Month: September 2006

I don’t know whats worse, having to go to work in 7 hours or not having enough time to finish my own work.

I’ve installed Samba on Vectra, but I expect she will still give me problems with the printer. I can deal with that later. I thought, for my needs I could setup anonmous ftp on the box and skip samba [and the printer :P]. But then, what fun would that be ? Hehe tooo easy. The last time I got to toy /w setting up Samba to share files to a Windows box I got as far as being able to find the server, but I never had the time to setup the authentication hahaha.

Working hard may be work but working out of love can be fun as all getout.

My work can be very stressful, some times even leg [or back] breaking but it’s only 4-5 days a week School, well I’m home schooled and have loads of it so theres no such thing as time off without a price [Weekends included]. Yet, I enjoy computers so much, sure it can be a pain in the royal hind quarters. Non-sensical problems especially – I still have no idea what happened with my router, but s’ok if it works, we figure out the mystery in time. At least, here I’m free to be me, a console doesn’t try to control you Unix lets you define yourself.

Windows, I leave behind tried of being confined. PC-BSD and FreeBSD I take up in joy, a new toy to tinker with maybe but it’s passionate. The more I learn and the more time I spend working with computers [and wishing some one would pay me to have such great fun:D]. I find my self enjoying it too much. If I have nothing to do, nothing to learn, and nothing to eat to boot I’m deffo in trouble. What point is their to life if you don’t get to enjoy the simple things in life?

Now if only that dream vacation was possible…..

Well I think I’m doing it. I’m switching to Seamonkey. To me it’s no point to use a diffrent program(s) for the same thing(s) just because it’s a diffrent operating system. Good programs are portable programs in my book and play nicly.

For Windows I’ve been using Firefox, nice browser and much more fun the Internet Explorer 5~6 was, althouhg I’m interested in seeing the changes in IE7. The only catch is I prefer Opera. While Opera is very nice and has awesome tabbed browsing support, good enough that I don’t mind a few quirks in it. The windows version of Opera is not so hot, on my system it also chews CPU time but rocks for BSD. Soo, I’ve returned to my old consideration.

I’m very adapt to Firefox and I use Thunderbird. Mutt I was hoping to learn but I don’t think it’s worth the trouble for the win32 port of Mutt. Konqueror is very Firefox like, lacks some of the extensions e.t.c. but is a great browser but doesn’t runon Windows. Since it’s a KDE app, it’s also a bloody nice file manager compared to explorer on Windows XP.

Seamonkey is the successor to the Mozilla application suite, which was kinda like Netscape Communicator on steriods you could say. (Netscape was before my time, we only got inet access around 2000). When the kitchen sink got EoL’d [End of Life] so they could work more on Firefox and Thunderbird the community picked up the app and she was reborn as the SeaMonkey [which Mozilla suite was code named Seamonkey]. It provides a browser (navigator in a very netscape like feeling) which is basically firefox, Mail/newsgroups (thunderbird for all intents and purposes), Composer a WYSIWYG html editor which I like for testing pages quickly [Nvu is basically an extended version of this], Adressbook, Chatzilla IRC client (Mmm maybe I’ll lay off X-Chat), plus a DOM inspector and some JavaScript stuff.

The mbox is the same as thunderbird so I can just point mail & newsgroups at my thunderbird local folders on my Lexar, no need to import. Plus SeaMonkey has Roaming support that lets me keep bookmarks/addresses/cookies e.t.c. sync’d the support is expiremental so it’s not very good but it seems a good start. Load times not much a bother on my desktop thanks to fast CPU and 2GB of reasonably fast DDR2 memory but on my laptop it’s a little slow. My latops got 512mb DDR and I run so much crap along with KDE 3.5.x that I use most of it but the system is still more responsive then windows under lighter loads for me, on the same machines. The program works great on my laptop, it’s just a little slow to start up. I suspect it’s because it takes awhile to load all the dep’s.

Pros:

Very good intregation
Open source
“Modren” theme is nicer compared to “Classic” theme or the generic Firefox/Thunderbird ones (same thing).
Most Mozilla Suite addons should be compatible
No E-Mail import needed for thunderbird users
A nice editor for web design [at least for when I’m lazy]
If it had an AIM/MSN/Yahoo/X-Fire client and a sweet PIM in it it’d be a very full web application suite imho.
More standards complient then Microsofts I.E. but not as complient as Konqueror or Safari.
Roaming support

Cons:

Takes a while to start on older machines
Uses a fair amount of memory when using allot of tabs/componants e.t.c. [just like Firefox]
Not every one may need all the features
Roaming support is not finished
Can’t right click on bookmarks in menu [have to open manage bookmarks]
Support is in the hands of the community, updates may take longer then Firefox/Thunderbird/Misc

All in all a very nice system, I figure I use Thunderbird and fire fox works ok for me (I prefer Opera but not Win32 ver) so the thing fits me well. I commend Mozilla for having created a kitchen sink and then deploying parts of it independantly so people could just use the parts they like if they don’t want every thing. [Mixing Firefox and outlook express comes to mind].

Well I tried every thing I could with cups-1.2.2 on the box with no luck. Hooked it up to my laptop running PC-BSD and cups 1.1.x and got a nice test page.

I tried to install cups 1.1.x with little luck, so I ripped every thing off the box (packages) and reinstalled cvsup-without-gui and fastest_cvsup (which added perl5) to sort later. I’m telling you I’d rather toy with arcahic UNIX printing, at least for that I’ve got enough books all ready about. Although most people dealing with lp/lpr tend to cringe I think hehe.

Comptemplating switching from firefox/opera + thunderbird to Seamonkey. I really like the F.F. UI, but Opera (not win32 version) has awesome tabbed browsing. My favorite browser is generally links for text but lynx dispite oh most no page layout is still the best in my book. Konqeror is by far a supurb program. I wish Internet/Windows Explorer was that good. Konqueror is also allot like fire fox in the UI so it’s easy to use, but why bother using Konqi on *nix and F.F on Windows? Any more then Opera/F.F.

Oh well, off to tinker for the night with browers. A good toy indeed, after all I sorta collect them.

I was thinking today at work, besides a jab about bill gates, a zealot in a penguin suit, and a Gnuodle trying to mish mash a MS marketed distro of Linux kernel and Gnos [GNU-DOS], Gnos is Not an Operating System. While a pufferfish works on improving the worlds most secure OS [OpenBSD] and then they disiding to sell OpenMSD instead hahaha. Ok back to my point.

I figure, if we should break up a problem into smaller pieces when working on a program, why not read it the same way? Last night I started reading some of the source for the “cat” command used by *BSD. The main function basicly sets up the data and desides on how to cook it.

To night I work on breaking apart the next function and some homework for SAS.

Well about 0320 UTC and whats possibly the 9th issue to warrient being dub’d a “WW” here seems to have gone to cold war status.

I’m alive, and I’m not worried about any one going silcian on me (tonight). Things seems to have calmed down, time to release some stress in the virtual shoot house.

Off to training.

Life sucks when you expect a loved one to stick a knife in yoru ribs at any sec, got trop’d lightly, not what I expected but expected some thing to hit.

Dunno whats more fsck’d up, to think that she’d kill me, or worry she’ll get a stroke screaming.

To night I think I sleep armed, my prefered self defense weapon near by. (Light sabre for sword practice.) It’s got allot more punch and range then bare hands if I need to disarm some one in the dark, without getting injured.

I know I’m far from the perfect son, surly I’m rotton enough at times but I’m not a target to for some one to vent rage on for lack of a more appealing outlet to a problem (even if I’m related to the issue). Life is just, fsck, crap. I wish my family didn’t have such a knack for anger… sheesh I can’t hate some one for more then 10 seconds and if I want to hate longer then that I feel like a disgrace to GOD. These people, can thrive on it.

Anger, fear, hatred, a dark road. I reject it and all it stands for. Only one person has a right to take my life, and that is Jesus Christ and no one is beeting him to the punch imho. This war, is not one I asked for but it’s one I must stand warry to parry.

Note to self, prep a emg escape and evasion route, back woods might be good. I’d be blind as a bat but it’s thick enough to stop pursoot. Don’t think I’ll ever need it but it’s always good to plan for worst.

TMPS01, 2006-09-12 @ 2434 UTC.

Life sucks when you expect a loved one to stick a knife in yoru ribs at any sec, got trop’d lightly, not what I expected but expected some thing to hit.

Dunno whats more fsck’d up, to think that she’d kill me, or worry she’ll get a stroke screaming.

To night I think I sleep armed, my prefered self defense weapon near by. (Light sabre for sword practice.) It’s got allot more punch and range then bare hands if I need to disarm some one in the dark, without getting injured.

I know I’m far from the perfect son, surly I’m rotton enough at times but I’m not a target to for some one to vent rage on for lack of a more appealing outlet to a problem (even if I’m related to the issue). Life is just, fsck, crap. I wish my family didn’t have such a knack for anger… sheesh I can’t hate some one for more then 10 seconds and if I want to hate longer then that I feel like a disgrace to GOD. These people, can thrive on it.

Anger, fear, hatred, a dark road. I reject it and all it stands for. Only one person has a right to take my life, and that is Jesus Christ and no one is beeting him to the punch imho. This war, is not one I asked for but it’s one I must stand warry to parry.

Note to self, prep a emg escape and evasion route, back woods might be good. I’d be blind as a bat but it’s thick enough to stop pursoot. Don’t think I’ll ever need it but it’s always good to plan for worst.

TMPS01, 2006-09-12 @ 2434 UTC.

Well, just so I don’t forget if I frag it later heres the write process of my logging program (still working on).

It’s pretty simple, just get input till we get a return char, then write it into the file and append a newline. The only bugger is that the input has to fit into a char array of 256, any attempts to modify this to what is needed has returned junk pointer warnings in realloc at run time. I’m still a newb whose trying to learn the standard library and more so simple code is probably good.

if ((rflag < 1) && (tflag < 1) && (fflag < 1)) {
 char str[256];  /* this is enough space for our needs */
 fscanf(stdin, " %[^n]", str);
 fprintf(fp, str);
 fputc('n', fp);
 fclose(fp);
}

I figure one or two lines of text is what is most likly to be written to file, so str is big enough yet small enough for right now.

Un till I have the time, chance, and enegry to learn how to handle reading the file and printing it out to screen in a head/tail like fashion. I’m just having a system() call to invoke head or tail as needed on the file. /usr/src/bin/ cat, head, and tail are my current points of study for methods. Cat looks the easiest to follow but means I have to work on it when I have time to consintrate on the flow of the program.

This is also a test to see if the html pre tags work the way I’m hopping they do, since I don’t know allot of html to start with. It’s just never interested me very much [xhtml/css/php/e.t.c.]

I hate not being able to sleep…

My work load piles up, theres always more to do tomorrow then there is today. I usually have to be up early to walk the dogs and get them squared away before work. So sleeping in’s not a big option.

My mind always wonders about, from thought to thought it just can’t shut up. I can be thinking of any thing from a programming problem, a good movie, food (a killer), or even some thing more interesting. I don’t want to sleep because I don’t want to think all night, yet I want to sleep because I can’t go any further with my things to get done.

Theres got to be a better way………..