Older blog entries for ishamael (starting at number 30)

27 Aug 2001 »

Thank You

I'm not complaining, mind you, but how on earth did I get cert'd as a Journeyer. Furthermore, and I'm not trying to be mean or anything, how did compiler get to be a Journeyer. Oh well, whatever. I guess its cool ;)
I'm taking Math 242 at UIUC this semester. In 10th grade, I took 'Intermediate Calculus' and 'Calculus III' at Kalamazoo College. In 11th grade I took 'Advanced Calc' at the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center. In 12th grade I took DiffEQ and a stat class at Western Michigan University. One might say I am very well versed in mathematics for a freshman. Then WHY the HELL am i taking MATH 242 at college!?!?!? sigh. I should have passed out of this shit. its the same old thing, again, for the third (or fourth?) time. god damn.
Its only monday, and I'm already counting the days until Friday. This can not be good.

And good bye

26 Aug 2001 »

I finally got around to redoing and updating my web page, it uses some (imho, but that doesnt count for much) clever little php scripts to cross link/reference all the [few] pages. Well, at least I think its cool :)

And, on that note, I must say that PHP kicks ass *grin*

I've done a lot on prontoc recently. The Gtk+ 2.0 conversion is nearly done, and I'm actually moving on to new code, rather than fixing broken things. IMAP is done, in the backend, but there is no easy way to configure it, and at that I'm kinda stuck. I can't think of a decent enough way to do the configuration dialogs. The easiest thing, for my backend, would be to consider IMAP a 'Store' and have it separate from the 'Accounts' but, that is, of course, stupid. sigh. Looks like I have a lot more work to do :(

I've been at college for about a week. It is pretty much everything I expected. I had a few problems with my first roommate, but bitched and moaned until I was moved, its all good now. Most of my classes seem pretty entertaining (oh, and slightly educational), and I'm actually out and meeting people and doing things (a strange first for me).

5 Aug 2001 »

race you home

/me applauds dan. who cares about all this code red stuff? most of us arent running a vulnerable system. most of us arent running any kind of web server. those of you who are, good. you can seem l33t by having more code red requests than me. yippie.
in much more interesting news, (well, interesting to me, at least), my struggle with gtk 2.0 continues. ive actually got most of prontoc converted to using it, and in the process wrote a lot of crappy imap code.
a friend of mine recently purchased an airport card for his ibook for use on my linksys base station, and on another friend's who hes rooming with at college. now, the curious thing is, it refuses to work with my base station, but works flawlessly with my friends. we have different models (i have the befw11s4 and he, the model lower without a 4 port switch), and the same set up. its quite strange. but whatever i suppose, as long as itll work for him at college. i dont suppose anyone else has stumbled across such an oddity?
and, on the topic of college, i move in in two weeks. this has prompted me to hurry up imap development in prontoc (since uiuc uses only imap, no pop3 :( ).

30 Jul 2001 »

free $martyr

since im not certified enough to post to the latest article, ill post my thoughts here.

i agree 100% with Iain. read his posts.

my problem with the whole situation is that it is a Russian citizen being detained by an American law. now, im no lawyer, or even a law abiding citizen all the time, but that seems like utter bullshit. he does his thang in russia, comes to america, is arrested, and is still detained. what am i missing? (please dont answer, its completly retorhical, and i dont want to see a lot of 'free dimitry' things in peoples diaries)

sigh. the whole thing is just so.. stupid. hell, thinkgeek already has a tshirt for it. hell, i felt better saying 'Free Kevin'

friday afternoon, i got the "great" idea to use gtk/glib 2.0 for prontoc, since its going to be out "soon" anyways, and the switch should be done sooner rather than later. there are glib features i can really make use of, and gtk features i can work around. makes sense, right?

fast forward to the present, sunday night. gtk 2.0 is the most over complicated, ugly, bastardized pos ive ever seen. well, ok, maybe not. but.. god damn. the "new, flashy, super cool, solve-all-your-problems" tree/list widget is slower than GtkCList! i thought this was one of the major gripes about CList? its *SLOW* it would be really nice to have a Fast table widget. like.. oh, i dunno, ETable, without having to go install a dozen gnome libraries. i do have respect for the new Text widget, cause its cool. but that doesnt help my current state much.

in still other news, i saw the new planet of the apes movie. it was good. worth 5.50. could it have been better? yes. could it have tried to follow the original to any extent? yes. could it have had a better ending? yes. did it? no. so what?

i go to college/university in 3 weeks. i called my roommates last week, and was.. dumbfounded. is it just me, or is the idea of purchasing/renting a microwave for a dorm a foolish endevour? why on earth would you need such a thing? plan on buying a lot of meals, nuking them yourself? my roommates were.. shocked to hear me say "im bring my computers, my music, and my clothes. thats it. why? what else would i need?" apparently people these days need lots of things, like.. a TV. and VCR/DVD player. and a Microwave. and an Expensive Stereo System with Lots of Bass. and Furniture. sigh. there had damn well better be enough room for me in my room.

imprison $martyr

15 Jul 2001 »
no slightly humorous title type thing
in response to all the people raving about the hackers diet. i havnt read the thing, so forgive an ignorant fool, but i would much rather eat unhealthy, good tasting foods (say, steak, cake, boxes upon boxes of saltines, and so on) and live a few years less than be stuck in a strict schedule of exercise and limited food consumption. but, maybe thats just me.
zilch: that devhelp thing looks cool, do you have a web page for it & information, or must i wait a week? *grin*
advogato_diary.py would be really great, if it didnt require me to go download python, someone write a perl/C version please! *grin*
havnt done much with prontoc lately, too lazy or something i suppose.
i tried to go to the kalamazoo blues fest last night with a few friends. it was 930-ish. they wouldnt let any of us in because we were unaccompanied minors (two 18 year olds and one 16). now, does this seem rather... foolish to anyone but me? sure, let the minors in before 9pm, but refuse them without adults after that? i cant see any reason for this. its not as if we were going to try to drink (alcohol sucks, go do a real, fun, better drug), we wanted to go in *as minors* but... to no avail.

11 Jul 2001 »
the future, conan?
deven: advogato is for persons in the community to toss out ideas, vent, and discuss topics. the certification system is by no means the intent of the site. im not trying to be rude, or fan the flames or anything, but all but two of your 19 posts are concerning the certification system. now, this hardly flows with the original intent of advogato. hell, id even consider certifying you for your contributions if you didnt make such a big deal about it all. furthermore, removing your certs of other people because you wanted to be certified is... well, its something. but, again, who cares really.
on to a more.. pleasent topic. does anyone know of a simple, small bug tracking system (as an alternative to bugzilla, that is) that has interfaces besides web? like, say, email or even irc?
im planning on releasing a prontoc snapshot (the purpose of which still escapes me) in the next week or two or, as soon as i write an address book and finish the attachment stuff, whichever comes first *grin*
ive been reading a lot of 'community participation' pages of sorts, and a common idea that comes up is 'yet another mailer' and, as strange as it may seem, i agree with that. why are there so many email clients (free, open source, and otherwise). and, furthermore, to quote jwz (or, at least, i saw it on his site first)
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Anyways, to the question "why write another email client?" i answer: "because its fun" what better reason could there be?

all the way to the year 2000

10 Jul 2001 »
i love you sweet leaf - black sabbath
ive really got to wonder if all the people bitching about not being certified have read the trust metric doc here. it seems pretty obvious to me that the trust metric is designed (or inherently has) significantly fewer trusted/certified nodes than bad/uncertified nodes. and, by common sense, it wont matter if you have a lot of certs, if theyre all from people very far from seed/super trusted nodes. or perhaps ive just misunderstood the whole concept. either way, while im on the topic, i could use some certs too, but who really cares *grin*
more work on prontoc, the composer is working again, and ive just about got smtp finished. i was in #evolution searching for fejj for some gmime help and prompted the following converstation:

<lewing> hahaha <lewing> fejj is a pronto developer now * fejj smacks lewing <fejj> :) <ish> hehehe <ish> if only i were so lucky

well, at least I thought it was funny.... ;)
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6 Jul 2001 »
uhhhh...
not to be rude or anything, and i apologize if its a rather obvious answer (like, hes some community figure i should know about), but does anyone know what compiler is talking about?
in other news, prontoc recieves and filters. ive almost got the composer done too, so im gearing up for a pre release in the next week or two, what fun.
and in still more news, i wrote a few simple programs to automate adding news and such to my website, but i cant imagine why youd want to look at that.
"any one of those cops could be a police officer" - ish

29 Jun 2001 »
lost
bratsche: i suppose those office shots are cool and all (having no real use for anything but lyx & vi myself, i find the program rather excessive), but why would you (or the you & the gnome community) want to do those things in gnome?
why does microsoft have all its programs able to drag toolbars on all sides of the window is useful, and able to add and manipulate your toolbar buttons and add new ones with new macros and having infrequently used menu items disappear or having MDI windows dock on the side of the main window. why are these USEFUL things? theyre a waste of time. imho, if youve got 5 toolbars with customized icons on all sides of your word processor, you arent doing your job, youre playing around with the software.
the worst part about this is that its leaking into the gnome and kde communities. why do you people think its such a great idea to be just like microsoft products? did you actually do some research or play around with idea of dragable toolbars, or did you just assume that since microsoft does it, you should do it too? i mean, what the hell, really?
maybe im just old fashioned or something. sigh.
on another note, muhri should come back to the states, i never see him any more.
why?

17 Jun 2001 »
hehehehe
Ill be honest, i havnt read anything but what people have posted on advogato and a *bit* of the threads concerning the gnome community's recent... troubles. and, i dont like the whole idea of gnome. but. you [the gnome community] are a bunch of stupid children. nothing is worth screwing that one guy martin as he feels he is, or worth so many emails flaming each other. i dont understand or care whats going on, but for crying out loud: are you all two year olds? are you all just so proud and full of it you cant see this will *not* help gnome at all?
pop3 works in prontoc. yippie.
sigh

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