bored creativity

If my creativity would be a person it would be running arround me screaming:

"COME ON! LET'S DO SOMETHING COOL! COME ON! BUDDY!... ....STAND UP AND CREATE SOMETHING AMAZING!... ...ARGHHH!!! YOU'RE SO BORING DUDE!"

I am very glad that my creativity is no real person, because this would be really annoying, but I can't ignore this feeling about having to be creative! I think Inkscape could be a tool that maybe satisfies my wish of beeing creative. There are so many ideas in my head and I've got absolutly no idea, if they are possible.

Have to try!

Eye Candy

Beryl is... well... I better write what the beryl-project says on his webpage (http://www.beryl-project.org/):

Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users.

In fact it's just amazing. Some time ago I tried compiz, but it didn't really satisfied me, because of the confusing installation howto's I found. installing Beryl was pretty easy. Just follow these 2 Howto's:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Xgl
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Beryl

Easy, isn't it? After that I configured it a bit it looks like this:


The first screenshot shows the famous 3d cube, which represents four desktop's through which you can switch really easy - enough space for everyone.
The second screenshot shows a window picker. By pressing F8 or moving the mouse into a corner of the screen you can arrange all open windows right in front of you so you can pick one to activate it. A nice alternative to ALT+TAB. ALT+TAB shows you all open windows in a horizontal list, but you see the content of the windows in realtime. So if there is a movieplayer - like totem or mplayer - you see the movie playing in this windows list.

Beryl offes you a lot of visual effects. The best way to get more information on this is to install it or search for Beryl on YouTube.com to see it in action!

It's a hard life on the enterprise

Everybody knows her. Uhura! What a name. She had one of the worst jobs on the enterprise. She was the only afro-american, the only known woman and she had the silliest name, but also other guys had a hard and short life on the enterprise.
If there was suddenly another crew member, which you have never seen before, he is definitly going to die.

I am no fan of Sttar Trek but I watched it every now and then when I was younger. Why I wrote about this unfamous heros of the unknown space? Because it was the topic of the day in the kitchen at work. Life is so funny.

my subjective opinion about objectivity

Objectivity is a lie built up by ignorant people. I think it is impossible to say or think about something in a fully objective way. Humans are unique so everybody sees his world in a unique way. According to that, it is impossible for 2 people to see or feel exactly the same.

Maybe you disagree with this, but I don't care, because it does not matter, because it is my subjective view.

Howto build your own last.fm radio with vnc controlling unit

I can't live without music. I listen to a lot of music! I am bored by my own music, because I have heard every track a thousand times.
Buy new music! ... but which music?

I don't really like listening to the radio, because, no matter which radio station you are listening to, they are playing a few good songs and a lot of shit and commercials are really annoying.
A few days ago I began to use last.fm. That's cool. You enter a band you like and it generates a personal radio stream with bands that are similar to that for you!

Ok next problem: You just can listen to it using your pc.
So I took an old pc and installed Ubuntu 6.06. Then I installed all the codecs and the other importent stuff. Just use Automatix for that.
At least I installed a last.fm tool called LastExit. I entered my free last.fm account and just a few seconds later I was listening to cool music. I placed the pc on top of my wardrobe and pluged in the 5.1 surround system. To make it easier to controll it I am using vnc.
So I am sitting in my bed with my laptop starting vnc -> starting lastexit on the other pc via vnc and control everything from where I am. The music itself, the volume and I can even tell last.fm if i like this song or not! Wlan is very usefull to keep yourself mobil.

15 naked guys and some friends in the stew

I think this was the most infamous title I ever wrote in this blog. Just to put it bluntly: I wasn't naked with 15 other guys and I wasn't in the stew.

Today I heard a strange storry about 15 guys standing naked in a 4°C cold river drinking southern comfort. No I didn't read this on the internet. One of the these 15 guys told me about that and told me that a foto of this 'event' is in a bar near this river. So I will go there to take a look at this picture one day.

Another guy today told me that he and some friends of him were in the stew. They were so drunk that they accidently payed a 'women that works there' for... ...you know what her work is?

But then, nobody wanted to go with her to let her do her job. After a heavy discussion about who has to follow her, someone - probably the most drunken one - followed her.

Strange stories.... ..but funny.

Where are you gone?

Watching the shadows wander...

A day described in 12 words:
black -> light -> cold -> red lights -> yellow wall -> riddles -> numbers -> streets -> warm -> food -> tv -> bed

It's not that hard to understand.



Common problems:

• Amarok - doesn't work with last.fm - dont't know why.
• Last Exit - another client for last.fm - maybe works - will try it today.
• Insommnia - living with it since I was 14.

Coding is still fun. S-JIM gets better and better.


So where am I now?

Heaven? Hell? no idea.

My little binary baby

Do i sound stupid? Maybe, but who cares. Maybe I am a bit strange, but I like my little applications and I am very proud about every new application that works and I feel very honored if there are people using my creation.
My newest 'baby' is a Server/Client Chat application. It works great so far. At thoursday I will test the new version with improved GUI and Server with everybody who wants to join the test over the internet.

I built a little website for my little binary creations so that everyone who wants to can see what I did so far and read what I am planning to do next. I added a link to this page in the link section of this blog called "Project Coding for Fun".

let's call this the comeback

I don't know why, but since I got home yesterday evening my will to code and of course my knowledge and creativity about coding seem to be active again.
A long time I wasn't able to concentrate on coding stuff, but yesterday evening this changed.

One and a half month ago I started playing arround with Java ServerSockets and Java6. I did some tutorials (new Swing functionalities, etc..). After a while I found a Server/Client Tutorial. It was really interessting and so I started coding a little test application. I wanted to write a network chat application. I tried and tried and tried. It was so frustrating.

But yesterday everything worked so well and everything i tried worked. Now I have a running chatserver and a console based client and everything works fine.

I hope it will go on like this!

summer snow

This winter was a lot to warm so far. No snow at home and just a little bit in the mountains.
Slowly I got used to it - used to feel like it is March or April in Jannuary.
And guess what happened today... SNOW!

Not only a few snowflakes, it is really snowing. Everything is white outside.

I am very happy about having my gloves in my car, because today I will have to get all the snow off my car.

Please weather could you please make a decision about how you are and stay like that, so that I can get used to it again.

train of thoughts - Episode 1

...looking back at sunsets on the eastside...

Silence for too long...

Hit it!
Every year before christmas customers get giveaways from companies. Pens, wine, etc....
Have you ever thought about getting a xmas giveaway from a undertaker? Someone told me - she is working at an old people's home - that she got xmas giveaways from the undertaker. Isn't that wired? Crazy? Sarcastic? However.

Something else...

Need a coffee now.

Merry X-Mas

I don't know if I will be able to blog something before xmas again, because I won't be home before 2007. I am at work now. Everything is prepared, just a few things to do here at work. My bags are packed - hope I didn't forget about something importent - and I am ready to go. After work I will go to a xmas party and tomorrow I am going to the house in the mountains. I am so glad that my holidays are just a few hours away.

Mery Xmas to all of you!

get ready for christmas

Yesterday I finished the presents and the checklist I made to remember myself what I have to take with me.
Today I will do the hard work - Packing my stuff. I have to do it today, because it's the last day before I leave home for 12 days.
Tomorrow will be a cool day. After work I'll driv to villach to a xmas party at villach. I am really looking forward to this. On saturday I'll drive into the mountains where the rest of my family allready waits for me. At this plays I will stay for a while, celebrating xmas and new year.

the cursed door

Standing up in the morning is always cruel, but today it felt like I am cursed. After putting myself together, dressing up and leaving the bathroom I went to my car. As usual.

I opened the door - as usual - and got myself into the car. Then I wanted to close the door, but....

THE DOOR DID NOT CLOSE!

It opened itself every time I tried to close it. It took me 15 minutes to close and lock it to make it stay closed. As I arrived at work the door closed like nothing had happened and without any problems. How could something like this happen?

...won't worry about it....

Cables Chaos X-Mas

Xmas is comming closer. Haven't packed the present yet, but I began to think about all my multimedia things.
Where ever I go my PSP is allways with me. I will be at the house in the mountains for about 10 days, so my PSP must come with me. To keep it dry and warm I need 4 different bags for every way of transport. Further I need a cable to charge it and a special USB connector cable to connect it to my laptop.


My laptop. 10 Days without it? No way! So I need the laptop-bag my Logitech G5 mouse, power cable and the card reader, for transferring the pictures from my digicam.









Also my digicam also has to come with me and according to that both accumulators, the charging station, theUSB connector cable and the AV connector cable won't stay at home.


Also my Xbox 360 has to come with me because there is a HD TV there - can't miss that chance. Taking the Xbox 360 with me includes to take two wireless controllers, charging kit, games, power cable and HDMI cable with me.


Thank god my car is big enough, because after putting all this into it I have to add the presents and clothes.


You see beeing a geek isn't that easy. Welcome to my cable chaos X-mas!

lucky snow

YEAH!!! IT'S SNOWING!!!!

OK, just a bit, but it does. This means in the mountains it may snows a bit more, so there maybe enough snow to have fun when my holidays at the house in Turrach begins.

I wasn't really in a christmas mood, because of the warm weather, but now I am.

HIHI... SNOW.....

Happy is what I am.....

a week , today, and everthing else

SICK! Yes last week wasa bad week for me. I fell ill last monday and styaed ill the whole week. It was cruel. Slept from monday to thoursday. I don't want to tell more about, it was so terrible.

Today I feel very well again. Work is fun and it is the last week before my x-mas holidays.

This is a picture taken by a webcam just a few minutes ago at the turracherhöhe, which is the place I will spent my holidays at.
I was there two weeks ago and I was shocked! NO SNOW! It was a lot to warm, but now it seems as snow is comming and maybe it will be enough to build a little snowbar for the new-years-party.

I am really looking forward for my holiday. My last one is so far in the past.

Catching light - Calling it reflection

My Picture archive is complete now. Works fine. I added a link in the link section in the sidebar - My Pictures. This link guides you to a subsection of my homepage. I try to keep it up to date and I'll try to add new pictures as fast as I can., so have a look every now end than.

The new forum system is still in development. Nothing to test so far, but I think it won't take me too long to finish it.


WHY SHOULD I SLEEP?

Life

Coding is fun. I spent the last two evenings with creating a little picture gallery. Will use it. The next thing will be a new forum. These two things were the only things that somebody used on my hp. so i think I will reduse my hp two these things. Two completly independent things. Easy to refactor.

I am bretty happy that this week work end on thursday, but who isn't happy about that? Today I am alone at work. A bit boring, but work lets time go by pretty fast.

Life isn't that bad.

mCORE phase1 - Complete

Found a funny IT-Hardware shop yesterday.
Wanted to buy a Case, but....







Bought a lot of things:

• D-Link PCI USB 2.0 Card
• Ultra-Silent Fan
• LG DVD-Drive
• Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

After putting it all together (a lot of work) I connected it to my TV. The Ubuntu LIVE-CD worked fine until the X-SERVER started up. Then the screen was black.
So I decided to use a simple Monitor to configure everything.





Ok it looks a bit wired. Today I try to get the TV connection working. I hope it is just a problem with the screen resolution.
Then I have to install all the multimedia packages such as mplayer, xmms and so on.
After this phase 1 is complete.
Phase 1 you ask? Yes phase 1. The next step - not sure when this will happen - is to add a TV-Card and build my own Harddrive Recorder to record TV. I Hope.

One additional thing to do is to mod the case. Fun work. Paint, lights, fans. Maybe next week.
So let's see what happens to this project. You can read about this here soon.