just testing BloGTK 1.1 previous post was made by Blog Entry Poster. another program that allows me to not bother going on the site to post. im sure a lot of you do the same.
anyway just a test,
well it works but so far neither of the programs are able to let me put in a title. have to do that on the website itself :( ah well.
Monday, September 24, 2007
My Long absence
Have been away for a long while, mainly because have been reinstalling Linux a lot, am now up and running, stable and everything is great. Am now using Ubuntu, Instead of Fedora. as it seems to suit my needs better. Although no closer to running a website with Apache, Mysql, php or any of the other things i probably need.
Anyway. updates will now happen once or twice a week. not that there is much to say. anyway here are some updates.
My younger brother has a baby boy, name Kaleb, hes about 4 months old or so now. which is cool. now Tara has a cousin to play with. Tara is the daughter of my older brother and she is about 8 months old and doing quite well. she has started climbing up on everything at the moment. which is annoying but all the same she is learning. and sometimes not as she keeps falling from the same places.
Anyhow. I'm working finally. it is only 25 hours a week at the moment but I'm hoping that it will become 40 hours. As i really need the money to pay for things. like my own bike and the debts that i currently have.
That is all for now. maybe ill have some pics as well for the next update.
and search www.youtube.com for beryl. awesome looking desktop. is what i am using on ubuntu.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Online Communities
there are a lot of them out there, and a lot of people using them. From previous posts i have already mentioned Bebo, and unless you have been living without electricity, and don't have a computer then you probably know about most of them, some have even made the evening news, well face book has and youtube does quite often as well. Which is the best, which is the worst and which ones are just really clunky, well i use Bebo, as you have probably guessed. In which i think is the best at this point, although i have not really taken a good look at the others, although i have signed up for Face book and My Space. And from what i have read and heard about My space or Live spaces, that it is a bit like the MS operating system, not very up on customization, which is one really annoying thing, as that is what people like most.
Just hope they figure that out with the new OS.. back onto Community sites. Are they good or not, and are they Addictive?
Well weather they are good or not is up to yourself to figure out, but the thing about Addictive, i would have to say yes, because i have seen my brother go from mainly using to computer for working on, making engineering designs for work to going on bebo first thing after work, ok yes it is a way to keep in thouch with a lot of friends that he hardly ever sees or the ones that live else where, other cities and what not, thats fine and all.
Ah well weather it is addictive or not is not the issue here, are they making social interaction easier, i suppose they are, but then they are also making everyone's lives more open to everyone else. obviously not just the stuff they want you to know but if one of their friends decides to be spiteful then they can quickly spread crap about them and start a whole bunch of people hating them for something that might not even be true.
ah well. what ever, peace.
Just hope they figure that out with the new OS.. back onto Community sites. Are they good or not, and are they Addictive?
Well weather they are good or not is up to yourself to figure out, but the thing about Addictive, i would have to say yes, because i have seen my brother go from mainly using to computer for working on, making engineering designs for work to going on bebo first thing after work, ok yes it is a way to keep in thouch with a lot of friends that he hardly ever sees or the ones that live else where, other cities and what not, thats fine and all.
Ah well weather it is addictive or not is not the issue here, are they making social interaction easier, i suppose they are, but then they are also making everyone's lives more open to everyone else. obviously not just the stuff they want you to know but if one of their friends decides to be spiteful then they can quickly spread crap about them and start a whole bunch of people hating them for something that might not even be true.
ah well. what ever, peace.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Bebo Themes and Badges
Well anyone that usesw bebo knows about the themes they can use, and possibly about the badges you can get to link others to your profile page, so they can see it and stuff. now i know that you can create your own bebo profile themes, which is great and all, they even have a tutorial that takes you through making one in photoshop. which is great. all you really need to know is the dimensions of the images and how large they are allowed to be, in file size.
Now one aspect, as far as i know anyway, is that you can not officially make a custom bebo badge to put up on other sites or in forums as your signature. which is kinda annoying and also most palces only allow a picture of about 400x100 pixels for the signature and the bebo badge is 302x175 pixels. so a bit too high by some people standards, they should atleast allow for a smaller one.
Well i have created my own bebo badge that i may or may not use. I might even make a smaller one than what they use, for certain forums.
anyway here it is. i can tell just by looking at it that i need to refine it somewhat but it is a work in progress.
So there you have it. a custom bebo badge that displays your profile image and has a link to it.
Now one aspect, as far as i know anyway, is that you can not officially make a custom bebo badge to put up on other sites or in forums as your signature. which is kinda annoying and also most palces only allow a picture of about 400x100 pixels for the signature and the bebo badge is 302x175 pixels. so a bit too high by some people standards, they should atleast allow for a smaller one.
Well i have created my own bebo badge that i may or may not use. I might even make a smaller one than what they use, for certain forums.
anyway here it is. i can tell just by looking at it that i need to refine it somewhat but it is a work in progress.
So there you have it. a custom bebo badge that displays your profile image and has a link to it.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Global Warming
I'm starting to get annoyed with all the crap on the TV about people trying to stop / slow down global warming. I do hope they know that it does not matter if everyone on the planet suddenly stopped doing anything / died, the amount of carbon emissions that get put into the atmosphere wont change very much, if at all.
The main reason being is that there are many many volcanoes around the planet that are continually spewing a hell of a lot more crap into the atmosphere than any one nation can put in there. Even if we do manage to become "carbon neutral" as they call it, the first volcano that isn't active that blows its stack is sure to be able to put more carbon dioxide in the air that the entire 6billion population of the planet could do in 10 years.
So why are we having to try and stop something that we know is futile, is there a reason there are lots of celebrities out there being stupid? or are they getting paid a shit load for all this crap they are spreading.
This is about as bad as the extremely stupid religion known as Scientology, in which those who believe in it think that aliens came to earth many billions of years ago and planted the seeds of life. I don't know much about it but its pretty lame really.
Anyway back on topic, Global warming, can we do anything to "save the planet", well i was not aware that it was in trouble. I'm pretty sure that the planet can survive without us, or anything on its surface, what they are really saying is that if we don't do anything that we will all burn and the human race will suffer.
Well i for one hope that it does warm up some. Even if the north and south poles do completely melt whats the loss? sure the low lying areas of dry land will probably be covered in water, so what move inland before that happens, if ya don't want to then drown.
I'm pretty sure that the main problem people have is their attachment to their possessions, who cares about all your stuff apart from you. yes a lot of it does make our lives easier, but since when did it need to. I'm getting off track here.
Anyway bottom line is we can't do anything so stop the CO2 levels going up, they attribute the carbon levels rising to the increase of cars, and the use of so called fossil fuels.
Don't really want to get into any of the so called evolution crap, but needless to say something has to be a fossil before being a fuel to be able to call it a fossil fuel. anyone my point at this moment is I don't get why people call diesel fuel just that, there is no other liquid that i know of that goes by the name diesel, so why keep adding the fuel after it. its just diesel people. mainly aimed towards Americans.
Whom think that they are special and Gods gift the to planet, which they are not, keep prodding their nose into where it is not wanted, as they have noted with the failure that was Iraq. The only people that they done the favour to was the countries that Saddam was trying to invade and conquer. Not every nation needs to be a Democracy, which brings me to the point of stupid Americans, they are either voting for Democratic party or the Republic party, well I'm sorry to say but a democracy is where the government is voted in, as opposed to Communism / Dictatorship. and a republic is a nation that has no royal family.
Off track by a major margin there, ah well not much more to say on the subject anyway, just that I do hate all those rich fucks trying to tell me that their well payed for scientific report is accurate and that we "have" to save the planet.
in closing eventually when the carbon gets too high the planet will not turn into an oven but the opposite it will get colder and rain and all that crap will fall to earth again, or supposedly, I don't claim that i know all this or that its fact, just my opinions, which everyone is entitled to. although they never said that everyone was entitled to give it to anyone.
This will be really long if i don't stop now, so peace.
Keep bumping the crap into the air in defiance to all the retards out there whom are trying to make us do what they want.
The main reason being is that there are many many volcanoes around the planet that are continually spewing a hell of a lot more crap into the atmosphere than any one nation can put in there. Even if we do manage to become "carbon neutral" as they call it, the first volcano that isn't active that blows its stack is sure to be able to put more carbon dioxide in the air that the entire 6billion population of the planet could do in 10 years.
So why are we having to try and stop something that we know is futile, is there a reason there are lots of celebrities out there being stupid? or are they getting paid a shit load for all this crap they are spreading.
This is about as bad as the extremely stupid religion known as Scientology, in which those who believe in it think that aliens came to earth many billions of years ago and planted the seeds of life. I don't know much about it but its pretty lame really.
Anyway back on topic, Global warming, can we do anything to "save the planet", well i was not aware that it was in trouble. I'm pretty sure that the planet can survive without us, or anything on its surface, what they are really saying is that if we don't do anything that we will all burn and the human race will suffer.
Well i for one hope that it does warm up some. Even if the north and south poles do completely melt whats the loss? sure the low lying areas of dry land will probably be covered in water, so what move inland before that happens, if ya don't want to then drown.
I'm pretty sure that the main problem people have is their attachment to their possessions, who cares about all your stuff apart from you. yes a lot of it does make our lives easier, but since when did it need to. I'm getting off track here.
Anyway bottom line is we can't do anything so stop the CO2 levels going up, they attribute the carbon levels rising to the increase of cars, and the use of so called fossil fuels.
Don't really want to get into any of the so called evolution crap, but needless to say something has to be a fossil before being a fuel to be able to call it a fossil fuel. anyone my point at this moment is I don't get why people call diesel fuel just that, there is no other liquid that i know of that goes by the name diesel, so why keep adding the fuel after it. its just diesel people. mainly aimed towards Americans.
Whom think that they are special and Gods gift the to planet, which they are not, keep prodding their nose into where it is not wanted, as they have noted with the failure that was Iraq. The only people that they done the favour to was the countries that Saddam was trying to invade and conquer. Not every nation needs to be a Democracy, which brings me to the point of stupid Americans, they are either voting for Democratic party or the Republic party, well I'm sorry to say but a democracy is where the government is voted in, as opposed to Communism / Dictatorship. and a republic is a nation that has no royal family.
Off track by a major margin there, ah well not much more to say on the subject anyway, just that I do hate all those rich fucks trying to tell me that their well payed for scientific report is accurate and that we "have" to save the planet.
in closing eventually when the carbon gets too high the planet will not turn into an oven but the opposite it will get colder and rain and all that crap will fall to earth again, or supposedly, I don't claim that i know all this or that its fact, just my opinions, which everyone is entitled to. although they never said that everyone was entitled to give it to anyone.
This will be really long if i don't stop now, so peace.
Keep bumping the crap into the air in defiance to all the retards out there whom are trying to make us do what they want.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Book Review : Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows
Have just recently finished this book. And there are a few things that at first felt as though they dragged on somewhat, and I found myself looking further down the page to see more. This was annoying me somewhat, but I forced myself to keep to where I was at. Therefore making myself stick to reading everything that was written.
After the first 300 pages which seemed to drag on and on, but which I find that after finishing was all essential to give a bond between the characters that was unseen previously. As I have been gifted with an immensely over active imagination I love reading books that stretch reality to a point that one has to create new images in their minds as to what things look like, but anyway back on subject.
As I said the first 300 pages were long and tedious to the point of looking further down the page to see what happens. Now after those 300 pages of the book, I must admit that it does get very very good. With what happens to everyone and everything around them, while reading and even after finishing I felt that it was very well done. It was also emotionally wrenching, the way that things happen throughout and kept you wondering what would possibly happen next.
All in all if i had to give the book a rating out of 10 it would most likely be 9/10. Main reason for not getting a 10/10 is because there will probably be no more in the series. other than that it was a brilliant piece of literature. even if it is considered a children's book, after the first 3 they became more and more mature and added more and more into the adult type of books. even though it still stays in the younger category.
No matter what anyone says the series is an excellent read no matter what age you are. I have found that those who scoff at these being so hardly ever read at all.
anyway thats what I think. I don't know if this is a very good or very informative review of the last of the harry potter books but its what I have written and is all there is going to be from me.
Enjoy...
After the first 300 pages which seemed to drag on and on, but which I find that after finishing was all essential to give a bond between the characters that was unseen previously. As I have been gifted with an immensely over active imagination I love reading books that stretch reality to a point that one has to create new images in their minds as to what things look like, but anyway back on subject.
As I said the first 300 pages were long and tedious to the point of looking further down the page to see what happens. Now after those 300 pages of the book, I must admit that it does get very very good. With what happens to everyone and everything around them, while reading and even after finishing I felt that it was very well done. It was also emotionally wrenching, the way that things happen throughout and kept you wondering what would possibly happen next.
All in all if i had to give the book a rating out of 10 it would most likely be 9/10. Main reason for not getting a 10/10 is because there will probably be no more in the series. other than that it was a brilliant piece of literature. even if it is considered a children's book, after the first 3 they became more and more mature and added more and more into the adult type of books. even though it still stays in the younger category.
No matter what anyone says the series is an excellent read no matter what age you are. I have found that those who scoff at these being so hardly ever read at all.
anyway thats what I think. I don't know if this is a very good or very informative review of the last of the harry potter books but its what I have written and is all there is going to be from me.
Enjoy...
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Compaq Presario F500 / F551AU
My bro has just bought one of these notebooks, it is quite nice for its price, a recommended buy for anyone looking at getting a notebook.
Now there was only one problem with this, and that is that it comes preloaded with Windows Vista Basic, which is fine if you don't care how well it will run. On the other hand if you want to downgrade to Windows XP. Because we all know how crap Vista is. So that is what my bro decided to do, which is where we ran into a slight problem of not being able to find any drivers for the particular model that we have, fortunately HP have a support crew that you are able to chat with online and it does not cost anything as far as I know, The tech that my bro spoke with was able to find all the needed drivers for us which was great.
So now that we have been through that process, I can now pass on that you all of you.
First of all we had managed to find all the the driver for the sound device / 56k modem. After talking with the tech we found out that you need to install a Microsoft HD audio driver before being able to install any drivers for the sound in windows XP. I am assuming here that Windows Vista already has that driver installed or what ever.
Anyway, here is the list of links for all the drivers for installing Windows XP on a Compaq Presario F500 / F551AU
F500 AMD chipset drivers for windows XP
NV61xx-Chipset_8.26_2kxp_WHQL.zip - this file was not found at the link supplied. a quick search of Google showed it is on driverguide.com, you will have to become a member to be able to download it though. As far as i know it is free, and is worth it for the driver. If I had some decent hosting somewhere I could upload them all for ease of availability. all drivers together take up 175MB
VGA Drivers
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34390.exe
or
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34044.exe
or there is a site that modifies the original drivers from Nvidia.com so that they will install on the GO6100 GPU that is in this notebook. For some reason they leave the GO6100 out of the list of cards that it can do in the inf file. once i have found it will put that link up here also.
Network card drivers:
http://support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/SatellitePro/spl10/win-xp/lan-spl10-xp-561810152004.zip
In order to install the High definition audio driver you need to install the Microsoft HD driver so here it is.
Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio :
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp30501-31000/sp30739.exe
after installing the UAA bus driver restart the notebook.
Audio:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32823.exe
Modem drivers:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33050.exe
Synaptics Touchpad:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32647.exe
Broadcom Wireless LAN Driver:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe
Quick Launch/Easy Access Buttons:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32001-32500/sp32421.exe
The above drivers are for Windows XP SP1. The only drivers that do not work in Windows XP SP2 are the Audio and Modem drivers. The below links are the drivers to be used with XP SP2. I think the main difference is that there is an update that addresses the UAA HD audio subsystem driver well anyway here are the links.
SP2 Drivers
Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32646.exe
High Definition Audio Driver:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34200.exe
Modem driver:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33501-34000/sp33742.exe
If you have issues with installing the Audio and modem driver then you will have to go into c:\swsetup\sp34200 and c:\swsetup\sp33742 folders and install them manually. although this will most likely not be needed as it worked for me first time.
Reboot after this and all should be well with the notebook now.
Yay you have now downgraded to a better operating system than Windows Vista. Now your notebook will run a lot faster than it did with Vista on it. and you can reclaim a whole heap of performance that was wasted on Vista trying to look good. An operating System needs to be functional, good looks are something that is only needed when if Operating System works properly, which sad to say Vista does not do well.
Also vista is highly paranoid when it comes to security, but is all good once all the security crap has been turned off.
The one thing that annoys me about Windows is that there is no one from the outside to offer improvements. It would be nice if the GUI in windows was optional and that it was not so tightly integrated so that if one part of the system fail the whole thing gets taken down with it.
Anyway I'm not here to rant about how crap a job Microsoft is doing. rather in telling you where to get XP drivers for a laptop that is supposed to run Vista. but with the specs that the system has it is hardly possible. it comes with 512Mb of ram. this must be upgraded to at least 1GB if not 2GB for it to be able to run Vista nicely.
Anyway. I shall also look for drivers for all the hardware to be run on Linux. mainly drivers for Fedora as that is what I am using.
Thanks for reading :)
Now there was only one problem with this, and that is that it comes preloaded with Windows Vista Basic, which is fine if you don't care how well it will run. On the other hand if you want to downgrade to Windows XP. Because we all know how crap Vista is. So that is what my bro decided to do, which is where we ran into a slight problem of not being able to find any drivers for the particular model that we have, fortunately HP have a support crew that you are able to chat with online and it does not cost anything as far as I know, The tech that my bro spoke with was able to find all the needed drivers for us which was great.
So now that we have been through that process, I can now pass on that you all of you.
First of all we had managed to find all the the driver for the sound device / 56k modem. After talking with the tech we found out that you need to install a Microsoft HD audio driver before being able to install any drivers for the sound in windows XP. I am assuming here that Windows Vista already has that driver installed or what ever.
Anyway, here is the list of links for all the drivers for installing Windows XP on a Compaq Presario F500 / F551AU
F500 AMD chipset drivers for windows XP
NV61xx-Chipset_8.26_2kxp_WHQL.zip - this file was not found at the link supplied. a quick search of Google showed it is on driverguide.com, you will have to become a member to be able to download it though. As far as i know it is free, and is worth it for the driver. If I had some decent hosting somewhere I could upload them all for ease of availability. all drivers together take up 175MB
VGA Drivers
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34390.exe
or
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34044.exe
or there is a site that modifies the original drivers from Nvidia.com so that they will install on the GO6100 GPU that is in this notebook. For some reason they leave the GO6100 out of the list of cards that it can do in the inf file. once i have found it will put that link up here also.
Network card drivers:
http://support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/SatellitePro/spl10/win-xp/lan-spl10-xp-561810152004.zip
In order to install the High definition audio driver you need to install the Microsoft HD driver so here it is.
Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio :
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp30501-31000/sp30739.exe
after installing the UAA bus driver restart the notebook.
Audio:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32823.exe
Modem drivers:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33050.exe
Synaptics Touchpad:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32647.exe
Broadcom Wireless LAN Driver:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe
Quick Launch/Easy Access Buttons:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32001-32500/sp32421.exe
The above drivers are for Windows XP SP1. The only drivers that do not work in Windows XP SP2 are the Audio and Modem drivers. The below links are the drivers to be used with XP SP2. I think the main difference is that there is an update that addresses the UAA HD audio subsystem driver well anyway here are the links.
SP2 Drivers
Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32646.exe
High Definition Audio Driver:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34200.exe
Modem driver:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33501-34000/sp33742.exe
If you have issues with installing the Audio and modem driver then you will have to go into c:\swsetup\sp34200 and c:\swsetup\sp33742 folders and install them manually. although this will most likely not be needed as it worked for me first time.
Reboot after this and all should be well with the notebook now.
Yay you have now downgraded to a better operating system than Windows Vista. Now your notebook will run a lot faster than it did with Vista on it. and you can reclaim a whole heap of performance that was wasted on Vista trying to look good. An operating System needs to be functional, good looks are something that is only needed when if Operating System works properly, which sad to say Vista does not do well.
Also vista is highly paranoid when it comes to security, but is all good once all the security crap has been turned off.
The one thing that annoys me about Windows is that there is no one from the outside to offer improvements. It would be nice if the GUI in windows was optional and that it was not so tightly integrated so that if one part of the system fail the whole thing gets taken down with it.
Anyway I'm not here to rant about how crap a job Microsoft is doing. rather in telling you where to get XP drivers for a laptop that is supposed to run Vista. but with the specs that the system has it is hardly possible. it comes with 512Mb of ram. this must be upgraded to at least 1GB if not 2GB for it to be able to run Vista nicely.
Anyway. I shall also look for drivers for all the hardware to be run on Linux. mainly drivers for Fedora as that is what I am using.
Thanks for reading :)
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