mean it's any good. Those sites are like the homepage craze of a few years ago, where everyone had a homepage to talk about their boring shitty lives. These sites have just given a different name to them and made them more socially acceptable. But we must not let this continue! Rise my fellow Internet intellectuals and something something!
Anyway, MySpace and the bunch are allowing everyone to post anything, and unsurprisingly, 99.9% of it is crap. If you're going to only communicate things that only interest close friends, keep it off the Web and talk about it over the phone or face-to-face or IM. I don't care if I sound elitist, but no one wants to hear a bunch of teenagers whine about their family or friends. And a few words I agree with, from Eric S. Raymond,
Update: Changed the title to include myspace extended network because it seems people are still heading to the MySpace vs. Tagworld page and blah.
First, someone asked Ask.com: what is the myspace extended network?
Answer: Good question internet person! The MySpace Extended Network tells you if someone can be connected to you following a path of friends. And in almost every single case, every single person on MySpace is in your Extended Network thanks to the fact that you're friends with Tom. In conclusion, the MySpace Extended Network is a waste of time and tells you nothing. Please stop asking...
Second, a lot of people seem to be interested in MySpace vs. LiveJournal/TagWorld/etc. Let's put it this way, just because a lot of people use your site/software, it does not mean it's any good. Those sites are like the homepage craze of a few years ago, where everyone had a homepage to talk about their boring shitty lives. These sites have just given a different name to them and made them more socially acceptable. But we must not let this continue! Rise my fellow Internet intellectuals and something something!
Anyway, MySpace and the bunch are allowing everyone to post anything, and unsurprisingly, 99.9% of it is crap. If you're going to only communicate things that only interest close friends, keep it off the Web and talk about it over the phone or face-to-face or IM. I don't care if I sound elitist, but no one wants to hear a bunch of teenagers whine about their family or friends. And a few words I agree with, from Eric S. Raymond,
Give the audience a reason to care. Too many web pages are like tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Do you want to be interesting? Then forget the graphics and the glitz. First and foremost, have something to say.
Update: Changed the title to include myspace extended network because it seems people are still heading to the MySpace vs. Tagworld page and blah.
Searching and searching...MySpace Extended Network
It seems a lot of people stumble upon my blog while searching for answers among other things. I shouldn't be surprised but I am, and I'll take a moment to answer/talk-about a few.
First, someone asked Ask.com: what is the myspace extended network?
Answer: Good question internet person! The MySpace Extended Network tells you if someone can be connected to you following a path of friends. And in almost every single case, every single person on MySpace is in your Extended Network thanks to the fact that you're friends with Tom. In conclusion, the MySpace Extended Network is a waste of time and tells you nothing. Please stop asking...
Second, a lot of people seem to be interested in MySpace vs. LiveJournal/TagWorld/etc. Let's put it this way, just because a lot of people use your site/software, it does not mean it's any good. Those sites are like the homepage craze of a few years ago, where everyone had a homepage to talk about their boring shitty lives. These sites have just given a different name to them and made them more socially acceptable. But we must not let this continue! Rise my fellow Internet intellectuals and something something!
Anyway, MySpace and the bunch are allowing everyone to post anything, and unsurprisingly, 99.9% of it is crap. If you're going to only communicate things that only interest close friends, keep it off the Web and talk about it over the phone or face-to-face or IM. I don't care if I sound elitist, but no one wants to hear a bunch of teenagers whine about their family or friends. And a few words I agree with, from Eric S. Raymond,
Update: Changed the title to include myspace extended network because it seems people are still heading to the MySpace vs. Tagworld page and blah.
First, someone asked Ask.com: what is the myspace extended network?
Answer: Good question internet person! The MySpace Extended Network tells you if someone can be connected to you following a path of friends. And in almost every single case, every single person on MySpace is in your Extended Network thanks to the fact that you're friends with Tom. In conclusion, the MySpace Extended Network is a waste of time and tells you nothing. Please stop asking...
Second, a lot of people seem to be interested in MySpace vs. LiveJournal/TagWorld/etc. Let's put it this way, just because a lot of people use your site/software, it does not mean it's any good. Those sites are like the homepage craze of a few years ago, where everyone had a homepage to talk about their boring shitty lives. These sites have just given a different name to them and made them more socially acceptable. But we must not let this continue! Rise my fellow Internet intellectuals and something something!
Anyway, MySpace and the bunch are allowing everyone to post anything, and unsurprisingly, 99.9% of it is crap. If you're going to only communicate things that only interest close friends, keep it off the Web and talk about it over the phone or face-to-face or IM. I don't care if I sound elitist, but no one wants to hear a bunch of teenagers whine about their family or friends. And a few words I agree with, from Eric S. Raymond,
Give the audience a reason to care. Too many web pages are like tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Do you want to be interesting? Then forget the graphics and the glitz. First and foremost, have something to say.
Update: Changed the title to include myspace extended network because it seems people are still heading to the MySpace vs. Tagworld page and blah.
I am tired.
God damn, I'm tired. It's 11:30pm and amazingly, my mark was a 78% on that first assignment for English. I was pretty sure I'd get at most a 60% (considering my last paragraph is only a sentence long, 60% seems about right), but wow! I can't believe she gave me that mark!
On a more serious note, I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and enjoyed it. It's hard to look at many lines of code all day. I'm afraid I'm going to burn out or something...Let's hope not.
Anyway, KonSort/GNUFilter will be coming soon. I just have to add the Boost C++ library for the moving/copying and just figure out some GUI (Graphical User Interface) things. Qt makes life so much easier.
And now, good night.
On a more serious note, I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and enjoyed it. It's hard to look at many lines of code all day. I'm afraid I'm going to burn out or something...Let's hope not.
Anyway, KonSort/GNUFilter will be coming soon. I just have to add the Boost C++ library for the moving/copying and just figure out some GUI (Graphical User Interface) things. Qt makes life so much easier.
And now, good night.
I am tired.
God damn, I'm tired. It's 11:30pm and amazingly, my mark was a 78% on that first assignment for English. I was pretty sure I'd get at most a 60% (considering my last paragraph is only a sentence long, 60% seems about right), but wow! I can't believe she gave me that mark!
On a more serious note, I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and enjoyed it. It's hard to look at many lines of code all day. I'm afraid I'm going to burn out or something...Let's hope not.
Anyway, KonSort/GNUFilter will be coming soon. I just have to add the Boost C++ library for the moving/copying and just figure out some GUI (Graphical User Interface) things. Qt makes life so much easier.
And now, good night.
On a more serious note, I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and enjoyed it. It's hard to look at many lines of code all day. I'm afraid I'm going to burn out or something...Let's hope not.
Anyway, KonSort/GNUFilter will be coming soon. I just have to add the Boost C++ library for the moving/copying and just figure out some GUI (Graphical User Interface) things. Qt makes life so much easier.
And now, good night.
Best output. Ever.
outStr , your , KNIFE , that , will , FIGHT's , want , just , love , meet ,
It makes sense which is the most amazing part! I should enter it into a programming poetry contest or something.
It makes sense which is the most amazing part! I should enter it into a programming poetry contest or something.
Best output. Ever.
outStr , your , KNIFE , that , will , FIGHT's , want , just , love , meet ,
It makes sense which is the most amazing part! I should enter it into a programming poetry contest or something.
It makes sense which is the most amazing part! I should enter it into a programming poetry contest or something.
Cryptic (maybe crappy?) lines
Chaos smells like decay,
And the universe smells like flowers.
Those are my two cryptic lines for Friday.
And the universe smells like flowers.
Those are my two cryptic lines for Friday.
Cryptic (maybe crappy?) lines
Chaos smells like decay,
And the universe smells like flowers.
Those are my two cryptic lines for Friday.
And the universe smells like flowers.
Those are my two cryptic lines for Friday.
Question for the Day
How long do you think a website (or anything else) can continue to survive without creative and thought-provoking content?
Question for the Day
How long do you think a website (or anything else) can continue to survive without creative and thought-provoking content?
Party person, she is not.
Opinionated - I'm not much of a party person
Wow. That's exactly how I feel, even though I haven't really been in that situation. A friend of mine said something like "don't knock it if you haven't tried it" but I think that's absurd. I don't know if this is a logical error on my part or not, but if we applied it, it would seem like we couldn't talk about anything. For example, religion and politics would be completely out of the question to discuss...
"You've never been a member of [insert religion, or cult, here] so you can't tell me it's stupid or anything"
I'm just rambling right now. It's Sunday night, my pretty straightforward and simple English assignment is only a quarter, if that, done and I haven't gotten much programming done. Overall, this weekend was a waste except for Maus. Now that's a good Holocaust survivor's tale. The art is great and reminds me of Dick Tracy. Argh, back to work.
Wow. That's exactly how I feel, even though I haven't really been in that situation. A friend of mine said something like "don't knock it if you haven't tried it" but I think that's absurd. I don't know if this is a logical error on my part or not, but if we applied it, it would seem like we couldn't talk about anything. For example, religion and politics would be completely out of the question to discuss...
"You've never been a member of [insert religion, or cult, here] so you can't tell me it's stupid or anything"
I'm just rambling right now. It's Sunday night, my pretty straightforward and simple English assignment is only a quarter, if that, done and I haven't gotten much programming done. Overall, this weekend was a waste except for Maus. Now that's a good Holocaust survivor's tale. The art is great and reminds me of Dick Tracy. Argh, back to work.
Party person, she is not.
Opinionated - I'm not much of a party person
Wow. That's exactly how I feel, even though I haven't really been in that situation. A friend of mine said something like "don't knock it if you haven't tried it" but I think that's absurd. I don't know if this is a logical error on my part or not, but if we applied it, it would seem like we couldn't talk about anything. For example, religion and politics would be completely out of the question to discuss...
"You've never been a member of [insert religion, or cult, here] so you can't tell me it's stupid or anything"
I'm just rambling right now. It's Sunday night, my pretty straightforward and simple English assignment is only a quarter, if that, done and I haven't gotten much programming done. Overall, this weekend was a waste except for Maus. Now that's a good Holocaust survivor's tale. The art is great and reminds me of Dick Tracy. Argh, back to work.
Wow. That's exactly how I feel, even though I haven't really been in that situation. A friend of mine said something like "don't knock it if you haven't tried it" but I think that's absurd. I don't know if this is a logical error on my part or not, but if we applied it, it would seem like we couldn't talk about anything. For example, religion and politics would be completely out of the question to discuss...
"You've never been a member of [insert religion, or cult, here] so you can't tell me it's stupid or anything"
I'm just rambling right now. It's Sunday night, my pretty straightforward and simple English assignment is only a quarter, if that, done and I haven't gotten much programming done. Overall, this weekend was a waste except for Maus. Now that's a good Holocaust survivor's tale. The art is great and reminds me of Dick Tracy. Argh, back to work.
Wonder Drug? Blah.
Wired News: LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?
I have never understood the appeal of drugs like LSD, pot, coke, etc. Does anyone want to volunteer and explain it to me?
Moving on then...I've discovered Qt, possibly the bestGUI . It's great for RAD and reminds me of Visual BASIC. For example, I've already coded a GUI for GNUFilter and the major features are in. I'm amazed that there are sockets and file info objects. Just wow...I wish I had started coding using Qt earlier.
And the final thought of the day, The Wind in the Willows is an excellent book and everyone should read it. The end.
I have never understood the appeal of drugs like LSD, pot, coke, etc. Does anyone want to volunteer and explain it to me?
Moving on then...I've discovered Qt, possibly the best
And the final thought of the day, The Wind in the Willows is an excellent book and everyone should read it. The end.
Wonder Drug? Blah.
Wired News: LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?
I have never understood the appeal of drugs like LSD, pot, coke, etc. Does anyone want to volunteer and explain it to me?
Moving on then...I've discovered Qt, possibly the bestGUI . It's great for RAD and reminds me of Visual BASIC. For example, I've already coded a GUI for GNUFilter and the major features are in. I'm amazed that there are sockets and file info objects. Just wow...I wish I had started coding using Qt earlier.
And the final thought of the day, The Wind in the Willows is an excellent book and everyone should read it. The end.
I have never understood the appeal of drugs like LSD, pot, coke, etc. Does anyone want to volunteer and explain it to me?
Moving on then...I've discovered Qt, possibly the best
And the final thought of the day, The Wind in the Willows is an excellent book and everyone should read it. The end.
My day has been made.
For every 10 Eric S. Raymond rants, there's 1 good piece of writing. Or something like that. Here's what ESR has to say about HTML hell. There are a few types of hell and I'd like to point out two of my favourites.
From Design Hell, we have...
And Style Hell...(The first two from that section are best, but I'll only paste one here.)
Congrats to ESR for writing something that has made my day. He basically finishes by saying content is king. Just like the 9rules blog network..."If content is King, think of us as the Royal family".
From Design Hell, we have...
unreadable text/background combinations
The world is full of clowns who think their text pages look better in clown makeup, clashing colors galore (your typical garish-background idiot also pulls this one a lot). The magic words these losers need to learn are "luminance contrast". Your color sense is between you and the Gods of Bad Taste, but if you don't stick to either light text on dark backgrounds or the reverse, you will drive away surfers who like to be able to read without suffering eye-burn.
And Style Hell...(The first two from that section are best, but I'll only paste one here.)
angst and pretentiousness
We were originally going to vent our spleen at black backgrounds, until we realized that black is not the problem. It's the three overlapping populations of losers that compose 99% of the black backgrounds on the Web that are the problem. These are (a) cooler-than-thou art fags, (b) angst-ridden adolescents, and (c) the kind of coffeehouse trendoids who actually believe subscribing to Wired makes them hip. Clue: angst and pretentiousness are boring. People who spew bad poetry and/or make a fetish of writing in all-smalls and/or traffic in fuzzy images of mediocre avant-garde art should slit their wrists or join a commune or do anything else that will keep their self-indulgent sludge off the Web.
Congrats to ESR for writing something that has made my day. He basically finishes by saying content is king. Just like the 9rules blog network..."If content is King, think of us as the Royal family".
My day has been made.
For every 10 Eric S. Raymond rants, there's 1 good piece of writing. Or something like that. Here's what ESR has to say about HTML hell. There are a few types of hell and I'd like to point out two of my favourites.
From Design Hell, we have...
And Style Hell...(The first two from that section are best, but I'll only paste one here.)
Congrats to ESR for writing something that has made my day. He basically finishes by saying content is king. Just like the 9rules blog network..."If content is King, think of us as the Royal family".
From Design Hell, we have...
unreadable text/background combinations
The world is full of clowns who think their text pages look better in clown makeup, clashing colors galore (your typical garish-background idiot also pulls this one a lot). The magic words these losers need to learn are "luminance contrast". Your color sense is between you and the Gods of Bad Taste, but if you don't stick to either light text on dark backgrounds or the reverse, you will drive away surfers who like to be able to read without suffering eye-burn.
And Style Hell...(The first two from that section are best, but I'll only paste one here.)
angst and pretentiousness
We were originally going to vent our spleen at black backgrounds, until we realized that black is not the problem. It's the three overlapping populations of losers that compose 99% of the black backgrounds on the Web that are the problem. These are (a) cooler-than-thou art fags, (b) angst-ridden adolescents, and (c) the kind of coffeehouse trendoids who actually believe subscribing to Wired makes them hip. Clue: angst and pretentiousness are boring. People who spew bad poetry and/or make a fetish of writing in all-smalls and/or traffic in fuzzy images of mediocre avant-garde art should slit their wrists or join a commune or do anything else that will keep their self-indulgent sludge off the Web.
Congrats to ESR for writing something that has made my day. He basically finishes by saying content is king. Just like the 9rules blog network..."If content is King, think of us as the Royal family".
Hello hello
I was Googling for my name, OMouse and my real name, and I found a two interesting things. First, there's someone else that has the nickname omouse. You can check out their blog here. And the second thing is a Java applet that draws a house+helicopter for Computer Science back in grade 11 (I'll dig up the link later).
This is a picture I just recently uploaded to Flickr. I leveled the image using the level tool + gray eyedropper in The GIMP. It did wonders for the colour. Before, everything was a bit bluish and now it's just right.
And the final thing I'd like to add is something about MySpace. There's an article that's pretty well done that outlines (I guess) the rise of the founders of MySpace.
This is a picture I just recently uploaded to Flickr. I leveled the image using the level tool + gray eyedropper in The GIMP. It did wonders for the colour. Before, everything was a bit bluish and now it's just right.
And the final thing I'd like to add is something about MySpace. There's an article that's pretty well done that outlines (I guess) the rise of the founders of MySpace.
- Here are the links
- The MySpace Report
- WTF: Why Doesn't Anyone Ask Who Actually Runs MySpace?
Hello hello
I was Googling for my name, OMouse and my real name, and I found a two interesting things. First, there's someone else that has the nickname omouse. You can check out their blog here. And the second thing is a Java applet that draws a house+helicopter for Computer Science back in grade 11 (I'll dig up the link later).
This is a picture I just recently uploaded to Flickr. I leveled the image using the level tool + gray eyedropper in The GIMP. It did wonders for the colour. Before, everything was a bit bluish and now it's just right.
And the final thing I'd like to add is something about MySpace. There's an article that's pretty well done that outlines (I guess) the rise of the founders of MySpace.
This is a picture I just recently uploaded to Flickr. I leveled the image using the level tool + gray eyedropper in The GIMP. It did wonders for the colour. Before, everything was a bit bluish and now it's just right.
And the final thing I'd like to add is something about MySpace. There's an article that's pretty well done that outlines (I guess) the rise of the founders of MySpace.
- Here are the links
- The MySpace Report
- WTF: Why Doesn't Anyone Ask Who Actually Runs MySpace?
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