New Project!

 Inspired by a similar project, I have decided to make a new Music Station based on outdated hardware!

 Here is the hardware I'm going to use. Most of the time, I won't have any way to tell any specifics about the hardware, such as model or manufacturer, but it's correct as far as I know.

• The mainboard is a VIA Chipset. Identified by it's northbridge, one of two of the only components with any distinguishing marks. It appears to be a VT82C series board. One of the main reasons why I like using this board is it's modular nature. You can choose to install any of the I/O devices you choose, excepting the keyboard (Which is PS/1). Modular components include two Serial ports (one DB-9 and one DB-15), a Parallel port, two USB 1.1 Ports, and a PS/2 Mouse port. Plus, it's i586-based with socket 7!
• The CPU is an AMD K6-2. It has MMX and 3Dnow! Perhaps it's even over 400MHz!
  
• The video card, which will not be in the end-product, is a Trident Blade3D AGP1 card. It has anywhere between 4 and 64MB of VRAM, estimating, of course.
  
• The Hard disk is probably going to change later, but for now it's a Western Digital Caviar 136AA. It has a hard-capacity of 13601.1MB
• For the sound card, I have a lot of choices. The one built in the computer where I dragged out the Motherboard is some off-brand one manufactured by OnSpeed. It has a modem in it... but that will be disabled in the end product. I'm probibly going to use one with 4-channel audio, if I can find some implementation.
• I'll put whatever CD drive I can find lying around in it.

 That's just the main hardware. More is to be added later on, like a button interface for navigating the songs and an LCD display (unless, of course, I can find the hardware to drive some of the laptop LCD displays. In that case, I will embed the new one into the case and get rid of all that annoying display programming.

 Of course, the grand feature is going to be the case. It will be a home-made wooden case, stained and varnished to a perfection. Hey, who ever said that I didn't take good use of my wood tech class?

Searching and Finding

 In an attempt to create a new file server, I ended up installing BeOS on my "Trapezoid Beta" machine. Why? Built-in FTP and rlogin via Telnet may have helped. Plus, seting up a VNC server would be extremely easy — only two files need to be added.
 This effort has made me realize something. You simply can't beat BeOS!

 So now, I've made my decision. I'm going to install and inevitably actively develop for the Haiku platform, which is the only OS said to improve on the abilities of BeOS R5. App_Serve is already well done, and the netstack is now becoming very much usable. And because It's Open Source (at least to a high extent), I'll be able to compile it to match my processor's abilities! Finally, good speed from crappy Intel Celeron Coppermine architecture!

 And just so you know, this is being written on the TB system, running Bon Echo (Technically Firefox v2.0) on BeOS

Whacha talkinbout, Willis?

 I've decided to switch to a different distribution of Linux. After a while of long and somewhat painful thoughts, I finally came to realize that Ubuntu isn't well-supported enough. Seriously, Canonical hasn't even given us Firefox 2.0 yet, and at the same time, version 3.0 is on the horizon. on top of that, I haven't gotten any updates for about a month now. That's almost unheard of in the Linux community.
 You have to give Canonical Kudos, though. Ubuntu has been the Desktop-Linux of choice for a long time now... Perhaps a record (as ArkLinux/ArchLinux seemed to get some odd bugs that prevented me from using it, and most others hadn't even brushed the top list)for longest-running.

 Candidates for my next Distro is Gentoo (which I have some minute familiarity with, which is pretty good so far, despite extremely difficult installations), LFS (Linux-From-Scratch, not really that close), and of course, Debian, the root of Ubuntu.
 Of course, I'm trying to keep an open mind, trying to get further then just Linux. I'm currently looking out for Haiku (Because BeOS is incapable of dieing) and AROS (the Amiga Research Operating System — because Workbench simply can't be beat and AmigaOS4 doesn't even have REAL hardware). I'm also interested in SkyOS, but because it costs $30 just to beta test, I'm heading in other directions.

 In the meanwhile, I've made good progress with development in a Windows environment. I just compiled SDL with the MinGW tools and MSYS environment. And if you haven't noticed how pretty this post is, that's because you don't recognize good HTML with" " and "—" written everywhere.

 And I'm sorry for not writing that review of Okami, I've been stuck in a sort of "Furry Media Explosion," and I can't seem to get out. Eragon is just too good of a book.

Kool, Another Subdomain!

I've taken yet more advantage of my web server's 25 free sub domains, making blog.helloworldcreative.com another one of them. You can guess where that leads.

I've Got a New Way to Blog (Blog, Blog)

(If you got that joke, Amaterasu be with you.)



But seriously, I got a new way to blog. I've just recently added performancing to Firefox. I like it so far, but I've got no idea what I'm doing with it. I seriously got it in a Add-on installation frenzy. It seems to have some kind of categorization tool, so that's a plus. So now you can filter all of the crap articles I write (Finally!)



And just to warn you ahead of time, I'm going to review Okami (Go! Honorable God!) in my next post.

powered by performancing firefox

Good and bad news

For those of you who have been paying any attention to my site, The first thing I have to say to you is (Besides "I'm sorry,") is I'm fed up with all of those annoying CMS programs! So, what am I going to do? I'm going to make my own dynamic website!

Hoo-Ha & nya!

Of course that means that those who like seeing clean CSS and W3C complient markups are going to have to go blind for a while while I adjust to using a new HTML editor (NVU - The only good thing that I've seen of Linspire Co.)

Sigh... Looks like it's time to get out that PHP manual again....



On the positive side, I promise that I will one day claen up this stupikd blog. Maybe I'll Just use my own hosting, for once.... HA HA HA - what a joke!!!!

Le Finale

Or, The Study of Furrys, Part 2

After a long time of distractions and fillers, I've finally gotten the chance to finish my study on furrys. So here it is; The Study of Furrys, Part Two.

Low-Level Differentials

As I've said in part one of this study report, furrys can be considered to be superhuman. Now that I've gotten more information, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but in my defense, the Furry Fandom happens to be the most Utopian culture I've seen so far.

With recent reading of the writs from furry writers, I have discovered the truth in Freud's overly-sexual analysis. Perhaps the only way for a person to truely express himself is through the sexual act.

The reason why I bring this up is that this is how I had managed to discover the minute details of the furry mind; simply by reading erotica.

Now, as I realize that not everyone who reads this is as mature as they should be, so let me set this straight: I am not perverted. I am not a "thrill-seeker." I'm not even too much interested in being furverted. I merely read the stories from simple educational curiosity. I had simply realized that I had never read any of the stories of those infamous furry writers, and heck, good and bad come in pairs.

The first thing to notice about furry stories is the set-up. In average, there's about eighty-five percent of the story in set-up and conclusion. Another thing to look at while looking at the literature is the content. You'll notice that the popular setup for a mundane writ is usually focused on forcing one being on another, or usually is something totally unrealistic (such as being stuck into odd positions while crossing a narrow hallway). But while reading furry writings, it becomes obvious to you that this event is totally possible (excepting, of course, the fact that everyone is anthropomorphic), and that this is not only something that could happen to you, but something you may have already done. Additionally, the story is always emotionally fulfilling, giving the reader a sense of reality.

After you've read a few more stories, you'll be able to realize that sexual material is not limited only to erotic material. Once, I read a story where sex was the comic point of a farce (It was quite entertaining, really. An unpopular guy who considered himself to be a part of the furry fandom had randomly entered into a vortex, so when he found a vixen, he naturally pursued, despite the fact that he got urinated on and lost a finger. And in pursuit of his entertainment, he asked the narrator to use a scene cut, which always put him in the most interesting... positions).

Based on this information, you can see why I said that the fandom is the closest to being a Utopian society. The closer interest in the story, combined with the realistic scenarios and emotive content, indicate introversion and emotionality. Compared with other cultures, a Furry compares closest to an Emo. However, Emos (how dearly I wish there were a better way to write that plural!) tend to be self-destructive. Furrys tend to be constructive, both to themselves and to others.


Interaction

Furrys are much better at interacting then most other cultures. Merely visiting FurryMUCK, you will be surprised to meet amazingly kind people. (In fact, I happen to be logged into FurryMUCK at this very moment.) Where logging into about any MUD will instantly get you into a fight (Which you will definitely loose - especially if you just joined it), Talking to the people in the West Corner of the Park will get you into a kind conversation with some nice Canine or Ursine. Take good care to look out for Bigears, who is just too kindly.

The general distinction between Furry interaction and Typical person interaction is contact. Simply put, most cultures have a "hands-off policy," Whereas Furrys touch each other at any time they wish (and, of course, when it's appropriate. Would you just hug a random stranger? I think not).



(Maybe I'll conclude later.)

Ya wanna hear from me.

I know that you wanted to hear from me, but I've been trying to get a few things set up. I had just set up my account as a writer on FurRag.com, since Google Docs and Spreadsheets isn't going to give me much of a clean URL to show other people. Besides, FurRag allows me to show everyone who I am as a writer, and lets the people know what other things that I've written - at least on FurRag.

The most important thing that you'll want to know is that I've finally gotten organized enough to figure out what I'm going to put on my sequil to the Furry Article. So meh.

Some updates

I've taken a look at the past few articles that I've written for this blog, and I'm horror-stricken at all the mistakes! In "The Study of Furries - Part One," I realize that there were so many gramatical mistakes, I almost couldn't read it. And that's not even mentioning the HTML mistakes!

So I took a while to revise it, and Now I'm going to finally write part two, ignoring the fact that I have to write SegaCD REviews.

Sega CD Reviews -#s

3 Ninjas Kick Back

No, they don't. But don't tell them that.
Actually, As far as the Sony Imagesoft/Malabu Comics Combination goes, this is a good game. But then again, The team doesn't go very far.
The biggest complaint I have with this game is that the art just sucks. There's no excuse for bad art. It was produced by a frickin' Comic book company, for crying out loud! It's not like the images are badly transitioned to pixels, it's just that the people are hideous!
Then again, there is something worse in this game. The actor that played the trainer dude (Like I'd even consider watching something so stupid as the 3 Ninjas!) makes an appearence in this game. Literally. He comes up as a FMV-dude, head and upper chest only (Thank you, Jesus!). And even better, you can almost always kill him by pressing start.












CHEESE ALARM!!!











only you, really.











Run Away!

3x3 Eyes

Well well, this is an interesting gem. Despite the obvious fact that I'm no good at Japanese, I can tell that this is something else. It plays like an RPG, but it watches like an Anime. Short of the Sega CD's Crappy FMV "bit-o-vision," this is the smoothest animated title of the system, other then the gameplay of Sonic CD. Despite the large language barrier, the game's dialogue makes it extremely interesting and entertaining.
One of the first cinema scenes is of a giant bird chasing pie (I know, it's an odd name, but the people seem to not mind....) and her... er... escort.... Well, the point is that it's an extremely adrenilin-inducing scene, and you will be inpressed when you see it. If you can read japanese, then you're a lucky guy, because that will mean that you will be able to figure out where to go - which I was unable to. And I really wanted to fight!











That's a rather simple title screen...










Pie is hot! Not!










Ohh, the father of pie is dead...

4-in-1/5-in-1 Sega Arcade Classics.

Contains:
Golden Axe
Streets of Rage
Columns
Revenge of Samurai
Super Monaco GP.

There are some slight differences from the original. In Golden Axe, there is now a story (if there was one previously, I apologise). In Columns, there is a Redbook audio track. Not during Gameplay, but there is one at least.
And there is some upsampling here and there. Now when you pile drive guys in Streets of Rage, there's a higher quality Hyaa!

What's the difference between 4-in-1 and 5-in-1? Super Monaco GP.

Excelence!

I kind of feel bad for not being able to update my blog for a while, so I decided to make it up to you all by reviewing every single Sega CD (and Mega CD) game ever made.
enjoy.

STAN's the man.

I've just discovered a totally new and awesome Japanese Rock band. They're on the hard edge, but they've demonstrated that that's a good thing.

STAN -
Don't resist the love -
mp3

Attribution Non-commercial 2.5

I'm Vomiting Right Now!

At Western (Which I have been forced to attend), there is this little tradition. That tradition is that the students would create a mural each year at homecoming to celebrate... something. (Themselves?)
This year, it celebrates homosexuality.

Gyaaaaaaaa!!!

At least it depicts lesbians.



(If anyone asks, I didn't write this.)

Aw... Crap.

I've thought about it, and with how amazingly broud the definition the word 'furry' has, I'm a furry. I like animals, and what's more, I'm introverted.

Sigh... No hope of being socially acceptible anymore. Time to join the Society of People Against Society.

So now, at the footer of this page, there is now a 'Furry is Life' banner. Yes, it doesn't look that good, especially against this black background. But it's an affermation, for lack of words.

(In a total Irony, I'm having the same kinds of awkward feelings joining the furry fandom as a furry would have telling the world about their ideals.)

Kurrel the Raven has a very good song (two, actually, with all kinds of different names and artist aliases) that describes the openness required to accept the furry fandom, as well as the basic information needed to understand what's happening at conventions.

This article posted by Akir Ikasu, who wishes to remind you all how good it feels to be scratched behind the ears.

Sumimasen!

For those of you interested in hearing of the second part on my special on furrys, you will still have to wait. I'm currently trying alternate methods of relation to the furry psychology - mainly, hypnosis. There's no way in hell that I'm telling any of you what the morph trigger is.

And still, there is no furry that has been interviewed by me.... Is this study accurate still?

Blog soon to be moved!

Soon, the blog is going to be moved. Don't worry, It'll still be the same as this one, just with a better backend and general performance improvements everywhere. It'll even still be at the same address!

For Animals, They certainly are Humane.

That is to say, The Study of Furries, Part I

Akir Comes up suddenly, drawing as much breath as he can. After a while, he speaks:

Thank god! I have been stuck in windows forever, all in the interests of keeping my home in Furcadia there! Windows makes everything harder.

Anyways, an update from the land of the furries.

You may wish to sit down.

You're sitting?

Some of them are Superhuman.

Aren't you glad you sat down?
This conclusion has been drawn from a complex line of thought, one that, no doubt, will eventually end up in an insanely long essay.

As I said, it's complex, so it will be one tough job trying to write it down. As the Evil Vanity Fair article (of which almost all furries hate) pointed out, "The world will be bad so long as there are people on it." "Not if they act like animals."

It's times like this if you wonder how much truth there was in the plot of Chrono Cross....

In this first part of The Study of Furries, I will discuss the beginning stage of becoming a furry.


Beginning the Transformation - The Thoughts

For most people, the desire to be a fuzzy is - oddly enough - a desire to fit in. You will find that most furrys are dorks, wierdos, or generally queer (as in 'strange' - not 'homo!'). It seems obvious that this desire is caused by the already existant basic desire to blend in with the crowd. To be 'in the pack.'

For the yiffers out there, the general thought is that animals are comforting. These unfortunate souls have been traumitized - usually in a sexual manner - and have turned to what the adults - Parents specifically - have given them to comfort them through the hard times that babies and toddlers usually go through (for things like teething, suffering their first 'boo-boo,' etc.) - that is, Stuffed Animals, Cartoons, And the family pet.


I would like to make it clear on behalf of the furry community that not all furries are yiffers. Isn't it the most disturbing thing in the world when someone thinks that you're a fetish freek? It's the same for furries. Non-Furvert Furries are more than likely furry because of psychological reasons. I have to admit that I don't completely comprehend non-furvert Fursuiters, however, so I assume that they have some kind of psychosis.

It's also noteworthy to say that not all furries are fursuiters. Fursuiters are people who, like some anime otakus, would rather look like someone else then themselves.



for information on why some furrys are superhuman, look out for part two of The Study of Furries.

The land of obsessors

Doing my general patrol of the internet (Doesn't everyone do that?), I came across the most peculiar thing in the world.
Furrys.

Furrys are a rare 'breed' (couldn't resist the joke). They are totally obsessed with anthromorphicicsm (If I spelled that right, I really am a genious). That is, they like animals that have human traits.

WTF!?!?

How do people get absorbed in this kind of thing!?!? Is the regular old dog not good enough any more? Or is it just that 'imaginary animals last longer?'

Whatever the problem (Or in this case, psychosis) is, It interests me. It's just one of those weird things you want to make fun of. Just out of curiosity, I'm going to make my own 'personal furry' as a persona. I've always thought that dogs were my Anima, so why not my totem?



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... Yeah, this is just too weird.

Good and bad news

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I now have time to update this blog.
The bad news is that I installed Windows again.

I know. It's a bad habit. But the good news is that I had installed XP this time. My parents finally decided that they actually did have an installation disk somewhere around here.
But there's more bad news. I think that, through installation, I accidently deleted my "Media" partition of my (hd0) [(hd0,3) to be percise.] (Is it bad that I use GRUB syntax for my labelings?). This may mean that I lost all of my music.

(I'm crying right now. Tomiko, why must you leave me again!)


Don't feel too bad for me. My (hd0) isn't the install device that I used, so don't fret.
I still have linux, but I messed it up badly by accident. I will use this oppritunity to make a gentoo distribution - completely compiled, not binary.

I think that I will get a Gensi Pegasos PC in the future. They're well priced at only ~$900 and are really well-powered (1GHz PPC G5 processor with 512MB of memory and an 80GB HDD!), and - best of all - are physically impossible to run windows on. Unless Gates finally lets his jelousy get ahold of him.

Pegasos's link is availible to the title of this post.

Improving Humanity itself

A couple of times, I have told the world that "Hello World" Creative was about creating a more perfect world. Well, in the first step twards doing so, I have created The Overman Files. The purpose of The Overman files is none other then to convert people (albiet more self-knowing people then others) into Supermen (also known as Uberhuman and Overhuman). I have put it in my "Everything Else" Categlory, and because I am bad at using Mambo, You have to go though that in order to read the articles within. That means ignoring the other articles, but there isn't any other articles in there anyways.

You can click the title, or if you don't know what a title is, you can click here.

HAIKU ROCKS THE MODERN WORLD!!!!!

I know I havn't posted on this blog for a while, but I've been busy. Extremely. First off, I ust finished the pushoff for HelloWorldCreative.com, and second off, I'm in Upward Bound SRP. That's where we all stay in the collage dorms and do nothing all day, but get punished if we don't do it in the right way.

But that's not what this article is about.

HAIKU IS AWESOME!!!!!

There's no use hiding it any more. After five years of development, Haiku is somewhat usable. Here is the documentation of my experiances.

VMware-ing.
Possibly the hardest thing to do in the world. You see, I don't have the resources to actually install a system. It takes too much time becauase you would have to compile the entire sources. So I just downloaded the Hard Disk Image (July 5 build). But unfortunately for me, you get it in the .image (RAW) Format. So I had to do a very difficult string of events. First I had to download and install qemu, then use qemu-img to convert the image into vmdk (VMware Hard Disk) format, than download and install the VMware server edition, create a new Virtual Machine, Change Hard Disk images, Uninstall VMware Server, Install VMware player, Run the new vmx file through that, and hope that it works.

Lucky me, it worked!

The KDEBUG of Death.
Unfortunately for me, on the first boot, I ran into certain problems with the kernel. Luckally for me, all I had to do was type in the phrase 'es', and it worked from the boot period on to any of the next boots.

The Blue Screen of Life.
Most definately, Haiku is the future of Open-source Desktop Operating Systems.
When Haiku first starts, you'll find a nice blue desktop and an open terminal. (Yes, the desktop is more blue than Windows' desktops.) The terminal is exactly what you'd expect from a POSIX system. It even uses the framiliar BASH Shell, just like BeOS before it.

The Idea to make a BeOS clone was probibly the best Idea ever. First, you have the support of all of the source and binary applications that worked in R5 or earlier; second, you have one of the best design philosophy set in the history of Desktop Operating Systems; third, Since it's developed under the GPL, Source Code is available so you'll be able to compile the entire operating system from the ground up for a custom fit for your computer - giving you a PC faster then even linux, possibly!

BeOS has a history of amazing concepts and amazingly fast rendering, but Haiku has taken that to the next step. Even though I had run it through a Virtual Machine, the system had run at speeds even higher then BeOS R5! Haiku had even managed to make a superior Bitmap-draw function! Haiku had develped a test program that had demonstrated the amazing abilities of their bitmap-draw, and it supported anything imaginable. When you streched the video, the artifacts were still there; However, even though the picture was 10 times larger, the picture still looked recognizable.

And of course, there is the jewel of the system; Symetric Multiprocessing. There are so many things you can do in Haiku, the list is staggering. If you search BeShare, you'll eventually come across a BeOS R4 introduction film made by Be, Inc. That is the perfect example of how nice this system is. They had a simple system with 2 low speed processors in it, and it ran each and every program - several videos, OpenGL Teapots, more videos, but attached to a rotating 3D cube, video caputre (I think they were watching Ren and Stimpy), as well as surfing the web. They had opened the program "pulse" to measure the usage of the processors to show how much one could do with SMP. They even used the disable function to show how everything works without needing to stop. The lack of restart times (as well as the increadibly low boot times) are what BeOS is famous for.

And, of course, my favorate feature of Haiku is the fact that it is a real-time OS.

But with every good feature that Haiku already has, there are a few negative points. For instance, Networking and the Media_server (as well as the Media_addon_server) don't work. But that's definately going to change. Perhaps the stregnth of Haiku is the fact that it is developed component at a time. The MIDI and Kernel are already in Beta phase.

What's next? Well, after the release of Haiku R1, the people running Haiku are going to start on the Glass Elevator Project. The Glass Elevator is BeOS R6. It's the way that Be, inc. would have made their OS if they were making it today.

In summary, HAIKU POWNS YOU!

It's Very Creepy When...

... The guy in front of you at the 7-eleven buys a combination of alcohol and crisco.

HelloWorldCreative.com

Wow! I just got my new website. Or rather, I will be. I just signed up with 1&1 hosting to get my own web page. The title is the link. Soon I get to fill it up!

This Proves the best OS.

I'd just like to point out that in PC World's 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time list, 12 of them were directly related (required) a microsoft product. 3 of them were Windows applications as developed by Microsoft themselves. Only about five of the total 25 had not required Microsoft/Windows - only software by the manufacturer. Only 3 products were made by apple. None of the GNU/Linux applications had made it.

Happin's

Well, I just changed my theme (FINALLY!!!)

The new theme. It's Icy Amiga Jini, Because it uses the ThinIce app, Amiga window, and Jini icon Themes

It's awesome, and it uses less system resources then the default "Human" Theme. Plus it's Amiga-like! IN YOUR FACE i986 PROCESSOR!!!

AND IT'S BLUE!

Now for a firefox picture:




And I just found out that my picture finally displayed here! Hurrah!

Erg!

I just realized that although I had changed the image in my profile, it won't display! Darn it all!

AWESOMENESS!!!

The title to this post is a link to the last page that you will ever visit. It is a link to the download page to the infamous film, "Elephant's Dream."
This movie has been in development for a remarkably short amount of time; certainly not the four years required by pixar's films.

"Elephant's Dream," Previously known as the Orange Open Movie Project, is an attempt by the open source community (AKA "the guys who get all of the good stuff for free") to show the world that a high quality movie is possible (and easy) to make with off-the-shelf FREE software tools that are availible for most every system.

The most positively awesome thing about the project is that everything that they have used to make it, including the textures, models, animations, scenes, and sounds, are completely available to anyone who wants them. The benefit to you is that if you don't like the pre-rendered complete version, you can take the files and change a simple setting (one click!) and then click "render" (also one click!), and immediately your custom-framed movie is being rendered, right before your eyes!

And because of it's license, you can give it out to whoever you want.
But you should take that with a grain of salt. I havn't seen the specific license, and it may be a no-dirivs version. Check it out, I'm too hyped to do it.


Oh, and as a side note, the after-screening party was held at a bar called blender.

The truth about me posting.

... I just do it when my friends update Forthcoming Power 2.

Anyways, I've just found out something amazing. How would you like your computer to work faster? Use eyeOS. (It's a link. Click it. It leads to the info page.) If you read - or are reading - that it's a web-based desktop, then you'd probibly just laugh. But if you use it (This link leads to the eyeOS public server which you can easily and quickly register for free), you can see how it can benefit you. The eyeOS public server has very few applications installed other then the defaults, but that's ok because even what is there isn't that well written.

One of the greatest eyeApps in eyeOS is eyeEdit (2). With eyeEdit, you can easily make rich-formatted documents. After you finish making it, you can keep it privately to yourself, or you can can make it public and let others view and edit it. On the public server, they put on a userlist so that you can find a name for eyeMessage and make a friend (I'm currently asking for an explaination of moonneko's name) and a wishlist for new eyeOS features.
Possibly the best feature of eyeEdit is the fact that uses HTML code for it's editing. This means that you can use it to make a webpage from scratch.

eyeOS also features a nice and simple set of PIM aplications. eyePhone is not, unlike the name suggests, a web phone. You can probibly use eyeNav (eyeOS's simple HTTP Web Browser that just happens to work with meebo) to go to dialpad.com if you want to do that. It's really a contact manager. Sorry, Skype fans. There's also a simple calender to help you plan your upcoming Hot Dates.

Of course, the wonderful kill-all feature of eyeOS is the automated eyeApp and eyeLook (theme) installer. All you have to do is download your favorate (or essential) package in gzipped tape archives (.tar.gz) from eyeapps.org or eyeLooks from eyelook.org, go to the Application Manager (eyeApps), select your file, and install. Perhaps with the URL you don't even need to download.


At the beginning of this segment, I said a little something about making your computer run faster. Well, I did a little bit of testing, and although the response rates weren't as good as using the computer's software, but loading speeds of the programs were several times faster then most applications. Compare the less-then-one-minute loading speed of eyeEdit to Microsoft Word.

Tomorrow, I will see if eyeOS's public server works on school computers. wish me luck.

Oh, and note that there is now three little Brilliant buttons on the sidebar. They link to Galbadia Hotel, The unmatched place to get Video Game and Anime soundtracks as well as VG commercials and streaming Anime. I'm not normally so interested in Anime, but the music drew me in.

There is, however, one thing that I must ask you to do. When you go there, make sure that you use one of my buttons. When you use my buttons, you give me points that let me go into mass-download mode, which lets me download the whole soundtrack. I need 20 hits just for one day, though, and that kinda stinks.





Oh, and if you want to download the anime videos, you can check out The Video Downloader.

(Shadow Hearts ~ Near Death Experiance
Is pure musical genious in disguise.)

(Furi Kuri Addicts
Is just plain awesome. Download it.)

Absence

I appologise for not calling you all up, but I've been recovering from a surgery.

More to come up later.

Renovating -> Diverse City

Well, the title is somewhat of a joke, however, there is a bit of truth behind it. I actually have renovated this site. If you look to the Right, You'll notice a sidebar. If you can't find it, you are an idiot.
That sidebar has been there for a while, but now it has been modefied! Now a couple of archiving features (and links, Sorry Acrix!), and there is now a cbox. This feature has been implemented before, but it was a chatterbox hosted by flooble and it always lagged when it went to that section. Well, now it's just as fast as the blog itself and it blends in very well. You can use that to quickly post messages and comments to me that either have no relation to a post or want to ask me a question. I put in a couple of things in there, but it comes out in reverse order, so just bear with it.
Now, Go! Go and spread the news of how great my blog is and let me get ads that will give me money!

I don't even understand me anymore!

I just got the Akira Soundtrack.

Thus, the title is explained.

What! Updating! Why!!!!!!!!!

Well, I've done it. I've managed to take away all of my readers by not updating. Why? I'm not busy. Well, yes, I am, but not enough to stop writing here. I've stoped because of the obvious lack of privacy at my house. I need some kind of way to privately write here. I can't go to the library: It's simply too far away. And because of the school district's strict polacy of not allowing anyone to have any access to any online publishing facuilities (which had remarkably even blocked my beta Google page Creator!), I can't access Blogger. Perhaps I can use audioblogger or even that SMS-to-Blog feature. Oh wait, I need a cell phone for that!

Now for the somewhat tabular list of things that ave happened to me:

• Evil of all evils! My dad took away my cell phone because he broke his own and is too stupid to get a rugedized one!
• I got some great games!
• Ranger X - The absolute best platformer ever. Even better then Burning Heroes because not only does it have giant robots, ancient evil, a major cool ending boss, and real-time 3D back when it was thought to be impossible. Plus: A bike that's even cooler then Cloud Strife's.
• Xenogears - The game with the absolute most conflects ever. There are so many problems with Fei (Including his full name - Fei Fong Wong ... ?), it's unbelievable. Now he discovers that he and one other girl are the only real humans on the earth, and even then, they were all created as part of a Weapons system so Great and dangerous, that they called it 'god!?' There's a reason why Xenogears is concidered the best game ever, and it's not only the fact that the art was done by Akira Toriyama (the maker of Dragonball, DBZ, DBGT)
• Shining in the Darkness - The predasessor to Shining Force. Awesomeness just eminates from it!
• I visited (am visiting) my grandma's house.
• I got an awesome new MP3/ATRAC3plus CD Player!

(Image courtacy of crap-o-vision)

And I wrote this review about it!




The Sony CD Walkman D-NE329SP is pure genious. To an extent.


tabular formated features:

• Plays:
• Audio CD-DA
• MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3, MPEG-2 Layer 3, and MPEG-2.3 layer 3)
• ATRAC3plus (at 32, 64, and 128 b/s)
• LCD On-Screen Display
• Clearbass
• 3^3-point equalizer
• Fifty million 1/2 different play modes
• Bookmarking
• Memory holding
• A hold switch
• Digital Volume control
• Multiple search options
• ~90 hours of playback time (if in 32kb/s ATRAC3plus)
• SonicStage Software
  
• The Sony Walkman Brand (Get it? A joke.)
  
• Speakers!
• Auxilary input
• Acts as a charging station

This is actually a very good player. It plays all my MP3 files without really needing any prompting other than pressing the "Play" button.
The OSD is small, well managed, and, although you need to read the instructions to access all of the features, simple to use. It may be a bit superfluous, though. It has a list view so that you can see what's in the list, but it's totally useless because it doesn't let you see what's next!
The search function is pretty nice, but really, it's best if you just use it so that you can see what's next. It has a directory mode so that you can see all of the files, supposedly. I really havn't seen the need to waste a DVD to try it out.
The Biggest thing agenst this player actually turns out to be why I bought it in the first place. I got it for the formats of music that it will play. It, like about any other 'digital music player' that you can buy, totally bites the dust as far as formats that it plays. You see, it doesn't play Ogg Vorbis. I'm crying behind this sheild of solid writing. Why can't any one see that it would be beneficial to let your player play the most efficient format in the world? Surely it would be easer to impliment then ATRAC3plus!? I mean, seriously! Who, besides Sony, plays that format!? It took forever for people to learn how to hack it just in order to let realplayer play some very simple formats of ATRAC! Does anyone even know how to transcode to or from it? No! The only real way to do so is to use a patch cable and a recorder, which will make you lose quality.

Now for a totally relavant comment:
BAN MICROSOFT WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER AND IT'S FILES!!!!!

At least it didn't support WMA.

But on the other side, ATRAC3plus coding is very good. I had taken a random MP3 file from off of the internet and had transcoded it to 64Kb/s ATRAC3plus and it had not only halved the filesize, but had actually made the song sound better. That may just be attributed to those Psychoacustic Waves I've heard about, though.
must buy sony, must buy sony, must buy sony....
(What a pitiful joke.)

The CD player also comes with a(n) amplified (or not) speaker stand, which it just snaps to. The explination to the previous ()'d items is that it can be amplified if you plug it into the wall with the AC adaptor, or you can just take it with you and listen to music out loud, just at a lower volume.
The nice thing about the power adaptor going in there is that you can just switch it over to 'off' and charge it from there, or keep listening without consuming more battery power. Or you can just plug the adaptor directly into the player. Sony was really forward-thinking about that, for in case you lose your speaker stand.
Speaking of power, this walkman's very good about power consumption. it only requires one battery. Even the power adaptor only uses three volts.

All in all, this Walkman pretty much rocks. With some rather annoying problems with ATRAC, and my bios away from the evil Sony Corp., it still gets my rating of about 85%. That's the highest rating that I've ever given to any music player ever.

Even More Proof

One more reason why I'm sure that the only thing that the world wants to do is annoy me:

Reruns.

And another one:

Commercial Advertisements.

And the worst:

Any Politician.


And the least annoying one:

PHP won't accept my forms!

Ubuntu must update!

I'm running Firefox 1.0.7, the latest ubuntu package.

The latest version (worldwide release) is 1.5.0.1.

UPDATE, DAMN IT! I WANT EXTENSIONS!!!!

What An Insightful Meeting!

I was searcing on Google Video and found this video produced by Google, the mighty and merciful. It's a very insightful talk by Seth Godin based on the ideas expressed in his book, "All Marketers Are Liars," about none other then marketing. There are many good points made there, so I used a very handy feature of GVid, and put the movie here.

I'm still here.

You will all pay for not giving me more recognition. You all know that it was none other then I that added that one thing to that other thing. You'll know what I mean soon enough.

In the meanwhile, you will SUFFER!!!

$

The school district pays millions of dollars for a program like Vtiger CRM to be installed in each school system. But I happen to be installing it in my own home and am not getting payed.

Charity is accpted.

Especially after my dog ate my video games!!!!!!
Buddy will suffer...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trying It Again

I know. I suck. But I needed to do it. I really did. So now I'm doing it now.
No, I'm not talking about 'making love."
I'm talking about doing something worse.
I'm talking about installing Gentoo.
I had tried it once before, but had faled miserably. Why am I doing it again?
I need it so I can run a HTTP/FTP/PHP/MySQL/RLogin server.
I'm runnning it on a 333MHz computer with 64MB ram. Why? Because I've been asked to do it.

The Question is: Why am I so weak?


At least I'm getting further then before!

No, Screen Images Not Simulated.

Apology

I apologise for the lack of updates. I have had my voice stolen. Leave me alone. There won't be any more updates for a while.

Promise

I will be compelled to update my blog every week. If I don't I will punch my fist against a hard object, and it will hurt more then usual.

THE END

Hypnotics ~Awesome~

Well, I finally came out of my little happy place and tried some of the files of warpmymind.com. No, I didn't do any of the freaky stuff.

I was amazed to see that it was some pretty cool stuff! Obviously, the best stuff there is the Self-Help section (You may also want to look into the LucidDreaming and CurseLucidDream [1 and 2], because LDing is better then being high [not from personal experiance].) And for you who don't care who you wake up next to in the morning, are able to support at least two [more] children, and are willing to except pending death if you aren't playing safe, there's an even bigger section for you.

I'm going to take this step by step for you newbies.
(wow, i'm already using the 'N' word!)

When you first go into the site, you will be totally scared off by a disclaimer saying that if you aren't 18+, you should get out. if you "Exit," you will go to yahoo.com. I only find this annoying because I was hoping that it would lead to a children's website like playhousedisney.com. I'm weird like that.
After you register (you need to in order to download the files), you should read the FAQs. This will tell you some essential information about the files and how to use them. What it doesn't tell you is where to get some feedback about the files, which is one of the reasons why I didn't try it. However, if you look around the forums, you may find some. Please note that the `disclaimer' about the files directly downloaded from the site being safe is true. You needn't worry about there being any negate effects. Don't even worry about getting the wrong files: they all have the effect spoken right from the beginning of the file.
When you're done reading the FAQ, head out to the Files section. New to Warp MY Mind is the premium account, where you are charged a rediculous amount of money to be able to download some files that you will be able to get just four weeks later. You probibly won't have any interest in them anyways, excepting the Accelerator.... darn....

Be Warned: Curse Files cannot be removed with the RemoveAll file; You have to pay the Webmaster 30 USD in order to remove them.
Some of the curse files may be good like CurseLucidDreams and EnchantedKeyboardCurse, but you will still need to pay the $30 in order to remove them.
The first file you should try out is an induction. Try a Female voice (if you can find it) if you are a Male, and a Male voice if you are a Female. The first file should be one of the many inductions, then the second should probibly be deepening, so that you'll be even better at going into a trance. Luckally for you, some of the inductions include "Waking Up Happily," So you know that you'll have a good time.
Critically speaking, the files are all very well made, and seem to have been through some of quality control process. Some of them, however have gotten all sorts of squeeling backround noises caused by a low MP3 bitrate, but it is still exceptable. It may even be worth buying the $200 DVD-ROM Box-set containing all of the files in a lossless format, and a couple of other things (including scripts).

So Personally, I give this site my seal of approval. I reccomend this site to any person who is too lazy to do certain things (Like Lose weight [yes, I am pointing to myself]) and is willing to give some trust to random strangers.


In case you didn't know, this article's title is a link to Warp MY Mind.

This Site is Now Sellout Central.

All right. I am a total sell-out. Since the only time I ever get replies is when I write tech-related articles and such, I'll be writing more of it.

This is kind of a strange thing. Sometimes, these types of articles depress me. Why worry about such things? Things will stay the things forever. More realisticly, for at least the next ten years, everything will be the same. All of the idiots will be running windows, and all of the smart people will be running linux and planing a revolt against Bill Gates.

Well, on the bright side, someone one day may say to themselves "Hey, how come my computer is still using 30-year-old ideas?

But still, archy will never be popular. Sorry folks.

So at least I'll get responses and be popular in my own way. Please, I'm not a hacker, or even a HaXoR.

This site is now unofficially named ./, after the prefix for script or binary execution in POSIX operating systems, and not /. spelled backwards.

People Actually Read This Thing!

I think I'm going to cry. I'm that happy! Some people are actually reading this blog. I personally was supprised that I had even gotten robotic comments to my articles, and now that I put in password-based-verification for my comments, real people have actually been commenting.

When I get comments from "annonymous," I think, "What the heck, It may be one of my friends. Maybe they actually took the time to read my blog like I asked them to. Now that I think about it, my friends aren't of that high charicter status, so it may be actual different people!

Not that my friends aren't real people.

Right now I'm wondering if I already wrote a "wow, People!" article. But once again, I'm too lazy.

And in defence of my BeOS article, It was bassed on someone elses studies. Next time, I won't trust a recalled-from-memory copy of an article by ArsTechnica about yellowTAB ZETA.

BeOS

I have come across a new operating System. Well, It's not exactly new; it was bought up by palm inc back before the split, but it's new to me. It's called BeOS.

Contrary to Stephen's tastes, it was first made for a prototype called the Hobbit, a Steve Jobs designed 68X00 based computer with sevral DSPs inside. At the time, a DSP controlled computer was a new Idea. However, AT&T (the provider of the DSP ships) cut their funding, so Jobs desided to throw in a PowerPC chip instead (that seemed to be the thinking for all sorts of computing things back then...). Thus was born the BeBox PC, with BeOS supporting it.

Jobs was quick to sell out on this though. He ported BeOS to a single PowerPC chip based system; mainly PowerMacs and iMacs. He went out further not only by porting it to the x86 platform (you may know it as a PC, though it fits a far larger spectrum then just IBM based shit), but also making it able to run on Windows and even Linux through leaving system files on the partition and booting via Boot Disc. Of corse, it had a partition editor and you could install it to BeFS, an extremely fast and clean 64-bit (journaling?) filesystem.

Let me say that BeOS had supprised me a lot. it has a lot of support for about anything.

Damn my short attention span. I want to play around in it more.