|
Erkh
|
Feb. 17th, 2007 @ 11:28 am
|
|---|
|
Enrogue's down. Enrogue == Kallewoof.com == (lots of other sites). So... I'll be talking from here for a while now. Well, I might anyway. We'll see if I just give up blogging until things are back in place.
Now You Know [tm].Current Mood:  accomplished |
|
Gabychka graciously offered to set up a syndicated account for my www.kallewoof.com blog. If I knew how to do the lj-user tag, I would link you to it directly, but: kalleblog. |
|
Since I started using RSS feed readers, the concept of LJ's "friends page" and such didn't really help me that much anymore. I am going to be required to add everyone whose entries I give a shit about to my feed reader by hand anyway (or start paying for my LJ account). This fact, and the fact I have the domain kallewoof.com and had no idea what to do with it, and the fact every geek needs their OWN blog server software, lead to me installing WordPress (trusting, as always, in Nino's ability to find the good things out there :P). You can thus find my new blog here.
In any case, I am thus slipping into the shadows on this account. I may or may not post occasional friends-only entries (as LJ is still the only place I can do that on), but I will most likely miss anything friend-only that you people write, since I will not be reading your entries from a logged-in user 99 times out of 100.
WordPress, by the way, was amazingly easy to set up. Kudos to the devers. |
|
It is the maintainer of a community's responsibility to define its content.
It is the community participant's responsibility to interpret those definitions.
When a community participant takes it upon themself to correct the interpretation(s) of their fellow participant(s), the fault equally often lies in the corrected or in the corrector, as in the definition itself.
That said, I am getting sick&fuckingtired of all the messageboards out there with the "Search for the answer before you ask the question!" policies. I mean, literally every single messageboard has it, and it is oh so terribly annoying when a user (who is new perhaps) doesn't find the answer to their question, so they post a new thread, hoping that someone will be kind enough to either point them in the direction of the answer or, even better, answer their question.
So my challenge to the messageboard developers out there is to implement the following functionality:
When a user attempts to submit a new thread, the contents of the message are scanned and stripped of "common words" such as I, the, then, fail, failure, gasp, no, work, and so on. After doing so, a simple search is performed on the resulting stripped content to find threads with similar content. If such threads are found, the user who is trying to submit their thread is presented with a list of threads in existence. They are told that these threads may already contain what they are asking, and to read through each.
After doing so, if they do find a thread which matches their own, they have three options. 1) Post their thread anyway, as a new thread. 2) Post their thread as a post instead, in a selected existing thread (that way, the thread is bumped with possibly new information regarding the topic). 3) Discard their post.
Excellent, no? Too bad no messageboard developers are in my friends list. :) |
|
I like choice. Sometimes it's annoying, sometimes it's nice. I've been using Straw as my RSS feed syndicate reader (RSSFSR? Ungodly abbrevation. I guess RSS reader works too though.) but it's severely lacking in a good number of ways. For one, it freezes for ~10 seconds or so whenever it updates the RSS feeds. Make that ~30 seconds when I start the thing up. Luckily, it's only the app itself that freezes, so I can start it up, do other stuff, then go back to it awhile later and read. But it also has a tendency to flag entries as unread incorrectly. Even if an entry is exactly literally to the letter same, it will somehow sometimes mark it as unread, so I have to re-read the same thing (or, hit space, get new entry, skim it and see that nothing changed, grunt and hit space again to move on).
Liferea seems much more stable and featureful. And it looks nicer too. I haven't used it for very long but I've put in all the feeds I had in Straw (there weren't that many -- yet).
One thing Straw did that Liferea doesn't do is notify me about unread entries in the actual taskbar and in the traybar. But hey, I read once or twice a day, and doing it that seldom, I know there will be unread entries anyway.
One thing I've failed to do though, is being able to grab my LiveJournal "friends" feed. I just manage to grab my own entries, which, surprisingly perhaps, I find rather boring, as I wrote them all myself. Do I have to add every user by hand? How do others do it? |
| » Okay. |
|---|
So, this is a simple enough question for both guys and girls and whatever else types there are out there reading.
If a person says they find you attractive, what do you say? I know it sounds like a pretty redundant and stupid question, but I'm honestly curious. I realized the question somewhat made me go "Um. uh. Uhm. Er. Uh." and, I sort of presume that wasn't the best answer you could give, so now I want to know. Conditionlessly, this. Completely neutral. It's not the love of your life saying it, and it's not the beast saying it either (though what's wrong with lions anyway? Lions are cool.)
Jan. 25th, 2006 @ 06:21 pm
|
| » amaroK. Again. |
|---|
This is what I see when I hold the mouse over the amaroK traybar icon:
( cut it )
Jan. 23rd, 2006 @ 01:17 am
|
| » Firefox tweak. |
|---|
I usually don't believe in those "speed up your connection" deals. In fact, I've never tried one, but Jess (Aziel on Marrach, if you know what that is) tossed me a link to a page on how to do it, and... my god. I wouldn't be writing this entry if it didn't work so fucking well.
This only works for broadband users (i.e. dial-up users shouldn't do it, which I guess may be the reason why it's not set like this by default), though.
Go to "about:config"
Scroll down to where you find "network.http.pipelining", "network.http.proxy.pipelining", and "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests"
Alter each of the above to the following:
- network.http.pipelining = "true" (just double-click it and it will change automatically, and go bold as it does)
- network.http.proxy.pipelining = "true"
- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 30 (or some other number in that range)
Finally, right click anywhere, choose New -> Integer, give it the name nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to 0 (zero).
As for the reason why the pipelining thing would matter; apparently Firefox will make one request at a time and do the next after the first has finished. The above tells it to do pipelining, which means it requests multiple pages simultaneously.
As for the reason why the latter would make a difference, the value is the amount of time the browser waits before acting on information it receives. Something I can honestly attest to it doing as I've seen it in action when doing some amount of web work, and it happens to decrease the amount of "flicker" when a page is being updated or loaded.
In any case, I wouldn't be writing this if it didn't make such a damn difference. Try it out and tell me if I'm just hallucinating!
(The source for this bit of info: http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php)
Jan. 17th, 2006 @ 01:52 pm
|
| » RhythmBox vs amaroK |
|---|
I am mostly a Gnome enthusiast, but decided to install KDE (kubuntu, to be more exact) and try it out. It's... well, KDE is better in some ways, and fucking stupid in others. For instance, half the settings were blank. No idea what that was about. And KDE did not detect my keyboard (multimedia keys, to be more specific -- can't live without the play, pause, mute, vol up/down, etc. keys).
But my god did I find the holy grail in there. amaroK. I've used RhythmBox lately for mp3 playing, as I've come to loathe the "cool but stupid" factor of the WinAmp clones and prefer iTunes clones instead. But RhythmBox is... not finished, by any means. In fact, it is severely lacking in features.
amaroK isn't. It is a KDE native app, which means it looks a little odd next to my Gnome environment, but man, it still fucking rocks, and kicks RhythmBox' ass ten times over. Long live freedom of selection!
Jan. 16th, 2006 @ 06:04 pm
|
| » Alsa fun. |
|---|
So, I just realized that a little setting in my alsa mixer was causing a faint (on low volumes; and quite unfaint on higher) noise in the background. I can't believe I haven't figured this out earlier, but I finally decided to get to the bottom of it, upped the volume to max on both the computer and on the actual speakers and enabled all the fricking mixer feature in existence. And tada, on the Capture tab, the Capture device itself was causing that constant hissing sound.
Annoying.
And now I of course wonder if my mike works or if I'll have to pull that thing up again when I want to use it. Arf.
Edit: Tested mike, realized I could mute the "speaker" part of the capture device and leave the microphone, and it seems to be working good. Wee!
Jan. 16th, 2006 @ 05:57 pm
|
|
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1){kind=small}
kallewooof's journal