Nice ebay tale .......
(Caution, its about some haunted thing that managed to sell at a high price, and the guy actually "blogged" his experience on ebay. Not for faint hearted, thou I'm not sure if its true ...... Still reading it at the moment .......)
Click here.
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Mar 27, 2005
Quick tips
Sunday afternoon, I'm tired, I'm bored, I have project due tomorrow ....
Well, just feel like blogging something but don't know what to blog, hehe. So, here are some quick tips I found out while crash proofing my Gentoo.
Tip 1: Stop Firefox from crashing in flash sites
Do this somewhere, either in /etc/env.d/10MozillaFirefox or some rc scripts.
Do this only if you have problems with the Flash plugin.
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
Tip 2: Pseudo transparency in RXVT (yes it can be done !)
Edit .Xdefaults add this
rxvt*inheritPixmap: true
Tip 3: Let KDE know you're prelinked ! Loads way faster ...
Basically this tells KE that it is prelinked ..
Set KDE_IS_PRELINKED="true" in /etc/env.d/99kde-env.
Tip 4: BitTornado leeching mode (yes this can be done too)
Edit config.gui.ini in .Bittornado
gui_ratesettingsdefault = "seeder"
gui_ratesettingsmode = "full"
min_uploads = 4
max_uploads = 7
What this setting does is minimize uploads while maximizing downloads. I donno if this is a bug, but I generally dont get more than 5k upload with 100k downloads.
P/s SEED good animes !!!! ;p
Tip 5: Playing with fluxbox
Auto-start apps. Edit .fluxbox/startup. Place this anywhere before exec /usr/bin/fluxbox .
bsetbg -f ~/pictures/wallpaper.png # over write style backgrounds
gkrellm2 -w & # loads in slit (dock)
gaim & # auto starts apps
Some useful key bindings .... edit .fluxbox/keys
Mod1 F2 :ExecCommand fbrun #alt-f2 for run command. Good old gnome days...
Mod1 Tab :NextWindow #M$ Wind0ws alt tabbing
http://renyi.kicks-ass.org
Well, just feel like blogging something but don't know what to blog, hehe. So, here are some quick tips I found out while crash proofing my Gentoo.
Tip 1: Stop Firefox from crashing in flash sites
Do this somewhere, either in /etc/env.d/10MozillaFirefox or some rc scripts.
Do this only if you have problems with the Flash plugin.
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
Tip 2: Pseudo transparency in RXVT (yes it can be done !)
Edit .Xdefaults add this
rxvt*inheritPixmap: true
Tip 3: Let KDE know you're prelinked ! Loads way faster ...
Basically this tells KE that it is prelinked ..
Set KDE_IS_PRELINKED="true" in /etc/env.d/99kde-env.
Tip 4: BitTornado leeching mode (yes this can be done too)
Edit config.gui.ini in .Bittornado
gui_ratesettingsdefault = "seeder"
gui_ratesettingsmode = "full"
min_uploads = 4
max_uploads = 7
What this setting does is minimize uploads while maximizing downloads. I donno if this is a bug, but I generally dont get more than 5k upload with 100k downloads.
P/s SEED good animes !!!! ;p
Tip 5: Playing with fluxbox
Auto-start apps. Edit .fluxbox/startup. Place this anywhere before exec /usr/bin/fluxbox .
bsetbg -f ~/pictures/wallpaper.png # over write style backgrounds
gkrellm2 -w & # loads in slit (dock)
gaim & # auto starts apps
Some useful key bindings .... edit .fluxbox/keys
Mod1 F2 :ExecCommand fbrun #alt-f2 for run command. Good old gnome days...
Mod1 Tab :NextWindow #M$ Wind0ws alt tabbing
http://renyi.kicks-ass.org
Mar 19, 2005
Visual Basic developers revolting
and they have a good reason too !
According to this article VB6 and VB7 (VB.NET) are 2 completely different programming language. Micro$oft announced that support for VB6 will be terminated, this means training for current VB6 developers to be VB7 certified.
Well, I used to be a fan of VB when I started programming earlier (back when I was 10 or so) and I switched after the Ms Access DB problem. If your VB app uses the older version of the database, the newer Ms Access or VB7 won't access it. Its completely useless and your apps can't be updated, and the database can only be accessed using your aging application. Well actually you can, its just too troublesome, ;p
I got pissed off and never touched VB since. (Well, only once where the college has a VB6 module I must complete ...)
Now looks like this is the second time this is happening. VB6 and VB7 apps ARE not compatible which each other, even the codes can't be migrated. This means MS is trying to force all VB6 programmers/clients to upgrade/purchase VB7, and not only that, to retrain their staffs and knowledge ! VB7 is completely OO, more suitable for web dev (From what I heard, I dont wanna touch VB anymore.) and the .NET architecture is gonna lock your end user to MS products ..... (MSN, Hotmail, Messenger, XP, ring a bell ? ). This also means that VB7 will not be the VB that people are familiar with ....
Actually, it looks a 'lil like Java when I tried VB.NEt for the first time. Actually, its how Java should look like, ;p. No offence to Java developers. Just my own opinion.
Another MS world domination plan, and another reason to look over to open source solutions.
http://renyi.kicks-ass.org
According to this article VB6 and VB7 (VB.NET) are 2 completely different programming language. Micro$oft announced that support for VB6 will be terminated, this means training for current VB6 developers to be VB7 certified.
Well, I used to be a fan of VB when I started programming earlier (back when I was 10 or so) and I switched after the Ms Access DB problem. If your VB app uses the older version of the database, the newer Ms Access or VB7 won't access it. Its completely useless and your apps can't be updated, and the database can only be accessed using your aging application. Well actually you can, its just too troublesome, ;p
I got pissed off and never touched VB since. (Well, only once where the college has a VB6 module I must complete ...)
Now looks like this is the second time this is happening. VB6 and VB7 apps ARE not compatible which each other, even the codes can't be migrated. This means MS is trying to force all VB6 programmers/clients to upgrade/purchase VB7, and not only that, to retrain their staffs and knowledge ! VB7 is completely OO, more suitable for web dev (From what I heard, I dont wanna touch VB anymore.) and the .NET architecture is gonna lock your end user to MS products ..... (MSN, Hotmail, Messenger, XP, ring a bell ? ). This also means that VB7 will not be the VB that people are familiar with ....
Actually, it looks a 'lil like Java when I tried VB.NEt for the first time. Actually, its how Java should look like, ;p. No offence to Java developers. Just my own opinion.
Another MS world domination plan, and another reason to look over to open source solutions.
http://renyi.kicks-ass.org
Mar 9, 2005
.... about a third of all Internet traffic is currently torrent data."
Wow, I know Bittorrent is big, but this is crazy. According to this article, it takes up about 35% of the Internet traffic, surpassing even HTML !
Anyway, I discovered Bittorent when some of my IRC mates "lure" me into the Japanese Anime world. Normally we download these in series, like, maybe the whole season. And Bittorrent is the perfect choice.
Oh btw, version 4.0 of the original Bittorent client it available, :-)
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Anyway, I discovered Bittorent when some of my IRC mates "lure" me into the Japanese Anime world. Normally we download these in series, like, maybe the whole season. And Bittorrent is the perfect choice.
Oh btw, version 4.0 of the original Bittorent client it available, :-)
http://renyi.kicks-ass.org
Mar 7, 2005
Mahathir says 'no' to Microsoft
Good news to Msian OSS fans ? :)
http://www.iosn.net/country/malaysia/news/dr-m-no-to-microsoft
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http://www.iosn.net/country/malaysia/news/dr-m-no-to-microsoft
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