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Journal of a linuxian IT dragon

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Osu!
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Damn that game is fun >.+.<

here, if you don't know what Osu! is about, check this youtube video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0LgBUMlvwk

You can also go to the website : http://osu.ppy.sh/

Don't hesitate to look for beatmaps or packs of them! playing online is rather fun!

Here are a couple replays :


I'll post more later... maybe? well so much for now!
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Red Dwarf ~ Quarantine ~ Pt 3 of 3
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I just love this show...

so happy to have the entire seasons! this is a pearl...

Animation: Ferret dance (A series of tubes)
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This is an awesome animation that will dispel any bad feelings!

I guarantee it!

RBW & Swine flu
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ARG!

I caught swine flu (tm) at the convention! at my first furry convention ever! is that what PCD is? outch!

well, a lot of furs seem to have been contaminated and fell ill on monday or around.

the shamans decided I had swine flu... "they don't run tests anymore" and "don't want me in a waiting room".

great. still got tamiflu, but probably contaminated all my roommates!

that shall be fun...

other than that, I want to thank all RBW participants for the fun I had there.
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Instruction Manual for Life [cc]
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This one is interresting and I can only recommend to watch it!

Open-mindedness
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I feel like this video needs to spread around!

picassa & flickr, full resync
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 My appologies to you all who were watching me on picasa, due to a recent (bad) manipulation all content went unsync and I had no choice but to repost everything online again!

now with more tags and syncronised properly between my machines!

help me identify them!
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After taging lots pictures... several things became clear :
  1. I hate how flickr handles tag and I'll have to some day write a script that syncs tags against upoaded pictures.
  2. I probably got lots tags wrong
So... in light of those two things, please help me fix the tags! go to the picasa or flickr albums, make comments!

here is a picasa album with fursuiters I want to identify ^.+.^


Thanks for all help!

flickr I hate you
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GRAAAAAAA

100s of tools to search, navigate, upload... one to sync, and none that sync tags across pictures!

I'm tired of flickr. if they have a perl API that allows reaging I'll stick around!

sncronysing it on a PC is hell ; most of the programs won't run because of libraries mismatch (dotnet restrictions won't let me use windows 7 or linux)

I'm tired of this, so I'll just put things on picassa for a month and then upload on flickr when all tags are set.

sorry for the rant
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flickr update
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 Here we go!

Just tagged more stuff, finished uploading the furmeet's photos of the 4th and 5th meet I went to.

it's all on flickr! 

all collections are available at this address:



You will need a flickr account to post comments or tag pictures! for now, I'm letting anyone comment the pictures but only contacts can change the tags.

I may still use picassa some time... but flickr is going to be use to store all pictures.

as usual, if you don't want a picture displayed, you'll have to email me with a link to the picture and a proof that it's you if I don't already know your email.

google and cyanogen
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mmh, lately, those following me on twitter may have noticed a serie of blogs being linked...

This topic is too big to be just talked about on twitter.

I'm right now an apple unhappy customer who used to look forward moving to the google phone because, most likely, it was an open source platform.

however, badness occurred with the cyanogen mod cease and desist.

This blog explains the situation rather well : phandroid.com/2009/09/25/eff-google-screw-android-the-backlash-begins/

google's reason was explained a bit later, and it does make sense they had to react but, a cease and desist? maybe too quick. see about it yourself : phandroid.com/2009/09/25/google-responds-to-cyanogen-uproar/

yes, same blog ; if you don't know what cyanogen is, basically, it is a mod that runs much faster than the normal google phone os.

you can look it up at www.cyanogenmod.com/

there was even a Hitler video on this one... that's how bad this is.


Oh well, things seems to have evolved fast, and it may well be that cyanogen may continue to exist, it looks like google isn't happy with youtube, gmail and the likes being present in their distribution.

there's still hope! but is this a race to the one who'll do the most wrong things between google and apple? geesh.


some rest, finally!
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yup! some rest!

hehe, first of al.... friday off! then... saturday, in London! and sunday, hopefully organise a L4F, L4D with neurario !

hope have more people in... depends who's on steam around 11-12am BST, which is only the start point.

more games maybe on the morning!

on friday I have in mind to work on some website!
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future
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^.+.^

I've had, today, a 1 on 1 with my manager about what I want to achieve in this job, how I want to progress. It's company policy to do that and was quite interesting.

I think I'm going to go for web-related technologies such as databases, jboss and a few other things ^. .^

I hope to be able to bring something to our products, even some optimizations if possible!

lots to do, lots lots training and specializing to do! and books to read... maybe I'll open another blog to give out tech thoughts. probably on blogger... oh well, nothing's decided yet.
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Working on a weekend
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mmh, working on a weekend... not as bad as it seems, I can finally work on those tickets... and sort a bit more my spool!


Yesterday... I gave a try to this game and I don't regret it  :

 
http://store.steampowered.com/app/25700/

it's fun... just a shame the multiplayer version seems to be country bound.

*sips tea from a thermos* well, 6 more hours to go now....

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resumming...
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Okay, I won't post a journal about the recent drama because that is not required!

resuming life, coding for sofurry... actually did a lot, all that remains is to debug & publish into the svn!

Basically putting things back together, private things will remain private but people who ask why may be answered.

on news, I'm working on a couple things:
 
  • sofurry, where I intend to do a first update and then update the rest slowly
  • getting things back into buisness with the windows machine
  • opening a few auctions on ebay
  • setting up the main machine to reencode videos
  • more that I won't put in a journal!
well I'll be going now...
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some news
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Hi there!

first of all, I want to appologise to all whom with I roleplayed over this weekend and didn't answer fast... I was switching motherboard on the main computer, who's now back up!

Yes, Lorore is back! same CPU, same stuff as the previous one... I still plan to make some modifications later :
  • bigger computer case, possibly with decorations (dragon ones, please!!!)
  • updating the graphic card to graphic cards ^.+.^
  • updating drive configuration to include a RAID5 over at least 3 SATA 1To drives.
  • changing screen to bigger, better one
it would appear I developed insomnia over the last week... T.+.T can't do anything of value when I've not slept, I'll negociate taking a day off tomorrow... and set a reminder to close everything at 1am max... possibly account rules as I know I'll just keep using the computer then.

I must keep as much money as possible... I have 1 move and 1 con to gather money for!
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Apple answered!
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Yes they did!

according to www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/

Apple has not rejected the google voice application (!) but is still studying it (!!!), spending thus more than 5 months at it (!!!!!!!!!), even after a developper contacted apple to get it unlocked (!*10) and the reason is that "it may alter the interface".

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all I have to say to that is that they do allow a lot of application that do changes to the interface, especially the emojii keyboards.

seriously, apple. there are some very wrong things in your answer :
  1. you took more than 5 months to study the application. are you lacking personal? are you checking line per line? if so, what's the point? just contact the developpers to explain what the code does!
  2. you did recognise you spent too much time studying it when you approved it.
  3. it feels like you are going from one kind of answer to any other. the only answer expected from apple is "yes" or "no, because", not "maybe". we're sick of your "maybe"s.
I'm really going to change to a google phone later on for several reasons:
  1. I want to code applications without having to pay for others to be able to use them.
  2. Objective C is disgusting
  3. I don't wanna spend like forever waiting for an approval, especially if I have paid for that.
besides I'm sick of O2's random network.

I'm gonna use a countdown application to count till the end of my O2 contract...

Furmeet #4
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Very nice furmeet, I loved meeting new people, layers of shininess are breaking apart more and more!

here are a couple photos... thank to all of you who hugged me, and sorry, gothicat, next time! I just didn't check my twitter on my way to keep enough power to take all of those photos ^.+.^

if you can help me tagging the pictures with names of the fursuiters! even just a comment to tell who's who would be nice, my memory is very unreliable when it comes to names until I've used yours and met you for like 5 times T.+.T

anyway... here are the photos :


or you can access the album directly from here

once the tagging is done I'll add all photos on flickr.

as usual, if you don't wanna be in there just note with a proof of your identity!


RIP Lorore
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That's how she was called... She was about 2 years old!

Last night the power went out in the whole house… this morning it was back, but she wouldn't turn on!

I'll try a couple things tonight, but I'm probably up for motherboard and power unit replacement. Can't afford to replace more…

It looks like power works though, as some USB devices get power.

-- Post From My iPhone

migrating services
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yay!

I'm done with crap.me.com!

I still look at those £99 I paid last year as stolen money... seeing how crappy the service was.

I'm just ever so glad I was able to sync the contacts to google and will only use google to store contact info now. the me account can rot in hell I don't even care for it. Thanks, SyncinaBlink! wonderfull application, ever so usefull!

now something more interesting : a few videos part of the famous 'googling' ; I called that the "google experience".

look at that list of 5 videos and let me know how you find them, or better, let them know!





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