May 2009
3 posts
Mozilla needs a TLD.
Jonathan Steele: MoFo
Darren VanBuren: yup
Darren VanBuren: MoCo
Darren VanBuren: MoOrg
Jonathan Steele: AirMo ;)
Darren VanBuren: yep
Darren VanBuren: bmo
Darren VanBuren: amo
Jonathan Steele: they like Mo
Darren VanBuren: b.m.o
Darren VanBuren: that'd be cool if they had that domain
Darren VanBuren: m.o
Darren VanBuren: shortest URLs!
Darren VanBuren: b.m.o/bugid
Jonathan Steele: meh
Darren VanBuren: wouldn't that be great?
Jonathan Steele: can they owns something like this bugzilla.mozilla
Darren VanBuren: mozilla TLD!
Jonathan Steele: ;)
Darren VanBuren: yay Mozilla TLD!
Darren VanBuren: hmm
Darren VanBuren: who do I ask to make a mozilla TLD...
Jonathan Steele: MoCo?
Darren VanBuren: no the people who run the tld servers
Darren VanBuren: aha!
Darren VanBuren: IANA
Darren VanBuren: .mo is already taken..
Darren VanBuren: .moz!
Jonathan Steele: mofo LOL
The Beginnings of UnAd on Chrome
I currently am starting work on porting UnAd, a Jetpack feature, to Google Chrome’s addon system. I’m not succeeding, but eventually I will. If you want to help, and have functional git, and the latest Development build of Chrome, just comment with your github username and I’ll gladly add you as a contributor.
Here’s the project page.
The spammers on Twitter come back.
I have noticed that spammers are coming back on Twitter. This morning, I woke up to 4 spammers that started following me. All had the same username style: First Name+Last Initial+Year of Birth.
So that leads me to beleive that it was all coming from one spammer.
I hope that the spammers just STOP. I don’t want to protect my updates.
April 2009
2 posts
Why Virus Software Sucks
All virus software sucks. Here’s some reasons why I think Virus software sucks.
Major programs delete files that they think have a virus and they don’t let you undelete them and “trust” them.
All of the programs hog resources, but Norton is the best at managing resources.
Scan time is important to me, I don’t want to wait hours to see whether I have a virus, Norton...
Downfall to Offline Gmail in the browser
I like being able to have Offline Gmail in my browser, it simplifies my routine, I don’t have to have a sperate window or application for all my emails. One thing is that as I type this, Firefox 3.0.8’s memory usage with 5 tabs, one being Gmail, one being my homepage on Facebook, another being a Facebook app, one being Twitter, and then the new post page on Tumblr, is about 186,500K...
March 2009
9 posts
I hate fail grammar & especially fail spelling.
I hate fail grammar and fail spelling. The spelling part is worse because these days, about every web browser, except for the worst one, has built-in spell check. Grammar still perturbs me, but it’s not as unacceptable as fail spelling. Take these two Twitter posts.
“happy im get soft where” should be “Happy I’m getting free software” (This is all based around...
It's the end of the Internet, EveryDNS is down.
EveryDNS is down, so github is imageless and scriptless. But fear not, github’s crew has posted a fix on Twitter. Twitter will survive for how much longer with this massive spike of traffic? I blame this on M$.
Update: 18:06 PDT EveryDNS is back, and Github switched DNS providers. Hopefully this doesn’t happen again.
Yay for Twitter getting rid of spammers!
I am getting too many spam followers. Thankfully, Twitter is now cracking down on these spammers. Hopefully I will not have to deal with them ever again.
Finally Learning Git
I’m finally learning how to use Git, as it is actually really nice. Github, is especially nice, infact I am using Github to serve some content for my Tumblr theme, right now just the Intense Debate CSS.
FRC Portland Regional: Day 3
Day 3 started quickly because the FMS problems were being fixed before we were even let into the venue. Day 3 finished off the Qualifiers, and then gave the finals.
The Quarter Finals showed many redos due to loss of communication with robots. Things cleared up in the Semi-finals, and we got to move into the finals.
In the Finals, we went up against the #1 seed. Unfortunately we lost, but we...
FRC Portland Regional: Day 2
Day 2 started off with guess what? You guessed it, FMS problems. Second match had to be redone twice, the 24th match 4 times, and the 27th three times. We still have 9 matches to go in Qualification. We currently are 16th place. We ended up winning the Xerox Creativity Award. Due to technical complications, I was not able to stream. =(
Hopefully I will be able to stream live video, even if...
FRC Portland Regional: Day 1 Part 2
After taking some time off at the hotel we headed back to the Coliseum. Guess what? The Field Managment System (FMS) crashed. We waited over 2 hours for them to fix the FMS. Finally, the FMS was fixed and we got not even a full practice match. We then had to find food and we stopped at McDonalds.
That’s about it for tonight.
FRC Portland Regional: Day 1
Day 1 has been good but our robot kind of FAILED when we put it on the field. The robot just freaked out and the code didn’t get deployed. So we got no practice. That’s a huge let down. Thankfully, the hotel has been nice except for the $9.95 Internet that can be gotten around (connect in the Lobby! connect in the Lobby!).
I will stream at http://www.justin.tv/tahoma2046 tomorrow.
February 2009
4 posts
A sweet plan for Sweetcron that's simmering in my...
I really think I should get some real servers and start offering cheap Sweetcron hosting (I know how to set up Sweetcron, I have done it twice). I assume that yongfook would be happy (if you didn’t know, yongfook is the developer of Sweetcron) but I could be wrong.
You may not even know what Sweetcron is. But do you care? If so, check out http://www.sweetcron.com/. Sweetcron is really nice,...
Days 1, 2, and 3 of my California Trip
I haven’t blogged about the last two days, but now I have the opportunity to blog. Let’s begin.
Day 1 we didn’t leave home until really late, we stopped in Salem, OR at 2:00 approx.
Day 2 we left and stopped at 12:00 in Fresno, CA.
Now Day 3, we got here, at Anaheim, CA around 5:00. We first went on it’s a small world, then Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, then Autopia,...
It's been so long since I posted
It’s been a long time since I posted here. So here’s what’s going on.
I’m going to Southern California on Saturday. Have to go to Disneyland before our annual passes expire, and to see the Newly renovated “it’s a small world” along with just going on rides.
I will most likely stop in Medford the first night and central California the next night.
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Why do I think aloud?
I think aloud. All the time. Personally, it helps me think. When I am faced with a problem, I reread the prompt/question aloud. I ask an IRC channel, but don’t care what people think. Why? I have no idea. Is it the listening to how I am understanding something that helps? Who knows? Maybe I’m just insane. Maybe it’s just the way our brains are wired. But if it helps, it’s...
January 2009
7 posts
3 tags
64-bit is bad in Windows
When I was trying to get Windows Vista to install a printer shared on an XP machine owned by the Tahoma School District (IT, please don’t get pissed at me for giving the machine a static IP. I could crash your network for the hell of it.) but 64-bit Windows didn’t have the drivers that makes the printer work. In the end, the machine works, you can use any machine to print to it....
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What is the most well known robot?
What is the first robot that comes into your mind when you think of robots? C3PO? R2D2? KITT? KARR? ASIMO? Aibo? QRIO? There’s tons of robots, some real, but most fiction.
At this point, I can’t really answer because I’m writing this post. If you look at this pastie post of source code from the Default C++ source written by WPI, you’ll find that there’s some code to...
Inauguration Video Link →
Congratulations Obama
Obama just recently became, officially, the 44th President of the United States of America. CNN is frozen solid, so check MSNBC.
Dreamweaver CS4 uses WebKit?
When I was installing the Adobe Dreanweaver CS4 trial, I saw it extract a WebKit DLL! (remember, my mac isn’t running right now) This is great news. This is much better than when it used Crapsto (Presto, the engine underlying Opera) as it indicates that open source technologies are making their way into today’s most popular products.
4 times more memory in my laptop!
I was lucky and I got 2GB of RAM for my laptop! Isn’t that cool? Unfortunately, I still can’t play Halo 2 =( on here. That’s why I really just need a whole new computer. My computer’s score in Failsta? 2.3. I need at least a 3. Graphics are holding me back. I don’t think I can replace graphics in a laptop. That’s it for this post.
Hello!
Currently, my httpd is messed up so my regular blog doesn’t work. So, here’s this blog. Tumblr is actually quite flexible, but I’m sorta in a hurry as I wrote this. Expect me to make a custom theme, because I’m like that.