Factoid I

I needed to update, so I thought I'd give you a factoid.

Mac OS X is based not off of unix, but NrXtSTEP computers. NeXt was convieniately owned by Steve Jobbs anyways, and the OS was also based off of Unix. Thus, no one cares.

Time Travel Theorists are Dumb

According to this article from the BBC, You can go into the past, but only if it's "Complimentary" to what happened. If we were playing "Bullshit" right now, this would be the time to yell out "BS."

If anything would visit the past, the past would change; at the very least, on a matter-location level. In order to teleport (which is the basis of time travel), you must move particles away from the destination location or move the particles around, change the density of the atoms, and change the atoms themselves to other atoms (Alchemy - turning one element into another), and bond to precisely the right atoms. The latter is practically impossible. Even if you teleported an object into a vacuum in some other time, it would change the density of the universe. Thus, time travel is impossible.

Now for a loophole that would make this theory correct.
We'd have to make reservations now.

Don't laugh. I'm not kidding.

In order to travel to the past, there would have to be some sort of anomaly that would bring something from the future to the past. Thus, the person from the future would be traveling to their past. You see, if there's a sudden creation of matter in the present, and it happens to resemble the “time traveler” in every possible way, then it is technically time travel. Then, the addition of matter is explained in the present, so it works.

But this is all based on a theory, so it's unlikely that it's true.

More Ubuntu!

More Ubuntu. The upper right window is the file manager viewing some music that I ripped from "Do As Infinity - Do the B-Side" Below that is a simple mixer. on the left is the Totem Media Player, playing Track 08.Ogg. There is a visualization, but it uses a seperate layer, thus staying hidden.

Ubuntu!

I have recently installed ubuntu Linux on my computer. I did it mainly because when I reinstalled windows, it removed my bootloader. So now I no longer have OpenBSD. ubuntu doesn't yet support my Wireless Network Card, but right now, I'm trying to use the rt25000 driver. On this screenshot, running visibly is GNOME running on the X Windowing System. The three left-most windows open is the GIMP (GNU Image Minipulation Program), which I must say is noticibly faster on linux then Windows. The lower right window is Firefox opening an introductory webpage provided by the distro. The upper right window is Sound Juicer, the free CD ripper. It rips into Ogg Vorbis, which is quite nice (especially concidering the fact that the plugins needed to play MP3 isn't yet installed). As the network isn't configured, it can't review the CDDB, and it is viewed as Unknown.

IT"S DEAD! YAY!

I KILLED THE SCHOOL!

Metaphorically. School's finally out. Now for Project Candlelight!

A New Song

I found a rather good song while surfing the net. It's called Dream Alone, and It's available in Ogg Vorbis (Quality 0, but it still sounds the same as Quality 5), courtisy of me. It's right here. I encoded it myself. This is more proof of Ogg Vorbis' power. The oigional File was a MadTrcker2 file (AKA MOD) and it was 10Mb. Now it's 1.04 Mb. Now it's actually small enough to fit on a floppy disk!

We Love the Xiph.org Foundation!

I love the Xiph.org Foundation. They made Ogg Vorbis, the worlds most efficient lossy audio codec. They also made FLAC, the most efficient Lossless Audio Codec. Plus there's Theora, the Ogg Vorbis A/V! Tehy even made the new CVS, subversion. There's also speex, a lossy audio codec especially for speach; Icecast, a wonderful way to braudcast Audio in Ogg WMA, and MP3; There's also CDParanoia, the CD ripper. Xiph.org is changing the way that the world works!

Windows Again. Damn.

I had to install windows again. As good a program Firefox is, it can't block out everything; after all, it wasn't ment for that.

I hate Windows still. When I installed Windows, it erased my bootloader. what crap is that! Now I can't resize my partitions or even boot openBSD. I'd like to take a moment to post a wanted ad

Wanted:
Assasin

Target:
Bill Gates.

Pays nothing, but you'll be doing the world a favor.


Note: the above is a ventilation of anger. This is not a serious "Wanted" Advertisement.

Going Forwards

Project Candlelight is finally going somewhere (albeit slowly)! After a long arguement with some contributors, we decided that they'd stop messing with my creative decisions (64x64 tiles instead of 24x24) But we're officially off! you've got to read the forums at Shining Source!



Three posts in one day! Now if only everyday could be like the weekends (AKA no school).

Windows Update Update

Guess what? I updated fully, and the CD burner still doesn't work. I'd like to bring up a phrase that describes my feelings right about now;

"Dei Gates Dei"

Hating Windows

I hate Windows in it's totality.

I'm running Windows Update now. It takes hours at a time. Even worse, you have to restart after practically everything you install.

And It's not as if you have a choice. If you don't install it, something will start to malfunction. Already, my CD burner isn't working!

Plus, you have to do It through Internet Explorer and Visual Basic. Do any of you know what a security risk that that is?!!!

Am I the only person who can see all the problems with this system here?

Free AND Legal!

Unlike that Playstation ISO that I mentioned, a legal version of the PC version of GTA, GTA2, and one other game that I care for even less is availible for free. the only catch is that you have to sign up for their mailing lists. However, if you have Email Address up the wazoo, like I do, then you can just make it send to your older less mature Email. it's available at http://www.rockstargames.com/ for an indefinate time.