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luckily I am off for about a week, well as good as off work hehe. So hopefully I’ll have some more time to get things done.

I want to,

work towards getting ‘nco’s task completed…

send Wiz that memo

send GCHQ that other memo

experiment with a custom widget in both C++ and Python / QT3

continue expanding the configuration systems in NPM.

camp out TG#1 and TG#3

enjoy the [SAS] Virtual Christmas Party

For tonight, I’m not sure what I’m going to work on but I’m glad that I don’t need to get up in the morning… I’m also looking forward to the clans big bash, Wiz and Valroe will be DJ’ing so that should be a good pair hehe. It’s also a good thing since this close to Christmas, it’s unlikely to find me or any of my family on the road more then necessary lol.

I also need to start logging into AIM more often, I havn’t gotten to talk to any one lately other then teammates over XFire =/. And since I *hate* phones and the aDSL tends to disconnect when the phone rings, I mostly use Instant Messengering.

“Why the heck did you call me ?”

lol. Unlike phones, IM’s allow some measure of coping with life here and actually getting to talk to some one… Without being deafened or inaudible, or losing the cordless.. hahaha.

I don’t think I would mind phones so much if it wasn’t just a complication of my already insessent multi-tasking.. A clone would be nice, then I could be in two rooms at once rofl. But a clone would probably be as annoyed as I get at it..

As much as I love my family, they can drive me bonkers given a chance +S

Extreme Multi-tasking on the PC and off the PC at the same time can be tricky lol.

Sorted my play list for the night, I have a fair system of selection. Using Amaroks file tab, finding each track that matches my listing mood… As usual a mixture of Metal, Rock, Country, and a couple other odds and ends.

Now if my mood… never mind.

Just for the heck of it, I’ll feed my m3u file through a little ruby script I wrote some months back out of boredom; it generates a HTML listing from the file, even has the ability to offer a little more information then this when used with id3lib. It also conveniantly has a switch to suppress the HTML tags that make it a full doc, thus generating output that can be copy/pasted into another HTML file or blog 😉

I think I might actually tweak it a little bit, so it can be used as a filter. I liked working on it because it gave me an excuse to learn a bit of binary because of how I chose to implement it’s differing modes lol.

1. Breaking Benjamin The Diary Of Jane
2. Bruce Dickinson River of no return
3. Cybrogs Montage Track02
4. Cocaine Blues
5. Die Toten Hosen The little Drummer Boy
6. Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Ghostriders In The Sky
7. Daryll Ann Surely Justice
8. Elvis Presley Johnny B
9. Folsom Prison Blues
10. Hinder Lips of an Angel
11. Hammerfall The unforgiving blade
12. greenswat
13. Green Day SeptemberEnds
14. It Ain’t Me Babe
15. Jackson
16. Jeff Wunder Way of the sun
17. JBJ Santa Fe
18. Jørn Lande Duke of love
19. LeAnn Rimes Hurt Me
20. LeAnn Rimes Clinging To A Saving Hand
21. LeAnn Rimes Blue
22. LeAnn Rimes On The Side Of Angels
23. Michael Gungor GOD Is Great
24. Manowar Call to arms
25. Nashville Electric Cooperative You Are Still My Only Love
26. Nashville Electric Cooperative Where Love Was Born
27. Pillar Frontline
28. Pillar Rewind
29. Sammy Kershaw Little Did I Know
30. SAS
31. Wildwood Flower
32. Wiz July07
33. Wiz Minimix4

I recently switched to using Window Maker on PC-BSD, one of my favorite window managers actually. But it does have a few dis advantages over KDE when it comes to session management…

I went though my large wall papers collection and found several that I would like to use, the WMaker theme I have set is a dark one.

Terry@Dixie$ ls ~/Pictures/Wall_Papers|wc -l                               6:38
     657
Terry@Dixie$ ls ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds|wc -l            6:40
      57
Terry@Dixie$                                                               6:40

Many didn’t scale right and I don’t know of any batch image scaler, so I had my shell open each in kolour paint so I could do this. Using a graphical file manager I would have to double click each file at the least level of effort… With the shell, it was simple loop in my backgrounds directory:

for i in `ls`
do
        kolourpaint $i
done

This opened kolourpaint to a file, allowing me to do a quick ctrl+e and set it to smooth scale it to 1280×800 to match my LCD’s native resolution. And then to ctrl+s save it, X out of it and volia, kolourpaint would start again with another file as it continued through the loop.

Having done this, I was thinking how to I get it to change after awhile? I thought about a symlink that would be changed to a different wall paper every now and then, tested it no go. Then I found wmsetbg and the -s (-scale) option, so yeah I wasted my time scaling them all lol.

So I removed them and made symlinks to the original files in my wall papers directory:

for i in `ls`                                                 6:40
do
        ln -hfs /home/Terry/Pictures/Wall_Papers/$i /home/Terry/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/$i
done

Like I am going to stand here and create 50++ shortcuts myself? NO WAY!

After that I set to look into hooking up a shell script that could run in the background and change the wall paper for me. I figured that I would want some thing acline to the sleep() function out of unistd.h but I didn’t really want to use a C program or any other programming language to do it. Because while looping over the directory in C might be faster then /bin/sh by the time the compiler tried to optimize it. Having to invoke a shell for every call to system() (for running wmsetbg) would probably be a bit wasteful. At least in a shell script, there should be no need to create a new /bin/sh process on each pass. Didn’t find a built in shell command for it but /bin/sleep works fine, so I wrote the following script to change my wall paper every 10 minutes:

#!/bin/sh
# A simple automatic wall paper changer for window maker.

while (true)
do
    for p in `/bin/ls /home/Terry/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/`
    do
        wmsetbg -u -s $p
        sleep 600
        continue
    done
done

And to run it on window makers start up, I added this line to my ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart file:

/usr/home/Terry/sh/setbg &

and Hooah ^_^

And here is a python script that displays it in a random order,

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import commands
import os
import random
import time

li = os.listdir('/home/Terry/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/')

while (True):
    x=random.choice(li)
    commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/wmsetbg -u -s %s' % (x))
    time.sleep(600)

Hmm, I wonder if I could do this on Windows XP to,under explorer of course hehe.

My dreams seem to have been plagued by the same things that often assail my mind….

Past today’s have been a lot of work for me and I’m actualy very lucky to have today off work I spent a little time working with Pre Processor like program but didn’t have time to get any thing done.

Today, I want to get back to work on NPM, I’m off (hopefully) till Tuesday so with luck I can get some work done!

I am so stupid !!!

I’m sitting here working on a the configuration file stuff in my options class and BAM the laptop shuts down on me.

Battery firmly attached and not in use, laptops been on at least an hour and a half or more but it’s still cool, no signs of blockages of ports and the fan was fine last I looked.

Rolled my chair around and made sure the power cable was in the socket check,

turned around to the other flank and saw that the light on the mobile surge protector was on, check, back to the poor laptop…

“Wait”, I rolled back around and picked up the A/C Adopter and the surge protector/cable segment had come unplugged — BINGO WE HAVE A WINNER !!!

I can’t believe I’ve been sitting here using the battery the whole time, like a moron… But I am very glad that I save files often when editing and that vim keeps a swap file so I didn’t lose any thing but the open tabs in knoqueror and the interipters history.

It would kind of suck to lose the entire projects files on day one =/

Saved by the editor… hehe

I’ve compiled all of my stored bookmarks (aside from the handfull on my laptop) into a single flat file…

One URL per line with a grand total of 662 lines.

Plenty are just enqueued to be read while others are perm storage.

Not bad for about 10 years of surfing =/

Now neatly redoing my bookmarks on ma.gnolia is the next big project of the day :'(.

And in the near future, properly using this for all my bookmarking needs.. lol.

update http://sas-spidey01.livejournal.com/12253.html Vi user how-to

sync my bookmarks

I got off wok early today, about 1400 local and home for lunch by 1445, hit the Forums over at www.sasclan.org, ate, and got my movies list ready… Taking the rest of the day off as a personal vacation/holiday.

Blog, radio, tv, food, code, books, e.t.c 🙂

Raided my bookshelves bottom shelf for the VHS collection. We’ve got like 150-250 VHS tapes in the house but I’ve maintained only a small collection (20-40) in my room, so I know where to find them lol. We’ve taped just about every thing but watch almost none of it unless it’s on TV HAHAHA ! It set off my nose but I’ve complied my watch list, probably will take me a few weeks but it’s nice considering that I have not seen most of them in ages.

Links the the plot outlines on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for convenience.

Robot Jox
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Dune — A great book also
The Three Amigos
Dear GOD — A goodie I found on late-tv years ago.
Mission Impossible
Legend of Drunken Master
Ghost Busters I and II
Ernest Goes to Jail
Jackie Chan’s First Strike
The Freshmen
Tron
Hot Shots
Spaced Invaders
Hook
El Dorado

Not all of them are my favorites although a few are, they all are however good movies xD

I started at ~1230, it’s now ~1630 and I’ve gotton shit done…

You’ve just got to love my family….

The official rage list…

• I’m f***ing tired of not being able to get stuff done in the afternoon.
• I’m f***ing tired of being driven out of my skull.
• I’m f***ing tired of having my train of thought derailed.
• I’m f***ing tired of of being annoyed.
• I’m f***ing tired of being interrupted.
• I’m f***ing tired of not being able to concentrate.
• I’m f***ing tired of being antagonised by computer-illiterate scum.
• I’m f***ing tired of being barked, screeched, and shouted at.
• I’m f***ing tired of having to live like this.
• I’m f***ing tired of being tortured whenever I try to learn some thing.
• I’m f***ing tired of having to stay up till 4am or later.
• I’m f***ing tired of not being able to do f***ing any thing other wise.
• I’m f***ing tired of watching my home work pile up.
• I’m f***ing tired of not being able to rest when I’m *not* trying to do some f***ing thing.
• I’m f***ing tired of being denied a chance to follow my goals.
• I’m f***ing tired of this.

and I’m about ready to explode !!!

This mother f***ing rat ass sucking hell hole is pushing the limit. I’ve got over 4,500 pages to read — and I’m going to start knocking the damn walls down if I have to, but I am FINISHING THESE f***ing BOOKS.

There is no where else to go to read, study, nap, or any damn other thing. And my family makes it very hard to do any of those.

That means either this house learns to live with my work load or face the consequences. I should fuk’n start evicting people by force…. Let them enjoy freezing their ass off outside for a few hours.. While I get things *DONE* for a change.

Why, just why can’t I just once let myself be as cruel and vindictive as the rest… Instead of suffering aggravation after one another and hating that I feel like hating back…

Is it to much to ask to sit down and read a damn blasted book before I have to get back to work? I think not !!!!!!!!!!!!

I need a frigging vacation….. big time