Sunday, December 31, 2006

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 Inspired by a similar project, I have decided to make a new Music Station based on outdated hardware!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

Saturday, December 30, 2006

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

Friday, December 29, 2006

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.

Monday, December 25, 2006

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.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

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

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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!!!!

Sunday, December 03, 2006

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.)

Saturday, December 02, 2006

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.