xmms-remote

I have updated xmms-remote to work with X-Chat 2.

xmms-remote was my first C program, I wanted a program to show the mp3 I'm currently playing, simply because it was “hip” at that time. The program itsself was easy to write, yet finding out how to make it a X-Chat plugin wasn't. There was hardly any documentation, a sample plugin was provided with the source, but it did not use the functions I needed, so I had search for them myself in the sourcecode. Luckily that changed, as the X-Chat 2.0 C API is properly documented.

do it yourself

Sometimes I think “Application X should have this feature” or “I wish there was a Application which could do Y”, and only a few days ago it dawned unto me that I could write these things myself. So I'm interested in fixing dfm (there are problems with the image which are loaded twice and/or have a different format than xpm), and writing a file based blogging tool for blogger. The language of choice for the blog tool will be either Smalltalk or Common Lisp, for dfm I'll have to stick to C.

nice guy

If you think you are a nice guy like this take some time and listen to some heartless bitches

printing in the RRZ

Today I had the joy of trying to print some slides in the RRZ. The first free terminal was a AIX one, so I downloaded the pdf and looked for some information on how to use the duplex option. It is either hidden very well or there is none because I couldn't find anything, but what was even worse that the queues weren't available as show on the printing websites. Using man lpr and less /etc/qconfig I found out they are given different names on the AIX server. After a successfull test run with five pages, I tried to print the rest but the only thing which cames was the cover sheet. Thinking windows would be the easier way, I logged out of the AIX terminal and logged into a Windows NT terminal, did a another test run with 10 pages, duplex, successfully, and tried to print the rest, but again just the cover sheet. Finally being frustrated I gave up, and will print the rest at home.

friends

We are just friends, that's why there has been no update for the last three days. But she enjoyed the roses i sent her for valentines.

Oh great

Browser or blogger ate my entry, I love it, shouldn't write directly in the browser, well that's it for today then.

lisp

I hoped others would add comments to xachs lisp braindamage, as I'm just building up my own braindamage, and afaik learning from the mistake of others is a great source of knowledge, or so.

assembler

Last week I had the T3 Praktikum, which was mainly microcode (decoding instructions) and assembler for the c-core, which is basically a simplified version of the Motorola m-core. One of the programs we had to write was to simulate preemptive multitasking. Writing assembler made me realize that C is just a fancier way to mess around with registers & memory, what you actually access are memory locations, and not objects or pointers, but 16, 32, 64bits.

writing daily

I will try to write daily, just to write, and get better with time. Sometimes I have small things to write about but I'm to lazy to really do it, and after a while a blockade builds up because I didn't write when I could have, when I think about it it's really stupid.

At the moment I'm sitting in my livingroom/kitchen and it is a bit chilly because the window is open, but I can not remember opening it. A child outside is crying. When everything goes as planned, I'll write some more stuff, go shopping, have meal call her and attend the youth group leader meeting.

streik

As you might know students at almost every germany are protesting against fees & budget cuts university, but at my university they started with really stupid things like blocking lectures, which which is like cutting your wrists in an empty room, it's hurting only yourself. But today the students of the IT “faculty” decided to go public (like others already do) and try to hold lectures in public buildings spaces, mostly sub- & railway stations.

Regarding other things of interest, I think I'm slowly making progress.

stücke

If somebody deservers a lobotomy it is this idiot guy

Trailer news: The Kill Bill Volume IItrailer if finally up on Apples site, and it seems like a another german movie is making it into american cinemas

bits

The trailer for The Girl Next Door has been released, featuring sexy Elisha Cuthbert.

I didn't really do what I planned to do, but I hacked together a RSS 2.0 feed for Nackensteaks - Feedback

The thing that made my day was a SMS I received, lets just say I was happy.

bush, election, mac, love

Bush in 30 Seconds. While some are pretty funny, using a mac, others are scary. I don't really want to comment on him, except for his international activities which are imho best described as “imperialistic”, as I dont really know how he justified what his administration did, nor do I know the real situation of the people living in the USA. I just can´t critize without knowing.

A bit more local is this “Hamburger Wahlblog” which I found via the Schockwellenreiter. It provides a information about election in Hamburg, and only about, which is nice because you don´t have to buy & keep daily newspapers to get all the information, plus lesser events/information, are probably covered aswell.

I love Brent

I really had a good day yesterday, I´m still happy

Maybe I'm not

This tuesday was totally unlike last one. I met her after finnish, I always have one spare hour after it. We did some math, talked, ate and waited for some demonstrators to let us get to the next lecture(gr?). Well, the demonstrators kept on demonstrating, so we walked around the campus to find some place where we could sit. We settled for the empty auditorium in which our next lecture was going to be. We exchanged words and then did math until the lecture started. After the lecture we fetched her daughter from the kindergarden and went home. I'm happy.

lots of “we” in that paragraph

I am an idiot

Except for seeing her, uttering a few words and offering chocolate to her friend I did nothing. Oh yeah, I'm a good listener, to the extent of not talking at all. Yes I'm great, Ice? I tremble at the sight of it, nevermind the ice to be broken. It's like nothing happened today but I feel bad. I have every chance to talk to her, but I do nothing, I keep schtum. What for an idiot am I?

Just very shy & quiet I guess.

things i did today

I got a haircut, and drank a small mocha latte. Went to the watch maker to get a new wristband for my watch, only to realise that he doesn't exist anymore. Turned around to go to Budnikowsky and buy toothpaste, tried to get a labello aswell, but couldn't find them in the store. Had a meal at the refectory for the same price as the mocha latte, was forced to sit in the smokers area as the main hall was full, fortunately there were no smokers at my table. Bought the vocabulary book for “suomea suomeksi” at Heine.

neues & squeak

What is so new about blogging? Apart from the fact that “blogging” is already several years old, nothing. Having a personal website on which you write is, I would say, almost as old as the web itsself. It just wasn't called blogging but news, diary, whatever.

I did play around with squeak, only as much as to get a superficial impression of it. It seems to be a very nice IDE, they syntax though is a bit unusual to me. I wish it were lisp.

approximation of lisp community size

According to google it's 3 pages or ~30 hits. Whenever you search for websites related to eg. lemonodor.com or ww.telent.net/diary/ you get 30 results, which span 3 pages.

jammin

The jam may have been special, but I don't know why, yet.

Things are looking good, for a) there is something to wait for and it ain't christmas and b) eventhough I have to wait, it won't make me crazy cause i know i won't miss anything.

Life is sooo good, and I'm soo happy. I could just say it over and over again.