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A bit of a test

Monday, September 25th, 2006

The past few weeks have been pretty insane. I have not only had a lot to do at school, but a lot going on too. My Counter-Strike: Source addiction is coming back too, thanks to a bunch of my friends at school and our newly formed clan. I wont’ have much time for anything the rest of the week though. Tomorrow and Wednesday I have PLAN testing, which is basically the pre-ACT test. Then I have a week to do my PSAT practice booklet and take the PSAT. Fun times ahead.

In other news, I would like to leak a bit of news on one of my new projects that I am co-developing with a network operator for theWyldRyde.org IRC network, DamnSmallBSD. It is a take off of the very first linux distribution I ever used, Damn Small Linux. Our goals are similar, but we are based on a completely different operating system, FreeBSD. We also have some cool ideas to keep it modular for people looking to remaster it. Keep your eyes open, the cd is bootable, we just haven’t done much work on the userland yet.

Over the past day, I also broke back into some PHP. ThreadBound officially moved a step closer to it’s main goal. Here is a little hint of a very early page:

ThreadBound – preview Hosted on Zooomr

I have also been contacted to do some more work for ThunderIT.com, so I’m very happy about that. The project I’ll be working on is very cool. Hopefully some of the cash I get from this job will help me get a new laptop.

Posted in Daily Grindage, Experiences, FreeBSD, Geekery, Linux, Operating System Development, PHP, Personal, Programming, Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Web 2.0, Web Development | No Comments »

PowahPC

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Well, i spent the last hour and a half reading up on PowerPC assembly code. It’s definitely interesting coming from an 80×86 background. (Even though I knew very little x86 assembly) I will say one thing right now, I can imagine it being pretty odd pulling all nighters with ppc asm, since there is no way to distinguish the type or register you are modifying. They are identified by just a digit, 1-32.

I definitely find the architecture to be cool though. One of the really nice things about it, is the insane backwards compatibility with 32bit ppc apps on ppc64 machines. The binaries usually work just great. Unlike going to longmode, where you have to actually try in the kernel so you have 32bit support.

For those of you who don’t know, I’m planning on porting my OS to my BeBox as soon as I have enough knowledge of the architecture. Hopefully, I can manage to get another OS going in the process too, maybe updating the netbsd port of porting haiku?

I would also like to say that the ThreadBound teaser page has done better than I thought it would in one day. We’ve already got quite a few email address sign up for the updates. Keep them coming.

If I don’t update for a while, I’m rushing to get my summer assignment finished. I have a huge precal packet to do and a report on Fahrenheit 451 and I haven’t started to read it yet…

Posted in C/C++, Daily Grindage, Experiences, Geekery, Operating System Development, Personal, Programming, Reading, Web 2.0, Web Development | No Comments »

ThreadBound.com

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Well, we came up with the new name and the teaser page is up. Have fun. ThreadBound.com I’ll make a logo soon as Alpaca gets back from Canada. Fill out the form if you want updates.

Posted in Apache, Daily Grindage, Experiences, Geekery, PHP, Personal, Programming, Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Site News, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Web Development | No Comments »

Myspace theming without the ads

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Okay, I’m going to make it very clear before I even write the rest of this. I am not a fan of myspace.com. In fact, I think it is the sludgepit of the internet. So no that we’ve made that clear…

So we’ve all seen the disasters of pages created by millions of teenagers (like myself :/ ), that are impossible to read or even look at without giving yourself a seizure. To top all of that off, they have annoying flash ads that even talk without a mute button. So, today I set out to get rid of them and create my own, special, page.

First off, here is a screenshot for you to drool over:

moo Hosted on Zooomr

So to start, the first thing I did was see if I could escape the tables. Once I did this, I knew I could get rid of the ads and every other piece of junk I could. So in the About Me section, I had the following:

</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</table>

This allowed me to get out of the table-hell layout that is myspace.com, but I had to do one thing to make it not display the rest of the page. I had to reopen the tables. Code is below:

<table>
<tbody>
<tr><td>

Knowing this, I just added the CSS/HTML and images that can be found in the zip below to the About Me section.

Click here to download the zip file.
Click here to see the myspace live.

I hope that helps some of you.

NOTE: This *WILL* violate your agreement to the Myspace.com Terms of Service. Until they allow the iframe, we have no way to show their ads.

Posted in Daily Grindage, Experiences, Geek Humor, Geekery, PHP, Personal, Programming, Site News, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0, Web Development | 8 Comments »

BeBox Edition

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Well, I’m finally home from Tennessee. I appologize for not updating the site in a while, I’ve been busy between running around with my friends and working on my new web site.

Anyway, my new toy came in Friday. A just-like-new, 1 in 700, 1996 BeBox. Mine has dual 67mhz powerpc processors, 16mb ram, 1gb scsi drive, a cd drive, and more ports on the back than you can shake a dongle at. It also came with BeOS R4 installed with extra software. To top all of that off, I got a ton of BeOS cd’s including: AA, PR2, and both Intel/PPC R3 releases.

Hopefully, I can locate an R5 Pro disk to upgrade to. This will allow me to run BONE hopefully. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment. More can be found here.