Sunday, 6. July 2008, 10:09:35
irc, bots
Most IRC users have seen IRC bots on channels, which automate messages, do flood and revolving door protection and stuff like that. Some have seen IRC bots host games like trivia or IdleRPG, and some have seen them offer a bank of factoids. IRC bots are simply programs that connect to an IRC server like a client and do automated tasks. They (usually) have no GUI, most tend to run in the background, detached from any screen.
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Sunday, 15. June 2008, 18:49:37
linux, windows
Well it's been five months since it really happened, but it still keeps popping me up as fears of my computer breaking down.
The thing was that last January, my computer took and broke down in an interesting way; on boot the screen kept being blank, and the computer was totally inresponsive. I had got this thing on the spring of 2007 also when I took it to be fixed, and the mainboard had to be switched and what else.
So the computer was, shortly said, a wreck, and I was forced to get a new one. Having spent all of the confirmation money I had got (and some other I had) to get the new computer, I was finally back "on my feet". The only little thing on the computer was that it had Windows Vista.
I was disgusted of the sight that it had Vista, and it didn't take more than a couple of days for that for me to go insane of it and look to get Linux back, but what happened was that the old computer had been working for a year with Windows on it, then I had switched and it didn't last more than a half a year before it first broke down, so I did sort of fear of putting Linux on it, "in case it'd cause something happen to it". Of course when I had that, I did ask a couple of people and I constantly got the response that "Linux can't break your BIOS" which I did know but still had "afraid" of it. However, it didn't really take more than a couple of weeks for me to have enough of it and put Kubuntu on it once more.
Here I am now, on my current Debian testing system, with a trauma of what the breakdowns had done in the past. (Of course I am embarrassed of those idiotic "fears" of mine back then and I wouldn't really want to discuss them further.
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Friday, 25. April 2008, 13:56:28
irc
I recently drew myself up in an interesting situation;
- I support KVIrc actively, and translate it to Finnish
- I also am the developer of t2i, a little project ignited when I wanted to know how it was like to create an IRC client
- I also recently put my regular IRC connection to a screen&irssi session on a remote shell server after the ##linux (freenode) admin "savetheWorld" asked me to fix my famous wreck of a connection.
So in short: I develop a client, translate another and use a third one. I wonder how I got rounded up into this.
Monday, 18. February 2008, 20:09:15
irc
Here's a way of renaming your channel on IRC, I'd use this if I ever had to rename #linux to something else:
- Register the new channel with ChanServ
- Run: /mode <#oldchannel> +lL 1 <#newchannel>
- Leave one user in <#oldchannel> to enforce +lL
Now anyone who would join <#oldchannel> would join <#newchannel> instead. Cool eh?
Sunday, 17. February 2008, 21:53:38
Today I was wondering about these modern CSS properties that call themselves "standards". There's all this fancy stuff, text-overflow, inline-block, ellipsis and so on. But then; there's a ton of browsers, not just IE, Safari, Opera and Firefox. There's Konqueror, Epiphany, hv3 (a browser based on
tkhtml), etc... And if there's a site which uses these, at least one of these browsers won't display it correctly. I'm taking that as "enough to ruin a standard".
I recently made a
small site for my freetime project t2i and I only needed font (for defining size, family and weight), color and background-color. Yet it displays quite good for me in ALL browsers I can get my hands on.
My CSS happens to be this small:
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
background-color: #111;
color: #EEE;
}
#leftbar {
width: 155px;
}
#head {
font-style: italic;
}
a, a:visited { color: #08F; }
a:hover { color: white; }
My point is: why do people nowadays need such properties that claim to be standards but in a way aren't? Why don't sites just use these "basic building blocks" instead of using elements that ruin the sites in minor browsers?
Comments welcome
Saturday, 1. September 2007, 17:32:43
irc
So, you have been in IRC for a while, and now perhaps wondering that how is this working, how does the client interact?
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Wednesday, 25. July 2007, 10:13:26
tag, opera, 5-things
I've got tagged, and I should now tell 5 things I'd like to see in Opera. So:
- Transparency support for widgets in Linux! It's hell annoying to see those stupid gray borders that fill out the part that shouldn't be shown, yet to see no transparency works.
- An option to have the native Linux QT style as Opera's theme.
- An ability to block text content (kinda an option to fully block those annoying Google ads)
- A way to change the Speed Dial style.
- More weeklies!
And now I should tag some more people. I'll tag
forsen,
playitpurple,
Khadgar and
Benjamin Joffe.
Sunday, 15. July 2007, 12:51:36
tk, introduction, tcl
So, in case you are finding C++ too hard, you can always try making some apps in Tcl/Tk.
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Saturday, 14. July 2007, 21:30:57
lfs, linux, gnome
Some of you might know that I've been playing around with the
LFS distribution for the past month, and I've been getting some results
The one I'm currently using is my 4th build (yep, 4th build) of LFS, made in 2 days with a prebuilt toolchain (the toolchain from the 3rd build).
LFS is a distribution of Linux where you build everything from scratch, including the base programs,
X Window System,
GNOME/
KDE and any other apps you install.
It starts off from building a toolchain using the programs you have on your current Linux distro or the LFS LiveCD. Once builded, you use
chroot to enter the build enviroment where you use the toolchain to build the real programs. The build time is metered in
SBUs. For me 1 SBU = 3 minutes. Biggest pains building were
GCC, Glibc,
X,
QT,
GTK+ and
GNOME.
It's not really meant for Linux newbies
BTW, I have a screenshot of my current GNOME desktop
Click on the thumbnail to see the real pic:
The pic has my KVIrc and GNOME Terminal open, alongside with my little Tcl/Tk application to fast make desktop launchers, since for some reason the top application menu is empty and uses those launchers. I needed a rapid way of making them
BTW I named the 4th build "Marrom" which means "brown" in portugese, but it doesn't seem to be brown at all. Yet, I thought to keep the name because it sounded nice
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