Rantings

Yeah i know "Hey... aren't you youth?"

I know i'm not exactly an old man and i'm barely an adult but i was raised the hard way.
I got my ass beat when i needed it and i was taught respect, Yeah it hurt, yeah i didn't like it very much and yeah sometimes it seemed like my parents hated me but in the end i became something you don't see much anymore. I ended up a decent person.

Now you're probably wondering "hey (null) what spurred this random outburst into existence?"
Well i'll tell you, i was checking one of my social-networking account's messages when i see an update by my little which was pretty normal but in the comments i see something along the lines of "f**k you b***h go the hell back to ****** whore "

Now i understand kids these days like to trash talk their friends (and they always have) but it just shows in things like that how much respect has just gone out the window.

When i was a kid we'd call a friend a "fag" at the worst and yes that's bad, but that's pretty much where the line was drawn. If it went any farther that's when teeth got knocked out, noses got broken, etc.

If these kids got their ass kicked when they needed it we'd be living in a lot nicer place free of all those little jackasses at the mall screwing with everyone and disrespecting everyone (especially their elders)

I'm not referring to everyone so if this doesn't apply to you, just leave it at that.

Turn on the TV and watch CNN for a few seconds... that's all the time you need.

This world is steadily spiraling into oblivion.
i miss the ignorance of childhood.
i miss not being able to see it happening.
i want to see the world renewed.

...but i and you know, it will never happen again.

**ALL LINKED DOWNLOADS ARE FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE**

Ok, so i get bored pretty frequently so one day i decided i was going to try and run Android on my computer. Since Android is open source software i can post links to it on these forums. and i'm sure you'd all like to mess around with it a bit.

When i first read that Android will be offered on some netbooks in the future i wanted to know if i could run it on my computer, so i did a little research and found that i could actually run a somewhat-operational version on the computer via a Live CD.


The ISO can be downloaded here:
http://code.google.com/p/live-android/downloads/list

you'll have to burn it to a cd using an image burning tool like infrarecorder which you can download for free here:
http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5

info on how to burn the CD can be found here:
http://rodoabad.joinpgn.com/2009/03/28/burning-a-cddvd-to-iso-using-infrarecorder/

To run the disc on windows XP
Restart your computer with the disc in the disc tray push F12 or whatever when prompted on computer startup to access the boot menu, then select boot from cd from the menu.

on vista it should boot automatically if the disc is in the tray.

Alternatively you can run Android in VirtualBox. (which i find to be a better option than running a live cd)

you can download VirtualBox here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

To run android in VB you'll first have to set up the virtual machine, so click New.

Click Next when the New Virtual Machine wizard stats up.

In name type whatever you want, I prefer Android. lol

Under OS type select "other" for the Operating sytem and "Other/Unknown" as the version

I recommend using 300 mb Base Memory
Do not use less than 200 mb

then i recommend just using the default settings and continue clicking next until the New Virtual Machine wizard closes.

next thing you'll have to mount the ISO

to do so, click on the virtual machine you just created and select settings then select the CD/DVD ROM tab and click the box that says Mount CD/DVD Drive and select ISO Image file. Then click the button next to the drop menu and click ADD on the box that pops up "The Virtual Media Manager" then just select the ISO image you downloaded and you're good to go.


APP INSTALLATION
To Install apps use this guide: http://code.google.com/p/live-android/wiki/howtoinstallapps



*If you need any more help PM me

*Also, i've had trouble downloading apps (even in 0.3), if anyone figures it out let me know. the App Installation guide isn't the most helpful i've ever seen.

Download the ReadMe

there was this young man who wrote very random blog posts.

i love this life i've lived... (yes i know, it's random but that's what i'm all about)

i wish i had more of a chance to enjoy it as a child, but that's the past and there's nothing i can do about the past.

so now i sit here at 1 am with tears in my eyes, raking my mind for things to write, wondering if anyone will read this.

pain. it reminds us that we are human. that we feel. that life isn't permanant.

i wonder at the many wonders of life. i've seen so much in this year passed. i've seen a large piece of this corner of the world.

i found love, i found adventure, i found friends. . . i found myself.

it's funny, i'd still be sitting in kenansville or wandering it aimlessly, looking for my next good buzz, if my grandpa hadn't overreacted to a book written by a man who died nearly 100 years ago.

I had been reading the collected writings of Ambrose Bierce.

My favorite author had issues.

So does my grandpa. i love him despite those issues. if he didn't react how he did, i wouldn't have left florida.

GOD works in mysterious ways... not life.

I know God exists, he has to. i'd be dead in a ditch somewhere if he didn't.